Wiki Editing Help
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and the User's Guide for usage and configuration help.
Beginners
- Start with How Things Work Around Here
- http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User%27s_Guide
- Help Category: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Wikipedia_help
- Excellent starting point: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:How_to_edit_a_page
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:Contents
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Guide_to_layout
Community, Manners, and Disputes
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikiquette
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Edit_war
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Avoiding_common_mistakes
Intermediate
- http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Help:Template
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:A_quick_guide_to_templates
- Tables: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:How_to_use_tables
- Sorting Links/Lists: http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Help:Category#Alphabetical_order
- Images: http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Help:Images_and_other_uploaded_files
Resources
- Commonly-used text: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Boilerplate_text
Maintenance
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:How_to_structure_the_content
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:How_to_spot_vandalism
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:How_to_copy-edit
Advanced
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Administrators
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Administrators%27_reading_list
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Requests_for_administrator_attention
- Timelines: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EasyTimeline
- Timelines: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:EasyTimeline_syntax
- Variables: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:Variable
- DivBox: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Template_messages/General (search for {{Divbox}})
- Date Preferences: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Manual_of_Style_%28dates_and_numbers%29
- Redirects/Auto-forward:
- documentation on customizing the interface
- Templates: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:Template
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