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Frequently Asked Questions

Getting started
Introduction | Glossary of Wikipedia terms | Some advice for parents

Policies and guidelines
The Five Pillars | Manual of Style

Browsing Wikipedia
Search for an article | Find articles and site functions

Communication methods
Village pump | Talk pages

Editing Wikipedia
Cheatsheet | Contributing to Wikipedia | Tutorial

The Wikipedia community
Adopt-a-User | Deleting pages | Dispute resolution

Links and references
How to make links | External links | Citing sources

Resources and lists
List of stub types | Pages needing attention | Templates

Images and media
Upload images | Image copyright tags | Other media

Account settings and maintenance
Change your preferences | Change your signature

Keeping track of changes
Page history | User contributions | Vandalism

Technical information
Tools | The MediaWiki software

Where to ask questions
Help desk – questions on how to use Wikipedia.
New contributors' help page – help for beginning users.
Reference desk – general-knowledge questions.
Village pump – questions about Wikipedia.

See the Site Map for all of the menus on one page.

See also: Department directory, Editor's index, and Quick directory.

Tip of the day...

A good text editor like vi, TextPad or Kate (part of KDE) can be a lot more fun to work with than a browser's internal text editor.

If you use Mozilla, you can call your favorite editor with a single click from the editing screen by using the Mozex extension. For jEdit [1] there is even a Wikipedia plug-in [2], which enables you to log in and load and save articles without having to use your browser at all.

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