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Frequently Asked Questions

Getting started
Introduction | Glossary of Wikipedia terms

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 | Resolving disputes

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.

To view all of the menus on one page, see the Site Map.

See also: Department directory and Quick directory.

Tip of the day...

The <nowiki> tag can be useful to suppress the interpretation of Wiki markup; this is often useful to demonstrate or explain Wiki markup language to another user.

Wiki markup (and Wiki tags that resemble HTML tags) between <nowiki> and </nowiki> are not interpreted, and are displayed on the page just the way they are typed. For example, [[this]] would ordinarily form a link, but since it is between nowiki tags, it does not. This is rarely of use in an actual Wikipedia article.

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