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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...

Would you like to know what the power users of Wikipedia use to edit it? The AutoWikiBrowser, of course.

AutoWikiBrowser (aka AWB) is a semi-automatic Wikipedia editor. It works on lists of pages, and automatically takes you to the next page on the list when you are done with the current one. It performs search/replace, and has other powerful features. In order to use it, you must either be a sysop or an editor with over 500 edits.

AWB is very useful and helps perform WikiGnome tasks very quickly, like stubs sorting, substituting templates, and searching/replacing.

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