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This is a list of guides and single-topic help files for the MediaWiki software. It is compiled at meta.wikimedia.org. You may wish to contribute to this project and import this help into your site. This page is sorted by user type. This help does not cover site-specific conventions, it is for the software only. Enjoy!

Introduction

Detailed Introduction | Help overview

MediaWiki is a free software wiki engine licensed under the GNU General Public License. It is used by many websites, including this one.

For Installers

See Category Installation on MediaWiki.

For readers

Navigating
Search
What links here
Special pages
Printable version
Tracking changes
Recent changes {enhanced}
Related changes
Watching pages
Page history
Diff page
Image page
Contributions
Accounts
Logging in
Preferences
User style
View this alone

For editors

Editing
Start new pages
Page name
Referencing
Links   URLs
Piped links
Interwiki linking
Footnotes (References, Citations)
Formatting
Wikitext   CSS
Lists   Tables
Images and File uploads
Formula
HTML in wikitext
Organizing
Sections and the Table of Contents (TOC)
Categories
Redirects (forward)
Namespaces
Moving a page
Page size
Fixing mistakes
Show preview
Testing
Reverting edits
Saving effort
Editing shortcuts
Edit toolbar
Magic words
Templates
Variables
Calculation
Embed page
Communicating
Edit summary
Talk page
Edit conflict
Minor edit
Other
Characters
Sandbox
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