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 Tips on using and contributing to Wikipedia

This is Wikipedia's tip library. Here you can digest how to use Wikipedia in bite-sized morsels. The tips listed below were created for the Tip of the day project, but are listed here by title and organized by subject area for your convenience.


 * See also: Tip of the day and the Tip of the day talk page (where the tips are written). For other useful directories, see the navigation bar above.


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Tips about Wikipedia as a whole

 * Don't believe everything you read
 * Help Wikipedia help you
 * Copyrights? Copyleft
 * How reliable is Wikipedia?
 * What the world knows about us
 * How popular is Wikipedia?
 * "Where do I begin?"

Web browser tips

 * Change text size easily when reading a page
 * Supercharge your browser

Tips on accessing Wikipedia pages

 * Wikipedia for your cell phone or PDA

Finding your way around Wikipedia and beyond

 * "Where do I begin?"
 * To see everything on Wikipedia about a subject area...
 * Wikipedia has 20 sections, called namespaces
 * Namespace entry points
 * How to see a list of the pages in a namespace
 * Wikipedia's alphabetical index of articles
 * Getting a subpage listing
 * How to get a list of a page's subpages
 * Wikimedia links and shortcuts
 * Linking to non-Wikimedia wikis
 * Can't find what you are looking for?

Tips on searching

 * Highlight text on any website, then search Wikipedia for it with a single click
 * Wikipedia-search with auto-completion
 * How to search Wikipedia with Lycos
 * Using Wikipedia's search box:
 * When a search fails, check your spelling
 * How to jump to the search box
 * When "Go" doesn't work, try "Search"
 * Using the prefix in searches
 * Searching Wikipedia with Google:
 * Search Wikipedia faster with Google search tricks
 * Wikipedia-specific Google searchbox
 * Wikipedia-specific searching with Google
 * Search Wikipedia with Google's site-specific search feature
 * Wikipedia-specific Google searchbox
 * When and how to exclude Wikipedia from your Google search
 * Another way to search Wikipedia with Google
 * Search Wikipedia and Google at the same time
 * Firefox search tips:
 * Wikipedia-specific searching within Firefox
 * Wikipedia Search Box for Firefox

Tips on bookmarking, creating access points, etc.

 * How to change your default Main Page
 * Your very own Wikipedia bookmark page
 * Wikipedia toolbar for Firefox

Getting help

 * Can't find what you are looking for?
 * Are you looking for help?
 * Go to the right desk
 * Ask intelligent questions
 * Ask intelligent questions
 * Keep track of your questions
 * Do you need administrator assistance?
 * Where to post requests

Tips for contributors on getting started

 * Create a user account
 * Why create an account?
 * How to sign your name on talk pages
 * Advanced Signatures I
 * Advanced Signatures II
 * Please read department instructions
 * Displaying Tip of the day on your user page
 * Create your sister accounts now
 * The five pillars
 * Are you lost?
 * Speed up your learning curve...

Tips on working with articles

 * Be neutral, like Wikipedia
 * Be neutral when editing Wikipedia
 * Look before you leap
 * How to create a new page
 * Page history
 * SuggestBot is a fun way to pick pages to edit
 * A fun way to pick pages to edit
 * The three revert rule
 * List the things to do for an article
 * The lead section
 * Lead section edit trick
 * Placing a page's Table of Contents
 * Section edit button
 * Avoid trademarks
 * Avoid using neologisms
 * Cite your sources
 * Where did that fact come from?!
 * Don't use forums or emails as sources
 * Forums and emails are not acceptable sources
 * Citation Requests
 * Placing images
 * Acronyms and initialisms
 * S.W.A.T.,  T.I.M,   &   the   U.S.D.A
 * Preventing markup glitches
 * Working with table formatting
 * Pretty tables
 * Using Math
 * Placing "External links" sections
 * How to create reusable boilerplate
 * Footnotes
 * Please fill-in edit summaries
 * Remember: fill-in the edit summary
 * [[Wikipedia:Tip of the day/August 9 - Abbreviating edit summaries]]
 * Edit summary memory trick
 * Spellcheck before you hit "Save"
 * Spell Checkers
 * Use "Show preview" to check your work before you hit "Save"
 * Moving pages
 * Fix double redirects
 * Collaborations

Tips on creating and editing links

 * Linking to another article
 * How to create a link to another article
 * Time-saving links: the "pipe trick"
 * Time-saving links II
 * Linking to a section
 * Linking articles: the internal link
 * Link tricks
 * When not to use links
 * External links
 * Interwiki links and shortcuts
 * Create links faster with link tricks
 * Placing interlanguage links
 * How to provide a link to a specific Google Search
 * Short link pipe trick
 * How to link to word definitions
 * How to link to a category
 * Sister projects & interwiki linking
 * Time-saving links
 * How to make links look the way you want
 * Google search link
 * My link disappeared!
 * How to link to a section of an article
 * How to link to a category without categorizing the page
 * How to use red links
 * Placing "External links" sections
 * Wikimedia links and shortcuts
 * Linking to non-Wikimedia wikis

Category tips

 * How to add an article to a category
 * How to create a category
 * How to create a subcategory
 * Category tips
 * Placing category tags
 * Sorting entries in the categories

Tips on working with specific types of pages

 * Redirects
 * Redirect synonymous topic names
 * Band articles
 * Working on the Main Page
 * Featured content
 * Beware of instruction creep
 * When to use subpages

List tips

 * Topic list
 * The topic list
 * Why have lists when there are categories?
 * List building
 * Alphabetical list of articles

Disambiguation page tips

 * Formatting disambiguation pages

Tips on working with images

 * Placing images
 * How to find legal photographs and graphics
 * Tag your image uploads
 * Cite the source on all image uploads
 * Uploading Free Images
 * Inserting a picture in an article

Boilerplate/template tips

 * Templates
 * What are templates used for?
 * Transclusion
 * Placing templates
 * How to transclude a page into the page you are editing
 * Transclusion caveat
 * Inclusion vs. Transclusion

User page tips

 * Your very own Wikipedia bookmark page
 * Need ideas for your user page design?
 * How to display the tip of the day on your user page
 * User Sub Pages
 * Userboxes

Other ways to contribute

 * Be a Help Desk volunteer
 * Welcoming Committee
 * Join the Recent Changes Patrol!
 * Join the fight against vandalism
 * Become an Administrator
 * Help test the MediaWiki software

Communicating with other editors

 * Talking to Wikipedians
 * What to do about unsigned comments
 * What did he say?
 * Wikijargon
 * Be forgiving to new users
 * Gain feedback on your editing from other editors
 * Posting on the Wikipedia Community Bulletin Board
 * How to catch admin attention fast
 * Love thy neighbor
 * In conflicts, reach consensus
 * The three revert rule
 * Explaining Wiki markup to other users
 * Wikimedia-wide issues
 * Strikeout button
 * Centralizing project discussion
 * Screenshots
 * Wikimedia has mailing lists

Watchdogging (monitoring) Wikipedia

 * Preview tomorrow's featured article
 * Use your watchlist
 * How to watch for pages that don't exist yet
 * How to enable the Enhance recent changes setting
 * Join the Recent Changes Patrol!
 * Join Wikipedia's Counter Vandalism Unit
 * To count your edits, use Essjay's Edit Counter
 * Editcountitis

Configuring and customizing your account

 * How to change your username
 * Keeping track of time
 * How to adjust the height of your edit window
 * Edit summary memory trick
 * Making the edit summary input field larger
 * How to enable right-click section editing
 * Double click editing
 * How to disable the section edit links
 * How to enable the Enhance recent changes setting
 * Customize appearance of dates
 * User scripts
 * User scripts
 * Install your first javascript

Tips on working faster

 * Your customizable Wikipedia navigation hub
 * Think outside the box
 * Think outside the box
 * Wikipedia search box focus
 * The edit toolbar
 * How to enable right-click section editing
 * Double click editing
 * Shortcuts
 * Navigate fast using shortcuts
 * Navigate faster using Wikipedia shortcuts
 * Use Wikipedia shortcuts to navigate faster
 * Work faster with keyboard shortcuts
 * Keyboard shortcuts
 * Fast Wikipedia editing with AutoWikiBrowser
 * Power-editing with AutoWikiBrowser
 * Navigation popups
 * Power tool: Navigation Popups

MetaTips

 * Wikipedia's dozen most essential tips
 * Wikipedia's dozen most powerful tips
 * Wikipedia's top ten essential tips
 * Wikipedia's top ten power tips
 * Six of one, half-a-dozen of the other

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 * When is a Wikipedia project a WikiProject?
 * Reserve your username on the sister projects, before it gets taken
 * The Wikipedia Curriculum
 * Spoken Wikipedia
 * Mediation Cabal
 * Wiki-exploration: beyond Wikipedia...
 * Google Toolbar Current Site Search Button
 * Fansites, Forums, & other Webpage Articles
 * Viewing Persondata
 * Making the editbox more visually pleasing
 * Permission Requests
 * The Lead Section
 * Try and see it my way!
 * Pick from a list of template parameter choices
 * World of fiction
 * Same titles, different meanings
 * Brilliant pictures
 * Undoing edits
 * No copies of primary sources
 * Dynamic date conversion
 * Find stubs and expand them
 * How to look at the changes to an article
 * How to customize your signature
 * When to use external links
 * How to add a picture to an article
 * How to skip scrolling and clicking
 * Wikipedia etiquette = Wikiquette
 * Section editing
 * What writing style to use
 * Where to write about current events
 * Link articles to their foreign-language counterparts
 * Automating tasks on Wikipedia
 * Wikipedia needs pictures. How you can help...
 * Accuracy, quality and peer review
 * What can be included in Wikipedia?
 * Freedom of speech and profanity
 * Your user page
 * Upgrade Recent Changes in my preferences
 * Watching for changes
 * If you have privileged access to web pages...
 * Troubleshooting Wikipedia's look and feel with skins
 * Go Search
 * Not everything that's true is verifiable

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