User:Anand QED/Surviving wikipedia

Wikipedia is impossibly difficult for most of us. New editors will find that the site is incredibly badly organized and you can't find the documentation unless you know exactly what you are looking for.

Introduction to Wikipedia

 * Introduction
 * Questions
 * IRC chat - see WP:CHAT or http://webchat.freenode.net/?channels=#wikipedia --- The channels are #wikipedia, #wikipedia-en-help etc.
 * Adopt-a-User
 * Teahouse

Markup
A first and minor obstacle is wiki markup. See
 * Help:Wiki_markup ...The wiki markup documentation
 * Help:Cheatsheet ...The wiki markup cheatsheet
 * Manual of Style (mathematics) ...latex

Content and Metacontent

 * WikiProject Infoboxes
 * Disinfoboxes
 * Categorization
 * Help:Template
 * Help:A quick guide to templates
 * User:Giano/A fool's guide to writing a featured article
 * User:The_Transhumanist/Virtual classroom

Wikiprojects mathematics

 * Manual of Style (mathematics)
 * WikiProject Mathematics/Editor resources
 * WP:WPM
 * WP:WikiProject Mathematics/Wikipedia 1.0
 * Lists of mathematics topics

Discussion
To get consensus or information or just to document what you are doing, use the talk page or a centralized talk page. See -
 * Help:TALK
 * Talk page guidelines.
 * Talk page formatting
 * Don't lose the thread

For things to do

 * WP:WPM
 * User:SuggestBot ...who will send requests if you add to your user talk page.

Customization

 * Skin
 * Customisation
 * WP:Userboxes
 * the best scripts can be easily enabled from Preferences --> Gadgets.
 * WikEd ...is notable among these. A moderately disruptive in-browser editor.
 * http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Pathoschild/Scripts/TemplateScript ...very difficult to get this to work and it conflicts with WikEd.