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MUST READ: Links for newcomers:


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1. sign your posts on talk and discussion pages using four tildes (~) ; this will automatically produce your name and the date. (Three tildes will produce your name only.) Note:  and are codes used to suppress expansion of Wikipedia and HTML code tags so that the codes will show for illustration. They should normally not be used in standard text where the codes are intended to be expanded. 2. Questions? ==> check out Where to ask a question, Village pump, or ask on someone's talk page XXXX 3. Write to the target audience: A related question, is who should the pages be written for? Most writers are in college or past college. However, there is evidence that most readers are high-school students, or others not too familar with a topic. (Else, why would they be looking it up in an encyclopedia?) What is obvious or of minor relevance to a CS student or grad, may be very unclear or important to a high-school student, someone who is thinking of returning to college, or just someone looking for information (but not a learned treatise). Of course, Wikipedia has yet to define its target audience very well.
 * Discussion of Reading level

Really, Really Important things

 * For content errors in an article, click on "edit this page" or "discussion" at that particular article.
 * sign your posts on talk and discussion pages using four tildes.
 * See Vandalism in progress to report persistent vandalism.
 * See Help desk for questions about editing on Wikipedia.
 * See Reference desk for factual questions (about everything but Wikimedia) not yet answered by Wikipedia.
 * See Village pump for policy and technical information.
 * See General complaints for discussions on things that could be fixed or made better.
 * See Resolving disputes to resolve issues between/among users.
 * See MediaWiki support page if you need help with your own Wiki.
 * See Alternate Sites For When The Main Wikipedia Server Is Down You should bookmark the sites noted because once Wikipedia is down, you won't be able to access this page.
 * IF YOU HAVE REALLY MESSED UP A PAGE, and accidentally saved it, simply click on the history tab (at the top) and then click on the date immediately preceding that of your change, then click on edit this page, then save the resulting page. This will revert the change.
 * Do Not Attempt to Rename, Move, or Copy a Page Simply by Copying Its Contents; See Renaming, moving, copying a page.

Spelling/Grammar checking
'Whenever doing anything but minor editing, copy and paste to a word-processor with real time spelling/grammar checking!

Information & Resources for Contributors & Editors

 * Help:Contents
 * Help:Editing
 * Edit conflict Must read before you get one!


 * Help Desk
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 * Categorisation FAQ
 * Category fundamentals
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 * Cleanup
 * Commons Main page
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 * External links (when?)
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 * Guide to layout
 * How to archive a talk page
 * How to edit a page
 * "  structure content in Wiki articles
 * "  write great articles
 * Images and Copyrights
 * Fair use
 * Featured pictures
 * Image copyright tags
 * Image help category
 * Image use policy
 * Images
 * Image (description) page
 * Images and media for deletion
 * Picture tutorial
 * Public domain image resources
 * Uploading images, intro
 * Uploading images
 * InfoBoxes
 * JavaScript in Wikipedia
 * monobook.js
 * Greasemonkey user scripts
 * Library of user scripts
 * Script Techniques
 * Script Tutorials
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 * Merging and moving pages
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 * Page name | Section | Namespace
 * Peer review
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 * Project namespace
 * Proposals Category
 * Redirect
 * Reference Desk
 * Reusable text (boilerplate text)
 * Reverting a page | Three-revert rule (3RR)
 * Shortcuts
 * Simplified ruleset, essential info for new editors
 * Special pages   ——>List
 * Speedy deletions
 * Stub
 * Stub types
 * Surveys of the Readers
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 * Syntax conversion utilities
 * System Messages
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 * Templates, intro
 * Templates
 * Template messages
 * Template namespace
 * Template substitution
 * Transclusion
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 * Tools Category
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 * User boxes   ——>List
 * User style
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 * Utilities If you've exhausted Toolset!
 * Verifiability
 * What Wikipedia is not
 * Where to ask a ??
 * Who writes for Wikipedia, for new 'readers'
 * Wikify
 * Wikipedia categories
 * IRC channel
 * Wikipedia features
 * Wikipedia style guidelines | (non-Wiki); "   for specific projects/disciplines,

More Style Stuff:

 * Abundance and redundancy
 * Avoid neologisms
 * Avoid peacock terms
 * Avoid self-references
 * Avoid statements that date quickly
 * Avoid weasel terms
 * Brilliant prose
 * Build the web vs. Make links relevant to the context only
 * Check your facts
 * Cite sources | Example
 * Don't include copies of primary sources
 * Lyrics and poetry
 * Featured articles
 * Fiction


 * Follow highlighting conventions
 * Future event
 * Lead section
 * Lists | Stand-alone | Embedded | Pro & con
 * Long article layout | Size
 * Make articles useful for readers
 * Make technical articles accessible
 * Explain (necessary) jargon
 * Technical terms and definitions
 * Proper names
 * Rhetoric
 * Stay on topic; don't wander
 * Timeline standards
 * Use subheadings sparingly
 * Words to avoid

Other Links:

 * Browse
 * Computer help desk
 * Conflict resolution
 * Internet encyclopedia project
 * List of proposed Wikiprojects
 * List of Wikiprojects
 * Main Meta wiki
 * Maintenance
 * Maintenance templates


 * Press Kit resources for enquiries
 * Regional notice boards for collaboration in particular geographical areas
 * Semi-protection policy
 * Troubleshooting
 * User contributions
 * Village pump
 * Wikipedia Signpost
 * Young Jacobins

Summary:

 * Write first for the Educated Layperson (that's hard... But I would suggest using the "New Scientist" as a style example).
 * ...then try to do it better and write for the beginner (that's harder)
 * If an educated layperson can't figure it out by following the wikilinks, then it's too hard.
 * Yes, we're experts (more or less) but we're writing for a general audience. We could write a clever, concise, deep sentence to explain something...but it's useless if it isn't easy to understand.
 * Eschew argot, jargon, technicality and cant.

Formating:
How Users Read on the Web


 * See Help:Editing

(For hidden inserted comments.)

Indenting by one space causes this box to form and suppresses certain codes.

Images
To insert an image into an article, edit the article and insert



For example,  Gives you the image on the right, where the caption is a wiki-link.

To have an image deleted, edit its description page and put (but of course you would insert the name of the FOO.jpg image. Everything to the right of the | is comment.  )

Redirects

 * Help on Redirect
 * Wikipedia Redirect (formatting)


 * 1) REDIRECT NAME OF REDIRECT TARGET

To go (back) to a redirect page itself (e.g., to change or delete the redirect), click http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=X_page&redirect=no and change the page name (here X_page) in the address bar of your browser. Type it in canonical form, i.e., starting with a capital letter and using underscores for spaces.)

Formatting ISBN

 * simply typing ISBN 3-540-60521-5  produces the special reference display   ISBN 3-540-60521-5

$$$ Barnstar:
Be generous in your Barnstar awards.

Test Templates:
(For newcomers' greetings and vandals' 'greetings.')— Test Templates

HTML Colors
HTML Colors for use in color=color  Wikipedia (named color) codes, e.g., in place of the color=#FEDCBA98 (hexidecimal color) codes.