Wikipedia:Tips

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Tips about Wikipedia as a whole

 * Wikipedia in brief
 * How popular is Wikipedia?
 * Do not believe everything you read
 * How reliable is Wikipedia?
 * What the world knows about us
 * How does Wikipedia stack up?
 * Advice for parents
 * Wikipedia etiquette = Wikiquette
 * Copyrights? Copyleft
 * Welcome to Wikipedia!
 * "Where do I begin?"
 * Help Wikipedia help you
 * The Wikipedia Adventure!
 * Flashback to Wikipedia's past
 * Spreading the WikiLove
 * Ten things you may not know about Wikipedia
 * What did they say?
 * How to use Wikipedia offline: xowa

Tips on accessing Wikipedia pages

 * Explore Wikipedia's contents
 * Digital audio support
 * Spoken Wikipedia
 * Screen readers for accessibility
 * Wikipedia for your mobile...
 * Mobile view sidebar from the desktop
 * Browsing Mobile Wikipedia on your big screen
 * Editing articles for web accessibility
 * Souping up your Smartphone editing of Wikipedia

Finding your way around Wikipedia and beyond

 * Introduction to navigating Wikipedia
 * Wikipedia's Quick directory
 * To see everything on Wikipedia about a subject area...
 * The Wikipedia Curriculum
 * Wikipedia has 34 sections, called namespaces
 * Namespace entry points
 * How to see a list of the pages in a namespace
 * Wikipedia's alphabetical index of articles
 * When to use subpages
 * Getting a subpage listing
 * How to get a list of a page's subpages
 * Wiki-exploration: beyond Wikipedia...
 * Wikimedia links and shortcuts
 * Linking to non-Wikimedia wikis
 * Wikipedia Database reports
 * Cannot find what you are looking for?

Tips on searching

 * How to easily recall a username
 * Wikipedia industrial-powered search
 * Highlight text on any website, then search Wikipedia for it with a single click
 * Power search Wikipedia using AutoWikiBrowser
 * Searching Wikipedia with regular expressions (regex)
 * Search Wikipedia from any website
 * Using Wikipedia's search box:
 * Wikipedia Search box - basic
 * Wikipedia Search box - advanced
 * Jump to the search box Shift
 * To search a specific namespace, include the prefix in searches
 * Title searches
 * Searching Wikipedia with Google:
 * How to search Wikipedia with Google
 * How to provide a Google search in a link
 * Wikipedia-specific searching with Google
 * When and how to exclude Wikipedia from your Google search
 * Another way to search Wikipedia with Google
 * Firefox search tips:
 * Wikipedia-specific searching within Firefox
 * Wikipedia Search Box for Firefox

Tips on bookmarking, creating access points, etc.

 * Wikipedia toolbar for Firefox

Getting help

 * Help for new contributors
 * Where to look for help
 * Go to the right desk
 * Ask for help at Wikipedia's Help Desk
 * Stop by the Reference Desk
 * A comprehensive index for editors
 * Getting real-time help via IRC (Internet Relay Chat)
 * Come visit the Teahouse
 * Visit the Village Pump for technical issues
 * Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)
 * Ask intelligent questions
 * Keep track of your questions
 * Wikipedia's Manual of Style
 * How to catch admin attention fast
 * How to request help on your Talk page
 * Where to post requests
 * Please return the favor

Tips for contributors on getting started

 * Create a user account
 * Why create an account?
 * The five pillars
 * A plain & simple introduction
 * A self-guided tutorial
 * Please read department instructions
 * Where to begin?
 * Use the Article Wizard to easily create new articles
 * Articles for Creation (AFC) process
 * Avoiding common mistakes
 * How to improve Wikipedia's reliability
 * Speed up your learning curve...
 * Are you lost?
 * Now what? (Are you lost, and do not know what to do?)
 * What is a Talk page?
 * Article construction stages
 * Article development
 * Article quality assessments
 * Accuracy, quality and peer review
 * Good article nominations
 * Featured article candidates
 * Good article reassessment
 * Referencing for beginners
 * Please sign your name on talk pages
 * How to customize your signature
 * Custom signatures
 * Advanced signatures
 * How to move/rename a page
 * How to add hidden editor notes in an article
 * Watching for changes
 * How to look at the changes to an article
 * What are page history diffs?
 * How to review user contributions
 * Page history
 * Where to write about current events
 * What can be included in Wikipedia?
 * Freedom of speech and profanity

Tips on working with articles

 * Be neutral, like Wikipedia
 * Be neutral when editing Wikipedia
 * Look before you leap
 * What writing style to use
 * No copies of primary sources
 * Not everything that is true is verifiable
 * Avoid trademarks
 * Avoid using neologisms
 * Preventing markup glitches
 * How to start a new article
 * How to create a new page
 * Article deletion process
 * Tagging pages for problems
 * Find articles for cleanup
 * Copyright Cleanup
 * CopyPatrol tool
 * Basic copyediting
 * SuggestBot is a fun way to pick pages to edit
 * What is BRD? the BOLD, revert, discuss cycle
 * The three revert rule
 * List the things to do for an article
 * Table of contents
 * Article size
 * Lead section size
 * Cite your sources
 * Where did that fact come from?
 * Fixing bare URLs to prevent link rot
 * Do not use forums or emails as sources
 * Forums and emails are not acceptable sources
 * If you have privileged access to web pages...
 * Citation Requests
 * Acronyms and initialisms
 * S.W.A.T.,  T.I.M,   &   the   U.S.D.A
 * How do you pronounce that?
 * Link to Wiktionary word definitions using Wikt:
 * Introduction to tables
 * How to make a table on a page
 * Pretty tables
 * Using Math
 * Footnotes
 * Please fill in edit summaries
 * Please summarize your work using the Edit summary box
 * Abbreviating edit summaries
 * Automatic edit summary reminder
 * Spell Checkers
 * Fix double redirects
 * Collaborations

Tips on editing

 * Check your work before you save, using Preview
 * Undoing edits
 * Search and replace while editing an article
 * Test-drive your edits using a sandbox
 * Dates in Wikipedia articles
 * Section editing
 * Section edit button
 * How to enable right-click section editing
 * Double click editing
 * Edit Wikipedia faster with AutoWikiBrowser
 * Power-editing with AutoWikiBrowser
 * Search & replace in thousands of articles with AWB
 * A better wiki editor: WikEd
 * Counting your edits
 * Getting your edit count
 * Editcountitis
 * How to reduce or enlarge font sizes

Style tips
From Styletips:


 * Ampersand
 * Block quotes
 * Case in expanded abbreviations
 * Circa
 * Currency symbols
 * Current
 * Dashes in article titles
 * Dates (I)
 * Dates (II)
 * Downcase the generics
 * Emphasizing a word
 * Formatting titles of literature and art
 * Gender-neutral language
 * Hanging hyphens
 * Hyphens can avoid ambiguity
 * Including
 * Instructional and presumptuous language
 * Italics for emphasis
 * No hyphen after -ly adverbs
 * No initial the or a in article and section titles
 * Number signs
 * Overlinking
 * Percentage ranges
 * Pluralizing abbreviations
 * Points and spaces in abbreviations
 * Quotations within quotations
 * Quotations: allowable typographical changes
 * Seasons
 * Subset terms
 * The year 1995
 * Unit symbols: figures
 * Unit symbols: spacing
 * US or U.S.?
 * Within-text attribution

Tips on creating and editing links

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

Category tips

 * Category tips
 * How to add an article to a category
 * Placing category tags
 * Sorting entries in the categories
 * Find uncategorized articles
 * How to create a category
 * How to create a subcategory
 * How to plant a CategoryTree!
 * Find stubs and expand them

Tips on working with specific types of pages

 * Biographies
 * Biography articles needing attention
 * Portals
 * Difference between wikiprojects and portals?
 * Subject bar template
 * Working on the Main Page
 * Main page - Did you know
 * Featured content
 * Featured world of Wikipedia
 * Articles about notable books
 * Another way to read or share Wikipedia: Books
 * World of fiction
 * Using the Authority control template
 * Beware of instruction creep
 * Redirects
 * Redirect synonymous topic names
 * Fansites, forums, & other web page articles
 * Band articles
 * Editing projects for school and university classes

List tips

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

Disambiguation page tips

 * Same titles, different meanings
 * Formatting disambiguation pages

Tips on working with images

 * Image processing tools
 * Graphics Lab
 * How to find legal photographs and graphics
 * Permission requests
 * Where to upload images and media files
 * Uploading Free Images
 * Tag your image uploads
 * Cite the source on all image uploads
 * Where on the page to put images
 * How to insert a picture into an article
 * How to add a picture to an article
 * Captions
 * Brilliant pictures

Boilerplate/template tips

 * How to create reusable boilerplate
 * What are templates used for?
 * Using templates
 * Placing templates
 * Displaying one page within another = Transclusion
 * How to transclude a page into the page you are editing
 * Transclusion caveat
 * Transclusion vs. Substitution
 * Pick from a list of template parameter choices

User page tips

 * Your user page
 * Are you jealous of others' user pages? (WP:UPDG)
 * Calendar date display for your user pages
 * Displaying Tip of the day on your user page
 * Displaying tips on your user page
 * Motto of the day...
 * Your very own Wikipedia bookmark page
 * User Sub Pages
 * Userboxes

Other ways to contribute

 * Help reduce the Wikipedia backlog
 * Wikipedia:Today's articles for improvement
 * Translating content
 * Join a WikiProject
 * When is a Wikipedia project a WikiProject?
 * Welcoming Committee
 * Wikipedia needs pictures. How you can help...
 * Wikipedia banners and buttons
 * How to help prepare the Main page
 * Giving editor awards
 * Help test the MediaWiki software
 * Running MediaWiki on your own computer
 * Becoming an Administrator
 * Writing articles for The Signpost

Communicating with other editors

 * Be forgiving to new users
 * Love thy neighbor
 * Talking to Wikipedians
 * Explaining Wiki markup to other users
 * How to send a message to other editors
 * How to fix unsigned comments
 * Thanks - send a notification
 * Guestbooks
 * Screenshots
 * Posting on the Wikipedia Community Bulletin Board
 * How to catch admin attention fast
 * Try to see it my way!
 * The fastest way to end a conflict: walk away
 * Report problems on noticeboards
 * In conflicts, reach consensus
 * Mediation
 * Centralizing project discussion
 * Wikimedia-wide issues
 * Wikimedia has mailing lists

Watchdogging (monitoring) Wikipedia

 * Use your watchlist
 * How to make your watchlist easier to read
 * How to watch for pages that do not exist yet
 * Preview tomorrow's Featured Article
 * Join the Recent Changes Patrol
 * How to enhance Recent changes
 * What is Page curation?
 * Intruder alert! Intruder alert! (Vandalism-level warning)
 * Join the fight against vandalism

Configuring and customizing your account

 * How to change your username
 * Customize appearance of dates
 * Setting Wikipedia time to your time zone
 * Super-customize your account with gadgets
 * Troubleshooting Wikipedia's look and feel with skins
 * How to adjust the height of your edit window
 * How to enhance Recent changes
 * Upgrade Recent Changes in my preferences
 * User scripts
 * User scripts examples
 * Prove it with ProveIt
 * Install your first javascript

Tips on working faster

 * Speed up your learning curve...
 * Automating tasks on Wikipedia
 * Automatic page loader
 * The semi-automated article peer-reviewer
 * What are dummy edits good for?
 * Breaking the 500-edit limit in "View History"
 * Making the editbox more visually pleasing
 * Shortcut for minor edit box
 * Supercharge your browser
 * Toolbar links to access the WP pages you use the most
 * Article banner templates
 * Templates for Age and Dates
 * Archives for lengthy pages
 * Search box bookmarklet for your browser
 * Wikipedia search box focus
 * Are your hands full? (Use search box as a small but convenient clipboard)

Shortcuts
 * Shortcuts
 * Navigate faster using Wikipedia shortcuts
 * Work faster with keyboard shortcuts
 * Keyboard shortcuts

Navigation
 * Use your browser's toolbar to navigate Wikipedia
 * Your customizable Wikipedia navigation hub
 * Navigation popups
 * Power tool: Navigation Popups
 * Become clairvoyant with Navigation Popups
 * How to skip scrolling and clicking
 * How to turn links to disambiguation pages orange so you can see them
 * How to turn redirects  green 

MetaTips

 * Wikipedia's dozen most essential tips


 * Wikipedia's top ten essential tips
 * Wikipedia's top ten power tips
 * Wikipedia's ten most powerful tips


 * Six of one, half-a-dozen of the other

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