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Help desk for questions about editing on Wikipedia. Reference desk for factual questions (about everything but Wikimedia— e.g., "Who is the current Pope?") not yet answered by Wikipedia. Village pump (policy) for Wikipedia policy questions. Village pump (technical) for Wikipedia technical help. Village pump (assistance) or Village pump (miscellaneous) for any other (Wikipedia) help that does not seem to fit into an accepted category. Village pump (all) to browse all village pump topics at once. Village pump (proposals) or (perennial proposals) to check if an idea has already been proposed/discussed. General complaints for discussions on things that could be fixed or made better. Third opinion or requests for comment or edit dispute for help resolving an editing dispute. Resolving disputes to resolve issues between/among users or for making a user conduct dispute complaint. Remember, Don't disrupt Wikipedia to illustrate a point! Peer review for incisive, constructive criticisms from others on a finished article. Mirrors and forks to report sites that copy Wikipedia content. Citing Wikipedia MediaZilla to make wiki software bug reports and feature requests.
Spelling/Grammar checking
editWhenever doing anything but minor editing, copy and paste to a word-processor with real time spelling/grammar checking!
- (or use a tool-bar with a built-in spellcheck such as Google Toolbar.)
Information & Resources for Contributors & Editors
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More Style Stuff:
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Map of Wikipedia Informational Documents:
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Summary:
edit- 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.
Formatting:
edit- See Help:Editing
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Indenting by one space causes this box to form and suppresses certain codes.
Images
editTo insert an image into an article, edit the article and insert
[[Image:FILENAME.jpg| -- | -- | -- |Caption]]
For example, [[Image:Wiki Fairy.gif|thumb|right|160px|[[Wikipedia:WikiFairy|A Wiki fairy in the wild.]]]] 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
{{deletebecause|redundant to image FOO.jpg}} (but of course you would insert the name of the FOO.jpg image. Everything to the right of the | is comment. )
Redirects
edit- Help on Redirect
- Wikipedia Redirect (formatting)
- Avoid the dreaded Double redirect and self-reference.
#REDIRECT [[NAME OF REDIRECT TARGET]]
To go (back) to a Redirect Page itself (e.g., to change or delete the redirect), use the link in the (Redirected from Redirect Page) line, which appears at the top of the target page, just below the line 'From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.' (For this line to appear, you must first Go to the Redirect Page.)
Box Formats
edit| Date | rank - name | main space edits | edits last 30 days | rank change |
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Formatting ISBN
edit- simply typing ISBN 3-540-60521-5 produces the special reference display ISBN 3-540-60521-5
Test Templates:
edit'Test' Templates for newcomers' greetings and vandals' 'greetings.'
HTML Colors:
editHTML Colors for use in color=color Wikipedia (named color) codes, e.g., in place of the color=#FEDCBA98 (hexidecimal color) codes.