Help:Contents/Advanced Help Draft
'Help-related material from Wikipedia:Community Portal has been merged with Help:Contents to create the Wikipedia:Help portal. This page is a proposed subpage of Wikipedia:Help portal for more advanced / esoteric help, but is still under construction.
Help for Wikipedia readers
Navigation
- The main Wikipedia portal
- Using the Go button
- Media help
- Category of resources for researchers
- Category of Wikipedia related articles
To be expanded?
- See also meta:Help:Reader for help on using specific features of the site.
Help for Wikipedia contributors
New user information
- Welcome!
- Introduction
- Tutorial
- Your first article
- Sandbox
- New user log
- How to edit a page
- Basic rules of Wikipedia
Wikipedia editing basics
- Basic rules of Wikipedia
- Using talk (discussion) pages
- Creating talk archive subpages
- Using the Recent Changes page
- Using the Related Changes page
Common procedures
- Featuring an article,
- pictures or lists·
- Peer review
- Deleting a page (full policy)
- Renaming a page (naming policies)
- Protecting a page (full policy)
- Reverting a page
- Administrator nominations
Resources
- Basic topics
- Public domain resources
- Sources for articles (template)
- Cleanup resources
- Image help category
- Page protection
- Standard letters requesting permission to use copryright works
- Standard letters for dealing with violations of Wikipedia's license
- Standard greetings for new users
- Software tools to help editing Wikipedia
Lists
- Category of Wikipedia related articles
- Special pages
- List of WikiProjects (where people interested in specific topics work together)
- List of stub types (stubs are very short articles that need expanding)
- Image list
- List of templates
How to...
- How to write a great article
- How to categorise
- Redirect
- How to create an article series
- Contributing
- Improving articles Picture tutorial
- Graphics tutorials
- How to reduce colors for saving a JPEG as PNG
- Tables Quick guide to templates
- Help template
- Upload files to Wikipedia
- Moving a page
- Merging & moving pages
- How to archive a talk page
- How to archive Current Events
- Linking Wikipedia articles in different languages
- Link words in articles to articles on sister projects
- Link to related articles on sister projects
Accounts
- Account benefits
- Choosing and Changing a username
- Logging in
- User preferences
- Changing attribution for edits
- Account deletion
- Logging in
- Customising Wikipedia
- Changing your signature
Contact information
- Contact us(overview)
- Reference desk (Help finding articles or information. See also Requested articles.)
- Help desk (Editing help.)
- General Complaints
- Mailing lists
- Surveys
- Ask a question
For administrators
- Administrators page
- List of administrators
- Administration FAQ
- Administrator's reading list
- Bureaucrats
- Elections
- Meta
- Purge
- Fix cut & paste moves
- Page protection
Technical information
- The MediaWiki software
- Bug reports and feature requests
- Browser notes
- Bots
- Database download
- Export page(s) in XML
- Problems editing long articles
Advanced help for contributors
- MediaWiki user's guide
- Table format
- TeX and math formulae
- Special characters
- Images and multimedia
- Customizing your display with CSS
- Edit with an external editor
Misc
Policies, guidelines & discussion
General Policies & Guidelines
- Overview of policies
- List of policies and guidelines
- List of official policies
- List of guidelines
- Neutral point of view (NPOV)
- Copyright
- Editing Policy
- Image use policy
- Page protection policy
- Deletion policy
- Policy on permanent deletion of pages
- Citing Wikipedia
- Libel
- Wikipedia etiquette
- Be bold!
Guides for layout/style
Manual Of Style
( Sub articles:
- Biographies, China related articles,
- Command-line examples, Dashes, Dates & numbers, Disambiguation, Headings, Ireland related articles,
- Japan related articles,
- Links, Mathematics, Pronunciation, Signpost articles, Titles, Trademarks, How to link to Wikimedia projects
)
Other guidance
- Layout
- Naming conventions
- Disambiguation (pages which resolve ambiguity for articles with similar titles)
- Captions
- Categorisation
- Categorisation of people
- Footnotes
- Explaining jargon
- Guide to writing better articles
- Lists
- Pictures
- Proper names
- Creating Sections
- WikiProjects (writing and style guidelines for specific disciplines)
- Contributing to articles outside your native language
- Technical terms & definitions
How to resolve conflicts
- Stay cool!
- Be nice to newcomers
- Alert others
- Request assistance from a members' advocate
- Resolving disputes
- Arbitration policy
Wikipedia discussion
- Village pump (Sub-articles:
News, Policy, Technical, Proposals, Assistance, Miscellaneous)
- Discussion pages
- IRC chat
- Instant Messaging
- In person meetings
- User pages
- Meta Wikipedia (For essays and discussions about topics related to Wikipedia.)
Syntax help
- Wikipedia:Links
- Wikipedia:Lists
- Wikipedia:How to use tables
- Wikipedia:Redirect
- meta:Help:Formula (Mathmatical markup in TeX)
- Wikipedia:Infobox