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.
 | The following is a proposed Wikipedia policy, guideline, or process. The proposal may still be in development, under discussion, or in the process of gathering consensus for adoption. |
Welcome to the Advanced Help Portal!See the MediaWiki Reader Handbook for help on using specific features of the site.
Resources
- 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 articles category
- How to start a new page
- How to edit a page (Wiki markup)
- How to write a great article
- How to categorise
- Redirect
- How to create an article series
- Contributing
- Improving articles
- Picture tutorial (Image use policy)
- Graphics tutorials
- How to reduce colors for saving a JPEG as PNG
- Tables Quick guide to templates
- Help template
- Upload files to Wikipedia
- Requested moves
- 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
Extensions
- WikiHiero syntax — warning: lots of images! (for Egyptian hieroglyphs)
- EasyTimeline syntax
Syntax help
- Wikipedia:Links
- Wikipedia:Lists
- Wikipedia:How to use tables
- Wikipedia:Redirect
- meta:Help:Formula (Mathmatical markup in TeX)
- Wikipedia:Infobox
Policies & guidelines
General Policies & Guidelines
- Overview of policies
- List of policies and guidelines
- List of official policies
- List of guidelines
- Policy on permanent deletion of pages
Manual Of Style
- Manual of Style (overview)
- Biographies
- China related articles
- Command-line examples
- Dashes
- Dates & numbers
- Disambiguation
- Headings
- Ireland related articles
- Japan related articles
- Links
- Mathematics
- Pronunciation
- Titles
- Trademarks
- How to link to Wikimedia projects )
Other guidance
- Naming conventions
- Disambiguation (pages which resolve ambiguity for articles with similar titles)
- Captions
- Categorisation
- Categorisation of people
- Footnotes
- Explaining jargon
- 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
Contact information
For administrators
- Administrator nominations
- 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
- Meta Wikipedia (For essays and discussions about topics related to Wikipedia.)
- Category of Wikipedia related articles
- Contingency page for when the main Wikipedia server is down