Help:Introduction to navigating Wikipedia/6
Introduction
Navigating Wikipedia
Namespaces
The different types of pages
Searching pages
Tricks to find what you want
Page histories
See past revisions
Redirects and shortcuts
Redirecting traffic
Useful links
Handy pages for editors
Summary
Review of what you've learned
At the top
If you are logged in, you'll also see some useful links in the top right of your screen:
- Your username takes you to your userpage, where you can add information about yourself.
- Talk is your user talk page, where people can leave messages for you.
- Preferences allows you to change your password and customize you email and wiki software settings
- Watchlist shows recent changes to pages you're watching (click the star at the top right of a page to watch it)
- Contributions has a list of all the edits you have made
- Log out lets you log out of your account
On the left
There's an additional set of useful links on the left of each page:
- What links here shows you what other pages are linking to an article
- Related changes lists any edits that have been made to pages that an article links to
- Help is the entry point for Wikipedia's help pages
- Community portal has information about where you can help out, and projects you can join
Yet more useful links
There are a few final pages on Wikipedia that are really handy to know about:
- You can ask questions at either the Help desk (using or editing Wikipedia) or the Teahouse (newcomers help)
- The Village pump is a set of central discussion forums (policy, technical, proposals, idea lab and miscellaneous)
- The Signpost is Wikipedia's weekly community-written newspaper, a good way to keep up with goings-on
- The WP:WikiProject Directory lists special-interest editor communities