Help talk:Introduction
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Why is there no "template" sub-topic?
As I moved down the category tree, I could not see any topic named "templates". Uralunlucayakli (talk) 11:03, 2 November 2023 (UTC)
- @Uralunlucayakli, there's some brief description at Help:Introduction to editing with Wiki Markup/3, but on the whole, this tutorial is about giving you the bare minimum needed to get started, whereas templates are a bit more advanced. I could see us reworking things to add more about them, though — I'm not sure it totally makes sense to talk about tables right now but not templates. Do others have thoughts? {{u|Sdkb}} talk 14:29, 2 November 2023 (UTC)
- It's hard to recommend either for inclusion in a bare minimum tutorial, because whether or not an editor is going to encounter templates or tables in their editing totally depends on the kind of edits they want to make and the kind of articles they want to contribute to. E.g. someone interested in sport articles will immediately encounter both templates and tables (and is likely to require using a wikitext editor at one point or another), but someone interested in philosophy articles can avoid encountering templates and tables for a long time (and can probably manage with using the visual editor only). —andrybak (talk) 00:56, 22 December 2025 (UTC)
Better heading?
Moved from Help talk:Introduction to Wikipedia"Introduction to contributing to Wikipedia" seems non-optimal, because it's redundant with the page title, creates some confusion with the menu page, and comes across as a bit dry/lacks enthusiasm. Any suggestions for improving? {{u|Sdkb}} talk 08:52, 23 June 2020 (UTC)
Interwiki links
Moved from Help talk:Introduction to WikipediaPreviously there was three separate introduction pages. They are later merged, so the merged one does not equal to any of them. However, the interwikis were simply combined - they are actually unsuitable for this page, and currectly this contain multiple pages in one same language.--GZWDer (talk) 00:16, 8 July 2020 (UTC)
Button 'Return to the tutorial'
Moved from Help talk:Introduction to WikipediaHello. The blue button 'Return to the tutorial' in the Visual Editor sandbox leads nowhere. Should this be fixed? --TadejM my talk 14:46, 22 November 2022 (UTC)
Documentation of source editor
I have been able to find documentation for visual editor, but not for source editor. Given the redirects pointing here, I believe that there should be links here pointing to the source editor documentation. -- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz Username:Chatul (talk) 19:43, 6 February 2025 (UTC)
You are invited to join the discussion at Wikipedia:Village pump (technical) § Early Explorations Into Semantic Search: Phase 0. Sdkb‑WMF talk 19:49, 11 January 2026 (UTC)
Vector 2022
Now that Vector 2022 is the default, the contents is at the side; part 2 no longer makes sense. סשס Grimmchild. He/him, probably 10:56, 2 February 2023 (UTC)
Standard Sections
A brief introduction to the main standard sections relevant to many articles would be helpful.
I am particularly interested in introducing a standard ‘Lay Summary’ section. I believe this could be valuable to help non specialists get a handle on the subject. Also very helpful for inspiring briefer articles for non specialists.
Wikipedia has often been accused of bias. The bias I believe needs most attention is it is easy for specialist articles to ignore wider audiences, especially those less educated on particular subjects.
I suggest Simple English Wikipedias could be a significant beneficiary of such standardised sections and encourage those articles to cross reference to the specialist articles that they used.
A lay summary, perhaps with a note on who a lay person is assumed to be could help.
I have been inspired by medical articles in major magazines having lay summaries.
I don’t know a good way to raise this issue without getting very involved in Wikipedia and all the time and energy that involves, along with how that impacts my personal life. CuriousMarkE (talk) 05:41, 9 July 2024 (UTC)
Centralization of discussion of Help:Introduction
In these 57 edits today (1 February 2026) and another 29 edits in December 2025 I went through all of Special:PrefixIndex/Help talk:Introduction to:
- drop off-topic sections;
- archive resolved and stale discussion sections to archives of Help talk:Introduction;
- move recent-ish discussions here: #Better heading?, #Interwiki links, #Button 'Return to the tutorial', #Documentation of source editor, #Discussion at Wikipedia:Village pump (technical) § Early Explorations Into Semantic Search: Phase 0, #Vector 2022, and #Standard Sections.
For a more concise view of this centralization, see history of: Help talk:Introduction, Help talk:Introduction/Archive 1, and Help talk:Introduction/Archive 2.
This centralization led to many double-redirects, which should get fixed by a bot. —andrybak (talk) 16:32, 1 February 2026 (UTC)
- Thanks for doing this! I initially centralized the numbered pages of each section of the tutorial a few years ago, but in retrospect, given the amount of traffic, centralizing everything here is clearly the better option. Cheers, Sdkb talk 19:27, 1 February 2026 (UTC)