Documentation: User's Guide

PART 3: User's Guide - Usage of the MediaWiki Software

Overview

This User's Guide refers to the Wikipedia quite a lot. If you wish to use MediaWiki for other purposes, look at Help:Contents at meta.wikipedia.com.

This User's Guide applies to futon covers ingrown hair treatment sciatica treatment the software used on versions of Wikipedia in many languages (including the largest one in English) and to Meta-Wikimedia, Test wiki, Wiktionary, Wikibooks, Wikiquote, and In Memoriam.

Getting Started: Learning the MediaWiki Environment

Using MediaWiki by example: Wikipedia

About the Project

• About page, [1]
• Wikimedia, [2]
• FAQ, [3].

• Usage Online vs. offline

Creating pages - Writing Articles

Some pointers:

• Welcome, newcomers, [4],
• Policy, [5],
• Copyrights, [6],
• How to edit, [7],
• Guide to layout [8],
• Guide to style, [9],
• Public domain resources, [10],
• Shared resources, [11],
• Requested articles, [12],
• Requested pictures, [13],
• Brilliant prose [14],
• Brilliant pictures, [15],
• Reference desk, [16],
• Projects, [17],

Tracking page changes

tbd

Where to go from here

• If you...