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 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 an Account, Logging in, Logging off

Configuring the account, setting preferences, selecting a skin

Editing pages

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...