Documentation: User's Guide
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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
- 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...
