Main table of contents for Wikipedia: The Missing Manual
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About this book
Introduction
Part I: Editing, creating, and maintaining articles
Chapter 1: Editing for the first time
Chapter 2: Documenting your sources
Chapter 3: Setting up your account and personal workspace
Chapter 4: Creating a new article
Chapter 5: Who did what: Page histories and reverting
Chapter 6: Monitoring changes
Chapter 7: Dealing with vandalism and spam
Part II: Collaborating with other editors
Chapter 8: Communicating with your fellow editors
Chapter 9: WikiProjects and other group efforts
Chapter 10: Resolving content disputes
Chapter 11: Handling incivility and personal attacks
Chapter 12: Lending other editors a hand
Part III: Formatting and illustrating articles
Chapter 13: Article sections and tables of contents
Chapter 14: Creating lists and tables
Chapter 15: Adding images
Part IV: Building a stronger encyclopedia
Chapter 16: Getting readers to the right article: naming, redirects, and disambiguation
Chapter 17: Categorizing articles
Chapter 18: Better articles: A systematic approach
Chapter 19: Deleting existing articles
Part V: Customizing Wikipedia
Chapter 20: Customizing with preferences
Chapter 21: Easier editing with JavaScript
Part VI: Appendices
Appendix A: A tour of the Wikipedia page
Appendix B: Reader's guide to Wikipedia
Appendix C: Learning more
Publicationsedit
John Broughton (2008). Wikipedia: The Missing Manual. "O'Reilly Media, Inc.". ISBN 978-0-596-51516-4.
John Broughton (2008). Wikipedia Reader's Guide: The Missing Manual. "O'Reilly Media, Inc.". ISBN 978-0-596-52174-5.
See alsoedit
Contributing to Wikipedia – a page that provides information and resources on the basics needed to use, comment on, and contribute to Wikipedia.
Category:Wikipedia information pages and Category:Wikipedia how-to are the main subcategories listing help pages.
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Wikipedia editor navigation
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Wikipedia key policies and guidelines (?)
Five pillars
Ignore all rules
Content (?)
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Verifiability
No original research
Neutral point of view
What Wikipedia is not
Biographies of living persons
Copyright (Copyright violations)
Image use
Article titles
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Notability
Autobiography
Citing sources
Reliable sources
Medicine
Do not include copies of lengthy primary sources
Plagiarism
Don't create hoaxes
Fringe theories
Patent nonsense
External links
Conduct (?)
P
Civility
Consensus
Harassment
Vandalism
Ignore all rules
No personal attacks
Ownership of content
Edit warring
Dispute resolution
Sockpuppetry
No legal threats
Child protection
Paid-contribution disclosure
G
Assume good faith
Conflict of interest
Disruptive editing
Do not disrupt Wikipedia to illustrate a point
Etiquette
Gaming the system
Please do not bite the newcomers
Courtesy vanishing
Responding to threats of harm
Talk page guidelines
Signatures
Deletion (?)
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Deletion policy
Proposed deletion
Biographies
Criteria for speedy deletion
Attack page
Oversight
Revision deletion
Enforcement (?)
P
Administrators
Banning
Blocking
Page protection
Editing (?)
P
Editing policy
G
Article size
Summary style
Be bold
Disambiguation
Hatnotes
Broad-concept article
Understandability
Style
Manual of Style
Contents
Accessibility
Dates and numbers
Images
Layout
Lead section
Linking
Lists
Classification
Categories, lists, and navigation templates
Categorization
Template namespace
Project content (?)
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Project namespace
WikiProjects
User pages
User boxes
Shortcuts
Subpages
WMF (?)
P
Terms of Use
List of policies
Friendly space policy
Licensing and copyright
Privacy policy
List of all policies and guidelines
P: List of policies
G: List of guidelines
Summaries of values and principles
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Manual of Style
Overview
Directory
Tips
Content
Accessibility
Biography
Disambiguation pages
Organizing by subject area
Gender identity
Hidden text
Infoboxes
Linking
Self-references
Words to watch
Formatting
Abbreviations
Capitalization
Dates and numbers
Pronunciation
Spelling
Text formatting
Titles of works
Images
Captions
Image placement
Icons
Images
Layout
Layout
Lead section
Tables
Trivia sections
Lists
Lists
Lists of works
Road junctions
Stand-alone lists
Legal
Legal
Trademarks
Arts
Anime and manga
Comics
Blazons
Film
Lyrics and poetry
Novels
Philosophy
Television
Video games
Visual arts
Writing about fiction
Music
Music
Music samples
Record charts
Stringed instruments
Regional
Specific naming conventions
Canada
China (and Chinese)
France (and French)
Egypt
Hawaii
India
Indonesia
Ireland
Japan
Korea
Malaysia
Macedonia
Pakistan
Philippines
Poland
Singapore
Trinidad and Tobago
Religion
Islam
Latter Day Saints
Science
Mathematics
Medicine
Chemistry
Compound classes
Chemicals
References and external links
Safety
Structure drawing
Taxonomy
Sports
Cue sports
Snooker
Related
Article size
Article titles
Categories, lists, and navigation templates
Categorization
Citing sources
Contents
Hatnotes
Military history
Notability
Signatures
Overview
Subpages
Talk page guidelines
Template namespace
Tips
Understandability
User pages
Wikimedia sister projects
WikiProjects
Search
Category
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Wikipedia accounts and governance
Unregistered (IP) users
Why create an account?
Create an account
Request an account
IPs are human too
IP addresses are not people
IP hopper
Registered users
New account
Logging in
Reset passwords
Username policy
Changing username
Usernames for administrator attention
Unified login or SUL
Alternate account
Account security
Password strength requirements
User account security
Personal security practices
Two-factor authentication
2FA for AWB
Committed identity
On privacy, confidentiality and discretion
Compromised accounts
How to not get outed
Blocks, bans, sanctions, global actions
Blocking policy
FAQ
Admin's guide
Tools
Autoblock
Appealing a block
Guide to appealing blocks
UTRS Unblock Ticket Request System
Blocking IP addresses
Range blocks
IPv6
Open proxies
Banning policy
ArbCom appeals
Sanctions
Personal sanctions
General sanctions
Contentious topics and Log
Essay
Indef ≠ infinite
Long-term abuse
Standard offer
Global actions
Related to accounts
Sockpuppetry
Single-purpose account
Sleeper account
Vandalism-only account
Wikibreak
Enforcer
Retiring
Courtesy vanishing
Clean start
Quiet return
User groups and global user groups
Requests for permissions
Admin instructions
Admin guide
Account creator
PERM
(Auto) confirmed
PERM
Autopatrolled
PERM
AutoWikiBrowser
PERM
Bot
Request
Edit filter helper
Request
Event coordinator
PERM
Extended confirmed
PERM
File mover
PERM
IP block exempt
Request
Mass message sender
PERM
New page reviewer
PERM
Page mover
PERM
Pending changes reviewer
PERM
Rollback
PERM
Template editor
PERM
Global rights policy
Volunteer Response Team
Advanced user groups
Administrator
RfA
Bureaucrat
RfB
CheckUser and Oversight
Request
Edit filter manager
Request
Interface administrator
Request
Founder
Importer
Researcher
Committees and related
Arbitration Committee
Bot approvals group
Functionaries
Clerks
SPI clerks
ArbCom clerks
Governance
Administration
FAQ
Formal organization
Editorial oversight and control
Quality control
Wikimedia Foundation
Board
Founder's seat
Meta-Wiki
Proposals
WikiProjects
Elections
Policies and guidelines
Petitions
Noticeboards
Consensus
Dispute resolution
Reforms
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Wikipedia community
For a listing of current collaborations, tasks, and news, see the Community portal. For a listing of ongoing discussions and current requests, see the Dashboard.
