Category:Wikipedia how-to

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This category contains pages in the help namespace and help pages in the project namespace. It should not be used to categorise articles or pages in other namespaces.

The main article for this category is Wikipedia:How to pages.

This category contains how-to guides for various Wikipedia processes and practices. To list a page in this category, do not edit this category page. Instead, edit the page you want to list, adding [[Category:Wikipedia how-to]] at the bottom or add the template {{Wikipedia how to}} at the top of the page. For the primary "help page", see Help:Contents or browse the Help menu or the Help directory.

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Getting started	Wikipedia intro Wikipedia tutorial The Wikipedia Adventure Manual of Style intro Graphics tutorials Picture tutorial (Uploading intro) IRC (live chat) tutorial Navigating intro Policies intro Referencing intro Tables intro Talk pages intro VisualEditor user guide

Dos and don'ts	Accessibility Bio's Categorization Disambiguation Images Links Lists References Tables Talks

How-to pages and information pages	Appealing blocks Article deletion Categories Citations / references Referencing for beginners Citation Style 1 Cite errors References and page numbers Convert Diff Editing toolbar edit conflict Email confirmation Find sources Files Footnotes Image deletion Infoboxes Linking (link color) Logging in Merging Namespaces Page name Redirect Renaming pages Passwords Reverting Talk pages (archiving) URL User contributions User page design center

Coding wiki markup	Wiki markup (cheatsheet) Barcharts Calculations Characters Citation templates Columns Hidden text HTML Lists Magic words (introduction) Music symbols Sections Sounds Tables (introduction) Templates documentation messages cleanup messages Transclusion Visual files Wiki tools

Directories	Abbreviations Departments Editor's index Essays FAQs Glossary Guidelines Help menu Manual of Style Policies Shortcuts Tips

See also: Category:Wikipedia information pages and Category:Wikipedia how-to

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Get personal technical help at the Teahouse, Help desk, Village pump (technical), talk pages or IRC.

General technical help	Multilingual support Special Characters Entering Browser notes Troubleshooting Bypass cache Mobile access Printing Keyboard shortcuts Editing Edit toolbar CharInsert Edit conflict Reverting VisualEditor User guide User access levels Software notices Editnotice IRC Tutorial Create a page Page history Page information Page name Introduction

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Wiki markup	Wiki markup main page Cheatsheet Colours use Columns Line-break handling Lists Magic words For beginners Conditional expressions Switch parser function Time function Redirects Sections and TOCs Tables Introduction Basics Conditional tables Sorting Collapsing Advanced table formatting

Links and diffs	URLs Links Permanent link Interwikimedia links Interlanguage links Link color Pipe trick Colon trick Magic links Diffs Simplest diff guide Simple diff and link guide Complete diff and link guide

Media files: images, videos and sounds	Media help Options to hide an image Uploading images Introduction Files Creation and usage Moving files to Commons Visual file markup Images Preparing images for upload Picture tutorial Extended image syntax Gallery tag Graphics tutorials Basic bitmap image editing How to improve image quality Graphics Lab resources Sound file markup SVG help

Other graphics	Family trees Graphs and charts How to create To scale charts Barcharts Math formula Math symbols Rendering math LaTeX symbols Musical scores Musical symbols Timeline EasyTimeline syntax WikiHiero syntax

Templates and Lua modules	Templates Template messages Citation templates Transclusion Labeled section Substitution Advanced template coding Template limits Template sandbox and test cases Template documentation Purge Lua help Lua project To do Resources Guide to Scribbling

Data structure	Namespaces Main/Article Talk namespaces Archiving User User page design Project/Wikipedia File File pages MediaWiki Bug reports and feature requests System message Template Help Category Portal Book Draft Education Program TimedText Module/Lua Topic/Flow Special Media

HTML and CSS	HTML in wikitext Markup validation Span tags Cascading Style Sheets Catalogue of CSS classes Useful styles Classes used in microformats Ambox classes Common.js and common.css

Customisation and tools	Preferences Skins Customizing watchlists Hide pages Gadgets Beta Features User scripts Guide Techniques IRC Scripts User styles Tools Navigation shortcuts Browser tools Alternative browsing Editing tools Optimum tool set Cleaning up vandalism tools Citation tools Wikimedia Labs

Automating editing	Bots Creating Twinkle FurMe NPWatcher HotCat WPCleaner igloo AutoWikiBrowser Navigation popups STiki AfC helper script Huggle

Relevant navigation	Help pages Administrators Templates Referencing Citation metadata Accessibility Bots User scripts

See also: Category:Wikipedia information pages and Category:Wikipedia how-to

Subcategories

This category has the following 4 subcategories, out of 4 total.

► Main Page help‎ (5 P)
► Wikipedia how-to essays‎ (37 P)
► Wikipedia how-to proposals‎ (1 P)

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