Help: Wikipedia: The Missing Manual

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Contents overview

• 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

See also

• 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.