Help:Contents

MediaWiki is an open source wiki engine licensed under the GNU General Public License. It is used by many websites, including this one. On these help pages, you will find both a user and an administrator guide for using MediaWiki.

New in version 1.4.0

Introduction

1. Introduction

For readers

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Navigating

1. Searching, Go button
2. What links here
3. Random page
4. Special pages
5. Printable version

Tracking changes

1. Recent changes
2. Enhanced recent changes
3. Related changes
4. Watching pages
5. Page history
6. Diff
7. User contributions

Accounts

1. Logging in
2. Preferences
3. User style

For editors

Editing overview

Starting a new page

1. Page name

Referencing

1. Links
2. Piped links
3. Interwiki linking
4. Variables
5. URLs
6. Anchors

Formatting

1. Formulas
2. Tables
3. HTML in wikitext
4. Image & File uploads
5. Image page

Organizing

1. Sections
2. Templates
3. Category
4. Redirects
5. Renaming (moving) a page
6. Namespaces

Saving effort

1. Editing shortcuts
2. Editing toolbar
3. Magic words

Fixing mistakes and vandalism

1. Reverting edits
2. Testing
   

Communicating

1. Edit summary
2. Talk page
3. Edit conflict
4. Minor edit

Special characters

1. Turkish characters
2. Romanian characters

Extensions

1. WikiHiero syntax — warning: lots of images! (for Egyptian hieroglyphs)
2. EasyTimeline syntax

Appendix

1. Help:ISBN links
2. Common stop words
3. Sites using MediaWiki
4. Browser issues with MediaWiki
5. Page metadata
6. XML export
7. How to move a MediaWiki Database
8. Shortcuts

Contact

1. irc.freenode.net #mediawiki #wikipedia
2. Mailing lists
3. MediaWiki feature request and bug report discussion

See also

• w:Wikipedia:Glossary
• Check the privacy policy, if any, of the site you use; for Wikimedia: Privacy policy
• wikicities:Category:Help