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What's Wikipedia?{{PD Help Page}}# http==Reading==* [[Help://wikipedia.org - the largest encyclopedia in the world. Introduction at httpNavigation|Navigation]]* [[Help://wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:AboutSearching|Searching]]# * [[wpHelp:Wikipedia:Ten_things_you_may_not_know_about_WikipediaTracking changes|Ten things you may not know about WikipediaTracking changes]]# * [[wp:WikipediaHelp:Ten_things_you_may_not_know_about_images_on_WikipediaWatchlist|Ten things you may not know about images on WikipediaWatchlist]]

== Using Editing==# See the * [http[Help://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WikipediaEditing pages|Editing pages]]* [[Help:Help_desk Starting a new page|Starting a new page]]* [[Help desk:Formatting|Formatting]]This site uses a customized theme which means that the links are in different areas. Specifically, the main links are in the left navigation column, while "special" links are at the top margin and bottom of each * [[Help:Links|Links]]* [[Help:User page.|User pages]]* [[Help:Talk pages|Talk pages]]* [[Help:Signatures|Signatures]]

== Editing Information =Advanced editing===Adding or editing articles is very easy. There is a large volume of "help" information available at the main wikipedia site, so that effort is not reproduced here.* [[Help:Images|Images]]# See the * [[wpHelp:Tables|Tables]]* [[Help:ContentCategories|Categories]]* [[Help Table of Contents:Subpages|Subpages]]# http* [[Help://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Managing files|Managing files]]* [[Help:EditingMoving a page|Moving (renaming) a page]]# * [http[Help://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Editor_handbook See the Editor's HandbookRedirects|Redirects]]# * [[httpHelp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Cheatsheet The CheatsheetDeleting a page|Deleting a page]] (which includes links to the print cheatsheets)# * [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:HTML_in_wikitext What HTML is allowedProtected pages|Protected pages]]?

<nowiki>* [[ImageHelp:foo.jpgSpecial pages|Special pages]]* [[Help:External searches|External searches]]</nowiki> produces an image You must first upload the image. You can not embed external images, with the notable exception that you CAN use 1.5 million images available in the commons project.

<nowiki>===Personal customization===* [[MediaHelp:foo.pdfPreferences|Preferences]]* [[Help:Skins|Skins]]</nowiki> would produce a link to a pdf document, so

== Using External Editors ==You can even use tools like OpenOffice or Eclipse to edit this wiki.=== Editing from OpenOffice ===http://extensions.services.openoffice.org/project/wikipublisher Sun has a new extension to [[OpenOffice]] The following features require extra permissions that allows you are not normally granted to write all wiki articles from right in your word processorusers.

== Advanced Editing * [[Help:Protecting and unprotecting pages|Protecting and unprotecting pages]]* [[Help:Sysop deleting and undeleting|Sysop deleting and Customization ==undeleting]]* [[Help:Patrolled edits|Patrolled edits]]* [[Help:Blocking users|Blocking users]]Please see * [[httpHelp://meta.wikipedia.org/wiki/MediaWiki_i18n documentation on customizing the interfaceRange blocks|Range IP blocks]]and the * [[httpHelp://meta.wikipedia.org/wiki/MediaWiki_User%27s_Guide User's GuideAssigning permissions|Assigning permissions]] for usage and configuration help.

=== Linked Images ==={{Languages|Help:Contents}}By default, this system is configured to show an image and link to it's description page. Sometimes, you want to use an image to link to a page of your choice. There are [[mwCategory:Help:Linked_images| many ways to make mediawiki link images]], but the most convenient that we settled on here is to use the __NOTOC__[[mwCategory:Extension:Icon|Icon extension]]The syntax (described at [[IconsImported help]]) is<pre>{{#icon: Info.png|Info|24|floatright|Special:Help}}</pre> To get your image to float left or right, wrap the <nowiki>{{#icon}}</nowiki> in a div with the appropriate class like so: <nowiki><div class="floatright">{{#icon}}</div></nowiki> Although I modified the Icon extension to be able to specify a class in the icon tag itself, the extension now reveals some weaknesses that make me want to change to the LinkedImage extension http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:LinkedImage