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What's Wikipedia?
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{{PD Help Page}}
# http://wikipedia.org - the largest encyclopedia in the world. Introduction at http://wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:About
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==Reading==
# [[wp:Wikipedia:Ten_things_you_may_not_know_about_Wikipedia|Ten things you may not know about Wikipedia]]
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* [[Help:Navigation|Navigation]]
# [[wp:Wikipedia:Ten_things_you_may_not_know_about_images_on_Wikipedia|Ten things you may not know about images on Wikipedia]]
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* [[Help:Searching|Searching]]
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* [[Help:Tracking changes|Tracking changes]]
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* [[Help:Watchlist|Watchlist]]
  
== Using ==
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==Editing==
# See the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Help_desk Help desk]
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* [[Help:Editing pages|Editing pages]]
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 page.
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* [[Help:Starting a new page|Starting a new page]]
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* [[Help:Formatting|Formatting]]
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* [[Help:Links|Links]]
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* [[Help:User page|User pages]]
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* [[Help:Talk pages|Talk pages]]
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* [[Help:Signatures|Signatures]]
  
== Editing Information ==
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===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.
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* [[Help:Images|Images]]
# See the [[wp:Help:Content|Help Table of Contents]]
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* [[Help:Tables|Tables]]
# http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:Editing
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* [[Help:Categories|Categories]]
# [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Editor_handbook See the Editor's Handbook]
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* [[Help:Subpages|Subpages]]
# [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Cheatsheet The Cheatsheet] (which includes links to the print cheatsheets)
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* [[Help:Managing files|Managing files]]
# [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:HTML_in_wikitext What HTML is allowed]?
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* [[Help:Moving a page|Moving (renaming) a page]]
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* [[Help:Redirects|Redirects]]
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* [[Help:Deleting a page|Deleting a page]]
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* [[Help:Protected pages|Protected pages]]
  
=== Images ===
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* [[Help:Templates|Templates]]
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* [[Help:Variables|Variables]]
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* [[Help:Namespaces|Namespaces]]
  
<nowiki>[[Image:foo.jpg]]</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.
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* [[Help:Special pages|Special pages]]
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* [[Help:External searches|External searches]]
  
<nowiki>[[Media:foo.pdf]]</nowiki> would produce a link to a pdf document, so
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===Personal customization===
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* [[Help:Preferences|Preferences]]
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* [[Help:Skins|Skins]]
  
<nowiki>[[Media:Ejbdesignpatterns.pdf]]</nowiki> produces a link to http://freephile.com/wiki/images/6/6d/Ejbdesignpatterns.pdf
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==Wiki administration==
* [[mw:Help:Images]]
 
  
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* [[Help:Sysops and permissions|Sysops and permissions]]
  
== Using External Editors ==
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The following features require extra permissions that are not normally granted to all wiki users.
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]] that allows you to write wiki articles from right in your word processor.
 
  
== Advanced Editing and Customization ==
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* [[Help:Protecting and unprotecting pages|Protecting and unprotecting pages]]
Please see [http://meta.wikipedia.org/wiki/MediaWiki_i18n documentation on customizing the interface]
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* [[Help:Sysop deleting and undeleting|Sysop deleting and undeleting]]
and the [http://meta.wikipedia.org/wiki/MediaWiki_User%27s_Guide User's Guide] for usage and configuration help.
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* [[Help:Patrolled edits|Patrolled edits]]
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* [[Help:Blocking users|Blocking users]]
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* [[Help:Range blocks|Range IP blocks]]
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* [[Help:Assigning permissions|Assigning permissions]]
  
=== Linked Images ===
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{{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 [[mw:Help:Linked_images| many ways to make mediawiki link images]], but the most convenient that we settled on here is to use the [[mw:Extension:Icon|Icon extension]]
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[[Category:Help| ]]
The syntax (described at [[Icons]]) is
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__NOTOC__
<pre>
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[[Category:Imported help]]
{{#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
 
  
 
[[Category:Howto]]
 
[[Category:Howto]]
 
[[Category:Help]]
 
[[Category:Help]]

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