This is help for editors of MediaWiki content.

These guides are multi-topic pages that include content from the single topic pages.

• For the basics on one page, see help:editing ,
• for a reference, see help:wikitext reference ,
• for examples, see help:wikitext examples .

Help contents

Meta ?· Wikinews ?· Wikipedia ?· Wikiquote ?· Wiktionary ?· Commons: ?· Wikidata ?· MediaWiki ?· Wikibooks ?· Wikisource ?· MediaWiki:?Manual ?· Google

Versions of this help page (for other languages see further)

What links here on Meta or from Meta ?· Wikipedia ?· MediaWiki

Reading

Go ?· Search ?· Namespace ?· Page name ?· Section ?· Backlinks ?· Redirect ?· Category ?· Image page ?· Special pages ?· Printable version

Tracking changes

Recent changes ( enhanced ) | Related changes ?· Watching pages ?· Diff ?· Page history ?· Edit summary ?· User contributions ?· Minor edit ?· Patrolled edit

Logging in and preferences

Logging in ?· Preferences

Editing

Starting a new page ?· Advanced editing ?· Editing FAQ ?· Export ?· Import ?· Shortcuts ?· Edit conflict ?· Page size

Referencing

Links ?· URL ?· Interwiki linking ?· Footnotes

Style and formatting

Wikitext examples ?· CSS ?· Reference card ?· HTML in wikitext ?· Formula ?· Lists ?· Table ?· Sorting ?· Colors ?· Images and file uploads

Fixing mistakes

Show preview ?· Reverting edits

Advanced functioning

Expansion ?· Template ?· Advanced templates ?· Parser function ?· Parameter default ?· Magic words ?· System message ?· Substitution ?· Array ?· Calculation ?· Transclusion

Others

Special characters ?· Renaming (moving) a page ?· Preparing a page for translation ?· Talk page ?· Signatures ?· Sandbox ?· Legal issues for editors