Wikipedia:FAQ

Help desk

See also Wikipedia:Questions, for other places to get answers.

General FAQs

• Main FAQ – Main FAQ about using and contributing to Wikipedia.
• Overview FAQ – General questions about the Wikipedia project.
• Readers' FAQ – Finding, reading and using Wikipedia material.
• Schools' and Teachers' FAQ – Using Wikipedia in the classroom.
• Organizations and Business' FAQ – Guidelines for organizations and businesses about how you are represented in Wikipedia.
• Contributing FAQ – Why you might want to contribute to the Wikipedia project, and how you can do it.
• Editing FAQ – The ins and outs of creating and editing Wikipedia pages.
• Administration FAQ – What an administrator (or "sysop") is, sysop status, and server administration.
• Blocks FAQ – Information about blocks.
• Technical FAQ – Questions about Wikipedia software and hardware and their limitations.
• Problems FAQ – Questions relating to past or present difficulties and criticism.
• Article subjects' FAQ – Questions relating to an article about you, someone you represent, or your organization.
• Copyright FAQ – Questions pertaining to copyright issues.
• Miscellaneous FAQ – Everything else.

Specific FAQs

• Forking FAQ – How to download Wikipedia content and/or software and/or create derivative works of Wikipedia.
• Book FAQ – About the Books extension.
• Categorization FAQ – Editor's guide to the Category feature.
• Categories FAQ – Readers' guide to categories.
• Template FAQ – About the Template feature.
• Main Page FAQ – How it works and other common answers.
• Editor assistance FAQ – Specific to the Editor assistance forum.
• ClueBot NG FAQ – Specific to ClueBot NG

Similar pages

• Citing Wikipedia – Detailed information about how to cite Wikipedia when you use it as a reference.
• Who writes Wikipedia – An overview of the process and people behind Wikipedia.
• Wikipedia:What is an article? – What constitutes an article.
• Glossary – Definitions of Wikipedia jargon and acronyms.

See also

• Help contents – A page to guide you to the right place.
• Help directory – A descriptive directory of informative, instructional and supportive pages.
• The Wikipedia Help Desk – For questions about How to use Wikipedia.
• Troubleshooting – Help with various technical difficulties with accessing or editing Wikipedia pages.
• The Wikipedia Manual of Style – Stylistic guidebook to help keep Wikipedia's appearance self-consistent.
• Replies to common objections – Responses to common criticisms leveled at Wikipedia.
• Wikipedia:Press Kit – Resources for media inquiries, and corrections to common misconceptions about Wikipedia.
• For other useful directories and indexes, see Wikipedia:Directory.