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Overview Readers Schools Contributing Editing Administration Technical Problems Miscellaneous Copyright

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Questions? — Answers for these Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs) refer primarily to the English Wikipedia; the Wikipedias in other languages may have their own FAQs. If you can't find the answer to your question here, there are several other options.

• Find out where to ask a question.
• If you are new to Wikipedia, you may want to read the Welcome page and visit the Help Desk, which provide information and links to get you started. The Help page, which is available at all times on the navigation menu (usually on the left-hand side of your screen), can also help you get started.
• Or, you can just try things out. There are over 1,200,000 Wikipedians who can set things right, so be bold. We invite you to participate. Type in your subject in the "search" box on the left, then click Go.

General and particular FAQs

• 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.
• 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.
• Technical FAQ – Questions about Wikipedia software and hardware and their limitations.
• Forking FAQ – How to download Wikipedia content and/or software and/or create derivative works of Wikipedia.
• Copyright FAQ – Questions pertaining to copyright issues.
• Problems FAQ – Questions relating to past or present difficulties and criticism.
• Miscellaneous FAQ – Everything else.

Specific FAQs

• 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.
• PHP script FAQ – Covers the major difference in the PHP script from UseModWiki.
• Rambot FAQ – The much discussed rambot.
• Categorization FAQ – About the Category feature introduced in June 2004.
• Template FAQ – About the Template feature.
• Main Page FAQ – How it works and other common answers

See also

• Help pages – Table of contents for all Help pages.
  • The Wikipedia Help Desk – For questions about How to use Wikipedia.
• Troubleshooting – Help with various technical difficulties with accessing or editing Wikipedia pages.
• Editing the main page – Help editing the main page.
• 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 Wikipediaar:ويكيبيديا:أسئلة متكررة

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