Help:Contents

The help namespace on Meta-Wiki contains help about information specific to Wikimedia wikis. For help on how to use MediaWiki itself not specific to Wikimedia, see MediaWiki PD help (for the basics of how to use the software) and MediaWiki Manual (for more in-depth information about how exactly it works, and how to configure the software for your own wiki).

Help on using Meta

This offers guidance on navigating and utilizing Meta.

• Meta:Aneat
• Community Help Forums
• Request help from a Meta sysop
• Meta discussion forum
• Wikimedia general discussion forum
• Goings-on
• Global user pages

Content and banner management

This includes pages related to content and banner management across WMF wikis.

• Help:CentralNotice
• Help:Interwiki linking on Wikimedia wikis
• Interwiki map

Gadgets

Meta offers various gadgets you can enable in your preferences to assist with tasks like category management, editing, and more.

• Help:Cat-a-lot
• Gadgets/autocomplete
• Gadgets/Reftoolbar

Check out the

Category:Gadgets[[::Category:Gadgets| ]] to see more gadgets used on Meta.

Security

This includes tools and guidelines related to the protection of user accounts and monitoring abuse.

• Help:CheckUser
• Help:Compromised accounts
• Help:Two-factor authentication
• Help:Unified login

Legal

This category includes pages related to legal issues.

• Help:Legal issues for editors
• Wikimedia Foundation/Legal
• Legal/Legal Fees Assistance Program/FAQ

Research

This category includes pages related to research activities within WMF.

• Help:Researcher
• Research:People
• Research:Index

Projects

This category includes pages related to WMF projects.

• Complete list of Wikimedia projects
• Help:How to start a new Wikipedia

Project access

This category includes pages related to accessing a WMF project.

• Help:如何访问维基媒体旗下项目 - a guide in Chinese on how to circumvent the Great Firewall
  • Help:如何访问维基媒体旗下项目/Hosts文件

Help Meta Template Category

The Meta-Wiki help namespace also contains various historical relics, pointers to content on other wikis and translations of content that was originally here but that hasn't been translated in its new home.

See aes weel

• Check the preevacie policie, gif onie, o the steid that ye uise; fer Wikimedia: Preevacie policie
• Glossarie o Wikipædia
• wikicities:Category:Help
• Categerie:Help
• Airtins fae the MediaWiki wiki til the Help namespace here oan Metahttp://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:Linksearch/meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Help: - na compleate, needs ootby airtin style
• Airtins fae the Ingils Wikipædia til the Help namespace here oan Meta - na compleate, needs ootby airtin style or aen airtin produced bi w:Template:H:mlm [ talk edit history links ]