Wikipedia:Help Project/Overview: Difference between revisions

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== Nav Box ==

===Accessible Nav Box===

1st draft - most of [[Help:Contents]], some of [[Wikipedia:FAQ Index]] and a few others now

For new users to follow a predefined course, and intermediate editors access to commonly used help pages for reference

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|title = [[Help:Contents]]

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|group1 = Indexes

|list1 = {{nowrap begin}}

[[Wikipedia:FAQ Index]]{{·w}} [[Wikipedia:Quick directory]]{{·w}} [[Wikipedia:Editor's index to Wikipedia|Editor's index]]{{·w}} [[Help:Contents]]

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|group2 = [[Help:Contents/Getting started|Getting started]] |list2 = {{nowrap begin}}

[[Wikipedia:Introduction|Introduction]]{{·w}}[[Help:Contents/Browsing Wikipedia|Browsing Wikipedia]]{{-w}} [[Wikipedia:Glossary|Glossary of Wikipedia terms]]{{·w}} [[Wikipedia:Advice for parents|Advice for parents]]{{·w}} [[Wikipedia:FAQ/Overview]]{{·w}}[[Wikipedia:Five pillars|The Five Pillars]]

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|group3 = Browsing WikiPedia |list3 = {{nowrap begin}}

[[Wikipedia:Searching|Search for an article]]{{·w}}[[Wikipedia:Basic navigation|Find articles and site functions]]{{·w}} [[Wikipedia:FAQ/Readers]]

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|group4 = Communicating |list4 = {{nowrap begin}}

[[Help:Contents/Communication]] {{-w}}

[[Wikipedia:Questions|Where to ask questions]]{{·w}}

[[Wikipedia:Contact us|Contact us]]{{·w}}

[[Wikipedia:Village pump|Village pump]]{{·w}}

[[Wikipedia:Talk_page_guidelines|Talk pages]]{{-w}}

[[Wikipedia:Contact us/Article problem|Article problem]]{{·w}}

[[Wikipedia:Help desk|Help desk]]{{·w}}

[[Wikipedia:New contributors' help page|New contributors' help page]]{{·w}}

[[Wikipedia:Editor assistance/Requests|Editor assistance/Requests]]{{·w}}

[[Wikipedia:Reference desk|Reference desk]]{{·w}}

[[Wikipedia:Village pump|Village pump]]{{·w}}

{{nowrap end}}

|group5 = Tutorials |list5 = {{nowrap begin}}

[[Wikipedia:Picture tutorial]] {{-w}}

[[Wikipedia:tutorial|Tutorial]]{{·w}}

[[Wikipedia:Article wizard 2.0]] {{-w}}

{{nowrap end}}

|group6 = Editing basics |list6 = {{nowrap begin}}

[[Help:Contents/Editing Wikipedia|Overview]]{{·w}}

[[Wikipedia:Contributing to Wikipedia|Contributing to Wikipedia]]{{·w}}

[[Help:Contents/Policies and guidelines|Policies and guidelines]]{{·w}}

[[Wikipedia:Consensus|Consensus]]{{·w}}

[[Wikipedia:Manual of Style|Manual of Style]]{{·w}}

[[Wikipedia:Cheatsheet|Cheatsheet]]{{·w}}

[[Help:Contents/Account settings and maintenance|Account settings and maintenance]]{{·w}}

[[Help:Preferences|Change your preferences]]{{·w}}

[[Wikipedia:Customisation#User name and signatures|Change your signature]]{{·w}}

[[Wikipedia:FAQ/Editing]]{{·w}}

[[Wikipedia:FAQ/Contributing]]{{·w}}

[[Help:Wikipedia: The Missing Manual|The Missing Manual]]{{·w}}

[[Help:Contents/The Wikipedia community|The Wikipedia community]]{{·w}}

{{nowrap end}}

|group7 = Editing reference |list7 = {{nowrap begin}}

[[Help:Link|How to make links]]{{·w}}

[[Help:Contents/Links|Links and references]]{{·w}}

[[Wikipedia:External links|External links]]{{·w}}

[[Wikipedia:Citing sources|Citing sources]]{{·w}}

[[Help:Contents/Resources and lists|Resources and lists]]{{·w}}

[[Wikipedia:WikiProject Stub sorting/Stub types|Types of stub]]{{·w}}

[[Wikipedia:Template messages|Common Templates]]{{·w}}

[[Wikipedia:Cleanup resources|Cleanup resources]]{{·w}}

[[Wikipedia:Deletion discussions|Deleting pages]]{{·w}}

[[Wikipedia:Dispute resolution|Dispute resolution]]{{·w}}

[[Wikipedia:Requests_for_feedback]] {{-w}}

[[Wikipedia:Peer_review]] {{-w}}

[[Wikipedia:Featured_article_review]] {{-w}}

{{nowrap end}}

|group8 = Images and files |list8 = {{nowrap begin}}

[[Wikipedia:Picture tutorial]]{{·w}}

[[Help:Contents/Images and media|Images and media]]{{·w}}

[[Wikipedia:Uploading images|Upload images]]{{·w}}

[[Help:Files]]{{-w}}

[[Wikipedia:Image copyright tags|Copyright tags]]{{·w}}

[[Wikipedia:Creation and usage of media files|Other media]]{{·w}}

{{nowrap end}}

|group9 = Tracking changes |list9 = {{nowrap begin}}

[[Help:Contents/Tracking changes|Keeping track of changes]]{{·w}}

[[Help:Page history|Page history]]{{·w}}

[[Help:User contributions|User contributions]]{{·w}}

[[Wikipedia:Vandalism|Vandalism]]{{·w}}

{{nowrap end}}

|group10 = Technical information |list10 = {{nowrap begin}}

[[Help:Contents/Technical information|Technical information]]{{·w}}

[[Wikipedia:Tools|Tools]]{{·w}}

[[Wikipedia:FAQ/Technical]]{{·w}}

[[MediaWiki]] software{{·w}}

[[Wikipedia:Text editor support]]{{·w}}

{{nowrap end}}

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==previous navboxes==

Found this on a users page:

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|'''[[Help:Contents|Help contents]]''' - all pages in the Help namespace: [http://meta.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special%3AAllpages&from=&namespace=12 Meta] [http://en.wikibooks.org/w/index.php?title=Special%3AAllpages&from=&namespace=12 b:] [http://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special%3AAllpages&from=&namespace=12 c:] [http://en.wikinews.org/w/index.php?title=Special%3AAllpages&from=&namespace=12 n:] [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special%3AAllpages&from=&namespace=12 w:] [http://en.wikiquote.org/w/index.php?title=Special%3AAllpages&from=&namespace=12 q:] [http://en.wikisource.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Allpages&from=&namespace=12 wikisource] [http://en.wiktionary.org/w/index.php?title=Special%3AAllpages&from=&namespace=12 wiktionary]<BR>

<BR>

'''Reading:'''

[[Help:Reader|Overview]] |

[[Help:Go button|Go]] |

[[Help:Searching|Search]] |

[[Help:URL|URL]] |

[[Help:Namespace|Namespace]] |

[[Help:Page name|Page name]] |

[[Help:Section |Section]] |

[[Help:Link|Link]] |

[[Help:What links here|Backlinks]] |

[[Help:Piped link|Piped link]] |

[[Help:Interwiki linking|Interwiki link]] |

[[Help:redirect|Redirect]] |

[[Help:Variable|Variable]] |

[[Help:category|Category]]

<br>

'''Tracking changes:'''

[[Help:Recent changes|Recent]] |

[[Help:Enhanced recent changes|(enhanced)]] |

[[Help:Related changes|Related]] |

[[Help:Watching pages|Watching pages]] |

[[Help:Page history|Page history]] |

[[Help:Diff|Diff]] |

[[Help:User contributions|User contributions]] | [[help:Edit summary|Edit summary]] | [[Help:Minor edit|Minor edit]]

<br>

'''Logging in and preferences:''' [[Help:Logging in|Logging in]] | [[help:Preferences|Preferences]] |

[[Help:User style|User style]]<br>

'''Editing:''' [[help:editing|Overview]]''' |

[[Help:Starting a new page|New page]] |

[[Help:Images and other uploaded files|Images/files]] |

[[Help:Image description page|Image description page]] |

[[Help:Special characters|Special characters]] |

[[Help:Formula|Formula]] |

[[Help:Table|Table]] |

[[Help:EasyTimeline syntax|EasyTimeline]] | [[Help:A quick guide to templates|Template intro]] |

[[Help:Renaming (moving) a page|Renaming (moving) a page]] |

[[Help:Automatic conversion of wikitext|Automatic conversion of wikitext]] |

[[Help:Talk page|Talk page]] |

[[Help:Testing|Testing]] | [{{SERVER}}{{localurl:Special:Recentchangeslinked|target=Template:H:f}} rlc]<br>

'''Projects:'''

'''[[m:Help:Contents|Meta (master page)]]''' |

[[b:Help:Contents|Wikibooks]] |

[[commons:Help:Contents|Wikicommons]] |

[[n:Help:Contents|Wikinews]] |

[[Help:Contents|Wikipedia]] |

[[q:Help:Contents|Wikiquote]] |

[[s:Help:Contents|Wikisource]] |

[[wikt:Help:Contents|Wiktionary]]<br>

For other languages see Meta.

|}

===Complete Nav Box===

To see how much info we can get in it for intermediate/experienced editors without it going BANG! - I.e advanced topics only accesssed once in a blue moon

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