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Help:Introduction to Wikipedia

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Introduction to contributing to Wikipedia
Wikipedia is a free encyclopedia, written collaboratively by the people who use it. Its 7.05 million articles can be edited by anyone, and all changes are recorded in article histories. For a more detailed account of the project, see About Wikipedia.

How you can contribute

A short video about the satisfaction editors get from contributing

Don't be afraid to edit – Anyone can edit almost every page, just find something that can be improved and make it better! You can create new articles, or improve existing articles by adding content, references and images, or correcting spelling, grammar and readability. If you wish to add new facts, please try to provide reliable references so they may be verified. Remember, you can't break Wikipedia; all edits can be fixed or improved later. So go ahead, edit an article and help make Wikipedia the best information source on the Internet!

Suggest improvements – Each article also has a 'Talk page', where you can suggest improvements and corrections to the article.

Donate – Wikipedia is free to use, but relies on donations and grants to do so. Please consider donating using the Donate to Wikipedia link on the left to help with the project's running costs and expansion.


Why not try out the editor right now?

You can test out how editing feels now, by editing one of the sandbox pages below.

Edit page visually or Edit source code

Just type some text and Save page when you're happy with the way it looks.


If you think you might want to do some editing

You're welcome to edit anonymously, but there are many benefits of registering an account.

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