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.

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

Other help on Wikimedia-specific issues

• Help:CentralNotice
• Help:Compromised accounts
• Help:How to start a new Wikipedia
• Help:Interwiki linking on Wikimedia wikis
• Help:Item
• Help:Legal issues for editors
• Help:Project
• Help:Researcher
• Help:Two-factor authentication
• Help:Unified login
• Help:如何访问维基媒体旗下项目 - a guide in Chinese on how to circumvent the Great Firewall

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

Security and privacy

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

• Help:CheckUser

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 also

• Check the privacy policy, if any, of the site you use; for Wikimedia, see Privacy policy
• Glossary of Wikipedia
• Category:Help (on Fandom)