Project:Help

General help

• What is a wiki?
• Wikipmediawiki - confused about the difference between Wikipedia, Wikimedia, MediaWiki and wiki? Read this article.

MediaWiki Software

Users

System Administrators

Developers

Please check the following locations for help installing/running/using the MediaWiki software.

• The MediaWiki Handbook
• Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)
• Technical Reference
• Public Domain User Manual (under development)
• Communication - Other sources of help.
• MediaWiki Users - Unofficial MediaWiki forum for MediaWiki user to user support.

If you have checked the above pages and still need further help, then you can try asking a question at the support desk.

www.mediawiki.org

COMMUNITY NEWS

• Extension namespace should be used for all extensions.
• TransWiki import is enabled, so admins can move content from meta to here.

Basic information

• Project:About
• Project:Copyrights
• Project:Language policy
• Project:Deletion
• Project:Namespaces

Current projects

• Project:PD help - For discussing the public-domain help pages.
• Project:Manual - For discussing the Manual: namespace.
• Meta:MetaProject to transfer content to MediaWiki.org - For co-ordinating the move of pages from meta.
• Project:Tasks - Ongoing site tasks. Get involved!

Questions and discussion:

• Project:Support desk - For questions and comments about the site.
• Project:Current issues - For discussing large-scale project-wide issues.

Requests for user rights

• Project:Requests