Project:Help

To have a question answered, visit Project:Support desk.

General help

• What is a wiki?
• Differences between Wikipedia, Wikimedia, MediaWiki, and wiki  – If confused about the difference, read this article.
• Communication – Contact MediaWiki volunteers

MediaWiki software

• Users
• System Administrators
• Developers
• Translators

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.

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

www.mediawiki.org

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 discussing issues about the MediaWiki software.
• Project:Village pump – For discussing issues about the MediaWiki site.

Requests for user rights

• Project:Requests