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Introduction to Wikipedia

Wikipediais made bypeople likeyou.

This page takes you through a set of tutorials aimed atcomplete newcomersinterested in contributing. It covers all the basics, and each tutorial takes only a few minutes, so you can become a proficientWikipedianin no time!

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Thewiki markup source editorshows the underlying page source code. It works like a plain text file, indicating links and other items using simple code like this:[[Earth]].

Editing
Referencing
Images
Tables

VisualEditoris the easier way of editing that works more like a word processor and hides the underlying source code. Links and other items are edited using toolbar and pop-up interfaces.

Editing
Referencing
Images
Tables

Talk pages
Navigating Wikipedia
Manual of Style
Conclusion

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