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The help contents site map is a page that lists the help pages on PESWiki, organized in hierarchical fashion. Below is the site map for the technical operation of this wiki. You may also want to visit the FAQ. This helps visitors and editors find pages on the site. Site maps will help you improve the optimization of a site by making sure that all the help pages can be found.

Help menu

Frequently Asked Questions

Getting started
Welcome! | Wiki-conversant users
Glossary of PESWiki terms | Sandbox

Policies and guidelines
Manual of Style | Ideal Article Attributes | File Naming

Browsing PESWiki
Search for an article | Find articles and site functions

Communication methods
Talk pages | Contact | Sysops | Admin

Editing PESWiki
Contributing to PESWiki | New Page | Tutorial | Quick guide
Formating | Bullet format | Tips

The PESWiki community
10 Reasons to Wiki | Free Energy and Wiki

Links
How to make links | External links | Embed Videos

Resources and lists
Tasks |Priorities | Templates

Images and media
Uploading images | Other media | List of Images

Account settings and maintenance
Change your preferences | Change your signature

Keeping track of changes
Page history | User contributions | Vandalism

Technical information
Tools | The MediaWiki software

Where to ask questions
Questions - for questions.

To view all of the menus on one page, see the Site Map entries.

See also: PESWiki:Directory and PESWiki department directory.

PESWiki:FAQ

FAQ Overview Readers Education
Contributing Editing Administration Technical
Problems Miscellaneous Copyright Help Contents

Site map entries

Getting started
Welcome!
Introduction to PESWiki
Basic navigation
About PESWiki
How to log in
Why create an account?
Choosing a username
Sign the new-user log
Quick guide to editing
Sandbox
New contributors' help page
Where to ask questions
Glossary of PESWiki terms
Browsing PESWiki

Who writes PESWiki essential information for new readers
Basic navigation

Browsing - How to:

Search for an article including "Go" button
Look it up
Explore PESWiki
Use the what links here browsing tool
Use PESWiki faster with keyboard shortcuts
Use the Recent Changes page
Patrolling the recent changes
Do research using PESWiki
(See also Category of resources for researchers).
Cite PESWiki For help citing PESWiki as a reference.
Play media files in PESWiki

Navigation System

Browse-pages

Browse categories
Browse by overview

Reference pages

Overview articles
A-Z Index

Featured content

Featured content portal

See also

FAQs
Main Page alternatives
Site news
Editing PESWiki

To learn how to keep track of your (or other people's) edits, see Keeping track of changes.
For lists of stub types, categories, infoboxes etc., see Resources and lists.
For image use, see Images and media.
To learn the rules of PESWiki, see policies and guidelines.


Contributing to PESWiki a guide on ways to get involved in editing.
Introduction to editing.
Tutorial
Quick guide, an editing cheat sheet.
Simplified ruleset, essential information to understand when editing articles (for new editors).
The Glossary can help you understand PESWiki jargon.

Editing - how to:

Edit a page, including markup details.
Experiment with editing pages in the sandbox
You can also carry out editing experiments "in situ" by editing the page itself and using the Show Preview button. Be careful not to accidentally save the page though! If you do, then Revert your changes.
Help:Editing (extended cheat sheet - keep this open in another window)
Use sections in an article
Use categories
Use redirect pages

Saving - how to:

Report your change in the edit summary
Handle an edit conflict
Use minor edits
Use the preview button

Creating links - how to:

Link PESWiki articles
Change the title of a link (the piped link)
Create links to external pages

Creating pages - how to:

Start a new page
Name a page
Create pages for topics with several different definitions (disambiguation)
Naming conventions in general

Formatting - how to:

Use Wiki markup codes
HTML codes in wikitext
Create lists
Templates
A quick guide to templates
Templates
List of available templates
The PESWiki syntax
Tables
Redirect
Infobox
"Magic words" allow you to change default behaviour or automate text eg. you can disable a Table of Contents or move its position, or insert & automatically update the current date, month etc. See also: Variables.
Help:Editing shortcuts
Use easy timeline syntax
Edit mathematical formulae using TeX

Style

Layout How to structure PESWiki articles.
Naming conventions
Disambiguation (pages which resolve ambiguity for articles with similar titles)
Captions
Image use
Use Proper names
Creating an article series
Using Symmary style on the overview page

Manual of Style

The Manual of Style is a comprehensive style guide for PESWiki articles.

Manual of Style

The PESWiki interface

Find your way around the screen.

Editing toolbar
Using Page History
Using User Contributions pages
Using Talk pages
Using the Recent Changes page
Using the Related Changes page
Using Diff pages
Edit conflicts

Sources

Cite the sources: How | Why | What is a reliable source?
Public domain resources
Newspapers and magazines request service
Standard letters requesting permission to use copyright works
Account settings and maintenance

Your PESWiki account - how to:

Customize your PESWiki experience
Change your preferences
Change your signature
Change your username
Delete your account
Log in (troubleshooting)
Customizing your display with CSS (advanced programming knowledge required)

                 

Links

Help

Help:Link
How to edit a page: Links and URLs
Editing FAQ: How do I make links?
PESWiki's URLs

Types of links

PESWiki:Self link
PESWiki:Piped link
PESWiki:Category link
PESWiki:External links

Guidance

PESWiki:Manual of Style (links)
PESWiki:Embedded lists
PESWiki:Only make links relevant to the context v. PESWiki:Build the web
PESWiki:Guide_to_writing_better_articles#Standard_appendices - Section on links
PESWiki:Citing sources - autonumeric text in links, footnotes

Miscellaneous

PESWiki:Basic navigation
PESWiki:Canonicalization
PESWiki:CamelCase and PESWiki - History of linking in PESWiki


Images and media
Upload form (PESWiki)
Images and multimedia
Overview of images in PESWiki

Help

Image description pages
How to upload files to PESWiki
Images and other uploaded files
Preparing images for upload
Extended image syntax
Finding images tutorial
Picture tutorial
Graphics tutorials
Basic bitmap image editing

Policy and guidelines

Image use policy
Guide to captions
Guide to use of logos
Guide to use of alternative text for images

List of...

Images
Image copyright tags

Other

Featured pictures
Featured picture candidates
Public domain image resources
Boilerplate request for permission


Keeping track of changes
Special pages
Recent changes
Enhanced recent changes
Related changes
Watching pages
Page history
Diff
User contributions
Edit summary
Minor edit

Vandalism

Reverting a page to undo vandalism (and the Three-revert rule)
Current vandalism
Persistent vandals
The Counter Vandalism Unit
Most vandalized pages
Don't provoke the vandals!


Policies and guidelines
Policies and guidelines an Overview
List of policies
List of guidelines
The Simplified Ruleset

Article standards

Be bold!
Citing sources
Copyrights
Editing
External links
Image use
Include only verifiable information
Manual of Style
What PESWiki is not

Working with others

Assume good faith
Civility and etiquette
Consensus
Don't bite the newcomers
Don't disrupt PESWiki to illustrate a point
No personal attacks
Resolving disputes
Vandalism


Communication methods

Questions

Searching is the fastest and easiest way to find answers for factual questions.
Reference desk, request an article or information you can't find. See also Requested articles.
Help desk for users with questions about PESWiki or editing.
Each article has a Talk page — click on the article's discussion tab — to read or take part in discussions about the article.
General Complaints, for discussing problems with the way PESWiki is designed and making suggestions for improvement.
Requests for administrator attention, to get help from an administrator.

Getting in touch

Contact us
Discussion pages
User pages
Instant Messaging
In person meetings


Technical information
About PESWiki
Tools to make Wikipedia work better.
Edit an article so long that you can't edit it
The MediaWiki software (Sourceforge MediaWiki Project package (http://sourceforge.net/projects/wikipedia/))
Configuration status: Special:Version
MediaWiki User's Guide (http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Help:Contents) For those who have installed the meta:MediaWiki (http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/MediaWiki) software that runs this site, and need help using it.
Requests and bug reports (http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/MediaWiki_feature_request_and_bug_report_discussion)
Browser notes
Bots
How to Download PESWiki content
Database download
Export page(s) in XML
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