Wikipedia is impossibly difficult for most of us. New editors will find that the site is incredibly badly organized and you can't find the documentation unless you know exactly what you are looking for.
Introduction to Wikipedia
edit- Wikipedia:Introduction
- Wikipedia:Questions
- IRC chat - see WP:CHAT or http://webchat.freenode.net/?channels=#wikipedia --- The channels are #wikipedia, #wikipedia-en-help etc.
- Wikipedia:Adopt-a-User
- Wikipedia:Teahouse
Markup
editA first and minor obstacle is wiki markup. See
- Help:Wiki_markup ...The wiki markup documentation
- Help:Cheatsheet ...The wiki markup cheatsheet
- Wikipedia:Manual of Style (mathematics) ...latex
The Manual of Style
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Content and Metacontent
editWikiprojects mathematics
editDiscussion
editTo get consensus or information or just to document what you are doing, use the talk page or a centralized talk page. See -
For things to do
edit- WP:WPM#Things to do
- User:SuggestBot ...who will send requests if you add {{User:SuggestBot/suggest|World War I|World War II|Category:Politics of World War II}} to your user talk page.
Customization
edit- Wikipedia:Skin
- Wikipedia:Customisation
- WP:Userboxes
- the best scripts can be easily enabled from Preferences --> Gadgets.
- Wikipedia:WikEd ...is notable among these. A moderately disruptive in-browser editor.
- http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Pathoschild/Scripts/TemplateScript ...very difficult to get this to work and it conflicts with WikEd.