Wikipedia:Tips

Wikipedia's tips library

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Here you can digest how to use Wikipedia, in bite-sized morsels. The tips listed below were created for the Tip of the day project, or the Styletips project, but are listed here by title and organized by subject area for your convenience.

See also the Tip of the day talk page where most of the tips are written. Feel free to join in!

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How to make links to articles

When you are editing an article in Wikipedia, and you want to create a link to another Wikipedia article, place double square brackets around the topic you wish to link to. For example:

[[apple]]

produces this link:

apple

[[apple]]s

produces this link:

apples

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