Wikipedia:Tips

Wikipedia's tips library

Welcome!

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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Jump to the search box with ⇧ Shift+Alt+F

You can jump to the search box from anywhere on a page, which is especially useful on long articles, so you do not have to scroll up to get to it. To do this, press ⇧ Shift+Alt+F (this works on most systems). The F stands for "find" or "focus".

For a search box in which the cursor is already focused, use www.wikipedia.org. You can drag-and-drop this link onto your browser's toolbar, and click on it anytime for immediate access.

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