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 * Wikimedia Help
 * The main Wikimedia meta wiki help page


 * Specific Questions?
 * This page is a directory of pages in the Help namespace. If you have a specific question see: Questions


 * Need help with jargon?
 * Wikiversity participants use many technical terms that have special meaning within the Wikiversity project; see the glossary of terms.

Editing

 * Editing tutorial
 * Help:Editing $$\Leftrightarrow$$ This page has excellent tables showing the basic formattingoptions.
 * Help:Editing FAQ
 * Help:Editing tips and tricks
 * Help:Edit summary
 * Help:How to edit a page
 * Help:Editing toolbar - Shortcut buttons for editing

Making pages

 * Help:Starting a new page - See start a new page function at bottom of this page.
 * Help:Page name
 * Help:Moving, renaming and removing pages
 * Help:Portal - about making, and especially about editing, portals.

Links

 * Help:Link
 * Help:Piped link
 * Help:Interwiki linking
 * Help:URL

Making pages pretty and interesting

 * Help:Color tables -- Allowed colors on the internet.
 * Help:Icons -- Icons for instructors - Sources of great icons for Wikiversity pages
 * Help:Style Sheet 1 - Basic elements of colorful formatting styles for lesson pages
 * Help:eMail for Teachers -- Wikiversity eMail coding for instructors - How to set up email for students to contact teachers, etc.
 * Help:Quiz-Simple -- How to use the quiz extension (simplified)
 * Help:Quiz -- How to use the quiz extension (detailed)
 * Help:CSS at Wikiversity -- How to apply the features of Style Sheets on Wikiversity pages.
 * Help:Table -- Simple tables
 * Help:Table2 -- Samples of tables that you can apply on Wikiversity pages.

Other help topics

 * Help:Category
 * Help:Diff
 * Help:List
 * Help:Formula
 * Help:HTML in wikitext
 * Help:Talk page
 * Help:Variable - This is a list of variables that can be used in the wikitext.
 * Help:Wiki markup examples
 * Help:Wikitext quick reference
 * Help:Media Files - How to work with media files in Wikiversity (JPG, PNG, PDF, OGG)
 * Help:Syndication - How to receive notice when an individual Wikiversity page is edited.
 * Help:Table - Useful tips for making tables.
 * Help:Template - Find useful templates
 * Help:Error Messages

Page layout help

 * Help:Color schemes -- Page layouts for instructors - Rough samples of lesson pages
 * Help:Color schemes 2 -- Page layouts for instructors - Better quality lesson pages
 * Help:Color schemes 3 -- A simple lesson page layout for instructors. (This is better than the two above.)
 * Help:Color schemes 3b -- Color variations that can be used in Help:Color schemes 3
 * Help:Color schemes 4 -- A colorful index for language pages (currently used for Spanish/Spanish One.
 * Help:Color schemes 6 -- Yet another simple lesson page layout for instructors

Outside Help

 * Wikimedia's Help with Magic Words
 * Wikipedia's HTML Web Color Tables - A good chart of the colors you can use for your lesson pages. (Note : Do not use color numbers ; use only color names. Each browser works differently with numbers.)
 * Wikipedia's syntax for posting images on a page
 * Wikipedia:Media help
 * Media help at WikiCommons
 * Wikipedia:Media help Help getting OGG files to play on your computer.
 * ParserFunctions WikiMedia parser funtions if you want to do IF statemetns.
 * Help:Advanced templates