సహాయం:Index

Help Index

There is an Index for help with other languages

Other Help sources: Help contents | Ordered list | Community Portal | Discussion rooms

Other Help:Contents: Wikipedia | meta-wiki | Wikinews | Wikiquote | Wikibooks | Mediawiki | Wikisource | Commons

Please add missing items below or make a request on the discussion page.

---

Table of Contents: A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z

---

A

• Abbreviations:

• Definitions: – Abbreviation – Acronym – Initialism
• Abbreviations policy.
• Categories:

Abbreviations, acronyms and initialisms by language.

English abbreviations

English acronyms

English contractions

English initialisms

• Accessibility factors:

• Wikipedia article.
• Colour/color.
• Keyboard shortcuts.

• Acronyms - see Abbreviations

• Admins, Administration - see System administration

• Algonquian languages - see Language index

• Alphabetical order - see Alphabetic order in meta-wiki.

• Alternative spellings and Misspellings:

• Spellings - Wiktionary policy.
• Misspellings - Wiktionary policy.
• Capitalisation and case sensitivity - see Capitalisation
• Spelling variants in entry names guidance for dealing with spelling variations.
• Types of spelling variations.
• UK v US spelling

• A draft policy.
• Past discussion:   (1) A rejected policy   (2) Discussion archive.

• Categories:

• English spellings
• English alternative spellings.
• English alternative forms.
• Some sample alternative spellings.

• American v UK spelling see under Alternative spellings.

• Anchors

• see Anchors in meta-wiki.
• see Links and anchors in meta-wiki.

• Announcements
• Appearance of Wiktionary, how to customise it - see User style
• Arabic - see Language index
• Archaic terms - see Dated, archaic and obsolete terms.
• Arabic - see Language index
• Array, Associative array - see Templates.
• Assume good faith - see under Civility.
• Audio pronunciations - see Pronunciations.

---

Table of Contents: A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z

---

B

• Babel (User language templates).
• Beta version - see under Usability Initiative.
• Bureaucrats - see under Sysadmin.
• Blocking - see Vandalism.
• Bookmarks - see Anchors

• Bookmarklet see:

• Wiktionary:Bookmarklets
• Help:Tips and tricks/Bookmarklets
• Wikipedia article on Bookmarklets

• Bot

• Wiktionary:Bots Definition, theory.
• Help:Bots Practical
• Information on bots on meta-wiki.
• Bot policy on Wikipedia

• British v US spellings see Spelling
• Bugzilla - see under Usability Initiative.

• Buttons:

• The Go button on meta-wiki.
• see also System administrators

---

Table of Contents: A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z

---

C

• Calculation

• Help on Calculation on meta-wiki.

• Capitalisation/Capitalization

• A policy document
• Case sensitivity Beer parlour discussion.

• Catalan - see Language index

• Category

• Wiktionary:Categorization how to create and apply categories
• Wiktionary:Entry layout explained#Category links usage explained
• Help:Category a brief outline of conventions and Wiktionary-specific settings.
• Description and usage described
• Categories the top-level category or "category of categories".
• Special:Categories an alphabetic list of all categories
• the Category Tree browser from the Toolserver.

• CFI - see Criteria for inclusion

• Changes:

• Changes to a page - see Page history
• Changes to a customised list of pages - see Watchlists
• Changes to all pages - see Recent changes
• Changes to pages linked to a page - see Related changes
• Previewing changes - see Edit
• Undoing or reverting a change - see Reverting

• Changing a pages name - see Moving (or renaming) a page.
• Changing your password - see Password.

• Characters:

• Special characters on meta-wiki.
• Scripts - see Scripts.
• Individual languages in the Help:Language index.

• Checking translations - see Translation.
• Chinese - see Language index
• Citations - a guide to their use, format etc.

• see also Citations, Quotations, References

• Civility:

• Civility a draft Wiktionary policy.
• No personal attacks a policy proposal (March 2006).
• Assume good faith a Wiktionary policy.
• Dispute resolution.

• Cleanup:

• The cleanup and deletion process.
• Nominating an article for cleanup
• Cleanup categories, templates, lists etc.

Request pages:

Requests for cleanup

Requests for cleanup (case).

Requests cleanup (translation table)

See also Deletion and Verification.

• Codes:

• Language codes - see Language codes in Wiktionary.

• Colon, use of - see Parser function.

• Colour/color:

• Use of colour in templates etc, with special reference to Accessibility.

• Communicating:

• Using your "My talk" or "User talk" page.
• Emailing other users

• Community Portal and Discussion rooms

• Compare:

• How to view page differences.

• Conflict of edits - see Edit.

• Contents:

• Help contents page
• How to Show the contents of one page within another page.
• On the content of the Appendix namespace.

• Context labels:

• Use of context label templates (additional examples).
• Category of context labels.

• Contributions - for Users' contributions see User.

• Criteria for inclusion

• Criteria for inclusion.

• Custom namespaces - see Namespaces.
• Customising Wiktionary's appearance - see User style.
• Czech - see Language index

---

Table of Contents: A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z

---

D

• Data:

• Data export - see Export.
• Data import - see Import.

• Dated terms - see Words.

• Definitions:

• Writing
• Disputing

• Deletion:

• The cleanup and deletion process.
• Page deletion guidelines.
• Deletion categories, templates, lists etc.
• Delete, Sysop tools.
• Criteria for inclusion.
• Nominating an article for deletion:

• Requests for deletion - add new
• Requests for deletion (Other) - add new
• Requests for deletion (Archives).

• The deletion log.

See also Cleanup, Verification and Protection.

• Dictionaries - see Web resources.

• Diff, difference

• How to view page differences on meta-wiki.

• Discussion pages: - see Talk pages.
• Discussion rooms and Community Portal
• Displaying images: - see Images.
• Disputes, dispute resolution - see Civility.

• Downloading a page:

• Help for downloading pages on meta-wiki.
• Saving a web page on Wikipedia.

• Dummy edit see Edit.

---

Table of Contents: A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z

---

E

• EasyTimeline - see EasyTimeline and Help:EasyTimeline syntax on meta-wiki.

• Editing

• How to edit a page (an editing overview with many wikitext examples).
• Minor edit, when to use it.
• Starting a new page - see Page.
• On meta-wiki:

• A list of help pages.
• Using external editors:

• Using an external editor.
• Control file information.

• Editing shortcuts.
• Previewing changes.
• Wikitext examples some editing tips and tricks.
• Editing FAQ.
• The edit toolbar.
• Edit summary field when saving an edit.
• Edit conflict.
• Dummy edit.
• Editing sections of included templates.

See also Patrolled edit.

• Entry layout - see Layout.

• Etymology

• Wiktionary:Etymology, the main article with policy and examples.
• Wiktionary:Entry layout explained#Etymology
• Omitting an etymology Help:FAQ#General and ??Category:Requests for etymology
• For multiple etymologies Wiktionary:Entry layout explained#Etymology
• How to wikify foreign words in an etymology: Help:FAQ#Wikifying, Help:How to edit a page#When to link
• How etymologies should be categorised: Wiktionary:Etymology#Structure of Etymology Categories
• Categories

  Category:Etymology

  Category:Etymology templates

  Category:Requests for etymology

• Templates

  Wiktionary:Etymology/language templates

  Category:Etymology templates

• In reconstructed terms: Wiktionary:Reconstructed terms and especially Wiktionary:Reconstructed terms#References from Etymologies
• Other resources (Conditions of copywrite must be born in mind.)

  the Online Etymology Dictionary, Douglas Harper, 2001.

• Export, exporting data:

• Export on meta-wiki.

• External editors - see Editing.

---

Table of Contents: A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z

---

F

• FAQ:

• Wiktionary FAQ.
• Editing FAQ on meta-wiki.

• Foreign languages - see Index of individual languages.

• See also Translation.
• See also Characters used in other languages.

• Formulae - see Mathematics.

• Frequency of words - see Word frequency.

---

Table of Contents: A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z

---

G

• Gender - see Wiktionary:Languages with more than one grammatical gender
• Appendix:Glossary - glossary of terms used in Wiktionary entries.
• Wiktionary:Glossary - glossary of terms not used in Wiktionary entries.
• Go button - see Buttons.
• Guidelines - see Policy and guidelines.

---

Table of Contents: A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z

---

H

• Handbook for readers (ordinary users) on meta-wiki.
• Headings:

• Basics
• Additional headings
• Order of headings
• Parts of speech section headers (POS)

see also individual entries.

• Headword or Inflection line
• Help contents page.
• Help for ordinary users - see Handbook
• History of a page - see Page
• How to edit a page an editing overview with many wikitext examples.
• HTML - see wikitext
• Hungarian - see Language index
• Hypertext markup language - see wikitext

---

Table of Contents: A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z

---

I

• Icelandic - see Language index

• Images:

• Images and other uploaded files on meta-wiki.
• Displaying an image, (Extended image syntax) on Wikipedia.
• Image (description) page on meta-wiki.
• Navigational image on meta-wiki.

• Import, importing data:

• Import on meta-wiki.

See also Upload.

• Inflection or Headword line
• Initialisms - see Abbreviations
• Inputbox on MediaWiki.

• Interface (Wiktionaries appearance):

• Sidebar on MediaWiki.

• Sidebar specification on MediaWiki.

See also User style

• Interlanguage link demo on meta-wiki.

• Internal links

• International Phonetic Alphabet.

• Interwiki linking:

• Interwiki linking, linking to Wiktionaries of other languages.
• Interwiki linking on meta-wiki

• ISBN links - see Links

• IPA - see International Phonetic Alphabet

---

Table of Contents: A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z

---

J

• Japanese - see Language index

---

Table of Contents: A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z

---

K

• Keyboard shortcuts.

---

Table of Contents: A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z

---

L

• Language codes in Wiktionary.
• Languages:

• see individual languages in Help:Language index.

See also Translation.

• Latin - see Language index
• Latinisation: - see Transliteration.

• Layout:

• Entry layout explained.
• Entry layout explained - POS headers.
• Lists - see Wikitext.
• Tables - see Tables.

see also Criteria for inclusion.

• Links:

• Linking to section headings - see Anchors.
• Internal links: linking to other entries.
• URL (Uniform Resource Locator) or web page address on meta-wiki.
• Piped links on meta-wiki.
• Self links on meta-wiki.
• ISBN links on meta-wiki.
• Linking (Interwiki) - see Interwiki linking.

see also Redirection.

• Lists:

• See relevant heading.
• Formating on page - see Wikitext.

• Login, Loggin in:

• Logging in on meta-wiki.
• Unified login on meta-wiki.

---

Table of Contents: A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z

---

M

• Magic word - see wikitext.
• Markup - see wikitext.

• Mathematics:

• Displaying maths formulae on meta-wiki.

• Middle English:

• see Words.

• Minor edit - see Edit.
• Misnamed pages see Moving a page
• Misspellings see Alternative spellings and Misspellings
• Moderator handbook for moderators on meta-wiki.

• Monobook see User style.

• Moving (or renaming) a page on meta-wiki

• My talk pages - see Communicating.

---

Table of Contents: A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z

---

N

• Name, Username - see User.
• Names - see Criteria for inclusion.
• Namespace

• Official list Wiktionary namespaces
• Namespace help in meta-wiki.
• Search for pages by name and namespace.
• Using custom namespaces, a manual on MediaWiki.

• Naming a page - see Page.

  see also Moving (or renaming) a page.

• Navigation bar - see Interface.
• Navigational image - see Image.
• Neutral point of view - a Wiktionary policy.
• New page - see Page.
• New User, Registration: see under User, User name.

---

Table of Contents: A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z

---

O

• Obsolete terms - see Words.
• Old English:

• see Words.

• Order of sorting see Alphabetical order
• Oneline resources - see Web resources.

---

Table of Contents: A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z

---

P

• Page:

• Tutorial
• Starting a new page.

• Starting a new page on meta-wiki.

• How to edit a page.
• Page deletion - see Deletion.
• Page name on meta-wiki.
• Page history on meta-wiki.
• How to view page differences.
• Page sections on meta-wiki.

see also:

Moving (or renaming) a page

Recent changes

Related changes

Requests

Special pages

A style guide

Subpages

• Parameter - see Template.
• Parser function on meta-wiki.
• Parts of speech section headers (POS), listing standard and nonstandard section headers.

• Password:

• You can change your password on your user preferences page.
• Preferences (Password) help on meta-wiki.

• Patrolled edit:

• Patrolled edits (FAQ).
• Patrolled edit on meta-wiki.

• Personal attacks - see Civility.

• Photographs - see Images.
• Phrasebook - what to include, criteria, treatment, etc.

• Category:Phrasebooks by language

• Pictures - see Images.
• Piped links - see Links.

• Policy and guidelines:

• Main page on policies and guidelines.
• The category listing Wiktionary policies.

• POS (Parts of speech) section headers
• Preferences - see User preferences
• Previewing changes - see Edit

• Printing:

• Printable on meta-wiki.

• Pronunciation

• International Phonetic Alphabet
• Audio pronunciations
• The Pronunciation category contains other relevant pages.

• Protected page:

• Protected page.
• Protected page guidelines.
• List of protected pages.

see also Deletion

---

Table of Contents: A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z

---

Q

• Quick guide to Templates - see Templates
• Quotations - a guide to their use, format etc.

• see also Citations, Quotations, References

• Quotations in Wikiquote - see Wikiquote

---

Table of Contents: A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z

---

R

• Random page - see Special page.
• Reader handbook - see Handbook.

• Recent changes:

• Recent changes on meta-wiki.
• Enhanced recent changes on meta-wiki.

• Reconstructed terms

• Redirection:

• Redirection help - how to do it.
• Redirection policy - when to do it.

• Uppercase v lowercase.

• Redirect help on Wikipedia.
• Redirect help on meta-wiki.

• References - a guide to their use, format etc.

• see also Citations, Quotations, References

• Registration: - see User.
• Related changes on meta-wiki.
• Renaming a page: - see Moving a page.

• Requests:

• Wiktionary:Request pages - summary of where various types of request may be made.
• Category:Requests - A parent category for the various request categories.

• Category:Requested entries a Category containing lists of requested words (by language)
• Category:Requests by language a Category containing Categories of items needing attention (by language)

• Reverting (or undoing) a change to article content:

• Reverting.
• Reverting on meta-wiki.
• Rollback (Reverting) on meta-wiki.
• Three-revert rule (a rejected policy).
• see also Vandalism.

• Rollback: - see Revert.
• Romanian - see Language index
• Romanisation: - see Transliteration.

---

Table of Contents: A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z

---

S

• Sandbox

• Starting your own sandbox.
• The Wiktionary Sandbox where you can experiment with editing.

• Scripts

• Searching:

• Wiktionary help page on searching.
• Help page on searching on meta-wiki.
• Search bookmarklets.
• Internal search facilities:

• Alphabetical search for a page by name.
• Word search in all pages.
• Help contents page.
• Short words in searches on meta-wiki.

• Search Wiktionary using external search engines:

• Google
• Yahoo!

• Section - see Page section.

• See also:

• Use of see also in the {{also}} template.

see also Alternative spellings.

• Self link - see Links.

• Short words searches - see Searching.
• Shortcuts - see Keyboard shortcuts.
• Showing the contents of one page within another page.
• Sidebar - see Interface.
• Sign/signed languages - see Language index.
• Skin see User style.
• Sorting order see Alphabetical order
• Spanish - see Language index
• Special characters - see Characters.
• Special pages:

• Special pages.
• Special page on meta-wiki.

• Spelling - see Alternative spellings and Misspellings
• Starting a new page - see Page.

• Stopwords - see also Searching

• Wikipedia on stopwords.
• a list of Google stopwords.

• Style guide A style guide

• Subpages - Subpages in the user and talk namespaces.
• Sysops see System adminstrators.

• System adminstrators or Sysops:

• Administrators' tools.

• Buttons and tabs.

• Lists of:

• Administrators and Former administrators.
• Bureaucrats
• CheckUsers
• Dishwashing duties (duties and associated volunteers)
• Pages where requests are made

• For administrators on Wikipedia.
• About administration on meta-wiki.
• The system administrator's handbook on meta-wiki.

See also Patrolled edit.

---

Table of Contents: A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z

---

T

• Tables:

• Table on meta-wiki.
• Spreadsheet to Wikitext converter.

• Tabs (Administrators' tool):

• see System administrators

• Talk pages:

• Talk pages on meta-wiki.
• User talk pages - see Communicating.
• Subpages in the user and talk namespaces.

• Templates FAQ

• What a template does (Showing one page within another).
• Guides:

• Guide on meta-wiki.
• Quick guide on meta-wiki.
• Advanced guide on meta-wiki.

• Parser Functions
• Magic words]
• Editing sections of included templates on meta-wiki.
• Parameter default on meta-wiki.
• Variable on meta-wiki.
• Arrays/Associative arrays on meta-wiki.
• An Index to Wiktionary templates.
• A complete list, but some are rarely used.
• Template categories.
• On using templates. An historical page now marked inactive.

• Testing on meta-wiki.
• TeX markup - see Mathematics.

• Thesaurus

• Wikisaurus.
• Discussion with links to others.

• Tips and tricks
• Toolbar - see Edit.
• Tools - see System adminstrators.
• Trademarks - see Criteria for inclusion.

• Translations and translating:

see also Indvidual language index.

• Entry layout explained.
• Gender - see Wiktionary:Languages with more than one grammatical gender
• How to handle foreign translations of English words.
• Lists of language names which should (or should not) be Wikified.
• How to check translations of English words.
• On line resources for translators.
• Categories:

• A supercategory listing categories of "Translations to be checked".
• A supercategory listing categories of "Translations requests".

• Transliteration:

see also relevant languages in the Indvidual language index.

• The language index gives appropriate advice under each language.
• Overview and draft policy.
• Draft policy discussion.
• Category for articles referring to transliteration

• Transwiki
• Tricks and tips
• Turkish - see Language index

---

Table of Contents: A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z

---

U

• UK v US spelling see under Alternative spellings.
• Undoing or reverting a change - see Reverting
• Ultimate Wiktionary (inactive)
• Unfashionable terms - see Words.
• Unified login - see Logging in.
• Unified Wiktionary outreach.

• Upload:

• Images and other uploaded files on meta-wiki.
• see also Import.

• Upper case letters - see Capitalisation.
• URL - see Links.
• US v UK spelling see under Alternative spellings.

• Usability Initiative (Beta interface)

• Main Page
• Discussion
• Bugzilla

• Usage notes:

• Policy - past discussion.
• Brief explanation - in Entry layout explained.

• User, Username:

• Usernames and user pages.
• New user account, Registration:

• Tutorial (Registration).
• Why create an account?.
• Create a new User account.

• Logging in - see Logging in.
• User contributions and how to list them (on meta-wiki).
• Username and how to change it.
• User style and how to change it.
• Welcoming a new user.
• My talk pages - see Communicating.

• User page:

• Usernames and user pages.
• Subpages in the user and talk namespaces.

• User password - see Password

• User preferences :

• Preferences on meta-wiki.
• Enhanced recent changes on meta-wiki.
• Password - see Password

• User style - How Wiktionary looks on your browser:

• User style on meta-wiki.
• How to customise your skin to control your user style.

Your monobook files:

• monobook.css.
• monobook.js.

See also Interface.

See also Printable.

• User talk pages - see Communicating.

---

Table of Contents: A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z

---

V

• Vandalism:

• Vandalism draft policy.

• Vandalism in progress report page.
• Abuse reports.

• Blocking unofficial guideline.
• see also Reverting.

• Variable - see Template.
• Verifiability - see Criteria for inclusion.

• Verification:

• Requests for verification.
• Criteria for inclusion.

See also Cleanup, Deletion and Protection.

• Votes and voting

---

Table of Contents: A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z

---

W

• Watchlist, Watching pages:

• Watching pages on meta-wiki.
• Wikipedia has an article on Internet watchlists.

• Web address - see Links.

• Web resources:

• Dictionaries on the Web.

• Welcoming a new user: see User, User name.
• Wiki - see also Transwiki.
• Wikilinks - see Links.
• Wikipedia Usability Initiative - see under Usability Initiative.
• Wikiquote - the compendium of sourced quotations
• Wikisaurus:

• Creating an entry in Wikisaurus.
• Roget's thesaurus classification.
• An outline of Roget's Thesaurus on Wikipedia.

• wikitext, wiki markup:

• Quick reference.
• Formatting a list on meta-wiki.
• Magic words on meta-wiki.

on meta-wiki:

• wikitext examples.
• Use of HTML in wikitext.

• Wiktionary, how to customise its appearance - see User style.

• Word classification:

• Inclusion and Classification of Old Words (draft policy).
• see also Context labels.

• Word frequency:

• Wiktionary:Frequency lists

---

Table of Contents: A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z

---