username if you have acceptable reasons for that. User ID: Shows your user identification number. Your user ID never changes. E-mail: You may save your e-mail...

will say "Undid revision (no. edit) by (user/IP name)", with links to their changes and the talk page of the user who undid the edits. Reverts never cause...

archive a talk page. Both ways are talked about below. Users do not have to archive their user talk page when it gets long. The other option is to erase...

To request help and ask questions from other users, see Wikipedia:Simple talk, contact the Email Help Team, or click here and type {{helpme}} and your...

talk page which can be used for discussion and communicating with other users. Talk pages can be accessed by clicking the Discussion tab at the top of...

Users can have user CSS that hides any infoboxes in their own browsers. To hide all infoboxes, add the following to Special:MyPage/common.css (for all...

User namespace contains pages for each user on Wikipedia. It is usually bad to change a user's page if that user isn't you. You can change your user page...

You want a little thank you note you can put on the talk page of other users. It will contain a reason and your signature. You could create Template:Thankyou...

are, think about what will happen when: A user named Alice clicks "Change this page" on a page. Another user named Bob clicks "Change this page" on the...

Blocking users is an action that sysops can perform upon users or IP addresses to stop them from changing the wiki. Blocking users is fairly straightforward...

content pages, categories cannot be deleted or renamed, remaining to confuse users browsing the list of categories. Before attempting to make a Category, please...

should log in. It is quick and simple to create a personal user account. Creating a user account means that you supply a username (your real name or...

{{sfn}} or {{harvnb}}). User:Trappist the monk/HarvErrors is very similar but contains additional warnings for potential issues. User:BrandonXLF/CitationStyleMarker...

the date and time (in UTC) of each change, the name or IP address of the user who made it, and the summary of the change. On a history page: All past changes...

content. In the following examples, the table on the left is the table the user will see when they view an article in wikipedia. The box on the right is...

talk, MediaWiki talk, Module talk, Portal talk, Talk, Template talk, User, User talk, and Wikipedia talk namespaces are not included in the tracking categories...

is a link to see the diff for every change in the page's history, in the user's changes, in new changes and in watchlists. This is how a diff looks like...

you'll find user links; as an anonymous user, you'll see a link to create an account or log in (they are the same page). As a logged-in user you have a...

article body it would be removed. Furthermore, as mentioned above, some users may not be able to access the contents of the infobox and so would not be...

requires that user e-mail addresses be validated prior to the use of e-mail features. This ensures that: It is not possible to send user-to-user email with...

(renaming) a page means giving it another name. (Only logged-in autoconfirmed users (users more than 4 days old who have made at least 10 changes) can move a page...

that you need to know first: You need to know how to make a subpage in your user space. You need to know a bit of coding. You need to have a bit of patience...

For instructions on editing with VisualEditor, see Wikipedia:VisualEditor/User guide. The Footnotes system shows two elements on the page: A Footnote marker...

User pages. Tick the namespaces you want for the search. By default only the namespaces specified in your settings will be searched. Logged-in users can...

trusted users called 'sysops' (or known more generally as 'administrators') Most of the time this should go largely unnoticed by the normal users of a wiki...

history: all changes made to one page the contributions of one specific user newly created pages The most interesting special page is Special:Recentchanges...

protection, editing on the page has been restricted to either autoconfirmed users or administrators. We regret any inconvenience this may cause—we strive...

Users can easily sign their posts at the end of a comment. The common format to type a signature – two hyphens (or a dash) followed by four tildes (--...

where normal users are prevented from editing at all. Only a user with sysop permissions can edit a protected page. Likewise only sysop users can protect...

context, as they rely on Unicode support which may not be present on all users' machines. Lines that start with blank spaces in the editing window are...

experts | FAQ | give feedback | explore books  This page gives experienced users details on the advanced functions of the Book tool. Among other things it...

images which have a Frame type used. The caption is also shown when the user's mouse is over the image, with or without a frame type being used. Because...

in reverse order of creation, with creation date and time, current size, user who created the page, and first edit summary. It also provides links to patrol...

of your userpage named after the skin, with ".css" at the end, such as "User:Example/monobook.css" for the Monobook skin. You may see a message of advice...

other namespaces [[Wikipedia:Verifiability|]] generates Verifiability [[User:Example|]] generates Example [[Template:Welcome|]] generates Welcome Combinations...

A block prevents the user or IP address from editing. When a user gets blocked, the user cannot change pages. If you are blocked, you can edit your talk...

Deleting a page is a easy operation for anyone with sysop permissions. Users without such permissions can still remove text from wiki pages, or propose/request...

finished, save the page by clicking on Save Page. Vandalism is not allowed! Users who vandalize or keep breaking our rules will be blocked from changing pages...

pages will need to be edited for their links to reflect the change. Normal users cannot permanently delete a Wiki page. This is a deliberate design feature...

recent changes in reverse order, with creation date and time, current size, user who created the page, and first edit summary. It also provides links to patrol...

to do anything else. Sometimes, you may want to go to a random talk page, user page, or MediaWiki page. Wikipedia lets you do this, too. Just add the type...

that sock puppetry (creating another account to appear to be a different user) for the purposes of adding comments in favor of one action or another is...

Patrolled pages are a feature which allows specific users to mark pages in as having been "patrolled" or "approved". In the Simple English Wikipedia this...

necessary, here is the code: [[User:Stalker1|'''<big><span style="color:#289DC0; font-family:comic sans ms">S</span></big>]][[User talk:Stalker1|'''<big><span...

as a gallery in reverse order, with creation date and time, current size, user who uploaded the file, and name of the uploaded file. This feature is accessible...

address, and the system will send an email containing a reminder of your user name. It is the same as listed above. Special:ResetPassword can not be used...

contributors, and full resolution versions are immediately available to the user when he or she clicks an image. In fact, MediaWiki is designed to prevent...

Patrolling is the term used to describe when multiple users are reviewing alterations to the wiki in order to verify that they comply with the wiki rules...