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• Abbreviations, acronyms and initialisms:

• Entry guidelines for shortened forms
• Some definitions: - Abbreviation, Acronym, Clipping, Contraction, Initialism, Shortenings, Short forms
• Categories: English shortenings: Abbreviations, Acronyms, Clippings, Contractions, Initialisms, Pseudo-acronyms, Short forms

• Accessibility: The ease with which pages may be navigated and read, especially by those with disabilities using, for example, a screen reader

• Manual of Style (Accessibility)
• Use of colour
• Keyboard shortcuts

• Acronyms ➤ Abbreviations

• Admins, Administration ➤ System administration

• Algonquian languages ➤ Language index

• Alphabetical order ➤ Alphabetic order in Meta-Wiki

• Alternative forms and spellings:

• Policy (Forms and spellings)
• Common misspellings
• Capitalisation and case sensitivity
• Spelling variants in entry names (dated guidance)
• American v British Spelling (dated guidance)
• A sample of some alternative forms

• American v UK spelling ➤ Alternative forms and spellings

• Anchors

• ➤ Anchors in Meta-Wiki
• ➤ Links and anchors in Meta-Wiki

• Announcements
• Appearance customisation ➤ User style
• Arabic ➤ Language index
• Archaic terms
• Arrays, Associative arrays ➤ Templates
• Assume good faith ➤ Civility
• Audio pronunciations ➤ Pronunciations

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• 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

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C

• Calculation

• Help on Calculation on Meta-Wiki

• Capitalisation/Capitalization ➤ Alternative forms and spellings

• Catalan ➤ Language index

• Categories

• Help:Category — brief help
• Description and use described on Wikimedia
• Wiktionary:Categorization — how to create and apply categories on Wiktionary
• How to add Category links in a page
• Analysis:

• Special:Categories — an alphabetic list of all categories
• Categories — the top-level category or "Category of categories"
• List content single & common ➤ Petscan
• the Category Tree browser from the Toolserver

• CFI ➤ Criteria for inclusion

• Changes:

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

• Changing a pages name ➤ Moving (or renaming) a page
• Changing your password ➤ Password

• Characters:

• Special characters on Meta-Wiki
• Scripts ➤ Scripts
• Individual languages in the Help:Language index

• Checking translations ➤ Translation
• Chinese ➤ Language index
• Citations – a guide to their use, format etc

• 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)

also ➤ Deletion and Verification

• Clippings ➤ Abbreviations

• Codes:

• Language codes ➤ Language codes in Wiktionary

• Colon, use of ➤ 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 ➤ 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:

• Wiktionary:Context labels
• Use of context label templates

• Contractions ➤ Abbreviations

• Contributions – for Users' contributions ➤ User

• Criteria for inclusion

• Criteria for inclusion

• .css files, use of to ➤ Customise your skin
• Custom namespaces ➤ Namespaces
• Customising Wiktionary's appearance ➤ User style
• Czech ➤ Language index

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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

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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#Etymology
• Omitting an etymology Help:FAQ#General
• For multiple etymologies Wiktionary:Entry layout#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:Terms by etymology by language

  Category:Etymology templates

  Category:Requests for etymologies by 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

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• 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
• Forms ➤ Alternative forms and spellings

• Frequency of words – see Word frequency

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• 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

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H

• Handbook for readers (ordinary users) on Meta-Wiki
• Headings:

• Entry layout

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

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• 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 ➤ Abbreviations

• Inputbox on MediaWiki

• Interface, Wiktionary's appearance ➤ 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

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• Japanese – see Language index

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• Keyboard shortcuts

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• 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
• Entry layout – 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

• Lua – see Scribunto

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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 ➤ Alternative forms and spellings
• Moderator handbook for moderators on Meta-Wiki

• Monobook see User style

• Moving (or renaming) a page on Meta-Wiki

• My talk pages – see Communicating

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• 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 ➤ User style
• Navigational image – see Image
• Neutral point of view – a Wiktionary policy
• New page – see Page
• New User, Registration: see under User, User name

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O

• Obsolete terms – see Words
• Old English:

• see Words

• Order of sorting see Alphabetical order
• Online resources – see Web resources

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• 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

• PetScan a handy tool to find entries in more than one category, or in one category and not another.

• PetScan manual

• 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

see also Deletion

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Q

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

• see also Templates for quotations

and Citations, Quotations, References

• Quotations in Wikiquote – see Wikiquote

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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
• see also Vandalism

• Rollback – see Revert
• Romanian – see Language index
• Romanisation – see Transliteration

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• Sandbox

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

• Scribunto:

• Wiktionary:Scribunto
• Extension:Scribunto on MediaWiki
• Learning "generic" Lua
• Lua tutorial
• Lua reference manual
• Official Lua reference manual (for generic language)
• Converting templates – Some tips and tricks

• 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

• Shortenings ➤ Abbreviations
• Short forms ➤ Abbreviations

• Showing the contents of one page within another page
• Sidebar ➤ User style
• Sign/signed languages – see Language index

• Signature ➤ Signatures on Meta-Wiki

• 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 ➤ Alternative forms and spellings

• Starting a new page – see Page

• Stopwords – see also Searching

• Wikipedia on stopwords
• a list of Google stopwords

• Style guide A style guide

• Sysops see System administrators

• System administrators 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

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• 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

• 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
• Scribunto, Lua – see Scribunto

• Testing on Meta-Wiki
• TeX markup – see Mathematics

• Thesaurus

• Wikisaurus
• Discussion with links to others

• Tips and tricks
• Toolbar – see Edit
• Tools – see System administrators
• Trademarks – see Criteria for inclusion

• Translations and translating:

see also Indvidual language index

• Entry layout
• Gender – see Wiktionary:Languages with more than one grammatical gender
• How to handle foreign 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

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

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• UK v US spelling see under Alternative spellings
• Undoing or reverting a change ➤ Reverting
• Unfashionable terms ➤ Words
• Unified login ➤ Logging in

• Upload:

• Images and other uploaded files on Meta-Wiki
• see also Import

• Upper case letters ➤ Capitalisation
• URL ➤ 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

• User, Username:

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

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

• Logging in ➤ 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 ➤ Communicating

• User page:

• Usernames and user pages

• User password ➤ Password

• User preferences:

• Preferences on Meta-Wiki
• Enhanced recent changes on Meta-Wiki
• Password ➤ Password

• User style – how Wiktionary looks on your browser:

• User style — on Meta-Wiki
• Your signature ➤ Signature

• Using .css files to modify your skin

• m:Help:Cascading style sheets
• Your vector.css file, for the Vector skin.

• Sidebar:

• Sidebar on MediaWiki
• Sidebar specification on MediaWiki

• See also User style

• User talk pages ➤ Communicating

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• Vandalism:

• Vandalism draft policy

• Vandalism in progress report page

• Patrolled edits a guide to system administrators on how to patrol edits
• Blocking guidelines
• 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

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• Watchlists, Watching pages:

• on Wikipedia

• Watchlist for an introduction

• on Media-Wiki

• Watching pages
• Watchlist manual pages

• 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

• Thesaurus:

• 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)

• Word frequency:

• Wiktionary:Frequency lists

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