User:Emilio/Help/Examples

Appropedia uses MediaWiki, the software that powers Wikipedia and other wiki websites. To learn how to use, navigate, and customize Appropedia, review the following external resources.

• mw:Help:Navigation describes how to navigate a MediaWiki website.
• mw:Help:Preferences describes the user preferences and interface settings.
• mw:Help:Searching explains MediaWiki's search features.
• mw:Help:User page explains personal user pages.

• Help:Searching on Appropedia explains how to find content on Appropedia using our search function.

Appropedia can be used by anyone to build and share documentation.

• mw:Help:Editing pages explains the basic MediaWiki editing process.
• Help:Toolbox collects useful tools for working with Appropedia content.
• Help:API editing describes tools for editing Appropedia programmatically.
• Help:Editing using LLMs describes how to use large language models when working on Appropedia content.
• Help:Templates describes how Appropedia uses templates.
  • mw:Help:Templates explains how MediaWiki templates work.

• Help:Advanced editing covers features for creating more complex pages.
• Help:Grids describes how to arrange content using Appropedia's grid layouts.
• Help:Images describes how images are used on Appropedia.
  • mw:Help:Images explains MediaWiki image syntax and options.
• Help:Magic words describes useful MediaWiki magic words.
  • mw:Help:Magic words explains the available MediaWiki magic words.

• Help:Databoxes describes Appropedia's structured data boxes.
• Help:Maps describes how to add and use maps.
• Help:Math describes how to include mathematical notation.
  • mw:Extension:Math documents MediaWiki's mathematics support.
• Help:Tables describes when and how tables are used on Appropedia.
  • mw:Help:Tables explains MediaWiki table syntax.
  • Help:Table examples provides reusable examples.
• Help:Signatures describes where signatures should be used.
  • mw:Help:Signatures explains MediaWiki signatures.
• Help:Talk pages describes how Appropedia uses talk pages for discussion about content.
  • mw:Help:Talk pages explains how MediaWiki talk pages work.

Citations make it possible to identify, verify, and reuse the sources behind Appropedia content. Learn how to cite sources and choose an appropriate citation format.

• mw:Help:Cite explains how citations and references work in MediaWiki.
• Template:Cite book provides a standard format for citing books.
• Template:Cite web provides a standard format for citing web sources.
• Template:Cite journal provides a standard format for citing journal articles.
• Help:Finding open licensed content explains how to find material that can be reused on Appropedia.

Appropedia contains different kinds of knowledge, from projects and technical documentation to educational resources. Choose a content type to learn what information it should contain and how it should be structured.

• Help:Projects describes pages documenting projects and their development.
• Help:Skill pages describes instructional pages for learning practical skills.
  • Help:Medical skill pages describes the additional requirements for medical skills.
• Help:Videos describes how video can be used for documentation.
• Help:Literature reviews describes literature reviews on Appropedia.
• Help:Quizzes describes quizzes used in educational content.
  • Wikiversity:Help:Quiz documents the quiz syntax.
• Help:Books describes collections organized as books.

Appropedia changes continuously. Learn how to monitor pages, reorganize content, fix navigation, and maintain pages as the wiki develops.

• Help:Monitoring changes describes ways to follow activity on Appropedia.
  • mw:Help:Watchlist explains how to follow selected pages.
  • mw:Help:Tracking changes explains MediaWiki's change-tracking tools.
• Help:Moving a page describes when and how pages should be renamed or moved.
  • mw:Help:Moving a page explains the MediaWiki procedure.
• Help:Redirects describes how Appropedia uses redirects.
  • mw:Help:Redirects explains how redirects work.
• Help:Redlinks describes how to work with links to pages that do not yet exist.

Appropedia can host projects involving many related pages, contributors, resources, and activities. Learn how to establish a consistent structure so a project can grow without becoming difficult to navigate or maintain.

• Help:Collections describes ways to organize related content.
• Help:Templates describes reusable structures for related pages.
• Help:Databoxes describes structured information shared across similar pages.
• Help:Categories describes how pages can be grouped and discovered.
• Help:Project pages describes how projects can organize their work on Appropedia.

Good structure makes Appropedia content easier to navigate, discover, maintain, and reuse. Learn how pages relate to one another and how Appropedia organizes knowledge beyond individual pages.

• Help:Page structure describes the structure of an individual Appropedia page.
• Help:Collections describes groups of related pages.
• Help:Categories describes how categories organize related content.
  • mw:Help:Categories explains how MediaWiki categories work.
• Help:Namespaces describes the purposes of Appropedia's namespaces.
  • mw:Help:Namespaces explains MediaWiki namespaces.
• Help:Subpages describes hierarchical relationships between pages.
  • mw:Help:Subpages explains how MediaWiki subpages work.
• Help:Index pages describes pages that provide entry points into collections of content.
• Help:Mainspace describes what belongs in Appropedia's main namespace.
• Appropedia:Page naming describes conventions for naming pages.
• Help:Topics describes Appropedia's topic organization.
• Help:Searchability describes ways to make content easier to find.
• Help:User pages describes the role of personal pages on Appropedia.

These guides support common research, documentation, and educational activities carried out with Appropedia. They focus on accomplishing a task rather than on using a particular MediaWiki feature.

• Help:Finding open licensed content describes how to find material that can legally be reused.
• Help:Literature reviews describes how to document and organize literature research.
• Help:Quizzes describes how to create interactive questions for educational material.
• Help:How to port pages describes how to bring existing material into Appropedia.
• Help:Guide to open source research with Appropedia describes a workflow for conducting and documenting open research.