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If you need help editing Wikitravel, you have come to the right place. Here's some important articles about Wikitravel and how to use it. If you have questions that aren't answered here, try checking the FAQ, or ask a question in the travellers' pub.
The Wikitravel IRC channel and Wikitravel AIM chatroom are both good places to get online help from other users.
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General info
- About Wikitravel
- Welcome, newcomers
- FAQ
- Copyleft -- Information about the license and philosophy that guides this site.
- Ways to help Wikitravel -- Writers, editors, photographers and cheerleaders are all needed.
- Tips for new contributors -- Useful information for first-time contributors.
- Software tools -- Software tools created for use with Wikitravel.
How to...
- How to create a user account -- Making a name for yourself.
- How to edit a page
- Wiki markup
- How to start a new page
- How to delete a page
- How to rename a page
- How to redirect a page
- How to upload files
- How to add an image
- How to draw a map
- Using talk pages
- How to revert a page
- How to handle unwanted edits
- How to add travel news
- How to re-use Wikitravel guides -- For those who use Wikitravel content on another website or publication.
- How to become a destination docent.
Software features
- User preferences help -- Information about customizing Wikitravel.
- Watchlist help -- The watchlist provides a way to keep track of articles that are of interest to you.
- Page history help -- All changes to Wikitravel are available in the article's history.
- Recent changes help -- View the latest updates to Wikitravel.
- User page help -- Every Wikitraveler has a page of their own.
- Search help -- Detailed help on the Wikitravel search capabilities.
- Special pages help -- Special pages include the login/logout pages, recent changes page, statistics pages, etc.
- Namespaces help -- Namespaces are an organizational tool used by Wikimedia software.
- Single sign-on help -- How to login to other Wikitravel versions.
- Tags -- Adding tags to a page
Community
- Travellers' pub -- For general discussions about Wikitravel.
- Wikitravel jargon -- Explains some of the abbreviations, words and phrases used in discussions, edit summaries etc.
- Mailing lists
- Meetups
- Bug reports
- Feature requests
- Babel -- language indicators on user home pages
- Technical infrastructure policy
See also
- Manual of style -- Spelling, layout, formatting rules and article templates.
- Policies and guidelines -- An index of all Wikitravel policy guidelines
- Wikitravel:Namespace index -- all the pages in the Wikitravel: namespace
