What is Wikipedia?

A place to learn and share. Develop and explore.

Basic navigation

Navigation

Browsing Wikipedia = scrolling, clicking on links

Good starting points:

To browse the encyclopedia: Wikipedia:Contents

To browse the Wikipedia community: Wikipedia:Department directory

To browse help resources: Help:Menu or Help:Contents/Directory

Searching   —   type your search term into the search box (at the top right of every page)

Go to the search screen   —   clicking on the magnifying glass will get you there too

Browse the encyclopedia via the contents navbar:

Advanced navigation

Advanced browsing

Shortcut

List of shortcuts

Tabbed browsing   —   open multiple links at the same time

Tabbed browsing in Firefox

Tab Mix Plus   —   add-on for Firefox

Advanced searching

Search titles with grep

Searching Wikipedia with regular expressions (regex)

See also

Main Page alternatives

Featured content

Researching with Wikipedia

Viewing media

Using Wikipedia on your phone

Pronouncing words shown in IPA