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Tip of the day...
Six of one, half-a-dozen of the other

Six essential tips:

  1. Starting an article
  2. How to add an article to a category
  3. Please sign your name on talk pages
  4. Edit summary reminder setting
  5. Moving pages
  6. Redirects

Half-a-dozen power tips:

  1. Create links faster with link tricks
  2. Power-editing with AutoWikiBrowser
  3. Navigate faster using Wikipedia shortcuts
  4. Wikipedia industrial-powered search
  5. Work faster using keyboard shortcuts
  6. Install your first javascript (Watchlist Sorter).

If you know even better tips than these, drop on by the Tip of the day project and show off a little. Strut your wikistuff!

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Tips about Wikipedia as a whole

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Tips on accessing Wikipedia pages

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Finding your way around Wikipedia and beyond

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Tips on searching

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Getting help

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Tips for contributors on getting started

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Tips on working with articles

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Tips on editing

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Style tips

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From Wikipedia:Styletips:

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Category tips

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Tips on working with specific types of pages

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List tips

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Disambiguation page tips

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Tips on working with images

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Boilerplate/template tips

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User page tips

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Other ways to contribute

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Communicating with other editors

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Watchdogging (monitoring) Wikipedia

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Configuring and customizing your account

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Tips on working faster

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Shortcuts

Navigation

MetaTips

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Be sure to check for duplication - do not include them if they are already there!
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See also

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Tip of the day related
Wikipedia:Tip of the day – main page
Chronological list of tips
Alphabetical list of tips
Tip display template types
Tip display template gallery
Manual of Style related
Wikipedia:Simplified Manual of Style – an overview of commonly used style guidelines.
Wikipedia:Styletips – a list of advice for editors on writing style and formatting n a bullet-point format
Help:Introduction to the Manual of Style – a quick introduction to the style guide for articles
Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Reading schedule – a reading schedule designed to assist editors in becoming familiar with Manual of Style
General formatting
Wikipedia:Contributing to Wikipedia – a page that provides information on the basics needed to edit Wikipedia.
Wikipedia:Writing better articles – guidance on how to improve articles
Help:Cheatsheet – a page that provides the most commonly used wiki markup
Wikipedia:Dos and don'ts – summaries of Wikipedia's policies, guidelines, and formatting standards in a bullet-point format
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