The following is a list of Wikipedia's directories and indexes. New to Wikipedia? See the contributing to Wikipedia page or our tutorial for everything you need to know to get started.
A descriptive list of official policies for "English Wikipedia". (Policies have wide acceptance among editors and describe standards that all users should normally follow.)
A descriptive list of official guidelines for "English Wikipedia". (Editors should attempt to follow guidelines, though they are best treated with common sense, and occasional exceptions may apply.)
A descriptive list of the interactive services and assistance that can be requested on Wikipedia. (Pages where editors can ask questions and request assistance from people who are familiar with the policies and guidelines covered by each individual forum.)
Wikipedia's tips directory, where you can digest how to use Wikipedia in bite-sized morsels. See also Styletips, for bite-size chunks from the Manual of Style.
A colossal descriptive list of Wikipedia namespace essays. (Essays contain information, advice or opinions of one or more editors to aid or comment on the encyclopedia.)
An enormous index of the Wikipedia community, intended to help find anything not in the encyclopedia itself. (list hundreds of essays, guidelines, policies, help pages, and more.)
A list of wiki markup – alongside implantation tips. (Also known as wikitext or wikicode, is the syntax and keywords used by Wikipedia to format a page.)
A gigantic list of pages and their "abbreviated redirects". (A shortcut is a specialized type of redirect that provides an abbreviated wikilink to a page or one of its sections.)
For a listing of current collaborations, tasks, and news, see the Community portal. For a listing of ongoing discussions and current requests, see the Dashboard.
