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A

 * Abbreviations, acronyms and initialisms:
 * Entry guidelines for shortened forms
 * Some definitions: - Abbreviation, Acronym, Clipping, Contraction, Initialism, Shortenings, Short forms
 * Categories: English shortenings: Abbreviations, Acronyms, Clippings, Contractions, Initialisms, Pseudo-acronyms, Short forms
 * Categories: English shortenings: Abbreviations, Acronyms, Clippings, Contractions, Initialisms, Pseudo-acronyms, Short forms


 * Accessibility: The ease with which pages may be navigated and read, especially by those with disabilities using, for example, a screen reader
 * Manual of Style (Accessibility)
 * Use of colour
 * Keyboard shortcuts


 * Acronyms ➤ Abbreviations


 * Admins, Administration ➤ System administration


 * Algonquian languages ➤ Language index


 * Alphabetical order ➤ Alphabetic order in Meta-Wiki
 * Alphabetical order ➤ Alphabetic order in Meta-Wiki


 * Alternative forms and spellings:
 * Policy (Forms and spellings)
 * Common misspellings
 * Capitalisation and case sensitivity
 * Spelling variants in entry names (dated guidance)
 * American v British Spelling (dated guidance)
 * A sample of some alternative forms
 * A sample of some alternative forms


 * American v UK spelling ➤ Alternative forms and spellings


 * Anchors
 * ➤ Anchors in Meta-Wiki
 * ➤ Links and anchors in Meta-Wiki
 * ➤ Links and anchors in Meta-Wiki


 * Announcements
 * Appearance customisation ➤ User style
 * Arabic ➤ Language index
 * Archaic terms
 * Arrays, Associative arrays ➤ Templates
 * Assume good faith ➤ Civility
 * Audio pronunciations ➤ Pronunciations

B

 * Babel (User language templates)
 * Beta version – see under Usability Initiative
 * Bureaucrats – see under Sysadmin
 * Blocking – see Vandalism
 * Bookmarks – see Anchors


 * Bookmarklet see:
 * Wiktionary:Bookmarklets
 * Help:Tips and tricks/Bookmarklets
 * Wikipedia article on Bookmarklets


 * Bot
 * Wiktionary:Bots Definition, theory
 * Help:Bots Practical
 * Information on bots on Meta-Wiki
 * Bot policy on Wikipedia


 * British v US spellings see Spelling
 * Bugzilla – see under Usability Initiative


 * Buttons:
 * The Go button on Meta-Wiki
 * see also System administrators
 * see also System administrators

C

 * Calculation
 * Help on Calculation on Meta-Wiki


 * Capitalisation/Capitalization ➤ Alternative forms and spellings
 * Capitalisation/Capitalization ➤ Alternative forms and spellings


 * Catalan ➤ Language index


 * Categories
 * Help:Category — brief help
 * Description and use described on Wikimedia
 * Categorization — how to create and apply categories on Wiktionary
 * How to add Category links in a page
 * Analysis:
 * Special:Categories — an alphabetic list of all categories
 * Categories — the top-level category or "Category of categories"
 * List content single & common ➤ Petscan
 * the Category Tree browser from the Toolserver
 * the Category Tree browser from the Toolserver


 * CFI ➤ Criteria for inclusion


 * Changes:
 * Changes to a page ➤ Page history
 * Changes to a customised list of pages ➤ Watchlists
 * Changes to all pages ➤ Recent changes
 * Changes to pages linked to a page ➤ Related changes
 * Previewing changes ➤ Edit
 * Undoing or reverting a change ➤ Reverting


 * Changing a pages name ➤ Moving (or renaming) a page
 * Changing your password ➤ Password


 * Characters:
 * Special characters on Meta-Wiki
 * Scripts ➤ Scripts
 * Individual languages in the Help:Language index
 * Individual languages in the Help:Language index


 * Checking translations ➤ Translation
 * Chinese ➤ Language index
 * Citations – a guide to their use, format etc
 * also ➤ Citations, Quotations, References


 * Civility:
 * Civility a draft Wiktionary policy
 * No personal attacks a policy proposal (March 2006)
 * Assume good faith a Wiktionary policy
 * Dispute resolution
 * Dispute resolution


 * Cleanup:
 * The cleanup and deletion process
 * Nominating an article for cleanup
 * Cleanup categories, templates, lists etc
 * Request pages:
 * Requests for cleanup
 * Requests for cleanup (case)
 * also ➤ Deletion and Verification
 * also ➤ Deletion and Verification


 * Clippings ➤ Abbreviations


 * Codes:
 * Language codes ➤ Language codes in Wiktionary


 * Colon, use of ➤ Parser function


 * Colour/color:
 * Use of colour in templates etc, with special reference to Accessibility


 * Communicating:
 * Using your "My talk" or "User talk" page
 * Emailing other users
 * Emailing other users


 * Community Portal and Discussion rooms


 * Compare:
 * How to view page differences


 * Conflict of edits ➤ Edit


 * Contents:
 * Help contents page
 * How to Show the contents of one page within another page
 * On the content of the Appendix namespace


 * Context labels:
 * Context labels
 * Use of context label templates
 * Use of context label templates


 * Contractions ➤ Abbreviations


 * Contributions – for Users' contributions ➤ User


 * Criteria for inclusion
 * Criteria for inclusion
 * Criteria for inclusion


 * .css files, use of to ➤ Customise your skin
 * Custom namespaces ➤ Namespaces
 * Customising Wiktionary's appearance ➤ User style
 * Czech ➤ Language index

D

 * Data:
 * Data export – see Export
 * Data import – see Import


 * Dated terms – see Words


 * Definitions:
 * Writing
 * Disputing
 * Disputing


 * Deletion:
 * The cleanup and deletion process
 * Page deletion guidelines
 * Deletion categories, templates, lists etc
 * Delete, Sysop tools
 * Criteria for inclusion
 * Nominating an article for deletion:
 * Requests for deletion – [ add new]
 * Requests for deletion (Other) – [ add new]
 * Requests for deletion (Archives)
 * The deletion log
 * See also Cleanup, Verification and Protection
 * See also Cleanup, Verification and Protection


 * Dictionaries – see Web resources


 * Diff, difference
 * How to view page differences on Meta-Wiki


 * Discussion pages – see Talk pages
 * Discussion rooms and Community Portal
 * Displaying images – see Images
 * Disputes, dispute resolution – see Civility


 * Downloading a page:
 * Help for downloading pages on Meta-Wiki
 * Saving a web page on Wikipedia


 * Dummy edit see Edit

E

 * EasyTimeline – see EasyTimeline and Help:EasyTimeline syntax on Meta-Wiki


 * Editing
 * How to edit a page (an editing overview with many wikitext examples)
 * Minor edit, when to use it
 * Starting a new page – see Page
 * On Meta-Wiki:
 * A list of help pages
 * Using external editors:
 * Using an external editor
 * Control file information
 * Editing shortcuts
 * Previewing changes
 * Wikitext examples some editing tips and tricks
 * Editing FAQ
 * The edit toolbar
 * Edit summary field when saving an edit
 * Edit conflict
 * Dummy edit
 * Editing sections of included templates
 * See also Patrolled edit
 * See also Patrolled edit


 * Entry layout – see Layout


 * Etymology
 * Etymology, the main article with policy and examples
 * Entry layout
 * Omitting an etymology Help:FAQ
 * For multiple etymologies Entry layout
 * How to wikify foreign words in an etymology: Help:FAQ, Help:How to edit a page
 * How etymologies should be categorised: Etymology
 * Categories
 * Category:Terms by etymology by language
 * Category:Etymology templates
 * Category:Requests for etymologies by language
 * Templates
 * Category:Etymology templates
 * In reconstructed terms: Reconstructed terms and especially Reconstructed terms
 * Other resources (Conditions of copywrite must be born in mind.)
 * the Online Etymology Dictionary, Douglas Harper, 2001.
 * the Online Etymology Dictionary, Douglas Harper, 2001.


 * Export, exporting data:
 * Export on Meta-Wiki
 * Export on Meta-Wiki


 * External editors – see Editing

F

 * FAQ:
 * Wiktionary FAQ
 * Editing FAQ on Meta-Wiki


 * Foreign languages – see Index of individual languages
 * See also Translation
 * See also Characters used in other languages


 * Formulae – see Mathematics
 * Forms ➤ Alternative forms and spellings


 * Frequency of words – see Word frequency

G

 * Gender – see Languages with more than one grammatical gender
 * Appendix:Glossary – glossary of terms used in Wiktionary entries
 * Glossary – glossary of terms not used in Wiktionary entries
 * Go button – see Buttons
 * Guidelines – see Policy and guidelines

H

 * Handbook for readers (ordinary users) on Meta-Wiki
 * Headings:
 * Entry layout
 * Headings:
 * Entry layout


 * see also individual entries


 * Headword or Inflection line
 * Help contents page
 * Help for ordinary users – see Handbook
 * History of a page – see Page
 * How to edit a page an editing overview with many wikitext examples
 * HTML – see wikitext
 * Hungarian – see Language index
 * Hypertext markup language – see wikitext

I

 * Icelandic – see Language index


 * Images:
 * Images and other uploaded files on Meta-Wiki
 * Displaying an image, (Extended image syntax) on Wikipedia
 * Image (description) page on Meta-Wiki
 * Navigational image on Meta-Wiki
 * Navigational image on Meta-Wiki


 * Import, importing data:
 * Import on Meta-Wiki
 * See also Upload
 * See also Upload


 * Inflection or Headword line


 * Initialisms ➤ Abbreviations


 * Inputbox on MediaWiki


 * Interface, Wiktionary's appearance ➤ User style


 * Interlanguage link demo on Meta-Wiki


 * Internal links


 * International Phonetic Alphabet
 * International Phonetic Alphabet


 * Interwiki linking:
 * Interwiki linking, linking to Wiktionaries of other languages
 * Interwiki linking on Meta-Wiki
 * Interwiki linking on Meta-Wiki


 * ISBN links – see Links


 * IPA – see International Phonetic Alphabet

J

 * Japanese – see Language index

K

 * Keyboard shortcuts
 * Keyboard shortcuts

L

 * Language codes in Wiktionary
 * Languages:
 * see individual languages in Help:Language index
 * See also Translation
 * See also Translation


 * Latin – see Language index
 * Latinisation – see Transliteration


 * Layout:
 * Entry layout
 * Entry layout – POS headers
 * Lists – see Wikitext
 * Tables – see Tables
 * see also Criteria for inclusion
 * see also Criteria for inclusion


 * Links:
 * Linking to section headings – see Anchors
 * Internal links: linking to other entries
 * URL (Uniform Resource Locator) or web page address on Meta-Wiki
 * Piped links on Meta-Wiki
 * Self links on Meta-Wiki
 * ISBN links on Meta-Wiki
 * Linking (Interwiki) – see Interwiki linking
 * see also Redirection
 * see also Redirection


 * Lists:
 * See relevant heading
 * Formating on page – see Wikitext


 * Login, Loggin in:
 * Logging in on Meta-Wiki
 * Unified login on Meta-Wiki
 * Unified login on Meta-Wiki


 * Lua – see Scribunto

M

 * Magic word – see wikitext
 * Markup – see wikitext


 * Mathematics:
 * Displaying maths formulae on Meta-Wiki
 * Displaying maths formulae on Meta-Wiki


 * Middle English:
 * see Words


 * Minor edit – see Edit
 * Misnamed pages see Moving a page
 * Misspellings ➤ Alternative forms and spellings
 * Moderator handbook for moderators on Meta-Wiki


 * Monobook see User style


 * Moving (or renaming) a page on Meta-Wiki
 * Moving (or renaming) a page on Meta-Wiki


 * My talk pages – see Communicating

N

 * Name, Username – see User
 * Names – see Criteria for inclusion


 * Namespace
 * Official list Wiktionary namespaces
 * Namespace help in Meta-Wiki
 * Search for pages by name and namespace
 * Using custom namespaces, a manual on MediaWiki
 * Using custom namespaces, a manual on MediaWiki


 * Naming a page – see Page
 * see also Moving (or renaming) a page
 * Navigation bar ➤ User style
 * Navigational image – see Image
 * Neutral point of view – a Wiktionary policy
 * New page – see Page
 * New User, Registration: see under User, User name

O

 * Obsolete terms – see Words
 * Old English:
 * see Words


 * Order of sorting see Alphabetical order
 * Online resources – see Web resources

P

 * Page:
 * Tutorial
 * Starting a new page
 * Starting a new page on Meta-Wiki
 * How to edit a page
 * Page deletion – see Deletion
 * Page name on Meta-Wiki
 * Page history on Meta-Wiki
 * How to view page differences
 * Page sections on Meta-Wiki
 * see also:
 * Moving (or renaming) a page
 * Recent changes
 * Related changes
 * Requests
 * Special pages
 * A style guide
 * Subpages
 * Subpages


 * Parameter – see Template
 * Parser function on Meta-Wiki
 * Parts of speech section headers (POS), listing standard and nonstandard section headers


 * Password
 * You can change your password on your user preferences page
 * Preferences (Password) help on Meta-Wiki
 * Preferences (Password) help on Meta-Wiki


 * Patrolled edit
 * Patrolled edits (FAQ)
 * Patrolled edit on Meta-Wiki
 * Patrolled edit on Meta-Wiki


 * Personal attacks – see Civility


 * PetScan a handy tool to find entries in more than one category, or in one category and not another.
 * PetScan manual
 * PetScan manual


 * Photographs – see Images
 * Phrasebook – what to include, criteria, treatment, etc
 * Category:Phrasebooks by language


 * Pictures – see Images
 * Piped links – see Links


 * Policy and guidelines:
 * Main page on policies and guidelines
 * The category listing Wiktionary policies
 * The category listing Wiktionary policies


 * POS (Parts of speech) section headers
 * Preferences – see User preferences
 * Previewing changes – see Edit


 * Printing:
 * Printable on Meta-Wiki
 * Printable on Meta-Wiki


 * Pronunciation
 * International Phonetic Alphabet
 * Audio pronunciations
 * The pronunciation category contains other relevant pages
 * The pronunciation category contains other relevant pages


 * Protected page:
 * Protected page
 * Protected page guidelines
 * see also Deletion
 * see also Deletion

Q

 * Quick guide to Templates – see Templates
 * Quotations – a guide to their use, format etc
 * see also Templates for quotations
 * and Citations, Quotations, References


 * Quotations in Wikiquote – see Wikiquote

R

 * Random page – see Special page
 * Reader handbook – see Handbook


 * Recent changes:
 * Recent changes on Meta-Wiki
 * Enhanced recent changes on Meta-Wiki
 * Enhanced recent changes on Meta-Wiki


 * Reconstructed terms


 * Redirection:
 * Redirection help – how to do it
 * Redirection policy – when to do it
 * Uppercase v lowercase
 * Redirect help on Wikipedia
 * Redirect help on Meta-Wiki
 * Redirect help on Meta-Wiki


 * References – a guide to their use, format etc
 * see also Citations, Quotations, References


 * Registration – see User
 * Related changes on Meta-Wiki
 * Renaming a page – see Moving a page
 * Renaming a page – see Moving a page


 * Requests:
 * Request pages – summary of where various types of request may be made
 * Category:Requests – A parent category for the various request categories
 * Category:Requested entries a Category containing lists of requested words (by language)
 * Category:Requests by language a Category containing Categories of items needing attention (by language)
 * Category:Requests by language a Category containing Categories of items needing attention (by language)


 * Reverting (or undoing) a change to article content:
 * Reverting
 * Reverting on Meta-Wiki
 * Rollback (Reverting) on Meta-Wiki
 * see also Vandalism
 * see also Vandalism


 * Rollback – see Revert
 * Romanian – see Language index
 * Romanisation – see Transliteration

S

 * Sandbox
 * Starting your own sandbox
 * The Wiktionary Sandbox where you can experiment with editing
 * The Wiktionary Sandbox where you can experiment with editing


 * Scribunto:
 * Scribunto
 * Extension:Scribunto on MediaWiki
 * Learning "generic" Lua
 * Lua tutorial
 * Lua reference manual
 * Official Lua reference manual (for generic language)
 * Converting templates – Some tips and tricks
 * Converting templates – Some tips and tricks


 * Scripts
 * Scripts


 * Searching:
 * Wiktionary help page on searching
 * Help page on searching on Meta-Wiki
 * Search bookmarklets
 * Internal search facilities:
 * Alphabetical search for a page by name
 * Word search in all pages
 * Help contents page
 * Short words in searches on Meta-Wiki
 * Search Wiktionary using external search engines:
 * Google
 * Yahoo!
 * Yahoo!


 * Section – see Page section


 * See also:
 * Use of see also in the template
 * see also Alternative spellings
 * see also Alternative spellings


 * Self link – see Links


 * Short words searches – see Searching
 * Shortcuts – see Keyboard shortcuts


 * Shortenings ➤ Abbreviations
 * Short forms ➤ Abbreviations


 * Showing the contents of one page within another page
 * Sidebar ➤ User style
 * Sign/signed languages – see Language index
 * Signature ➤ Signatures on Meta-Wiki
 * Signature ➤ Signatures on Meta-Wiki


 * Skin see User style
 * Sorting order see Alphabetical order
 * Spanish – see Language index
 * Special characters – see Characters
 * Special characters – see Characters


 * Special pages:
 * Special pages
 * Special page on Meta-Wiki
 * Special page on Meta-Wiki


 * Spelling ➤ Alternative forms and spellings
 * Spelling ➤ Alternative forms and spellings


 * Starting a new page – see Page


 * Stopwords – see also Searching
 * Wikipedia on stopwords
 * a list of Google stopwords


 * Style guide A style guide
 * Style guide A style guide


 * Sysops see System administrators
 * Sysops see System administrators


 * System administrators or Sysops:
 * Administrators' tools
 * Buttons and tabs
 * Lists of:
 * Administrators and Former administrators
 * Bureaucrats
 * CheckUsers
 * Dishwashing duties (duties and associated volunteers)
 * Pages where requests are made
 * For administrators on Wikipedia
 * About administration on Meta-Wiki
 * The system administrator's handbook on Meta-Wiki
 * See also Patrolled edit
 * See also Patrolled edit

T

 * Tables:
 * Table on Meta-Wiki
 * Spreadsheet to Wikitext converter
 * Spreadsheet to Wikitext converter


 * Tabs (Administrators' tool):
 * see System administrators
 * see System administrators


 * Talk pages:
 * Talk pages on Meta-Wiki
 * User talk pages – see Communicating
 * User talk pages – see Communicating


 * Templates FAQ
 * What a template does (Showing one page within another)
 * Guides:
 * Guide on Meta-Wiki
 * Quick guide on Meta-Wiki
 * Advanced guide on Meta-Wiki
 * Parser Functions
 * Magic words
 * Editing sections of included templates on Meta-Wiki
 * Parameter default on Meta-Wiki
 * Variable on Meta-Wiki
 * Arrays/Associative arrays on Meta-Wiki
 * An Index to Wiktionary templates.
 * A complete list, but some are rarely used
 * Template categories
 * On using templates. An historical page now marked inactive
 * Scribunto, Lua – see Scribunto


 * Testing on Meta-Wiki
 * TeX markup – see Mathematics


 * Thesaurus
 * Wikisaurus
 * Discussion with links to others


 * Tips and tricks
 * Toolbar – see Edit
 * Tools – see System administrators
 * Trademarks – see Criteria for inclusion


 * Translations and translating:
 * see also Indvidual language index
 * Entry layout
 * Gender – see Languages with more than one grammatical gender
 * How to handle foreign translations of English words
 * On line resources for translators
 * Categories:
 * A supercategory listing categories of "Translations to be checked"
 * A supercategory listing categories of "Translations requests"
 * A supercategory listing categories of "Translations requests"


 * Transliteration:
 * see also relevant languages in the Indvidual language index
 * The language index gives appropriate advice under each language
 * Overview and draft policy
 * Draft policy discussion
 * Draft policy discussion


 * Transwiki
 * Tricks and tips
 * Turkish – see Language index
 * Turkish – see Language index

U

 * UK v US spelling see under Alternative spellings
 * Undoing or reverting a change ➤ Reverting
 * Unfashionable terms ➤ Words
 * Unified login ➤ Logging in


 * Upload:
 * Images and other uploaded files on Meta-Wiki
 * see also Import
 * see also Import


 * Upper case letters ➤ Capitalisation
 * URL ➤ Links
 * US v UK spelling see under Alternative spellings


 * Usability Initiative (Beta interface)
 * Main Page
 * Discussion
 * Bugzilla
 * Bugzilla


 * Usage notes:
 * Policy – past discussion
 * Brief explanation – in Entry Layout


 * User, Username:
 * Usernames and user pages
 * New user account, Registration:
 * Tutorial (Registration)
 * Why create an account?
 * Create a new User account
 * Logging in ➤ Logging in
 * User contributions and how to list them (on Meta-Wiki)
 * Username and how to change it
 * User style and how to change it
 * Welcoming a new user
 * My talk pages ➤ Communicating
 * My talk pages ➤ Communicating


 * User page:
 * Usernames and user pages


 * User password ➤ Password


 * User preferences:
 * Preferences on Meta-Wiki
 * Enhanced recent changes on Meta-Wiki
 * Password ➤ Password
 * Password ➤ Password


 * User style – how Wiktionary looks on your browser:
 * User style — on Meta-Wiki
 * Your signature ➤ Signature
 * Using .css files to modify your skin
 * m:Help:Cascading style sheets
 * Your vector.css file, for the Vector skin.
 * Your vector.css file, for the Vector skin.


 * Sidebar:
 * Sidebar on MediaWiki
 * Sidebar specification on MediaWiki
 * See also User style


 * User talk pages ➤ Communicating

V

 * Vandalism:
 * Vandalism draft policy
 * Vandalism in progress report page
 * Patrolled edits a guide to system administrators on how to patrol edits
 * Blocking guidelines
 * see also Reverting
 * see also Reverting


 * Variable – see Template
 * Verifiability – see Criteria for inclusion


 * Verification:
 * Requests for verification
 * Criteria for inclusion
 * See also Cleanup, Deletion and Protection
 * See also Cleanup, Deletion and Protection


 * Votes and voting

W

 * Watchlists, Watching pages:
 * on Wikipedia
 * Watchlist for an introduction
 * on Media-Wiki
 * Watching pages
 * Watchlist manual pages
 * Watchlist manual pages


 * Web address – see Links


 * Web resources:
 * Dictionaries on the Web
 * Dictionaries on the Web


 * Welcoming a new user: see User, User name
 * Wiki – see also Transwiki
 * Wikilinks – see Links
 * Wikipedia Usability Initiative – see under Usability Initiative


 * Wikiquote – the compendium of sourced quotations
 * Thesaurus:
 * Roget's thesaurus classification
 * An outline of Roget's Thesaurus on Wikipedia
 * Roget's thesaurus classification
 * An outline of Roget's Thesaurus on Wikipedia


 * wikitext, wiki markup:
 * Quick reference
 * Formatting a list on Meta-Wiki
 * Magic words on Meta-Wiki
 * on Meta-Wiki:
 * wikitext examples
 * Use of HTML in wikitext
 * Use of HTML in wikitext


 * Wiktionary, how to customise its appearance – see User style


 * Word classification:
 * Inclusion and Classification of Old Words (draft policy)
 * Inclusion and Classification of Old Words (draft policy)


 * Word frequency:
 * Frequency lists
 * Frequency lists