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The Teahouse is a friendly space for new editors to ask questions with answers from experienced editors. The help desk is the main place for asking questions and also where to turn when all else fails. The village pump is the forum for discussion of Wikipedia's more complex project-wide technical issues, policies, proposals, and operations.
At the level of pragmatics, a question is an illocutionary category of speech act which seeks to obtain information from the addressee. [ 1 ] At the level of syntax, the interrogative is a type of clause which is characteristically associated with questions, and defined by certain grammatical rules (such as subject–auxiliary inversion in ...
Display and referential questions. A display question (also called known-information question) is a type of question requiring the other party to demonstrate their knowledge on a subject matter when the questioner already knows the answer. [1] They are contrasted with referential questions (or information-seeking questions), a type of question ...
General knowledge is an essential component of crystallized intelligence. It is strongly associated with general intelligence and with openness to experience. [2] Studies have found that people who are highly knowledgeable in a particular domain tend to be knowledgeable in many. [3][4] General knowledge is thought to be supported by long-term ...
Rhetorical question. A rhetorical question is a question asked for a purpose other than to obtain information. [1] In many cases it may be intended to start a discourse, as a means of displaying or emphasizing the speaker's or author's opinion on a topic. A simple example is the question "Can't you do anything right?"
A questionnaire is a research instrument that consists of a set of questions (or other types of prompts) for the purpose of gathering information from respondents through survey or statistical study. A research questionnaire is typically a mix of close-ended questions and open-ended questions. Open-ended, long-term questions offer the ...
Editing FAQ – The ins and outs of creating and editing Wikipedia pages. Administration FAQ – What an administrator (or "sysop") is, sysop status, and server administration. Blocks FAQ – Information about blocks. Technical FAQ – Questions about Wikipedia software and hardware and their limitations. Problems FAQ – Questions relating to ...
Trivia is information and data that are considered to be of little value. Modern usage of the term trivia dates to the 1960s, when college students introduced question-and-answer contests to their universities. A board game, Trivial Pursuit, was released in 1982 in the same vein as these contests. Since the beginning of its modern usage, trivia ...