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This page in a nutshell: To print a Wikipedia page, select File → Print from your web browser, or click on the browser print icon. In general, printing a Wikipedia article is as simple as selecting Printable version from the tools menu on the sidebar or at the top-right.
The mainspace of Wikipedia is the place where the encyclopedia articles are. In contrast, the user namespace is where your user page and sandbox live, and they don’t appear in normal Wikipedia searches. After you create the page in the article namespace, you can add categories and link to the page from other pages.
Help:Contents – Is the main help page that will guide you in the right direction. The help page may be reached at any time by clicking help displayed under the Interaction tab on the left side of all pages. Help:Menu – Is a main menu-style page that will direct you to the right place to find information.
Once you have made the template—for example Template:foo—you can add {{foo}} to the pages that you want to use it on. Every page using this template uses the same boilerplate text each time that a user visits it. When the template is updated, all pages containing the template tag are automatically updated.
If you click edit on any existing page or page section and then change the title of the page shown in the URL of your browser's address bar to the name of a non-existent page, and then hit return/enter, the resulting page shown will be the same as if you clicked on a red link, allowing you to create a page by the title entered. For example ...
All of us, of whatever age, work on Wikipedia because we like spending our free time doing it. So if you enjoy finding spelling mistakes and fixing them, do that; if you enjoy removing vandal edits and reporting vandals, do that. If you enjoy spending some time in the library to find material to add to an article, do that.
Wikipedia is not a soapbox for individuals to espouse their views. However, views held by politicians, writers, and others may be summarized in their biography only to the extent those views are covered by reliable sources that are independent of the control of the politician, writer, etc.
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