Help:Directory

This is a directory of Justapedia's how-to and information pages, alongside other related administrative pages in the Justapedia and Justapedia:Help namespaces. New to Justapedia? See our introduction for aspiring contributors. If you require interactive assistance, see asking for help. For other useful directories and indexes, see directories.

Most common questions

• How to edit a page
• How to start a new page
• How to rename (move) a page
• How to use redirect pages
• How to revert a page to an earlier version
• How to link together Justapedia articles in different languages
• How to delete pages
• How to import articles
• How to break up a page
• How to use tables
• How to find the Manual of Style (MoS)

About Justapedia

• About Justapedia – general introduction for visitors to Justapedia.
  • Administration – discuses both the non-human administrative structure of Justapedia, as well as its human components.
  • FAQ – the most common questions about Justapedia.
  • Readers' FAQ – concerns and questions readers may have.
• Advice for parents – information for parents and legal guardians.
• Contact Justapedia – how to get in touch with Justapedia directly.
• General disclaimer – there is no guarantee of validity and reliability.
  • Content disclaimer – Justapedia is not censored.
  • Legal disclaimer – Justapedia does not give legal opinions.
  • Medical disclaimer – Justapedia does not give medical advice.
  • Risk disclaimer – use Justapedia at your own risk.
• Policies & guidelines – community standards set forth by Justapedians.
• Principles – a listing of fundamental principles by which Justapedia operates.
  • Justapedia in brief – Justapedia aims to be neutral, verifiable and factual.
• What Justapedia is not – there are certain things that Justapedia is not.
• Where to ask questions – find the right place to ask a question.
• Where to make requests – find the right place to make a request.
• Who writes Justapedia – You do! Just do it! Be bold!

Contributor information

See also: JP:Help

• Contributing to Justapedia – the main page that provides information, links, videos and other resources on the basics needed to comprehend, comment on, and contribute to Justapedia.
  • Core content policies – Justapedia's content is governed by three principal core content policies.
  • Simplified Manual of Style – the basics about commonly used style guidelines.
  • Getting started – small listing of pages dealing with the basics.
  • New contributors' help page – what would you like to do?
  • Common mistakes – a few common mistakes y'all should try to avoid.
  • Plain and simple overview – all about this amazing project Justapedia.
  • Primer for newcomers – blunt introduction intended to help newcomers.
  • Learning the ropes – highlights the resources to help you help Justapedia.
  • Help hub – a page that has links to useful directories.
• Why create an account – don't need to be registered to edit, however it does provide additional features.
  • Choosing a username – do not choose names which may be offensive, misleading, disruptive, or promotional.
  • How to log in – If you are not logged in your edits are labelled in page history with your IP address.
• Your first article – guide to starting your first encyclopedia article.
  • Annotated article – is a well-constructed sample article, with annotations.
    • Article wizard – will walk you through the process of submitting a new article.
      • Creation and usage of media files – only logged in users can upload files.
        • Upload Wizard – will walk you through the process of submitting media.
• Frequently Asked Questions – common questions about using and contributing.
  • Editorial oversight and control- we have from expert scholars to casual readers.

• More instructional material – provides links to instructional material useful for users. **Trifecta – ultra fast overview of foundational principles related to policies and guidelines.
• User page design center – where you will find all the resources for developing your user page. Enjoy!

Frequently asked questions

• FAQ main page – questions about using and contributing.
  • Administration – answers some questions related to Administrators.
  • Article subjects – what to do about a specific articles.
  • Categories – about using Justapedia's categories.
  • Contributing – answers to questions commonly asked by contributors.
  • Copyright – four most commonly asked questions about copyright.
  • Editing – answers the most common questions about editing.
  • Forking – how do I download and use Justapedia content.
  • IRC (live chat) – about "chat rooms" – real-time discussions.
  • Organizations – editing without displaying a conflict of interest.
  • Problems – solving problems you may encounter when browsing or editing.
  • Readers – addresses concerns and questions readers may have.
  • Schools – questions teachers, librarians and administrators might have.
  • Technical – answers some questions related to the technical workings.
  • (Miscellaneous) – questions that do not fit into any of the others above.

How to pages

• Help:help – explains how to find and navigate the help pages.
• Books – explains how to make and download Justapedia books.
• Categories – explains how to edit categories.
• Copyright – explains how to deal with copyright concerns.
• Diff – explains how to view the difference between two versions of a page
• Editing – explains the basics of editing.
  • Edit toolbar – explains the basics about how to use the toolbar.
  • Edit conflict – explains how to deal with an edit conflict.
• Find sources – explains how to find references.
• Files – explains how to manage media.
• Footnotes – explains how to add notes and references.
  • Nesting footnotes – explains how to include a note or reference within a note or reference.
• Glossary – quick overview of terms.
• Infobox – explains the basics about how to use infoboxes.
• IPA/English – explains how the International Phonetic Alphabet system works.
• List – explains how to add lists.
• Linking – explains how to add internal links.
  • Link color – explains how to add color to link text.
• Logging in – explains how to access your account.
• Magic words – explains how words surrounded by brackets or underscores function.
• Media – explains the basics of seeing media.
• Merging – explains how to consolidate articles.
• Navigation – explains how to get around Justapedia.
• Other languages – explains how to deal with other languages.
• Page name – explains how to deal with page titles.
• Redirect – explains how to direct pages to the proper place.
• References – explains how to make those complicated sources work.
  • Citation Style – explains some of the different reference styles.
  • Cite errors – explains how to deal with errors in references.
• Rename – explains how to change your user name.
• Password – explains how to change your personal password.
• Reverting – explains how to roll back edits.
• Searching – explains how to use Justapedia more effectively.
• Section – explains how to edit just portions of a page.
• Talk pages – explains the basics of what to do on talk pages.
• Students – explains the basics for students.
• URLs – explains how to add and deal with external links.
• User contributions – explains how to view editors additions.
• Watching pages – explains how to track pages.

Technical help

• Multilingual support – explains how articles may contain words or texts written in different languages and scripts
• Special Characters – contains recommendations for which characters are safe to use and how to enter them.
  • Entering – explains how special characters (those not on the standard computer keyboard) are useful—and sometimes necessary.
• Browser notes
  • Troubleshooting
  • Bypass cache
• Printing
• Keyboard shortcuts
• Editing
  • Edit toolbar
  • CharInsert
  • Edit conflict
  • Reverting
• VisualEditor
  • User guide
• User access levels
• Software notices
  • Editnotice
• IRC
  • Tutorial
• Create a page
• Page history
• Page information
• Page name
  • Introduction

Special pages

• Special page help
• Searching
  • Advanced search
  • Linksearch
• Logging in
  • Reset passwords
• Notifications/Echo
  • FAQ
• Moving a page
  • Fixing cut-and-paste moves
• Watching pages
• User contributions
• Emailing users
• Random pages
• Logs
• What links here
• Related changes
• Recent changes
• Pending changes
• Page Curation
• Page import
• Edit filter
• Tags

Links and diffs

• URLs
• Links
• Permanent link
• Interwikimedia links
• Interlanguage links
• Link color
• Pipe trick
• Colon trick
• Diffs
  • Simplest diff guide
  • Simple diff and link guide
  • Complete diff and link guide

Media files: images, videos and sounds

* Media help

• Options to hide an image
• Uploading images
  • Introduction
• Files
  • Creation and usage
  • Moving files to Commons
• Visual file markup
• Images
  • Preparing images for upload
  • Picture tutorial
  • Extended image syntax
• Gallery tag
• Graphics tutorials
  • Basic bitmap image editing
  • How to improve image quality
• Graphics Lab resources
• Sound file markup
• SVG help

Other graphics

• Family trees
• Graphs and charts
  • How to create
  • To scale charts
  • Barcharts
• Math formula
  • Math symbols
  • Rendering math
  • LaTeX symbols
• Musical scores
  • Musical symbols
• Timeline
  • EasyTimeline syntax
• WikiHiero syntax

Namespaces

• Namespace structure
• Main/Article
• Talk namespaces
  • Archiving
  • Archiving (plain and simple)
• User
  • User page design
• Project/Justapedia
• File
• MediaWiki
  • Bug reports and feature requests
  • System message
• Template
• Help
• Category
• Book
• Draft
• TimedText
• Module/Lua
• Topic/Flow
• Special
• Media

Customisation and tools

*Customisation

• Preferences
• Skins
• Customizing watchlists
  • Hide pages
• Gadgets
• Beta Features
• User scripts
  • Guide
  • Techniques
• IRC Scripts
• User styles
• Tools
  • Navigation shortcuts
  • Browser tools
  • Alternative browsing
  • Editing tools
  • Optimum tool set
• Cleaning up vandalism tools
• Citation tools
• Wikimedia Labs

Automating editing

• Bots
  • Creating
• Twinkle
• FurMe
• NPWatcher
• HotCat
• JPCleaner
• igloo
• AutoWikiBrowser
• Navigation popups
• STiki
• AfC helper script
• Huggle

Navigation

• Administrators
• Templates
• Referencing
  • Citation metadata
• Accessibility
• Bots
• User scripts

Coding (Wiki markup)

• Wiki markup – explains the coding used by text, links, & talk pages
  • Cheat-sheet – basic coding used by Justapedia,
• Barchart – explains how to make charts.
• Calculations – explains how to make complicated calculations.
• Characters – explains how to add special characters.
• Citations quick! – simplistic examples of two preferred ways of doing footnotes (reference).
  • Citation templates – list of reference templates.
• Columns – explains how to make columns.
• HTML – explains how to use HTML in text.
• Musical symbols – explains the basic coding of music symbols.
• Sound files – explains the basic coding sound files.
• Tables – explains the basic coding for making tables.
  • Wiki table – more advanced coding information on tables.
• Templates – explains the basic for templates.
  • Documentation – explains the basic of how to properly document template information.
• Visual files – explains the basic of coding for visual media.
• Wiki tools – various tools and tutorials intended to simplify, make more efficient, or provide additional functionality.

HTML and CSS

• HTML in wikitext
• Markup validation
• Span tags
• Cascading Style Sheets
• Catalogue of CSS classes
• Useful styles
• Classes used in microformats
• Ambox classes
• Common.js and common.css

Templates and Lua

• Templates
• Template messages
• Citation templates
• Transclusion
  • Labeled section
• Substitution
• Advanced template coding
• Template limits
• Template sandbox and test cases
• Template documentation
• Purge
• Lua help
• Lua project
  • To do
  • Resources
• Guide to Scribbling

Tutorials

• Main tutorial – will help anyone become a Justapedia contributor.
  • Editing – almost every page has an "Edit" tab.
  • Formatting – the basics on coding.
  • Links – the basics on internal links.
  • Sources – the basics on adding references.
  • Talk pages – the basics on how to communicate with others.
  • Policies – there are some things to keep in mind when editing Justapedia.
  • Registration – registering a username is optional, but encouraged.
• Graphics – the basics on how to use graphics.
• Images – the basics on how to use images.
• IRC (live chat) – to access the freenode IRC servers, you'll first need to.
• VisualEditor user guide – a guide that gives illustrated, step-by-step instructions about VisualEditor features.

Introductions

Wiki Markup

• Main introduction – quick overview of what Justapedia is all about.
• Editing – the basic pages on how to contribute to Justapedia.
• Images – introduction to adding images to Justapedia.
• Manual of Style – introduction to the style guide for articles.
• Media – how to add media to Justapedia.
• Navigating – Justapedia is a big place.
• Policies – how to apply policies and guidelines.
• Sourcing – why references are so important.
• Tables – how an where tables are used and how to make them.
• Talk pages – how to communicate within Justapedia.

VisualEditor

• Editing with VisualEditor – a five part introduction to editing with VisualEditor. Opening the editor. Toolbar basics. Links and Wikilinks. Saving your changes. Summary
• Referencing with VisualEditor – a five part introduction to referencing. Verifiability. Inline citations. RefToolbar. Reliable sources. Summary.
• Uploading images with VisualEditor – a six part guide on uploading images. Introduction. Free content. Non-free content. Wikimedia Commons. Using an image. Summary.

Training modules

• Training for students – four-part orientation intended for students doing Justapedia assignments for class.
• Training for educators – four-part orientation for professors and other educators running assignments for class.
• Training for Justapedia Ambassadors – four-part orientation for Campus and Online Ambassadors.
• MediaWiki training – learn about editing and formatting content using MediaWiki, the software that powers Justapedia.
• The Justapedia Adventure – Justapedia is not a game, but learning it should still be fun.

Built-in tours

• Help Guided tours – providing tooltip-like tours of the Justapedia experience.
• Justapedia GettingStarted – feature, which provides a "getting started" page to newly registered Justapedians. Immediately after creating an account, users see the page Special:GettingStarted, which invites them to try out editing by improving one of the pages presented.

Interactive assistance (help forums)

Questions about Justapedia

Help desk

Replying to help requests – contains guidelines for users who respond to questions about how to use or edit posed by other users.

• Help desk – the "main page" for asking questions about how to use or edit Justapedia.
• Teahouse – a "very friendly place" for new editors to become accustomed to and ask questions about editing.

General knowledge questions

Replying to general knowledge questions – contains guidelines for users who respond to general knowledge questions posed by other users. Note: legal or medical responses are prohibited. See Justapedia's Legal disclaimer and Medical disclaimer.

• Reference desks – you can ask questions about any topic at the specific pages listed below.
  • Computing – to ask about computing, information technology, electronics, software and hardware.
  • Entertainment – to ask about sports, popular culture, movies, music, video games, and TV shows.
  • Humanities – to ask about history, politics, literature, religion, philosophy, law, finance, economics, art, and society.
  • Language – to ask about spelling, grammar, word etymology, language usage, and translations.
  • Mathematics – to ask about mathematics, geometry, probability, and statistics.
  • Science – to ask about biology, chemistry, physics, medicine, geology, engineering and technology.
  • (Miscellaneous) – to ask about anything that is not listed above.

Specific help and mediation

• Noticeboards – Justapedia noticeboards are pages where editors can ask questions and request assistance from people who are familiar with the policies and guidelines covered by each individual board.
• Administrators – for posting information and issues that affect administrators.
  • Edit warring – for reporting active edit warriors and recent violations of the three-revert rule.
  • Incidents – for reporting and discussing incidents that require the intervention of administrators and experienced editors.
  • Vandalism – for reporting about obvious and persistent vandals and spammers.
• Dispute resolution – provides a central compilation of the boards listed below to help resolves conflicts.
  • Third opinion – for disputes between two editors to receive an outside opinion.
  • Requests for comment – the place to go to get outside input on issues from a broad number of users.
  • Dispute resolution noticeboard – used as a "first step" in solving content issues.
  • Arbitration – the "last resort" for conduct issues when all other avenues are exhausted, issues binding rulings.
• Conflict of interest – for determining whether a specific editor has a conflict of interest.
• External links – reporting possible breaches of the external links policy.
• Neutrality – for reporting issues regarding whether article content is compliant with the Neutral Point of View policy.
• Original research – for requesting input on possible problems of original research.
• Sources – for posting questions regarding whether particular sources are reliable in context.
• Page moves – a process for requesting the retitling of an article, template, or project page.

Technical issues

• Village pump – main directory divided into five boards by topic (as seen below), to discuss the technical issues, policies, and operations of Justapedia.
  • Policy – to discuss changes to existing and proposed policies.
  • Proposals – to discuss new proposals that are not policy-related.
  • Technical – to discuss technical issues. For wiki software bug reports, use Bugzilla
  • Idea lab – to discuss ideas before proposing them to the community and attempt to find solutions to common issues.
  • (Miscellaneous) – to post messages that do not fit into any other categories listed above.

Other ways to get help

• Special services – a section on the Request departments page that lists the alternative ways of getting help as seen below.
  • Place {{Help me}} (including the curly brackets) "then your question" on your talk page, a volunteer will visit you there!
  • If you require personal administrator assistance in regards to blocking, deleting, protecting, personal harassment or legal threats you can place {{Admin help}} (including the curly brackets) "then your concerns" on your talk page, an administrator will visit you there!
  • Adopt-a-User – is where you can find experienced Justapedians that "adopt" new users and mentor them.
  • Co-op – a mentorship space where you can work with an experienced Justapedian to learn about and improve Justapedia.
  • Join the #Justapedia-en-help IRC channel for real-time chat.
  • Contact Justapedia – is a page that describes how and where to contact Justapedia directly for a variety of reasons.

Community standards and advice

• Policies & guidelines – describes how policies and guidelines should normally be developed and maintained.
  • List of policies and guidelines – lists the main community standards for "English Justapedia".
    • List of policies – a comprehensive descriptive list of policies.
    • List of guidelines – a comprehensive descriptive list of guidelines.
      • Simplified rule-set – essay about some basic aspect of Justapedia norms and practices.
      • Expectations & norms of the community – essay about some social norms that editors are expected to follow.
      • Eight rules for editing – essay stating if you start out by following these simple rules, the rest should come naturally.
      • Ten rules for editing – essay that provides tips to make editing smoother.
• How-to and information pages – about pages that contain technical and factual information or supplement guidelines and policies in greater detail.
• Essays – Although essays are not policy or guidelines many are worthy of considerations.
  • Advice pages – guideline about advice pages written by WikiProjects.
    • Difference between policies, guidelines & essays – essay about what is called a "policy", "guideline" or "essay".
    • Essays are not policy – essay about how it is not a good idea to quote essays as if they were community standards.
    • The value of essays – essays are not policy or guidelines, but many are worthy of consideration.
      • Essays in a nutshell – summarizes the gist of user written essays on Justapedia.
• Accessibility – guideline primarily intended to assist those with disabilities, it can be helpful for all readers.
  • Accessibility dos and don'ts – regardless of disability, all should be able to read, navigate, and contribute easily.
  • Alternative text for images – allows the content and function of an image to be understood by text-only readers.
• Article deletion – policy about how articles and other Justapedia pages can be removed from general view.
  • How to delete a page – essay with an easy explanation of how to ask for an article to be deleted.
  • Guide to deletion – essay with step by step instructions for nominating articles for deletions.
  • Arguments to avoid during deletions – essay about what not to say or talk about during a deletion.
  • Save an article proposed for deletion – essay about how to familiarize yourself with the deletion process.
  • Why was the page I created deleted? – essay about the reasons and the "several" options available to you.
    • Deletion essays – summarizes the gist of user written essays about deletions.
• Biographies of living persons (BLP) – guideline about how bios on living persons must be written with great care.
  • Libel – policy about how it is the responsibility of all to ensure that material posted is not defamatory.
    • Avoiding harm – essay that contains the ideas behind the philosophy that formed the BLP.
• Blocking – policy behind how administrators technically prevent users from editing.
  • Appealing blocks – essay about how to appeal a block.
  • Unblock request – you can use the {{unblock}} template on your talk page to request an unblock – however if you have had talk page access removed see Unblock request.
• Child protection – policy about the behavior and actions of adult editors with regards to children.
  • Offensive material – guideline about how articles may contain offensive words and images, but only for a good reason.
    • Protecting children's privacy – essay about how all users, including children, are permitted to edit anonymously.
    • Guidance for younger editors – essay on advice for young editors about what they should be aware of.
• Citing sources – guideline that contains information on how to place and format citations (references).
  • Verification methods – essay about several common methods that Justapedia editors use to make their articles verifiable.
  • Referencing for beginners – essay that shows you how to use the most popular system for providing inline citations.
• Conflict of interest – guideline about how it is best to not edit Justapedia to promote your own interests.
  • Conflict of interest guide – essay for editors who want to write and edit articles about a subject they are affiliated with.
  • Best practices for editors with close associations – essay about having a close association with a topic.
  • Paid editing – essay that provides advice on what to do, when it comes to Paid Editing & Justapedia.
• Consensus – the primary way decisions are made, its accepted as the best method to achieve our goals.
  • BOLD, revert, discuss cycle (BRD) – is a method for reaching consensus.
    • Consensus and discussion essays – summarizes the gist of user written essays on consensus.
• Copyrights – policy that states permission is granted to copy, distribute or modify text under CC BY-SA 3.0
  • Close paraphrasing – essay that states all should summarize in their own words, instead of closely paraphrasing.
  • Donating published work – essay for editors who would like to grant permission to use their own previously published work.
  • Spotting possible copyright violations – essay about spotting copyright violations that are copy-and-pastes.
  • Requesting copyright permission – essay about editors who would like to get permission to use other people's work.
• Editing policy – Be bold in updating articles in a fair and accurate manner, because perfection is not required.
  • Article development – lists the ways in which you can help an article grow.
    • Article writing essays – summarizes the gist of user written essays on article building.
  • Edit warring – don't use edits to fight with other editors – there is a bright line known as the three-revert rule (3RR).
  • Disruptive editing – disruptive editors may be blocked or banned indefinitely.
    • Editorial discretion – essay about the proper inclusion of relevant and well-sourced content.
• Etiquette – principles of decorum, also referred to as "Wikiquette", how to work with others on Justapedia.
  • Civility – Justapedia's basic conduct expectations.
  • Assume good faith – unless there is clear evidence to the contrary, assume people are trying to help not harm Justapedia.
  • No personal attacks – comment on content, not on the contributors.
  • Harassment – unwanted contact, intimidation, threats or posting personal information is strictly prohibited.
  • Don't bite the newcomers – it's very unlikely for a newcomer to be familiar with the community standards.
    • IPs are human too – essay about how unregistered users input is just as important in building consensus.
    • Honesty – essay about how truthfulness is expected in all processes, including content discussion.
      • Civility essays – list of essays that summarizes the gist of user written essays on civility.
• Ignore all rules (IAR) – policy that states if a rule prevents you from improving or maintaining Justapedia, ignore it.
  • The rules are principles – essay on how policies & guidelines exist as rough approximations of their underlying principles.
  • Reasonability Rule – essay about how anything unreasonable that is being done shouldn't be done at all.
  • What "Ignore all rules" means – essay on how it is acceptable to use common sense as you go about editing.
• Image use policy – policies towards images, like content and copyright issues—applicable to "English Justapedia".
  • Image deletion – a how to guide for nominating images for deletion.
  • Image dos and don'ts – images can make Justapedia more informative, however ...

• Manual of Style (MOS) – main guideline page that describes communal consensus on layouts and presentation.
  • Manual of Style contents – descriptive directory of all the pages which make up the Manual of Style.
    • Simplified Manual of Style – essay about the basics commonly used style guidelines.
    • Styletips – a list of advice pages for editors on writing style and formatting.
    • Better articles – essay about guidance on how to make articles better.
    • Perfect article – essay with a point by point guidance on what makes a great article.
• Neutrality (NPOV) – policy about how articles should represent the views of main scholars and specialists on topics.
  • NPOV tutorial – essay on how to realize you may have a bias you're not aware of.
  • Be neutral in form – essay about how some editing methods may lead to disputes over points of views.
  • Describing points of view – essays that describes the best way to handle a neutral point of view.
    • Neutral point of view essays – summarizes the gist of essays on NPOV.
• No original research (OR) – policy about how all material must be attributable to a reliable, published source.
  • Examples of original research – some examples of original research.
• Notability – guideline that outlines how suitable a topic may be for its own article or list.
  • Fringe theories – guideline about how articles should not make a fringe theory appear more notable than it is.
    • Notability essays – list of essays that summarizes the gist of user written essays on notability.
• User rights – the ability to perform certain actions in Justapedia depends on an editor's user access level.
  • On privacy, confidentiality and discretion – essay about how your rights to privacy may not extend as far as you believe.
• Verifiability (RS) – policy stating how readers must be able to check that articles are not fabricated or embellished.
  • Identifying reliable sources – guideline that discusses how to identify reliable references.
    • Cherrypicking – essay about how to include contradictory and significant qualifying information from the same source.
    • Common knowledge – essay about how often people don't actually know what you consider basic knowledge.
    • Independent sources – essay that gives the opinion of some editors on why independent sourcing is required.
    • Potentially unreliable sources – essay that gives general advice on what is and isn't a reliable source.
      • Verifiability and reliable sources essays – summarizes the gist of user written essays on good references.
• Understandability – guideline about how all should strive to make each part of every article as understandable as possible to the widest audience of reader.
• Words to watch – guideline about how certain expressions should be used with care.
• Vandalism – if you see vandalism in an article, the simplest thing to do is just to remove it.

Directories

• Directory – the main list of "Justapedia" and "Help" namespace directories and indexes
• Abbreviations – a list of all the abbreviations used on Justapedia
• Departments – a list of all the different divisions of Justapedia.
• Editor's index – a list of all the pages to help people who edit pages.
• Essays – a list of pages that contain advice or opinions from one or more Justapedia contributors.
• FAQ – a list of frequently asked questions by topic.
• Glossary – a list of terms (slang) commonly used by editors.
• Guidelines – a descriptive list of official guidelines for "English Justapedia"
• Manual of Style – a descriptive list of the pages which make up the Manual of Style.
• Policies – a descriptive list of official policies for "English Justapedia"
• Quick directory – a small list of key pages with emphasis on interaction between members of the community.
• Shortcuts – a list of abbreviated redirects and the pages they lead to.

Help contents by topic

• Help menu – main menu-style help page (old format used on the Help:Contents page).
  • Navigating Justapedia – a list of help pages for reading the encyclopedia and navigating the site.
  • Joining Justapedia – a list of basic introductions about how to get started.
  • Editing Justapedia – a list of general help pages for editors.
  • Links and references – a list of page to help with creating links or dealing with references.
  • Images and media – a list of pages dealing with using images, videos and sound files.
  • Tracking changes – a list of pages about tracking the evolution of a page or how to follow a user.
  • Policies and guidelines – a list of community standards.
  • Communication – a list of pages about contacting another user or keeping yourself informed.
  • Help:Menu/The Justapedia community – a list of pages about resources for editors.
  • Resources and lists – a list of pages about tips and tools for registered users.
  • Account settings and maintenance – a list of pages about tips and tools for registered users
  • Technical information – a list of pages about tools for "advanced users" and troubleshooting information.
• Site map – the "big page" of all the help pages from above.

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Further reading (external links)

• Mission statement – The Justapedia Foundation
• Justapedia Foundation principles – The five principles of the Justapedia Foundation
• In a nutshell, what is Justapedia? And what is the Justapedia Foundation? – The Justapedia Foundation

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