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Wikiversity is a Wikimedia Foundation project devoted to learning resources, learning projects, and research for use in all levels, types, and styles of education from pre-school to university, including professional training and informal learning. We invite teachers, students, and researchers to join us in creating open educational resources and collaborative learning communities.

This page is an index of all Wikiversity' help and maintenance pages. The following articles contain guidance and information about Editing, Policies and guidelines, and participating in the Wikiversity community.

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MediaWiki

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As Wikiversity is younger than Wikipedia and other Wikimedia projects and/or received less attention there are large sets of how-tos and other help pages available in those projects and are often also a good additional source finding a helpful How To for your work in Wikiversity:

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Wikiversity:Sandbox (for experimenting)
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Media playback help

Software and tutorials for editing media files
- Media Help

Code of Conduct , discrimination policy , Image Licensing policy

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Learning resources, Learning projects, Learning model , Resources by completion status

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Colors, Pretty boxes, Icons, Style Sheet 1, Style Sheet 2, eMail for Teachers,

Quiz-Simple, Quiz , CSS at Wikiversity, Table , Table 2, List, Formula, Syndication

HTML in wikitext, Variable, Wiki markup examples, Wikitext quick reference

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Using Wikiversity, Administering Wikiversity, Learning innovation

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Gaming

Up to date as of February 01, 2010

From Wikia Gaming, your source for walkthroughs, games, guides, and more!

Help Contents
Getting started Introduction `\|` About	Policies and guidelines Vandalism `\|` Manual of Style
Searching Disambiguations `\|` Current events `\|` Can't find a page?	Feature pages Collaboration `\|` Featured articles
Editing Wikia Gaming Basic Editing `\|` Cleanup `\|` Images and copyright	The Wikia Gaming community User pages `\|` Userboxes `\|` Admins Admin nominations `\|` IRC chat`\|` Forums
Resolving disputes Deletion `\|` Talk pages	Things to do Stub pages `\|` Potential links
Template help Game templates `\|` General templates	Site Information and maintenance History `\|` Statistics `\|` MediaWiki software `\|` MediaWiki `\|` Site support
Where to ask questions Check the help links - for answers to your questions Ask an Admin - for questions on how to use Wikia Gaming and for general knowledge questions

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Help Contents
Getting started Introduction `\|` About	Policies and guidelines Vandalism `\|` Manual of Style
Searching Disambiguations `\|` Current events `\|` Can't find a page?	Feature pages Collaboration `\|` Featured articles
Editing Wikia Gaming Basic Editing `\|` Cleanup `\|` Images and copyright	The Wikia Gaming community User pages `\|` Userboxes `\|` Admins Admin nominations `\|` IRC chat`\|` Forums
Resolving disputes Deletion `\|` Talk pages	Things to do Stub pages `\|` Potential links
Template help Game templates `\|` General templates	Site Information and maintenance History `\|` Statistics `\|` MediaWiki software `\|` MediaWiki `\|` Site support
Where to ask questions Check the help links - for answers to your questions Ask an Admin - for questions on how to use Wikia Gaming and for general knowledge questions

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