Travel - Wikitravel:Help

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If you need help with Wikitravel, you have come to the right place. We have information about understanding Wikitravel, contributing to Wikitravel, using Wikitravel, and various other things about Wikitravel.

If you have questions that aren't answered here, try checking the FAQ, or ask a question in the travellers' pub.

edit] Understand

About Wikitravel
Welcome, newcomers
- Welcome, Wikipedians - we're very much like – and unlike – that great encyclopedia
- Welcome, business owners - hoteliers, restauranteurs, barkeepers, etc.
- Welcome, tourism professionals - we're all about cooperation
FAQ - fearfully anticipated questions... and answers.
Copyleft - information about the license and philosophy that guides this site
Policies and guidelines - an index of all Wikitravel policy guidelines
Wikitravel:Namespace index - all the pages in the Wikitravel: namespace

edit] Contribute

Tips for new contributors - useful information for first-time contributors
Manual of style - spelling, layout, formatting rules and article templates
- Wiki markup - how to add links, boldface, headings and lots more
Ways to help Wikitravel - writers, editors, photographers and cheerleaders are all needed
How to - step by step instructions for accomplishing specific tasks
- How to edit a page
Software features - guides to using various Mediawiki functions

edit] Talk

Travellers' pub - for general discussions about Wikitravel
Wikitravel jargon - explains some of the abbreviations, words and phrases used in discussions, edit summaries etc.
Mailing lists
Get-togethers
Bug reports
Feature requests
Babel - language indicators on user home pages
List of Wikitravellers by location - if you need help from a local, and there are no docents for the destination yet, try one of these people
Technical infrastructure policy