Help:Menu/Navigating Wikipedia

Navigating Wikipedia

What is Wikipedia?

Basic navigation

Navigation
Browsing Wikipedia = scrolling, clicking on links
Good starting points:
To browse the encyclopedia: Wikipedia:Contents
To browse the Wikipedia community: Wikipedia:Department directory
To browse help resources: Help:Menu or Help:Contents/Directory
Searching     type your search term into the search box (at the top right of every page)
Go to the search screen     clicking on the magnifying glass will get you there too

Browse the encyclopedia via the contents navbar:

Advanced navigation

Advanced browsing
Shortcut
List of shortcuts
Tabbed browsing     open multiple links at the same time
Tabbed browsing in Firefox
Tab Mix Plus     add-on for Firefox
Advanced searching
Search titles with grep
Searching Wikipedia with regular expressions (regex)

See also