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- Wikipedia:Wikipedia guide - Another approach to exploring Wikipedia
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- Help page. Help on editing articles and more.
- Guide for h2g2 Researchers. For our visitors from the h2g2 community.
- Guide for Everything2 noders. For our visitors from the Everything2 community.
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Sister Projects
- Wiktionary. A multilingual Wiki dictionary and thesaurus. (See Wiktionary for background)
- Project Sourceburg. A collection of public domain source texts used in Wikipedia. (See Project Sourceberg for background)
- Nupedia. A more academic free encyclopedia project with a peer-review system for accepting articles (See Nupedia for background)
- Enciclopedia Libre. An independent Spanish language encyclopedia project. (See Enciclopedia Libre for background)
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