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Tip of the day...
Counting your edits

Instead of counting your edits 500 at a time in your contributions list, you can use X's tools Edit counter which tallies your edits of each area of Wikipedia, and displays subtotals and total as well as general statistics, year counts, month counts and top edited pages.

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Become a Wikipedia tipster
To add this auto-updating template to your user page, use {{totd2}}

Tips about Wikipedia as a whole

Tips on accessing Wikipedia pages

Finding your way around Wikipedia and beyond

Tips on searching

Getting help

Tips for contributors on getting started

Tips on working with articles

Tips on editing

Style tips

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Category tips

Tips on working with specific types of pages

List tips

Disambiguation page tips

Tips on working with images

Boilerplate/template tips

User page tips

Other ways to contribute

Communicating with other editors

Watchdogging (monitoring) Wikipedia

Configuring and customizing your account

Tips on working faster

Shortcuts

Navigation

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Tip of the moment...
How to get a list of a page's subpages

Subpages are pages that have a parent page. They share their parent page's title, followed by a "/" (slash), followed by their own name. The Wikipedia, Portal, and User namespaces allow subpages. WikiProjects, user pages and Portals often have subpages. Below are two options to obtain a list of subpages for a particular page.

* Option 1: In the left toolbar, under tools, select Page Information and an information page is shown. In the first table, there is a link for Subpages of this page.

* Option 2: Click on Special pages in the toolbox menu on the left side of your screen. Then click on All pages with prefix which is under the header Lists of pages. Then select the namespace the page is in (from the pulldown menu), and enter the pagename in the inbox, and add a forward slash (/) to the end of the pagename. So if the pagename is "Wikipedia", then you should enter Wikipedia/ in the inbox. Then press the Show button. The subpages are displayed at the bottom. If nothing happens after pressing "Show", this means the page has no subpages.

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Become a Wikipedia tipster
To add this auto-randomizing template to your user page, use {{totd-random}}

See also

Tip of the day related
Wikipedia:Tip of the day – main page
Chronological list of tips
Alphabetical list of tips
Tip display template types
Tip display template gallery
Manual of Style related
Wikipedia:Simplified Manual of Style – an overview of commonly used style guidelines.
Wikipedia:Styletips – a list of advice for editors on writing style and formatting n a bullet-point format
Help:Introduction to the Manual of Style – a quick introduction to the style guide for articles
Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Reading schedule – a reading schedule designed to assist editors in becoming familiar with Manual of Style
General formatting
Wikipedia:Contributing to Wikipedia – a page that provides information on the basics needed to edit Wikipedia.
Wikipedia:Writing better articles – guidance on how to improve articles
Help:Cheatsheet – a page that provides the most commonly used wiki markup
Wikipedia:Dos and don'ts – summaries of Wikipedia's policies, guidelines, and formatting standards in a bullet-point format
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