විකිපීඩියාව පිළිබඳ ප්රවර්ගයන් කර්තෘ හිමිකම අන්වක්රොතීකරණය පින්තූර සහ බහුමාධ්ය ජංගම පිවිසුම මූලික මග පෙන්වීම අනෙකුත් භාෂා පිටු නාම ද්වාර විකිපීඩියාව සමග පර්යේෂණ ගවේෂණය
At the top of every page is a Search box that allows you to search for articles via words entered. All Wiki articles are linked or cross-referenced for ease of navigation through the encyclopedia.
Where you see text like this, it means there is a link to another article or Wikipedia page with further information if you need it. Holding your mouse over the link will show you where a link will take you. This means that articles do not need to cover common ground in depth; instead, you are always one click away from more information on any point that has a link attached.
There are other links towards the ends of most articles, for other articles of interest, relevant external web sites and pages, and reference material. At the end of the article are relevant categories of knowledge which you can search and traverse in an interconnected hierarchy for further related information in a field.
Some articles may also have links to dictionary definitions, audiobook readings, quotations, or the same article in other languages. You can contribute by adding further links if a relevant link is missing.
There's a browsing bar at the top of the Main Page with links to Portals. Portals bring you to sub-portals and portals, which are illustrated article summaries like on the Main Page. "Featured content", on the side bar, is the way to the best articles, pictures, lists and portals in the encyclopedia. And, "Contents" has guides to browsing Wiki සිංහල.
The English Wikipedia is one of many Wiki projects, and has the URL en.wikipedia.org. Versions in other languages have other two-letter labels, such as the Spanish Wikipedia at es.wikipedia.org. Other Wiki sister projects such as Wikisource and Wiktionary have different names in their URLs. Links to these projects (such as s:Main Page) usually appear in a different shade. විකිමාධ්ය කොමන්ස් (commons.wikimedia.org) has a special role, housing many of the images accessed from Wiki සිංහල. Many of the projects at the other URLs are organized in a way that is quite similar to Wikipedia, but you can always tell which project you are viewing by the logo and text at the top left of the page.
Within Wikipedia (and other projects), content is separated into namespaces, which appear before the page name. For example, Help:Editing is in the Help: namespace. Regular encyclopedia articles are in a namespace with no prefix added. Namespaces come in pairs, one for content and one for talk — for example, Help talk:Editing. Another example is your user page and associated talk page, which is added to the User: and User talk: namespaces. You can switch between content and talk pages using the first two tabs at the top of each page.
Wiki contains a huge amount of information on all sorts of subjects ranging from politics, science, history, music, religion, pop culture, sports and many other topics.
To help you find your way around this world of knowledge, Wikipedia has many pages that organize its contents. These lists and indices use links to the articles that are organized by subject or alphabetically. Our best content also finds its way to one of the featured content lists. Links to all of Wikipedia's main contents pages are presented below, and they in turn link to all the rest.
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Every article has a list at the bottom of all the major categories it belongs to. For example Albert Einstein is listed under:
Each of these categories can be browsed and is linked to related categories in an interconnected hierarchy or web.
Try browsing the various categories below right now:
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For more information about using this feature, see Wiki: FAQ/Categories.
To the left side of each article are some standard options for navigation and interaction, for tools, and, on some articles, for languages:
Navigation options:
Interaction options:
Toolbox options:
Other languages - if an article exists on the same subject in any of the other hundred languages in Wikipedia, it should usually appear on a list of other language links in the sidebar too.
Each page in Wikipedia contains an article, and a discussion page (usually called "Talk...")
You can see these above: the article is labelled "project page", the discussion page is the tab to the right of it. These are treated as two separate pages in Wikipedia, but are shown side by side on the tab bar, for ease of use.
Whether you are looking at the article or project page, or the discussion page, you will see there is a button marked "edit this page", possibly a "new section" button, and a button labelled "watch" or "unwatch".
These control your user account. To create a user account you only need to choose a name and a password. An email address is optional and only used for password reminders.
Unless you create an account you will not be able to customize Wikipedia preferences for yourself. Almost all experienced editors use an account in order to ensure accountability.
The user options also include links to view your watchlist (articles you are tracking), and contributions you have made.
WikiBrowse is a set of open source tools for Windows that are designed for navigating Wikipedia and other MediaWiki sites. WikiBrowse includes tools and multimedia players.
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