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<li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-1"><a href="#Introduction"><span
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<li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-2"><a href="#For_Installers"><span
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<h2><span class="mw-headline" id="Introduction">Introduction</span></h2>
<p><a href="/wiki/Help:Introduction" title="Help:Introduction">Detailed
Introduction</a> | <a href="/wiki/Help:Help" title="Help:Help">Help
overview</a></p>
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rel="nofollow">MediaWiki</a> is a free software wiki engine licensed under the <a
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title="mw:Sites using MediaWiki">many websites</a>, including this one.</p>
<h2><span class="mw-headline" id="For_Installers">For Installers</span></h2>
<p>See <a href="http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Category:Installation" class="extiw"
title="mw:Category:Installation">Category Installation</a> on MediaWiki.</p>
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guidelines">Guidelines</a></td>
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policy">Help policy</a></td>
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templates">Help page footers</a></td>
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title="Help:Moderator">View this alone</a></small></td>
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administrators</span></h2>
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admin">View this alone</a></small></td>
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<a href="http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Sysadmin_hub" class="extiw"
title="mw:Sysadmin hub">Sysadmin's Guide</a></th>
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<td><a href="http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:MediaWiki_architecture"
class="extiw" title="mw:Manual:MediaWiki architecture">MediaWiki
architecture</a></td>
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title="mw:Manual:Database layout">Database layout</a></td>
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title="mw:Manual:Job queue">Job queue</a></td>
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<a href="http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Installation" class="extiw"
title="mw:Manual:Installation">Installation</a></th>
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title="mw:Subversion">Working with SVN</a></td>
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title="mw:Download from SVN">Installing the SVN tree</a></td>
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title="mw:Manual:OS specific help">OS specific help</a></td>
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<td><a
href="http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Running_MediaWiki_on_Sourceforge.net"
class="extiw" title="mw:Manual:Running MediaWiki on Sourceforge.net">on
Sourceforge.net</a></td>
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<td><a href="http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Timezone" class="extiw"
title="mw:Manual:Timezone">Timezone adjustments</a></td>
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<td><a href="http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Security" class="extiw"
title="mw:Manual:Security">Security</a></td>
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<td><a href="http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Securing_database_passwords"
class="extiw" title="mw:Manual:Securing database passwords">Securing database
passwords</a></td>
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<td><a href="http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:User_rights_management"
class="extiw" title="mw:Manual:User rights management">User rights
management</a></td>
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<td><a href="http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Resetting_passwords"
class="extiw" title="mw:Manual:Resetting passwords">Resetting passwords</a></td>
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<td><a href="http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Preventing_access" class="extiw"
title="mw:Manual:Preventing access">Preventing Access</a></td>
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title="mw:Manual:Configuration">Configuration</a></td>
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<td><a href="http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Configuration_settings"
class="extiw" title="mw:Manual:Configuration settings">Configuration
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title="mw:Apache configuration">Apache config</a></td>
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title="mw:Robots.txt">Robots.txt</a></td>
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title="mw:Manual:Short URL">Shorter URLs</a></td>
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<td><a href="http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/PHP_configuration" class="extiw"
title="mw:PHP configuration">PHP config</a></td>
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<td><a href="/wiki/MySQL_config" title="MySQL config">MySQL config</a></td>
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<td><a href="http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:PostgreSQL" class="extiw"
title="mw:Manual:PostgreSQL">PostgreSQL config</a></td>
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<td><a href="http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Configuration_tips_and_tricks"
class="extiw" title="mw:Manual:Configuration tips and tricks">Tips and
tricks</a></td>
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customization</a></td>
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<td><a href="http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Timezone" class="extiw"
title="mw:Manual:Timezone">Set Global Timezone</a></td>
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title="mw:Localisation">Localisation</a></td>
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<td><a
href="http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Guide_to_setting_up_interwiki_linking"
class="extiw" title="mw:Manual:Guide to setting up interwiki linking">Interwiki
links</a></td>
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<td><a href="http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Navigation_bar" class="extiw"
title="mw:Manual:Navigation bar">Custom navigation bar</a></td>
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class="extiw" title="mw:Manual:Using custom namespaces">Custom namespaces</a></td>
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title="mw:Manual:Moving a wiki">Move a database</a></td>
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<td><a href="http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Reduce_size_of_the_database"
class="extiw" title="mw:Manual:Reduce size of the database">Reduce the
size</a></td>
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<td><a href="/wiki/PHP_caching_and_optimization" title="PHP caching and
optimization">PHP caching</a></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><a href="http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:File_cache" class="extiw"
title="mw:Manual:File cache">File cache</a></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><a href="http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Squid_caching" class="extiw"
title="mw:Manual:Squid caching">Squid caching</a></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><a href="/wiki/Cache_strategy" title="Cache strategy">Cache strategy</a></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><a href="/wiki/Wikimedia_servers" title="Wikimedia servers">Wikimedia
servers</a></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><a href="/wiki/As_your_site_grows" title="As your site grows">As your site
grows</a></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<th><br />
Maintenance</th>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><a href="/wiki/Help:Maintenance_scripts_overview" title="Help:Maintenance
scripts overview">Maintenance scripts</a></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><a href="http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Upgrading" class="extiw"
title="mw:Manual:Upgrading">Upgrade Mediawiki</a></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><a href="/wiki/Troubleshooting_math_display_errors" title="Troubleshooting
math display errors">Math errors</a></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><a href="http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:LocalSettings.php" class="extiw"
title="mw:Manual:LocalSettings.php">LocalSettings.php</a></td>
</tr>
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<h2><span class="mw-headline" id="Appendix">Appendix</span></h2>
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<li><a href="/wiki/Help:ISBN_links" title="Help:ISBN links">ISBN links</a></li>
<li><a href="/wiki/Help:Common_words,_searching_for_which_is_not_possible"
title="Help:Common words, searching for which is not possible">Common stop
words</a></li>
<li><a href="/wiki/Help:Keyboard_shortcuts" title="Help:Keyboard
shortcuts">Keyboard shortcuts</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Moving_a_wiki" class="extiw"
title="mw:Manual:Moving a wiki">How to move a wiki to another server</a></li>
</ol>
<p>Miscellany</p>
<ol>
<li><a href="http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Sites_using_MediaWiki" class="extiw"
title="mw:Sites using MediaWiki">Sites using MediaWiki</a></li>
<li><a href="/wiki/Browser_issues_with_MediaWiki" title="Browser issues with
MediaWiki">Browser issues with MediaWiki</a></li>
<li><a href="/wiki/Page_metadata" title="Page metadata">Page metadata</a></li>
</ol>
<p>Contact</p>
<ol>
<li>irc.freenode.net #mediawiki #wikipedia</li>
<li><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia-
L#Technical_issues_mailing_list" class="extiw" title="w:Wikipedia-L">Mailing
lists</a></li>
</ol>
<h2><span class="mw-headline" id="See_also">See also</span></h2>
<ul>
<li><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Glossary" class="extiw"
title="w:Wikipedia:Glossary">w:Wikipedia:Glossary</a></li>
<li>Check the privacy policy, if any, of the site you use; for Wikimedia: <a
href="/wiki/Privacy_policy" title="Privacy policy">Privacy policy</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.wikia.com/wiki/Category:Help" class="extiw"
title="wikicities:Category:Help">wikicities:Category:Help</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Category:Help" class="extiw"
title="mw:Category:Help">mw:Category:Help</a></li>
<li><a
href="http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:Linksearch/meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Hel
p:" class="extiw"
title="mw:Special:Linksearch/meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Help:">Links from the
MediaWiki wiki to the Help namespace here on Meta</a><span style="display:none"><a
href="http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:Linksearch/meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Hel
p" class="external free"
rel="nofollow">http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:Linksearch/meta.wikimedia.org
/wiki/Help</a>:</span> - not complete, requires external link style</li>
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href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Linksearch/en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:"
class="extiw" title="w:Special:Linksearch/en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:">Links from
the English Wikipedia to the Help namespace here on Meta</a><span
style="display:none"><a
href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Linksearch/en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help"
class="external free"
rel="nofollow">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Linksearch/en.wikipedia.org/wi
ki/Help</a>:</span> - not complete, requires external link style or a link
produced by <span class="plainlinks"><a
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title="w:template:H:mlm">w:template:H:mlm</a> ( <small><a
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title="w:template talk:H:mlm">talk</a> <a
href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/template:H:mlm?action=edit" class="external
text" rel="nofollow">edit</a> <a
href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/template:H:mlm?action=history" class="external
text" rel="nofollow">history</a> <a
href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Whatlinkshere/template:H:mlm?
limit=1000" class="external text" rel="nofollow">links</a></small> )</span></li>
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href="http://en.wikinews.org/wiki/Special:Allpages?namespace=12" class="external
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href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Allpages?namespace=12" class="external
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text" rel="nofollow">Wiktionary</a> | <a
href="http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:Allpages?namespace=12"
class="external text" rel="nofollow">commons:</a> | <a
href="http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:Allpages?namespace=12" class="external
text" rel="nofollow">mw:</a> | <a
href="http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Special:Allpages?namespace=12" class="external
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class="external text" rel="nofollow">mw:Manual</a> | <a
href="http://www.google.com/search?q=site:meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Help:"
class="extiw" title="google:site:meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Help:">google</a></dd>
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title="m:Help:Contents">Meta</a> | <a
href="http://en.wikinews.org/wiki/Help:Contents" class="extiw"
title="n:Help:Contents">Wikinews</a> | <a
href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:Contents" class="extiw"
title="w:Help:Contents">Wikipedia</a><span style="display:none"><a
href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:Contents" class="external free"
rel="nofollow">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:Contents</a></span> | <a
href="http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Help:Contents" class="extiw"
title="q:Help:Contents">Wikiquote</a> | <a
href="http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Help:Contents" class="extiw"
title="wikt:Help:Contents">Wiktionary</a></dd>
<dd><i>What links here</i> on <a
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class="extiw" title="m:Special:Whatlinkshere/Help:Contents">Meta</a> <span
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rel="nofollow">Wikipedia</a> | <a
href="http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:Linksearch?
rel="nofollow">MediaWiki</a></span></dd>
<dt><a href="/wiki/Help:Reader" title="Help:Reader">Reading</a></dt>
<dd><a href="/wiki/Help:Go_button" title="Help:Go button">Go</a> | <a
href="/wiki/Help:Searching" title="Help:Searching">Search</a> | <a
href="/wiki/Help:Common_words,_searching_for_which_is_not_possible"
title="Help:Common words, searching for which is not possible">Stop words</a> | <a
href="/wiki/Help:URL" title="Help:URL">URL</a> | <a href="/wiki/Help:Namespace"
title="Help:Namespace">Namespace</a> | <a href="/wiki/Help:Page_name"
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href="/wiki/Help:Piped_link" title="Help:Piped link">Piped link</a> | <a
href="/wiki/Help:Interwiki_linking" title="Help:Interwiki linking">Interwiki
link</a> | <a href="/wiki/Help:Redirect" title="Help:Redirect">Redirect</a> | <a
href="/wiki/Help:Category" title="Help:Category">Category</a> | <a
href="/wiki/Help:Image_page" title="Help:Image page">Image page</a></dd>
<dt>Logging in and preferences</dt>
<dd><a href="/wiki/Help:Logging_in" title="Help:Logging in">Logging in</a> | <a
href="/wiki/Help:Preferences" title="Help:Preferences">Preferences</a> | <a
href="/wiki/Help:User_style" title="Help:User style">User style</a></dd>
<dt><a href="/wiki/Help:Editing" title="Help:Editing">Editing</a></dt>
<dd><a href="/wiki/Help:Advanced_editing" title="Help:Advanced editing">Advanced
editing</a> | <a href="/wiki/Help:Editing_FAQ" title="Help:Editing FAQ">Editing
FAQ</a> | <a href="/wiki/Help:Edit_toolbar" title="Help:Edit toolbar">Edit
toolbar</a> | <a href="/wiki/Help:Export" title="Help:Export">Export</a> | <a
href="/wiki/Help:Import" title="Help:Import">Import</a> | <a
href="/wiki/Help:Editing_shortcuts" title="Help:Editing
shortcuts">Shortcuts</a></dd>
<dt><a href="/wiki/Help:Tracking_changes" title="Help:Tracking changes">Tracking
changes</a></dt>
<dd><a href="/wiki/Help:Recent_changes" title="Help:Recent changes">Recent
changes</a> <small>(<a href="/wiki/Help:Enhanced_recent_changes"
title="Help:Enhanced recent changes">enhanced</a>)</small> | <a
href="/wiki/Help:Related_changes" title="Help:Related changes">Related changes</a>
| <a href="/wiki/Help:Watching_pages" title="Help:Watching pages">Watching
pages</a> | <a href="/wiki/Help:Diff" title="Help:Diff">Diff</a></dd>
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<a href="/wiki/Help:Edit_summary" title="Help:Edit summary">Edit summary</a> | <a
href="/wiki/Help:User_contributions" title="Help:User contributions">User
contributions</a> | <a href="/wiki/Help:Minor_edit" title="Help:Minor edit">Minor
edit</a> | <a href="/wiki/Help:Patrolled_edit" title="Help:Patrolled
edit">Patrolled edit</a></dd>
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examples</a> | <a href="/wiki/Help:Reference_card" title="Help:Reference
card">Reference card</a> | <a href="/wiki/Help:HTML_in_wikitext" title="Help:HTML
in wikitext">HTML in wikitext</a> | <a href="/wiki/Help:List"
title="Help:List">List</a> | <a href="/wiki/Help:Table"
title="Help:Table">Table</a> | <a href="/wiki/Help:Sorting"
title="Help:Sorting">Sorting</a> | <a href="/wiki/Help:Text_color"
title="Help:Text color">Colors</a></dd>
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<dd><a href="http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Inputbox" class="extiw"
title="mw:Extension:Inputbox">Inputbox</a> | <a
href="/wiki/Help:Special_characters" title="Help:Special characters">Special
characters</a> | <a href="/wiki/Help:Displaying_a_formula" title="Help:Displaying
a formula">Displaying a formula</a> | <a
href="/wiki/Help:Images_and_other_uploaded_files" title="Help:Images and other
uploaded files">Images <small>(uploads)</small></a> | <a
href="http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:EasyTimeline/syntax" class="extiw"
title="mw:Extension:EasyTimeline/syntax">EasyTimeline</a></dd>
<dt>Advanced functioning</dt>
<dd><a href="/wiki/Help:Template" title="Help:Template">Template</a> | <a
href="/wiki/Help:Advanced_templates" title="Help:Advanced templates">Advanced
templates</a> | <a href="/wiki/Help:Parser_function" title="Help:Parser
function">Parser function</a> | <a
href="http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:Extension:ParserFunctions" class="extiw"
title="mw:Help:Extension:ParserFunctions">ParserFunctions</a> | <a
href="/wiki/Help:Parameter_default" title="Help:Parameter default">Parameter
default</a></dd>
<dd><a href="/wiki/Help:Variable" title="Help:Variable">Variable</a> | <a
href="http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:Magic_words" class="extiw"
title="mw:Help:Magic words">Magic word</a> | <a href="/wiki/Help:System_message"
title="Help:System message">System message</a> | <a href="/wiki/Help:Substitution"
title="Help:Substitution">Substitution</a> | <a href="/wiki/Help:Array"
title="Help:Array">Array</a> | <a href="/wiki/Help:Calculation"
title="Help:Calculation">Calculation</a></dd>
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page">Starting a new page</a> | <a href="/wiki/Help:Moving_a_page"
title="Help:Moving a page">Renaming (moving) a page</a> | <a
href="http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Administrators#Protection"
class="extiw" title="mw:Manual:Administrators">Protecting pages</a> | <a
href="http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:Sysop_deleting_and_undeleting"
class="extiw" title="mw:Help:Sysop deleting and undeleting">Deleting a
page</a></dd>
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pages</a></dt>
<dd><a href="/wiki/Help:Talk_page" title="Help:Talk page">Talk page</a> | <a
href="/wiki/Help:Testing" title="Help:Testing">Testing</a> | <a
href="/wiki/Meta:Sandbox" title="Meta:Sandbox">Sandbox</a> | <a
href="/wiki/Help:CentralNotice" title="Help:CentralNotice">CentralNotice</a></dd>
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%D0%B4%D1%8A%D1%80%D0%B6%D0%B0%D0%BD%D0%B8%D0%B5"
title="Помощ:Съдържание">Български</a></span> <small>(bg)</small> <span lang="ca"
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title="Nápověda:Obsah">Česky</a></span> <small>(cs)</small> <span lang="da"
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title="Hjælp:Indhold">Dansk</a></span> <small>(da)</small> <span lang="de"
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title="Βοήθεια:Περιεχόμενα">Ελληνικά</a></span> <small>(el)</small> <span
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xml:lang="fr"><a href="/wiki/Aide:Contenu"
title="Aide:Contenu">Français</a></span> <small>(fr)</small> <span lang="it"
xml:lang="it"><a href="/wiki/Aiuto:Sommario"
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title="도움말:내용">한국어</a></span> <small>(ko)</small> <span lang="nl"
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(bokmål)</a></span> <small>(no)</small> <span lang="pl" xml:lang="pl"><a
href="/wiki/Pomoc:Spis_tre%C5%9Bci" title="Pomoc:Spis treści">Polski</a></span>
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lang="pt-br" xml:lang="pt-br"><a href="/wiki/Help:Contents/pt-br"
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title="Pomoč:Vsebina">Slovenščina</a></span> <small>(sl)</small> <span lang="sq"
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%D0%B3%D0%B0:%D0%97%D0%BC%D1%96%D1%81%D1%82"
title="Допомога:Зміст">Українська</a></span> <small>(uk)</small> <span lang="zh-
hans" xml:lang="zh-hans"><a href="/wiki/%E5%B8%AE%E5%8A%A9:%E7%9B%AE%E5%BD%95"
title="帮助:目录">中文(简体)</a></span> <small>(zh-hans)</small> <span lang="zh-hant"
xml:lang="zh-hant"><a href="/wiki/Help:%E7%9B%AE%E9%8C%84" title="Help:目錄">中文(繁
體)</a></span> <small>(zh-hant)</small> [<a
href="http://meta.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Template:H-
langs:Contents&action=edit" class="external text"
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