Wikitravel:Help

We have information about understanding what Wikitravel is, how to use Wikitravel to find travel information, contributing to Wikitravel, and how to reuse the guides.

If you have questions that aren't answered here, try checking the FAQ, or ask a question in the travellers' pub.

Understand

• About Wikitravel
• Welcome, newcomers
  • Welcome, Wikipedians - we're very much like – and unlike – that great encyclopedia
  • Welcome, business owners - hoteliers, restauranteurs, barkeepers, etc.
  • Welcome, tourism professionals - we're all about cooperation
• FAQ - fearfully anticipated questions... and answers.
• Copyleft - information about the license and philosophy that guides this site

Finding travel information

• See the finding travel information section in Welcome, newcomers
• Wikitravel:Search help
• Travel topics
• List of itineraries

Contribute

• Quick contribution guide - eager to get contributing? A guide to make a useful contribution to Wikitravel in just a few minutes.
• Tips for new contributors - useful information for first-time contributors
• Manual of style - spelling, layout, formatting rules and article templates
• Policies and guidelines - an index of all Wikitravel policy guidelines
  • Wiki markup - how to add links, boldface, headings and lots more
• Ways to help Wikitravel - writers, editors, photographers and cheerleaders are all needed
• How to - step by step instructions for accomplishing specific tasks
  • How to edit a page
• Software features - guides to using various Mediawiki functions

Talk

• Travellers' pub - for general discussions about Wikitravel
• Wikitravel:Using_talk_pages - to communicate with other users directly.
• Wikitravel jargon - explains some of the abbreviations, words and phrases used in discussions, edit summaries etc.
• Bug reports and feature requests
• Babel - language indicators on user home pages
• List of Wikitravellers by location - if you need help from a local, and there are no docents for the destination yet, try one of these people
• Get-togethers

Re-use

• How to re-use Wikitravel guides - for those who use Wikitravel content on other websites or publications

Reference

• Wikitravel:Namespace index - all the pages in the Wikitravel: namespace