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Ancient Near East is a publicly editable encyclopedia focused on the study of the ancient Near East. These links will help you in exploring, writing, editing, and communicating on the wiki.

This wiki is a standard MediaWiki system, the same system utilized for Wikipedia. As such, some links may direct to help pages on Wikipedia or our host, Wikia.

Using Ancient Near East wiki

 * How to explore Ancient Near East
 * How to search for an article
 * How to use talk pages
 * How to use the Recent Changes page
 * How to use the Related Changes page
 * How to use the Go button
 * How to log in
 * How to set preferences (Meta-Wikimedia version)

Modifying a page

 * How to edit a page, including markup details. You can experiment with editing pages in the sandbox
 * How to start a new page
 * How to name a page
 * How to use categories
 * How to use images (and the image use policy)
 * How to use redirect pages
 * How to use tables
 * How to use templates (and the available templates)
 * How to upload image or sound files to Ancient Near East
 * How to add boilerplate text
 * How to create pages for topics with several different definitions
 * How to move and merge a page
 * How to delete pages/images/categories
 * How to link to sister projects
 * How to revert a page to an earlier version
 * How to edit an article so long that you can't edit
 * How to protect/unprotect pages (administrators only)

Information and resources for contributors

 * Category:Ancient Near East Wiki
 * Sandbox, a page for experimentation with wiki code
 * Rules and Guidelines

Getting in touch

 * Contact us

MediaWiki

 * MediaWiki User's Guide - For those who have installed the MediaWiki software that runs this site, and need help using it.