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This guide presents the typical layout of Wikipedia articles, including the sections an article usually has, ordering of sections, and formatting styles for various elements of an article. For advice on the use of wiki markup, see Help:Editing; for guidance on writing style, see Manual of Style.
Wikipedia is written by volunteer editors and hosted by the Wikimedia Foundation, a non-profit organization that also hosts a range of other volunteer projects: Commons. Free media repository. MediaWiki. Wiki software development. Meta-Wiki. Wikimedia project coordination. Wikibooks. Free textbooks and manuals.
The Wikipedia Guide to Layout is only a quick explanation of some of the easy parts of laying out an article. For more detail about style guidelines, see the Simple Manual of Style . For greater detail about how to use wiki markup, see Wikipedia:How to edit a page .
A mobile version showing the English Wikipedia's Main Page, on August 3, 2019. Wikipedia's original medium was for users to read and edit content using any standard web browser through a fixed Internet connection.
This page tells how to write articles in Simple English. Articles in Simple English Wikipedia are for everyone. This includes children and adults who are learning English. Articles should be about notable encyclopedic subjects.
Wikipedia is a free online encyclopedia website in 344 languages of the world, 331 languages are currently active and 13 are closed. People can freely use it, share it, and change it, without having to pay.
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Wikipedia is a free online encyclopedia, created and edited by volunteers around the world and hosted by the Wikimedia Foundation.
