You don't need any prior experience with wikis or any knowledge of programming to use this book. But you should know how to access web pages on the Internet in the following ways:
Clicking a link with a mouse
Typing a page address (URL) directly into your browser
You should also know how to search the Web using Google or another search engine and have an active email account.
All references in this book to Wikipedia's interface assume that you're using a standard web browser on a personal computer, have logged into the English-language Wikipedia, and are using the default (Monobook) skin without modifications. If you use Wikipedia without logging in, not all tabs and sidebar links will display, but most other functions should be the same.
If you intend to view Wikipedia on a mobile phone or personal digital assistant (PDA), visit http://en.wap.wikipedia.org/. This official mobile version was introduced in mid-2007; see [[Wikipedia:WAP access]] for unofficial versions.