Wikipedia is always changing. It's a dynamic collection of web pages in constant motion, so although we've made this book as current as possible, specific details may have changed by the time you read these words. For this reason, we frequently reference pages on Wikipedia.
Within the main text, Wikipedia page names are enclosed in double brackets like this: [[Help:Editing]]. You can go to that page on Wikipedia by typing one of the following:
The title Help:Editing into the Wikipedia search box (do not insert a space after the colon)
The URL of the page directly into your browser's address bar, for example, typing http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:Editing
All English-language Wikipedia URLs begin with http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/, and the page name in double brackets always refers to the last part of the URL. So [[The Great Gatsby]] refers to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Great_Gatsby.
Spaces are automatically translated to underscores in the full URL; you do not need to type them in.
For certain community and policy pages, we provide shortcuts that are prefaced with WP. Wikipedia contributors often use these shortcut abbreviations as shorthand in their discussions, for instance:
[[Wikipedia:How to edit a page]], shortcut WP:EDIT
Type the shortcut into the Wikipedia search box to go the longer page title listed.
At the end of each section, we list the most important pages referred to. Here you can easily access the links on a given topic, which also serves as a reference if you're a more experienced Wikipedian. Every Wikipedia page that we quote directly is listed in Appendix E, History.