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Misplaced Pages is a free-content encyclopedia, written collaboratively by people from all around the world. The site is a wiki, which means that anyone can edit articles simply by clicking on the edit this page link.

Misplaced Pages is a trademark of the Wikimedia Foundation, Inc.

For help topics, questions and contact information, see Help:Contents.

Misplaced Pages History

there were 13,000 active contributors working on over 1,800,000 articles in more than 100 languages. As of today, there are 6,931,203 articles in English; every day hundreds of thousands of visitors from around the world make tens of thousands of edits and create thousands of new articles to enhance the amount of knowledge held by the Misplaced Pages encyclopedia. Visitors do not need any special qualifications to contribute, and people of all ages help to write Misplaced Pages articles.

All the text in Misplaced Pages, and most images and other content, is covered by the GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL). Contributions remain the property of their creators, while the GFDL license ensures the content will remain freely distributable and reproducible (see the copyright notice and the content disclaimer for more information).

Exploring Misplaced Pages

The main reason visitors come to this site is to acquire knowledge (awesome). The second reason is to share knowledge. In fact, at this very instant, several articles are being improved. You can view the changes at the Recent changes page. New articles are also being recorded.

Misplaced Pages also has a lot of projects. The hope of any contributor is to provide useful and accurate information to others, and the projects help coordinate efforts. Most articles start as stubs, but after many contributions, they can become featured articles.

If you are searching for free information about a subject you can't find in Misplaced Pages, you may want to request articles or ask a question on the reference desk. You can also decide to view a random article.

Contributing to Misplaced Pages

Anyone can contribute to Misplaced Pages by clicking on the Edit this page tab in an article. Before starting to contribute however, you should check out some handy helping tools such as the tutorial and the policies and guidelines, as well as our welcome page.

Behind Misplaced Pages

Misplaced Pages uses the MediaWiki software. It's an open-source program that is used on all WikiMedia projects.

The hardware supporting the various projects is based on almost 100 servers hosted in various hosting centers around the world. Full descriptions of the various servers are available on this meta page.

For technical information about Misplaced Pages you can check out the Technical FAQ.

How to contact project members

If you require more information, the first place to go is the Help:Contents. To contact individual contributors, you should leave them a message on their talk page. Standard places to ask policy and project-related questions are the village pump, online, and the Misplaced Pages mailing lists, over email. You can also reach other Wikipedians via IRC and instant messenger.

There is also a meta-Misplaced Pages, a site for coordinating the various Misplaced Pages projects (and abstract discussions of policy and direction), and there are many different places for submitting bug reports and feature requests.

For a full list of contact options, see: Misplaced Pages:Contact us.

Opinions and objections

Many people love to explore or contribute to Misplaced Pages. There are articles on the strengths of Misplaced Pages and some replies to common objections available.


Versions found in other languages

This Misplaced Pages is written in English. Many other Wikipedias are available; some of the largest are listed below.

Sister projects

Misplaced Pages is written by volunteer editors and hosted by the Wikimedia Foundation, a non-profit organization that also hosts a range of other volunteer projects:

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