Wikipedia:About

Kiswahili Wikipedia ni kamusi elezo huru. It is written by lots of people together. The website is a wiki. This means anyone (you included) can change any page. Just click the change this page link. You can do this on any page that is not protected. You can see if the page is protected because it will say view source instead of change this page

Wikipedia started in January, 2001 and there are over 3,000,000 articles overall, including 7,285 in simple English. More than half the pages are in languages other than English. Every day hundreds of people from around the world make thousands of changes and create lots of new articles.

Everything that is written on the site is covered by the GNU Free Documentation License. Pages that you write remain your property and the copyleft licensing ensures that people will always be able to use and reproduce the content. See copyrights for more information.

Note: Wikipedia contains content that some people think is mean, vulgar or bad. See the content disclaimer for more information.

[hariri] Using Wikipedia

• New changes
• Show any page
• New articles
• Featured article candidates, see the best of Wikipedia.

[hariri] Contributing to Wikipedia

• Welcome, newcomers!, a starting point for new contributors.
• Policies and guidelines for contributors
• Help pages, help on editing articles and more.

[hariri] Getting in touch

• Contact us
• Simple talk, ask questions here
• Wikipedia mailing lists
• Bug reports and feature requests
• Wikipedians, list of people who help with Wikipedia
• Meta Wikipedia, more about Wikipedia and related projects

[hariri] Wikipedia kwa lugha nyingine

[hariri] Sister projects

• Wiktionary, a dictionary and thesaurus in lots of languages
• Wikibooks, this sites makes textbooks
• Wikiquote, quotations in every language.
• Wikisource, this site collects public domain source texts.

[hariri] Other links

• Useful, pages to help if you are editing here
• Help, links to other help pages
• Simple GFDL, a translation that is not finished of the GFDL into simple English.