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At the top

If you are logged in, you'll also see some useful links at the top right of your screen:

• Your username takes you to your userpage, where you can add information about yourself.
• Talk is your user talk page, where people can leave messages for you.
• Sandbox is a page in your user space where you can experiment with editing without worrying that you will cause problems on an actual Wikipedia page.
• Preferences allows you to change your password and customize your email and wiki software settings.
• Watchlist shows recent changes to pages you're watching (click the star at the top right of a page to watch it).
• Contributions has a list of all the edits you have made.
• Log out logs you out of your account.

On the left

There's an additional set of useful links on the left side of each page:

• Help is the entry point for Wikipedia's help pages.
• Community portal is the hub for editors, with news, discussions, and ways to help out.
• What links here shows you what other pages are linking to an article.
• Related changes lists any edits that have been made to pages that an article links to.

Yet more useful links

There are a few other pages on Wikipedia that are really handy to know about:

• You can ask questions at either the Help desk (using or editing Wikipedia) or the Teahouse (help for newcomers).
• The Village pump is a set of central discussion forums.
• The Task Center lists various tasks you can help out with.
• The Signpost is Wikipedia's community-written newspaper, a good way to keep up with goings-on.

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