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Wikipedia is both an encyclopedia and a wiki community. You can edit articles on Wikipedia right now! Learn how to contribute with the tutorial (or just play around in our sandbox). For more information, post comments at the Village Pump, read the Help directory and our policies, contact other Wikipedians, and keep track of what's going on. If you haven't already, you may want to create an account (why?).

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Article of the week

Want to contribute? Help edit academia, Wikipedia's article of the week! Please help to try and improve it to featured article standard.

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The term academia or academe refers to the aggregation of post-secondary learning and research institutions, especially universities. The term is descended from...

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Tip of the day

Our wiki software, MediaWiki, supports basic categorization of articles. To add an article to a particular category, add the text [[Category:Category name]] to the text (preferably at the bottom). The assigned category should now show up at the bottom of the article. Clicking the name of the category will reveal the editable category page, containing an introduction, a list of subcategories and of course the articles in that category. To create subcategories, add a category tag to a category page, e.g. add the text [[Category:Animals]] to the page [[Category:Dogs]]. If you want to link to a category, use the syntax [[:Category:Category name]], e.g. Category:Films.

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