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How do you see a community's wiki and FAQ resources?

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A community's wiki is one of its most valuable but often overlooked resources — it contains information that moderators and long-term members have curated into organized reference documents, including FAQs, resource lists, guides, rules explanations, and topic introductions. The wiki is maintained separately from the post feed and is updated more deliberately than regular posts. On the desktop website, accessing a community's wiki involves navigating to the community and looking for a "Wiki" button or tab that appears either in the community's navigation bar near the top of the page or as a link within the sidebar. According to a Genealogy subreddit help thread, you can access a wiki directly by navigating to reddit.com/r/communityname/wiki — this URL pattern works for any community that has created a wiki. Many communities have their wiki's index page at reddit.com/r/communityname/wiki/index, which lists all available wiki pages. On the mobile app, wiki access is less prominently surfaced. Typically, you can reach it through the community's About or More options menu — tapping the three-dot overflow menu on the community page often includes a "Wiki" or "Community info" option that links to the wiki home page. Some communities link to their wiki directly from their pinned posts or from the sidebar description that is visible in the About section of the community on mobile. Not every community has a wiki. Small or newly created communities often have not yet built one. Communities with active wikis tend to be larger, older, and more deliberate about resource curation. If a community's wiki exists, reading its FAQ page before posting a question is considered basic etiquette and prevents you from asking questions that have been answered hundreds of times — moderators in well-resourced communities will sometimes redirect or remove duplicate questions with a link to the relevant wiki section.