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- Access (limiting): (see also Enforcement)
- Blocks by governments:
- Censorship of Wikipedia
- Wikipedia:Advice to users using Tor to bypass the Great Firewall
- Wikipedia:WikiProject on closed proxies
- Tor:
- mw:Extension:TorBlock (editing through tor requires 100 edits and 90 days to become autoconfirmed, as of June 2008)
- Wikipedia:Advice to users using Tor to bypass the Great Firewall
- Preventing abuses via open proxies:
- Wikipedia:Open proxies (WP:NOP) (policy)
- Wikipedia:WikiProject on open proxies
- m:WikiProject on open proxies
- Wikipedia:Open proxy detection
- Bots:
- User:RonaldBot – reports edits done by open proxies
- User:ClueBot – identifies suspected vandalism using open proxies
- User:KrimpBot – identifies active Tor exits and IPs that are no longer Tor but still blocked
- Accessibility: (see also Audio, Usability)
- Wikipedia:Manual of Style (accessibility)
- Wikipedia:WikiProject Accessibility
- JAWS:
- User:Wolfgangbeyer/monobook.css – monobook.css optimized for color blindness
- Wikipedia:HiddenStructure – CSS feature that was disabled in December 2006 because of accessibility issues
- Category:Wikipedia accessibility
- Account: see User account and username
- Admin coaching: Wikipedia:Admin coaching – a one-on-one coaching program (formerly by the Wikipedia:Esperanza association of editors but now standalone)
- Administration: see Enforcement, Functionaries
- Administrators: (see also Enforcement)
- General information:
- Contacting an administrator: (see also specific topics such as Vandalism)
- Current administrators:
- Wikipedia:List of administrators
- Wikipedia:List of administrators/Active
- Special:Listusers/sysop
- Category:Wikipedia administrators
- Becoming an administrator:
- Wikipedia:Miniguide to requests for adminship (unofficial)
- Wikipedia:Guide to requests for adminship
- Category:Wikipedia administrator hopefuls
- Wikipedia:Requests for adminship – nominations of individuals seeking/willing to become an administrator (WP:RFA)
- Wikipedia:Arguments to avoid in adminship discussions (essay)
- User:Dragons flight/RFA summary – bot-generated summary of the current RfAs
- Changing the RfA process:
- Wikipedia:Perennial proposals#Requests for Adminship is broken
- RfA Review:
- Wikipedia:RfA Review (essay) (begun June 2008) – "Once all phases are complete, a report will be presented to the community"
- User:Durova/RFA Review boycott
- Non-bureaucrat closing of an RfA: User:Enigmaman/SNOW (but first ask the candidate to withdraw)
- Results of RfAs:
- Wikipedia:Successful requests for adminship
- Wikipedia:Unsuccessful adminship candidacies
- User:NoSeptember/Admin stats
- After becoming an administrator:
- Wikipedia:New admin school
- Wikipedia:Administrators' reading list
- b:MediaWiki Administrator's Handbook
- Help:Reverting#Admin features
- Wikipedia:Advice for new administrators (essay)
- User:NoSeptember/Subpages about adminship
- Ubergodmode.js Compilation of user scripts for administrators
- Wikipedia:IRC/Personal views regarding IRC – regarding proper use of the admin IRC channel
- Problems with admins:
- Wikipedia:Requests for comment/User conduct#Use of administrator privileges
- Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard
- Reconfirmation and/or recall:
- Wikipedia:Requests for de-adminship
- Category:Wikipedia administrators open to recall
- Wikipedia:Admin Accountability Alliance (essay?)
- Wikipedia:Community enforced administrator recall (failed proposal)
- Wikipedia:Perennial proposals#Reconfirm administrators
- Inactive admins:
- Wikipedia:List of administrators/Inactive – those who haven't edited in the past three months
- Wikipedia:Perennial proposals#Demote inactive admins
- Other:
- Category:Wikipedia adminship
- Category:Wikimedia Commons administrators – English Wikipedia editors who are admins at the Commons
- Wikipedia:Adminship in other languages – French, German, Dutch, Japanese (etc.) versions of Wikipedia
- Template:Admin help
- Category:Wikipedians looking for help from administrators
- User:NoSeptember/The NoSeptember Admin Project
- User:JamesR/AdminStats – lists of admins, sorted by the number of deletions, restorations, etc.
- Wikipedia:Adminitis (essay)
- Wikipedia:Requests for comment/Adminbots
- Statistical analysis of candidates; proposes "AdminFinderBot" for candidates (April 2008)
- Wikipedia:WikiProject on Adminship – discussion of new approaches for granting adminship (inactive as of October 2006)
- Adoption: Wikipedia:Adopt-a-user
- Adr (address) microformat
- Wikipedia:WikiProject Microformats
- Advertisements:
- On Wikipedia, non-revenue raising: (see also Wikipedia:Motto of the day)
- On Wikipedia, revenue-raising
- Wikipedia:Advertisements (essay)
- Wikipedia:Perennial proposals#Advertising
- Off Wikipedia, for Wikipedia:
- On Wikipedia, by outside groups and individuals, without paying Wikipedia: see Spam
- Advice: see Help, Learning, New editors, Questions
- AfD (Articles for Deletion): see Deletion of articles
- Algorithms: Wikipedia:Algorithms on Wikipedia
- Anchors: see Navigation
- Anonymous users: see Unregistered users
- Arabic: Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Arabic (inactive/historical)
- Arbitration:
- Wikipedia:Arbitration
- Wikipedia:Arbitration/Policy (WP:AP)
- Wikipedia:Arbitration/Requests
- Wikipedia:Arbitration/Requests/Enforcement (WP:AE)
- Wikipedia:General sanctions – active sanctions
- Wikipedia:Arbitration rationale (unofficial)
- Wikipedia:Requests for comment/Arbitration enforcement (early 2009 discussion)
- Arbitration Committee:
- Wikipedia:Arbitration Committee
- Wikipedia:Arbitration Committee/Noticeboard
- Wikipedia:Arbitration Committee/June 2008 announcements/Clarifying the role of the Committee
- Wikipedia:Arbitration/Index/Cases
- Wikipedia:Elections#Arbitration Committee
- Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/2005-09-19/ArbCom election – first in a weekly series of 17 articles on the Arbitration Committee and the January 2006 election
- Wikipedia:Arbitration Committee/June 2008 announcements – a number of proposals by the committee, plus notice of trial changes being undertaken
- Wikipedia:Requests for comment/Arbitration Committee – June 2008 RfC
- Wikipedia:Devolution – failed proposal to establish a mechanism for the committee to devolve selected powers to a designated body
- {{ArbComOpenTasks}} – template for active ArbCom cases
- m:Wikimedia Arbitration Committee election processes – describes how the Arbitration Committee is selected on various language Wikipedias
- Appeals: Wikipedia:Arbitration Committee/June 2008 announcements/Appeals Review List – new (sub)committee or "list" or "panel", subordinate to and supervised by the Arbitration Committee
- Archiving Wikipedia talk pages:
- Help:Archiving a talk page
- User:The Halo/How to Archive (tutorial)
- User:5Q5#How to Archive a Talk Page by 5Q5 (tutorial)
- Template:Google custom/doc#How to search subpage trees within Wikipedia – easily make an archive searchable
- Using a bot:
- User:MiszaBot/Archive HowTo
- User:ClueBot III
- User:MercuryBot
- User:Werdnabot
- Article message boxes (amboxes):
- Wikipedia:Template messages#Article-related namespace
- Wikipedia:Template standardisation – for articles
- Wikipedia:Ambox CSS classes – creating article message boxes
- Wikipedia:Ambox CSS classes/Skins – changing the way that standardized article "tags" are displayed
- User:Shanes/Why tags are evil – essay about templates placed at the top of articles
- Articles: see also Content disputes, Edits (in general), History, Importing, Layout and sections, New articles, Page views, Quality of articles, Statistics, Style (articles)
- Wikipedia:What is an article?
- Wikipedia:Article development – stages in the life of an article
- Wikipedia:Editorial oversight and control
- Wikipedia:Content forking (guideline) – includes POV forking
- Analysis of:
- User:R. fiend/How many articles does Wikipedia really have? – categorization by size/source/quality of 500 randomly selected articles, October 2005
- User:Knulclunk/Random – categorization by topic/type of 200 randomly selected articles, September 2008
- Wikipedia:Unusual articles
- Article size (particularly long articles):
- Wikipedia:Article size (Manual of Style)
- Wikipedia:Summary style (guideline) – when articles get too long
- Special:Longpages – top 1000 articles, sizewise
- MediaWiki:Longpagewarning
- {{PAGESIZE:page name}} – magic word that gives the size of the given page name
- User talk:Dr pda/prosesize.js – user script that adds link to the toolbox, for displaying some statistics about the size of a page and its components
- Splitting:
- Implementing summary style:
- As of: see Current events
- Assessment: see Quality of articles
- Assistance (disputes): (see also Content disputes, Help, Personal attacks, Questions)
- Wikipedia:Editor assistance
- Wikipedia:Highly Active Users (WP:HAU) – request assistance from users who are currently online
- Wikipedia:Wikiquette assistance
- Wikipedia:Requests for comment/User conduct
- Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents (urgent/severe cases only)
- Association of Members' Advocates (AMA): inactive as of May 2007
- Assuming good faith:
- Attacks: see: Content disputes, Personal attacks
- Attribution: see Sources
- Audio: (see also Accessibility)
- Spoken versions of Wikipedia articles:
- Wikipedia:WikiProject Spoken Wikipedia
- Wikipedia:Spoken articles – articles with audio versions
- Category:Spoken Wikipedia requests – articles for which spoken versions have been requested
- Pediaphone – automated creation of spoken versions (MP3 file or read on-screen)
- Audio clips: see Media
- Autobiographies: see Biographies
- Autograph books: see User pages
- Automation: see Bots, Tools, User scripts
- Awards:
- Wikipedia:Awards
- Wikipedia:Personal user awards
- Wikipedia:Awards by WikiProject
- Wikipedia:Service awards – self-awarded, based on length of time as an editor and number of edits
- Wikipedia:Other awards
- Wikipedia:Barnstars (WP:BARNSTAR)
- Wikipedia:Barnstar and award proposals (WP:BAP)
- Template:Barnstar pages
- Wikipedia:Kindness Campaign
- Wikipedia:Award templates
- Category:Wikipedia awards
- Wikipedia:Ribbons (for organizing multiple awards)
- Wikipedia:Great editing in progress
- Image:Barn star free zone.png
- Wikipedia:Triple Crown
- Wikipedia:WikiCup
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- Backlogs:
- Category:Wikipedia backlog
- Category:Administrative backlog
- Wikipedia:Admin backlog contest
- Balance and space: see Neutral point of view
- Banners:
- For the Wikipedia project itself: Wikipedia:Banners and buttons
- At the top of pages and sections: see Templates (in general) and specific topics as well (articles, talk pages, maintenance, etc.)
- Banning: see Enforcement
- Barnstars: see Awards
- Bias:
- Wikipedia:WikiProject Countering systemic bias
- Wikipedia:Recentism – an essay on the tendency to overweight recent events when adding information or creating new articles
- Wikipedia:WikiProject Historical information
- Bible reference template: {{bibleref}} – can give the reader a wide variety of choices in choosing a translation
- Biographies:
- In general:
- Article names:
- Wikipedia:Naming conventions (people) (guideline)
- Wikipedia:Naming conventions (royalty and nobility)
- User:Eubot – creates redirects to prevent multiple articles being created for the same person
- Notability:
- Formatted data (see also Series boxes)
- Wikipedia:Persondata
- Wikipedia:WikiProject Microformats/hcard
- Categorization:
- Wikipedia:Categorization of people (guideline)
- Wikipedia:Categorization/Ethnicity, gender, religion and sexuality
- Wikipedia:Do not write articles using categories – do not add a category for every attribute of a person
- Wikipedia:Naming conventions (identity) (ethnic, national, sexual, etc.)
- User:Helpful Pixie Bot (formerly SmackBot) – adds the DEFAULTSORT template to stubs that are biographical articles
- Problems:
- Wikipedia:Contact us/Article problem/Factual error (from subject) – what to do when an individual has a problem with an article about that person or about someone that person represents
- Wikipedia:Biographies of living persons/Special enforcement log
- Libel:Wikipedia:Libel (policy)
- Wikipedia:Biographies of living persons/BLPWatch
- Wikipedia:Living People Patrol
- Privacy:
- Articles about Wikipedians: (see also Conflicts of interest)
- Identified cases (see also Conflicts of interest):
- Wikipedia:Biographies of living persons/Noticeboard (WP:BLP/N)
- User:Harej/Unreferenced BLPs
- Other:
- Wikipedia:Contact us/Photo submission – for individuals with biographies, or someone representing such an individual
- Wikipedia:Family trees
- Wikipedia:WikiProject Biography
- Alternatives (outside of Wikipedia):
- Wikipedia:Living People Patrol (inactive)
- Birthdays: see Biographies
- Biting: Wikipedia:Please do not bite the newcomers
- Blocks: see Access (limiting), Enforcement
- Bots: (see also Tools, User scripts)
- Bounty Board: Wikipedia:Bounty board (see also Wikipedia:Reward board)
- Browsers (for Wikipedia editing): (see also Editing software)
- Wikipedia:Browser notes
- m:Browser issues with MediaWiki
- Wikipedia:Tools/Browser tools
- Wikipedia:Interfaces/External interfaces
- User:Dinoguy1000/scripts/safeIEeditlinks.js – makes it safe to click on most links when editing a page in Internet Explorer (normally the links open in the same window, and any edits in progress are lost; this script forces a link to open in a new window)
- AutoWikiBrowser: (WP:AWB) (a semi-automated Wikipedia editor, Windows only, typically used for vandal patrol or mass edits)
- Wikipedia:AutoWikiBrowser
- Category:AutoWikiBrowser
- User:Kingbotk/Plugin – a set of AWB plugins (included with AWB version 4.1.0.0 on onwards)
- Wikibrowser: part of the Wikipedia:WikiBrowse package
- User:Cacycle/wikEd – wikEd, adds enhanced text processing functions to Wikipedia (also available as a gadget, under "my preferences")
- m:WikiMonitor – fully functional web browser (beta, November 2007)
- Wikipedia Explorer (beta in March 2007; still beta as of February 2008; requires .NET 3.0)
- Wikipedia:Wikipedia Widget – for Mac OS X v10.4 or later
- IndyWiki
- Wikibench (pre-beta as of February 2008)
- Extensions (add-ons) to standard browsers (other than for citations):
- Wikipedia Toolbar – Firefox add-on:
- Wikipedia:Wikipedia Toolbar
- Source
- Bureaucrats – folks who handle special, higher-level administrative tasks
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- Categories:
- General information:
- Wikipedia:Categorization – (WP:CAT) (guideline)
- Help:Category
- Wikipedia:FAQ/Categorization
- Wikipedia:Category names (guideline)
- Wikipedia:WikiProject Categories
- Portal:Contents/Categories
- Wikipedia:Categories, lists, and navigation templates (guideline) – comparing alternative approaches
- Wikipedia:Overcategorization (guideline) – what types of categories are not good ones to create
- Wikipedia:Classification – putting a set of links on category pages so readers can see the levels above the category
- Wikipedia:Categories are different from articles (essay)
- Wikipedia:Do not write articles using categories – do not add a category for every attribute of the subject of an article
- Special:MostLinkedCategories – the categories that have the highest number of pages belonging to them
- Listings of categories:
- Special:Categories – alphabetical category listing
- Category:Fundamental categories – fundamental categories
- Special:CategoryTree – can generate a tree of categories, or categories and articles
- User:Chris G Bot 2 – produces, for a given category, a table listing all articles within that category (and all subcategories of that category), and the status of those articles (a clone of User:PockBot, which is disabled)
- CatScan
- Wikipedia:Category types (failed proposal)
- Possible problems with categories:
- Wikipedia:Categories for discussion – page to discuss (and nominate) the deletion, merging, and renaming of categories (WP:CFD)
- Wikipedia:Categorizing redirects – most redirects should not have a category on the redirect page
- Category:Underpopulated categories
- Special:Wantedcategories – red link categories on pages
- Special:Uncategorizedcategories – category pages without at least one parent category
- Special:Unusedcategories – categories not used for any page
- User:AKA MBG/Cycles – Where category A is a subcategory of B, and B is a subcategory of A (or more complicated than that)
- User:TheDJ/Gadget-HotCat.js – user script that provides an easy way to add, modify and remove categories (also available as a gadget, under "my preferences")
- Articles without categories:
- Intersection of two categories:
- How articles are listed:
- Template:DEFAULTSORT – specifies how an article will be listed on category pages (for example, an article on "F.M. Smith" could be listed as "Smith, F.M." on all category pages)
- User:Helpful Pixie Bot (formerly SmackBot) – adds DEFAULTSORT to people-related article stubs
- Keeping templates from creating categories when they shouldn't: Wikipedia:Category suppression
- Bots:
- Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Working#Bots – bots working on CFD results
- User:Kbdankbot – CFD tasks such as emptying categories of articles and moving articles from one category to another
- User:O bot – adds, removes, and moves/renames categories by request (approval)
- User:Alaibot – cleans up redundant double-categorisation (where an article is in both a category and a parent of that category)
- User:SoxBot – works on WP:CFD/W
- User:RockfangBot – does speedy renames; empties or moves categories at WP:CFD/WU; processes categories with "and" results at WP:CFDWM
- Hidden categories:
- March 2008 Signpost article
- Category:Hidden categories
- Other:
- Bug # 6943 – Magic word for number of items in a category
- User:TheDJ/Gadget-HotCat.js – user script that makes it easy to add, modify and remove categories
- User:Erwin/CatCount – provides a count of pages in any given category
- User:Ais523/catwatch.js – for monitoring changes to the pages that are in a specified category
- Category:Wikipedia categorization
- Wikipedia:Template messages/Category namespace
- In category since – tool to list all articles in a category that have been so since a specified date
- mw:Extension:CategoryTree – describes <categorytree> tags that can be added to articles so that a category for that article can be viewed as a dynamic tree on that page. (Using the page Special:Categorytree is faster, unless the tags are permanent.)
- Help:Job queue – why changing a category in a template doesn't instantly change all articles with that template
- User_talk:GregU/randomlink.js – this tool can go to a random page in a category
- MediaWiki:Catseparator – symbol used to separate categories (can be modified by any admin)
- User:Dr. Submillimeter/Humorous categories – unusual (and no longer existing) categories
- random article - redirects to a random article in a given category's tree
- Chapters:
- Characters (special): Help:Special characters
- Checkuser: see Sock puppets
- Children: see Privacy
- China:
- Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Use of Chinese language (proposal as of August 2011)
- Wikipedia:History standards for China-related articles
- Portal:China
- Wikipedia:Advice to users using Tor to bypass the Great Firewall
- Help:Multilingual support (East Asian)
- Collaborations: (see also WikiProjects)
- Wikipedia:Collaborations
- Template:COTWs – collaborations of the week
- Category:Wikipedia collaborations
- Wikipedia:WikiProject Reference Desk Article Collaboration
- Wikipedia:Spotlight
- Collapsing:
- m:Help:Collapsing
- Wikipedia:NavFrame – dynamic navigation (series) boxes (collapsible – hide/show)
- Collections (books)
- Colon trick: Help:Colon trick
- Comics and comic books:
- Wikipedia:WikiProject Comics/copyright (guideline)
- Wikipedia:Naming conventions (comics) (guideline)
- Wikipedia:Notability (web) (guideline) (includes webcomics)
- Common sense: (see also Process)
- Wikipedia:Ignore all rules (WP:IAR) (policy)
- Wikipedia:What "Ignore all rules" means
- Wikipedia:Suggestions on how to ignore all rules (essay)
- Wikipedia:Ignoring all rules - a beginners guide (essay)
- Wikipedia:Interpret all rules (essay)
- m:Don't be a dick
- Category:Wikipedia process discussions
- Commons (Wikimedia Commons):
- Wikipedia:Wikimedia Commons – has over three million media files (photographs, diagrams, animations, music, spoken text, video clips, etc.) available for use in any Wikimedia (community) project, to which anyone can contribute; recommended place to upload free images to, rather than to Wikipedia
- Commons:Welcome
- Wikimedia Commons - manual that provides the essential information for people interested in contributing their own work to Wikimedia Commons
- Wikipedia:Commons categories (WP:CC) (guideline)
- Mayflower – searching the Commons
- Commons:Commons:Tools
- Manual for new Commons users (at en.flossmanuals.net)
- Uploading:
- Moving images to (from Wikipedia):
- Wikipedia:Moving files to the Commons
- Wikipedia:WikiProject Images and Media/Commons
- CommonsHelper – tool to generate an image description to copy-and-paste for the commons upload form (formerly called "Move-to-commons assistant")
- User:Fran Rogers/CommonsHelper Helper – user script that adds a button to easily bring up CommonsHelper
- User:MonoBot – fixes (some) problems when an editor doesn't do a move to Commons totally correctly
- Duplicate images – tool to show duplicate files between Wikipedia and Commons
- Push-for-commons – tool to show a set of images from a wikipedia, helping to find license problems, {{NowCommons}} candidates, and images that should be copied/moved to the commons.
- RSS feeds:
- Other:
- Communications (communicating with other editors): see Messages
- Community: see Wikipedia as community
- Community portal: Wikipedia:Community portal (see also Wikipedia as a community)
- Companies and organizations:
- Competitors, forks, and mirrors:
- Wikipedia:Mirrors and forks
- m:Mirror filter – Firefox extension which removes sites which mirror Wikimedia content from Google search results
- Potential resources:
- Conflicts of interest: (see also Biographies)
- Wikipedia:Conflict of interest (WP:COI) (guideline)
- Wikipedia:Conflict of interest/Noticeboard – reporting cases of conflict of interest policy not being followed
- {{Request edit}} – for talk page postings; related: Category:Requested edits
- Automation:
- Wikipedia:Suggestions for COI compliance (essay)
- User:Charles Matthews/Conflict of interest (essay)
- "The Right Way To Fix Inaccurate Wikipedia Articles", searchengineland.com, August 7, 2007 (article by a Wikipedia editor)
- Congress: edits by Congressional staffers:
- Content disputes: (see also Consensus, Controversial articles, Disruptive editing, Neutral point of view, Personal attacks)
- General policies and guidelines: (in addition to WP:NOR, WP:V, WP:NPOV, etc.)
- Reverts and other disagreements:
- Possible solutions:
- Wikipedia:Staying cool when the editing gets hot (essay)
- Wikipedia:Forgive and forget (essay)
- Wikipedia:No angry mastodons (essay)
- Wikipedia:Don't be a fanatic (essay)
- Wikipedia:Truce (essay)
- Wikipedia:Harmonious editing club
- m:How to win an argument
- Wikipedia:A nice cup of tea and a sit down
- Wikipedia:Drop the stick and back slowly away from the horse carcass (essay)
- Processes for resolving (when informal discussions fail)
- Wikipedia:Dispute resolution – official policy (overview)
- Wikipedia:New admin school/Dealing with disputes
- Category:Wikipedia dispute resolution
- Wikipedia:Editorial Council (failed proposal)
- Post at Wikipedia:Wikiquette assistance
- Ask for a third opinion: Wikipedia:Third opinion – for relatively obscure pages (rule: only two parties involved).
- Requests for comment:
- Mediation:
- Wikipedia:Mediation (policy)
- Wikipedia:Requests for mediation – formal mediation
- Wikipedia:Community enforceable mediation – experimental alternative (began March 2007, marked historical/inactive December 2007)
- Wikipedia:Mediation Cabal – informal mediation
- Other:
- Wikipedia:Working group on ethnic and cultural edit wars (final report was August 2008)
- Wikipedia:Requests for remedies (failed proposal)
- Content notes: see Notes
- Copyright: (see also Legal)
- In general:
- Fair use, non-free use, and public domain:
- Avoiding problems:
- Wikipedia:File copyright tags
- Template:USAtags – copyright tags for U.S. images (mostly for U.S. government images)
- Wikipedia:Requesting copyright permission
- Wikipedia:Example requests for permission
- Wikipedia:Donating copyrighted materials
- Problems:
- Wikipedia:Contact us/Article problem/Copyright – if an article is using copyrighted content without permission
- Wikipedia:Copyright violations (WP:COPYVIO) (policy)
- Wikipedia:Spotting possible copyright violations
- Wikipedia:Copyright problems
- Category:Wikipedian copyright problem patrollers
- Wikipedia:Copyright violations on history pages – dealing with prior versions of an article that have copyright violations and are accessible via history pages
- foundation:Designated agent – for notification of claimed infringement
- Wikipedia:Possibly unfree files
- Wikipedia:Files for deletion
- Categories for problem images:
- Category:Wikipedia files with unknown copyright status
- Category:Wikipedia files with unknown source
- Category:Wikipedia files with no non-free use rationale
- Category:Wikipedia files with no copyright tag
- Bots to find problems:
- Text:
- User:Non-Free Content Compliance Bot
- User:CopyvioHelperBot
- Images:
- User:BetacommandBot
- User:718 Bot – creates lists of images tagged with disputed fair use rationales, sorted by date and type
- User:AWeenieBot – creates lists of images tagged with disputed fair use rationales, sorted by type and number of times used
- User:ImageTaggingBot – inspects newly-uploaded images for ones lacking source information, a license tag, or a fair-use rationale if one is needed; tags as necessary
- User:STBotI – tags images for relatively speedy deletion
- User:BJBot – tags orphaned images as such; notifies originator of problem
- User:Erwin85Bot – removes Template:Di-orphaned fair use from pages that are not orphans
- User:SoxBot VIII – removes fair use images from outside of article space, removes tags from non-orphaned images (replaced User:ImageBacklogBot)
- User:John Bot II – tags images that lack adequate copyright information
- User:FairuseBot – does tagging of problematic fairuse images
- Wikipedia:Suspected copyright violations – where a bot places pages (and URLs) of suspected problems
- Using Wikipedia content:
- Counts (of edits, for an editor): (for counts of edits for a page, see History (of a page); for counts of views, see Page views)
- Wikipedia:Edit count
- Wikipedia:Tools#Edit counters
- Wikipedia:WikiProject edit counters
- Wikicheck
- Milestone – finds the nth edit of an editor
- User:Henrik/live-edit-counter – continuously updated edit counter (userbox)
- User:Interiot/EditCountOptIn
- Wikipedia:List of Wikipedians by number of edits
- Wikipedia:Editcountitis – an essay
- Creating articles: see New articles
- Credentials:
- Wikipedia:There is no credential policy – Wikipedia has no policy on whether credentials should either be disregarded or verified
- Criticism of Wikipedia: see Encyclopedia, Criticism (of)
- Current events: (see also News about Wikipedia)
- Wikinews (sister project)
- Portal:Current events
- Wikipedia:How the Current events page works
- As of:
- Template:Update after
- Category:Wikipedia articles in need of updating
- Wikipedia:Manual of Style (dates and numbers)#Precise language
- Wikipedia:WikiProject Update Watch
- Wikipedia:Current event templates
- Wikipedia:Notability (events) (guideline)
- Customization: (see also Quickbar, Signatures)
- Wikipedia:Customisation
- Via "my preferences":
- Via the Gadgets tab in "my preferences" – see Gadgets
- Via JavaScript: see User scripts
- Via Cascading Style Sheets (CSS):
- Help:Cascading style sheets
- Skins:
- Personal CSS:
- mw:Gallery of user styles (a mix of MediaWiki-compatible skins, not selectable by editors, and personal css)
- User:GeorgeMoney/UsefulCSS
- User:Wolfgangbeyer/monobook.css – monobook.css optimized for color blindness
- User:Trilobite/Tools – combination of CSS and JavaScript, with a note that "much of this is outdated"
- Technical:
- Editors who know CSS: Category:User css
- Cyrillic: Wikipedia:Naming conventions (Cyrillic)
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- Dates: (see also Current events)
- Wikipedia:Manual of Style (dates and numbers)
- Wikipedia:Naming conventions (numbers and dates)
- Wikipedia:Manual of Style#Chronological items
- m:Dynamic dates
- Help:Calendar – code to include the image of a small '"calendar page", including a time display, on a Wikipedia page
- Wikilinking of dates:
- Wikipedia:Manual of Style#Dates
- Wikipedia:Manual of Style (dates and numbers)#Date autoformatting
- Wikipedia:Manual of Style (dates and numbers)/Date autoformatting (essay)
- Wikipedia talk:Manual of Style (dates and numbers)/RFC: Unresolved date delinking and autoformatting issues (closes February 2009)
- Wikipedia talk:Manual of Style (dates and numbers)/Archive D1#A new parallel syntax for autoformatting dates
- Wikipedia:Date formatting and linking poll (March 2009)
- Bug # 4582 – provide preference-based autoformatting for unlinked dates
- Wikipedia:Neutral point of view/BCE-CE Debate (failed proposal)
- "Daughter" articles: see Article size
- Decision-making: see Consensus and voting, Functionaries, Wikimedia Foundation
- Deletion of articles: (see also Deletion)
- Policies, general criteria, and examples: (see also Notability)
- Wikipedia:List of policies#Deletion: policies about deletion
- Wikipedia:Deletion policy
- Wikipedia:List of bad article ideas
- Wikipedia:Search engine test (how-to)
- Wikipedia:Give an article a chance (essay)
- Wikipedia:New admin school/Deleting
- Wikipedia:I wouldn't know him from a hole in the ground (essay)
- Wikipedia:Deletion and deletionism
- Alternatives to deletion:
- Types of deletion:
- Wikipedia:Page blanking (guideline) (do not blank article pages)
- Speedy deletion:
- Wikipedia:Criteria for speedy deletion (WP:CSD) (policy)
- Tagging articles and notifying editors:
- Wikipedia:WikiProject User scripts/Scripts/Easy db – adds tabs when viewing an article, for tagging for speedy deletion
- User:CSDWarnBot – finds the creator of a tagged article and posts a warning on the user's talk page
- Pending deletion: বিষয়শ্রেণী:দ্রুত অপসারণের যোগ্য
- Deletion:
- User:Chairboy/csdhelper.greasemonkey.js – similar to AutoReason
- Prod:
- Wikipedia:Proposed deletion (WP:PROD) (policy) – five-day (countdown) process (no polling of opinions)
- User:DumbBOT/ProdSummary – articles currently with "prod" templates
- Wikipedia:WikiProject proposed deletion patrolling
- User talk:Dycedarg/easyprod.js – user script to propose a page for deletion in one click, and (optionally) notify the author of the page as well
- User:BJBot – informs major/recent editors of an article that a {{prod}} template has been posted to that article
- Category:Proposed deletion
- Formal deletion process (AfD discussions):
- Wikipedia:Guide to deletion – information on the process
- Wikipedia:Repeated AfD nomination limitation (failed proposal) – to limit the number of times an article can go through the AfD process
- Wikipedia:AfD categories
- Wikipedia:WikiProject Deletion sorting – AfDs organized into topical lists
- User:Jayden54Bot – bot that notifies creator of article that it has been submitted to AfD process (approved January 2007) (inactive as of May 2009)
- User:BJBot – informs major/recent editors of an article that it has been submitted to AfD process
- Wikipedia:Perennial proposals#Numerical rules for WP:AFD
- Wikipedia:Perennial proposals#All authors must be notified of deletion
- Current AfDs:
- Tools for participation:
- Wikipedia:Quicker access to votes for deletion – JavaScript bookmarklet
- User:Jnothman/afd helper – makes voting on an AFD a one-click process (user script)
- User:Nixeagle/WikiDiscussion Manager – Windows-based application that assists editors with participation in AfD discussions
- User:Jayden54/AFD Organizer – Windows-based application that provides a set of tools for participating in AfD discussions
- Arguments and expectations (see also next subsection, "Closing"):
- Closing:
- Wikipedia:Non-admin closure (essay)
- Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Common outcomes
- Wikipedia:Speedy keep – closing a discussion early and keeping the article
- Wikipedia:WikiProject User scripts/Scripts/CloseAFD.js
- What an administrator won't do upon closing and AfD:
- User:Mangojuice/Administrators are not slaves (essay) – don't ask administrators to do large amounts of work under the guise of a deletion debate
- Wikipedia:Closing Administrator is not an Edit on Demand Service (essay)
- After an article is deleted:
- Deletionpedia – An automated bot uploads pages to this website as they are deleted from Wikipedia.
- Wikipedia:Viewing and restoring deleted pages
- Wikipedia:Arbitration Committee/June 2008 announcements/Activation of view-deleted-pages – request that the community consider giving selected regular editors the ability to view deleted pages
- Wikipedia:Deletion policy#Courtesy blanking (WP:CBLANK) (guideline) (blanking of the AfD discussion due to privacy issues)
- Wikipedia:Protection policy#Creation protection (WP:SALT) – "padlocking" or "salting the earth" to protect against further re-creation of deleted pages without prior admin approval
- Wikipedia:Why was my page deleted?
- Wikipedia:Deletion review – appeals to restore pages that have been deleted or delete pages which were closed as "keep" in an AfD discussion (WP:DRV)
- Getting a copy of a deleted article put into one's user space, where it can be improved before going into the article namespace again:
- Wikipedia:Deletion review#Content review
- Category:Wikipedia administrators who will provide copies of deleted articles
- Wikipedia:New admin school/Protecting deleted pages
- Wikipedia:New admin school/Viewing deleted pages
- Finding why an article was deleted:
- Special:Log/delete – deletion log, searchable by article name or user who created the article (alternatively, type the article name (exactly), click "Create the page" when the search fails, and then look for deletion log information)
- Discussions (if deletion was by AfD) can be found at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Name of Article, Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Name of Article (second nomination), etc. (alternatively, use Special:Prefixindex, in the Wikipedia space, searching on "Articles for deletion/Firstlettersofarticlename")
- Proposals that the contents of deleted articles should still be accessible:
- Wikipedia:Perennial proposals#Deleted pages should be visible
- Wikipedia:Village pump (proposals)/Persistent proposals/Straw poll for view-deleted - proposal, September 2008, that at least some editors should be able to view some types of deleted pages, other than admins
- Wikipedia:Viewing of deleted articles by non-administrators (historical)
- Wikipedia:Experimental Deletion (inactive)
- Wikipedia:Pure wiki deletion system (dormant)
- Other:
- Wikipedia:Article Rescue Squadron
- Wikipedia undelete (user script) – lists versions of a deleted article that are available at archive.org, plus information on why an article was deleted
- User:Lenticel/Deletion isn't Evil (essay)
- User:Mailer diablo/The Mailer Diablo Deletion Project
- Wikipedia:Transparent deletion (essay)
- Wikipedia:AFD 100 days – June–September 2005 computer-assisted evaluation
- Age of Wikipedia articles at the time of deletion – data for November 2005, February 2006, and September 2007
- User:Emijrp/Statistics#Most deleted ever
- User:Emijrp/Deleting – statistics, January 2005 to September 2007
- Deletionist: see m:Deletionism
- Diagrams: see Graphics
- Directories: (see also Indexes)
- Wikipedia:Department directory
- Wikipedia:Quick directory
- Wikipedia:Requests
- Special:Specialpages – a list of special pages that are automatically generated and cannot be edited
- User:Thunderhead/Bookmarks
- Wikipedia:TourBusStop
- "Toolsets":
- Wikipedia:Starter toolset
- Category:Wikipedia users' toolsets
- Template:UsefulLinks
- For readers more than for editors, but still useful:
- Disambiguation (see also Moving a page, Naming an article)
- Information about:
- Wikipedia:Disambiguation (WP:DAB) (guideline)
- Wikipedia:Manual of Style (disambiguation pages)
- Wikipedia:Disambiguation and abbreviations (guideline)
- Special:Disambiguations – pages that link to a disambiguation page and (probably) should link to an article instead
- Wikipedia:Hatnote – a short note placed at the top of an article before the primary topic, generally to provide disambiguation of closely related terms or to summarize a topic, and explain its boundaries
- List of pages:
- Wikipedia:Links to (disambiguation) pages – list of page with "(disambiguation)" in title
- Wikipedia:Links to disambiguating pages – list of pages marked as disambiguation pages
- Wikipedia:Multiple-place names – index of disambiguation pages involving places
- Wikipedia:Non-unique personal name – where Wikipedia has references to two or more persons with the same name
- Problems:
- Wikipedia:Disambiguation pages with links
- Wikipedia:Disambiguation pages with links/Maintenance
- Tools:
- User:Anomie/linkclassifier.js – User script that changes the color of the wikilink to an article when that article is a redirect or disambiguation page or has been proposed for deletion at AfD
- Wikipedia:WikiProject Disambiguation/fixer – CorHomo, downloadable program (pseudo-browser) (Linux only)
- User:NicoV/Wikipedia Cleaner/Documentation – requires Java (version 6 recommended)
- Bots:
- User:Polbot – removes piped linking on disambiguation pages (function #5)
- User:Commander Keane bot – automated bot for disambiguation
- User:RussBot – automated bot for disambiguation
- Templates:
- Other:
- Wikipedia:WikiProject Disambiguation
- Wikipedia:Disambiguation pages aren't articles (essay) – that they are, in most cases, treated like article pages is a posted bug – see Bug # 6754, not a feature
- Category:Disambiguation
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- Edit conflicts:
- Help:Edit conflict – when two editors simultaneously edit the same page or section
- Using an edit lock to prevent edit conflict:
- Wikipedia:Edit lock (guideline) – asking other editors to let you do major edits undisturbed
- Template:In use/doc
- Bug # 1510 – provide "edit warning" for pages when someone else has just started editing (software change proposal)
- Bug # 4745 – section edit conflict expands edit box to entire article – proposal to change MediaWiki software behavior when edit conflict involves only a section of a page
- Edit summary:
- Help:Edit summary
- Wikipedia:Edit summary legend – commonly used abbreviations
- Wikipedia:Edit summary legend/Quick reference
- Wikipedia:Automatic edit summaries
- Special:Preferences#prefsection-5 – has option for a prompt (message) when "save" is clicked but edit summary is blank
- Wikipedia:WikiProject User scripts/Scripts/Force edit summary alternative – flashes a summary box rather than displaying a message that no edit summary was entered
- Bug # 10105 – Allow editing of edit summaries after the fact
- Wikipedia:Perennial proposals#Automatically prompt for missing edit summary
- Edit wars: see Content disputes
- Editing: see Edits (in general)
- Elections (articles on):
- Wikipedia:Articles on elections
- Wikipedia:Candidates and elections (inactive)
- Email:
- Embedded citations: see Sources
- Enforcement: (see also Administrators, Arbitration, Functionaries, Protection of pages)
- General:
- Blocks: (see also Access (limiting))
- Wikipedia:Blocking policy (WP:BLOCK)
- Wikipedia:New admin school/Blocking
- Wikipedia:Admins willing to make difficult blocks
- Category:Wikipedia blocking
- Category:User block templates
- Special:Log/block – log of blocks
- Wikipedia:Autoblock
- Wikipedia talk:Per-article blocking – 2005 proposal; generally supported by community, not considered critical by developers
- User:Emijrp/Blocking – statistics, December 2004 to September 2007
- Blocking IP addresses:
- Actions by blocked editors:
- Bans:
- Wikipedia:Banning policy
- Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/Community sanction – forum to discuss community bans (began January 2007, ended October 2007)
- Wikipedia:List of banned users
- Other:
- Wikipedia:Editing restrictions
- Article probation:
- Category:Articles on probation
- Esperanza: Wikipedia:Esperanza – a group of Wikipedia editors "dedicated to strengthening Wikipedia's sense of community"; created in September 2005, disbanded in January 2007
- Ethiopia:
- Wikipedia:Manual of Style (Ethiopia-related articles)
- Help:Multilingual support (Ethiopic)
- Etiquette: see Behavior
- Experts: (see also Criticism (of Wikipedia))
- Wikipedia:Expert retention (essay)
- Category:Articles needing expert attention
- Wikipedia:Expert rebellion
- Wikipedia:WikiProject Expert Request Sorting – changes the general "expert-needed" category in articles to more specific subcategories
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- FAQs – see Help pages, or specific topics in this index
- Featured content: (see also Valued content)
- Wikipedia:New featured content
- Portal:Featured content
- Category: Wikipedia featured content
- User:Rick Bot – bot that maintains various lists of featured content and featured content nominators
- Articles: (see also Good articles, Main Page)
- Wikipedia:Featured articles (WP:FA)
- Wikipedia:Featured article criteria
- Wikipedia:Featured article candidates
- Wikipedia:Featured article review
- Wikipedia:Today's featured article – history of what have been Main Page articles
- Wikipedia:Featured article statistics
- Dispatches: History of the featured article process (Signpost article, July 2008)
- Wikipedia:Compare Criteria Good v. Featured
- User:Feature Historian – sortable table of articles that are or were FAs
- Advice on writing a FA:
- User:Yannismarou/Ten rules to make an article FA (related Signpost tutorial)
- User:Giano/A fool's guide to writing a featured article
- User:Dweller/Dweller, on Featured Article Candidates
- User:Tony1/How to improve your writing
- Wikipedia:Featured Article Help Desk (inactive)
- Increasing the number of FAs:
- Wikipedia:One featured article per quarter – an informal project
- Wikipedia:100,000 feature-quality articles (essay)
- Wikipedia:Article Collaboration and Improvement Drive
- Wikipedia:Stabilizing featured articles (inactive/historical)
- Featured articles in other language versions of Wikipedia:
- Wikipedia:Featured articles in other languages
- Category:Wikipedia featured articles in other languages
- Bots that add the template {{Link FA}} to articles that are featured in another Wikipedia (the template puts a gold star by the interlanguage link):
- Topics:
- Wikipedia:Featured topics – a collection of inter-related articles that are of a good quality
- Dispatches: Featured topics – Signpost article, September 2008
- Other:
- Featured content other than articles:
- Lists:
- Pictures:
- Portals:
- Sounds:
- Portal:Featured sounds
- Dispatches: "Featured sounds" (Signpost article, May 2008)
- Dispatches: "Hundredth Featured sound approaches" (Signpost article, February 2009)
- Fiction: (see also Films)
- Wikipedia:Manual of Style (writing about fiction)
- Wikipedia:Notability (fiction) (guideline)
- Wikipedia:Television episodes (guideline)
- Wikipedia:Manual of Style (anime- and manga-related articles)
- Wikipedia:WikiProject Video games
- Flags: (as content, not database fields)
- Wikipedia:Manual of Style (icons)
- Wikipedia:WikiProject Flag Template
- Footnotes: see Sources
- Form (as input): Help:Inputbox (a MediaWiki extension to add predefined HTML forms to wiki pages)
- Formatting of text: (see also Exporting (a page))
- How to:
- Wikipedia:Manual of Style (text formatting) – bold, italics, underlines, etc.
- Help:Editing#Wiki markup
- Help:Wiki markup
- m:Help:Reference card – one page summary of important MediaWiki editing commands, intended to be printed out
- Help:HTML in wikitext
- Wikipedia:Tutorial/Formatting
- Quick reference guides:
- Wikipedia:Manual of Style (command-line examples) – for articles on computer science, how to format words that an editor would type
- Colors:
- Help:Using colours (Manual of Style)
- User:Trödel/Color chart (8-bit)
- Wikipedia:WikiProject Color
- Line breaks and word wrapping:
- Wikipedia:Don't use line breaks (Manual of Style)
- Wikipedia:Line break handling
- Help:Newlines and spaces
- Other:
- Wikipedia:Manual of Style (titles) – scientific names, titles of books, etc.
- Wikipedia:SUBTITLES (inactive proposal)
- Discussion of MediaWiki's syntax:
- Formulas: see Graphics
- Forum shopping: see Wikipedia:Spam#Forum shopping
- Foundation: see Wikimedia Foundation
- Frequently asked questions (FAQ): in general, see Help (general); also see specific topics
- Fun:
- Wikipedia:Department of Fun
- Wikipedia:List of shortcuts/Project shortcuts#Department of fun
- Wikipedia:April Fool's Main Page
- Games:
- Wikipedia:Wikipedia holidays
- Functionaries: (see also Enforcement)
- User:NoSeptember/Functionaries
- Category:Wikipedia functionaries
- Wikipedia:User access levels
- Special:Listusers – page where one can specify a type of functionary to get a list all editors in that group
- Wikipedia:Global rights policy
- Types:
- Administrators: q.v.
- Bureaucrats: q.v.
- Checkusers: q.v.
- Clerks:
- Oversight: q.v.
- Stewards – the top-level administrative folks (note: stewards are selected via Meta rather than individual projects such as the English Wikipedia)
- Wikipedia:Review Board (inactive/historical) – proposal for a panel of editors for independent review and monitoring of checkuser and oversight access and use, and to oversee the actions of the Arbitration Committee
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- Gadgets: (new tab, as of December 2007, on the "My preferences" page)
- mw:Extension:Gadgets- a way for editors to pick JavaScript or CSS based "gadgets" that other Wikipedia editors have created, via "my preferences" (implemented December 2007)
- mw:Gadgets-definition
- Special:Gadgets – shows underlying scripts and CSS code used for each gadget
- Wikipedia:Gadget (WP:GADGET) – lists the available gadgets on Wikipedia
- Geocoding (graphic coordinates and mapping): (see also Maps)
- Wikipedia:Obtaining geographic coordinates
- Wikipedia:WikiProject Geographical coordinates
- Geo microformat
- Wikipedia-World – international co-ordination page for the multilingual usage and analysis of the geographical data collected in various projects
- GeoPedia – provides iPhone owners with a Wikipedia feed customized to their current location
- Mapping articles:
- Placeopedia – connects Wikipedia articles with places
- Google:
- Gifs:
- Glossaries:
- For terms used by Wikipedia editors, see Terms and terminology
- For glossaries that are articles (content), see Portal:Contents/List of glossaries
- Wikipedia:WikiProject Glossaries
- Gothic:
- Wikipedia:Gothic Keyboarding
- Help:Fonts#Gothic Unicode Fonts
- Graphics (see also Images)
- Wikipedia:Graphics tutorials
- Help:Displaying a formula – markup
- Wikipedia:ASCII art conversion tool
- Wikipedia:Chemical ASCII-art
- Wikipedia:How to create graphs for Wikipedia articles
- Wikipedia:Graphic Lab (aka "Graphics Lab")
- Diagrams:
- Greenspun Illustration Project:
- Wikipedia:How to draw a diagram with Dia
- Wikipedia:How to draw a diagram with Microsoft Word
- Other:
- Greek: Wikipedia:Naming conventions (Greek) (guideline)
- Guestbooks: see User pages
- Guidelines: see Policies and guidelines
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- Hardware: see Technical (hardware and software)
- Harassment (aka "Harassment"): see Personal attacks
- Harmony: Wikipedia:Harmonious editing club
- hCalendar microformat
- Wikipedia:WikiProject Microformats
- hCard microformat
- Wikipedia:WikiProject Microformats
- Hebrew:
- Help:Hebrew
- Wikipedia:Naming conventions (Hebrew) (guideline)
- Category:Wikipedia Hebrew templates
- Help (directly requesting): (see also Questions)
- Help pages: (for pages that are help-oriented for a specific topic, see that topic); see also Assistance (disputes), Learning, Questions
- Help:Contents – help directory
- Wikipedia:Help Page Patrol
- Frequently asked questions:
- Wikipedia:FAQ – includes 13 "general" FAQs
- Nubio – "a repository of Frequently Asked Questions about Wikipedia"
- Wikipedia:Village pump (technical)/FAQ
- Categorized pages:
- Category:Wikipedia help
- Category:Wikipedia basic information
- Category:Wikipedia FAQ
- Category:Wikipedia how-to
- Other:
- Hieroglyphs: Help:WikiHiero syntax
- History (of a page):
- Wikipedia:How to read an article history
- Help:Page history
- Wikipedia:Copyright violations on history pages
- Wikipedia:WikiProject User scripts/Scripts/HistoryCount – user script that specifies the number of history entries on the history tab (without the script, 50 entries are shown when the tab is opened)
- Wikipedia:WikiProject User scripts/Scripts/Six tabs – adds a history tab (and an edit tab) for the page that is paired with the page that is visible
- Diffs:
- Help:Diff
- How-to guides:
- Wikipedia:Simplest diff guide
- Wikipedia:Simple diff and link guide
- Wikipedia:Complete diff and link guide
- Wikipedia:WikiProject User scripts/Scripts/Compare link – makes the "compare selected versions" button into a link (diffs can be in new windows, tabs, etc.)
- Wikipedia:WikiProject User scripts/Scripts/Changes since I last edited – adds a tab that does a diff between the editor's last edit and the current version of a page
- Enhancing the differences in diffs:
- MediaWiki talk:Monobook.css/Archive 4#Better rendering for .diffchange in diff's...
- User:Cacycle/wikEdDiff – user script – additions and deletions are highlighted by color in one continuous text
- User:Js/diffs – another, different user script
- Exporting: Special:Export
- Deletions (hiding) of prior versions:
- Wikipedia:Selective deletion – deletion by an admin; still visible to other admins
- Oversight – hidden from admins as well
- Tools:
- For content:
- User:Stevage/EnhanceHistory.user.js – Collapses consecutive edits from the same person into one, integrates (shows) diffs on the history page
- Who did what:
- WikiBlame – searches for given text in versions of article
- User:AmiDaniel/WhodunitQuery – Windows application that identifies the edit and user who added a specific word or phrase
- Tools that use the database (not real time):
- For counts and major contributors:
- Other:
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- Images: (see also Censorship, Commons, Copyrights, Galleries, Graphics, Navigation)
- General information:
- Help:File page
- Help:Files
- Wikipedia:Contact us/Photo submission – for individuals with biographies, or someone representing such an individual
- Wikipedia:Image use policy
- Wikipedia:Media
- Wikipedia:No 3D illustrations (Manual of Style)
- Wikipedia:Picture tutorial
- Wikipedia:Ten things you may not know about images on Wikipedia
- Wikipedia:WikiProject Images and Media
- Category:Wikipedia image help
- User:Smurrayinchester/Tutorial/Images
- Needed pictures:
- Wikipedia:Image placeholders – inserting a request for an image into an article
- Wikipedia:Requested pictures
- Wikipedia:Photo Matching Service
- Category:Wikipedia requested photographs
- Template:Image requested
- User:PhotoCatBot does some subcategorization
- Resources (where to get images) (see also Commons)
- Wikipedia:Finding images tutorial
- Wikipedia:Public domain image resources
- Wikipedia:Free image resources
- Wikipedia:Wikipedians/Photographers
- Wikipedia:Photo Matching Service
- Free Image Search Tool
- Before uploading:
- Wikipedia:Preparing images for upload
- Wikipedia:How to improve image quality
- Wikipedia:How to reduce colors for saving a JPEG as PNG
- Wikipedia:Basic bitmap image editing
- Uploading: (see also Commons)
- Displaying on a page:
- Wikipedia:Manual of Style#Images
- Wikipedia:Extended image syntax – options for displaying an image (size, right/left, etc.)
- Captions:
- Wikipedia:Manual of Style (captions)
- Wikipedia:Alternative text for images (Manual of Style)
- Wikipedia:WikiProject Writing Captions (inactive)
- Wikipedia:How to fix bunched-up edit links – if section edit links are being pushed down by floated images
- Help:File page
- Featured and valued:
- Improving images:
- Problem images on Wikipedia: (other than Copyrights)
- Deletion:
- Orphans:
- Category:Orphaned non-free use Wikipedia files
- Special:Unusedimages
- Young Orphans – tool to find newly uploaded orphaned images (not functioning as of mid-October 2007)
- Special:FileDuplicateSearch – search function for duplicate files in imagespace (duplicate images) (uses hash values)
- Automation:
- Bots:
- User:ImageTaggingBot – inspects newly-uploaded images for ones lacking source information, a license tag, or a fair-use rationale if one is needed; tags as necessary
- User:STBotI – tags images for relatively speedy deletion
- User:BJBot – tags orphaned images as such; notifies originator of problem
- User:ImageRemovalBot – removes images links from articles after an image has been deleted
- User:OrphanBot – removes links to problematical images, from articles, so administrators can delete the images
- User:Erwin85Bot – removes Template:Di-orphaned fair use from pages that are not orphans
- User:ImageBacklogBot – removes fair use images from outside of article space, removes tags from non-orphaned images
- User:John Bot II – tags images that lack adequate copyright information
- User:FairuseBot – does tagging of problematic fairuse images
- Other:
- User:Howcheng/quickimgdelete.js – makes it easier to tag images and nominate images for deletion
- LicenseToKill at SourceForge.net – Windows application that helps with image deletion tasks, including easy deletion of multiple files within a category or from a list
- WikiProjects:
- Wikipedia:WikiProject Photography
- Wikipedia:WikiProject Images and Media
- Other: (see also Commons regarding moving images from Wikipedia to Commons)
- Importing: (see also Tables)
- Inclusion: Wikipedia:Inclusion is not an indicator of notability (essay)
- Indexes: (see also Directories)
- Of any namespace in Wikipedia:
- Of articles only:
- Portal:Contents/A–Z index – click on a one-or-two character starting point to browse articles (formerly called "Quick index")
- Portal:Contents/Categories
- Of project (information/instructional) pages (other than this index itself):
- Other:
- Indian subcontinent:
- Indymedia: Wikipedia:Guide for Indymedia authors
- Infoboxes: (templates):
- Help:Infobox
- Wikipedia:Manual of Style (infoboxes)
- Category:Infobox templates
- Wikipedia:WikiProject Infoboxes
- Specialized:
- Other:
- Wikipedia:WikiProject Accessibility/Infobox accessibility
- User:SmackBot – puts birth dates and death dates into standard formats inside infoboxes
- Inserting text from one page into another page – see Transclusion
- Instruction creep: see Policies and guidelines
- Instructional material: see Learning
- Internet Relay Chat (IRC):
- Interwiki links: (see also Interlanguage links, Transwiki)
- Wikipedia:Wikimedia sister projects (Manual of Style) – templates for links
- Help:Interwiki linking
- Help:InterWikimedia links
- m:Interwiki map (links to non-WMF wikis)
- Wikipedia:Linking to other wikis (proposal, February 2008)
- Help:Custom namespaces – prefixes (like m:) that normally resolve into an interwiki
- Bots to fix problems:
- IP lookup: see Vandalism
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- Japan/Japanese:
- Wikipedia:Manual of Style (Japan-related articles)
- Help:Japanese
- Help:Japanese/Editing
- Portal:Japan
- Help:Multilingual support (East Asian)
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- Korea:
- Wikipedia:Manual of Style (Korea-related articles)
- Wikipedia:Naming conventions (Korean)
- Portal:Korea
- Help:Multilingual support (East Asian)
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- Languages: see Wikipedia:Naming conventions (languages), individual countries/languages, Translations
- Latter Day Saints (Mormons):
- Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Latter Day Saints
- Wikipedia:Naming conventions (Latter Day Saints)
- Layout and sections: (see also Table of contents) (for layout of the standard Wikipedia page, see Customization)
- Wikipedia:Manual of Style (layout)
- Help:Section
- Wikipedia:Manual of Style#Article titles, headings, and sections
- Wikipedia:How to fix bunched-up edit links
- Lead section (aka "Top section", "First section", "Lead paragraph")
- Wikipedia:Manual of Style (lead section)
- Wikipedia:Writing better articles#Lead section
- Wikipedia:WikiProject Introductions
- Wikipedia:WikiProject Lead section cleanup
- Wikipedia:WikiProject User scripts/Scripts#Navigating to Edit page – several user scripts which make it possible to edit the lead section (section "0") without editing the entire article
- Summary style (when articles or sections get too long) – see Article size
- Wikipedia:Be bold#Graphical layout changes (guideline) – does not apply to articles, portals, or most other pages
- User:Anchor Link Bot – automatically adds a comment to section headers that are linked to from other articles
- Learning: (see also Help, Questions)
- Wikipedia:Learning the ropes
- Tutorials:
- Wikipedia:Tutorial
- Wikipedia:Tutorial Drive
- Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/Tutorial series (2008)
- Coaching:
- Wikipedia:Coaching
- Wikipedia:Adopt-a-user (WP:ADOPT)
- Wikipedia:Editor review (WP:ER)
- Wikipedia:Admin coaching (WP:ADCO)
- Classes:
- User:Fox/Virtual classroom
- User:Brusselsshrek/Wiki School – dormant
- Other:
- Wikipedia:Instructional material
- Wikipedia:Lectures
- Books:
- Formally published:
- Wikibooks:
- m:Wikipedia Trainers – program started in June 2008 by the Wikimedia Foundation
- Legal: (see also Copyrights, Disclaimers, Privacy)
- Threats:
- Wikipedia:No legal threats (WP:NLT) (policy) – among other things, an editor who makes a legal threat is to refrain from further editing
- Wikipedia:Don't overlook legal threats (essay)
- Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Legal
- Wikipedia:Perennial proposals#Legal issues
- Wikipedia:List of policies#Legal and copyright: law-based rules about what material may be used in Wikipedia, and remedies for misuse
- Wikipedia:Contact us/Article problem/Factual error (from subject) – contacting Wikipedia when an individual has a problem with an article about that person or about someone that person represents
- Wikipedia:Contact us/Article problem/Factual error (from enterprise) – similarly, with an enterprise
- Wikipedia:Office actions (WP:OFFICE) (policy) – sometimes Wikimedia Foundation representatives bypass normal procedures because of legal issues
- Wikipedia:Logos (guideline)
- Wikipedia:Image use policy
- Wikipedia:Libel (WP:LIBEL) (policy)
- Links: see Sources (for external links), Wikilinks (for links between wiki articles)
- Lists:
- Wikipedia:WikiProject Lists
- Wikipedia:Template messages/Lists
- Lists as part of an article:
- Help:List
- Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Embedded lists
- Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Lists of works
- Wikipedia:Pro and con lists (guideline)
- Wikipedia:Language order poll
- Lists that are the sole content of article:
- Wikipedia:Manual of Style (lists)
- Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Stand-alone lists
- Wikipedia:Naming conventions (long lists) (guideline)
- Wikipedia:Categories, lists, and navigation templates (WP:CLN) (guideline) – comparing alternative approaches
- Featured lists:
- Wikipedia:Featured lists
- Wikipedia:List of Wikipedians by featured list nominations
- User:Rick Bot – bot that maintains the list of nominators
- Wikipedia:Requested lists
- Wikipedia:Move navigational lists to portal namespace (failed proposal)
- Wikipedia:Lists in Wikipedia (essay)
- Special:Prefixindex/List_of – reportedly about 50,000 articles (lists)
- Problems:
- Wikipedia:WikiProject Lists#Incomplete lists
- Wikipedia:Listcruft (essay)
- Wikipedia:Victim lists (essay)
- Other:
- Lithuania:
- Wikipedia:Simplified phonetic transcription for Lithuanian
- Wikipedia:Translations of Lithuanian administrative divisions
- Portal:Lithuania
- Living people: see Biographies
- Logos:
- Within articles:
- Wikipedia's logo:
- Lyrics: Wikipedia:Lyrics and poetry (guideline)
M
- Main page: (see also Protection of pages)
- Main Page
- Wikipedia:Editing the main page (only admins can edit)
- Wikipedia:Main Page/Errors
- Wikipedia:Main Page history
- Wikipedia:Main Page alternatives – customizing how the main page appears to you
- Category:Main Page alternatives
- Wikipedia:FAQ/Main Page
- Sections:
- Featured Article:
- Wikipedia:Today's featured article
- Dispatches: Main page day – Signpost article about when what editors should expect when/if their Featured Article is on the Main Page
- Daily-article-l mailing list subscription page – get an extract of the Main Page article via email
- "Dispatches: Choosing Today's Featured Article", Signpost, August 2008
- Wikipedia:Main page featured article stability (inactive/historical)
- News:
- Wikipedia:In the news (ITN) (section on the Main Page)
- Wikipedia:In the news/Candidates
- Wikipedia:In the news/Recurring items (guideline)
- Template:In the news
- "Dispatches: In the news" (Signpost article, January 2009)
- "Did you know" (DYK):
- Other:
- Wikipedia:2008 main page redesign proposal
- Wikipedia:Requests for comment/Main Page features
- Maintenance: (see also Quality of articles, Spelling)
- General:
- Problems:
- Category:Wikipedia maintenance
- Category:Wikipedia backlog
- Wikipedia:Pages needing attention – sorted by topic
- Category:Cleanup by month
- Wikipedia:Community portal/Opentask – pages that need wikification, cleanup, expansion (of stubs), verification, updates, etc.
- Template:Multiple issues – includes a listing of all types of templates that can be used to note issues with articles
- User:Topbanana/Reports – old reports; useful for ideas
- Projects:
- In general:
- Wikipedia:WikiProject Council/Directory/Wikipedia (page showing active and inactive projects involving maintenance)
- Template:Active Wiki Fixup Projects
- Wikipedia:Patrols
- Cross-cutting maintenance projects not listed elsewhere in this index:
- Wikipedia:Cleanup Taskforce
- Wikipedia:WikiProject Guild of Copy Editors
- Wikipedia:WikiProject Wiki Syntax
- Wikipedia:WikiProject Wikify
- Wikipedia:Elements of Style improvement project
- Wikipedia:WikiProject Fix common mistakes
- Other:
- Special:AncientPages – December 2006 listing of the 1000 articles with the longest elapsed time since the last edit
- Wikipedia:Dusty articles – April 2008 listing of the 100 articles with the longest elapsed time since the last edit (March 2008 database)
- Wikipedia:WikiProject Abandoned Articles
- Maps: (see also Geocoding)
- m:Maps
- m:Wikimaps
- Wikipedia:Blank maps – maps that can be colored and labeled in different languages
- Wikipedia:WikiProject Maps
- Wikipedia:WikiProject Maps/Source materials
- Wikipedia:Graphic Lab/Map workshop
- Commons:Commons:Project Mapmaking Wiki Standards
- Wikipedia:Producing maps with xplanet
- Wikipedia:WikiProject OpenStreetMap
- Category:Wikipedia requested maps
- Template:Coord – produces a link to a list of map sources, based on the geographical coordinates and other parameters
- m:WikiMiniAtlas – JavaScript plugin to display a GoogleMaps-like draggable, zoomable, and clickable worldmap in geocoded Wikipedia articles
- Markup: see Formatting of text
- Mathematics: (see also Numbers)
- Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Mathematics
- Help:Calculation – simple mathematical calculations
- Wikipedia:Make technical articles understandable (guideline)
- mw:Extension:ASCIIMath4Wiki – tag that outputs math expressions written in ASCIIMath as MathML
- Blahtex – a free software tool/library that translates TeX markup into MathML markup
- Template:Frac (for fractions)
- Template:Formula links
- Wikipedia:Evaluating how interesting an integer's mathematical property is (essay)
- Portal:Mathematics
- Measurements: see Units of measurement
- Meat puppets: see policy on Sock puppets
- Media: (see also Copyright, Images, Music)
- Wikipedia:Media
- Wikipedia:Media help
- Wikipedia:Media help (MIDI)
- Wikipedia:Media help (Ogg)
- Wikipedia:Creation and usage of media files
- mw:Extension:OggHandler
- Ogg search – search of the Commons for specific audio and video streams
- Wikipedia:Requested recordings
- Category:Wikipedia requested audio
- Category:Wikipedians who take recording requests
- Wikipedia:Free sound resources
- Wikipedia:WikiProject Images and Media/Sound
- User:TheDJ/WikimediaPlayer
- Components for Mac users – downloads for playing Ogg Vorbis in iTunes or producing Ogg Theora with iMovie
- Mediation:
- Wikipedia:Mediation (policy)
- Informal:Wikipedia:Mediation Cabal
- Semi-formal:Wikipedia:Community enforceable mediation (inactive)
- Formal:
- Wikipedia:Requests for mediation
- Wikipedia:Mediation Committee
- MediaWiki: (see also specific topics pertaining to the software)
- Other:
- User:Pyrospirit/Design the interface for newcomers
- Medical:
- Mentorship: (see also Wikipedia:Adopt-a-user)
- Wikipedia:Mentorship – either voluntary (informal) or involuntary (from dispute resolution)
- Wikipedia:Mentorship Committee – inactive/historical
- Merging:
- Help:Merging (WP:MM)
- Wikipedia:Proposed mergers
- Wikipedia:Integrate (essay)
- Category:Articles to be merged
- Wikipedia:Template messages/Merging and splitting
- Wikipedia:Mergers for discussion (failed proposal)
- Messageboxes:
- Via MediaWiki:
- Via templates:
- Meta:
- Wikipedia:Meta
- m:Meta:Babel – general and policy discussion page
- Microformats
- Wikipedia:WikiProject Microformats
- Minor edit: Help:Minor edit
- Mirrors:
- Wikipedia:Mirrors and forks – sites that use Wikipedia content
- Wikipedia:Standard license violation letter
- Miscellany for deletion: Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion – for deleting any page which is not covered by another deletion process (AfD, CfD, TfD, etc.)
- Missing articles:
- Wikipedia:Requested articles (WP:RA)
- Wikipedia:WikiProject Missing encyclopedic articles
- Wikipedia:Find-A-Grave famous people
- Red links (also q.v.):
- Wikipedia:Topics where Wikipedia is weak (inactive)
- Category:Redirects with possibilities
- Wikipedia:Articles for creation/Redirects – needed redirects for articles that have not been created yet
- User:Piotrus/Wikipedia interwiki and specialized knowledge test – estimates that Wikipedia should have about 400 million articles
- Mobile access:
- "iPhone Gems: Wikipedia Apps" – review of 16 apps for the iPhone or iPod touch (November 2008)
- Real-time version of Wikipedia:
- Downloaded version of Wikipedia:
- Other:
- GeoPedia – provides iPhone owners with a Wikipedia feed customized to their current location
- "Kiwi" client – for iPhone and iPod
- Moderator: see Administrator
- Money:
- Wikipedia:Manual of Style (dates and numbers)#Currencies
- Wikipedia:WikiProject Numismatics/Style (Manual of Style)
- Mongolian: Wikipedia:Naming conventions (Mongolian)
- Monitoring changes: (see also Recent changes)
- Watchlist
- Help:Watching pages – about watchlists
- User:Ais523/watchlistei.js – exporting and importing a watchlist
- Wikipedia:Copying watchlist to new username
- MediaWiki:Watcheditlist/Check all – to clear most or all of a checklist
- Import, export, and edit watchlists as text using the "View raw watchlist" option
- MediaWiki:Watchlist-details and MediaWiki talk:Watchlist-details – a notice displayed at the top of the Special:Watchlist page for all editors who view that page
- Wikipedia:Perennial proposals#Create a counter of people watching a page
- Real-time feeds:
- User:Lupin/Monitor my watchlist – realtime feed of pages on a watch – requires User:Lupin/Anti-vandal tool (a user script)
- User:Crazycomputers/WatchlistBot – editors using an XMPP service (such as Google talk), can have a separate watchlist that is updated in real time via IM, by subscribing to the service of this bot
- API (must be logged in or have "remember me" checked as login option)
- User:Jyotirmoyb/Watchlistfeed
- User:Ryos/Watchlist RSS feeder
- User:Adodge/WLWP (tested: NetNewsWire, Mac only)
- Wikipedia:WikiProject User scripts/Scripts#Watchlist / Recent Changes
- Customizing a watchlist (other than by using "my preferences"):
- Wikipedia:Added or removed characters – changing whether the watchlist shows or does not show the number of characters added or deleted by each edit
- User:Stevage/filterwatchlist.user.js – Removes various namespaces from watchlist display
- User talk:Alex Smotrov/wlunwatch.js – adds an "unwatch" link to each entry on a watchlist (uses AJAX)
- user:js/watchlist – multiple changes, including sorting by namespace and showing only edits since that last time the watchlist report was generated
- User:Quarl/watchlist.js – adds buttons to watchlist: "unwatch", "diff since"
- Alternatives to the standard watchlist (other than real-time feeds):
- User:Ais523/topcontrib.js – Color-codes your contributions page based on whether you have the top (most recent) contribution or not for each page edited
- Special:Recentchangeslinked/User:SpecifiedUsername/OptionalSpecifiedSubpage lists changes to all Wikipedia pages on the User:SpecifiedUsername/OptionalSpecifiedSubpage page, for example
- User:Tra#User watchlist – a watchlist report of edits made by the editors listed on a regular watchlist
- gWatch (Global Watchlist) – Watchlist for all Wikimedia wikis
- RSS (page-by-page specification):
- Wikipedia:Syndication
- m:Syndication feeds
- User:Blinklmc (historical: predates implementation of integrated RSS for Wikipedia)
- Other:
- User:Anomie/linkclassifier.js – User script that changes the color of the wikilink to an article when that article is a redirect or disambiguation page or has been proposed for deletion at AfD
- User:Ais523/catwatch.js – for monitoring changes to the pages that in a specified category
- Wikipedia:Hide Pages in Watchlist – User script that allows an editor to hide selected talk pages from watchlist reports
- Special:Unwatchedpages – pages not on anyone's watchlist [this special page is viewable only by admins]
- Motto:
- Wikipedia:Motto of the day
- "WikiProject Report: Motto of the Day" (Signpost article, January 2009)
- Movies: see Films
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- Naming an article: (see also Disambiguation, Moving a page, New pages)
- Wikipedia:Article titles (WP:NC) (policy)
- In general:
- Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Abbreviations
- Wikipedia:Naming conventions (use English) (guideline)
- Wikipedia:Naming conventions (capitalization) (guideline)
- Wikipedia:Naming conventions (plurals) (guideline)
- Wikipedia:Articles with slashes in title
- Wikipedia:Naming conventions (technical restrictions) (guideline)
- Specific topics: (see also elsewhere in this index)
- Wikipedia:Naming conventions (geographic names) (guideline)
- Wikipedia:Naming conventions (events) (guideline)
- Wikipedia:Naming conventions (fauna) (guideline)
- Wikipedia:WikiProject Tree of Life
- Other:
- Navigation: (see also Lists) (for changing navigation by changing the location of links on the standard Wikipedia page, see Customization)
- Anchors: (between pages or within a page)
- Between pages:
- Help:Navigation
- Navigational templates: see Series boxes
- Wikipedia:Keyboard shortcuts
- Additional tabs ("cactions") at the top of the page:
- Wikipedia:WikiProject User scripts/Scripts/Six tabs – adds a history tab (and an edit tab) for the page that is paired with the page that is visible
- User:Haza-w/Drop-down menus – revises and expands the top tabs, setting up each with a menu with numerous options
- Clicking on an image:
- Wikipedia:Tools/Navigation popups (user scripts) – enables mouseover of links; other features (as of March 2008, planned to be replaced a version using the new api.php – see User:TheDJ/apipopups.js; existing version uses query.php) (also available as a gadget, under "my preferences")
- Personalized navigation:
- User:Anakin101/toplinks.js – adds a "top" link next to every "edit" link, to make it easy to go to the top of a page
- Wikipedia:Tools/Navigation shortcuts – add one or more personal sidebars, with links, on the left side of the screen
- User:AndyZ/monobook.js/personalredirect.js – put personalized abbreviations into the search box to go to specific pages
- Needed articles: see Missing articles, Translations
- Neutral point of view (NPOV):
- General policy and guidance:
- Balance and space:
- Other:
- Template:Welcomenpov – for posting to a user talk page
- Wikipedia:WikiProject Neutrality
- Category:NPOV disputes – pages with an NPOV dispute tag
- Category:Neutrality templates
- Wikipedia:List of controversial issues
- Category:Wikipedia neutral point of view
- Wikipedia:Advocacy (essay)
- Wikipedia:Scientific point of view (failed proposal)
- New accounts: see New editors, User account and username
- New articles: (see also Conflicts of interest, Deletion of articles, Edits (in general), Missing articles, Naming an article, New pages, Quality of articles)
- To consider before creating a new article:
- Wikipedia:Wikipedia is not a dictionary (policy)
- Wikipedia:Notability (guideline) – if it's not about something notable, it shouldn't be an article in Wikipedia
- Wikipedia:Wikipedia is not for things made up one day
- Wikipedia:List of bad article ideas (guideline)
- Wikipedia:List of really, really, really stupid article ideas that you really, really, really should not create
- Wikipedia:Fringe theories (guideline)
- Wikipedia:Content policy in a nutshell (essay)
- Feedback on a planned new article: Wikipedia:Drawing board
- How to: (see also New pages)
- New articles proposed by non-registered editors:
- Wikipedia:Article wizard – a series of qualifying questions leading to a page where the proposed new article can be posted
- Wikipedia:Articles for creation – for both those proposing articles and those reviewing proposed articles
- Wikipedia:WikiProject Articles for creation
- User:Henrik/afc-helper (user script) – enables one-click declines for proposed new articles
- After a new article is created:
- User:AlexNewArtBot – adds new articles to new article pages of WikiProjects and Portals (as listed at Wikipedia:New articles by topic
- Checking for copyright violations:
- User:Wherebot
- User:COBot
- User:CorenSearchBot
- Other:
- New contributors: see New editors
- New editors: (see also Edits (in general), Learning, Questions, User account and username, User rights)
- Welcoming:
- Wikipedia:Welcoming committee
- MediaWiki:Welcomecreation – page for automatic welcome message for all new accounts (transitory; is not posted to user talk pages)
- Standard templates:
- User:SQLBot-Hello – adds a welcome section for new editors who have gotten accounts via Wikipedia:Request an account and have opted-in for such a welcome
- Impact of welcoming:
- User:TeaDrinker/Welcome study – six day study in May 2007 of the impact of welcoming 100 randomly selected new editors
- Other:
- Wikipedia:Twinkle – includes welcome templates and other (unrelated) functionality (also available as a gadget, under "my preferences")
- Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/Welcomebot (request denied December 2006)
- Wikipedia:Perennial proposals#Use a bot to welcome new users
- Standard postings for mistakes by new editors: Category:Wikipedia standard response templates
- Suggested reading:
- Other:
- New pages: (see also New articles)
- Help:Page name
- Wikipedia:Starting a new article
- Non-talk pages can only be created by registered editors – December 2005
- Special:Newpages – Lists new pages just created; shows which pages have been marked as "patrolled"
- Restrictions on names of new pages:
- Patrolling new pages:
- Signpost article, November 2007, about new process
- Special:Log/patrol – Patrol log (listing those who marked edits as "patrolled")
- Wikipedia:New pages patrol – organized effort to review all new pages
- Wikipedia:WikiProject New page
- User:JVbot – bot which marks new pages as "patrolled" if the editor who created the page is listed at User:JVbot/patrol whitelist
- User:Martinp23/NPWatcher (WP:NPW) Wikipedia tool which helps editors perform new page patrol more easily
- Wikipedia:WikiProject Advertising (inactive)
- New users: see New editors
- New Zealand:
- Wikipedia:Naming conventions (New Zealand)
- Portal:New Zealand
- News (about Wikipedia): (for news not about Wikipedia, see Current events)
- Wikipedia:News
- Wikipedia:Dashboard (keeps track of various discussions on Wikipedia)
- Category:Wikipedia news
- Wikipedia:Community portal#CBB – Community bulletin board (particularly the "Notices" section)
- Wikipedia:Milestones
- Signpost (internal newspaper):
- Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/About
- Receiving:
- Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/Subscribe – as a message on a user talk page
- Template:Signpost-subscription – in a box (transcluded) on a user page
- Via blog (including RSS option)
- Via twitter
- Wikipedia:WikipediaWeekly – a weekly (or so) podcast
- Wikipedia:Not The Wikipedia Weekly – skypecasts and other community connection
- Mailing lists:
- Blogs:
- Newsgroup:
- Other external sources:
- WikiChecker (media)
- Wikipedia:Wikipedia in the media
- Wikipedia:WikiProject For the Record – for responding to coverage of Wikipedia in the news media
- Wikipedia:Wikizine – a weekly (or so) independent electronic magazine
- Inactive/historical:
- foundation:Wikimedia Quarto – quarterly publication; last issue was for Q1 2005
- Wikipedia:Goings-on (prior to the Signpost, this was the weekly newsletter of sorts)
- Wikipedia:Village pump (news) (inactive)
- Not:
- Wikipedia:What Wikipedia is not (WP:NOT) (policy) – it's not a paper encyclopedia, a dictionary, a publisher of original thought, a soapbox, a mirror or a repository of links, images, or media, a blog, webspace provider, or social networking site, a directory, an indiscriminate collection of information, a crystal ball, censored, a battleground, an anarchy, a democracy, a bureaucracy
- Wikipedia:Victim lists (essay)
- Wikis and similar sites which do allow various types of content that Wikipedia does not:
- Notability: (see also specific subject areas)
- Wikipedia:Notability (guideline) – also lists types of articles for which more specific criteria has been created
- Category:Wikipedia notability – guidelines and discussions
- User:Uncle G/On notability (essay)
- Wikipedia:Inclusion is not an indicator of notability
- Wikipedia:Fringe theories (guideline)
- Wikipedia:Search engine test (how-to guide)
- Wikipedia:Notability (events)
- Wikipedia:WikiProject Notability
- Category:Articles with topics of unclear notability
- Wikipedia:Wikipuffery (essay)
- Wikipedia:Other stuff exists#Inherent notability (essay)
- Wikipedia:Notability (science) (failed proposal)
- Notes (in articles):
- For footnotes in a "Notes" section, see Sources
- Content notes (a separate section with notes about contents of an article):
- Templates: {{Cref}} and {{Cnote}}
- Examples: Che Guevara, Pericles
- Note: {{ref}} and {{note}}, though deprecated, are being used in thousands of articles, presumably for content notes
- Noticeboards:
- NPOV: see Neutral point of view
- Numbers: (see also Mathematics, Units of measurement)
- Wikipedia:Manual of Style (dates and numbers)
- Wikipedia:Naming conventions (numbers and dates)
- Wikipedia:Notability (numbers) (guideline)
- m:Help:Modulo and round
- Wikipedia:WikiProject Numbers
- Template:Nowrap – to ensure that a number and its unit of measurement appear on the same line of text
Q
- Quality of articles: (see also Featured articles, Good articles, Maintenance, Stable versions, Style (articles), Vital articles)
- Guidelines and guidance:
- Central initiatives:
- Reviews and assistance for specific articles:
- Wikipedia:Requests for feedback – a place to get feedback for new articles or for a major edit to an existing article
- Peer reviews:
- Main peer review:
- Wikipedia:Peer review – exposes articles to closer scrutiny from a broader group of editors
- User:CloudNineBot – transcludes articles at the main peer review page onto WikiProject peer review pages
- User:AndyZ/peerreviewer – automated review
- Dispatches: Interview with Ruhrfisch, master of Peer review, Signpost article, September 2008
- WikiProject peer reviews:
- Category:WikiProject peer reviews – pages within WikiProjects for peer reviews
- User:CloudNineBot – transcludes articles at the main peer review page onto WikiProject peer review pages
- User:PeerReviewBot – archives peer review pages
- Other peer review:
- Wikipedia:Scientific peer review
- Wikipedia:Academic peer review
- Assessments:
- By editors (from "stub" (worst) to "featured article" (best)):
- Wikipedia:WikiProject Council/Assessment FAQ
- Wikipedia:Version 1.0 Editorial Team/Assessment (guideline) – an assessment scale in use to give "grades" to articles
- Category:WikiProject assessments – separate pages within WikiProjects that show assessments done and still needed for pages within that WikiProject
- User:VeblenBot – updates a table with counts of article ratings
- By viewers (ratings/reviews) (not implemented):
- Based on quality of editors:
- Other:
- m:Wikimedia Sverige/Lennart thoughts of Quality
- Wikipedia:Forum for Encyclopedic Standards
- Wikipedia:Quality control
- Wikipedia:100,000 feature-quality articles – essay, includes some specific steps
- Category:Wikipedia editorial validation
- Quality of editing, improving: see Learning
- Queries (database) (see also Downloading all of Wikipedia, Statistics and reports, Technical (hardware and software))
- Wikipedia:Database queries
- mw:API:Query
- m:Requests for queries – SQL queries against wiki projects, including Wikipedia
- API to query data directly from the MediaWiki servers
- WikiXMLDB – Wikipedia content has been parsed into well-structured XML representation and loaded into a Sedna XML database, and an XQuery Web interface has been set up
- Online version of dbpedia.org – structured information extracted from Wikipedia
- Query Wikipedia – semantic database extracted from Wikipedia that can be queried
- m:WikiXRay – a robust and extensible software tool for an in-depth quantitative analysis of the whole Wikipedia project (under development as of October 2007)
- User talk:TonyBot – bot that can do database queries upon request (requires registration)
- Wikipedia:Scripts#Database scripting – scripts that can be used with a downloaded database
- Analysis:
- Wikipedia:WikiProject Database analysis – collaboration of editors who use XML database dumps
- User:Bluemoose/DataBaseSearchTool – for searching a database dump
- Wikipedia:Computer help desk/ParseMediaWikiDump
- Quickbar: (the set of links on the left side of the page, often called "sidebar")
- mw:Sidebar – standard links for the top two boxes of the quickbar
- Wikipedia:Tools/Navigation shortcuts – add one or more personal sidebars, with links, on the left side of the screen
- User:Trilobite/Tools#Replace sidebar navbox with personal tools – uses CSS to move the links at the upper right to the left side of the screen
- Floating the quickbar:
R
- Random article:
- Special:Random (in the standard navigation box on the left) (adding a suffix – /Category, /Help, /Image, /Portal, /Template, /User, or /Wikipedia) will take you to a random page in those namespaces)
- Wikipedia:Random
- Wikipedia:Random page patrol
- Wikipedia:Random pages test
- Portal:Middle-earth/Random-article – example of how to generate a random article from a specified set of articles
- User:Misza13/Random – Random number generator (via a template)
- Random article tools:
- Recent changes: (see also Monitoring changes, Vandalism)
- Special:Recentchanges
- Help:Recent changes
- Help:Enhanced recent changes
- Related changes (recent changes to a limited subset of pages)
- Help:Related changes
- Recent changes to all articles in a category: http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Recentchangeslinked&target=Category%3ACategory_name (must use underscores)
- Wikipedia:Scripts#Recent changes scripts
- Different ways to get recent changes
- Recentism: see Bias
- Recognition: see Awards
- Red links: (aka "redlinks")
- Wikipedia:Red link
- MediaWiki:Red-link-title – standard tool-tip message
- Wikipedia:WikiProject Red Link Recovery
- Wikipedia:Most wanted articles (WP:MWA)
- Wikipedia:Articles requested for more than a year
- Wikipedia:Write the article first (essay) – don't create red links, and then write the article.
- Redirects:
- Wikipedia:Redirect
- Help:Redirect
- Wikipedia:Template messages/Redirect pages
- Wikipedia:Soft redirect (WP:SRD) (guideline)
- Wikipedia:Tools/Navigation popups/About fixing redirects (basically, don't fix single redirects)
- Category:Disambiguation and redirection templates
- Category:Redirects
- Wikipedia:Categorizing redirects – most redirects should not have a category on the redirect page
- Help:Link#Using a redirect as an alternative
- Wikipedia:Cross-namespace redirects (essay)
- Wikipedia:WikiProject Redirect
- Tools:
- What redirects here – finds the redirects that point to a specified page (uses a version of Wikipedia that lags the current version slightly)
- User:Splarka/fetchredirects.js – adds a link (left side), similar to "What links here"
- User:Dschwen/HighlightRedirects – limited use; "fixing" redirects is generally not a good idea [Monobook skin]
- User:Anomie/linkclassifier.js – User script that changes the color of the wikilink to an article when that article is a redirect or disambiguation page or has been proposed for deletion at AfD
- Problematical:
- Broken redirects (point to non-existent page)
- Double redirects:
- Wikipedia:Double redirects
- Special:DoubleRedirects – list produced every three days or so
- Automated correction by MediaWiki software (as of July 2008)
- Bots that fix:
- To be deleted or discussed:
- Resources (except image-specific or sound-specific resources, for which see Images, Media): (for how to do a citation, see Sources)
- Wikipedia:Article development#Research
- Wikipedia:Public domain resources
- Wikipedia:GNU Free Documentation License resources (freely usable resources)
- Wikipedia:Free or semi-free non-Public-Domain information resources
- Wikipedia:Current science and technology sources
- Wikipedia:News sources
- Wikimediareference discussion list (initial purpose was to discuss free Credo accounts)
- Dispatches: Find reliable sources online, Signpost, July 2008
- Dispatches: Sources in biology and medicine, Signpost, June 2008
- Wikipedia Reference Search:
- Search page (Google)
- User:Nicolas1981/Wikipedia Reference Search – underlying list of sources (domains)
- Appropedia's Public Domain Search
- Wikipedia:List of bibliographies
- Category:Wikipedia sources
- Template:Article resources
- Assistance from other editors:
- Other:
- Reverts:
- Help:Reverting
- Wikipedia:Revert only when necessary (WP:ROWN) (essay)
- Wikipedia:Edit warring#The three revert rule – more than three reverts by one editor to one article within 24 hours is grounds for an automatic block (WP:3RR)
- User warning: Template:uw-3rr
- Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/Edit warring – place to report 3RR violations (WP:AN/3RR)
- Wikipedia:Three revert rule enforcement – 2004 poll about whether admins should enforce 3RR rule (was being enforced by Arbitration Committee)
- Wikipedia:WikiProject User scripts/Scripts/Revert tools
- Talk:Gdansk/Vote – special exception to the 3RR rule
- Via rollback:
- Help:Reverting#Rollback
- Wikipedia:Rollback feature
- Wikipedia:New admin school/Rollback
- Category:Wikipedia rollback feature
- Wikipedia:Village pump (technical)/Archive 55#This week's software updates – how to hide "rollback" links in one's watchlist and on user pages
- By non-admins:
- Wikipedia:Rollback for non-administrators – discussion, December 2007; implemented January 2008
- Wikipedia:Requests for permissions – place to ask for rollback user rights
- Category:Wikipedia administrators willing to grant rollback requests
- Bug # 12534 – Rollback on en.wiki (resolved/closed; link is here for those interested in the history of this feature)
- Wikipedia:Requests for rollback/Draft poll
- Revision (prior version) of a page: see History
- Reward Board: Wikipedia:Reward board (see also Wikipedia:Bounty board)
- RFC automatic links: mw:Manual:RFC
- Risk disclaimer: Wikipedia:Risk disclaimer
- Roads:
- Wikipedia:Naming conventions (U.S. state and territory highways)
- Wikipedia:WikiProject U.S. Roads (includes three guidelines)
- Romanian: Help:Romanian characters
- Russian: Wikipedia:Romanization of Russian
- RSS and similar feeds: see Monitoring changes
S
- Sandbox: a place to practice without hurting anything
- Searching Wikipedia: (see also Index of pages, Queries (database))
- In general: Help:Searching
- From within Wikipedia:
- Search engine:
- "MediaWiki search engine improved" (Signpost article, November 2008)
- Special:Search – regular search with a wider box to enter text
- Test web interface for lucene-search 2.1
- User:Zocky/Auto Complete – auto-completes the titles of articles in the search box (JavaScript) (no longer required as of May 2008; this is built into the search function now)
- Invoking search:
- Wikipedia:FAQ/Main Page#Why doesn't the cursor appear in the search box, like with Google? – provides JavaScript so that the page focus is automatically in the search box
- Other:
- From outside Wikipedia:
- Firefox:
- Using Wikipedia for the search box provides an autocomplete feature
- Creating a smart keyword – can replace "site:en.wikipedia.org" in searches
- Wikiseek:
- Similpedia – uses a URL or a chunk of text to find similar articles in Wikipedia
- AskWiki – semantic search engine developed in partnership between AskMeNow and the Wikimedia Foundation (beta)
- Powerset – natural language search of Wikipedia
- Yahoo's Wikipedia SearchMonkey App
- Seariki – search engine specifically designed for Wikipedia [(http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikien-l/2007-December/088027.html December 2007 announcement])
- Powerset – semantic search (May 2008)
- Googlepedia – Firefox add-on; shows a relevant Wikipedia article along with Google search results
- Preventing search engines from searching pages:
- Robots.txt file – specifies search engines that are not allowed to crawl all or part of Wikipedia, as well as pages/namespaces that are not to be indexed by any search engine
- MediaWiki:Robots.txt – direct editing of robots.txt
- mw:Extension:NoRobots allows editors to mark specific pages as not to be included by all outside search engines [not implemented as of April 2008]
- Wikipedia:Talk pages not indexed by Google (feature request)
- Tools:
- Semantic MediaWiki:
- Wikipedia:WikiProject Microformats – metadata
- Sections (of articles): see Layout and sections
- "See also" section: Wikipedia:Manual of Style (layout)#See also
- Self-interest: see Conflicts of interest
- Semi-protection of pages: see Protection of pages
- Series boxes:
- Wikipedia:Article series (Manual of Style)
- Wikipedia:Incumbent series
- Wikipedia:Navigation templates
- Category:Navigational templates
- Wikipedia:List of article series
- Wikipedia:NavFrame – dynamic navigation (series) boxes (collapsible – hide/show)
- Template:Navigation tabs
- Wikipedia:Categories, lists, and navigation templates – compares alternative approaches
- Servers: see Statistics, Technical (hardware and software)
- Shortcuts (abbreviated redirects):
- Wikipedia:Shortcut
- Wikipedia:List of shortcuts
- Wikipedia:Shortcuts to talk pages
- Wikipedia:List of shortcuts/Project shortcuts
- Wikipedia:WTF? OMG! TMD TLA. ARG! (essay)
- Category:Redirects from shortcuts
- User:Deathlime/Deredirectification – user script so that a mousing over a shortcut shows the name of the page that the shortcut points to
- Wikipedia:Full meta links – failed proposal to implement templates to replace shortcuts
- Signatures: (see also Customization, Talk pages)
- Wikipedia:Signatures (WP:SIG) (guideline)
- Bug # 8458 – proposed restriction on length of signatures
- Individual changes to the default signature:
- Wikipedia:How to fix your signature
- User:Athaenara/Gallery
- User:Smurrayinchester/Tutorial/Signature
- User:NikoSilver/Signature shop
- Automatic signing (automated signing):
- User:SineBot – signs talk pages for editors who forgot, where an editor started a new section or an indented his/her comment (replacement for User:HagermanBot)
- Category:Wikipedians who have opted out of automatic signing
- Pages where default signatures can be customized: (implemented November 2007
- Other:
- Wikipedia:WikiProject User scripts/Scripts#Editing – user scripts to help editors with signing
- Template:Uw-tilde – notice that can be put on user talk pages to remind editors to sign
- MediaWiki:Signature – format of default signature for editors who haven't changed the default in their preferences
- Signon – see Logging in, User account and username
- Single purpose account: Wikipedia:Single-purpose account (essay)
- Sinhala: Help:Sinhala Font Guide
- Signpost – see News (about Wikipedia)
- Sister projects: see Transwiki
- Slovenia: Wikipedia:Naming conventions (Slovenian vs Slovene) (guideline)
- Sock puppets (multiple accounts by one person):
- Wikipedia:Sock puppetry (WP:SOCK) (policy)
- Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations
- Wikipedia:Suspected sock puppets – discussion and reporting (inactive/historical)
- Wikipedia:Username policy#Doppelganger accounts – accounts created preemptively to block vandals (allowable)
- Intersection contribs – lists all pages edited by both of two specified editors
- Muliple contributors – A "recent edits" listing for a group of (specified) editors
- Checkuser: (identifying sock puppets by checking IP addresses)
- Wikipedia:CheckUser (policy)
- Wikipedia:Requests for checkuser – requests for review of addresses
- Wikipedia:Quick and dirty Checkuser policy (failed proposal)
- How editors become checkusers:
- Wikipedia:Arbitration Committee/CheckUser and Oversight
- Wikipedia:Requests for checkusership (failed proposal)
- Wikipedia:Arbitration Committee/June 2008 announcements/Checkuser appointments
- Wikipedia:Arbitration Committee/CheckUser and Oversight appointments (discussion, January 2009)
- Software:
- Sound (files): see Media
- Sources (see also Resources, Spam, URLs)
- WHY and WHEN sources must be given (including avoiding excessive links):
- WHAT can properly be used as a source, and WHERE links/sources should appear:
- Wikipedia:Identifying reliable sources (WP:RS) (guideline)
- Wikipedia:Reliable source examples
- Dispatches: Reliable sources in content review processes, Signpost article, June 2008
- Wikipedia:Identifying reliable sources (medicine)
- Wikipedia:Evaluating sources (essay)
- Wikipedia:External links (Manual of Style)
- Wikipedia:Convenience link (essay) – links to primary sources, or to copies of secondary sources
- HOW to cite a source:
- In general (including formatting):
- Three alternative systems:
- Embedded citations: Wikipedia:Embedded citations
- Footnotes:
- Wikipedia:Manual of Style (footnotes) (guideline)
- Help:Footnotes
- Wikipedia:Referencing for beginners
- mw: Extension:Cite/Cite.php – technical; discusses issues with current <ref> tags
- m:Talk:Cite/Cite.php (fork, as of 30 April 2006)
- Template:Rp – for appending page numbers to Cite.php-generated footnote superscripts (can also be used to add a link, to mimic the embedded citations method)
- User:Magnus Manske/less edit clutter.js – interface change, via javascript, that puts references in a separate edit box (screenshot, mailing list discusion)
- Parenthetical referencing (was "Harvard referencing", "Author-date referencing"):
- Wikipedia:Parenthetical referencing
- Wikipedia:Harvard citation template examples
- Mixing footnotes and parenthetical referencing:
- Discussion: Wikipedia talk:Featured article criteria/Archive 6#Consistent references - mixing Harvard and Chicago
- User:CitationTool/Hybrid referencing
- Examples: Charles Darwin, Pericles, Che Guevara, saffron
- Possible changes to MediaWiki software regarding citations:
- Tools for creating citations:
- Other:
- PROBLEMS: Preventing, identifying, and fixing:
- In general:
- Wikipedia:WikiProject Citation cleanup
- Wikipedia:WikiProject External links
- Wikipedia:WikiProject Fact and Reference Check
- Category:Wikipedians who convert reference tags
- Wikipedia:WikiProject critical source examination
- Category:Citation and verifiability maintenance templates
- Footnote problems, other than bad external links (for which, see below):
- Help:Cite errors
- Category:Pages with incorrect ref formatting
- User:LemmeyBOT – fixes incorrect ref tag formatting
- User:DumZiBoT – adds a title (from page HTML) for a naked URL enclosed by <ref> tags
- User:CitationTool (inactive or never functional)
- User:Fictional tool (inactive or never functional)
- Lack of sources:
- Wikipedia:WikiProject Unreferenced articles – project to review articles that are in Category:Articles lacking sources
- Category:Articles lacking sources (Template:Unreferenced)
- Category:Articles lacking reliable references (Template:Primary sources)
- "Citation needed" tag (template: {{fact}}):
- Wikipedia:Citation needed
- Category:All articles with unsourced statements
- User warning templates: Wikipedia:Recent changes patrol#Lack of sources
- Unreliable sources: Wikipedia:Reliable sources/Noticeboard
- Bad external links: (link rot)
- In general:
- Preventing:
- WebCite – a way to archive a copy of a page that is an external link
- Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/WebCiteBOT (proposed, February 2009)
- Finding bad links:
- Checklinks (generates a report for links on any requested page):
- Checklinks
- User:Dispenser/Checklinks – documentation
- m:Weblinkchecker.py -script to find and report external links that are no longer available
- Bots:
- User:EchoBot – bot that posts messages on article talk pages when a dead external link is found
- User:Stwalkerbot – bot that posts messages on article talk pages when a dead external link is found
- Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/ShakingBot – inactive request for bot to flag bad external links
- Identified bad links:
- Fixing bad external links:
- Wikipedia:Citing sources#Dead links
- Wikipedia:Improving referencing efforts (proposal)
- Archive.org:
- Wikipedia:Using the Wayback Machine
- ErrorZilla – Firefox add-on; when a link is not found, the error screen offers (among other things) a search of archive.org
- User:RefBot – not operational due to restrictions on owner – ArbComm cases
- OTHER:
- Special:Linksearch – identifying all external links from a given domain that are in Wikipedia articles (useful for spam searches, for example)
- Category:External link templates
- Help:Link#Conversion to canonical form – how links work (technical)
- Help:Custom namespaces – prefixes (like :m) that (normally) resolve into an interwiki but can resolve into external source
- Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Self-references to avoid
- Top 500 external websites to which Wikipedia links
- User:Anomie/reftooltip.js – user script to display footnote text as a tooltip when the cursor is on a footnote number
- User:Anomie/ajaxpreview.js – user script to display footnotes in the preview when editing a section
- Spam: (see also Sources, Vandalism)
- Wikipedia:Spam (WP:SPAM) (guideline)
- Blacklist:
- Wikipedia:WikiProject Spam
- User:Thomas Larsen/Yuser, on fighting linkspam
- Special:Linksearch – tool for finding all articles with similar spam (spam domain)
- Wikipedia:Template messages/User talk namespace#Grid of warnings – warnings (templates) for spammers
- m:Anti-spam features – some built in, some optional
- Template:Spamsearch – list of spam terms ("our products") to search for
- Category:Wikipedia spam
- Automation:
- Bots:
- User:AntiSpamBot (was Shadowbot)
- User:XLinkBot (was SquelchBot) and User talk:XLinkBot/RevertList
- User:COIBot – reports linkadditions where the editor's name has a significant overlap with the domain of the link added, or (for IP editors) the IP of the link is close to the IP of the editor
- User:RBSpamAnalyzerBot – uses database dumps to analyze pages for potential spam
- User:Nixeagle/Linkwatcher – bot that identifies links added in edits; feed is via Freenode
- User:MER-C/Spamsearch – searching for a particular (spammy) URL across all 700+ Wikimedia projects
- User: RoboMaxCyberSem – removal of links to blacklisted and other problem sites
- m:Spamda – anti-spam program to assist editors in identifying and reverting spam; under development as July 2007
- Wikipedia:Search engine optimization (essay)
- Wikipedia:Spam event horizon (essay)
- Wikipedia:Wikipedia is not Google (essay)
- Wikipedia:WikiProject Advertising (inactive)
- Span tags: Wikipedia:Span tags – common ones are "div" (small font in References/Notes section), strikethrough, and blockquote
- Special characters:
- Help:Special characters
- Help:Macrons
- Spelling: (see also Formatting of text, Maintenance)
- Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Proper names
- U.S. and Commonwealth differences:
- Wikipedia:Manual of Style (spelling)
- Wikipedia:Manual of Style (capital letters)
- Wikipedia:List of spelling variants
- Wikipedia:Articles using British English titles
- Wikipedia:Articles using American English titles
- Wikipedia:Manual of Style/National varieties of English (failed proposal)
- Wikipedia:Perennial proposals#Enforce American or British spelling
- Errors in articles:
- Wikipedia:Spellchecking
- Wikipedia:Lists of common misspellings
- Wikipedia:Redirects from misspellings
- Wikipedia:AutoWikiBrowser/Typos
- Wikipedia:Typo Team
- User:TypoBot
- User:SpellCheckerBot – will generate lists of suspected spelling errors which individual editors can then review and correct
- Spellbot: User talk:Rambot (awaiting code rewrite as of March 2007)
- Wikipedia:AutoWikiBrowser/Typos – set of regular expressions used to automatically fix common typos and misspellings
- Other:
- Spell checkers for various browsers: see Wikipedia:Tip of the day/September 2, 2008
- Splitting: see Article size
- Spoiler: Wikipedia:Spoiler (WP:SPOIL) (guideline)
- SQL query: see Queries (database)
- Stable versions: (see also Quality of articles)
- Wikipedia:Why stable versions
- Wikipedia:Flagged revisions (WP:FLR)
- mw:Extension:FlaggedRevs – allows for Editor and Reviewer classes of editors to rate articles and set revisions as the default to show normal viewers
- Implementation on German Wikipedia:
- Demonstrations:
- Discussed in Signpost: March 2005, July 2006, August 2006, March 2008
- m:Reviewed article version
- m:Article validation
- Veropedia – stable articles imported from Wikipedia
- Inactive/rejected:
- m:Article endorsement (inactive proposal)
- Wikipedia:Stable versions (inactive)
- Wikipedia:Stable versions now (failed proposal)
- Stubs:
- Wikipedia:Stub (WP:STUB) (guideline)
- User:Grutness/Stubbing how-to
- Wikipedia:Most wanted stubs
- Wikipedia:WikiProject Stub sorting
- Wikipedia:WikiProject Stub sorting/Naming conventions
- Wikipedia:WikiProject Anti-Stub
- Special:Shortpages
- Shortpages – finds pages of less than 50 characters
- User:Zorglbot/Shortpages
- Wikipedia:Computer help desk/cleanup/stubsensor/20060810 – project to remove stubs from articles where that tag does not belong
- Wikipedia:WikiProject Stubsensor – tries to identify out-of-the-ordinary articles tagged as stubs
- Wikipedia:Stub types for deletion
- User:Ais523/stubtagtab.js – adds tab for easy application of {{stub}} and more specific stub templates
- Bots:
- User:Giggabot – does stub sorting
- User:Addbot – checks articles in Category:Stubs to see if they should still be in that category
- User:RockfangBot – prepares stub types to be deleted (orphans them)
T
- Table of contents: (see also Layout and sections)
- Category:Wikipedia table of contents templates
- Wikipedia:Template messages/Compact tables of contents
- Help:Section – covers several aspects of TOCs
- Tables:
- Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Tables
- Help:Table
- Help:Sorting
- m:Help:Collapsing
- User:Smurrayinchester/Tutorial/Tables
- User:Dcljr/Tables – another user page about tables
- "Table" namespace:
- mw:Extension:TableEdit
- Wikipedia:Table: namespace and editor – proposal that a new table editor should be written and that tables should be moved to a namespace similar to Image namespace
- Wikipedia:Table namespace
- Bug # 2194 – feature request
- Exporting a table from a page:
- Importing data from existing spreadsheets:
- Tabs: Template:Page tabs
- Tags: see Wikipedia:Span tags, Messageboxes (using the term “tags” to refer to messageboxes is common but technically incorrect; messageboxes are templates)
- Talk pages (see also Archiving, Signature, User pages, Warnings)
- Wikipedia:Talk page guidelines (WP:TPG) (WP:TP)
- m:Help:Talk page
- Wikipedia:Tutorial/Talk pages
- Wikipedia:BOLD, revert, discuss cycle – an exception to discussing content changes on article talk pages
- Wikipedia:Refactoring talk pages
- Wikipedia:A researcher's guide to discussion pages
- Template:Uw-english – when an editor posts a comment in a language other than English
- Wikipedia:Talk page highlights – humor
- Wikipedia:WikiProject User scripts/Scripts/Talk page section tabs – if redlink to a talk page is clicked, uses the "new section" option for editing, not "new page" option
- Wikipedia:Indentation (essay)
- Wikipedia:Emoticons
- Templates for avoiding having user talk page discussions on two different pages: {{usertalkback}} and {{talkback}}
- IP user talk pages:
- Wikipedia:IP talk page proposal
- Template:IPtalk
- Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/MonoBot 2 – adds a header (template) to long IP user talk pages
- Liquid Threads: planned new system for talk pages
- Templates for article talk pages: (see also WikiProjects)
- MediaWiki:Talkpagetext – standard message that appears at top of all (new?) mainspace talk pages – implemented late 2006
- Template:Talk header – common template (at least until Talkpagetext was implemented) – header "Keep" decision 1/2007
- Wikipedia:Talk page templates
- Wikipedia:Template messages/Talk namespace
- Template:ArticleHistory – consolidates information on multiple talk page templates (discussed at Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/2008-03-24/Dispatches)
- Template:WikiProjectBanners and Template:WikiProjectBannerShell – for consolidating WikiProject templates at the top of article talk pages (discussed at Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/2008-03-24/Dispatches)
- Category:Talk header templates
- Template:Skip to talk – template for top of article talk pages, to allow readers to bypass other templates at top of article talk page
- Bots:
- User:PaievBot – adds specified text (including a parameterized template) to talk pages of articles in a given category and sub-categories
- User:GimmeBot – adds information about events such as peer reviews and outcomes of featured and good article candidates to the Articlehistory template
- Templates: (see also Article message boxes, Infoboxes, Messageboxes, Series boxes, Transclusion, Userboxes)
- General information:
- More information:
- Substitution:
- Technical:
- Wikipedia:Template sandbox and test cases
- Wikipedia:Template limits
- Help:Advanced templates
- Help:Parameter default – expands templates recursively
- Help:Editing sections of included templates
- Special:ExpandTemplates – takes some text and expands all templates in it recursively.
- Wikipedia:Changing templates
- Wikipedia:Category suppression – keeping templates from creating categories when they shouldn't
- Problems:
- Wikipedia:High-risk templates – authorizes permanent protection for such templates
- Wikipedia:Requested templates
- Wikipedia:Templates for discussion
- Category:Pages containing omitted template arguments
- Category:Pages where template include size is exceeded
- Wikipedia:Templates with red links
- Help:Job queue – why changing a category in a template doesn't instantly change all articles with that template
- User:SoxBot – Substitutes templates that should be substituted, but were not
- Other:
- Category:Wikipedia templates
- Category:Intricate templates
- tools:~cbm/cgi-bin/queries/TemplateRevs – shows last edit for all templates transcluded on a page (default is WP:AN/I)
- Wikipedia:WikiProject Inline Templates – primarily for inline superscript templates such as {{Fact}}
- Wikipedia:Avoid template creep (essay)
- User:Zondor/Toolboxes – list of templates used as tools
- Wikipedia:Avoid using meta-templates (failed proposal)
- Terms and terminology: (abbreviations and acronyms)
- Wikipedia:Glossary
- Wikipedia:Tutorial/Glossary – ten terms not covered in the main part of the tutorial that may be useful for beginners
- Wikipedia:Edit summary legend – commonly used abbreviations in edit summaries
- Wikipedia:Wikipedia abbreviations
- Wikipedia:WikiSpeak – alternative definitions
- Thailand: Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Thailand-related articles
- Things to do:
- Wikipedia:Community portal#Todo
- User:SuggestBot – generates a list of articles with known problems that the requesting editor might be interested in fixing
- Wiki ToDo – Randomly selects an article, provides a statistical analysis, and suggests ways to improve it
- Wikipedia:Maintenance
- Wikipedia:The Cure for WikiBoredom
- Threats: (see also Personal attacks)
- Legal threats: see Legal
- Violence:
- Wikipedia:Threats of violence
- User:Mendaliv/TOV letter
- Three reverts: Wikipedia:Edit warring#The three revert rule (WP:3RR)
- Time:
- Adjusting date/time shown on watchlists and other special pages: see "my preferences", "date and time" tab
- User:Gary King/localize comments.js – converts all timestamps on a displayed Wikipedia page to the user's local time
- Tips:
- Wikipedia:Tips
- Wikipedia:Tip of the day
- Template for one's user page: {{totd}}
- Category:Wikipedia Tip of the day
- Wikipedia:Wikipedia tipster
- Translations: (see also Interwiki links)
- Wikipedia in different languages – overview:
- Wikipedia:Multilingual coordination
- m:Meta:Babylon – Meta translations portal and noticeboard
- m:Wikimedia Embassy – central place for resources to help with cross-language issues that affect everyone
- Category:Wikipedia multilingual coordination
- Wikipedia:Contributing to articles outside your native language
- incubator:Main Page – Wikimedia Incubator, for developing potential Wikimedia project wikis in new language versions
- Information about languages, and translation aids:
- Wikipedia:Local Embassy
- m:List of Wikipedias
- Language recognition chart
- Help:Special characters
- Help:Multilingual support (guide to fonts)
- Category:Multilingual support templates
- Problems with existing article in the English Wikipedia:
- Wikipedia:Pages needing translation into English
- Category:Wikipedia articles needing translation
- Wikipedia:Content contradictory to other language versions
- Moving information from other language Wikipedias to the English Wikipedia
- Wikipedia:Translation
- Wikipedia:French Collaboration Project – for translation of high quality articles from the French Wikipedia
- Wikipedia:Spanish Translation of the Week
- Wikipedia:WikiProject Echo – finding information in articles in non-English Wikipedias to be added to this Wikipedia (inactive)
- Wikipedia Bilingual – side-by-side display of an article in any two languages in which it is available (Firefox browser extension)
- Editors who can help with translations:
- Transwiki: (see also Interwiki links)
- Wikipedia:Wikimedia sister projects (Manual of Style) – info on moving articles between other projects such as Wikiquote, Wikisource, Wiktionary, Wikinews, and Wikibooks
- m:Help:Transwiki
- Category:Transwiki templates
- Wikipedia:Transwiki log
- Information on specific sister projects:
- Wikiversity: Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/2008-05-09/Wikiversity interview
- Trivia:
- Wikipedia:Manual of Style (trivia sections)
- Template:Trivia
- Wikipedia:Handling trivia
- Wikipedia:"In popular culture" content (essay)
- Wikipedia:WikiProject Trivia Cleanup
- Category:Articles with trivia sections
- m:WikiTrivia – a proposed offshoot of Wikipedia
- Trolls and trolling: Wikipedia:What is a troll? (WP:TROLL) (essay)
- Tutorials: see Help pages
U
- Undue weight: see Wikipedia:Neutral point of view (called "space and balance" in the NPOV tutorial)
- Unicode: Wikipedia:Scripts#Unicode numeric converter scripts
- Units of measurement:
- Wikipedia:Manual of Style (dates and numbers)#Units of measurement
- Template:Convert
- Category:Conversion templates
- Ukrainian: Wikipedia:Romanization of Ukrainian (Manual of Style)
- URLs: (see also Sources, Wikilinks)
- Help:URL - URLs of pages within Wikipedia: articles, redirects, watchlists, etc.
- Wikipedia:Tutorial/Citing sources
- {{urlencode:}} – magic word that encodes non-alphanumeric characters in a URL (for example, one that has brackets within it)
- Template:Querylink – how to avoid showing the external link graphic for a URL for a Wikipedia page where the URL has a query string
- User account and username: (see also Logging in, Privacy, Signature, User pages, User rights)
- Registered versus unregistered editing:
- Wikipedia:Why create an account? – benefits to a person who decides to register
- Wikipedia:The benefits of requiring account creation on Wikipedia (essay) – arguments against allowing IP editors
- Wikipedia:The benefits of not requiring account creation on Wikipedia (essay) – arguments in favor of IP editors
- Wikipedia:IPs are human too (essay) - arguments on not assuming IP editors do not make positive contributions
- Starting out:
- Help:Email confirmation
- Inappropriate usernames:
- Wikipedia:Usernames for administrator attention – blatantly inappropriate usernames
- Wikipedia:Requests for comment/User names – discussions
- Template:Uw-ublock
- Monitoring bots:
- User:HBC NameWatcherBot
- User:DeadBot
- Changing usernames:
- Special:Listusers – check if a username exists
- Wikipedia:Changing username
- Wikipedia:Changing username/Guidelines
- Wikipedia:Changing username/Usurpations – changing a username to another registered but "unused" (no edits) username
- Wikipedia:Copying watchlist to new username
- Removing accounts without any edits:
- Single signon (single login):
- Gender:
- Special:Preferences has (as of early 2009) an optional, user-selected field for gender
- Templates that use this field: {{heorshe}} and {{hisorher}}
- Other:
- User interface: (see also Customization, Usability)
- User pages: (see also Archiving, Galleries, User account and username, Userboxes, Warnings)
- Wikipedia:User pages (WP:USER) (guideline)
- Wikipedia:Subpages (guideline)
- Wikipedia:WikiProject Keep It Simple – for Wikipedians who like a simple layout in their user page
- Wikipedia:User page design center
- Wikipedia:Userfication – moving an article from Wikipedia mainspace to a user subpage, usually because of failure to establish notability of the subject of the article
- Current status of an editor:
- Wikipedia:Editor activity indicator – in, around, somewhere, out
- User:Misza13/Scripts#Status switcher – adds "in", "busy" and "out" links next to the "log out" link
- User:Xenocidic/statusChanger2.js
- Template:Statustop
- User:Hersfold/StatusTemplate – "one-click way to update your status yourself"
- User:TheDJ/Qui – script and system to track the online/offline status of specified other editors
- User:Chris G Bot 3 – IRC users can message the bot when they want the bot to set their status to online or offline
- Bug # 14384 – New #lastedit parserfunction (accepts a username as input and return a standard timestamp of the last edit by that username)
- mw:Extension:OnlineStatus
- Categories:
- Information about editors:
- Wikipedia:WikiProject User scripts/Scripts/User tabs – adds tabs for counts (of edits), page moves, contributions, and block logs when viewing user or user talk pages.
- Wikipedia:WikiProject User scripts/Scripts/User Contribs Tabs – shows contributions, counts (of edits), and edit summary usage when viewing user or user talk pages
- Secret pages:
- User:Bahamut0013/Secret pages
- Proposal to ban, April 2008 (no consensus)
- Other:
- User rights (also known as "user privileges", "user groups", and "usergroups"):
- Userboxes (see also User pages)
- Wikipedia:Userboxes (WP:UBX)
- Wikipedia:Userbox migration – userification of userboxes
- Wikipedia:Userbox Maker
- Wikipedia:WikiProject Userboxes
- Category:Userboxes
- Wikipedia:Jimbo on Userboxes (WP:JOU)
- User scripts: (JavaScript) (.js pages) (see also Bots, Gadgets, Tools):
- Wikipedia:WikiProject User scripts
- Wikipedia:WikiProject User scripts/Tutorial
- Wikibits – "MediaWiki JavaScript support functions" (good source of code)
- Wikipedia:Tools
- Wikipedia:Tools/Navigation popups
- Help:User style#JavaScript
- User:Aaron Schulz/UsefulJS
- User:GeorgeMoney/UserScripts
- Category:Wikipedia scripts
- mw:Extension:Gadgets – a way for editors to pick JavaScript or CSS based "gadgets" that other Wikipedia editors have created, via the "my preferences" page
- Wikipedia:WikiProject User scripts/Scripts/Autolink – makes plaintext wikilinks and templates clickable, for example on monobook.js pages
- Userification: Wikipedia:Userfication – moving a non-notable or very problematical article to user space as an alternative to deletion
V
- Valued content:
- Wikipedia:Valued pictures
- Category: Wikipedia valued pictures
- Dispatches: Valued pictures (Signpost article, April 2009)
- Vandalism (see also Sock puppets, Spam, Stable versions, Warnings)
- In general:
- Wikipedia:Vandalism (WP:VAN) (policy)
- Wikipedia:Cleaning up vandalism
- Tutorial: Reporting and dealing with vandals – Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/2008-01-28/Tutorial
- Wikipedia:Vandalism in progress – a quick directory
- Wikipedia:Revert, block, ignore (essay)
- Wikipedia:Do not insult the vandals (essay)
- Wikipedia:Deny recognition (essay)
- Wikipedia:The motivation of a vandal (essay)
- Category:Wikipedia vandalism
- Wikipedia:WikiProject Vandalism studies
- Edit filter:
- Wikipedia:Edit filter – extension implemented in March 2009 that analyzes (filter) edits and automatically takes rules-based action (let edit happen, prevent edit, issue warning, etc.)
- mw:Extension:AbuseFilter
- Log: Special:AbuseLog
- Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/2009-03-23/Abuse Filter "Abuse Filter is enabled" (Signpost article, March 2009)
- Getting assistance:
- Wikipedia:Guide to administrator intervention against vandalism
- Wikipedia:Administrator intervention against vandalism – page to report vandalism incidents to administrators (WP:AIV)
- Wikipedia:Abuse response – reporting abuse of an IP address to a school, university, or internet provider (must have been at least five blocks on the IP address) (WP:ABUSE)
- Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents – for complex cases where WP:AIV is inadequate (WP:AN/I)
- Coordinated efforts:
- Wikipedia:Counter-Vandalism Unit
- Wikipedia:Recent changes patrol
- Wikipedia:Most vandalized pages
- Template:Vandalism information
- Freenode IRC network – #vandalism-en-wp channel
- Patrolled edits:
- Wikipedia:New pages patrol
- Wikipedia talk:Checked edits brainstorming – January 2005 failed implementation (little participation)
- Tools: (see also Recent changes)
- Category:Wikipedia counter-vandalism tools
- Wikipedia:Cleaning up vandalism
- Wikipedia:AutoWikiBrowser
- User:AmiDaniel/VandalProof – more than 1400 users
- Wikipedia:Twinkle (also available as a gadget, under "my preferences")
- Wikipedia:Huggle
- Wikipedia:Mike's Wiki Tool, for Windows and Linux users
- User:Lupin/Filter recent changes – uses realtime feed to identify edits containing badwords; requires User:Lupin/Anti-vandal tool (user script)
- User:Henna/VF – Vandal-fighter – software that watches Wikipedia edits in real-time (announced May 2005)
- User:Garethfoot/Wiki-Aid – Windows program that adds a sidebar interface
- User:Lloydpick/Wikipedia Vandalism Watch – Windows program that monitors specified editors' contributions pages for "top" edits
- WikipediaVision (beta) – shows unregistered edits to Wikipedia (almost) in real-time, on a Google map
- IP lookup
- godmode-light – JavaScript that adds rollback buttons to user contribution and article diff pages
- Schools: post {{schoolblock}} on talk pages
- Warning vandals:
- User:Kbh3rd/Vandal warning toolbox
- User:Adam1213/warn – enter the username and click a button to post a warning (note: still should read the user talk page first)
- Reporting of vandals at WP:AIV:
- User:Digitalme/aiv.js – adds "ipvandal" and "vandal" buttons when editing WP:AIV
- User:Royalguard11/AIV'er – Mac OS X program
- Bots:
- Identifying and fixing vandalism:
- User:MartinBot
- User:AntiVandalBot
- User:ClueBot
- User:CounterVandalismBot
- User:AntiAbuseBot - Watches the Recent Changes (RC) feed for actions that match known vandals; then sends off an alert on irc, reverts the edit, reverts the edit and blocks the user, or just blocks the user
- Assisting at WP:AIV:
- User:HBC AIV helperbot3
- User:HBC AIV helperbot5
- User:HBC AIV helperbot7
- User:HBC AIV helperbot 8
- Other:
- Vanity articles: see Conflicts of interest and Wikipedia:Criteria for speedy deletion
- Variables: see Magic words
- Verifiability: see Sources
- Version tagging: see Stable versions
- Video: see Media
- Vital articles:
- Wikipedia:Vital articles (WP:VITAL) – most important 1000 (or so) articles and their status (featured, good, templated as needing work, etc.)
- Wikipedia:Vital articles/Expanded
- m:List of articles every Wikipedia should have
- Wikipedia:Version 1.0 Editorial Team/Core topics
- Wikipedia:List of 2007 Macropædia articles – analysis of Wikipedia's coverage of these 699 articles in the Encyclopædia Britannica
- Volunteer response team: Wikipedia:Volunteer Response Team (otherwise called OTRS)
- Voting: see Consensus and voting
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- Wikibreaks:
- Wikipedia:Wikibreak
- Self-specified (enforced) breaks:
- Wikipedia:WikiProject User scripts/Scripts/WikiBreak Enforcer – user script
- LeachBlock – Firefox add-on (for any website)
- SelfControl (Mac OS X only)
- Wikilawyering: see Policies and guidelines (misuses of)
- Wikilinks: (see also Piped links, Red links)
- Wikipedia:Manual of Style (linking)
- Help:Editing#Links and URLs
- Wikipedia:Tutorial/Wikipedia links
- Help:Contents/Links
- Help:Link
- Help:Self link
- Help:What links here – identifying wikilinks that point to an existing page
- User:JL-Bot – corrects links that are in the format of external links but should be wikilinks
- Technical:
- Pages where lack of wikilinks indicates a problem:
- Special:DeadendPages – pages with no outgoing wikilinks
- Wikipedia:Dead-end pages (no longer run; excess load on server)
- Special:Lonelypages – pages with no incoming wikilinks ("orphan" pages)
- User:SoxBot – adds {{orphan}} template to Lonelypages lacking such
- Wikipedia:WikiProject Orphanage
- Category:All orphaned articles
- User:JL-Bot – checks articles tagged as orphans, and removes the tag if it is no longer applicable
- Fixing:
- User:Nickj/Can We Link It – tool that is included in the {{deadend}} template
- Other:
- Special:Mostlinked – pages with the most links pointing to them
- Wikipedia:Link intersection (feature request) – using wikilinks in searches
- User:Zocky/Link Complete – JavaScript tool which adds autocomplete functionality for links in the edit box
- Six degrees of Wikipedia – shortest path query solver
- Wikipedia:WikiProject User scripts/Scripts/Autolink – makes plaintext wikilinks and templates clickable, for example on monobook.js pages
- Wikimedia Foundation – the parent organization of Wikipedia and numerous other collaborative projects such as Wiktionary and Wikibooks
- Wikipedia as a community (see also Criticism (of Wikipedia), Experts, News (about Wikipedia), WikiProjects)
- m:Wikicommunity
- Participants:
- Philosophies:
- Forums:
- Research and studies:
- Organizations: (see also WikiProjects)
- Category:Wikipedian organizations
- Wikipedia:Concordia – inactive as of December 2006; efforts to revive in early 2007
- Wikipedia:Esperanza – defunct as of January 2007
- Other:
- Divisiveness: Wikipedia:Divisiveness
- Wikipedia:Meetup – face-to-face meetings of Wikipedians in cities around the world
- Wikipedia:Geonotice – a notice displayed only on watchlists of editors who are calculated (based on their IP address) to be in a specific geographical area, such as a metropolitan area.
- Wikipedia:Wikipediology – a WikiProject for "a serious study of the dynamics and problems of the Wikipedia community and providing resources about the Wikipedia community that currently do not exist" (inactive)
- Wikipedia:Wikistress Reduction Initiative
- Category:Wikipedia culture
- Wikipedia:WikiProject Wikipedia
- Wikipedia basic information:
- WikiProjects: (for a WikiProject related to a topic within this index, see that topic) (see also Collaborations)
- In general:
- Bots:
- User:SatyrBot/WikiProject Services
- User:MelonBot/Member lists – identifies active and inactive participants
- User:PaievBot – adds specified text (including a parameterized template) to talk pages of articles in a given category and sub-categories
- User:MonoBot – Adds WikiProject templates to article talk pages, including an assessment for the article based on previous ratings
- User:FlagBot – automate the assessment of articles within a WikiProject
- User:WatchlistBot – tags pages to create project watchlists
- User:AlexNewArtBot – identifies new articles related to a WikiProject
- User:PsychAWB – tags articles with WikiProject banners and adds "stub" assessment to the talk page template if an article has a stub template
- User:BHGbot – puts a template on the talk pages of categories and articles to identify them as being within the scope of a particular WikiProject
- User:SMS Bot – adds WikiProject banners to talk pages of articles
- User:LivingBot/ProjectSignup – posts milestones for a WikiProject (for example, reaching 10 Featured articles) to the Wikipedia:Announcements page
- User:NeraBot – WikiProject tagging
- User:Giggabot – WikiProject tagging and newspaper delivery
- User:DyceBot – WikiProject tagging
- User:SQLBot – tags article talk pages with wikiproject templates
- User:SoxBot – tags article talk pages with WikiProject templates
- User:John Bot – tags article talk pages
- User:Anibot – delivers newsletters
- User:ENewsBot – delivers newsletters
- User:Newsletterbot – delivers newsletters
- User:StormBot – delivers newsletters
- Other:
- User:ClockworkSoul/Igor – a standalone multi-functional management tool for maintaining and managing a medium-to-large WikiProject
- Wikipedia:Awards by WikiProject
- Template:WikiProject
- Category:WikiProjects – pages categorized as WikiProjects
- Wisdom: Wikipedia:Words of wisdom
- Words and wording: (see also Formatting of text, Spelling)
- Wikipedia:Manual of Style
- Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Abbreviations
- Peacock terms:
- Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Words to watch#Puffery – show, don't tell
- {{Peacock}}
- Category:Articles with peacock terms
- Wikipedia:Manual of Style#Technical language
- Wikipedia:Wikipedia is not a dictionary#Neologisms
- Wikipedia:Rhetoric (Manual of Style)
- Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Self-references to avoid – "this website", "this Wikipedia article" (okay on talk pages, but not articles)
- Wikipedia:Technical terms and definitions (Manual of Style)
- Wikipedia:Manual of Style (trademarks)
- Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Words to watch (WP:AWW)
- Wikipedia:Manual of Style (dates and numbers)#Precise language (WP:DATED)
- Wikipedia:Make technical articles understandable (Manual of Style)
- Wikipedia:WikiProject Grammar
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