Wikipedia:Editor's index to Wikipedia
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This index for editors is intended to help find anything not in the encyclopedia itself, including administration pages such as guidelines, policies, essays, informative, discussion and process pages. See about this index for tips on how to use this, and for instructions on maintaining consistency when editing it. See also Reader's index to Wikipedia and Editor's index to Commons.
For a smaller listing of "help" and "how to" pages, see the Help directory. For other useful directories and indexes, see Wikipedia:Directories and indexes.
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- Abbreviations: see also Shortcuts, Terms and terminology
- Abbreviations in articles
- Template:Abbr
- Problematic abbreviations in articles
- Abbreviations in articles
- Abuse: see Vandalism
- Access (limiting): (see also Enforcement)
- Blocks by governments:
- 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
- Preventing abuses via open proxies:
- Wikipedia:Open proxies (WP:NOP) (policy)
- Wikipedia:WikiProject 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 (WP:ACCESS)
- Wikipedia:WikiProject Accessibility (Signpost article, November 2013)
- Wikipedia:Accessibility advocates
- Wikipedia:Accessibility dos and don'ts
- usability:Accessibility Initiative – information about the Wikipedia Usability Initiative and the Multimedia Usability Project, both grant-funded and discontinued as of January 2011
- 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
- Wikipedia:Dyslexic readers
- American Sign Language (ASL):
- ASL Wikipedia on Incubator
- SignWriting Tech for written sign language on Incubator
- Account: see User account and username
- Admin coaching: Wikipedia:Admin coaching – a now inactive coaching program for admin hopefuls
- Administration:
- Wikipedia:Administration see also Enforcement, Functionaries
- Administrators: (see also Enforcement)
- Category:Wikipedia adminship
- General information:
- Contacting an administrator: (see also specific topics such as Vandalism)
- Wikipedia:Requests for administrator attention – a directory of places to request administrator help
- Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard – message board for coordinating and discussing administrative tasks on Wikipedia (not supposed to be for incidents; see that page or elsewhere in this index for other pages on which to report incidents) (WP:AN)
- Current administrators:
- Wikipedia:List of administrators
- Special:Listusers/sysop
- Category:Wikipedia administrators
- Active/inactive/activity:
- Wikipedia:List of administrators/Active
- Wikipedia:List of administrators/Inactive – those who haven't edited in the past three months
- User:JamesR/AdminStats – lists of admins, sorted by the number of deletions, restorations, etc.
- tools:~thebainer/admin-activity – statistics relating to administrator activity on any Wikimedia project (on the toolserver)
- Wikipedia:Perennial proposals#Demote inactive admins
- Reallocating adminship duties:
- Wikipedia:Perennial proposals#Hierarchical structures – there should be some kind of "partial admin"
- Wikipedia:Perennial proposals#Grant non-admins admin functions within their user space
- Becoming an administrator:
- Wikipedia:WikiProject Admin Nominators (inactive)
- 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
- Requirements:
- 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:
- After becoming an administrator:
- Wikipedia:New admin
- Wikipedia:Administrators' reading list
- b:MediaWiki Administrator's Handbook
- Help:Reverting#Admin features
- Wikipedia:Advice for new administrators (essay)
- User:NoSeptember/Subpages about adminship
- Wikipedia:IRC/Personal views regarding IRC – regarding proper use of the admin IRC channel
- Tools:
- 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
- Wikipedia:Perennial proposals#It should be easier to remove adminship
- Other:
- "Jimmy Wales denies Wikipedia admin recruitment crisis" (July 2012)
- 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
- mw:Admin tools development
- Template:Admin help
- Category:Wikipedians looking for help from administrators
- User:NoSeptember/The NoSeptember Admin Project
- 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
- Advertisements:
- Internal advertising for other Wikipedia pages (see also Wikipedia:Motto of the day)
- Template:Wikipedia ads/doc – process
- Template:Wikipedia ads
- Template:Wikipedia-adnavbox – list of current ads
- On Wikipedia, revenue-raising for the Wikimedia Foundation [currently not done]
- Off Wikipedia, on behalf of Wikipedia:
- On Wikipedia pages, by outside groups and individuals, not for the benefit of the Wikimedia Foundation and its projects:
- Within articles: see Spam
- On non-article (user) pages: see WP:UP#PROMO
- Internal advertising for other Wikipedia pages (see also Wikipedia:Motto of the day)
- Advice: see Help, Learning, New editors, Questions
- Advocacy: (see also Conflict of interest)
- Wikipedia:What Wikipedia is not#Wikipedia is not a soapbox or means of promotion (policy)
- Wikipedia:Advocacy (essay)
- Wikipedia:Activist (essay)
- Wikipedia:Advocacy articles (essay)
- Wikipedia:Avoid academic boosterism (essay)
- Wikipedia:Civil POV pushing (essay)
- AfD (Articles for Deletion): see Deletion of articles
- Algorithms: Wikipedia:WikiProject Computer science/Manual of style#Algorithms
- Alphabetical order: Help:Alphabetical order
- Anchors: see Navigation
- Anonymous users (anonymous editors): see Unregistered users
- API:
- Arabic:
- Help: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
- m:Arbitration committee/EnglishArbComInterviews – email interviews with four committee members (June 2013)
- {{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
- Wikipedia:Devolution – failed proposal to establish a mechanism for the committee to devolve selected powers to a designated body
- 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 – easilys make an archive searchable
- Template:Archives
- Using a bot:
- Article message boxes (amboxes): (sometimes called "tags"; these are templates)
- Wikipedia:Template messages#Article-related namespace
- Wikipedia:Template standardisation – for articles
- Wikipedia:Ambox classes – creating article message boxes
- Wikipedia:Classes in Ambox/Skins – changing the way that standardized article "tags" are displayed
- Wikipedia:Perennial proposals#Move maintenance tags to talk pages
- 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 forks (guideline) – pieces of content on the same subject (some types are good, some types are bad)
- 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
- {{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 (alternative: User:Dr pda/prosesize)
- 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:
- Wikipedia:Assume good faith (WP:AGF) (guideline)
- User:Filll/AGF Challenge – a set of exercises based on typical Wikipedia editing situations in controversial areas
- 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)
- Spoken voice introductions:
- Audio clips: see Media
- Spoken versions of Wikipedia articles:
- Autobiographies: see Biographies
- Autoconfirm: (a type of User right)
- Wikipedia:Requests for permissions/Confirmed
- mw:Extension:Automatic Groups
- mw:Manual:$wgAutopromote
- mw:Extension:TorBlock (editing through tor requires 100 edits and a 90 days to become autoconfirmed, as of June 2008)
- Changes:
- Wikipedia:Autoconfirmed Proposal/Poll – proposal, May 2008, to increase the requirements for autoconfirmed status by requiring new editors to have a specific number of edits, and possibly increasing the four-day waiting period
- Bug# 14191 – Autoconfirmed settings on enwiki changed to 4 days and 10 edits as of May 2008
- Wikipedia talk:Autoconfirmed Proposal/Poll2 – proposal, June 2008, to increase requirements to 7 days, 20 edits (about 65% supported)
- Autograph books: see User pages
- Automation: see Bots, Tools, User scripts
- Awards: (see also Contests)
- 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:Four Award – for starting an article, having that article get a Did You Know? item on the Main Page, and getting the article to Featured status
- 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
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- Back to top: Wikipedia:Back to top (javascript to add a button to every section header)
- Backlogs:
- 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
- Behavior (see also Disruptive editing, Enforcement, Personal attacks, Spam, Vandalism)
- Wikipedia:List of policies#Behavioral: standards for behavior of Wikipedia editors
- Wikipedia:Simplified ruleset#Safe behaviours – twelve guidelines for "safe behaviours"
- Wikipedia:Etiquette (WP:EQ) (guideline) – how to work with others on Wikipedia
- User:Antandrus/observations on Wikipedia behavior (essay)
- m:Don't be a dick
- Wikipedia:Wikiquette assistance
- Wikipedia:Avoid personal remarks
- Wikipedia:Don't call the kettle black – an essay
- Wikipedia:Harmonious editing club
- Category:Wikipedia user conduct
- Being bold: Wikipedia:Be bold (WP:BOLD or WP:BB) (guideline)
- Bias:
- Wikipedia:WikiProject Countering systemic bias
- "Missing from Wikipedia" – a tool to identify people who should have a biography but do not
- 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:
- Wikipedia:Notability (people)
- Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Common outcomes#People
- Wikipedia:Notability (academics) (guideline)
- Wikipedia:Biographical optout (failed proposal) – individuals who are not "public figures" can have their biography removed upon request
- Wikipedia:Borderline biographies (essay)
- Wikipedia:Perennial proposals#Delete no-consensus AfDs for biographies of living persons
- Formatted data (see also Series boxes)
- 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: (see also Conflicts of interest):
- Wikipedia:Biographies of living persons/Noticeboard (WP:BLP/N)
- Wikipedia:Biographies of living persons/BLPWatch
- Categories of problems:
- Wikipedia:Database reports/Untagged biographies of living people (biographical articles without a {{bio}} template on the article talk page)
- Wikipedia:Contact us - Subjects – what to do when an individual has a problem with an article about that person or about someone that person represents
- Libel: Wikipedia:Libel (policy)
- Privacy:
- Wikipedia:Biographies of living persons#Presumption in favor of privacy
- Wikipedia:Oversight (policy) and Wikipedia:Requests for oversight – removal of personal or libelous information on older revisions of an article (see also Oversight)
- Wikipedia:Deletion policy#Courtesy blanking (WP:CBLANK) (guideline) – removal of personal info within a deletion discussion
- Articles about Wikipedians:
- Identified problems:
- Wikipedia:Database reports: Unbelievable life spans, biographies of dead people (entire section), biographies of living people (entire section)
- Other:
- Wikipedia:Contact us - Licensing – for problems with copyright, or to put content on Wikipedia
- Wikipedia:Family trees
- Wikipedia:WikiProject Biography
- "Missing from Wikipedia" – a tool to identify people who should have a biography but do not
- 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
- Books: (see also Collections (books), Resources)
- Articles about a book:
- Wikipedia:Notability (books) (guideline)
- Wikipedia:Naming conventions (books) (guideline)
- ISBN
- Wikipedia:ISBN
- Wikipedia:Book sources
- Special:Booksources
- User:Lunchboxhero/monobook.js – when clicking on an ISBN link, go directly to your preferred book-related website
- Ottobib – Web page that generates citation if ISBN is known
- Problems:
- Category:Articles with invalid ISBNs – usually very few articles listed
- Wikipedia:List of pages with Invalid ISBNs – stubborn cases
- Finding a book mentioned in a Wikipedia article:
- At a local library:
- Forward to Libraries (Signpost article, March 2013)
- Wikipedia:Forward to Libraries (information page) – uses templates to allow readers to go to a landing page for their specific information
- User:Lunchboxhero/monobook.js – when clicking on an ISBN link, go directly to your preferred book-related website
- At a local library:
- Other:
- Template:Gutenberg – for creating a link to a book source available at Project Gutenberg
- Articles about a book:
- Bots: (see also Tools, User scripts)
- Wikipedia:Bot policy
- Wikipedia:Bots/Frequently denied bots
- m:Bot policy
- Wikipedia:Types of bots (not maintained)
- Wikipedia:History of Wikipedia bots (very sketchy/dated)
- Creating:
- Wikipedia:Creating a bot
- m:Using the python wikipediabot
- Creating MediaWiki bots in PHP – includes BasicBot
- Wikipedia:Bot requests (WP:BOTREQ) – requests to existing bot owners; questions about possible new bots, requests for assistance in creating or improving a bot, etc.
- Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval
- Special:Log/makebot
- Wikipedia:Bots/Status – list of all bots
- Category:Wikipedia bots
- Special:Listusers – set to "Bots"; user accounts listed have been flagged as doing very low-risk edits
- Wikipedia:Bot owners' noticeboard
- Wikipedia:Bot Approvals Group
- Template:Bots – template for user pages, to encourage or block (compliant) bots
- Wikipedia:Requests for comment/Adminbots
- Cumulative editing statistics for bots
- Browsers (for Wikipedia editing): (see also Editing software)
- m:Browser issues with MediaWiki
- Wikipedia:Tools/Browser tools
- Wikipedia:Interfaces/External interfaces
- 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 "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:
- Bugs:
- Wikipedia:Bug reports and feature requests
- Phabricator: - Wikimedia Phabricator
- How to Report Bugs Effectively – general advice on reporting bugs, recommended, not specific to any particular system
- Bureaucrats – folks who handle special, higher-level administrative tasks
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- Canonicalization: Help:Link#Conversion to canonical form (converting links to URLs)
- Canvassing: see Messages
- CAPTCHA:
- Captions: see Images
- 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
- MediaWiki:Categoriespagetext – scrollable access to the list of all 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 (at the toolserver)
- 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:Overpopulated 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
- Wikipedia:Database reports/Polluted categories – Categories that contain pages in both the (Main) namespace and user namespaces
- 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 "Preferences")
- Articles without categories:
- Special:UncategorizedPages
- User:Addbot – adds categories to uncategorized articles, using AWB
- Intersection of two categories:
- Wikipedia:Categorization#Searching for articles in categories – via the standard search box (doesn't search subcategories)
- CatScan – a tool that can do various types of category scans, including intersection (may or may not be using up-to-date version of database); can search subcategories
- m:User:Duesentrieb/CatScan
- CatScan (at the toolserver)
- Wikipedia:Category intersection – a feature request
- m:Help:DPL – a MediaWiki extension supporting intersections and other set operations of pages belonging to several 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
- Wikipedia:Category suppression – keeping templates from creating categories when they shouldn't:
- 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:Yetanotherbot – 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:
- 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 (at the toolserver)
- 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
- User:Dr. Submillimeter/Humorous categories – unusual (and no longer existing) categories
- random article – redirects to a random article in a given category's tree (at the toolserver)
- General information:
- Censorship:
- Wikipedia is not censored
- Wikipedia:No disclaimers in articles
- Wikipedia:Offensive material (Manual of Style)
- m:Should Wikipedia Use Profanity
- Wikipedia:Pornography (essay)
- Wikipedia:Advice for parents (essay)
- Wikipedia:WikiProject Wikipedians against censorship
- Wikipedia:WikiProject Sexology and sexuality
- MediaWiki:Bad image list
- Wikipedia:Perennial proposals#Content warnings
- Wikipedia:Perennial proposals#Censor offensive images
- Ways to set personal preferences so as to not see some or all images:
- Help:Options to hide an image (alternative to censorship)
- User:Mr.Z-man/badimages
- Failed proposals:
- Chapters:
- wmf:Local chapters
- Sub-national chapters Q&A (October 20, 2008)
- Characters (special): Help:Special characters
- Checkuser: see Sock puppets
- Children: see Privacy
- China:
- Citations:
- Within articles: see Sources
- If others want to cite Wikipedia: Wikipedia:Citing Wikipedia
- Civility: see Personal attacks
- Clarity:
- Wikipedia:Please clarify (information page)
- Template:Clarify – to mark individual phrases or sentences
- Template:Elucidate – to mark individual phrases or sections which require further explanation for general (i.e., non-expert) readers
- Template:Confusing – to mark sections (or entire articles, though this is undesirable)
- Template:Examples – to mark individual phrases or sentences which require examples for clarification
- Wikipedia:Please clarify (information page)
- Classes: see Learning (for classes of editors, see User rights)
- Cleanup: see Maintenance, Quality of articles
- Clerks: see Functionaries
- Coaching: see Learning
- Collaborations: (see also Maintenance, WikiProjects)
- Wikipedia:Collaborations
- Template:COTWs – collaborations of the week
- Category:Wikipedia collaborations
- Wikipedia:WikiProject Reference Desk Article Collaboration
- Wikipedia:Today's articles for improvement
- Wikipedia:Spotlight
- Etherpad Lite at wikimedia.org – for real-time, simultaneous editing
- Collapsing:
- Collections (books)
- Wikipedia:Books
- m:Book tool
- Wikipedia:Bookshelf – pages that organize the list of community books
- Help:Books
- Help:Books/PediaPress PDF rendering
- Special:PrefixIndex/Book:
- "Books extension enabled" (Signpost article, March 2009)
- mw:Extension:Collection – organizing a personal selections of pages into a collection
- 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)
- Comments, invisible: (also called "invisible text", "hidden comments", "hidden text")
- Common sense: (see also Process)
- Commons (Wikimedia Commons):
- Wikipedia:Wikimedia Commons – as of September 2013, has over 18 million media files (photographs, diagrams, animations, music, spoken text, video clips, etc.) available for use in any Wikimedia (community) project, as well as for free downloading by anyone. Anything other than non-free content should be uploaded to the Commons, not to the English Wikipedia.
- Commons:Welcome
- A guide to getting started on Wikimedia Commons
- Wikimedia Commons – manual that provides the essential information for people interested in contributing their own work to Wikimedia Commons
- Mayflower – searching the Commons (at the toolserver)
- Commons:Commons:Tools
- Manual for new Commons users (at en.flossmanuals.net)
- Uploading:
- Default/standard process: Commons:Commons:Upload Wizard
- Commons:Commons:GLAMToolset project – a set of tools to make easier the batch uploads of GLAM (Galleries, Libraries, Archives, and Museums) material
- Other processes: see Commons:Commons:Upload tools (includes tools for Flickr, Android, and iPhone)
- Moving images to Commons (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") (at the toolserver)
- 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 (at the toolserver)
- 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 (at the toolserver)
- RSS feeds:
- Category-based feed (for newly added images) (at the toolserver)
- Media file of the Day (at the toolserver)
- Other:
- Category:Wikimedia Commons administrators – English Wikipedia editors who are admins at the Commons
- m:User:CommonsDelinker – bot that removes links from Wikipedias (all languages) when an image is deleted at Commons
- Commons interface for the iPhone (at the toolserver)
- Flickr-like interface to Commons (no logins or uploads) (at the toolserver)
- Commons sum-it-up – tool to generate a summary text for pages on Commons, using Wikipedia articles in different languages (at the toolserver)
- Flickr:
- "The Commons" at Flickr – "Help us catalog the world's public photo archives."
- Browse Flickr images (at the toolserver)
- Communications (communicating with other editors): see Messages
- Community: see Wikipedia as community
- Community portal: Wikipedia:Community portal – a place to find collaborations, tasks, and news about English Wikipedia (see also Wikipedia as a community)
- Companies and organizations:
- Wikipedia:FAQ/Article subjects
- Wikipedia:Companies, corporations and economic information
- Wikipedia:Notability (organizations and companies) (guideline)
- Wikipedia:Naming conventions (companies) (guideline)
- Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Common outcomes#Companies
- Infoboxes:
- Wikipedia:Contact us - Subjects – what to do when an individual who owns or represents a business or other organization has a problem with an article about that organization
- Portal:Business and economics
- 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:
- Category:Online encyclopedias
- Citizendium – vetted volunteers (articles that originated in part at Wikipedia are GFDL) (July 2007 analysis in the Signpost)
- New World Encyclopedia – paid editors (funded by Unification Church through February 2008) (all GFDL)
- Medpedia (GFDL) (in preview mode as of July 2008)
- Conflict of interest: (see also Advocacy, Biographies, Promotional content)
- Wikipedia:Conflict of interest (WP:COI) (guideline)
- Wikipedia:Plain and simple conflict of interest guide (essay) (WP:PSCOI)
- Wikipedia:Conflict of interest/Noticeboard – reporting cases of conflict of interest policy not being followed
- {{edit COI}} – for talk page postings; related: Category:Wikipedia conflict of interest edit requests
- Wikipedia:COI declaration (essay)
- Paid editors:
- Wikipedia:Conflict of interest#Paid editing (WP:PAY)
- Wikipedia:WikiProject Cooperation/Paid editor help
- Wikipedia:WikiProject Integrity
- Wikipedia:Paid editing (essay)
- Wikipedia:Paid editor's bill of rights (essay)
- Wikipedia:Reward board
- Proposals:
- Wikipedia:Perennial proposals#Paid editing
- Wikipedia:No paid advocacy (failed proposal) (2013)
- Wikipedia:Paid editing (guideline) (failed proposal) (December 2010)
- Wikipedia:Paid editing (policy) (failed proposal) (2009/2010)
- Wikipedia:Requests for comment/Paid editing (June 2009) (inactive)
- Automation:
- User:COIBot
- User:AlexNewArtBot/COISearchResult – new articles that appear likely to be conflict of interest cases
- Wikipedia Scanner – identifies unregistered edits from user-specified organizations (Wired magazine story, August 2007)
- Other:
- Conflict-of-interest editing on Wikipedia – controversies that have been reported in the media
- Wikipedia:Suggestions for COI compliance (essay)
- Wikipedia:Best practices for editors with close associations (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)
- Wikipedia:Bounty board (marked "Historical" in November 2013)
- Congress: edits by Congressional staffers:
- Consensus and voting:
- Wikipedia:Consensus (WP:CON) (policy)
- Wikipedia:Rough consensus (failed proposal, November 2013)
- Wikipedia:Consensus#Consensus can change (WP:CCC)
- Wikipedia:Arbitration Committee/June 2008 announcements/Consensus seeking processes
- m:Wikipedia power structure
- m:Democracy
- Wikipedia:Elections
- Wikipedia:Requests for comment
- Wikipedia is not an experiment in democracy – historical statement by Jimmy Wales (2005)
- Wikipedia:WikiProject Democracy – information on current elections, voting and centralized discussions
- Wikipedia:Polling is not a substitute for discussion (guideline)
- Wikipedia:Of course it's voting
- Wikipedia:Canvassing (WP:CANVAS) (guideline)
- m:Polls are evil
- Wikipedia:Voting is not evil (essay)
- Wikipedia:Times that 1000 or more Wikipedians supported something
- Wikipedia:Delegable proxy (failed proposal)
- Wikipedia:Straw polls (failed proposal)
- Conservapedia: Wikipedia vs. Conservapedia Bookmarklet
- Conservation: Wikipedia:Conservation status (categories) (Manual of Style)
- Content of articles: (see also Content disputes, Edits (in general), New articles, Style (articles), and specific topics throughout this index)
- Content disclaimer: Wikipedia:Content disclaimer
- 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.)
- Wikipedia:Dispute resolution (WP:DR) (policy) – overview of the process
- Wikipedia:Ownership of articles (WP:OWN) (policy) – no editor "owns" the content of an article; the only way that an editor can properly prevent their words from being edited is to not put them into a Wikipedia article in the first place
- Wikipedia:Controversial articles (Manual of Style)
- Wikipedia:Etiquette (WP:EQ) (guideline) – how to work with others on Wikipedia
- Wikipedia:Editing policy#Preserve information (WP:PRESERVE) (policy) endeavour to preserve content
- Wikipedia:Arbitration Committee/June 2008 announcements/Skilled content warriors
- Wikipedia:Scientific standards (inactive proposal)
- Reverts and other disagreements:
- Wikipedia:BOLD, revert, discuss cycle – Boldly edit, revert once, discuss – an essay on reaching consensus
- Wikipedia:Accuracy dispute (guideline)
- Wikipedia:NPOV dispute – how-to guidance
- Wikipedia:Edit warring (policy)
- Wikipedia:Edit warring#The Three revert rule (WP:3RR) – repeated edits can get a user account blocked (typically, for 24 hours)
- Wikipedia:Verifiability#Burden of evidence
- Wikipedia:Accuracy dispute
- Wikipedia:Uphill Battles (essay)
- Wikipedia:Disruptive editing (guideline)
- Wikipedia:Lamest edit wars
- Wikipedia:Other stuff exists#Precedent in usage (essay)
- Wikipedia:Don't overuse shortcuts to policy and guidelines to win your argument (essay)
- 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/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 – (rule: only two parties involved).
- Obtain dispute resolution: Wikipedia:Dispute resolution noticeboard
- 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 (marked inactive July 2012 But is it really?)
- Other:
- Wikipedia:No climbing the Reichstag dressed as Spider-Man (essay) (WP:SPIDER)
- Wikipedia:Working group on ethnic and cultural edit wars (final report was August 2008)
- Wikipedia:Requests for remedies (failed proposal)
- General policies and guidelines: (in addition to WP:NOR, WP:V, WP:NPOV, etc.)
- Content notes: see Notes
- Controversial articles: (see also Content disputes)
- Wikipedia:Controversial articles (Manual of Style)
- Wikipedia:List of controversial issues
- Conversion:
- Converting page content from one format to another: see Exporting (a page), Importing
- Converting one unit of measurement into another: see Units of measurement
- Converting wikitext table data to and from other formats: see Tables
- Copyright: (see also Legal)
- In general:
- Wikipedia:FAQ/Copyright
- Wikipedia:Copyrights (policy)
- Wikipedia:Image use policy
- Wikipedia:Non-U.S. copyrights (guideline)
- Wikipedia:Media copyright questions – a place to get help and answers
- Fair use, non-free use, and public domain:
- wmf:Resolution:Licensing policy – requires all Foundation projects to create a "Exemption Doctrine Policy (EDP)" for fair use media.
- Wikipedia:Non-free content criteria (WP:FUC) (policy)
- Wikipedia:Non-free content (guideline)
- Wikipedia:Plain and simple non-free content guide
- Wikipedia:Non-free content criteria compliance (proposal as of August 2011)
- Wikipedia:Non-free use rationale guideline (guideline)
- Wikipedia:Public domain (guideline)
- Dispatches: Reviewing non-free images – Signpost article, September 2008
- m:Avoid Copyright Paranoia – discussion
- Wikipedia:WikiProject Images and Media/Non-free
- Wikipedia:History of non-free content policies – Survey of the development of the present NFC policy
- Wikipedia:Deletion of all fair use images of living people (historical page)
- 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 - Licensing – if an article is using copyrighted content without permission
- Wikipedia:Copyright violations (WP:COPYVIO) (policy)
- Wikipedia:Plagiarism (guideline)
- Wikipedia:Close paraphrasing (essay)
- Wikipedia:Spotting possible copyright violations
- Wikipedia:Copyright problems
- Duplication Detector (at the toolserver) – compare any two web pages to identify text which has been copied from one to the other
- 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
- wmf:Designated agent – for notification of claimed infringement
- Wikipedia:Files for discussion
- Categories for problem images:
- Bots to find problems:
- Text:
- 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
- Using Wikipedia content outside of Wikipedia:
- Wikipedia:Reusing Wikipedia content (policy)
- Commons:Commons:Reusing content outside Wikimedia
- Wikipedia:Buying Wikipedia articles in print or another form (commercial use)
- GFDL (former licensing):
- GNU Free Documentation License
- Wikipedia:Text of the GNU Free Documentation License
- Wikipedia:Verbatim copying under the GFDL (essay)
- Migration from:
- "GFDL 1.3 released, will allow Wikimedia migration to Creative Commons license" (Signpost article, November 2008)
- Proposal to license Wikimedia material so it is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike license (CC-BY-SA)
- m:Licensing update/Questions and Answers
- m:Licensing update(voting to start April 2009)
- In general:
- 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 (at the toolserver)
- 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 "Preferences":
- Via the Gadgets tab in "Preferences" – see Gadgets
- Via JavaScript: see User scripts
- Via Cascading Style Sheets (CSS):
- Help:Cascading Style Sheets
- Skins:
- Wikipedia:Skin (trivial; probably should be a redirect)
- m:Customization:Explaining skins
- MediaWiki talk:Vector.css – place to discuss changes to the Vector skin (standard skin that editors get by default)
- MediaWiki talk:Monobook.css – place to discuss changes to the Monobook skin (older standard skin)
- MediaWiki talk:Modern.css – bug reports and other comments for new (January 2008) Modern skin
- Different customizations of the way Wikipedia pages appear, downloadable from userstyles.org/styles/ (primarily for readers) (Firefox, Thunderbird, Flock, Mozilla Suite, SeaMonkey, and Songbird browsers only)
- 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
- Technical:
- Help:User style
- m:Help:Cascading style sheets
- Wikipedia:Catalogue of CSS classes
- Wikipedia:Useful styles
- m:Customize page layout – should be at Mediawiki; how to rework standard page seen by all non-logged in readers
- Editors who know CSS: Category:User CSS
- Cyrillic: Wikipedia:Naming conventions (Cyrillic)
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- Data download: see Downloading all of Wikipedia, Queries (database) (for individual pages, see Exporting (a page))
- Database lag (message displayed on watch list):
- User:Equazcion/LagToMinutes – adds minutes/seconds version of the lag (which is normally shown only as number of seconds)
- Database query: see Queries (database)
- Dates: (see also Current events)
- Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Dates and numbers
- Wikipedia:Naming conventions (numbers and dates)
- Wikipedia:Manual of Style#Chronological items
- Wikipedia:Date formattings
- 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#Linking and autoformatting of dates
- Wikipedia talk:Manual of Style (dates and numbers)/RFC: Unresolved date delinking and autoformatting issues (closed 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)
- Wikipedia:Requests for arbitration/Date delinking (closed June 2009)
- Bug# 4582 – provide preference-based autoformatting for unlinked dates
- Other:
- "Daughter" articles: see Article size
- Decision-making: see Consensus and voting, Functionaries, Wikimedia Foundation
- Deletion: (see also Categories for deletion of categories, Redirect for deletion of redirects, etc.) (for articles, see Deletion of articles, immediately below)
- Wikipedia:Deletion process (WP:DP) (guideline)
- Template:Deletion tools (for one's user page)
- Wikipedia:Introduction to deletion process (essay)
- Wikipedia:Deletion process
- Wikipedia:Deletion guidelines for administrators (WP:DGFA) (guideline)
- Wikipedia:WikiProject Deletion
- Category:Wikipedia deletion
- 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:Search engine test (how-to)
- Wikipedia:New admin/Deleting
- Commons:File:Deletion process on English Wikipedia (flowchart).jpg
- Wikipedia:Perennial proposals#Delete unreferenced articles
- Essays:
- Wikipedia:Give an article a chance
- Wikipedia:List of bad article ideas
- Wikipedia:I wouldn't know him from a hole in the ground
- Wikipedia:Deletion and deletionism
- Others: see "Essays on building, editing, and deleting content" at Template:Wikipedia essays
- Alternatives to deletion:
- Move to a sister project such as Wiktionary or Wikisource – see Transwiki
- Wikipedia:Userfication – if article has potential for Wikipedia (move to userspace)
- Help:Merging
- Wikipedia:Redirect (guideline)
- Wikipedia:Article Incubator ("soft delete")
- 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:
- User:CSDWarnBot – finds the creator of a tagged article and posts a warning on the user's talk page
- Pending deletion: Category:Candidates for speedy deletion
- 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
- Wikipedia:Database reports/PRODed articles with deletion logs (not necessarily current)
- Category:Proposed deletion
- Formal deletion process (AfD discussions) (Articles for deletion):
- 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
- 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
- Wikipedia:Perennial proposals#Rename AFD – rename to "Articles for Discussion"
- Current AfDs:
- Wikipedia:Articles for deletion (AfD) – shows how to create a new AfD, links to current AfDs
- Wikipedia:Articles for deletion#Current discussions – articles proposed for deletion in the past five or so days via the AfD process
- Tools for participation:
- 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"):
- Wikipedia:Help, my article got nominated for deletion! (essay)
- Wikipedia:Arguments to avoid in deletion discussions (essay)
- Wikipedia:Other stuff exists (essay)
- Wikipedia:Pokémon test (essay) (marked as "historical")
- 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
- 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 the page I created deleted? (essay)
- 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:
- 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, 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
- Policies, general criteria, and examples: (see also Notability)
- Deletionist: see m:Deletionism
- Diagrams: see Graphics
- Dictionary:
- Wikipedia:Wikipedia is not a dictionary (policy)
- For Wiktionary, see also wikt:Main Page
- Another alternative: Urban Dictionary
- WikiLook – Firefox add-on that provides Wiktionary information about any word on a screen, when specially selected (shift or highlight plus mouse move)
- Diff: see History (of a page)
- Dimensions: see Units of measurement
- 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~enwiki/Bookmarks
- Wikipedia:TourBusStop
- "Toolsets":
- For readers more than for editors, but still useful:
- Disambiguation (see also Moving a page, Naming an article)
- Information about:
- Wikipedia:Disambiguation (guideline) (WP:DAB)
- Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Disambiguation pages
- Wikipedia:Disambiguation and abbreviations (guideline)
- Special:DisambiguationPageLinks – pages that link to a disambiguation page and (probably) should link to an article instead
- Hatnotes (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:
- Special:DisambiguationPages
- 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
- Possible problems:
- Category:Disambiguation pages to be converted to broad concept articles
- Special:DisambiguationPageLinks – Pages linking to disambiguation pages
- Wikipedia:Disambiguation pages with links
- Wikipedia:Disambiguation pages with links/Maintenance
- Template:Incoming links (placed on disambiguation pages)
- Template:Dablinks
- Template:Dablinks/FAQ
- Tools:
- Dab solver (at the toolserver)
- Dablinks (at the toolserver)
- 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)
- Wikipedia:WPCleaner – requires Java 5 or later
- Bots:
- User:DPL bot
- 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:
- mw:MediaWiki:Disambiguationspage – list of templates that categorize disambiguation pages as such (e.g., {{Geodis}})
- Category:Disambiguation and redirection templates
- Other:
- mw:Extension:Disambiguator – allows all disambiguation pages to be designated with the __DISAMBIG__ magic word (or an equivalent)
- 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:Wikipedia disambiguation
- Information about:
- Disclaimers:
- Discussion pages: see Talk pages
- Disputes: see: Content disputes, Personal attacks
- Disruptive editing (see also Content disputes, Enforcement, Personal attacks)
- Wikipedia:Disruptive editing (guideline) (WP:DIS)
- Wikipedia:Gaming the system (guideline) WP:GAME
- Wikipedia:Do not disrupt Wikipedia to illustrate a point (WP:POINT)(guideline)
- Wikipedia:Harassment (WP:HAR) (guideline)
- Wikipedia:Tendentious editing (essay)
- Wikipedia:Requests for comment/User conduct – requires two or more editors to have posted warnings about another editor
- Wikipedia:User RFC reform (inactive/historical)
- Downloading all of Wikipedia: (see also Mobile access, Queries (database); for downloading individual pages, see Exporting (a page))
- Pre-packaged:
- June 2006 ("official" version)
- Wikipedia:TomeRaider database
- Most recent version – £3.00 requested payment; includes £1 donation to the Wikipedia Foundation [sic]
- Slightly older English version (free)
- Wikipedia-iphone – complete download for iPhone or iPod Touch
- Infodisiac downloads (for Windows Mobile/Pocket PC, regular Windows O/S, and Palm)
- Webaroo – download of all Wikipedia articles as a set of web pages, for off-line reading (horribly out-of-date)
- Do-it-yourself:
- Wikipedia:Database download
- Wikimedia Downloads – four types of downloads (was known as "Wikimedia dump service")
- Wikipedia Static HTML Dumps
- Wikipedia:FAQ/Forking – downloading all of Wikipedia plus the WikimMedia software to run it
- Freebase Wikipedia Extraction (WEX) – processed dump of Wikipedia, with machine-readable XML and tabular extracts of relational features
- Building a (fast) Wikipedia offline reader
- Screencast: "How to install Wikipedia on your iPod Touch or iPhone!", YouTube, February 8, 2008
- Pre-packaged:
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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
- Help:Dummy edit – to post a "follow-up" edit summary when the first is missing, incomplete, or incorrect
- 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)
- Editing interface (see also Browsers, Preview, Usability, User interface)
- mw:Markup spec/ANTLR – general specifications for existing markup syntax
- WikiEditor:
- mw:Extension:WikiEditor
- Tweaking the standard Wikipedia text editing window: see Edits (in general)
- Enhancements:
- CodeEditor – adds syntax highlighting, easier insertion of tab characters, etc.
- Wikipedia:RefToolbar/2.0
- mw:Manual:Custom edit buttons
- mw:Extension:WikiEditor/Toolbar customization
- VisualEditor: (sometimes "Visual Editor")
- foundation:2011-2012 Annual Plan Questions and Answers#What are the 2011-12 plan targets? – Initial goal of opt-in production-ready version by December 2011
- Wikipedia:VisualEditor
- mw:VisualEditor
- Wikipedia:VisualEditor/Feedback
- User:John Vandenberg/switch editor – can begin editing in VE, and then switch – mid-edit – to WikiEditor without losing any editing work
- Documentation:
- mw:VisualEditor:TestingRefs
- Alternatives:
- User:Magnus Manske/less edit clutter.js – interface change, via javascript, that puts references in a separate edit box (screenshot, mailing list discusion)
- mw:Extension:Uniwiki Generic Edit Page – extension that replaces the default editing page of Mediawiki with a section-based editor (unimplemented)
- WYSIWYG:
- mw:WYSIWYG editor
- mw:Extension:InlineEditor/Proposal – WYSIWYG editing, but limited to sentences without complications [archived proposal]
- Other WYSIWYG alternatives:
- Using an external editor:
- Wikipedia:Text editor support
- Wikipedia:External editors
- Wikipedia:WikiProject User scripts/Scripts/External editor – adds a tab to easily invoke an external editor
- Wikipedia:MozEx tutorial – how to use the MozEx extension of Mozilla and Mozilla Firefox to select a page editor
- Wikipedia:Wikipedia-mode.el – Emacs
- Eclipse Wikipedia Editor at SourceForge.net
- Editor review: Wikipedia:Editor review – to request a review of one's editing
- Editors: see Wikipedia as a community
- Edits (in general) (see also Edit summary, Editing interface, Formatting of text, Help, History (of a page), New articles, New editors, Page revisions, Preview, Quality of articles, Sources)
- Wikipedia:Wikipedia in brief
- Wikipedia:Editing policy – official policy
- Wikipedia:Introduction 2
- Wikipedia:Tutorial/Editing
- Help:Editing
- mw:Help:Editing pages
- Tags (brief messages that the software automatically places next to certain edit):
- Standard editing screen:
- Help:Edit toolbar
- MediaWiki talk:Edittools
- Modifying:
- Wikipedia:Tools/Editing tools
- Wikipedia:User scripts#Editing – user scripts that add search and replace, quick preview, and modifications to the edit toolbar
- mw:User:Remember the dot/Syntax highlighter – a script that makes syntax stand out colorfully in the edit box
- Custom edit buttons (information at Wikia, which uses the MediaWiki software that Wikipedia also uses)
- Help:Editing FAQ
- User:Uncle G/Wikipedia triage – a guide to "What to do" with problematical articles (nice categorization)
- Wikipedia:Basic copyediting
- Wikipedia:FAQ/Contributing
- Wikipedia:FAQ/Editing
- Wikipedia:Be bold
- Wikipedia:Annotated article – an annotated article that explains various editing decisions, using a sample article
- Wikipedia:Patent nonsense (guideline) – what to do with not-understandable content in an article
- m:Help:Dummy edit – generally for the purpose of posting an edit summary
- Category:Wikipedia editing
- Enhancements for edit mode:
- User:Zocky/Search Box – search and replace
- mw:Extension:Drafts – adds the ability to save a draft of the edit of a page, on the server, while editing; also automatically saves edits in progress every 120 seconds
- Elections (articles on):
- Elections within Wikipedia and Wikimedia:
- Email:
- Embedded citations: see Sources
- Encyclopedia:
- Wikipedia:Wikipedia is an encyclopedia (WP:ENC)
- Wikipedia:What Wikipedia is not#Wikipedia is not a paper encyclopedia (WP:NOT#PAPER)
- Wikipedia:External peer review – information on formal and informal reviews of the overall quality of Wikipedia articles, done by outside experts, not initiated within Wikipedia
- Wikipedia:Size comparisons
- Wikipedia:Wikipedia is a work in progress (WP:WIP) (essay)
- Wikipedia:There is a deadline (essay) – Why it's important to contribute now
- Wikipedia:Fancruft (essay)
- Criticism:
- Criticism of Wikipedia
- Wikipedia:Replies to common objections
- Wikipedia:Why Wikipedia is not so great
- User:Ta bu shi da yu/Global Politician – "six sins" of Wikipedia – a rebuttal
- Wikipedia:Evaluating Wikipedia as an encyclopedia (essay)
- Wikipedia:Wikipedia is succeeding (essay)
- Alternatives to the English Wikipedia, within the Wikimedia Foundation:
- Simple English Wikipedia
- meta:Concise Wikipedia (proposal as of September 2013)
- Endnotes: see Sources
- Enforcement: (see also Administrators, Arbitration, Functionaries, Protection of pages)
- General:
- Wikipedia:List of policies#Enforcing policies: what action authorized editors can take to enforce other policies
- Wikipedia:General sanctions
- Wikipedia:Requests for administrator attention – a directory of places to request administrator help
- Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard (WP:AN)
- Wikipedia:Confidential evidence (inactive proposal)
- Blocks: (see also Access (limiting))
- Wikipedia:Blocking policy (WP:BLOCK)
- Help:I have been blocked
- Wikipedia:New admin/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:
- Wikipedia:Blocking IP addresses
- Wikipedia:IP block exemption (policy)
- mw:Help:Range blocks
- Template:School block
- Special:Ipblocklist – List of currently blocked IP addresses and usernames (searchable)
- m:Global blocking – new extension; implemented August 2008
- 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:
- General:
- Esperanza: Wikipedia:Esperanza – a group of Wikipedia editors "dedicated to strengthening Wikipedia's sense of community"; created in September 2005, disbanded in January 2007
- Essays:
- Wikipedia:Policies and guidelines#Non-official essays or proposals
- Wikipedia:The difference between policies, guidelines and essays (WP:PGE)
- Wikipedia:Wikipedia essays ("guidance essay") (WP:WES)
- Wikipedia:The value of essays (information page)
- Wikipedia:WikiProject Essays
- Finding essays (in Wikipedia: namespace)
- Wikipedia:About essay searching (includes list of more than 800 essays)
- Category:Wikipedia essays
- Category:Wikipedia essays by impact
- Template:Wikipedia essays
- Other essays about essays:
- Category:User essays –
- Also see the "About essays" section of Template:Wikipedia essays
- Ethiopia:
- Etiquette: see Behavior
- Experts: (see also Criticism (of Wikipedia))
- Category:Articles needing expert attention
- Wikipedia:WikiProject Expert Request Sorting – changes the general "expert-needed" category in articles to more specific subcategories
- Essays:
- Exporting (a page): (see also Downloading all of Wikipedia, Collections (books))
- Help:Export
- Special:Export
- mw:Manual:Parameters to Special:Export
- PDF:
- mw:Extension:PDF Writer
- WikiPDF
- Wikipedia:Books#Resources
- Mediawiki2pdf (shows sample Wikibooks url, but reportedly works for Wikipedia articles as well)
- m:Alternative parsers – programs and projects to translate MediaWiki's text markup syntax into something else, such as HTML
- Wikipedia:Wiki Markup Language (WKML) (historical)
- Extensions: see MediaWiki
- External links: see Sources, URLs
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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:Today's featured article/requests – requests that a particular featured article appear on the Main Page
- Wikipedia:Featured article statistics
- Process (roles):
- User:Feature Historian – sortable table of articles that are or were FAs
- Advice on writing a FA:
- 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:
- 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:
- Wikipedia:Featured pictures
- Dispatches: Reviewing featured picture candidates (Signpost article, January 2009)
- Portals:
- Sounds:
- Dispatches: "Featured sounds" (Signpost article, May 2008)
- Dispatches: "Hundredth Featured sound approaches" (Signpost article, February 2009)
- Films:
- Wikipedia:Notability (films) (guideline)
- Wikipedia:Naming conventions (films)
- Wikipedia:WikiProject Film
- Wikipedia:WikiProject Film/Style guidelines/Copy-editing essentials
- Plot summaries:
- Wikipedia:WikiProject Deletion sorting/Film
- Wikipedia:IMDb (Internet Movie Database) – templates
- The Movie Dude – user script that cross-links various movie related sites with Wikipedia
- Portal:Film
- Five pillars:
- Flags: (as content, not database fields)
- Fonts: (see also Languages)
- Planned update:
- Wikipedia:Typography (essay)
- Footnotes: see Sources
- Foreign language, words in: (or "words in other languages")
- For words that should be changed to English, see Translation
- For words that should remain in another language:
- Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Text formatting#Foreign terms
- Category:Wikipedia multilingual support templates
- Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Accessibility#Other languages
- Template:Lang - mark part of the text as being in another language, language name not displayed
- Template:Langx - mark part of the text as being in another language, language name displayed
- Template:Interlinear- provide interlinear text glosses
- Form (as input): mw:Extension:InputBox (a MediaWiki extension to add predefined HTML forms to wiki pages)
- Formatting of text: (see also Exporting (a page))
- How to (wikitext):
- 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
- Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Accessibility#Text
- Quick reference guides:
- Help:Cheatsheet
- Short, printable "cheatsheet" on Wikimedia Commons
- Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Computing#Command-line examples – for articles on computer science, how to format words that an editor would type
- Colors:
- Line breaks and word wrapping:
- Wikipedia:Don't use line breaks (Manual of Style)
- Wikipedia:Line-break handling (How-to guide)
- Help:Newlines and spaces
- Template:Nowrap
- Discussion of MediaWiki's syntax:
- Other:
- Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Titles – scientific names, titles of books, etc.
- Wikipedia:Naming conventions (books)#Subtitles
- mw:Manual:Extending wiki markup
- How to (wikitext):
- 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:
- 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
- mw:Legal and Community Advocacy/Legal Fees Assistance Program
- Types:
- Administrators: q.v.
- Bureaucrats: q.v.
- Checkusers: q.v.
- Clerks:
- Wikipedia:Arbitration Committee/Clerks
- For usurpations: March 1, 2007 description
- 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 "Preferences" page) (see also User scripts)
- mw:Extension:Gadgets- a way for editors to pick JavaScript or CSS based "gadgets" that other Wikipedia editors have created, via "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
- mw:Gadget kitchen
- Galleries (see also Images)
- Games: see Fun (for games within Wikipedia), Video games
- General disclaimer: Wikipedia:General disclaimer
- Geocoding (graphic coordinates and mapping): (see also Maps)
- Wikipedia:Obtaining geographic coordinates
- Wikipedia:WikiProject Geographical coordinates
- Wikipedia:Database reports/Articles containing overlapping coordinates
- mw:Extension:GeoData (blog posting)
- Template:Coord
- commons:Commons:Geocoding
- GeoLocator – "Interactive tool ... to ease georeferencing and geotagging"
- 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
- mw:Beta Features/Nearby Pages – Adds a button to the top right corner of pages that contain geographical information, to get the reader to "nearby" pages
- Showing existing Wikipedia articles on a map:
- Wikimapia
- Google:
- Google Maps has an option, under "More", to place markers showing Wikipedia articles
- About the Google Earth Geographic Web Layer
- Gifs:
- Wikipedia:Image use policy#Animated images
- Bug# 16451 – GIF scaling limit should be applied to animated GIFs only
- GLAM: (Galleries, Libraries, Archives, and Museums)
- Outreach:GLAM
- Outreach:GLAM/Newsletter
- Wikipedia:GLAM
- Commons:Commons:GLAMToolset project – a set of tools to make easier the batch uploads of GLAM material
- 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
- Good articles: (see also Featured articles)
- Good faith: see Personal attacks
- Google:
- Google Earth: see Maps
- Google test: see Search engine test
- Wikipedia:Google Web Accelerator – the accelerator should be disabled for the wikipedia.org domain
- m:Mirror filter – Firefox extension which removes sites which mirror Wikimedia content from Google search results
- The page where Google gets its description of Wikipedia – at dmoz.org
- {{Google templates}} – a list of templates that generate links to various Google services (e.g. search, custom search, image search, language translation)
- Wikipedia:Purging Google search results (WP:GOOGLEPURGE) – how to remove vandalism, etc., from cached copies of Wikipedia articles in Google search results
- Graphics (see also Images)
- Wikipedia:Graphics tutorials
- Help:Displaying a formula – markup
- Charts:
- Wikipedia:Graphics Lab (formerly "Graphic Lab")
- Diagrams:
- 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
- hCard microformat
- Headings (headers): see Article message boxes, Layout and sections
- Hebrew:
- Help:Hebrew
- Wikipedia:Naming conventions (Hebrew) (guideline)
- Help (directly requesting): (see also Questions)
- Template:Help me – {{Help me}}
- Category:Wikipedians looking for help
- Template:Admin help
- Category:Wikipedians looking for help from administrators
- Wikipedia:Help desk (WP:HD)
- Wikipedia:Highly Active Users (WP:HAU) – request editing help from users who are currently online
- Help pages: (for pages that are help-oriented for a specific topic, see that topic); see also Assistance (disputes), Learning, Questions
- Help:Contents – top-level help page in the English Wikipedia
- mw:Help:Contents – top-level help page at mediawiki.org (intended for use by anyone installing the MediaWiki software)
- Help:Contents/Directory – help directory
- Wikipedia:Help desk patrol
- Wikipedia:Help Project
- Template:Help navigation
- Category:Wikipedia help projects
- Frequently asked questions:
- Wikipedia:FAQ – includes 13 "general" FAQs
- Nubio – "a repository of Frequently Asked Questions about Wikipedia" (at the toolserver)
- Wikipedia:Village pump (technical)/FAQ
- Pages categorized as help-related:
- Other:
- Helpwiki – planned merger back into Wikipedia (February 2008)
- Hieroglyphs: Help:WikiHiero syntax
- History (of a page): (see also Page revisions)
- Wikipedia:How to read an article history
- Help:Page history
- Wikipedia:Copyright violations on history pages
- 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: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 – Greasemonkey script. 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
- tools:~tparis/blame/ – Similar
- 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):
- m:User:Jah/histfilter – Filters out reverted vandal edits, versions that don't affect a specific section, etc.
- "wikipedia blame": October 2008 blog posting and 1450 articles processed using the code
- For counts and major contributors:
- WikiDashboard – when going to a new page, puts a count of top editors, and a histogram of edit activity, at the top of the page (Quick Guide)
- Revision counter[dead link] – counts revisions (edits) (at the toolserver)
- WikiSense – Contributors – lists edits, similar to page history, but can be sorted by contributor; easy to exclude different groups (at the toolserver)
- Wikipedia Page History Statistics – builds an edit history overview page
- WikiChecker
- Article Contribution Counter (beta) – tool that identifies major contributors to an article (at the toolserver) (a similar feature request is at Bug# 7988)
- Articleinfo – Article revision statistics
- Other:
- User:AmiDaniel/SHM – Simple History Merge – Windows application (requires administrator privileges)
- History Flow Visualization Application
- Wikipedia Animate – user script; shows the evolution of a page, like a webcast
- MediaWiki:Histlegend – text that appears at the top of a history page
- For content:
- Hoaxes:
- Wikipedia:Do not create hoaxes (guideline)
- Category:Suspected hoax articles
- Wikipedia:List of hoaxes on Wikipedia – hoaxes that have been discovered and removed
- House of Representatives (edits by staffers): see Congressional staffer edits
- How-to: Category:Wikipedia how-to (see also Help pages)
- HTML:
- Help:HTML in wikitext
- Wikipedia:Tools#Importing – (converting) content from other formats to Wikipedia (MediaWiki) format – includes tools for converting HTML to the Wikipedia (wikitext) format
- Help:Markup validation
- Humor:
- Category:Wikipedia humor
- "Humorous essays" are listed at Template:Wikipedia essays
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- Images: (see also Censorship, Commons, Copyrights, Galleries, Graphics, Navigation)
- General information:
- Help:File page
- Help:Files
- Wikipedia:Contact us - Licensing – using, donating, or reporting copyright problems with images
- 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)
- Before uploading:
- Uploading: (see also Commons, which is the preferred place to upload images to)
- Wikipedia:File Upload Wizard
- Wikipedia:Uploading images
- MediaWiki:Uploadtext – warns about the need to specify the source of an upload, and copyright information
- Wikipedia:Upload/Replace this image/People – uploading an image you created or own (not restricted to people)
- Wikipedia:File names (naming convention)
- Wikipedia:File copyright tags
- Special:Upload
- Wikipedia:Files for upload – allows unregistered editors to add images to Wikipedia with the assistance of experienced editors
- Choosing a License – explanations of what the various Creative Commons options are
- Displaying on a page:
- Wikipedia:Manual of Style#Images
- Wikipedia:Extended image syntax – options for displaying an image (size, right/left, etc.)
- Template:Clear – Often used to stop text from flowing next to unrelated images
- mw:Multimedia/About Media Viewer – displays images in larger size and with less clutter; in beta as of November 2013
- Cropping:
- Template:CSS image crop – previewing (but not actually cropping)
- Commons:User:Cropbot – creating a cropped image
- Template:Annotated image 1 and Annotated image 4 – cropping an image for display purposes (file at Commons is not affected)
- Accessibility issues:
- Captions:
- Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Captions
- Template:Plain image with caption – adding a caption to an image without also adding a border to that image
- 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
- Wikipedia:Perennial proposals#Add in-article credit for images
- Featured and valued:
- Improving images:
- Wikipedia:Graphics Lab (to request assistance)
- commons:Commons:Media restoration
- "Dispatches: Vintage image restoration" (Signpost, March 2008)
- commons:User:Durova/Encyclopedic image restoration
- 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 (at the toolserver) (not functioning as of mid-October 2007)
- Special:FileDuplicateSearch – search function for duplicate files in imagespace (duplicate images) (uses hash values)
- Wikipedia:File namespace noticeboard – requests for assistance involving the File namespace, for multiple files or other larger issues
- 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:
- Annotations:
- Template:Annotated image and Template:Annotated image 4 – allows users to add annotated wikitext on any image used in wikipedia articles or project namespaces.
- commons:Commons:Image annotations (Commons guideline)
- commons:Help:Gadget-ImageAnnotator – allows users to place comments onto images shown on file description pages at Commons
- 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
- Annotations:
- Bots:
- WikiProjects:
- Other: (see also Commons regarding moving images from Wikipedia to Commons)
- Wikipedia:Template messages/File namespace
- Special:Newimages ("Gallery of new files") – images that have just been added to Wikipedia
- Special:ListFiles – most recently uploaded files
- Help:Options to hide an image (how-to guide) – includes CSS modification to prevent display of images on specified pages
- Template:External media – If an image or other media is available online, but cannot be uploaded to Wikipedia or the Commons, this template provides a referenced direct link
- Special:Filepath – provides a URL to link directly to the current version of an image
- Bug# 7757 – allow cropping images when rendered – proposal to enable display of only part of an image
- TranslateSvg
- General information:
- Importing: (see also Tables)
- Wikipedia:How to import articles
- Microsoft Word documents:
- Porting PDF files to MediaWiki (from Appropedia.org)
- Wikipedia:Tools#Importing (converting) content from other formats to Wikipedia (MediaWiki) format – includes tools for converting Microsoft Word, Microsoft Excel, OpenOffice, HTML, LaTeX, and BibTeX information to the Wikipedia format
- m:Help:Import – sysop-only import; disabled on the English Wikipedia project (related: user group "import")
- Inclusion: Wikipedia:Inclusion is not an indicator of notability (essay)
- Indexes: (see also Directories)
- Of any namespace in Wikipedia:
- Special:Allpages – select a starting point for browsing
- 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
- Other:
- m:Help-style indexing – uses keywords (historical)
- Wikipedia:Index (disambiguation)
- Wikipedia:WikiProject Indexes
- Of any namespace in Wikipedia:
- Indian subcontinent:
- Indymedia: Wikipedia:Guide for Indymedia authors
- Infoboxes: (templates):
- Help:Infobox
- Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Infoboxes
- Help:Infobox picture
- Help:Designing infoboxes
- Wikipedia:Disinfoboxes – the case for *not* including an infobox in an article
- Category:Infobox templates
- Wikipedia:How to read a color infobox
- Wikipedia:WikiProject Infoboxes
- Wikipedia:Thinking outside the infobox (essay)
- Specialized:
- Problems:
- Other:
- Wikipedia:WikiProject Accessibility/Infoboxes
- User:Helpful Pixie Bot – puts birth dates and death dates into standard formats inside infoboxes
- Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/2013-07-10/Dispatches – Signpost opinion piece that infoboxes often have excessive detail
- Inserting text from one page into another page – see Transclusion
- Instruction creep: see Policies and guidelines
- Instructional material: see Learning
- Interlanguage links: (see also Interwiki links, Translations)
- Help:Interlanguage links
- User:Equazcion/SidebarTranslate – translates interlanguage links into English
- Wikidata: (sister project)
- Wikipedia:Wikidata
- meta:Wikidata
- d:Wikidata:Main Page
- d:Help:FAQ
- d:Wikidata:Introduction
- Help:
- d:Wikidata:Project chat
- #wikimedia-wikidata connect – IRC chat room
- Tools:
- d:Wikidata:Tools
- Autolist – query tool
- meta:Grants:IEG/Wikidata Toolkit – project to create a modular toolkit for loading, querying, and analysing Wikidata data will make it easy for developers to use Wikidata in their applications (funded late 2013)
- Category:Wikidata
- m:A newer look at the interlanguage link – essay about establishing a wiki as a hub for interwiki links
- Other:
- Internet Relay Chat (IRC):
- Wikipedia:IRC
- Wikipedia:IRC/Tutorial
- m:IRC/Channels
- m:IRC Group Contacts – liaisons between Wikimedia and the staff of the Libera Chat IRC network
- m:IRC guidelines/wikipedia
- Wikipedia:Scripts#IRC channel scripts
- m:IRC channel cloaks
- Wikipedia IRC help channel – a login page (at the toolserver)
- Wikipedia:List of administrators/IRC nicknames
- Wikipedia:IRC/Personal views regarding IRC – regarding use of the admin IRC channel
- Essays:
- 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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- Languages: see also Wikipedia:Naming conventions (languages), individual countries/languages, Translations
- mw:Universal Language Selector – MediaWiki extension that allows users to change (display) language settings and configurations, including fonts
- mw:Universal Language Selector/FAQ
- Latter Day Saints (Mormons):
- LaTex:
- mw:Extension:WikiTeX (WikiTeX is a modular system for incorporating LaTeX objects with MediaWiki output)
- m:Wikitex usability review
- Layout and sections: (see also Table of contents) (for changing the layout of elements common to all Wikipedia pages, see Customization)
- Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Layout
- Help:Section
- Wikipedia:Manual of Style#Article titles, headings, and sections
- Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Accessibility
- Wikipedia:How to fix bunched-up edit links
- Wikipedia:Perennial proposals#Changes to standard appendices – Varying the names and sequence of sections at the end of articles
- 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
- Lead section: see Layout and sections
- Learning: (see also Help, New editors, Questions)
- Wikipedia:Learning the ropes
- Wikipedia:Plain and simple
- Help:Getting started
- Category:Wikipedia quick introductions
- Category:Wikipedia editor help
- Training
- Tutorials:
- Wikipedia:Tutorial
- mw:Extension:GuidedTour – provides a framework for creating "guided tours" (interactive tutorials)
- Wikipedia:Tutorial Drive
- Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/Series/Tutorial (2008)
- Coaching:
- Classes:
- Other:
- Wikipedia:Instructional material
- Wikipedia:Lectures
- Wikipedia:The newcomer's manual (very incomplete)
- Books:
- Formally published:
- Wikipedia: The Missing Manual (January 2008) ISBN 978-0596515164 (online: WP:TMM)
- How Wikipedia Works (September 2008) ISBN 978-1593271763 (online pdf)
- MediaWiki Administrators' Tutorial Guide: Install, manage, and customize your MediaWiki installation (March 2007) ISBN 978-1904811596
- Wikibooks:
- Formally published:
- 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 - Subjects – contacting Wikipedia when someone has a problem about an article about them, their company, or somebody they represent.
- 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)
- meta:Wikilegal
- Threats:
- Links: see Sources (for external links), Wikilinks (for links between wiki articles)
- Lists:
- Wikipedia:WikiProject Lists
- Wikipedia:Template messages/Lists
- Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Accessibility#Lists
- Wikipedia:WikiProject Lists of topics (inactive)
- Lists as part of an article:
- 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)
- Scrolling lists (not allowed in the body of articles):
- Problems:
- Putting a list into columns (*not* using a table)
- Other:
- Template:Plainlist – Used to create a plain (unbulleted) list
- Wikipedia:WikiProject Laundromat – to reduce the number of "laundry lists" in articles
- Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Common outcomes#Lists
- Lithuania:
- Living people: see Biographies
- Logging in: (see also User account and username)
- Help:Logging in
- Security:
- HTTPS:
- m:HTTPS
- Native HTTPS support enabled for all Wikimedia Foundation wikis – October 2011
- The future of HTTPS on Wikimedia projects – August 2013
- Wikipedia:User account security (essay)
- Wikipedia:Personal security practices (essay)
- Secure login
- m:Don't leave your fly open (essay)
- Template:User committed identity – preventive action to enable regaining control of a hijacked account (story)
- HTTPS:
- Using a non-Wikipedia account and password:
- In general: mw:Auth systems
- mw:Extension:Facebook – not actively maintained
- OAuth 1.0a:
- mw:Auth systems/OAuth – work in 2013
- mw:Extension:OAuth – beta
- mw:Auth systems/OAuth/Design – "abandoned in favor of a different permissions model"
- OpenID:
- mw:Extension:OpenID
- mw:Extension:GoogleLogin (OpenID 2.0, which is no longer supported by Google)
- mw:Extension:Persona – Mozilla Persona (status of extension: "Experimental")
- Logos:
- Within articles:
- Wikipedia:Logos (guideline)
- Template:Non-free use rationale logo – a template to help editors write fair use rationales ("furs") for non-free logos
- Wikipedia's logo:
- Within articles:
- Lyrics: Wikipedia:Lyrics and poetry (guideline)
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- Magic:
- Magic words: (parser functions, variables, and behavior switches)
- Mailing lists: (see also News (about Wikipedia))
- Wikimedia Mail Stats: Index – statistics on all Wikimedia Foundation mailing lists
- 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
- Wikipedia:Featured articles that haven't been on the Main Page
- "Dispatches: Choosing Today's Featured Article", Signpost, August 2008
- Wikipedia:Perennial proposals#Protecting Today's Featured Article on the main page
- 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):
- Featured Article:
- Other:
- Maintenance: (see also Article message boxes, Collaborations, Quality of articles, Spelling)
- General:
- Specific articles with 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:
- In general:
- Other:
- {{Cleanup}} – template (at top of article) for listing details of what needs to be cleaned up. (It's better to just fix problems, but if you lack the time or knowledge, use this template.) [Note that {{Wikify}} has been deprecated and should no longer be used.]
- Articles that may need updating:
- Wikipedia:Dusty articles – 100 articles with the longest elapsed time since the last edit
- Wikipedia:Database reports/Forgotten articles – up to 1000 articles that have not been edited in the past three years
- Special:AncientPages – automated report on "dormant pages"; currently disabled
- Wikipedia:WikiProject Abandoned Articles (semi-active)
- Wikipedia:Neglected articles (inactive/historical)
- Manual of Style:
- Wikipedia:Manual of Style
- Special:Prefixindex/MOS: – lists all redirects in the namespace "MOS:"
- Wikipedia:WikiProject Manual of Style
- Wikipedia:Styletips – advice to editors on writing style and formatting, in bite-size chunks
- 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:Graphics Lab/Map workshop
- Commons:Commons:Project Mapmaking Wiki Standards
- Commons:Commons:Map resources
- mw:Extension:Maps
- Wikipedia:Producing maps with xplanet
- OpenStreetMap:
- Wikipedia:WikiProject OpenStreetMap
- "Collaboration with Wikipedia" at openstreetmap.org
- "Key:wikipedia" at openstreetmap.org
- [tools:~kolossos/openlayers/kml-on-ol.php?lat=51.52214&lon=-0.06012&zoom=10&lang=en Wikipedia on OpenStreetMap] (at the toolserver)
- Templates for maps:
- Category:Graphic templates (most individual pages in this category are map-related)
- Category:Dynamic map templates
- Category:Mapping templates
- Category:Geography templates
- 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
- meta:Grants:IEG/Wikimaps Atlas – project to automate the creation of SVG base maps in a well researched cartographic style using the latest and most accurate open geographic data (funded late 2013)
- Markup: see Formatting of text
- Mathematics: (see also Numbers)
- Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Mathematics
- Wikipedia:WikiProject 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
- mw:Extension:Blahtex – a LaTeX to MathML converter
- Blahtex – a free software tool/library that translates TeX markup into MathML markup
- Template:Frac (for fractions)
- Wikipedia:Evaluating how interesting an integer's mathematical property is (essay)
- Portal:Mathematics
- Displaying math formulas:
- Measurements: see Units of measurement
- Meatpuppetry (meat puppets): (see also Sock puppets)
- Media: (images, audio, video) (see also Copyright, Images)
- Wikipedia:Media
- Wikipedia:Creation and usage of media files
- Wikipedia:Media help
- Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Accessibility#Animations, videos and audio
- Wikipedia:Media help (MIDI)
- Wikipedia:Media help (Ogg)
- Category:File namespace templates re Wikipedia media files
- Moving (renaming) a file (special rights):
- In-page playing of music notes:
- Requests and resources:
- Wikipedia:Requested recordings
- Category:Wikipedia requested audio
- Category:Wikipedians who take recording requests
- Wikipedia:Free sound resources
- Wikipedia:WikiProject Images and Media/Sound
- Ogg search – search of the Commons for specific audio and video streams (at the toolserver)
- More technical:
- Audio-specific:
- Video-specific:
- Other:
- WMF Multimedia mailing list
- User:TheDJ/WikimediaPlayer
- Components for Mac users – downloads for playing Ogg Vorbis in iTunes or producing Ogg Theora with iMovie
- Mediation:
- Wikipedia:Mediation (policy)
- Semi-formal: Wikipedia:Community enforceable mediation (inactive)
- Formal:
- MediaWiki: (see also specific topics pertaining to the software)
- MediaWiki – a web-based wiki software application used by all projects of the Wikimedia Foundation
- mw:Manual:FAQ
- mw:MediaWiki roadmap – features planned for future releases
- mw:Project:Support desk – place to ask questions (particularly for non-Wikipedia users of Mediawiki)
- Help:Testing
- mw:How to become a MediaWiki hacker
- Books:
- MediaWiki, October 2008
- MediaWiki Administrators' Tutorial Guide (March 2007)
- Extensions:
- Handbook:
- For readers
- For editors
- For moderators
- For administrators
- Mediawiki namespace within Wikipedia projects:
- Searching for information on MediaWiki:
- Other:
- Medical:
- Wikipedia:Medical disclaimer
- Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Medicine-related articles (guideline)
- Wikipedia:Identifying reliable sources (medicine) (WP:MEDRS) (guideline)
- Portal:Medicine
- Wikipedia:The Wikipedia Library/Cochrane (access to medical sources, to improve articles)
- Wikipedia:WikiProject Medicine
- Mentorship: (see also Wikipedia:Adopt-a-user)
- Wikipedia:Mentorship – either voluntary (informal) or involuntary (from dispute resolution)
- Wikipedia:Mentorship Committee – inactive/historical
- Merchandise:
- Merging:
- Messages: (see also Internet Relay Chat (IRC), Messageboxes, Talk pages)
- Notifications:
- Wikipedia:Notifications – notifies an editor of new talk page messages, edit reverts, mentions (User:Whatever), links to a page that they created, thanks, and changes in user rights, page reviews
- Wikipedia:Notifications/FAQ
- mw:Help:Notifications
- Template:Reply to
- MassMessage: (for admins)
- Thanks:
- Wikipedia:Notifications/Thanks
- Thanks log
- User:Equazcion/DynaThank – hides "thank" links on History pages
- Development:
- Template:Talkback
- Wikipedia:Emailing users
- Wikipedia:Canvassing – votestacking, campaigning, friendly notice, and forum shopping
- Wikipedia:Template messages
- User:MelonBot – can post a standard message to the talk pages of a list of editors
- Notifications:
- Messageboxes:
- Via MediaWiki:
- Wikipedia:Editnotice (how-to guide) – an editnotice appears above the edit window, in edit mode. Anyone can create editnotices for their user and talk pages; elsewhere, only administrators and template editors can do this.
- Via templates:
- Wikipedia:Template messages (all messageboxes are templates; not all templates are messageboxes)
- For template messageboxes at the top of articles, see Article message boxes (amboxes)
- For template messageboxes at the top of article talk pages, see Talk pages
- Via MediaWiki:
- Meta:
- Wikipedia:Meta
- m:Meta:Babel – general and policy discussion page
- Microformats
- Help:Microformats
- Wikipedia:WikiProject Microformats
- Category:Microformats
- Category:Templates generating microformats
- Category:Articles with microformats
- User:Hans Adler/Microformats – list of discussions, 2007-2010, about 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
- Wikipedia:WikiProject Abandoned Drafts
- Red links (also q.v.):
- Wikipedia:Topics where Wikipedia is weak (inactive)
- Category:Redirects with possibilities
- Wikipedia:Articles for creation/Redirects and categories – needed redirects for articles that have not been created yet
- User:Piotrus/Wikipedia interwiki and specialized knowledge test – estimates that Wikipedia should have about 40 to 60 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:
- Help:Mobile access
- mw:Mobile Beta – experimental staging area for new features that may eventually be added to the official mobile site
- "Accessing Wikipedia via mobile devices", Signpost article, January 2009
- Semi-experimental mobile portal (as of February 2008)
- Wapedia
- m:Mobile subdomain
- Wikipanion – Free iPhone/iPod app; searches using a fast, native interface; includes autosuggest, landscape mode, and large, readable text.
- Downloaded version of Wikipedia:
- Pocket Wikipedia – 24,000 images and 14 million words (for PocketPC, Windows and Linux machines)
- Encyclopodia – complete download, for Apple iPod
- Wikipedia-iphone – complete download for iPhone or iPod Touch
- WikiPock
- Screencast: "How to install Wikipedia on your iPod Touch or iPhone!", February 8, 2008
- Other:
- GeoPedia – provides iPhone owners with a Wikipedia feed customized to their current location
- "Kiwi" client – for iPhone and iPod
- Moderator: see Administrator
- Money:
- Mongolian: Wikipedia:Naming conventions (Mongolian)
- Monitoring changes: (see also Recent changes)
- Watchlist
- Help:Watching pages – about watchlists
- Wikipedia:Perennial proposals#Watchlist changes (multiple watchlists, interwiki watchlists, public watchlists, watchlisting individual sections of a page)
- Wikipedia:User_scripts#Watchlist
- User:Ais523/watchlistei.js – exporting and importing a watchlist
- Wikipedia:Copying watchlist to new username
- Special:EditWatchlist/raw – Edit, import, and/or export your watchlist, in "raw" text format
- MediaWiki:Watchlist-messages and MediaWiki talk:Watchlist-messages – a notice displayed at the top of the Special:Watchlist page for all editors who view that 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 "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
- For multiple Wikipedias:
- gWatch (Global Watchlist) – Watchlist for all Wikimedia wikis (at the toolserver)
- MetaWatchlist by Magnus Manske
- 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]
- Watchlist
- Motto:
- Wikipedia:Motto of the day
- "WikiProject Report: Motto of the Day" (Signpost article, January 2009)
- Movies: see Films
- Moving a page: (see also Disambiguation, Naming an article, Redirects)
- Help:Page name
- Wikipedia:Moving a page (WP:MOVE)
- Wikipedia:Requested moves – page for moves that require administrator assistance
- Wikipedia:Requested moves/Closing instructions
- Wikipedia:How to fix cut-and-paste moves
- Wikipedia:Requests for history merge
- MediaWiki:Movenotallowed
- MediaWiki:Movepage-moved – page that an editor sees after a successful move
- Music: (see also Media)
- Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Music
- Wikipedia:Notability (music) (guideline)
- Wikipedia:Naming conventions (music) (guideline)
- Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Music samples
- Record charts (music charts):
- Wikipedia:Lyrics and poetry
- Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Common outcomes#Music
- Presentation (display)
- Wikipedia:WikiProject Music
- Wikipedia:WikiProject Music/Free music taskforce
- mw:Extension:AbcMusic – for typesetting music using the ABC notation
- Portal:Music
- Wikifm – a mashup of Last.fm and Wikipedia
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- Name (of a user): see User account and username
- Namespaces:
- Wikipedia:Namespace
- Query results – existing namespaces – also indicates which are allowed to have subpages
- m:Help:Namespace manager – for a future version of MediaWiki
- Wikipedia:Perennial proposals#Create shortcut namespace aliases for various namespaces
- Links from articles to generally inappropriate namespaces such as "User" and "User talk":
- Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Self-references to avoid#Writing about Wikipedia itself (WP:WAWI)
- Wikipedia:Database reports/Articles containing links to the user space
- Template:Srlink – externalizes [rare, acceptable] cross-namespace links from article space (to avoid these breaking, in mirror sites)
- mw:Extension:CrossNamespaceLinks – functionality disabled, January 2011, because page was not being updated (Bug# 16878)
- Prefix namespaces (for redirects):
- Help:Custom namespaces – prefixes (like :m) that (normally) resolve into an interwiki but can resolve into external source
- Special:Prefixindex/XXX – can be used to find pseudo-namespaces (shortcuts) in mainspace (substitute "CAT" or "MOS" or whatever for "XXX")
- Wikipedia:Shortcut#List of prefixes – (pseudo-namespaces)
- Wikipedia:Cross-namespace redirects (essay)
- Naming a page: see Naming an article, New pages
- Naming an article: (see also Disambiguation, Moving a page, New pages)
- Wikipedia:Article titles (WP:NC) (policy)
- In general:
- 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:
- Special:ProtectedTitles – page titles that are protected to prevent them from being created
- Navigation: (see also Lists) (for changing navigation by changing the location of links on the standard Wikipedia page, see Customization, Quickbar [left sidebar])
- Anchors: (between pages or within a page)
- Help:Link#Section linking (anchors)
- Template:Anchor
- Help:HTML in wikitext#Span – using "span id=" for hidden anchors
- 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:
- Template:Click (deprecated)
- Wikipedia:WikiProject Usability/Clickable images (inactive/historical)
- mw:Help:Linked images
- ImageMaps:
- mw:Extension:ImageMap – "imagemap" tags for linking via clickable images (new as of January 2007)
- Tutorial in the Signpost
- Image map editor (at the toolserver)
- User:Nihiltres/Click-to-ImageMap – easy conversion of the {{click}} template to an ImageMap (only for MacOS)
- Category:Wikipedia image maps
- The timeline syntax can also be used for clickable images, as in {{Vocal and instrumental pitch ranges}}; see Timelines for details
- Wikipedia:Tools/Navigation popups (user scripts) – enables mouseover of links; other features (also available as a gadget, under "Preferences")
- Other:
- 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
- User:AndyZ/monobook.js/personalredirect.js – put personalized abbreviations into the search box, to go to specific pages
- Anchors: (between pages or within a page)
- Nearby articles: Special:Nearby
- Needed articles: see Missing articles, Translations
- Neutral point of view (NPOV):
- General policy and guidance:
- Wikipedia:Neutral point of view (WP:NPOV) (policy)
- Wikipedia:Neutral point of view/FAQ (policy)
- Wikipedia:NPOV dispute – how-to guidance
- Wikipedia:NPOV tutorial
- Wikipedia:Describing points of view (essay)
- Wikipedia:Writing for the opponent (essay)
- Wikipedia:Avoid thread mode (essay)
- Wikipedia:Neutral point of view/Examples
- Balance and space:
- Wikipedia:NPOV tutorial#Space and balance
- Wikipedia:Neutral point of view#Undue weight
- Wikipedia:Coatrack – an article that is primarily an extended discussion about a peripherally related (bias) subject
- Wikipedia:Fringe theories/Noticeboard
- Wikipedia:Pro and con lists (guideline)
- Other:
- Template:Welcomenpov – for posting to a user talk page
- Wikipedia:WikiProject Neutrality
- Category:Wikipedia neutral point of view 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)
- General policy and guidance:
- 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, Notability)
- 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 (inactive/historical)
- How to write a new article: (see also New pages)
- Wikipedia:Your first article
- Wikipedia:Starting an article
- Wikipedia:WikiProject Articles for creation/RfC 2013 – should there be specific rules for new (registered) users creating new articles?
- Wikipedia:There is no deadline (essay)
- Other essays: See "Essays on building, editing, and deleting content" at Template:Wikipedia essays
- Writing a good draft in your userspace (registered editors):
- Help:Userspace draft
- Template:Userspace draft – Stops Google (and other compliant search engines) from indexing the draft article
- Wikipedia:So you made a userspace draft (essay)
- Wikipedia:WikiProject Abandoned Drafts
- 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
- Articles for creation (AfC) (review process):
- Wikipedia:Articles for creation – for both those proposing articles and those reviewing proposed articles
- Wikipedia:WikiProject Articles for creation/RfC Reviewer permission – should a right (permission) be set up to limit those who can approve AfCs?
- Wikipedia:WikiProject Articles for creation
- User:Henrik/afc-helper (user script) – enables one-click declines for proposed new articles
- mw:Article Creation Workflow – Never-implemented revision of AfC process
- "Draft" namespace 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:
- Other:
- New articles created by any specified editor (at the toolserver)
- MediaWiki talk:Newarticletext
- {{HD/new}} and {{creation}}.
- To consider before creating a new article:
- 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 welcoming messages (templates):
- Wikipedia:Welcoming committee/Standard user greeting
- Wikipedia:Welcoming committee/Welcome templates, includes Template:Welcome
- User talk:Nmajdan/welcome newuser.js – quick way to add a welcome template to a new user's talk page
- Template:WelcomeMenu – one of many templates, pretty good (except for the built-in category)
- 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 "Preferences")
- Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/Welcomebot (request denied December 2006)
- Wikipedia:Perennial proposals#Use a bot to welcome new users
- "Onboarding":
- mw:Onboarding new Wikipedians
- mw:Extension:GettingStarted
- Wikipedia:GettingStarted
- Help:Getting started
- The Teahouse – "A friendly place to help new editors become accustomed to Wikipedia culture, ask questions, and develop community relationships."
- Standard postings for mistakes by new editors: Category:Wikipedia standard response templates
- Suggested reading:
- Other:
- mw:MoodBar – experimental feature aimed at getting quick feedback on the editing experience of new editors
- Wikipedia:Starter toolset – page to copy and modify
- Wikipedia:Please do not bite the newcomers (WP:BITE) (guideline)
- Special:Log/newusers – new accounts
- Wikipedia:Guide for Everything2 noders
- User:Emijrp/New users – statistics on new accounts
- Source of first talk page postings for new editors, 2004-2011
- User:Pyrospirit/Design the interface for newcomers
- User:AlMac/Wiki Start Map – visual organization of Wikipedia pages for editors (incomplete, outdated)
- Welcoming:
- New pages: (see also New articles)
- Special:Newpages – all namespaces
- Help:Page name
- 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 article pages:
- Pages automatically marked as patrolled:
- Wikipedia:Page Curation (WP:CURATE) – new tools as 2012
- Special:NewPagesFeed – article and user namespaces only
- Wikipedia:Page Curation/Help
- Wikipedia:Page Curation/Tutorial
- 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 Marketing & Advertising
- New users: see New editors
- 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, weekly 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)
- Signpost app – via mobile phone; app includes push notifications (Android only)
- Via twitter
- Wikipedia:WikipediaWeekly – a weekly (or so) podcast
- Wikipedia:Not The Wikipedia Weekly (WikiProject) (inactive)
- Mailing lists:
- Wikipedia:Mailing lists
- m:List Summary Service – summarizes of what has been discussed on various mailing lists, with links
- Wikien-l mailng list – threaded version (also citable)
- Wikiien-l mailing list – forum format
- Foundation-l mailing list – threaded version (also citable)
- Blogs:
- m:Planet Wikimedia, hosted by the Wikimedia Foundation, began March 2007 – blog aggregator (blog is here )
- Open Wiki Blog Planet – another blog aggregator
- 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:
- wmf: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
- Wikipedia:Notability (events)
- Wikipedia:Fringe theories (guideline)
- Search results and notability
- Wikipedia:Search engine test (how-to guide)
- Wikipedia:Google searches and numbers – considerations regarding search results
- Wikipedia:The answer to life, the universe, and everything (information page) – Articles require significant coverage in reliable sources that are independent of the subject (WP:VRS)
- Wikipedia:WikiProject Notability
- Category:Wikipedia notability – guidelines and discussions
- Category:Articles with topics of unclear notability
- Essays:
- 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):
- Noticeboards:
- Wikipedia:Noticeboards
- English wiki Noticeboard Archive Search Tool – searches various noticeboards, and all their archives
- 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
O
- Obscenity: see Censorship
- "Office" actions – see Wikimedia Foundation
- Organizations:
- As subjects of articles: see Companies and organizations
- Within Wikipedia: (see Wikipedia as community)
- Original research: see Sources
- Outlines:
- Output: see Exporting (a page)
- Overcategorization: Wikipedia:Overcategorization (guideline) – what types of categories are not good ones to create (see also Categories)
- Oversight:
- Wikipedia:Oversight (policy)
- Wikipedia:Requests for oversight
- Wikipedia:Arbitration Committee/CheckUser and Oversight
- Wikipedia:Arbitration Committee/CheckUser and Oversight appointments (discussion, January 2009)
- m:Oversight
- mw:Bitfields for rev deleted – removes specific revisions from public view ("public" includes admins)
- Example of how oversighted revisions now appear on history pages
- mw:Extension:Oversight – oversighted revisions are permanently hidden from all users (no longer in effect)
- Ownership: Wikipedia:Ownership of articles (WP:OWN) – about editors who don't like to have their words edited by others
- (For ownership of Wikipedia, see Wikimedia Foundation.)
P
- Panorama:
- Page protection: see Protection of pages
- Page size: see Article size
- Page revisions: (see also Counts)
- Special:MostRevisions – "Pages with the most revisions" (top 1000) – cumulative
- Wikipedia:Most frequently edited pages – 4 December 2007 to 2 January 2008 – top 5000 pages
- Page views: (see also Counts)
- Most viewed (English Wikipedia):
- Wikipedia:Popular pages
- WikiShark – Wikipedia article traffic and trends since 2008
- For any specific article or other page:
- Monthly chart for any specified page ("Wikipedia article traffic statistics") (for pages that are not articles, include the namespace as a prefix) ("Hendrik's tool")
- tools:~emw/wikistats/ – Wikipedia article traffic statistics (alpha, as of November 2013)
- Raw counts – beginning (24 hourly snapshots per day) December 10, 2007 (announcement)
- Different language Wikipedias:
- Comparison of page views for the various language Wikipedias (March 2008)
- Wikipedia Page Views – page views per language per month
- Most viewed (English Wikipedia):
- Paper: see Wikipedia:What Wikipedia is not#Wikipedia is not a paper encyclopedia
- Parser function: see Magic words
- Password: see Logging in
- People (as subjects of articles, or discussed in articles): see Biographies
- Per: Wikipedia:What does "per" mean? – how to interpret "per WP:PAGE" and similar comments by other editors
- Permissions: see User rights
- Persian: Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Persian (inactive proposal)
- Personal attacks: (see also: Content disputes, Disruptive editing)
- Core policies and guidelines
- Wikipedia:Assume good faith (WP:AGF) (guideline)
- Wikipedia:Civility (WP:CIVIL) (policy)
- Wikipedia:No personal attacks (WP:NPA) (policy)
- Wikipedia:Harassment (guideline)
- Wikipedia:No legal threats (policy)
- Wikipedia:Attack page (policy)
- Wikipedia:Linking to external harassment (guideline)
- Wikipedia:Attack sites (failed proposal)
- Avoiding problems:
- Wikipedia:Etiquette (WP:EQ) (guideline) – how to work with others on Wikipedia
- Essays:
- Wikipedia:Avoid personal remarks
- m:Don't be a dick
- Wikipedia:Don't call the kettle black
- Wikipedia:How to be civil
- Others: See "Essays on civility" at Template:Wikipedia essays
- Organized efforts to minimize:
- Remedies (see also Arbitration, Mediation)
- Wikipedia:No personal attacks#Removal of text
- Wikipedia:Editor assistance
- Wikipedia:Wikiquette assistance
- Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents
- Wikipedia:Requests for comment/User conduct – requires two or more editors to have posted warnings about another editor
- See also Wikipedia:RFC/How to present a case
- Wikipedia:Requests for remedies (failed proposal)
- Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/Personal attacks (closed January 2007
- Core policies and guidelines
- Personal information: see Privacy
- Philippines: Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Philippine-related articles
- Pictures: see Images
- Piped links (changing the visible text for a wikilink):
- Wikipedia:Piped link
- Help:Link#Piped link
- Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Disambiguation pages#Piping and redirects – generally, don't use piped links on disambiguation pages
- Help:Pipe trick – how to avoid some typing by shortening a page name that has a colon or parentheses in it
- Plagiarism: see Copyright (particularly "Problems")
- Poems:
- Wikipedia:Lyrics and poetry (guideline)
- mw:Extension:Poem – for formatting
- Point: Wikipedia:Do not disrupt Wikipedia to illustrate a point (WP:POINT)
- Point of view (POV): see Neutral point of view (NPOV)
- Poker: Wikipedia:WikiProject Poker
- Policies and guidelines (see also Process)
- Wikipedia:The difference between policies, guidelines and essays (WP:PGE)
- Existing:
- m:Community foundation issues – five core principles guiding all Wikimedia projects.
- Wikimedia Foundation policies
- Wikipedia:Trifecta – an unofficial summary of the rules – three guiding principles for editors, with their corollaries.
- Wikipedia:Policies and guidelines – overview
- Wikipedia:Key policies and guidelines
- Template:Wikipedia policies and guidelines
- Wikipedia:List of policies
- Wikipedia:List of guidelines
- Category:Wikipedia policies and guidelines
- Updates:
- Wikipedia:Update – A quarterly history of changes to policy pages. (As of 2012, limited to content policies; deletion and enforcement policy pages were also covered before 2012)
- User:Tony1/Monthly updates of styleguide and policy changes
- Wikipedia:Tutorial/Keep in mind
- Wikipedia Policies – information and statistics about the talk pages of all policies and guidelines
- Misuses:
- Changing (in general):
- Wikipedia:Style of policy and guideline pages (inactive)
- m:Instruction creep
- Wikipedia:Avoid instruction creep (guideline)
- Wikipedia:How to contribute to Wikipedia guidance (essay)
- Wikipedia:Editing policy pages (failed proposal)
- Discussions on proposed or changed or questioned policies and guidelines:
- Wikipedia:Overlapping policies and guidelines
- Wikipedia:Requests for comment/Wikipedia policies and guidelines
- Wikipedia:Centralized discussion – a way/place to list current major discussions (via {{Cent}})
- Category:Wikipedia proposals
- Wikipedia:Village pump (policy)
- Category:Wikipedia proposals – pages categorized as "Wikipedia proposals"
- Old discussions:
- Wikipedia:Centralized discussion/Archive – a list of centralized discussions that have been completed, and the conclusions that have been drawn from them
- Wikipedia:Perennial proposals – things that are frequently proposed on Wikipedia, and have been rejected by the community several times in the past
- Category:Wikipedia failed proposals
- Other:
- Polls: see Consensus and voting
- Portals:
- Wikipedia:Portal (WP:P)
- Wikipedia:Portal guidelines (Manual of Style)
- Wikipedia:Portal/Directory
- Portal:Contents/Portals – introductory page that organizes and lists all portals
- Wikipedia:Move navigational lists to portal namespace (failed proposal)
- Wikipedia:WikiProject Portals
- Category:Portals
- Wikipedia:Portal peer review
- Featured:
- Bot assistance:
- User:AlexNewArtBot – bot to identify new articles related to a portal
- User:Wikinews Importer Bot – imports certain dynamically-generated Wikinews pages into Wikipedia portals
- Wikipedia:Community portal
- Portugal: Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Portuguese-related articles
- Preferences: see Customization
- Prefixes: Wikipedia:Shortcut#List of prefixes – (pseudo-namespaces)
- Preview:
- Help:Show preview
- Help:Editing shortcuts [Note: poor page name; it's about previews.]
- Bug# 2679 – show category links above the edit box rather than at the bottom of the screen, on preview
- Bug# 5984 – add <references /> text to the preview when editing a section, to showing footnotes automatically when previewing
- User scripts to speed previewing, adding references, etc.
- User:Pilaf~enwiki/InstaView – near-instantaneous preview (user script)
- User:Js/ajaxPreview – quick AJAX preview
- User:CBM/quickpreview.js – ditto
- User:Anomie/ajaxpreview.js – quick AJAX preview, also displays footnotes in the preview when editing a section
- User:FT2/scripts/previewrefs.js
- Printing: Help:Printable
- Privacy:
- For subjects of articles: see Biographies
- For editors and readers:
- Wikipedia:Privacy policy
- m:Privacy policy
- m:Draft Privacy Policy June 2008
- Wikipedia:How to not get outed on Wikipedia (essay)
- Wikipedia:Privacy (inactive/historical)
- Wikipedia:Respect privacy (inactive/historical)
- Secure access:
- Secure (SSL) access for reading and editing
- User:Anakin101/alwayssecurewikipedia.js – user script to keep the secure connection for all Wikipedia pages
- wmf: Access to nonpublic data policy
- m:Ombuds commission – processes complaints about violations of the privacy policy
- Wikipedia:Harassment#Types of harassment
- Wikipedia:Protecting children's privacy (essay)
- Removal (from view) of selected versions of pages:
- Wikipedia:Selective deletion – by administrators
- Wikipedia:Oversight and Wikipedia:Requests for oversight – by editors given "oversight" authority
- Editors leaving Wikipedia (or changing usernames):
- Process: (see also Common sense, Policies and guidelines)
- Wikipedia:What Wikipedia is not (policy) – Wikipedia is not a bureaucracy, and not an anarchy
- Wikipedia:Process is important (essay)
- Wikipedia:Practical process (essay)
- Wikipedia:Product, process, policy (essay)
- Closing discussions:
- Wikipedia:Closing discussions (information page)
- Wikipedia:Snowball clause – more than an essay, less than a policy
- Category:Wikipedia processes
- Profanity: see Censorship
- Promotional content: (see also Conflict of interest, Spam)
- WP:NOT#Wikipedia is not a soapbox or means of promotion (policy) (WP:PROMOTION)
- Template:Advert – "This article appears to be written like an advertisement"
- Category:All articles with a promotional tone
- Wikipedia:Promotional Drafts – How to deal with userspace "drafts" of unacceptable articles
- Promotional files that might, in some circumstances, be usable:
- Projects: see Wikiprojects
- "Project" pages: (those that begin "Wikipedia:")
- Wikipedia:Project namespace
- Wikipedia:Historical archive – co-ordination point for pages that were previously in the Wikipedia: namespace, but have become obsolete and archived
- Pronunciation:
- Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Pronunciation
- Help:Pronunciation respelling key
- Help:IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet)
- Help:IPA/Conventions for English
- Help:IPA/English
- Proposals: (see also Policies and guidelines)
- Wikipedia:Village pump (proposals) – new ideas and proposals that are not policy related
- Wikipedia:Village pump (proposals)/Persistent proposals – for proposals with consensus that haven't been implemented yet
- Category:Wikipedia proposals in experimental stage
- Wikipedia:Areas for Reform
- Protection of pages:
- Help:Protection
- Wikipedia:Protection policy (WP:PROT)
- Category:Page protection
- m:Protected pages considered harmful
- Requesting:
- Wikipedia:Requests for page protection – page to request that a page be protected (WP:RPP)
- Category:Wikipedia protected edit requests
- Wikipedia:High-risk templates (guideline)
- Administrator action to protect a page:
- Wikipedia:New admin/Protecting
- User:Steel359/Protection js – makes the page protection process easier for administrators
- MediaWiki:Semiprotectedpagewarning
- After protection is in place:
- m:The Wrong Version – why a version of an article that is protected is always the wrong version
- Template:Edit semi-protected – used by an IP or non-autoconfirmed editor, to request the assistance of another editor
- Requesting administrator editing of a protected page: use the {{editprotected}} template
- Pending changes protection:
- Wikipedia:Pending changes
- Wikipedia:Reviewing pending changes (guideline)
- Special:StablePages – pages under pending changes protection
- Special:PendingChanges – pages with pending edits
- Reviewing:
- Wikipedia:Flagged revisions – MediaWiki extension that underlies pending changes protection
- Category:Wikipedia flagged revisions
- Historical:
- Wikipedia:Flagged protection and patrolled revisions – the original trial proposal
- Wikipedia:PC2012 – overview of the 2012 implementation of pending changes
- Wikipedia:Pending changes caveats – why the use of pending changes was severely limited (essay)
- Wikipedia:Patrolled revisions – request for a passive reviewing system, part of the original proposal
- Wikipedia:Deferred revisions – request for a way for the edit filter to defer suspect edits for review
- Main page featured article:
- Wikipedia:Main Page featured article protection (guideline, historical)
- Wikipedia:For and Against TFA protection (essay)
- Analyses of vandalism:
- Wikipedia talk:Don't protect Main Page featured articles/December Main Page FA analysis – December 2006 (7 days)
- Wikipedia talk:Don't protect Main Page featured articles/December 2008 Main Page FA analysis – December 2008 (3 days)
- Wikipedia talk:Don't protect Main Page featured articles/December 2013 Main Page FA analysis – December 2013 (3 days)
- Bots that change protection notification templates on pages that are or are not protected:
- User:Emijrp/Statistics#Most protected ever
- Other:
- Special:Protectedpages – list of protected pages
- Wikipedia:List of indefinitely protected pages
- Wikipedia:Rough guide to semi-protection (essay)
- Wikipedia:New admin/Protecting deleted pages
- Unimplemented:
- Wikipedia:Version to protect – proposed policy (inactive)
- mw:Extension:ProtectSection – blocks editing of part of a page by a regular editors
- mw:Extension:PageSecurity – allows specified pages to be edited only by editors who are part of (a) specified group(s)
- Punctuation:
- Wikipedia:Manual of Style
- Wikipedia:WikiProject Punctuation
- Dumb quotes – user script that converts "fancy" punctuation to their 7-bit ASCII equivalent
- User:GregU/dashes.js – tool for fixing hyphens, dashes and minus signs
Q
- Quality of articles: (see also Featured articles, Good articles, Maintenance, Stable versions, Style (articles), Vital articles)
- Guidelines and guidance:
- Wikipedia:Article development
- Wikipedia:Simplified ruleset – includes three guidelines for getting to high-quality articles
- Wikipedia:Writing better articles (Manual of Style)
- Wikipedia:The perfect article
- User:AndyZ/Suggestions
- Central initiatives:
- Wikipedia Quality website
- m:Wikiquality
- Wikiquality-l:
- Reviews and assistance for specific articles:
- Peer reviewer – automated tool (at the toolserver) (also runs Dablinks and Checklinks tools)
- 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:
- Main 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 readers (viewers)
- Wikipedia:Feedback guidelines – essay about article talk pages
- Based on quality of editors:
- WikiTrust:
- Announcement of Version 2, August 2008
- Blog
- Main Page
- WikiTrust:
- By editors (from "stub" (worst) to "featured article" (best)):
- Other:
- Guidelines and guidance:
- 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
- User talk:TonyBot – bot that can do database queries upon request (requires registration)
- 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)
- Queries of database dumps (downloaded databases):
- 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
- Wikipedia:Scripts#Database scripting – scripts that can be used with a downloaded database
- Wikidata queries:
- Wikipedia:Wikidata
- meta:Wikidata
- d:Wikidata:Main Page
- d:Wikidata:Introduction
- d:Help:FAQ
- Wikidata Query: (Wikimedia Labs)
- Other structured data that can be queried:
- DBpedia
- 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
- Questions: (see also Assistance, Help, Learning)
- Wikipedia:Questions
- Specific places to ask questions:
- Wikipedia:Help desk (WP:HD)
- Wikipedia:Media copyright questions (WP:MCQ)
- Wikipedia:Village pump (technical) (WP:VPT)
- Wikipedia:Reference desk (WP:RD) – a librarian service; not for help with editing
- On a user talk page, via Template:Help me
- IRC: Wikipedia:IRC help disclaimer
- Quickbar: (the set of links on the left side of the page, often called the "left 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:Gadget850/Help:Customizing toolbars
- Wikipedia:Requests for comment/Sidebar update (closed, November 2013, no consensus on exact changes to be made)
- User:Equazcion/SidebarTranslate – translates inter-language links into English
- Floating the quickbar:
- m:Help:User style/floating quickbar
- Help:User style#Fix the sidebar's position while you scroll
- User:Keepcalm444/floatingnav
- Bug# 287 – floating quickbar support for the Monobook skin
R
- Random article:
- Reading:
- Any page within a specified namespace:
- 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
- Any article within a category:
- Special:RandomInCategory
- Random article in a category (at the toolserver)
- Random Featured article (at the toolserver)
- Random Good article (at the toolserver)
- User talk:GregU/randomlink.js – Adds a "Random link" option to the sidebar menu; can be used to go to a random page in a category or a list
- Portal:Virginia/Random – example of how to generate a random article from a specified set of articles
- Any page within a specified namespace:
- Editing random pages:
- Wikipedia:Random page patrol
- Wikipedia:Random pages test
- Wiki ToDo – Randomly selects an article, provides a statistical analysis, and suggests ways to improve it (at the toolserver)
- Other:
- User:Misza13/Random – Random number generator (via a template)
- Reading:
- Recent changes (recent edits): (see also Monitoring changes, Vandalism)
- Special:Recentchanges
- Help:Recent changes
- Wikipedia Recent Changes Map
- Help:Enhanced recent changes
- User:Lupin/Recent IP edits
- 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
- Wikipedia:IRCMonitor – Windows application, primarily for vandal-fighting
- m:IRC/Channels#Recent changes
- Listen to [recent changes to] Wikipedia
- 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)
- Categories
- Wikipedia:Categorizing redirects – most redirects should not have a article category on the redirect page (most should have a maintenance category)
- Category:Disambiguation and redirection templates
- Category:Wikipedia redirects
- Wikipedia:Category redirects that should be kept – essay on redirected category pages
- 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) (at the toolserver)
- 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
- Broken redirects (point to non-existent page)
- Special:BrokenRedirects – list
- Bots:
- Double redirects:
- Wikipedia:Double redirects
- Special:DoubleRedirects – list produced every three days or so
- Automated correction by MediaWiki software (as of July 2008)
- Signpost note about software change
- Wikitech-l posting, "Double redirect fixer", July 2008
- Bug# 4578 – "Page moves should not create double redirects"
- Bots that fix:
- To be deleted or discussed:
- Wikipedia:Criteria for speedy deletion#Redirects
- Wikipedia:Redirects for discussion – where decisions are made about what should be done with problematic redirects, including deletion
- Wikipedia:Redirects are costly
- Wikipedia:Redirects are cheap
- Redistribution: (see also Competitors, forks, and mirrors, Schools)
- Refactoring: see Talk pages
- References: see Sources
- Regional noticeboards:
- Registration: see User account and username
- Related changes: see Recent changes
- Reliable sources: see Sources
- Renaming (pages): see Moving a page
- Requests for comment: Wikipedia:Requests for comment
- Reports: see Statistics and reports
- Requested articles: see New articles
- 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
- Wikipedia:The Wikipedia Library – free access to reliable sources
- About (2013 grant): m:Grants:IEG/The Wikipedia Library
- Newsletter: Wikipedia:The Wikipedia Library/Newsletter/Recipients
- Wikipedia:The Wikipedia Library/Databases
- Wikipedia:WikiProject Resource Exchange/Resource Request
- Wikipedia:Book sources
- Template:Library resources box (Forward to Libraries)
- 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
- mw:AcademicAccess (abandoned 2011 project)
- Assistance from other editors:
- Wikipedia:WikiProject Resource Exchange
- Wikipedia group at LibraryThing.com – to provide a distributed catalogue of books available to editors
- Other:
- WikiResearch – a tool for doing research, part of the WikiBrowse package
- Zotero, an on-line research tool, which can export citations in Wikipedia format
- Reverts: (see also the "Reverts and other disagreements" section of Content disputes)
- Help:Reverting
- meta:Research:Revert detection
- 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 (guideline) (WP:ROLL)
- Wikipedia:New admin/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/Rollback – 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:
- Rotating images, text, etc: mw:Extension:RandomSelection
- Russian: Wikipedia:Romanization of Russian
- RSS and similar feeds: see Monitoring changes
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- Sandbox: a place to practice without hurting anything
- Wikipedia:About the Sandbox (information page)
- Wikipedia:Sandbox
- Cleaning: User:OverlordQBot, User:SoxBot IV, User:Addbot, User:ClueBot II
- Schools:
- Wikipedia:FAQ/Schools
- Wikipedia:Student assignments (WP:ASSIGN)
- Wikipedia:College and university article guidelines
- Wikipedia:WikiProject Classroom coordination
- 2008/2009 Wikipedia Selection for schools – 5,500 "good" and above articles, cleaned up and checked for suitability for children, on a single DVD (background and downloadable version of the earlier, 2007 selection here )
- Template:School block
- Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Common outcomes#Education
- Scripts: see User scripts
- Screenshots:
- Wikipedia:Software screenshots – guidelines for putting screenshots of software into articles
- Wikipedia:Screenshots of Wikipedia – guide to uploading screenshots for Wikipedia for bug reports and other project-space uses
- Scrolling reference lists: not allowed per Wikipedia:Citing sources
- Searching Wikipedia: (see also Index of pages, Queries (database))
- In general: Help:Searching
- Across language Wikipedias: Global Wikipedia Article Search
- 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
- Help:Advanced search
- 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:
- Special:Prefixindex – lists articles that begin with any chosen initial character string
- Search engine:
- 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:
- Wikiseek – A better way to search Wikipedia – beta, January 2007; includes Firefox extension
- Wikiseek Community Wikie
- DBpedia.org
- 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:
- Wikipedia:Controlling search engine indexing (WP:NOINDEX)
- 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)
- Wikipedia:Requests for comment/NOINDEX
- Firefox:
- Tools:
- Wikipedia:Tools#Searching (may eventually merge into Help:Searching)
- Wikipedia:User scripts#Searching
- Semantic MediaWiki:
- Wikipedia:WikiProject Microformats – metadata
- Sections (of articles): see Layout and sections
- "See also" section: Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Layout#See also section
- 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:Categories, lists, and navigation templates – compares alternative approaches
- Servers: see Statistics, Technical (hardware and software)
- Shortcuts (abbreviated redirects):
- Wikipedia:Shortcut
- Wikipedia:List of shortcuts (organized by topic)
- Wikipedia:Wikipedia abbreviations – alphabetical 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:
- Automatic signing (automated signing):
- User:SineBot – signs talk pages for editors who forgot, where an editor started a new section or an indented 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:User scripts#Discussion oriented – several user scripts that modify signatures of others, on posted comments
- 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)
- Social networking:
- Wikipedia:What Wikipedia is not#Wikipedia is not a blog, Web hosting service, social networking service, or memorial site (WP:NOT)
- Wikipedia:User pages (WP:USER)
- Sharing pages:
- Wikipedia:Perennial proposals#Share pages on Facebook, Twitter etc. – add "Like" buttons and "Share" widgets
- User:TheDJ/Sharebox – script that adds new buttons that make it easier to mail, print or share an article on Facebook or another linksharing service
- Sock puppets (multiple accounts by one person): (see also Meatpuppetry)
- 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)
- Checkuser: (editors who can identify sock puppets by checking IP addresses)
- Wikipedia:CheckUser (policy)
- Wikipedia:Requests for checkuser – requests for review of addresses
- mw:Admin tools development/Global CheckUser
- Wikipedia:Quick and dirty Checkuser policy (failed proposal)
- How editors become checkusers:
- Tools available to non-checkusers:
- Intersection contribs – lists all pages edited by both of two specified editors (at the toolserver)
- Multiple contributors – A "recent edits" listing for a group of (specified) editors (at the toolserver)
- WikiStalk – finds pages that have been edited by two or more specific users (at the toolserver)
- Editor Interaction Analyzer – shows the common pages that multiple editors have both edited (at the tool server)
- Software:
- As the subject of an article: Wikipedia:Notability (software) (inactive proposal)
- Used for the Wikipedia project: see MediaWiki, Technical (hardware and software)
- Used for editing: see Browsers, Editing software
- Sound (files): see Media
- Sources: (see also Resources, Spam, URLs)
- WHY and WHEN sources must be given (including avoiding excessive links):
- Wikipedia:Verifiability (WP:V) (policy)
- Original research:
- Wikipedia:No original research (WP:NOR) (policy)
- Wikipedia:These are not original research (essay)
- Wikipedia:Attribution (WP:ATT) (essay)
- Wikipedia:Common knowledge (essay)
- User:Uncle G/On sources and content
- Wikipedia:Citing sources#When to cite sources (WP:CITE) (guideline)
- Wikipedia:Perennial proposals#Require inline citations for everything
- Wikipedia:When to cite (essay or guideline – disputed as of March 2008)
- Wikipedia:Scientific citation guidelines (Manual of Style)
- 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
- Wikipedia:Perennial proposals#Define reliable sources – only sources defined as reliable may be used for verifiability
- Wikipedia:Perennial proposals#Require or prefer free, online sources
- Dispatches: Reliable sources in content review processes, Signpost article, June 2008
- Wikipedia:Identifying reliable sources (medicine)
- Wikipedia:Evaluating sources (essay)
- Wikipedia:You are not a reliable source (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):
- Wikipedia:Citing sources (WP:CITE) (guideline)
- Embedded citations: Wikipedia:Embedded citations (essay)
- Wikipedia:Citation templates (WP:CITET)
- Category:Citation templates
- Help:Citations quick reference
- Wikipedia:Template messages/Sources of articles/Citation quick reference (WP:CITEQR)
- Wikipedia:Do not include the full text of lengthy primary sources (guideline)
- Wikipedia:Inline citation (essay) (outdated informational page)
- Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Linking#External links section
- Help:Editing#Links and URLs – mostly about wikilinks
- Wikipedia:Verification methods (essay/how-to)
- Wikipedia:Perennial proposals#Establish a house citation style
- Template:Subscription required – to flag an external link that requires a paid subscription to view source information
- Three alternative systems:
- Footnotes
- Wikipedia:Citing sources#Footnotes
- Help:Referencing for beginners
- Help:Footnotes
- Help:List-defined references – all reference (footnote) detail is in the "References" section; the body of the article has only reference names
- 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"):
- Mixing footnotes and parenthetical referencing:
- Footnotes
- Possible changes to MediaWiki software regarding citations:
- m:Wikicat
- mw:Category:Referencing extensions
- meta:Wikireference – proposal for a sister project, a multilingual site similar to the Wikimedia Commons
- Bug# 423 – a reference system that support BibTeX databases (under development)
- m:Wikicite – future system for automated fact citation and checking
- Biblio.php (alternative site)
- Tools for creating citations:
- Help:Citation tools
- Wikipedia:RefToolbar (available via the Gadgets tab)
- Universal reference formatter (at the toolserver)
- Wikipedia:RefToolbar/1.0#refToolPlus
- Wikipedia:Cite4Wiki – Firefox add-on
- Wikipedia:Citing sources with Zotero
- Other:
- User:Citation bot – Adds Digital object identifiers (DOIs), PubMed Identifiers (PMIDs), and ISBNs, and fixes common formatting errors, in citations which use the templates {{cite journal}}, {{cite book}}, {{cite arXiv}}, and {{citation}}
- In general (including formatting):
- PROBLEMS: Preventing, identifying, and fixing:
- In general:
- Footnote problems, other than bad external links (for which, see below):
- Help:Cite errors
- Category:Articles with incorrect citation syntax (includes the following, plus many more):
- 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}}):
- User warning templates: Wikipedia:Recent changes patrol#Lack of sources
- Useful sources that don't support the text they appear after:
- 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 (at the toolserver)
- 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
- Checklinks (generates a report for links on any requested page):
- 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:
- Help:Reference display customization
- w:fr:Aide:Espace référence – Information about the "Reference" namespace of the French Wikipedia; each source has its own page (with multiple editions of a source – say, of a book -– on a single page)
- 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
- WHY and WHEN sources must be given (including avoiding excessive links):
- Spam: (see also Promotional, 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/unregistered 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 #wikipedia-spam connect
- 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
- Bots:
- Wikipedia:Search engine optimization (essay)
- Wikipedia:Spam event horizon (essay)
- Wikipedia:WikiProject Marketing & Advertising
- Span tags: Wikipedia:Span tags – common ones are "div" (small font in References/Notes section), strikethrough, and blockquote
- Special characters:
- Special pages:
- Help:Special page
- m:Help:Special page
- Bug# 15434 – All special pages that had been disabled will be run twice per year (as of August 2013)
- Special:Specialpages – list/links
- 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
- Commonly misspelled English words
- Bug# 42880 – Redirects mask incorrect spellings (misspellings) in articles
- 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:
- On a version of Mediawiki software not run by the Wikimedia Foundation (starting September 2007)
- Beta version on Foundation software (starting March 2008)
- 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)
- Statistics and reports: (see also separate topics, Page views (of articles), Queries (database))
- Wikipedia:Statistics
- Special:Statistics
- Category:Wikipedia statistics
- Wikipedia:Awareness statistics
- Wikipedia:Size of Wikipedia
- Wikipedia:Modelling Wikipedia's growth
- WikiProjects:
- User:Katalaveno/TBE – time between (10 million) edits of the English Wikipedia
- Infodisiac blog – postings by Eric Zachte, hired September 1, 2008 to maintain and develop code for metrics for Wikimedia Foundation projects
- mw:Help:Magic words#Statistics – "magic words" that provide statistical information
- Information kept on wikimedia.org (Foundation) pages:
- Wikipedia:Multilingual statistics – by month, for all different language Wikipedias (related)
- Editing by time of day
- m:List of Wikipedias
- User:NoSeptember/Subpages about adminship – many subpages have reports; many include more than just admin-related reports
- nedworks.org Statistics (charts)
- Wikipedia:Modelling Wikipedia's growth
- User:Dragons flight/Log analysis – analysis of both log entries (100%) and a sampling (6%) of article histories (edits), some data back to 2001 (analysis reported October 2007)
- Stewards: see Functionaries
- Stubs:
- Wikipedia:Stub (WP:STUB) (guideline)
- User:Grutness/Croughton-London rule of stubs – deciding what is a stub (essay)
- User:Grutness/Stubbing how-to
- Wikipedia:Aggregate data into lists rather than stubs (essay)
- Categories and templates ("message boxes")
- Category:Stub categories
- Category:Stub message templates
- Wikipedia:WikiProject Stub sorting/Naming conventions
- Wikipedia:When to use the generic stub tag (essay)
- Problems:
- Wikipedia:Database reports/Dubious stub categories
- Wikipedia:Database reports/Stubs included directly in stub categories (stub categories should be generated by templates; that's not the case with these articles)
- Wikipedia:Database reports/Unused stub templates (stub templates generate stub categories)
- Wikipedia:WikiProject Stub sorting/missing stubs
- Wikipedia:Stub types for deletion
- Lists of stub articles:
- Wikipedia:Most wanted stubs
- Special:Shortpages
- Category:Stub categories (these category pages are good places to find stubs of interest)
- "Article lists" tool (search on "stub-class")
- Shortpages – finds pages of less than 50 characters
- User:Zorglbot/Shortpages (malfunctioning, blocked, as of November 2013)
- Problems:
- Wikipedia:Database reports/Long stubs – long articles that are categorized as stubs
- Wikipedia:Database reports/Untagged stubs – short articles not categorized as stubs
- Tools:
- User:Ais523/stubtagtab.js – adds tab for easy application of {{stub}} and more specific stub templates
- Bots (other than for listing stubs):
- 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)
- Projects and initiatives:
- 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 (inactive WikiProject)
- Wikipedia:WikiProject Stub sorting
- Wikipedia:WikiProject Anti-Stub (defunct)
- Wikipedia:Stub Makers
- Contests:
- Wikipedia:Stub Contest (2013)
- Wikipedia:Weekly contest/Growing 41 Stubs (2009; never actually done)
- Style (articles) (see also Accessibility, Dates, Formatting of text, Layout and sections, Punctuation, Quality of articles, Words and wording)
- General:
- Wikipedia:Manual of Style
- Wikipedia:Guidance on applying the Manual of Style
- Wikipedia:Requests for comment/Wikipedia style and naming
- Wikipedia:Annotated article – an annotated article that explains various editing decisions, using a sample article
- Wikipedia:List of policies#Content and Style – which topics are welcome on Wikipedia, and quality and naming standards
- User:Tony1/Monthly updates of styleguide and policy changes
- Category:Wikipedia style guidelines
- Other:
- Wikipedia:Abundance and redundancy (essay)
- User:Wooyi/Readability (essay)
- Wikipedia:Criticism (essay) – on criticism of subjects of articles, within those articles
- Wikipedia:WikiProject Usability
- User:Tony1/Redundancy exercises: removing fluff from your writing
- General:
- Subpages:
- Wikipedia:Subpages (WP:SP) (guideline)
- Wikipedia:User pages (WP:USER) (guideline)
- User:UberScienceNerd/Tutorials/Using subpages
- Query results – existing namespaces – lists which namespaces are allowed to have subpages
- Deleting: Template:Db-u1 for userspace pages
- Subsections (of articles): see Layout and sections
- Substitution: see Templates
- Synonyms: Synarcher at SourceForge.net – search and visual display
- Synthesis:
- Sysop: see Administrator
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- 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
- Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Accessibility#Tables
- 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:
- mw:Extension:SimpleTable – allows tabular data to be easily cut-and-pasted (proposal)
- mw:Extension:Word2MediaWikiPlus – convert Microsoft Word tables to wikitables
- Convert Excel tables to wikitables – saves most formatting like background – and fontcolor, fontstyle(bold/italic), column height and width
- Tabs: Template:Page tabs
- Tags: see Wikipedia:Span tags, Article message boxes, 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:Perennial proposals#Allow discussion about the topic of the article
- Wikipedia:Tutorial/Talk pages
- Wikipedia:Talk page layout (information page)
- Wikipedia:BOLD, revert, discuss cycle – an exception to discussing content changes on article talk pages
- Template:Reflist-talk – a version of {{reflist}}, to show a reference section for a talk page discussion within a bordered box.
- 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
- Coordination of user talk page discussions: (see also "Notifications" section of Messages)
- {{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
- New systems for talk pages:
- Flow
- Liquid Threads: (now unlikely to be implemented on English Wikipedia)
- 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:Article history – 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
- Technical (hardware and software) (see also Bugs, MediaWiki, Queries (database))
- General:
- Wikipedia:FAQ/Technical
- Category:Wikipedia features
- m:System administrators (formerly "Developers")
- Special:Version – lists extensions and hooks
- Wikipedia:Don't worry about performance (WP:PERF) (guideline)
- Wikimedia Technical Blog – real-time postings from Wikimedia system administrators about server status, software updates, etc.
- Wikitech mailing list
- Operational status
- Wikipedia: Site internals, configuration, code examples and management issues (pdf), presentation at MySQL Users Conference 2007
- Troubleshooting:
- Wikipedia:FAQ/Problems
- Wikipedia:Troubleshooting
- Wikipedia:Village pump (technical)
- Wikipedia:Bypass your cache
- Wikipedia:Purge – clear a page's server cache
- Other:
- General:
- Television: (see also Films)
- Templates: (see also Article message boxes, Infoboxes, Messageboxes, Series boxes, Transclusion, Userboxes)
- General information:
- More information:
- Wikipedia:Template documentation
- Wikipedia:Template messages
- Wikipedia:Template standardisation
- Wikipedia:No disclaimers in articles (guideline) – regarding templates like "This article contains profanity"
- User:Scartol/Scartol, on template use and design
- Templatology, an essay
- Places to get help:
- Substitution:
- Help:Substitution
- Wikipedia:Substitution (guideline) (WP:SUB)
- Internal description of parameters, for VisualEditor
- Wikipedia:TemplateData
- Wikipedia:TemplateData/List
- User:NicoV/TemplateDataEditor.js – script for visually editing TemplateData
- Protection:
- Wikipedia:High-risk templates (guideline)
- Wikipedia:Cascade-protected items
- Right to edit protected templates:
- Requesting changes to protected templates:
- {{edit template-protected}}
- Category:Wikipedia template-protected edit requests
- User:AnomieBOT/TPERTable – annotated list of edit requests (automatically updated by AnomieBOT)
- Technical:
- Testing:
- Wikipedia:Template limits
- mw: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:
- Special:WantedTemplates – Templates whose pages have been deleted but which still exist (red-linked) on other Wikipedia pages
- Wikipedia:High-risk templates – authorizes permanent protection for such templates
- Wikipedia:Templates for discussion
- Category:Pages containing omitted template arguments
- Category:Pages where post-expand include size is exceeded
- Wikipedia:Templates with red links
- Job queue – why changing a template doesn't instantly change all articles with that template
- Other:
- Category:Wikipedia templates
- Category:Intricate templates
- 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)
- Wikipedia:Avoid using meta-templates (failed proposal)
- Terms and terminology: (abbreviations and acronyms)
- In Wikipedia articles:
- For editor interaction (talk pages, edit summaries, etc.) (see also Shortcuts)
- 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:WikiSpeak – alternative definitions
- Text direction:
- 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:
- Three reverts: Wikipedia:Edit warring#The three revert rule (WP:3RR)
- Time:
- Adjusting date/time shown on watchlists and other special pages: see "Preferences", "Appearance" tab
- mw:MediaWiki:Gadget-UTCLiveClock.js
- User:Gary/comments in local time.js – converts all timestamps on a displayed Wikipedia page to the user's local time
- Timelines:
- Wikipedia:Timeline
- Wikipedia:Timeline standards (Manual of Style)
- Wikipedia:Timeline syntax
- Wikipedia:EasyTimeline
- Help:EasyTimeline syntax
- mw:Extension:WikiTimeLine (version 1.0 as of July 2008)
- List of timelines
- Category:Timelines
- Category:Graphical timelines
- {{include timeline}} – template to start process of creating a {{Horizontal timeline}} or a {{Graphical timeline}} (vertical timeline) template linked to a particular article (does not use [Easy]timeline syntax)
- Easy Timeline index
- Tips:
- Wikipedia:Tips – complete library of tips arranged by subject
- Wikipedia:Tip of the day – schedule of 366 daily tips
- Template for one's user page: {{totd}}
- Category:Wikipedia Tip of the day
- Wikipedia:Wikipedia tipster
- Tools: (see also Bots, Extensions, User scripts)
- Wikipedia:Tools
- Category:Wikipedia tools
- m:Open Source Toolset
- m:User:Duesentrieb/Tools
- m:Toolserver
- Wikipedia:Toolserver
- "Wikr" bookmarklet
- Wikipedia:Tools/Optimum tool set
- Wikipedia:Tools/Not English – tools in languages other than English that need translation
- Toolboxes (templates)
- Top of article: see Layout and sections
- Transclusion: (see also Templates)
- Wikipedia:Transclusion
- m:Help:A simple composite example
- Labeled sections:
- mw:Extension:DynamicPageList – creating a composite article from a collection of section "chapters" of similar articles
- Wikipedia:Transclusion costs and benefits (essay)
- Translations: (see also Interwiki links)
- Wikipedia in different languages – overview:
- Wikipedia:Multilingual coordination
- m:Meta:Babylon – Meta translations portal and noticeboard
- Embassies:
- m:Wikimedia Embassy – central place for resources to help with cross-language issues that affect everyone
- Wikipedia:Local Embassy – the English language Embassy
- 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:
- Using other languages in an English-language article
- Template:Lang - mark part of the text as being in another language, language name not displayed
- Template:Langx - mark part of the text as being in another language, language name displayed
- Template:Interlinear - provide interlinear text glosses
- Using a different language article to create or improve an article in the English Wikipedia:
- Wikipedia:Copying within Wikipedia#Translating from other language Wikimedia Projects
- Template:Expand language – a header banner with the text "This article may be expanded with text translated from the corresponding article in the [other language] Wikipedia."
- Category:Expand by language Wikipedia templates
- Template:Rough translation
- Template:Cleanup-translation
- Template:Proofreader needed
- Template:Translated page
- Problems with existing article in the English Wikipedia:
- 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:
- Wikipedia in different languages – overview:
- 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:
- Trivia:
- Trolls and trolling: Wikipedia:What is a troll? (WP:TROLL) (essay)
- Truth:
- Tutorials: see Help pages
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- 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:
- Ukrainian: Wikipedia:Romanization of Ukrainian (Manual of Style)
- Unregistered users (see also Access (limiting), User account and username, Vandalism)
- MediaWiki:Anoneditwarning
- Wikipedia:IPs are human too (essay)
- Wikipedia:Welcome unregistered editing (essay)
- Wikipedia:Editors should be logged-in users (failed proposal)
- WP:Perennial proposals#Prohibit anonymous users from editing
- Who Writes Wikipedia – asserts that unregistered users add the bulk of new text
- Universities: see Schools
- URLs: (see also Sources, Wikilinks)
- Help:URL – URLs of pages within Wikipedia: articles, redirects, watchlists, etc.
- Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Accessibility#Links
- 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
- Usability: (see also Accessibility, Editing interface)
- Wikipedia:WikiProject Usability
- m:Usability group
- m:Usability
- Wikimedia Foundation usability initiative (2009-2010):
- Press release: Wikipedia to become more user-friendly for new volunteer writers (December 3, 2008)
- Stanton Grant Q&A
- m:Wikipedia Usability Initiative (Meta page)
- Main page (wiki)
- User:M~enwiki/Wikipedia usability problems
- User:AxelBoldt/Wikipedia usability problems
- User account and username (also called "useraccount", "login", and "user login") (see also Logging in, Privacy, Signature, Unregistered users, 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:
- Wikipedia:Username policy (WP:U)
- Wikipedia:Tutorial/Registration
- Special:Userlogin – to request an account
- Wikipedia:Request an account – for those who wish to create an account but cannot read the CAPTCHA image that is part of the standard registration process as of February 2007
- mw:Extension:SignupAPI
- mw:API:Account creation
- Help:Email confirmation
- Improving account creation:
- Inappropriate usernames:
- Wikipedia:Username policy#Inappropriate usernames
- Wikipedia:Usernames for administrator attention – blatantly inappropriate usernames
- Wikipedia:Requests for comment/User names – discussions
- Template:Uw-ublock
- Wikipedia:Perennial proposals#Usernames should contain only Latin Characters
- Monitoring bots:
- Changing usernames ("rename", "renaming"):
- 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
- mw:Extension:Renameuser
- Wikipedia:Changing attribution for an edit – merging edits from two different accounts (inactive/historical)
- Removing accounts without any edits:
- wmf:Privacy policy#User accounts and authorship
- Wikipedia:Delete unused username after 90 days – proposal rejected by Wikipedia developers
- Single signon ("single login", "single user login", "SUL"):
- Bug# 57 – request for this feature
- Signpost articles: August 2006, August 2007
- m:Help:Unified login and m:Single signon transition – moving to a single username (signon) across all Wikipedia domains
- mw:Extension:CentralAuth – "allows global/shared accounts between projects"
- Identifying existing accounts for a user name:
- User contributions – tool on the German Wikipedia
- Single-user login conflict search (MySQL server error since mid-2007)
- mw:Admin tools development/SUL Audit
- Unification:
- Special:MergeAccount – to check one's own status, and to do login unification
- m:Special:GlobalUsers – editors who have opted into single signon
- Gender:
- Special:Preferences has (as of early 2009) an optional, user-selected field for gender
- Templates that use this field: {{heorshe}} and {{hisorher}}
- Other:
- Multiple accounts: see Sock puppets
- Wikipedia:Account creator – For those needing to create more than six new accounts per 24 hour period
- Help:User contributions
- Wikipedia:Single-purpose account (essay)
- User registration date/time finder
- WikiStalk – finds pages that have been edited by two or more specific users
- Registered versus unregistered editing:
- User interface: (see also Customization, Editing interface, Usability)
- Wikipedia:User pages (WP:USER) (guideline)
- Special:AllMessages – system messages available in the MediaWiki: namespace
- User pages: (see also Archiving, Galleries, User account and username, Userboxes, Warnings)
- Wikipedia:User pages (WP:USER) (guideline)
- Wikipedia:Subpages (guideline)
- Wikipedia:Keep It Simple – for editors who want a simple layout on 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:
- Wikipedia:User categories
- Wikipedia:Categories for discussion
- Category:Wikipedians – collects subcategories that editors use to label themselves, many generated by userboxes
- 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:
- Wikipedia:Editnotice#Editnotices for user space
- Wikipedia:Template messages/User namespace
- Wikipedia:Template messages/User talk namespace
- Template:User committed identity – a way to prove that you are the owner of an account, should your password become compromised
- Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Autograph books (also known as "guestbooks" or "signature books") – may be allowed for active editors (case-by-case)
- User rights (also known as "permissions", "usergroups", "user groups", and "user privileges"):
- Special:ListGroupRights
- Wikipedia:User access levels
- Wikipedia:Requests for permissions
- Category:Wikipedia requests for permissions
- Wikipedia:Global rights policy
- {{NUMBERINGROUP}} – magic word that counts the number of users in a particular group; for instance: {{NUMBERINGROUP:rollbacker}}
- API query that returns a listing showing the rights assigned to each usergroup
- User scripts: (JavaScript) (.js pages) (see also Bots, Gadgets, Tools):
- Wikipedia:WikiProject User scripts
- Wikipedia:User scripts/Guide
- mw:Gadget kitchen – where developers can coordinate their work on user scripts and gadgets
- 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 "Preferences" page
- Wikipedia:WikiProject User scripts/Scripts/Autolink – makes plaintext wikilinks and templates clickable, for example on monobook.js pages
- User status (online, offline, etc.)
- 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)
- Userification: Wikipedia:Userfication – moving a non-notable or very problematical article to user space as an alternative to deletion
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- 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:Counter-Vandalism Unit/Vandalism studies
- Edit filter:
- Wikipedia:Edit filter – extension that analyzes (filters) edits and takes rules-based action (let edit happen, prevent edit, issue warning, etc.)
- "Abuse Filter is enabled" (Signpost article, March 2009)
- mw:Extension:AbuseFilter
- Log: Special:AbuseLog
- mw:AbuseFilter Priorities / Design
- mw:Extension:Phalanx – integrated special control mechanism originally developed by and for Wikia; has not been modified to run on Wikipedia
- 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
- Libera Chat 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 "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 {{school block}} 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: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:
- Identifying and fixing vandalism:
- Other:
- TemplateRevs – shows last edit for all templates transcluded on a page (default is WP:AN/I) (for suspected template vandalism)
- Wikipedia:Long-term abuse – vandals who have repeatedly returned with different user accounts
- Wikipedia:Perennial proposals#Prohibit anonymous users from editing
- m:Friends of gays should not be allowed to edit articles
- In general:
- Vanity articles: see Conflicts of interest and Wikipedia:Criteria for speedy deletion
- Variables: see Magic words
- Verifiability: see Sources, Truth
- Version tagging: see Stable versions
- Video: see Media
- Video games: Wikipedia:WikiProject Video games (includes two guidelines)
- Village pump: Wikipedia:Village pump – discussion of technical issues, policies, and operations of Wikipedia
- 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)
- m:VRT (upgraded, 2013)
- m:VRT/Recruiting recruiting – information on volunteering ("experienced admins" only, in theory)
- m:VRT/Volunteering – page for volunteers to list their names
- Voting: see Consensus and voting
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- Warnings:
- Wikipedia:Template messages/User talk namespace – discussion and grid of warnings
- Wikipedia:Template messages/User talk namespace#Warnings and notices
- Wikipedia:Don't template the regulars (essay)
- Wikipedia:WikiProject user warnings
- Template:WarningsSmall (for one's user page)
- Category:User warning templates
- Removal is acceptable:
- Wikipedia:User pages#Removal of comments, warnings
- Wikipedia:Removing warnings – failed proposal to prevent removal of warnings
- Wikipedia:Perennial proposals#Prohibit removal of warnings
- Watchlist: see Monitoring changes
- Web content as the subject of an article: Wikipedia:Notability (web) (guideline) – includes webcomics, podcasts, blogs, Internet forums, online magazines and other media, web portals and web hosts
- Weight (undue): see Wikipedia:Neutral point of view
- Welcome: see New editors
- What: Wikipedia:What Wikipedia is not – articles and content that are NOT appropriate for Wikipedia
- Wheel war: Wikipedia:Administrators#Reinstating a reverted action ("Wheel warring") (WP:WW)
- Wiki markup: see Formatting of text
- 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/Browse/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:
- Help:Link color
- Help:Link#Conversion to canonical form – how wikilinks work
- Wikipedia:Template messages/Links
- Template:Querylink – to make URL for a Wikipedia page, where the URL has a query string, look like a wikilink
- Tools:
- User:Zocky/Link Complete – JavaScript tool which adds autocomplete functionality for links in the editing window
- User:Js/urldecoder – converts urls to wikilinks, if applicable
- User:Ucucha/duplinks – script that highlights links that occur more than once in an article.
- Articles which lack outgoing wikilinks:
- Special:DeadendPages
- Wikipedia:Dead-end pages (no longer run; excess load on server)
- Fixing:
- User:Nickj/Can We Link It – tool (inactive since 2009) that was formerly included in the {{deadend}} template
- User:Nickj/Link Suggester – inactive; was superseded by "Can We Link It" tool
- Articles which lack incoming wikilinks ("orphan" articles):
- Special:Lonelypages
- User:Yetanotherbot – adds {{orphan}} template to Lonelypages lacking such
- Wikipedia:WikiProject Orphanage
- Category:All orphaned articles
- "Find link" tool – searches for possible articles in which to create incoming links (info: User:Edward/Find link)
- User:JL-Bot – checks articles tagged as orphans, and removes the tag if it is no longer applicable
- WP:VPPR#Proposal to move the Orphan tags to the talk page – (successful) proposal, December 2013, to move all "orphan" tags to article talk pages
- Other:
- Special:Mostlinked – pages with the most links pointing to them
- Template:Underlinked
- Wikipedia:Link intersection (feature request) – using wikilinks in searches
- 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
- wmf:Home
- m:Metapub – central place for questions and discussions about the Foundation and its projects
- m:Wikimedia Embassy – central place for resources to help with cross-language issues that affect everyone
- Wikimedia Foundation – Wikipedia article
- Foundation blog
- Wikipedia:Elections#Wikimedia Board
- Wikimedia Information Kit, September 2006 (pdf)
- Inside Wikimedia (video, 2009)
- Projects:
- Wikipedia:Projects of Wikimedia
- Wikipedia:Wikimedia sister projects (Manual of Style)
- mw:Special:SiteMatrix – list of two-digit abbreviations for all Wikimedia Foundation wikis
- Wikipedia:Office actions (WP:OFFICE) (policy) – immediate editing actions to deal with potential legal issues
- Wikipedia 1.0: (see also Stable versions)
- Wikipedia as a community (see also Criticism (of Wikipedia), Experts, News (about Wikipedia), WikiProjects)
- m:Wikicommunity
- Participants:
- Wikipedia:Editor
- Wikipedia:Who writes Wikipedia
- m:Why Wikimedians edit
- m:New contributor objections (barriers/problems)
- m:Edits by project and country of origin
- Wikipedia:Why to contribute (essay)
- Wikipedia:Job center – "The intention is to describe kinds of tasks that are done, not to ask for help with a specific task."
- Wikipedia:Don't-give-a-fuckism (essay) – on the value of being non-attached to praise or other things Wikipedian
- Wikipedia:Wikipedians
- Category:Wikipedians – collects subcategories that editors use to label themselves, many generated by userboxes
- Wikipedia:Wikipedians with articles – Wikipedia editors notable enough (almost always for other reasons) to have a mainspace article about them
- Wikipedia:Facebook directory
- Wikipedia:Missing Wikipedians
- Wikipedia:Editors matter (essay)
- Wikipedia:Patrols
- Template:Wikipediholism
- Books:
- How Wikipedia Works (September 2008) ISBN 978-1593271763
- The Wikipedia Revolution (March 2009) ISBN 978-1401303716 (website)
- The World and Wikipedia: How we are editing reality (August 2009) ISBN 978-0956205209
- Good Faith Collaboration: The Culture of Wikipedia (September 2010) ISBN 978-0262014472 (website)
- Philosophies:
- m:Conflicting Wikipedia philosophies
- Wikipedia:Laissez-faire (essay) – also known as "wikilibertarianism"
- Wikipedia:Why do you care? (essay)
- User:Raul654/Raul's laws
- Forums:
- Wikipedia:Community portal – "the central place to find out what's happening on Wikipedia"
- Wikipedia:Village pump – discussion of technical issues, policies, and operations of Wikipedia
- The WikBack – for those who prefer a web-based forum (December 2007 announcement)
- Research and studies:
- Wikipedia:Academic studies of Wikipedia
- Wikipedia:Researching Wikipedia
- Wikipedia:WikiProject Wikidemia
- meta:Wikimedia Research Network
- Wikipedia:Ethically researching Wikipedia – proposal (as of November 2008)
- Mailing lists:
- Wiki-research:
- Wiki-research-l:
- "Talk Before You Type: Coordination in Wikipedia", 2007 research paper based on October 2005 database
- 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
- Retention:
- Other:
- Divisiveness: Wikipedia:Divisiveness
- Wikipedia:Meetup – face-to-face meetings of Wikipedians in cities around the world
- Wikipedia:Geonotice – a notice displayed to editors who are calculated (based on their IP address) to be in a specific geographical area, such as a metropolitan area. Currently only shown to editors looking at their watchlists.
- 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:
- Wikipedia – what it is, history, hardware and software, funding, authorship and management, and much more
- Wikipedia:About
- What is Wikipedia? (pdf) – two page flyer
- Wikipedia:History of Wikipedian processes and people
- Wikipedia:Historic debates
- Wikipedia:Role of Jimmy Wales
- Wikipedia:Ten things you may not know about Wikipedia (essay)
- Late 2001 version of Wikipedia (nostalgia.wikipedia.org)
- Wikipedia:Why Wikipedia is so great (essay)
- Wikipedia:Wikipediology/library/essays/Merovingian-1 (essay) – "The Fluid Encyclopedia" – 2001 to 2005
- Wikipedia Fundraising Central Online Reporting Engine
- Category:Wikipedia history
- Wikipedia:General reading list
- Wikipedia:Instructional material
- Wikipedia:Learning the ropes
- WikiProjects: (for a WikiProject related to a topic within this index, see that topic) (see also Collaborations)
- In general:
- Wikipedia:WikiProject – projects within the English Wikimedia (community) project
- Wikipedia:WikiProject Council – unofficial group to encourage/assist with wikiprojects
- Wikipedia:WikiProject Council/Guide (guideline) – best practices
- Wikipedia:WikiProject Council/Guide#Advice pages – Any WikiProject advice page that has not been formally approved by the full Wikipedia community has the actual status of an optional essay
- Wikipedia:WikiProject Council/Directory – main directory of WikiProjects
- Wikipedia:Reform of WikiProjects (essay)
- "WikiProject Report: Lessons from the dead and dying", Signpost, October 30, 2013
- Activity:
- Wikipedia:Database reports/WikiProject watchers – number of watchers of the main page of each WikiProject
- Logos:
- "Great WikiProject Logos", Signpost article, October 2011
- "More Great WikiProject Logos", Signpost article, December 2013
- Bots:
- User:AlexNewArtBot – identifies new articles related to a WikiProject
- 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:SQLBot – tags article talk pages with wikiproject templates
- 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
- In general:
- 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 (WP:SELF) – "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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- XML: see Formatting of text, Queries (database)