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Revision as of 03:10, 10 September 2007
/About - Notes on special ways to use this index, and on maintaining consistency when making (or considering making) changes.
This index is for editors. Those just reading Wikipedia should see Wikipedia:Contents, Wikipedia:About, and Wikipedia:Readers' FAQ
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- Abuse: see Vandalism
- Access (limiting):
- China:
- Open proxies:
- Wikipedia:No open proxies (WP:NOP) (policy)
- Wikipedia:WikiProject on open proxies
- m:WikiProject on open proxies
- Wikipedia:Open proxy detection
- User:RonaldBot - reports edits done by open proxies
- Accessibility:
- Account: see User account and username
- Admin coaching: Wikipedia:Admin coaching - a one-on-one coaching program (formerly by the Wikipedia:Esperanza association of editors but now standalone)
- Administration: (see also Enforcement)
- Administrator (see also Enforcement)
- 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)
- Wikipedia:List of administrators
- Becoming an administrator:
- Wikipedia:Miniguide to requests for adminship (unofficial)
- Wikipedia:Guide to requests for adminship
- Category:Wikipedia administrator hopefuls
- Wikipedia:Requests for adminship - nominations of individuals seeking/willing to become an adminstrator (WP:RFA)
- Wikipedia:Arguments to avoid in adminship discussions - essay
- User:Dragons flight/RFA summary - bot-generated summary of the current RfAs
- User:Durin/Withdraw policy - when can a valid RfA be withdrawn by other than the candidate
- Results of RfAs:
- Wikipedia:Successful adminship candidacies
- Wikipedia:Unsuccessful adminship candidacies
- User:Durin/Admin charts - charts of RfAs from June 2005 through March 2006
- User:NoSeptember/Admin stats
- After becoming an administrator:
- Wikipedia:Administrators' reading list
- b:MediaWiki Administrator's Handbook
- Wikipedia:Wheel war (WP:WW) (policy) - Do not repeat an administrative action when another administrator opposes it
- User:NoSeptember/Subpages about adminship
- Ubergodmode.js Compilation of user scripts for administrators
- Problems with admins:
- Wikipedia:Requests for comment/User conduct#Use of administrator privileges
- User:Werdna/Sysop Accountability Proposal - a proposed secondary forum for complaints
- Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard
- Wikipedia:Requests for de-adminship
- Other:
- Wikipedia:Adminship in other languages - French, German, Dutch, Japanese (etc.) versions of Wikipedia
- User:NoSeptember/The NoSeptember Admin Project
- Wikipedia:Adminitis - essay
- Wikipedia:WikiProject on Adminship - discussion of new approaches for granting adminship (inactive as of October 2006)
- Adoption: Wikipedia:Adopt-a-User
- Advertisements:
- For Wikipedia:
- Template:Wikipedia-adnavbox - animated gifs, for WikiProjects and other good causes
- m:Wikimedia urban postering campaign
- By outside groups and individuals: see Spam
- For Wikipedia:
- Advice: see Help, Learning, New editors, Questions
- Anchor: see Navigation (on a page)
- AfD (Articles for Deletion): see Deletion of articles
- Algorithms: Wikipedia:Algorithms on Wikipedia
- Anchors:
- Help:Anchors
- Help:HTML in wikitext#Span - using "span id=" for hidden anchors
- Anonymous users (see also Vandalism)
- Disadvantages: Wikipedia:Why create an account?
- MediaWiki:Anoneditwarning
- Wikipedia:Welcome anonymous editing - essay
- Wikipedia:No open proxies
- Who Writes Wikipedia - asserts that anons add the bulk of new text
- User:ONUnicorn/Sandbox - proposed study (1/2007) of 500 edits - do anonys really contribute that much?
- Arabic:
- Arbitration:
- Archiving:
- Articles: see also Content disputes, Edits (in general), History, Importing, Layout and sections, New articles, Quality of articles, Series boxes, Style (articles)
- Wikipedia:What is an article
- Wikipedia:Article development - stages in the life of an article
- Wikipedia:Editorial oversight and control
- Wikipedia:Article size (Manual of Style)
- Wikipedia:Summary style - when articles get too long
- Wikipedia:Content forking (guideline) - includes POV forking
- User:R. fiend/How many articles does Wikipedia really have?
- Wikipedia:Unusual articles
- As of: see Current events
- Assessment: see Quality of articles
- Assistance (disputes): (see also Content disputes, Personal attacks)
- Association of Members' Advocates (AMA): inactive as of May 2007
- Assuming good faith: Wikipedia:Assume good faith (WP:AGF) (guideline)
- Attacks: see: Content disputes, Personal attacks
- Attribution: see Sources
- Audio: see Media
- Autobiographies: see Biographies
- Autograph books: Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Autograph books - allowed for active editors
- Automation: see Bots, Tools, User scripts
- Awards:
- Wikipedia:Awards
- Wikipedia:Personal user awards
- Wikipedia:WikiProject awards
- Wikipedia:Other awards
- Wikipedia:Barnstar and award proposals (WP:BAP)
- Template:Barnstarpages
- Wikipedia:Kindness Campaign
- Wikipedia:Award templates
- Wikipedia:Ribbons (for organizing multiple awards)
- Wikipedia:Great editing in progress
- Wikipedia:WikiProject Hall of Fame
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- Backlogs (administrative actions): see Wikipedia:Watch
- Balance and space: see Neutral point of view
- Banners: Wikipedia:Banners and buttons (with the word "Wikipedia" in them)
- Banning: see Enforcement
- Barnstars: see Awards
- Behavior (see also Disruptive editing, Enforcement, Spam, Vandalism)
- Wikipedia:List of policies#Behavioral: standards for behavior of Wikipedia editors
- Wikipedia:Simplified ruleset#Safe behaviours - twelve guidelines for "safe behaviours"
- m:Don't be a dick
- User:Antandrus/observations on Wikipedia behavior (essay)
- Being bold: Wikipedia:Be bold (WP:BOLD or WP:BB) (guideline)
- Bias:
- Wikipedia:WikiProject Countering systemic bias
- Wikipedia:Recentism - an essay on the tendency to overweight recent events when adding information or creating new articles
- Wikipedia:WikiProject Historical information
- Biographies:
- In general:
- Article names:
- Notability:
- Wikipedia:Notability (people)
- Wikipedia:Notability (academics) (guideline)
- Wikipedia:Notability (pornographic actors) (guideline)
- Formatted data (see also Series boxes)
- Categorization:
- Wikipedia:Categorization of people - guideline
- Wikipedia:Categorization/Gender, race and sexuality
- Wikipedia:Do not write articles using categories - do not add a category for every attribute a person
- Wikipedia:Naming conventions (identity) (ethnic, national, sexual, etc.)
- User:SmackBot - adds the DEFAULTSORT template to stubs that are biographical articles
- Possible problems:
- General policies:
- Wikipedia:Libel (policy)
- Wikipedia:Biographies of living persons#Privacy of birthdays
- Wikipedia:Oversight (policy) and Wikipedia:Requests for oversight - removal of personal or libelous information on older revisions of an article
- Wikipedia:Deletion policy#Courtesy blanking (WP:CBLANK) (guideline) - removal of personal info within a deletion discussion
- Editors and the articles about them: (see also Conflict of interest)
- Identified cases (see also Conflict of interest):
- General policies:
- Other:
- Birthdays: see Biographies
- Biting: Wikipedia:Please do not bite the newcomers
- Blocks: see Enforcement
- Books: (see also Wikibooks, Resources)
- Articles about books:
- Wikipedia:Notability (books) (guideline)
- Wikipedia:Naming conventions (books) (guideline)
- ISBN:
- Articles about books:
- Bootcamp: see Wikipedia:New contributors' help page
- Bots:
- Wikipedia:Bot policy
- Wikipedia:Types of bots
- Wikipedia:History of Wikipedia bots
- Wikipedia:Creating a bot
- m:Using the python wikipediabot
- Wikipedia:Bot requests - ideas for bots, coding needed
- Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval
- Special:Log/makebot
- Wikipedia:Registered bots
- Category:Wikipedia bots
- Special:Listusers - set to "bots"; if listed, then bot has been properly flagged
- Wikipedia:Bot owners' noticeboard
- Wikipedia:Bots/Approvals group
- Template:Bots - template for user pages, to encourage or block (compliant) bots
- Bounty Board: Wikipedia:Bounty board (see also Wikipedia:Reward board)
- Browsers (for Wikipedia editing): (see also Editing software)
- Wikipedia:Browser notes
- Wikipedia:Tools/Browser tools
- AutoWikiBrowser: (WP:AWB) (a semi-automated Wikipedia editor, Windows only, typically used for vandal patrol or mass edits)
- Wikibrowser: part of the Wikipedia:WikiBrowse package
- User:Cacycle/wikEd - wikEd, adds enhanced text processing functions to Wikipedia (Firefox only as of January 2007)
- Wikipedia Explorer (beta as of March 2007)
- Wikipedia:Wikipedia Widget - for Mac OS X v10.4 or later
- Bugs:
- Wikipedia:Bug reports
- Wikipedia:Bugzilla
- mediazilla: - MediaZilla Main Page
- How to Report Bugs Effectively - recommended by MediaZilla
- Bureaucrats - folks who handle special, higher-level administrative tasks
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- Canonicalization - converting links to URLs
- Canvassing: Wikipedia:Canvassing - votestacking, campaigning, friendly notice, and forum shopping
- Captions:
- Categories (a way of organizing and finding articles):
- General information:
- Wikipedia:Categorization - (WP:CAT) (guideline)
- Wikipedia:Categorization and subcategories (WP:SUBCAT) (guideline)
- Help:Category
- Wikipedia:Categorization FAQ
- Wikipedia:Build the web (WP:BTW) (guideline)
- Wikipedia:Naming conventions (categories)
- Wikipedia:WikiProject Categories
- Wikipedia:Categorical index
- Wikipedia:Categories, lists, and series boxes - comparing alternative approaches
- Wikipedia:Overcategorization (guideline) - what types of categories are not good ones to create
- 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
- Listings of categories:
- Special:Categories - alphabetical category listing
- Category:Fundamental - fundamental categories
- Special:CategoryTree - can generate a tree of categories, or categories and articles
- User:PockBot - 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 (clone: User:Chris G Bot 2)
- CatScan
- Possible problems:
- 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
- Wikipedia:Category deletion policy
- Category:Lists that should be categories
- Category:Underpopulated categories
- Intersection of two categories:
- m:User:Duesentrieb/CatScan - CatScan is a tool that can do various types of category scans, including intersection (may or may not be using up-to-date version of database)
- 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:SmackBot - adds DEFAULTSORT to people-related article stubs
- Other:
- 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
- Help:Job queue - why changing a category in a template doesn't instantly change all articles with that template
- User:O bot - adds, removes, and moves/renames categories by request {approval)
- User:Dr. Submillimeter/Humorous categories - unusual (and no longer existing) categories
- General information:
- Censorship:
- 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
- Community portal; Wikipedia:Community Portal (see also Wikipedia as a community)
- Civility: see Personal attacks
- Classes: see Learning (for classes of users, see Wikipedia:User access levels)
- Cleanup: see Maintenance, Quality of articles
- Clerks:
- Wikipedia:Arbitration Committee/Clerks
- For usurpations: March 1, 2007 description
- Coaching: see Learning
- Colon trick: Help:Colon trick
- Comics and comic books:
- Wikipedia:WikiProject Comics/copyright (guideline)
- Wikipedia:Naming conventions (comics) (guideline)
- Wikipedia:Notability (web) (guideline) (includes webcomics)
- Common sense: (see also Process)
- Wikipedia:Ignore all rules (WP:IAR) (policy)
- Wikipedia:Suggestions on how to ignore all rules (essay)
- Wikipedia:Ignoring all rules - a beginners guide (essay)
- Wikipedia:Interpret all rules (essay)
- m:Don't be a dick
- Wikipedia:Use common sense (essay)
- Wikipedia:There is no common sense (essay) - Base your argument on existing agreements, foundation issues and the interests of the encyclopedia, not your own common sense.
- Commons:
- Commons:Welcome - database of over a million media files (photographs, diagrams, animations, music, spoken text, video clips, etc.) available for use in any Wikimedia (community) project, to which anyone can contribute; recommended place to upload to
- Wikipedia:Wikimedia Commons
- Wikipedia:Commons categories (WP:CC) (guideline)
- Mayflower - searching the Commons
- Commons:Commons:Tools
- Moving images to:
- Wikipedia:Moving images to the Commons
- Wikipedia:WikiProject Moving free images to Wikimedia Commons
- Move-to-commons assistant - generates an image description to copy-and-paste for the commons upload form (also known as "CommonsHelper")
- User:Krimpet/CommonsHelper Helper - user script that adds a button to easily bring up CommonsHelper
- Communications (communicating with other editors): see Messages
- Community: see Wikipedia as community
- Companies and organizations:
- Wikipedia:Business' FAQ
- Wikipedia:Companies, corporations and economic information ((Manual of Style)
- Wikipedia:Notability (organizations and companies) (guideline)
- Wikipedia:Naming conventions (companies) (guideline)
- Conflict of interest: (see also Biographies)
- Wikipedia:Conflict of interest (WP:COI) (guideline)
- Wikipedia:Conflict of interest/Noticeboard - reporting cases of conflict of interest policy not being followed
- User:AlexNewArtBot/COISearchResult - new articles that appear likely to be conflict of interest cases
- Wikipedia Scanner - identifies anonymous IP edits from user-specified organizations (Wired magazine story, August 2007)
- Wikipedia:Suggestions for COI compliance - essay
- User:Charles Matthews/Conflict of interest - an essay (10/2006)
- Congress: edits by Congressional staffers:
- Consensus and voting:
- Wikipedia:Consensus (WP:CON) (policy)
- Wikipedia:Consensus#Consensus can change (WP:CCC)
- Wikipedia:Elections
- Wikipedia:Requests for comment
- m:Polling is evil
- Wikipedia:What Wikipedia is not#Wikipedia is not a democracy
- Wikipedia:Polling is not a substitute for discussion (guideline)
- Wikipedia:Canvassing (WP:CANVAS) (guideline)
- Wikipedia:Voting is not evil - an essay
- Wikipedia:Straw polls - proposed guideline
- Conservapedia: Wikipedia vs. Conservapedia Bookmarklet
- Conservation: Wikipedia:Conservation status (categories) (Manual of Style)
- Content (how-to): see Content disputes, Edits (in general), New articles, Style (articles)
- Content disclaimer: Wikipedia:Content disclaimer
- Content disputes: (see also Disruptive editing, Neutral point of view, Personal attacks)
- General policies: (in addition to WP:ATT, WP:V, WP:RS, etc.)
- Wikipedia:Resolving disputes (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 his/her words from being edited is to not put them into a wikipedia article in the first place
- Wikipedia:Guidelines for controversial articles (Manual of Style)
- Reverts and other disagreements:
- Wikipedia:BOLD, revert, discuss cycle - Boldly edit, revert once, discuss - an essay on reaching consensus
- Wikipedia:Disputed statement - guideline
- Wikipedia:NPOV dispute - how-to guidance
- Wikipedia:Three-revert rule (WP:3RR) (policy) - repeated edits can get a user blocked (typically, for 24 hours)
- Wikipedia:Edit war (guideline) - definitions, discussion
- Wikipedia:Disputed statement (guideline)
- Wikipedia:Accuracy dispute
- Wikipedia:Uphill Battles (essay)
- Wikipedia:Disruptive editing (guideline)
- Wikipedia:Lamest edit wars
- Possible solutions:
- Template:Dispute-resolution
- 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
- Processes for resolving (when informal discussions fail)
- Wikipedia:Resolving disputes - official policy (overview)
- Ask for a third opinion: Wikipedia:Third opinion - for relatively obsure pages (rule: only two parties involved).
- Requests for comment:
- Mediation:
- Wikipedia:Mediation (policy)
- Wikipedia:Requests for mediation - formal mediation
- Wikipedia:Community enforceable mediation - experimental alternative (new as of March 2007)
- Wikipedia:Mediation Cabal - informal mediation
- General policies: (in addition to WP:ATT, WP:V, WP:RS, etc.)
- Controversial articles: (see also Content disputes)
- Conversion:
- Converting page content from one format to another: see Exporting (an article), Importing
- Converting one unit of measurement into another: see Units of measurement
- Copyright (see also Legal)
- In general:
- Wikipedia:Copyright FAQ
- 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:
- Wikipedia:Non-free content criteria (WP:FUC) (policy)
- Wikipedia:Non-free content (guideline)
- Wikipedia:Non-free use rationale guideline (guideline)
- Wikipedia:Public domain (guideline)
- Wikipedia:Non-free content (guideline)
- m:Avoid Copyright Paranoia - discussion
- Wikipedia:WikiProject Fair use
- Avoiding problems:
- Wikipedia:Image 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:Copyright violations (WP:COPYVIO) (policy)
- Wikipedia:Spotting possible copyright violations
- Wikipedia:Copyright problems
- Wikipedia:Copyright violations on history pages - dealing with prior versions of an article that have copyright violations and are accessible via history pages
- Wikipedia:Contact us/Article problem/Copyright - if an article is using copyrighted content without permission
- foundation:Designated agent - for notification of claimed infringement
- User:CopyvioHelperBot - script
- Wikipedia:Suspected copyright violations - where a bot places places pages (and URLs) of suspected problems
- Using Wikipedia content:
- GFDL - GNU Free Documentation Licence (text at Wikipedia:Text of the GNU Free Documentation License)
- Wikipedia:Reusing Wikipedia content (policy)
- In general:
- Counts (of edits):
- Wikipedia:Edit counts)
- Wikipedia:Tools#Counts (of edits)ers
- Wikipedia:WikiProject counts (of edits)ers
- Milestone - finds the nth edit of an editor
- User:Henrik/live-edit-counter - continuously updated counts (of edits)er (userbox)
- User:Interiot/EditCountOptIn
- Wikipedia:List of Wikipedians by number of edits
- Wikipedia:Editcountitis - an essay
- Creating articles: see New articles
- Credentials:
- Wikipedia:Credentials matter - essay
- Wikipedia:Credentials are irrelevant - essay
- Wikipedia:Ignore all credentials - proposal (as of March 2007)
- Criticism (of Wikipedia) (for other types of criticism, see Content disputes, Personal attacks)
- 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 failing - essay
- Wikipedia:Wikipedia is not failing - essay
- Currencies:
- Current events: (‘’see also’’ Wikinews)
- Portal:Current events
- Wikipedia:How the Current events page works
- Wikipedia:As of
- Wikipedia:Avoid statements that will date quickly (Manual of Style) (examples: "recently", "is soon to become") (WP:DATED)
- Wikipedia:Current and future event templates
- Category:Wikipedia articles in need of updating
- Customization: (see also Signatures, User scripts)
- Special:Preferences
- Help:Preferences
- Help:User style
- m:Gallery of user styles
- m:Help:Cascading style sheets
- Wikipedia:Catalogue of CSS classes
- Help:Mediawiki CSS
- Wikipedia:WikiProject CSS
- Wikipedia:Useful styles
- Wikipedia:Customisation
- Wikipedia:Skin
- m:Customization:Explaining skins
- m:Customize page layout
- 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)
- User:Wolfgangbeyer/monobook.css - monobook.css optimized for color blindness
- User:The Transhumanist/Virtual classroom#External interfaces - let's compare
- Cyrillic: Wikipedia:Naming conventions (Cyrillic)
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- Data download: see Queries (database) (for individual pages, see Exporting (an article))
- Database query: see Queries (database)
- Dates: (see also Current events)
- Wikipedia:Manual of Style (dates and numbers)
- Wikipedia:Naming conventions (numbers and dates)
- m:Dynamic dates
- Help:Calendar - code to include the image of a small '"calendar page", including a time display, on a Wikipedia page
- Decision-making: see Consensus and voting, 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)
- Template:deletiontools (for one's user page)
- Wikipedia:Levels of deletion
- Wikipedia:Introduction to deletion process (essay)
- Wikipedia:Deletion debates
- Wikipedia:Deletion guidelines for administrators (WP:DGFA) (guideline)
- Deletion of articles: (see also Deletion, immediately above)
- Policies, general criteria, and examples: (see also Notability)
- Alternatives to deletion:
- Move to a sister project such as Wiktionary or Wikisource - see Transwiki
- Wikipedia:Userfication - if article has potential for Wikipedia
- Wikipedia:Merging and moving pages
- Wikipedia:Redirect
- Types of deletion:
- Blanking a page: see Wikipedia:No blank pages (guideline) (for articles)
- Speedy deletion:
- Wikipedia:Criteria for speedy deletion (WP:CSD) (policy)
- Tagging and notifying users:
- User:Giggy/Speedy-er - user script which helps tag articles for speedy deletion
- Wikipedia:WikiProject User scripts/Scripts/Easy db - adds tabs when viewing an article, for tagging for speedy deletion
- User:CSDWarnBot - finds the creator of a tagged article and posts a warning on the user's talk page
- Pending deletion: Category:Candidates for speedy deletion
- Deletion:
- User:^demon/CSD AutoReason (user script) (admins only) - adds drop-down box of the CSD criteria when doing a delete
- 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
- 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
- Category:Proposed deletion
- Formal deletion process (AfD discussions):
- Wikipedia:Guide to deletion - information on the process
- Wikipedia:AfD categories
- Wikipedia:WikiProject Deletion sorting - AfDs organized into topical lists
- User:Jayden54Bot - - bot that notifies creator of article that it has been submitted to AfD process (approved January 2007)
- 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:
- Wikipedia:Quicker access to votes for deletion - javascript bookmarklet
- User:Jnothman/afd helper - makes voting on an AFD a one-click process (user script)
- User:Eagle 101/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:
- User:Mangojuice/Slave (essay) - don't ask administrators to do large amounts of work under the guise of a deletion debate
- Wikipedia:Help, my article got nominated for deletion! (essay)
- Wikipedia:Arguments to avoid in deletion discussions (essay)
- Wikipedia:Pokémon test (essay) - another argument to avoid
- Closing:
- Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Common outcomes
- Wikipedia:Speedy keep - closing a discussion early and keeping the article
- Wikipedia:WikiProject User scripts/Scripts/CloseAFD.js
- After an article is deleted:
- Wikipedia:Viewing and restoring deleted pages by sysops
- Wikipedia:Deletion policy#Courtesy blanking (WP:CBLANK) (guideline) (blanking of the AfD discussion due to privacy issues)
- Wikipedia:Protected deleted pages (WP:SALT) - "padlocking" or "salting the earth" to protect against further re-creation of deleted pages without prior admin approval
- Wikipedia:Why was my page deleted?
- Wikipedia:Deletion review - appeals to restore pages that have been deleted or delete pages which were closed as 'keep' in an AfD discussion (WP:DRV)
- Getting a copy of a deleted article put into one's user space, where it can be improved before going into the article namespace again:
- Finding deleted articles:
- Special:Log/delete - deletion log, searchable by article name or user who created the article
- Discussions (if deletion was by AfD) can be found at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Name of Article, Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Name of Article (second nomination), etc. (alternatively, use Special:Prefixindex, in the Wikipedia space, searching on "Articles for deletion/Firstlettersofarticlename")
- Other:
- Wikipedia:Article Rescue Squadron
- User:Mailer diablo/The Mailer Diablo Deletion Project
- Wikipedia:Transparent deletion (essay)
- Wikipedia:AFD 100 days - June-September 2005 computer-assisted evaluation
- Wikipedia:WikiProject AfD closing - making sure AfDs are added to article talk pages (for articles that survive AfDs)
- Deletionist: see m:Deletionism
- Diagrams: see Graphics
- Dictionary:
- Wikipedia:Wikipedia is not a dictionary (policy)
- For wiktionary, see wikt:Main Page
- Another alternative: Urban Dictionary
- Directories:
- Wikipedia:Department directory
- Wikipedia:Quick directory
- Wikipedia:Requests
- Special:Specialpages - a list of special pages that are automatically generated and cannot be edited
- User:Thunderhead/Bookmarks
- Wikipedia:TourBusStop
- "Toolsets":
- For readers more than for editors, but still useful:
- Disambigution (see also Moving a page, Naming an article)
- Information about:
- Wikipedia:Disambiguation (WP:DAB) (guideline)
- Wikipedia:Manual of Style (disambiguation pages)
- Wikipedia:Disambiguation and abbreviations
- Special:Disambiguations - pages that link to a disambiguation page and (probably) should link to an article instead
- Wikipedia:Hatnotes - short notes placed at the top of an article before the primary topic, generally to provide disambiguation of closely related terms or to summarize a topic, and explain its boundaries
- List of pages:
- Wikipedia:Links to (disambiguation) pages - list of page with "(disambiguation)" in title
- Wikipedia:Links to disambiguating pages - list of pages marked as disambiguation pages
- Wikipedia:Multiple-place names - index of disambiguation pages involving places
- Problems:
- Wikipedia:Disambiguation pages with links
- Wikipedia:Disambiguation pages with links/Maintenance
- User:Polbot - removes piped linking on disambiguation pages (function #5)
- Templates:
- Category:Disambiguation and redirection templates
- Wikipedia:Otheruses templates (example usage)
- Template:Disambig-guidance - hidden text that can be added to disambiguation pages
- Other:
- Wikipedia:WikiProject Disambiguation
- Disambiguation pages are, in most cases, treated like article pages. This is a bug, not a feature.
- Specialized automated tools:
- User:Commander Keane bot - automated bot for disambiguation
- User:RussBot - automated bot for disambiguation
- Wikipedia:WikiProject Disambiguation/fixer - downloadable program (pseudo-browser)
- Information about:
- Disclaimers:
- Wikipedia:General disclaimer
- Wikipedia:Legal disclaimer
- Wikipedia:Content disclaimer
- Wikipedia:Medical disclaimer
- Wikipedia:Risk disclaimer
- Wikipedia:No disclaimers in articles (WP:NDT)
- Wikipedia:Non-Wikipedia disclaimers - examples from other information providers
- Disputes: see: Content disputes, Personal attacks
- Disruptive editing (see also Content dispute, Personal attacks)
- Wikipedia:Disruptive editing
- Wikipedia:Disruption - essay
- Wikipedia:Do not disrupt Wikipedia to illustrate a point (guideline)
- Wikipedia:Harassment (WP:HAR) (guideline)
- Wikipedia:Requests for comment/User conduct - requires two or more editors to have posted warnings about another editor
- Divisiveness: Wikipedia:Divisiveness
- Download of data (database): see Technical (hardware and software) (for individual pages, see Exporting (an article))
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- Edit conflict:
- 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 users to let you do major edits undisturbed
- Template:Inuse/doc
- Provide "edit warning" for pages when someone else has just started editing - software change proposal
- Edit summary:
- Help:Edit summary
- Wikipedia:Edit summary legend - commonly used abbreviations
- Wikipedia:Edit summary legend/Quick reference
- Wikipedia:Automatic edit summaries
- Special:Preferences#prefsection-5 - has option for a prompt (message) when "save" is clicked but edit summary is blank
- Wikipedia:WikiProject User scripts/Scripts/Force edit summary alternative - flashes a summary box rather than displaying a message that no edit summary was entered
- Edit war: see Content disputes
- Editing software: (see also #BrowseBrowsers)
- Modifying the standard Wikipedia text editing window:
- Wikipedia:Tools/Editing tools
- Wikipedia:WikiProject User scripts/Scripts#Editing - user scripts that add search and replace, quick preview, and modifications to the edit toolbar
- Using an external editor:
- Wikipedia:Text editor support
- Help: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
- Modifying the standard Wikipedia text editing window:
- Editor review: Wikipedia:Editor review - to request a review of one's editing
- Edits (in general) (see also Edit summary, |Editing software, Formatting of text, Help, New articles, New editors, Preview, Quality of articles, Sources)
- Wikipedia:Wikipedia in brief
- Wikipedia:Editing policy - official policy
- Wikipedia:Introduction
- Wikipedia:Tutorial (Editing)
- Help:Editing
- Standard editing screen:
- Help:Editing FAQ
- User:Uncle G/Wikipedia triage - a guide to "What to do" with problematical articles (nice categorization)
- Wikipedia:How to edit a page - a pretty comprehensive discussion; best to read other information first
- Wikipedia:How to copy-edit
- Wikipedia:Contributing FAQ
- Wikipedia:Editing FAQ
- 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 ununderstandable content in an article
- m:Help:Dummy edit - generally for the purpose of posting an edit summary
- Elections (articles on):
- Email:
- Embedded citations: see Sources
- Encyclopedia: (see also Criticism (of Wikipedia))
- Endnotes: see Sources
- Enforcement (see also Administrator, Arbitration)
- General:
- Wikipedia:List of policies#Enforcing policies: what action authorized users can take to enforce other policies
- Wikipedia:Requests for administrator attention - a directory of places to request administrator help
- Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard (WP:AN)
- Blocks (see also Access (limiting)):
- Wikipedia:Blocking policy (WP:BLOCK)
- Special:Log/block - log of blocks
- Wikipedia:Blocked users can edit their own talk page
- Wikipedia:Appealing a block (policy)
- Wikipedia:Autoblock
- Template:Schoolblock
- Special:Ipblocklist - List of currently blocked IP addresses and usernames (searchable)
- Bans:
- Wikipedia:Banning policy
- Wikipedia:Community sanction noticeboard - forum to discuss community bans (new, January 2007)
- Wikipedia:List of banned users
- General:
- Esperanza: Wikipedia:Esperanza - a group of Wikipedia editors "dedicated to strengthening Wikipedia's sense of community"
- Essays:
- Ethiopia:
- Etiquette: see Wikiquette
- Experts:
- Wikipedia:Expert retention (essay)
- Category:Pages needing expert attention
- Wikipedia:WikiProject Expert Request Sorting - changes the general "expert-needed" category in articles to more specific subcategories
- Exporting (an article):
- Help:Export
- Special:Export
- PDF: Wikipedia:WikiReader#Resources
- m:Alternative parsers - programs and projects to translate MediaWiki's text markup syntax into something else, such as HTML
- Extensions:
- External links: see Sources, URLs
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- FAQs - see Help, or specific topics in this index
- Featured articles: (see also Good articles, #Main PMain Page)
- Wikipedia:Featured articles
- Wikipedia:Featured article criteria
- Wikipedia:Today's featured article - history of what have been Main Page articles
- Wikipedia:Stabilizing featured articles
- Wikipedia:Featured article review
- Wikipedia:Featured article statistics
- Wikipedia:Featured article candidates
- Wikipedia:Article Collaboration and Improvement Drive - a weekly collaboration to improve articles to featured article status
- Wikipedia:Featured Article Help Desk - help for those who would like to see a particular article improved to FA status
- Wikipedia:One featured article per quarter - an informal project
- Fiction:
- Films:
- Wikipedia:Naming conventions (films)
- Wikipedia:IMDb (Internet Movie Database) - templates
- The Movie Dude - user script that cross-links various movie related sites with Wikipedia
- Five pillars: Wikipedia:Five pillars
- Flags: (as content, not database fields)
- Formula: see Graphics
- Footnotes: see Sources
- Form (as input): Help:Inputbox (a MediaWiki extension to add predefined HTML forms to wiki pages)
- Forum shopping: see Wikipedia:Spam#Forum shopping
- Formatting of text: (see also #ExportExporting (an article))
- How to:
- Wikipedia:Manual of Style (text formatting) - bold, italics, underlines, etc.
- Wikipedia:How to edit a page#Wiki markup
- Help:Wikitext examples
- m:Help:Reference card - one page summary of important MediaWiki editing commands, intended to be printed out
- Help:HTML in wikitext
- Wikipedia:Wiki Markup Language (WKML)
- Wikipedia:Tutorial (Formatting)
- Wikipedia:Cheatsheet - quick reference guide
- User:DarknessLord/EA TUT Thing - guide to basic markup
- Wikipedia:Colours (aka "Colors") (Manual of Style)
- Wikipedia:Manual of Style (command-line examples) - for articles on computer science, how to format words that a user would type.
- When to (and not to):
- Wikipedia:Don't use line breaks (Manual of Style)
- Wikipedia:Manual of Style (titles) - scientific names, titles of books, etc.
- How to:
- Foundation: see Wikimedia Foundation
- Frequently asked questions (FAQ): in general, see Help (general); also see specific topics
- Fun:
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- Galleries (see also Images)
- Wikipedia:Galleries - proposed policy or guideline
- Wikipedia:What Wikipedia is not#Wikipedia is not a free web host
- Wikipedia:Gallery tag
- Games: see Fun (for games within Wikipedia), Video games
- General disclaimer: Wikipedia:General disclaimer
- Glossary:
- For a glossary related to Wikipedia editing, see Terms/terminology
- For glossaries related to articles (content), see List of glossaries
- "Go" button: Help:Go button
- 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 - removing sites which mirror Wikimedia content from Google search results
- Gothic:
- Graphics (see also Images)
- Wikipedia:Graphics tutorials
- Help:Formula - a list of the markup symbols in use
- Help:Displaying a formula
- Wikipedia:ASCII art conversion tool
- Wikipedia:Chemical ASCII-art
- Wikipedia:How to create graphs for Wikipedia articles
- Wikipedia:Graphic Lab (aka "Graphics Lab")
- Diagrams:
- Greek: Wikipedia:Naming conventions (Greek) (guideline)
- Guestbooks: see Autograph books
- Guidelines: see Policies and guidelines
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- Hardware: see Technical (hardware and software)
- Harmony: Wikipedia:Harmonious editing club
- Hebrew:
- Help (directly requesting):
- Help pages: (for pages that are help-oriented for a specific topic, see that topic); see also Assistance (disputes), Learning, Questions
- Help:Contents - help directory
- Wikipedia:Tutorial
- Wikipedia:Tutorial Drive
- Frequently asked questions:
- Wikipedia:FAQ - includes 11 "general" FAQs, including Wikipedia:Very Frequently Asked Questions
- Nubio
- Categorized pages:
- Hieroglyphs: Help:WikiHiero syntax
- History (of a page):
- Wikipedia:How to read an article history
- Help:Page history
- Wikipedia:WikiProject User scripts/Scripts/HistoryCount - changes the default number of entries when the history tab is clicked
- Wikipedia:Copyright violations on history pages
- Wikipedia:WikiProject User scripts/Scripts/HistoryCount - user script that specifies the number of history entries on the history tab (without the script, 50 entries are shown when the tab is opened)
- Wikipedia:WikiProject User scripts/Scripts/Six tabs - adds a history tab (and an edit tab) for the page that is paired with the page that is visible
- Diffs:
- Help:Diff
- bug - "diff views do not wrap text, can be many times wider than browser width"
- 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#Better rendering for .diffchange in diff's...
- User:Cacycle/wikEdDiff - user script - additions and deletions are highlighted by color in one continuous text
- Exporting: Special:Export
- Deletions of prior versions:
- Wikipedia:Selective deletion
- Wikipedia:Oversight and Wikipedia:Requests for oversight - removal of personal or libelous information on older versions of a page
- Tools:
- For the problem of diffs being wider than the screen: Wikipedia:WikiProject User scripts/Scripts/Fix diff width
- For content:
- WikiBlame - searches for given text in versions of article
- User:AmiDaniel/WhodunitQuery - Windows application that identifies the edit and user who added a specific word or phrase
- User:Stevage/EnhanceHistory.user.js - Collapses consecutive edits from the same person into one, integrates (shows) diffs on the history page
- MediaWiki talk:Monobook.css#Better rendering for .diffchange in diff's...
- For counts and major contributor:
- Revision counter - counts revisions (edits)
- Contributors - lists edits, similar to page history, but can be sorted by contributor; easy to exclude different groups
- Wikipedia Page History Statistics - builds an edit history overview page
- Article Contribution Counter (beta) - tool that identifies major contributors to an article (a similar feature request is here)
- 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
- Hoaxes:
- Wikipedia:Don't create hoaxes (guideline)
- Category:Suspected hoax articles
- User:Shii/Hoaxes - list of notable hoaxes
- House of Representatives (edits by staffers): see Congressional staffer edits
- How-to: Category:Wikipedia how-to (see also Help (general)))
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- Images: (see also Censorship, Copyrights, Galleries, Graphics, Navigation)
- General information:
- Needed pictures:
- Wikipedia:Fromowner documentation - inserting a request for an image into an article
- Wikipedia:Requested pictures
- Wikipedia:Photo Matching Service
- Category:Wikipedia requested photographs (User:PhotoCatBot does some subcategorization)
- Resources (where to get images) (see also Commons):
- Before uploading:
- Uploading:
- Wikipedia:Upload - wizard
- MediaWiki:Uploadtext - warns about the need to specify the source of an upload, and copyright information
- Wikipedia:Fromowner - uploading an image you created or own
- Wikipedia:Image file names (guideline)
- Wikipedia:Uploading images
- Wikipedia:Image copyright tags
- Special:Upload
- Displaying on a page:
- Wikipedia:Manual of Style#Images
- Wikipedia:Captions (Manual of Style)
- Wikipedia:Extended image syntax - options for displaying an image (size, right/left, etc.)
- Wikipedia:How to fix bunched up edit links - if section edit links are being pushed down by floated images
- Wikipedia:Image description page
- Wikipedia:Alternative text for images
- Featured:
- Problem images on Wikipedia:
- Wikipedia:Possibly unfree images
- Wikipedia:Images and media for deletion
- Wikipedia:Pictures needing attention
- Wikipedia:Images for cleanup
- Wikipedia:Graphic Lab/Images to improve (place to request assistance)
- Categories identifying problems:
- Automation:
- User:BJBot - bot that tags orphaned images as such; notifies originator of problem
- User:Howcheng/quickimgdelete.js - makes it easier to tag images and nominate images for deletion
- User:ImageRemovalBot - removes images links from articles after an image has been deleted
- 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
- Other:
- Special:Newimages ("Gallery of new files") - images that have just been added to Wikipedia
- Special:Imagelist - most recently uploaded files
- Wikipedia:WikiProject Illustration
- Category:Images by source
- See also Commons regarding moving images to there
- Importing:
- Wikipedia:How to import articles
- Help:WordToWiki
- 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
- Inclusion: Wikipedia:Inclusion is not an indicator of notability (essay)
- Index of pages:
- Wikipedia:Quick index - click on a starting point to browse articles
- Special:Allpages - select a starting point for browsing
- Wikipedia:Categorical index
- m:Help-style indexing - uses keywords
- Indian subcontinent:
- Indymedia: Wikipedia:Guide for Indymedia authors
- Infobox template:
- Wikipedia:Infobox templates
- Help:Infobox
- Wikipedia:Manual of Style (infoboxes)
- Category:Infobox templates
- Wikipedia:WikiProject Infoboxes
- Specialized:
- Wikipedia:Chemical infobox
- Taxonomy:
- Wikipedia:Taxobox usage (Manual of Style)
- Wikipedia:How to read a taxobox
- Other:
- Wikipedia:WikiProject Usability/Infobox accessibility
- User:SmackBot - puts birth dates and death dates into standard formats inside infoboxes
- Inserting text from one page into another page - see Transclusion
- Instruction creep: see Policies and guidelines
- Instant messaging and IRC:
- Wikipedia:IRC channels
- Wikipedia:IRC tutorial
- m:IRC channels
- m:IRC Group Contacts - liaisons between Wikimedia and the staff of the freenode IRC network
- m:IRC guidelines/wikipedia
- Wikipedia:Scripts#IRC channel scripts
- m:IRC channel cloaks
- Wikipedia IRC help channel - a login page
- Interwiki links: (see also [#Transl|Translations]])
- Wikipedia:Wikimedia sister projects (Manual of Style) - templates for links; info on moving articles between other projects such as Wikiquote, Wikisource, Wiktionary, Wikinews, and Wikibooks
- Help:Interwiki linking
- Wikipedia:InterWikimedia links
- Help:Interlanguage links
- Help:Custom namespaces - prefixes (like :m) that (normally) resolve into an interwiki
- Wikipedia:List of interwiki redirects
- Bots to fix problems:
- IP lookup: see Vandalism
- Ireland:
- ISBN: see Books
- Islam: Wikipedia:Manual of Style (Islam-related articles)
J
- Japan/Japanese:
K
- Keyboard shortcuts: Wikipedia:Keyboard shortcuts
- Keywords:
- Korea:
L
- Languages: see Wikipedia:Naming conventions (languages), individual countries/languages, Translations
- Latter Day Saints (Mormons):
- Layout and sections: (see also Table of contents)
- Wikipedia:Guide to layout
- Help:Section
- Wikipedia:Manual of Style (headings)
- Wikipedia:Lead section
- Wikipedia:Summary style - when articles or sections get too long (see also Template talk:Details)
- Wikipedia:Discuss and draft graphical layout overhauls (guideline) ("graphical layout" means how a page is organized)
- Wikipedia:Manual of Style (lists of works)
- User:Anchor Link Bot - automatically adds a comment to section headers that are linked to from other articles
- 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
- Lead section: see Layout and sections
- Learning: (see also Help, Questions)
- Coaching:
- Classes:
- Other:
- Wikipedia:Instructional material (includes screencasts)
- MediaWiki Administrators’ Tutorial Guide (book; March 2007 publication date)
- Legal (see also Copyrights, Disclaimers, Wikipedia:Manual of Style (legal), Privacy, Wikipedia:WikiLawyering)
- Wikipedia:No legal threats (WP:NLT (policy) - among other things, an editor who makes a legal threat is to refrain from further editing
- Wikipedia:List of policies#Legal and copyright: law-based rules about what material may be used in wikipedia, and remedies for misuse
- Wikipedia:Contact us/Article problem/Factual error (from subject) - contacting wikipedia when an individual has a problem with an article about that person or about someone that person represents
- Wikipedia:Contact us/Article problem/Factual error (from enterprise) - similarly, with an enterprise
- Wikipedia:Office actions (WP:OFFICE) (policy) - sometimes Wikimedia Foundation representatives bypass normal procedures because of legal issues
- Wikipedia:Logos (guideline)
- Wikipedia:Image use policy
- Wikipedia:Libel (WP:LIBEL) (policy)
- Links: see Sources (for external links), Wikilinks (for links between wiki articles)
- Lists:
- Wikipedia:WikiProject Lists
- Wikipedia:Template messages/Lists
- Lists as part of an article:
- Lists that are the sole content of article:
- Wikipedia:Lists
- Wikipedia:Lists (stand-alone lists) (Manual of Style)
- Wikipedia:Naming conventions (long lists) (guideline)
- Wikipedia:Categories, lists, and series boxes (WP:CLS) (guideline) - comparing alternative approaches
- Wikipedia:Lists in Wikipedia (essay)
- Special:Prefixindex/List_of - reportedly about 50,000 articles (lists)
- Problems:
- Wikipedia:WikiProject Lists#Incomplete lists
- Other:
- Wikipedia:WikiProject Laundromat - to reduce the number of "laundry lists" in articles
- Lithuania:
- Living people: see Biographies
- Logging in:
- Help:Logging in
- Wikipedia:Contact us/login problems
- Security:
- Wikipedia:Security (proposal as of May 2007)
- 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)
- Logos:
- Wikipedia:Logos - guideline for articles
- Wikipedia:Logos and slogans - pertaining to Wikipedia itself
- Lyrics: Wikipedia:Lyrics and poetry (guideline)
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- Magic:
- Help:Magic
- Magic words:
- Help:Magic words
- Help:Variable
- Help:Parser function
- m:Help:ParserFunctions - a collection of parser functions
- Qif:
- Mailing lists: see News (about Wikipedia)
- Main page:
- Main Page
- Wikipedia:Editing the main page (only admins can edit)
- Wikipedia:Main Page/Errors
- Wikipedia:Main Page alternatives
- Wikipedia:Main Page FAQ
- Wikipedia:In the news section on the Main Page
- Wikipedia:Main Page featured article protection
- Wikipedia:Main page featured article stability - proposed (as of March 2007)
- Maintenance (see also Quality of articles)
- General:
- Problems:
- 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.
- Wikipedia:Disambiguation pages with links
- Special:CrossNamespaceLinks - links from articles to generally inappropriate namespaces such as "User" and "User talk".
- Special:Uncategorizedcategories
- Special:Unusedcategories
- Special:Unusedimages
- Special:Uncategorizedpages
- Category:Wikipedia articles needing copy edit
- Category:Wikipedia articles in need of updating
- 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
- Specific projects not listed elsewhere in this index:
- In general:
- Manual of Style:
- Wikipedia:Manual of Style
- Special:Prefixindex/MOS: - lists all redirects in the pseudo-namespace "MOS:"
- Maps:
- 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
- Commons:Commons:Project Mapmaking Wiki Standards
- Wikipedia:Producing maps with xplanet
- Category:Wikipedia requested maps
- Geographic coordinates and mapping:
- Wikipedia:Obtaining geographic coordinates
- Wikipedia:WikiProject Geographical coordinates
- Placeopedia - connects Wikipedia articles with places
- Other:
- m:WikiMiniAtlas - Javascript plugin to display a GoogleMaps-like draggable, zoomable, and clickable worldmap in geocoded Wikipedia articles
- Markup: see Formatting of text
- Mathematics: (see also Numbers)
- Wikipedia:Manual of Style (mathematics)
- Help:Calculation - simple mathematical calculations
- mw:Extension:ASCIIMath4Wiki - tag that outputs math expressions written in ASCIIMath as MathML
- [Blahtex - a free software tool/library that translates TeX markup into MathML markup
- Wikipedia:Evaluating how interesting an integer's mathematical property is - essay
- Meat puppets: see policy on Sock puppets
- Media: (see also Copyright, Images)
- Mediation Committee: (see also Content disputes)
- MediaWiki: (see also Extensions)
- MediaWiki - a web-based wiki software application used by all projects of the Wikimedia Foundation,
- Wikipedia:MediaWiki namespace
- Help:MediaWiki namespace
- Wikipedia talk:MediaWiki namespace text
- Medical:
- Wikipedia:Medical disclaimer
- Wikipedia:Manual of Style (medicine-related articles) - proposal as of March 2007
- Mentorship: Wikipedia:Mentorship - either voluntary (informal) or involuntary (from dispute resolution)
- Merging:
- Messages: (see also Messageboxes, Talk pages)
- Messageboxes: (see also Talk page
- Wikipedia:Template messages (all messageboxes are templates; not all templates are messageboxes)
- Wikipedia:Template standardisation - for articles (proposal as of September 2007)
- User:Shanes/Why tags are evil - essay about templates placed at the top of articles
- Meta: Wikipedia:Meta
- Miscellany for deletion: Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion - for deleting any page which is not covered by another deletion process (AfD, CfD, TfD, etc.)
- Minor edit: Help:Minor edit
- Mirrors:
- Wikipedia:Mirrors and forks - sites that use Wikipedia content
- Wikipedia:Standard GFDL violation letter
- Missing (needed) articles: see New articles
- Moderator: see Administrator
- Money: see Currencies
- Mongolian: Wikipedia:Naming conventions (Mongolian)
- Movies: see Films
- Moving a page (see also Disambiguation, Naming an article, Redirect)
- Help:Moving a page (WP:MOVE)
- Help:Merging and moving pages (WP:MM)
- Wikipedia:How to rename (move) a page
- Wikipedia:Requested moves - page for moves that require administrator assistance
- Wikipedia:How to fix cut and paste moves
- Music:
- Wikipedia:Manual of Style (music)
- Wikipedia:Notability (music) (guideline)
- Wikipedia:Naming conventions (pieces of music) (guideline)
- Wikipedia:Music samples (guideline)
- Wikipedia:Record charts (Manual of Style)
- Wikipedia:WikiProject Music
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- Name (of a user): see User account and username
- Namespace:
- Wikipedia:Namespace
- Help:Namespace
- m:Help:Namespace manager - for a future version of MediaWiki
- Naming a page: Help:Page name
- Naming an article (see also Disambiguation, Moving a page), Naming a page
- Basics:
- Wikipedia:Naming conventions (WP:NC) (policy)
- Wikipedia:Naming conventions (common names) (guideline)
- Wikipedia:Naming conflict (guideline)
- In general:
- Wikipedia:Naming conventions (use English) (guideline)
- Wikipedia:Naming conventions (capitalization) (guideline)
- Wikipedia:Naming conventions (plurals) (guideline)
- Wikipedia:Naming conventions (precision) (guideline)
- Wikipedia:Naming conventions (abbreviations) (guideline)
- Wikipedia:Articles with slashes in title
- Wikipedia:Naming conventions (technical restrictions) (guideline)
- Parts of speech:
- Wikipedia:Naming conventions (adjectives) (guideline)
- Wikipedia:Naming conventions (verbs) (guideline)
- Specific topics: (see also elsewhere in this index)
- Wikipedia:Naming conventions (places) (guideline)
- Wikipedia:Naming conventions (geographic names) (guideline)
- Wikipedia:Naming conventions (events) (guideline)
- Wikipedia:Naming conventions (fauna) (guideline)
- Wikipedia:WikiProject Tree of life
- Basics:
- Navigation:
- 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 enemy - essaye
- Wikipedia:Neutral point of view/Examples
- Balance and space:
- Other:
- Wikipedia:Neutrality Project
- Category:NPOV disputes - pages with an NPOV dispute tag
- General policy and guidance:
- New articles: (see also Deletion of articles, Edits (in general), Naming an article, Quality of articles)
- To consider before creating a new article:
- Wikipedia:Wikipedia is not a dictionary (policy)
- Wikipedia:Notability (guideline) - if it's not about something notable, it shouldn't be an article in Wikipedia
- Wikipedia:Wikipedia is not for things made up in school 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)
- How to:
- Wikipedia:Articles for creation/Wizard-Introduction - a step-by-step, automated process
- Wikipedia:Your first article
- Help:Starting a new page - the technical details
- New articles proposed by non-registered users:
- Wikipedia:Articles for creation - page for anonymous (IP) editors to propose new articles
- User:Henrik/afc-helper (user script) - enables one-click declines for proposed new articles
- Needed new articles: (see also Red links, Stubs)
- Wikipedia:Drawing board - proposing ideas for new articles
- Wikipedia:Most wanted articles
- Wikipedia:Articles requested for more than a year (red links)
- Wikipedia:WikiProject Missing encyclopedic articles
- Wikipedia:Requested articles
- Wikipedia:Topics where Wikipedia is weak
- Wikipedia:Redirects with possibilities
- User:Piotrus/Wikipedia interwiki and specialized knowledge test - estimates that Wikipedia should have about 400 million articles
- After a new articles is created:
- Special:Newpages - Lists new articles
- Wikipedia:New pages patrol
- User:Martinp23/NPWatcher (WP:NPW) Wikipedia tool which helps users perform new page patrol more easily
- Checking for copyright violations:
- Behind the scene:
- To consider before creating a new article:
- New contributors: see New editors
- New editors (see also Edits (in general), Learning, Questions)
- Welcoming:
- Wikipedia:Welcoming committee
- 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
- Category:WelcomeBotResearch - a project by User:FrummerThanThou
- Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/Welcomebot (request denied December 2006)
- Template:WelcomeMenu - one of many templates, pretty good (except for the built-in category)
- Standard responses to: Category:Wikipedia standard response templates
- Suggested reading:
- Other:
- Wikipedia:Starter toolset - page to copy and modify
- Wikipedia:Please do not bite the newcomers (WP:BITE) (guideline)
- Special:Log/newusers - new accounts
- Special:Contributions/newbies - edits by new editors
- Wikipedia talk:Autoconfirmed Proposal - proposal (as of July 2007) to require new editors to have a specific number of edits (as well as the current four-day waiting period) to become autoconfirmed
- User:AlMac/Wiki Start Map - visual organization of Wikipedia pages for editors (incomplete, outdated)
- Welcoming:
- New Zealand: Wikipedia:Naming conventions (New Zealand)
- News (about Wikipedia):
- Wikipedia:News
- Announcements, events, collaborations, etc.:
- Wikipedia:Goings-on
- Wikipedia:Village pump (news) (inactive)
- Wikipedia:Community Portal#CBB - Community bulletin board (particularly the "Notices" section)
- Signpost (newsletter):
- Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/About
- Receiving:
- Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/Tools/Spamlist - as a message on a user talk page
- Template:Signpost-subscription - in a box (transcluded) on a user page
- As email
- Wikipedia:WikiProject WikipediaWeekly - a weekly (or so) podcast
- 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
- Open Wiki Blog Planet - another blog aggregator
- Wikimetrics
- Other external sources:
- Wikipedia:Wikipedia in the media
- Wikipedia:Wikizine - a weekly (or so) independent electronic magazine
- 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:Alternative outlets - wikis and similar sites which do allow various types of content that Wikipedia does not
- Notability: (see also specific subject areas)
- Wikipedia:Notability (guideline) - also lists types of articles for which more specific criteria has been created
- Category:Wikipedia notability
- User:Uncle G/On notability - essay
- Wikipedia:Inclusion is not an indicator of notability
- Wikipedia:Search engine test
- Wikipedia:Fringe theories - content guideline
- Wikipedia:WikiProject Notability
- Notes (in articles): see Sources
- NPOV: see Neutral point of view
- Numbers: (see also Mathematics)
O
- Obscenity: see Censorship
- One-revert rule: Wikipedia:One-revert rule
- "Office" actions - see Wikimedia Foundation
- Organizations:
- As subjects of articles: see Companies and organizations
- Within Wikipedia: (see also Wikipedia as community)
- Category:Wikipedian organizations
- Wikipedia:Concordia - inactive as of December 2006; efforts to revive in early 2007
- Wikipedia:Esperanza - defunct as of January 2007
- Original research: see Sources
- Overcategorization: Wikipedia:Overcategorization (guideline)- what types of categories are not good ones to create (see also Categories)
- 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
- Paper: see What Wikipedia is not
- Page protection: see Protection of pages
- Parser function: see Magic words
- Password: see Logging in
- People (as subjects of articles, or discussed in articles): see Biographies
- Per: Wikipedia:Per - how to interpret "per WP:PAGE" and similar comments by other editors
- Persian: Wikipedia:Manual of Style (Persian) - proposed (as of March 2007)
- Personal attacks: (see also: Content disputes, Disruptive editing)
- Core guidelines
- Wikipedia:Assume good faith (WP:AGF)
- Wikipedia:Civility (WP:CIVIL) (policy)
- Wikipedia:No personal attacks (WP:NPA) (policy)
- Wikipedia:Harassment
- Wikipedia:No legal threats
- Wikipedia:Attack page - guideline
- Wikipedia:Attack sites - proposal (as of April 2007)
- Avoiding problems:
- Wikipedia:Avoid personal remarks
- Wikipedia:Etiquette (WP:EQ) (guideline) - how to work with others on Wikipedia
- m:Don't be a dick
- Wikipedia:Don't call the kettle black - an essay
- Organized efforts to minimize:
- Wikipedia:Concordia - reactivation being attempted 1/2007
- Wikipedia:Harmonious editing club
- Remedies:
- Wikipedia:Personal attack intervention noticeboard - closed January 2007
- Wikipedia:Wikiquette alerts
- Wikipedia:Requests for comment/User conduct - requires two or more editors to have posted warnings about another editor
- Wikipedia:Remove personal attacks - essay on refactoring talk pages
- Core guidelines
- Personal information: see Privacy
- Phillipines: Wikipedia:Manual of Style (Philippine-related articles)
- Pictures: see Images
- Piped links (changing the visible text for a wikilink):
- Wikipedia:Piped link
- Help:Piped link
- Wikipedia:Manual of Style (disambiguation pages)#Piping - generally, don't use piped links on disambiguation pages
- Help:Pipe trick - avoiding some typing when shortening a page title that has a colon or parentheses in it
- Plagiarism: see Copyright (particularly "Problems")
- Poem tags: mw:Extension:Poem (for formatting)
- Point: Wikipedia:Don't disrupt Wikipedia to illustrate a point
- Point of view (POV): see Neutral point of view (NPOV)
- Poker: Wikipedia:Manual of Style (poker-related articles)
- Policies and guidelines (see also Proposals)
- Existing:
- m:Foundation issues - five policies ("issues") that are "essentially beyond debate"
- Wikipedia:Trifecta - an unofficial summary of the rules - three guiding principles for editors, with their corollaries.
- Wikipedia:Policies and guidelines - overview
- Wikipedia:Tutorial (Keep in mind)
- Wikipedia:List of policies
- Wikipedia:List of guidelines
- Category:Wikipedia policies and guidelines
- Changing (in general):
- Discussions on proposed or changed or questioned policies and guidelines:
- Wikipedia:Overlapping policies and guidelines
- Wikipedia:Requests for comment/Policies
- Wikipedia:Village pump (proposals)
- Wikipedia:Village pump (policy)
- Wikipedia:Centralized discussion - a way/place to list current major discussions
- Template:Cent - list of current centralized discussions
- Category:Wikipedia proposals - pages categorized as "Wikipedia proposals"
- Old discussions:
- Wikipedia:Centralized discussion/Conclusions - 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
- Wikipedia:Village pump (perennial proposals)
- Category:Wikipedia rejected proposals
- Other:
- Existing:
- Polls: see Consensus and voting
- Portals:
- Wikipedia:Portal (WP:P)
- Wikipedia:Portal/Guidelines (Manual of Style)
- Wikipedia:Portal/Directory
- Wikipedia:Portal/Guidelines
- Wikipedia:Portal peer review
- Wikipedia:Featured portal criteria
- Portal:List of portals - introductory pages for a given topic, such as Portal:Architecture or Portal:Books
- Wikipedia:Community Portal
- Category:Portals
- User:AlexNewArtBot - bot to identify new articles related to a portal
- Portugal: Wikipedia:Manual of Style (Portuguese-related articles)
- Preferences: see #CustomCustomization
- Prefixes: Wikipedia:Shortcut#List of prefixes - (pseudo-namespaces)
- Preview:
- Help:Show preview
- Help:Editing shortcuts (poor page name; it's about previews)
- User:Pilaf/InstaView - near-instantaneous preview (user script)
- User talk:Alex Smotrov/qpreview.js - quick AJAX preview
- Printing: Help:Printable
- Privacy:
- For subjects of articles: see Biographies
- For editors and readers:
- Wikipedia:Privacy policy
- [https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Main_Page Secure (SSL) access for reading and editing
- foundation: Access to nonpublic data policy
- m:Ombudsman 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
- m:Right to vanish
- Wikipedia:Right to vanish - proposal as of March 2007
- Process: (see also Common sense, Policies and guidelines)
- Wikipedia:What Wikipedia is not - policy (Wikipedia is not a bureaucracy, and not an anarchy)
- Wikipedia:Snowball clause - more than an essay, less than a policy
- Wikipedia:Process is important - essay
- Wikipedia:Practical process - essay
- Wikipedia:Product, process, policy - essay
- Profanity: see Censorship
- Projects: see Wikiprojects
- "Project" pages: Wikipedia:Project namespace
- Pronunciation:
- Proposals: see Policies and guidelines
- Protection of pages:
- Wikipedia:Protection policy (WP:PROT}
- MediaWiki:Semiprotectedpagewarning
- Wikipedia:Requests for page protection - page to request that a page be protected (WP:RPP)
- Wikipedia:High-risk templates (guideline)
- Wikipedia:Main Page featured article protection
- m:Protected pages considered harmful
- Wikipedia:Protected page - list of protected pages (bot updated)
- Special:Protectedpages - list of protected pages
- Requesting administrator editing of a protected page: use the {{editprotected}} template.
- m:The Wrong Version - why a version of an article that is protected is always the wrong version
- Wikipedia:Version to protect - proposed policy
- Wikipedia:This page is protected - example
- User:Steel359/Protection js - makes the page protection process easier for administrators
- Bots that remove templates that erroneously say that a page is protected:
- Punctuation:
- Wikipedia:Manual of Style
- Wikipedia:WikiProject Punctuation
- Dumb quotes - user script that converts "fancy" punctuation to their 7-bit ASCII equivalent
Q
- Quick index: Wikipedia:Quick index (see also Index of pages)
- Quality of articles: (see also Featured article, Good article, Maintenance, Style (articles), Vital articles)
- Guidelines and guidance:
- Wikipedia:Article development
- Wikipedia:Simplified ruleset - includes three guidelines for getting to high-quality articles
- Wikipedia:Guide to writing better articles (Manual of Style)
- Wikipedia:The perfect article
- User:AndyZ/Suggestions
- Reviews and assistance:
- Wikipedia:Requests for expansion
- Wikipedia:Requests for feedback - a place to get feedback for new articles or for a major edit to an existing article
- Wikipedia:Peer review - exposes articles to closer scrutiny from a broader group of editors
- User:AndyZ/peerreviewer - automated review
- Assessment standards:
- Wikipedia:WikiProject Council/Assessment FAQ (guideline)
- Wikipedia:Version 1.0 Editorial Team/Assessment - an assessment scale in use to give "grades" to articles
- Flagging:
- User talk:Outriggr/assessment.js - talk-page project templates can be added or modified from the article page via drop-downs, and an article's project assessments are displayed when looking at the article
- mw:Extension:FlaggedRevs - planned feature; allows for a reviewer class of users to rate articles
- Wikipedia:Flagged revisions (proposal as of June 2007)
- Other:
- Wikipedia:Forum for Encyclopedic Standards
- Wikipedia:100,000 feature-quality articles - essay, includes some specific steps
- Guidelines and guidance:
- Quality of editing, improving: see Learning
- Queries (database) (see also Technical (hardware and software))
- Wikipedia:Database queries
- mw:API:Query
- m:Requests for queries - SQL queries against wiki projects, including Wikipedia
- dbpedia.org - querying Wikipedia like a database
- Query Wikipedia - semantic database extracted from Wikipedia that can be queried
- API to query data directly from the MediaWiki servers
- User talk:TonyBot - bot that can do database queries upon request (requires registration)
- Wikipedia:Scripts#Database scripting - scripts that can be used with a downloaded database
- Download:
- Wikipedia:Database download
- Downloads of data - Wikimedia dump service
- Wikipedia:Forking FAQ - downloading all of Wikimedia, and the software to run it
- Building a (fast) Wikipedia offline reader
- Webaroo - download of Wikipedia (articles only?) as a set of web pages, for off-line reading
- Analysis:
- Wikipedia:WikiProject Database analysis - collaboration of editors who use XML database dumps
- User:Bluemoose/DataBaseSearchTool - for searching a database dump
- Wikipedia:Computer help desk/ParseMediaWikiDump
- User:Topbanana/Reports/Scripts/Create Link Analysis Database - script to analyze links within a downloaded database
- Questions: (see also Help, Learning)
- Wikipedia:Questions
- Specific places to ask questions:
- Wikipedia:Help desk (WP:HD)
- Wikipedia:New contributors' help page (WP:NCHP)
- Wikipedia:Media copyright questions (WP:MCQ)
- Wikipedia:Village pump (technical) (WP:VPT)
- Wikipedia:Village pump (assistance) (WP:VPA)
- Wikipedia:Reach out - a place to post about one's troubles as a Wikipedia editor
- Wikipedia:Reference desk (WP:RD) - a librarian service; not for help with editing
- On a user talk page, via Template:Helpme
- IRC: Wikipedia IRC help channel (irc://irc.freenode.net/wikipedia-en-help)
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- Random article:
- Special:Random (in the standard navigation box on the left)
- Portal:Middle-earth/Random-article - example of how to generate a random page from a specified set of articles
- User:Misza13/Random - Random number generator (via a template)
- Recent changes: (see also Vandalism)
- Special:Recentchanges
- Help:Recent changes
- Help:Enhanced recent 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
- Wikipedia:IRCMonitor - Windows application, primarily for vandal-fighting
- Recentism: see Bias
- Recognition: see Awards
- Red links:
- Redirect:
- Wikipedia:Redirect
- Help:Redirect
- Wikipedia:Soft redirect (WP:SRD) (guideline)
- Wikipedia:Redirects to be made - for articles that have not been created yet
- Category:Disambiguation and redirection templates
- Category:Redirects from shortcut
- Wikipedia:Categorizing redirects - most redirects should not have a category on the redirect page
- Tools:
- What redirects here - finds the redirects that point to a specified page
- User:Dschwen/HighlightRedirects - limited use; "fixing" redirects is not recommended
- Problematical:
- Special:BrokenRedirects - list of broken redirects (for further processing, see User:SXT-404Bot)
- Special:DoubleRedirects - list produced monthly or so; listed items are normally fixed by bots such as Bot:Computer and HermesBot
- Wikipedia:Criteria for speedy deletion
- Wikipedia:Redirects for discussion - where decisions are made about what should be done with problematic redirects, including deletion
- Wikipedia:Redirects with possibilities - redirects that might be better as articles
- Refactoring: see Talk pages
- References: see Sources
- Regional noticeboards:
- Registration: see User account and username
- Related changes: Help:Related changes
- Reliable sources: see Sources
- Renaming (articles): see Moving articles
- 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):
- Wikipedia:Public domain resources
- Wikipedia:GNU Free Documentation License resources (freely usable resources)
- Wikipedia:Research resources
- Wikipedia:Free or semi-free non-Public-Domain information resources
- Wikipedia:Current science and technology events sources
- Wikipedia:News sources
- Wikipedia:List of bibliographies
- Category:Wikipedia sources
- Template:Article resources
- Assistance from other editors:
- Wikipedia:WikiProject Resource Exchange
- Wikipedia:Newspapers and magazines request service
- Wikipedia:Library - books owned by editors
- Wikipedia group at LibraryThing.com - to provide a distributed catalogue of books available to editors
- Other:
- WikiResearcher - a tool for doing research, part of the Wikibrowse package
- Reverts:
- Help:Reverting
- Wikipedia:One-revert rule
- Wikipedia:Revert only when necessary - essay (WP:ROWN)
- Wikipedia: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/3RR - 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
- Revision (prior version) of a page: see #HistorHistory
- Reward Board: Wikipedia:Reward board (see also Wikipedia:Bounty board)
- Risk disclaimer: Wikipedia:Risk disclaimer
- Roads:
- Wikipedia:Manual of Style (U.S. state highways)
- Wikipedia:WikiProject U.S. Roads (includes three guidelines)
- Romanian: Help:Romanian characters
- Russian: Wikipedia:Romanization of Russian
- RSS and similar feeds: see Wikipedia:Syndication
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- Sandboxf: a place to practice without hurting anything
- Schools:
- Scripts: see User scripts
- Scrolling reference lists: not allowed per Wikipedia:Citing sources
- Searching Wikipedia: (see also Index of pages, Queries (database))
- In general:
- From within Wikipedia:
- Special:Search - regular search box (wider box to enter text) (searches source text, not visible text)
- Wikipedia:WikEh?/Home/ - alternative to the regular search box
- Special:Prefixindex - lists articles that begin with any chosen initial character string
- Help:Common words, searching for which is not possible
- Help:Short words in searches
- From outside Wikipedia:
- Firefox: using Wikipedia for the search box provides an autocomplete feature
- Wikiseek:
- Wikiseek - A better way to search Wikipedia - beta, January 2007; includes Firefox extension
- Wikiseek Community Wiki
- DBpedia.org
- Similpedia - uses a URL or a chunk of text to find similar articles in Wikipedia
- Tools:
- Wikipedia:Tools#Searching (may eventually merge into Wikipedia:Searching)
- Wikipedia:WikiProject User scripts/Scripts#Searching
- Semantic MediaWiki:
- Semantic MediaWiki - version 0.7 was released April 2007
- m:Semantic MediaWiki
- Semantic MediaWiki at Sourceforge.net
- Wikipedia Concept Extractor at Sourceforge.net
- Wikipedia:WikiProject Microformats - metadata
- Sections (of articles): see #LayoutLayout and sections
- Self-interest: see Conflict of interest
- Semi-protection of pages: see Protection of pages
- Series boxes:
- Wikipedia:Article series (Manual of Style)
- Wikipedia:Incumbent series
- Wikipedia:Navigational templates
- Category:Navigational templates
- Wikipedia:List of article series
- Wikipedia:NavFrame - dynamic navigation (series) boxes (collapsible - hide/show)
- Template:Navigation tabs
- Wikipedia:Categories, lists, and series boxes - comparing alternative approach
- Server: see Technical (hardware and software)
- Shortcuts (abbreviated redirects):
- Wikipedia:Shortcut
- Wikipedia:List of shortcuts
- Wikipedia:Shortcuts to talk pages
- Wikipedia:Project shortcuts
- Wikipedia:WTF? OMG! TMD TLA. ARG! (essay)
- Category:Redirects from shortcut
- 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
- Signature: (see also Customization, Talk pages)
- Wikipedia:Signatures (WP:SIG) (guideline)
- Proposed restriction for length of signatures
- Changing the default signature:
- Automatic signing (automated signing):
- User:SineBot - signs talk pages for users who forgot (if user starts a new section or an indents his/her comment) (replacement for User:HagermanBot)
- Category:Users who have opted out of automatic signing
- Other:
- Wikipedia:WikiProject User scripts/Scripts#Editing - user scripts to help editors remember to sign comments
- Template:Tilde - notice that can be put on user talk pages to remind users to sign
- Signon - see Logging in, User account and username
- Single purpose account: Wikipedia:Single-purpose account (essay)
- Sinhala: Wikipedia:Sinhala Font Guide
- Signpost - see News (about Wikipedia)
- Sister projects: see Interwiki links
- Slovenia: Wikipedia:Naming conventions (Slovenian vs Slovene) (guideline)
- Sock puppets (multiple accounts by one person):
- Wikipedia:Sock puppetry (WP:SOCK) (policy)
- Wikipedia:Suspected sock puppets - discussion and reporting
- Wikipedia:Username policy#Doppelganger account - accounts created preemptively to block vandals (allowable)
- Checkuser (identifying sock puppets by checking IP addresses)
- Software:
- As the subject of an article: Wikipedia:Notability (software) (proposal, as of March 2007)
- Used for the Wikipedia project: see Technical (hardware and 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)
- Wikipedia:No original research (WP:NOR) (policy)
- Wikipedia:Attribution (WP:ATT) - restatement of policy
- Wikipedia:Common knowledge – essay
- Wikipedia:Check your facts - essay
- User:Uncle G/On sources and content
- Wikipedia:Citing sources#When to cite sources (WP:CITE) (guideline)
- Wikipedia:Scientific citation guidelines (Manual of Style)
- WHAT can be properly be used as a source, and WHERE links/sources should appear:
- Wikipedia:Reliable sources (WP:RS) (guideline)
- Wikipedia:External links (Manual of Style)
- Wikipedia:Scientific citation guidelines (Manual of Style)
- HOW to link to a source:
- In general:
- Wikipedia:Citing sources#How to cite sources (WP:CITE) (guideline) – badly organized, but probably the best starting place
- Help:Citations quick reference
- Wikipedia:Don't include copies of primary sources (guideline)
- Wikipedia:Inline citation (essay)
- Wikipedia:Manual of Style (links)#External links – mostly derivative from other pages
- Wikipedia:How to edit a page#Links and URLs – mostly about wikilinks
- Embedded links:
- Footnotes and Harvard referencing:
- Wikipedia:Footnotes (guideline)
- Help:Footnotes
- mw: Extension:Cite/Cite.php – technical; discusses issues with current <ref> tags
- Wikipedia:Citation templates (WP:CITET) - technical
- Wikipedia:Harvard referencing
- Wikipedia:Harvard citation template examples
- In general:
- Tools for creating citations:
- Reference generator - enter info into appropriate boxes, will generate standard text for citation that can be pasted into an article
- Web page that generates citation from an ISBN or PubMed article (and another, less recommended)
- Wikipedia:PMID - automatic link to PubMed
- User:Verisimilus/Cite - {{Cite}}-o-matic - generates Wiki-friendly citation templates from a Google Scholar search or BibTeX entry
- Google Scholar enhanced with the Wikipedia citation assistant
- User:Dmoss/Wikicite - Windows program for entering citation info; outputs to the clipboard a Wikipedia-formated cite (brief summary at Wikipedia:Wikicite)
- Wikipedia:Citing sources#Tools
- Identifying and fixing problems:
- In general:
- Lack of sources:
- Bad external links:
- Known problems:
- Template:dead link
- Wikipedia:Dead external links - lists bad links (link rot)
- Category:Wikipedia external links cleanup
- User:EchoBot - 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
- Fixing bad external links:
- Wikipedia:Improving referencing efforts (proposal; inactive)
- Wikipedia:Using the Wayback Machine
- User:RefBot - not operational due to restrictions on owner - ArbComm cases
- Known problems:
- Other:
- A reference system that support BibTeX databases - under development
- m:Wikicite - future system for automated fact citation and checking
- 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
- Wikipedia:Canonicalization - how links work (technical)
- Help:Custom namespaces - prefixes (like :m) that (normally) resolve into an interwiki but can resolve into external source
- WebCite - a way to archive a copy of a page that is an external link
- Wikipedia:Avoid self-references
- Top 500 external websites to which Wikipedia links
- WHY and WHEN sources must be given (including avoiding excessive links):
- Spam (see also Sources, Vandalism)
- Wikipedia: Spam (WP:SPAM) (guideline)
- m:Spam blacklist - blocked domains
- MediaWiki:Spam-blacklist
- Wikipedia:WikiProject Spam
- 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
- Wikipedia:Spam Event Horizon (essay)
- User:RBSpamAnalyzerBot - uses database dumps to analyze pages for potential spam
- User:Eagle 101/Linkwatcher - bot that identifies links added in edits; feed is via Freenode
- m:Spamda - anti-spam program to assist users in identifying and reverting spam; under development as July 2007
- Wikipedia:Wikiproject 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
- Special:Specialpages - list/links
- Spelling (see also Formatting of text)
- Wikipedia: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) - proposal (as of March 2007)
- Errors:
- Wikipedia:Spellchecking
- Wikipedia:Lists of common misspellings
- Wikipedia:Typo - the Wikipedia Typo Department/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)
- User:Mboverload/RegExTypoFix - set of over regular expressions used to automatically fix common typos and misspellings
- Other:
- Spell checkers for various browsers: see Wikipedia:Tip of the day/September 2
- Spoiler: Wikipedia:Spoiler (WP:SPOIL) (guideline)
- SQL query: see Technical (hardware and software)
- Stable versions:
- Statistics and reports: (see also separate topics)
- Wikipedia:Statistics
- Special:Statistics
- Category:Wikipedia statistics
- Wikipedia:Awareness statistics
- Wikipedia:Size of Wikipedia
- Erik Zachte's Wikipedia Statistics Sitemap
- Wikipedia:Multilingual statistics - by month, for all different language Wikipedias (related)
- m:List of Wikipedias
- Wikipedia:WikiXRay - a robust and extensible software tool for an in-depth quantitative analysis of the whole Wikipedia project (under development, 1/2007)
- User:NoSeptember/Subpages about adminship - many subpages have reports; many include more than just admin-related reports
- nedworks.org Statistics (charts)
- WikiCharts - top 100 (or 1000) most-viewed article in past month or so
- Wikipedia:Modelling Wikipedia's growth
- Wikipedia:Awareness statistics
- Stewards: m:Stewards - the top-level administrative folks
- Stubs:
- Wikipedia:Stub (WP:STUB) (guideline)
- User:The Transhumanist/Virtual classroom#Grutness's guide to stubbing
- Wikipedia:Most wanted stubs
- Wikipedia:WikiProject Stub sorting
- Wikipedia:WikiProject Stub sorting/Naming guidelines
- Wikipedia:WikiProject Anti-Stub
- Special:Shortpages
- User:Zorglbot/Shortpages
- Wikipedia:Computer help desk/cleanup/stubsensor/20060810 - project to remove stubs from articles where that tag does not belong
- User:Triddle/stubsensor - tries to identify out-of-the-ordinary articles tagged as stubs
- Wikipedia:Stub types for deletion
- User:Ais523/stubtagtab.js - adds tab for easy application of {{stub}} and more specific stub templates
- 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/Style issues
- 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
- Category:Wikipedia style guidelines
- Other:
- Wikipedia:Abundance and redundancy - essay
- User:Wooyi:Readability (essay)
- Wikipedia:Criticism - proposed guideline (for criticism of subjects of articles)
- Invisible (hidden) comments: Wikipedia:Manual of Style#Invisible comments
- Wikipedia:WikiProject Usability
- General:
- Subpages:
- Wikipedia:Subpages (WP:SP) (guideline)
- User:Gray Porpoise/Tutorials/Using subpages
- Deleting: Template:db-userreq for userspace pages
- Substitution: see Templates
- Suggestbot: User:SuggestBot - suggests articles with known problems that the requesting Wikipedia editor might be interested in fixing
- Synonyms: Synarcher at SourceForge.net - search and visual display
- Sysop: see Administrator
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- Table of contents: (see also Layout and sections)
- Category:TOC templates
- Wikipedia:Template messages/Compact table of contents
- Help:Section - covers several aspects of TOCs
- Tables:
- Wikipedia:How to use tables
- Wikipedia:When to use tables (Manual of Style)
- Help:Table
- User:Smurrayinchester/Tutorial/Tables
- User:Dcljr/Tables - another user page about tables
- mw:Word2MediaWikiPlus - convert Microsoft Word tables to wikitables
- Convert Excel tables to wikitables - saves most formatting like background- abd fontcolor, fontstyle(bold/italic), column height and width
- Tags: ‘’see’’ Wikipedia:Span tags, Messageboxes (using the term “tags” to refer to messageboxes is common but technically incorrect; messageboxes are templates)
- Talk page (see also Archiving, Signature, User pages, Warnings)
- Wikipedia:Tutorial (Talk pages)
- Wikipedia:Talk page (WP:TP)
- Wikipedia:Talk page guidelines (WP:TPG)
- Wikipedia:Refactoring talk pages
- Wikipedia:Remove personal attacks - essay on refactoring talk pages
- m:LiquidThreads - planned (as of June 2007) new system for talk pages (discussion boards, not free-format pages)
- Wikipedia:A researcher's guide to discussion pages
- 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:Guide to good indentation
- Templates for article talk pages:
- Wikipedia:Talk page templates
- MediaWiki:Talkpagetext - standard message that appears at top of all (new?) mainspace talk pages - implemented late 2006
- Template:Talkheader - common template (at least until Talkpagetext was implemented) - "Keep" decision 1/2007
- Category:Talk header templates
- Technical (hardware and software) (see also Bugs, MediaWiki, Queries (database))
- General:
- Wikipedia:Technical FAQ
- Wikipedia:Problems FAQ
- Wikipedia:Troubleshooting
- Wikipedia:Village pump (technical)
- Category:Wikipedia features
- m:Developers
- Special:Version - lists extensions and hooks
- Wikipedia:Don't worry about performance (WP:PERF) (guideline)
- Wikitech mailing list
- Troubleshooting:
- Wikipedia:Bypass your cache
- Wikipedia:Purge - clear a page's server cache
- Other:
- m:Wikimedia servers
- mw:MediaWiki roadmap - features planned for future releases
- Server admin log
- m:Summer of Code 2006
- m:Summer of Code 2006/ideas
- General:
- Templates: (see also Messageboxes, Talk page, Transclusion)
- General information:
- More information:
- Wikipedia:No disclaimers in articles (guideline) - regarding templates like "This article contains profanity"
- Wikipedia:Template documentation
- Wikipedia:Template messages
- Technical:
- Problems:
- Wikipedia:High-risk templates - authorizes permanent protection for such templates
- Wikipedia:Requested templates
- Wikipedia:Templates for deletion
- Wikipedia:Templates with red links
- Help:Job queue - why changing a category in a template doesn't instantly change all articles with that template
- Other:
- Category:Wikipedia templates
- Wikipedia:WikiProject Inline Templates
- Wikipedia:Avoid template creep (essay)
- User:Zondor/Toolboxes - list of templates used as tools
- Terms/terminology:
- Wikipedia:Glossary
- Wikipedia:Tutorial/Glossary - ten terms not covered in tutorial that may be useful for beginners
- Testing: Help:Testing
- Thailand: Wikipedia:Manual of Style (Thailand-related articles)
- Threats: see Wikipedia:No legal threats, Personal attacks
- Three reverts: Wikipedia:Three-revert rule (WP:3RR)
- Timeline:
- Tips:
- Wikipedia:Tips
- Wikipedia:Tip of the day
- 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:Open Source Toolset
- m:Toolserver
- Wikipedia:Toolserver
- "Wikr" bookmarklet
- User:The Transhumanist/Tools
- 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)
- Translations: (see also Interwiki links)
- Wikipedia in different languages - overview:
- Information about languages, and translation aids:
- Problems with existing article in the English Wikipedia:
- Moving information from other language Wikipedias to the English Wikipedia
- Wikipedia:Translation
- Wikipedia:WikiProject Echo - finding information in articles in non-English Wikipedias to be added to this Wikipedia (inactive)
- Wikipedia Bilingual - side-by-side display of an article in any two languages in which it is available (Firefox browser extension)
- Editors who can help with translations:
- Transwiki:
- Trivia:
- Trolls and trolling: Wikipedia:What is a troll?
- Tutorials: see Help
U
- Undue weight: see Wikipedia:Neutral point of view (called "space and balance" in the NPOV tutorial)
- Unicode: Wikipedia:Scripts#Unicode numeric converter scripts
- Units of measurement:
- Ukrainian: Wikipedia:Romanization of Ukrainian (Manual of Style)
- URLs: (see also Sources, Wikilinks)
- Wikipedia:URLs
- Help:URL
- Wikipedia:Internal query string links - how to avoid showing the external link graphic for a URL for a Wikipedia page where the URL has a query string
- User account and username: (see also Logging in, Privacy, Signature, User pages)
- Starting out:
- Wikipedia:Why create an account?
- 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.
- Inappropriate usernames:
- Wikipedia:Usernames for administrator attention - blatantly inappropriate usernames
- Wikipedia:Requests for comment/User names - discussions
- Template:UsernameBlocked
- Monitoring bots:
- Changing usernames:
- Special:Listusers - check if a username exists
- Wikipedia:Delete unused username after 90 days - proposal rejected by Wikipedia developers
- Wikipedia:Changing username
- Wikipedia:Changing username/Usurpations - changing a user name to another registered but "unused" (no edits) username
- Wikipedia:Copying watchlist to new username
- Single signon (single login):
- m:Help:Unified login and m:Single signon transition - moving to a single username (signon) across all Wikipedia domains
- Single-user login conflict search
- Status:
- Feature request, at bugzilla
- Signpost articles: August 2006, August 2007
- Other:
- Multiple accounts: see Sock puppets
- Wikipedia:User access levels
- Help:User contributions
- Wikipedia:Single-purpose account (essay)
- User registration date/time finder
- Starting out:
- User interface: see Customization
- User pages: (see also Archiving, Galleries, User account and username, Userboxes, Warnings)
- Wikipedia:User page (WP:USER) (guideline)
- Wikipedia:Subpages (guideline)
- Wikipedia:WikiProject User Page Help - design help
- User:The Transhumanist/User page design
- 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
- Wikipedia:Best User Page Contest
- 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:StatusBot
- Categories:
- Information about users:
- 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
- Userboxes (see also User pages)
- Wikipedia:Userboxes (WP:BOX)
- Wikipedia:Userbox migration - userification of userboxes
- Wikipedia:Userbox Maker
- Wikipedia:WikiProject Userboxes
- Category:Wikipedia userboxes
- User scripts (javascript) (.js pages):
- Wikipedia:Scripts
- Wikipedia:WikiProject User scripts
- Wikipedia:Tools
- Wikipedia:Tools/Navigation popups
- Help:User style
- User:Voice of All/UsefulJS
- User:GeorgeMoney/UserScripts
- Category:Wikipedia scripts
- Wikipedia:WikiProject User scripts/Scripts/Autolink - makes plaintext wikilinks and templates clickable, for example on monobook.js pages
- Userification: Wikipedia:Userfication - moving a non-notable or very problematical article to user space as an alternative to deletion
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- Vandalism (see also Sock puppets, Spam, Stable versions, Warnings)
- In general:
- Wikipedia:Vandalism (WP:VAN) (policy)
- Wikipedia:Cleaning up vandalism
- Wikipedia:Vandalism in progress r- 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)
- 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 reports - 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)
- Tools: (see also Recent changes)
- Category:Wikipedia counter-vandalism tools
- Wikipedia:Cleaning up vandalism
- Wikipedia:AutoWikiBrowser
- IP lookup
- Schools: post {{schoolblock}} on talk pages
- Category:Wikipedia counter-vandalism tools
- Wikipedia:MWT - 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
- User:Digitalme/aiv.js - adds "ipvandal" and "vandal" buttons when editing WP:AIV, to facilitate listing of a vandal
- User:Kbh3rd/Vandal warning toolbox
- User:Garethfoot/Wiki-Aid - Windows program that adds a sidebar interface
- User:Shadow1/ShadowTool - anti-vandalism tool for Linux OS
- AIV'er at SourceForge.net - Mac OS X program that automates reporting of vandals at WP:AIV
- Coordinated efforts:
- Wikipedia:Counter-Vandalism Unit
- Wikipedia:Recent changes patrol
- Wikipedia:Most vandalized pages
- Template:Vandalism information
- Freenode IRC network - #vandalism-en-wp channel
- Bots:
- Other:
- Help:Patrolled edit (not implemented on English Wikipedia)
- m:Friends of gays should not be allowed to edit articles
- In general:
- Vanity articles: see Conflict of interest and Wikipedia:Criteria for speedy deletion
- Variables: see Magic words
- Verifiability: see Sources
- 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
- Voting: see Consensus
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- Warnings:
- Wikipedia:Template messages/User talk namespace - discussion and grid of warnings
- Wikipedia:Template messages/User talk namespace#Grid of warnings
- Wikipedia:Administrator intervention against vandalism/Bug ID 9213 - anonymous IP addresses often don't see warnings
- 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 page#Removal of warnings
- Wikipedia:Removing warnings - failed proposal to prevent removal of warnings
- Watchlist (see also Customization, Recent changes)
- Help:Watching pages - about watchlists
- User:Lupin/Monitor my watchlist - realtime feed of pages on a watch - requires User:Lupin/Anti-vandal tool (a user script)
- User:Ais523/watchlistei.js - exporting and importing a watchlist
- Wikipedia:Copying watchlist to new username
- MediaWiki:Watcheditlist/Check all - to clear most or all of a checklist
- Import, export, and edit watchlists as text using the "View raw watchlist" option
- Wikipedia:WikiProject User scripts/Scripts#Watchlist
- Customizing the standard watchlist:
- 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:Quarl/watchlist.js - adds buttons to watchlist: "unwatch", "diff since"
- Alternatives to the standard watchlist:
- 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:User:SpecifiedUsername/OptionalSpecifiedSubpage page, for example
- User:Tra#User watchlist - a watchlist of edits made by the users listed on an editor's regular watchlist
- User:Crazycomputers/WatchlistBot - Jabber users can have a separate watchlist that is updated in real time via IM
- 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
- Wikibreaks:
- Wikipedia:Wikibreak - article
- Wikipedia:WikiProject User scripts/Scripts/WikiBreak Enforcer - user script
- Wikilawyering: Wikipedia:WikiLawyering
- Wikilinks: (see also Piped links, Red links)
- Wikipedia:How to edit a page#Links and URLs
- Wikipedia:Tutorial (Wikipedia links)
- Wikipedia:Manual of Style (links)
- Wikipedia:Build the web - guideline
- Wikipedia:Only make links that are relevant to the context (Manual of Style) - don't overlink
- Help:Contents/Links
- Help:Link
- Wikipedia:Self 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:
- Wikipedia:Canonicalization - how wikilinks work (technical)
- Wikipedia:Template messages/Links
- Wikipedia:Internal query string links - how to make URL for a Wikipedia page, where the URL has a query string, look like a wikilink
- Pages where lack of wikilinks indicates a problem:
- Wikipedia:Dead-end pages - pages with no outgoing wikilinks
- Special:Lonelypages - pages with no incoming wikilinks ("orphan" pages)
- Other:
- Special:Mostlinked - pages with the most links pointing to them
- Wikipedia:Link intersection (proposal) - using wikilinks in searches
- User:Topbanana/Reports/Scripts/Create Link Analysis Database - script to analyze links within a downloaded database
- 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
- foundation:Home
- Wikimedia Foundation - Wikipedia article
- Wikipedia:Projects of Wikimedia
- Wikipedia:Wikimedia sister projects (Manual of Style)
- Wikipedia:Office actions (WP:OFFICE) (policy) - immediate editing actions to deal with potential legal issues
- Open ticket request system (OTRS):
- Wikipedia:OTRS
- m:Info-en mission - incoming emails in English
- m:OTRS
- m:OTRS/Info-en recruiting - information on volunteering ("experienced admins" only, in theory)
- m:OTRS/volunteering - page for volunteers to list their names
- m:Wikimedia Embassy - central place for resources to help with cross-language issues that affect everyone
- Wikipedia 1.0: (see also Stable versions)
- Wikipedia as a community (see also Criticism (of Wikipedia), News (about Wikipedia), Organizations, WikiProjects)
- Participants:
- Philosophies:
- 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
- Academic studies:
- Wikipedia:Wikipedia in academic studies
- Wikipedia:Researching Wikipedia
- Wikipedia:WikiProject Wikidemia
- "Talk Before You Type: Coordination in Wikipedia", 2007 research paper based on October 2005 database
- Other:
- Wikipedia:Meetup - face-to-face meetings of Wikipedians in cities around the world
- 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)
- WikiProjects: (for a WikiProject related to a topic within this index, see that topic)
- In general:
- Wikipedia:WikiProject - projects within the English Wikimedia (community) project
- Wikipedia:WikiProject Council - unoffical group to encourage/assist with wikiprojects
- Wikipedia:WikiProject Turnkey Project
- Wikipedia:WikiProject Council/Guide (guideline) - best practices
- Wikipedia:WikiProject Council/Directory - main directory of WikiProjects
- Wikipedia:WikiProject reform - inactive proposal
- Bots:
- User:WatchlistBot - tags pages to create project watchlists
- User:AlexNewArtBot - identifies new articles related to a WikiProject
- User:HermesBot - delivers newsletters and does WikiProject tagging
- User:GrooveBot - delivers newsletters and does WikiProject tagging
- [[**User:Animum Delivery Bot – delivers newsletters
- User:R Delivery Bot - delivers newsletters
- User:ENewsBot - delivers newsletters
- Other:
- Template:COTWs] - collaborations of the week
- Template:WikiProject
- Category:WikiProjects - pages categorized as WikiProjects
- In general:
- Wikipedia basic information:
- Wikipedia - what it is, history, hardware and software, funding, authorship and management, and much more
- Wikipedia:About
- Wikipedia:10 things you did not know about Wikipedia
- Wikipedia:Why Wikipedia is so great - essay
- Wikiquette: (see also Personal attacks)
- Wikipedia:Etiquette (WP:EQ) (guideline) - how to work with others on Wikipedia
- Wikipedia:Wikiquette alerts
- Wisdom: Wikipedia:Words of wisdom
- Words and wording: (see also Formatting of text, Spelling)
- Wikipedia:Manual of Style (abbreviations)
- Wikipedia:Naming conventions (abbreviations) (guideline)
- Wikipedia:Avoid peacock terms (Manual of Style) - show, don't tell
- Wikipedia:Explain jargon
- Wikipedia:Avoid neologisms (guideline)
- Wikipedia:Rhetoric (Manual of Style)
- Wikipedia:Avoid self-references - "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:Avoid weasel words (WP:AWW) - "critics/some (many) people/research says/feel/believe ..."
- Wikipedia:Words to avoid - "claim", "however", "extremist", "linked", "cult", etc.
- Wikipedia:WikiProject Grammar
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- XML: see Formatting of text, Queries (database)