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• Abuse: see Vandalism
• Access (limiting):
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  • WP:EIW-Access
  • China:
    • Blocking of Wikipedia in mainland China
    • Wikipedia:Advice to users using Tor to bypass the Great Firewall
    • Wikipedia:WikiProject on closed proxies
  • Open proxies:
    • Wikipedia:Open proxies (WP:NOP) (policy)
    • Wikipedia:WikiProject on open proxies
    • m:WikiProject on open proxies
    • Wikipedia:Open proxy detection
    • Bots:
      • User:RonaldBot - reports edits done by open proxies
      • User:ClueBot - identifies suspected vandalism using open proxies
• Accessibility:
  • Wikipedia:Accessibility (guideline)
  • Wikipedia:WikiProject Accessibility
  • Wikipedia:WikiProject Usability/Infobox accessibility
  • Wikipedia:WikiProject Spoken Wikipedia
  • JAWS: (JAWS is a screen reader)
    • Wikipedia:Using JAWS
    • Wikipedia Guide for JAWS Readers
  • User:Wolfgangbeyer/monobook.css - monobook.css optimized for color blindness
  • Wikipedia:HiddenStructure - CSS feature that was disabled in December 2006 because of accessibility issues
  • Category:Wikipedia accessibility
• Account: see User account and username
• Admin coaching: Wikipedia:Admin coaching - a one-on-one coaching program (formerly by the Wikipedia:Esperanza association of editors but now standalone)
• Administration: see Enforcement, Functionaries
• Administrators: (see also Enforcement)
  • General information:
    • Wikipedia:Administrators
    • Wikipedia:Administration FAQ
    • Help:Administration
    • Wikipedia:What adminship is not
    • Wikipedia:Perennial proposals#Hierarchical structures - there should be some kind of "partial admin"
  • Contacting an administrator: (see also specific topics such as Vandalism)
    • Wikipedia:Requests for administrator attention - a directory of places to request administrator help
    • Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard - message board for coordinating and discussing administrative tasks on Wikipedia (not supposed to be for incidents; see that page or elsewhere in this index for other pages on which to report incidents (WP:AN)
  • Current administrators:
    • Wikipedia:List of administrators
    • Wikipedia:List of administrators/Active
    • Special:Listusers/sysop
    • Category:Wikipedia administrators
  • Becoming an administrator:
    • Wikipedia:Miniguide to requests for adminship (unofficial)
    • Wikipedia:Guide to requests for adminship
    • Category:Wikipedia administrator hopefuls
    • Wikipedia:Requests for adminship - nominations of individuals seeking/willing to become an administrator (WP:RFA)
    • Wikipedia:Arguments to avoid in adminship discussions (essay)
    • User:Dragons flight/RFA summary - bot-generated summary of the current RfAs
    • Wikipedia:Perennial proposals#Requests for Adminship is broken
  • 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:New admin school
    • Wikipedia:Administrators' reading list
    • b:MediaWiki Administrator's Handbook
    • Help:Reverting#Admin features
    • 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
    • Wikipedia:IRC channels/Personal views regarding IRC - regarding proper use of the admin IRC channel
    • Problems with admins:
      • Wikipedia:Requests for comment/User conduct#Use of administrator privileges
      • User:Werdna/Sysop Accountability Proposal - a proposed secondary forum for complaints
      • Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard
      • Reconfirmation and/or recall:
        • Wikipedia:Requests for de-adminship
        • Category:Wikipedia administrators open to recall (Nominated for deletion on December 11, 2007)
        • Wikipedia:Admin Accountability Alliance (essay?)
        • Wikipedia:Community enforced administrator recall - rejected proposal
        • Wikipedia:Perennial proposals#Reconfirm administrators
    • Inactive admins:
    • Wikipedia:List of administrators/Inactive - those who haven't edited in the past three months
      • Wikipedia:Perennial proposals#Demote inactive admins
  • Other:
    • Category:Wikipedia adminship
    • Wikipedia:Adminship in other languages - French, German, Dutch, Japanese (etc.) versions of Wikipedia
    • User:NoSeptember/The NoSeptember Admin Project
    • User:ST47/Stats - lists of admins, sorted by the number of deletions, restorations, etc.
    • 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:
  • On Wikipedia, non-revenue raising:
    • Template:Wikipedia ads/doc - process
    • Template:Wikipedia ads
    • Template:Wikipedia-adnavbox - list of current ads
  • On Wikipedia, revenue-raising
    • Wikipedia:Advertisements (essay)
    • Wikipedia:Perennial proposals#Advertising
  • Off Wikipedia, for Wikipedia:
    • m:Wikimedia urban postering campaign
  • On Wikipedia, by outside groups and individuals, without paying Wikipedia: see Spam
• Advice: see Help, Learning, New editors, Questions
• AfD (Articles for Deletion): see Deletion of articles
• Algorithms: Wikipedia:Algorithms on Wikipedia
• Anchors: see Navigation
• Anonymous editors (see also Access (limiting), Vandalism)
  • Disadvantages: Wikipedia:Why create an account?
  • MediaWiki:Anoneditwarning
  • Wikipedia:Welcome anonymous editing (essay)
  • 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:
  • Wikipedia:Manual of Style (Arabic)
  • Category:Wikipedia Arabic templates
• Arbitration:
  • Wikipedia:Arbitration policy (WP:AP)
  • Wikipedia:Requests for arbitration
  • Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/Arbitration enforcement (WP:AE)
  • Wikipedia:General sanctions - active sanctions
  • Wikipedia:Arbitration rationale (unofficial)
  • Arbitration Committee:
    • Wikipedia:Arbitration Committee
    • Wikipedia:Requests for arbitration/Completed requests
    • Wikipedia:Elections#Arbitration Committee
    • Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/2005-09-19/ArbCom election - first in a weekly series of 17 articles on the Arbitration Committee and the January 2006 election
    • {{ArbComOpenTasks}} - template for active ArbCom cases
• Archiving:
  • Help:Archiving a talk page
  • User:The Halo/How to Archive
  • User:5Q5#How to Archive a Talk Page by 5Q5
  • Using a bot:
    • User:MiszaBot/Archive HowTo
    • User:ClueBot III
• Article message boxes (amboxes):
  • Wikipedia:Template messages#Article-related namespace
  • Wikipedia:Template standardisation - for articles
  • Wikipedia:Ambox CSS classes - creating article message boxes
  • Wikipedia:Ambox CSS classes/Skins - changing the way that standardized article "tags" are displayed
  • User:Shanes/Why tags are evil - essay about templates placed at the top of articles
• Articles: see also Content disputes, Edits (in general), History, Importing, Layout and sections, New articles, 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:Content forking (guideline) - includes POV forking
  • User:R. fiend/How many articles does Wikipedia really have?
  • Wikipedia:Unusual articles
  • Long articles:
    • Wikipedia:Article size (Manual of Style)
    • Wikipedia:Summary style (guideline) - when articles get too long
    • Special:Longpages - top 1000 articles, sizewise
• As of: see Current events
• Assessment: see Quality of articles
• Assistance (disputes): (see also Content disputes, Help, Personal attacks;
  • Wikipedia:Editor assistance
  • Wikipedia:Wikiquette alerts
  • Wikipedia:Requests for comment/User conduct
  • Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents (urgent/severe cases only)
• Association of Members' Advocates (AMA): inactive as of May 2007
• Assuming good faith: Wikipedia:Assume good faith (WP:AGF) (guideline)
• Attacks: see: Content disputes, Personal attacks
• Attribution: see Sources
• Audio: see Media
• Autobiographies: see Biographies
• Autograph books: see User pages
• Automation: see Bots, Tools, User scripts
• Awards:
  • Wikipedia:Awards
  • Wikipedia:Personal user awards
  • Wikipedia:WikiProject awards
  • Wikipedia:Service awards - self-awarded, based on length of time as an editor and number of edits
  • Wikipedia:WikiProject awards
  • Wikipedia:Other awards
  • Wikipedia:Barnstar and award proposals (WP:BAP)
  • Template:Barnstarpages
  • Wikipedia:Kindness Campaign
  • Wikipedia:Award templates
  • Category:Wikipedia awards
  • Wikipedia:Ribbons (for organizing multiple awards)
  • Wikipedia:Great editing in progress
  • Wikipedia:WikiProject Hall of Fame
  • Image:Barn star free zone.png
  • Offered by individual editors:
    • User:The Transhumanist/Award Center
    • User:Durova/Triple crown winner's circle

• Backlogs:
  • Category:Wikipedia backlog
  • Category:Administrative backlog
  • Wikipedia:Admin backlog contest
• Balance and space: see Neutral point of view
• Banners:
  • For the Wikipedia project itself: Wikipedia:Banners and buttons
  • At the top of pages and sections: see Templates (in general) and specific topics as well (articles, talk pages, maintenance, etc.)
• Banning: see Enforcement
• Barnstars: see Awards
• Behavior (see also Disruptive editing, Enforcement, Personal attacks, Spam, Vandalism)
  • Wikipedia:List of policies#Behavioral: standards for behavior of Wikipedia editors
  • Wikipedia:Simplified ruleset#Safe behaviours - twelve guidelines for "safe behaviours"
  • Wikipedia:Etiquette (WP:EQ) (guideline) - how to work with others on Wikipedia
  • User:Antandrus/observations on Wikipedia behavior (essay)
  • m:Don't be a dick
  • Wikipedia:Wikiquette alerts
  • Wikipedia:Avoid personal remarks
  • Wikipedia:Don't call the kettle black - an essay
  • Wikipedia:Harmonious editing club
  • Category:Wikipedia user conduct
• Being bold: Wikipedia:Be bold (WP:BOLD or WP:BB) (guideline)
• Bias:
  • Wikipedia:WikiProject Countering systemic bias
  • 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:
    • Wikipedia:Manual of Style (biographies)
    • Wikipedia:Biographies of living persons (WP:BLP) (policy)
  • Article names:
    • Wikipedia:Naming conventions (people) (guideline)
    • Wikipedia:Naming conventions (names and titles)
    • User:Eubot - creates redirects to prevent multiple articles being created for the same person
  • Notability:
    • Wikipedia:Notability (people)
    • Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Common outcomes#People
    • Wikipedia:Notability (academics) (guideline)
  • Formatted data (see also Series boxes)
    • Wikipedia:Persondata
    • Wikipedia:WikiProject Microformats/hcard
  • 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:
    • Libel:Wikipedia:Libel (policy)
    • Privacy:
      • Wikipedia:Biographies of living persons#Presumption in favor of privacy
      • Wikipedia:Oversight (policy) and Wikipedia:Requests for oversight - removal of personal or libelous information on older revisions of an article
      • Wikipedia:Deletion policy#Courtesy blanking (WP:CBLANK) (guideline) - removal of personal info within a deletion discussion
    • Articles about Wikipedians: (see also Conflict of interest)
      • Wikipedia:Autobiography (WP:AUTO) (guideline)
      • Wikipedia:Wikipedians with articles
    • Identified cases (see also Conflict of interest):
      • Wikipedia:Biographies of living persons/Noticeboard (WP:BLP/N)
      • User:Messedrocker/Unreferenced BLPs
  • Other:
    • Wikipedia:Contact us/Photo submission - for individuals with biographies, or someone representing such an individual
    • Wikipedia:Family trees
    • Wikipedia:WikiProject Biography
    • Wikipedia:Living People Patrol (inactive)
• 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:
    • Help:ISBN links
    • Wikipedia:ISBN
    • Wikipedia:Book sources
    • Special:Booksources
    • User:Lunchboxhero/monobook.js - when clicking on an ISBN link, go directly to your preferred book-related website
    • Ottobib - Web page that generates citation if ISBN is known; and another: (not quite as good)
    • Problems:
      • Category:Articles with invalid ISBNs - usually very few articles listed
      • Category:All articles lacking ISBNs - usually very few articles listed
      • Wikipedia:List of pages with Invalid ISBNs - stubborn cases
• Bootcamp: see Wikipedia:New contributors' help page
• Bots: (see also Tools, User scripts)
  • Wikipedia:Bot policy
  • Wikipedia:Types of bots (not maintained)
  • Wikipedia:History of Wikipedia bots (very sketchy/dated)
  • Creating:
    • Wikipedia:Creating a bot
    • m:Using the python wikipediabot
    • User:SQL/SxWiki - simple set of functions written in PHP
    • Creating MediaWiki bots in PHP - includes BasicBot
  • Wikipedia:Bot requests - ideas for bots, coding needed
  • Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval
  • Special:Log/makebot
  • Wikipedia:Registered bots (inactive/historical list of active bots)
  • Category:Wikipedia bots
  • Special:Listusers - set to "Bots"; user accounts listed have been flagged as doing very low-risk edits
  • Wikipedia:Bot owners' noticeboard
  • Wikipedia: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
  • m:Browser issues with MediaWiki
  • User:The_Transhumanist/Virtual classroom/External interfaces - how different editors use their browsers (and other tools) for power editing
  • Wikipedia:Tools/Browser tools
  • AutoWikiBrowser: (WP:AWB) (a semi-automated Wikipedia editor, Windows only, typically used for vandal patrol or mass edits)
    • Wikipedia:AutoWikiBrowser
    • Category:AutoWikiBrowser
    • User:Kingbotk/Plugin - a set of AWB plugins (included with AWB version 4.1.0.0 on onwards)
  • Wikibrowser: part of the Wikipedia:WikiBrowse package
  • User:Cacycle/wikEd - wikEd, adds enhanced text processing functions to Wikipedia (Firefox only as of January 2007)
  • m:WikiMonitor - fully functional web browser (beta, November 2007)
  • Wikipedia Explorer (beta as of March 2007)
  • Wikipedia:Wikipedia Widget - for Mac OS X v10.4 or later
  • Wikipedia Toolbar - Firefox extension ("add-on")
    • Wikipedia:Tools/Browser tools/Mozilla Firefox/Extension: Wikipedia toolbar
    • Source
• 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
  • Wikipedia:Bureaucrats
  • Wikipedia:Bureaucrats' noticeboard

• Canonicalization - converting links to URLs
• Canvassing: see Messages
• Captions: see Images
• 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
    • Portal:Contents/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:Classification - putting a set of links on category pages so readers can see the levels above the category
    • Wikipedia:Categories are different from articles (essay)
    • Wikipedia:Do not write articles using categories - do not add a category for every attribute of the subject of an article
  • 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
    • Wikipedia:Category types - failed proposal
  • 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
    • Special:Wantedcategories - red link categories on pages
    • User:AKA MBG/Cycles - Where category A is a subcategory of B, and B is a subcategory of A (or more complicated than that)
  • 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
  • Keeping templates from creating categories when they shouldn't:
    • User:Willscrlt/UBX/categories
    • Category:Category suppression supporting templates
  • Other automation:
    • User:O bot - adds, removes, and moves/renames categories by request {approval)
    • User:Erwin85/CatCount - provides a count of pages in any given category
  • Other:
    • Category:Wikipedia categorization
    • Wikipedia:Template messages/Category namespace
    • In category since - tool to list all articles in a category that have been so since a specified date
    • mw:Extension:CategoryTree - describes <categorytree> tags that can be added to articles so that a category for that article can be viewed as a dynamic tree on that page. (Using the page Special:Categorytree is faster, unless the tags are permanent.)
    • Help:Job queue - why changing a category in a template doesn't instantly change all articles with that template
    • User:Dr. Submillimeter/Humorous categories - unusual (and no longer existing) categories
• Censorship:
  • Wikipedia:What Wikipedia is not#Wikipedia is not censored
  • Wikipedia:No disclaimers in articles
  • Wikipedia:Profanity (Manual of Style)
  • m:Should Wikipedia Use Profanity
  • Wikipedia:Pornography (essay)
  • Wikipedia:WikiProject Wikipedians against censorship
  • Wikipedia:WikiProject Sexology and sexuality
  • MediaWiki:Bad image list
  • Wikipedia:Perennial proposals#Content warnings
• Characters (special): Help:Special characters
• Checkuser: see Sock puppets
• Children - see Privacy
• China:
  • Wikipedia:Manual of Style (use of Chinese language)
  • Wikipedia:History standards for China-related articles
  • Portal:China
  • Wikipedia:Advice to users using Tor to bypass the Great Firewall
  • Help:Multilingual support (East Asian)
• 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 editors, see Wikipedia:User access levels)
• Cleanup: see Maintenance, Quality of articles
• Clerks: see Functionaries
• Coaching: see Learning
• Collaborations: (see also WikiProjects)
  • Wikipedia:Collaborations
  • Template:COTWs - collaborations of the week
  • Category:Wikipedia collaborations
  • Wikipedia:WikiProject Reference Desk Article Collaboration
• Collapsing:
  • m:Help:Collapsing
  • Wikipedia:NavFrame - dynamic navigation (series) boxes (collapsible - hide/show)
• Colon trick: Help:Colon trick
• Comics and comic books:
  • Wikipedia:WikiProject Comics/copyright (guideline)
  • Wikipedia:Naming conventions (comics) (guideline)
  • Wikipedia:Notability (web) (guideline) (includes webcomics)
• Common sense: (see also Process)
  • Wikipedia:Ignore all rules (WP:IAR) (policy)
  • Wikipedia:What "Ignore all rules" means
  • Wikipedia:Suggestions on how to ignore all rules (essay)
  • Wikipedia:Ignoring all rules - a beginners guide (essay)
  • Wikipedia:Interpret all rules (essay)
  • m:Don't be a dick
  • 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.
  • Category:Wikipedia process discussions
• Commons (Wikimedia Commons):
  • Wikipedia:Wikimedia Commons - has over two million media files (photographs, diagrams, animations, music, spoken text, video clips, etc.) available for use in any Wikimedia (community) project, to which anyone can contribute; recommended place to upload free images to, rather than to Wikipedia
  • Commons:Welcome
  • Wikipedia:Commons categories (WP:CC) (guideline)
  • Mayflower - searching the Commons
  • Commons:Commons:Tools/Commonplace - Windows/Linux program for drag-and-drop uploading
  • 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:Articles for deletion/Common outcomes#Companies
  • Wikipedia:Naming conventions (companies) (guideline)
  • Portal:Business and economics
• Competitors, forks, and mirrors:
  • Wikipedia:Mirrors and forks
  • m:Mirror filter - Firefox extension which removes sites which mirror Wikimedia content from Google search results
  • Potential resources:
    • Category:Online encyclopedias
    • Citizendium - vetted volunteers (articles that originated in part at Wikipedia are GFDL)
    • New World Encyclopedia - paid editors (funded by Unification Church through February 2008) (all GFDL)
    • Google "knols" (units of knowledge) - announced December 2007
• Conflicts of interest: (see also Biographies)
  • Wikipedia:Conflict of interest (WP:COI) (guideline)
  • Wikipedia:Conflict of interest/Noticeboard - reporting cases of conflict of interest policy not being followed
  • {{Request edit}} - for talk page postings; related: Category:Requested edits
  • 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 (essay)
• "The Right Way To Fix Inaccurate Wikipedia Articles", searchengineland.com, August 7, 2007 (article by Durova
• Congress: edits by Congressional staffers:
  • Wikipedia:Congressional staffer edits
  • U.S. House of Representatives rule against use of government equipment for political purposes
• Consensus and voting:
  • Wikipedia:Consensus (WP:CON) (policy)
  • Wikipedia:Consensus#Consensus can change (WP:CCC)
  • m:Power structure
  • 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 (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 Controversial articles, Disruptive editing, Neutral point of view, Personal attacks)
  • General policies and guidelines: (in addition to WP:NOR, WP:V, WP:NPOV, etc.)
    • Wikipedia:Dispute resolution (WP:DR) (policy) - overview of the process
    • Wikipedia:Ownership of articles (WP:OWN) (policy) - no editor "owns" the content of an article; the only way that an editor can properly prevent his/her words from being edited is to not put them into a Wikipedia article in the first place
    • Wikipedia:Controversial articles (Manual of Style)
    • Wikipedia:Etiquette (WP:EQ) (guideline) - how to work with others on Wikipedia
  • 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 account blocked (typically, for 24 hours)
    • Wikipedia:Edit war (guideline) - definitions, discussion
    • Wikipedia:Accuracy dispute
    • Wikipedia:Uphill Battles (essay)
    • Wikipedia:Disruptive editing (guideline)
    • Wikipedia:Lamest edit wars
  • Possible solutions:
    • Wikipedia:Staying cool when the editing gets hot (essay)
    • Wikipedia:Forgive and forget (essay)
    • Wikipedia:No angry mastodons (essay)
    • Wikipedia:Don't be a fanatic (essay)
    • Wikipedia:Truce (essay)
    • Wikipedia:Harmonious editing club
    • m:How to win an argument
    • Wikipedia:A nice cup of tea and a sit down
  • Processes for resolving (when informal discussions fail)
    • Wikipedia:Dispute resolution - official policy (overview)
    • Category:Wikipedia dispute resolution
    • Post at Wikipedia:Wikiquette alerts
    • Ask for a third opinion: Wikipedia:Third opinion - for relatively obscure pages (rule: only two parties involved).
    • Requests for comment:
      • Wikipedia:Requests for comment
      • Wikipedia:RFC/How to present a case (essay)
    • Mediation:
      • Wikipedia:Mediation (policy)
      • Wikipedia:Requests for mediation - formal mediation
      • Wikipedia:Community enforceable mediation - experimental alternative (began March 2007, marked historical/inactive December 2007)
      • Wikipedia:Mediation Cabal - informal mediation
• Content notes: see Notes
• Controversial articles: (see also Content disputes)
  • Wikipedia:Controversial articles (Manual of Style)
  • Wikipedia:List of controversial issues
• Conversion:
  • Converting page content from one format to another: see Exporting (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)
    • 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 pages (and URLs) of suspected problems
  • Using Wikipedia content:
    • Wikipedia:Reusing Wikipedia content (policy)
    • Wikipedia:Verbatim copying (essay)
    • GFDL - GNU Free Documentation Licence (text at Wikipedia:Text of the GNU Free Documentation License)
• Counts (of edits):
  • Wikipedia:Edit count
  • Wikipedia:Tools#Edit counters
  • Wikipedia:WikiProject edit counters
  • Milestone - finds the nth edit of an editor
  • User:Henrik/live-edit-counter - continuously updated edit counter (userbox)
  • User:Interiot/EditCountOptIn
  • Wikipedia:List of Wikipedians by number of edits
  • WikiDashboard - can be used for editors as well as well as articles
  • Wikipedia:Editcountitis - an essay
• Creating articles: see New articles
• Credentials:
  • Wikipedia:No credential policy - Wikipedia has no policy on whether credentials should either be disregarded or verified
• Criticism of Wikipedia: see Encyclopedia
• Current events: (see also News about Wikipedia)
  • Wikinews (sister project)
  • 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:WikiProject Update Watch
  • Wikipedia:Current and future event templates
  • Category:Wikipedia articles in need of updating
• Customization: (see also Signatures, User scripts)
  • Wikipedia:Customisation
  • Via "my preferences":
    • Special:Preferences
    • Help:Preferences
  • Via the Gadgets tab in "my preferences" - see Gadgets
  • Via Cascading Style Sheets (CSS):
    • Wikipedia:CSS
    • Skins:
      • Wikipedia:Skin (trivial; probably should be a redirect)
      • m:Customization:Explaining skins
      • Monobook (standard monobook skin that editors get by default)
        • MediaWiki talk:Monobook.css - place to discuss changes to the skin
        • Bug 287 - Floating quickbar support in Monobook (the quickbar is what's in the left column of the Monobook skin)
      • Different customizations of the way Wikipedia pages appear, downloadable from userstyles.org/styles/ (primarily for readers) (Firefox, Thunderbird, Flock, Mozilla Suite, SeaMonkey, and Songbird browsers only)
    • Personal CSS:
      • m:Gallery of user styles (a mix of MediaWiki-compatible skins, not selectable by editors, and personal css)
      • User:GeorgeMoney/UsefulCSS
      • User:Trilobite/Tools#Replace sidebar navbox with personal tools - uses CSS to move the links at the upper right to the left side of the screen
      • User:Wolfgangbeyer/monobook.css - monobook.css optimized for color blindness
      • User:Trilobite/Tools - combination of CSS and JavaScript, with a note that "much of this is outdated"
      • Wikipedia:WikiProject CSS (inactive)
    • Technical:
      • Help:User style
      • m:Help:Cascading style sheets
      • Wikipedia:Catalogue of CSS classes
      • Wikipedia:Useful styles
      • m:Customize page layout - should be at Mediawiki; how to rework standard page seen by all non-logged in readers
    • Editors who know CSS: Category:User css
• Cyrillic: Wikipedia:Naming conventions (Cyrillic)

• 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)
  • Wikipedia:Manual of Style#Chronological items
  • m:Dynamic dates
  • Help:Calendar - code to include the image of a small '"calendar page", including a time display, on a Wikipedia page
  • Wikilinking of dates:
    • Wikipedia talk:Manual of Style (dates and numbers)/Archive D1#A new parallel syntax for autoformatting dates
    • Bug 4582 - Provide preference-based autoformatting for unlinked dates
  • Wikipedia:Neutral point of view/BCE-CE Debate - rejected proposal
• Decision-making: see Consensus and voting, Functionaries, Wikimedia Foundation
• Deletion: (see also Categories for deletion of categories, Redirect for deletion of redirects, etc.) (for articles, see Deletion of articles, immediately below)
  • Wikipedia:Deletion process (WP:DP)
  • 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)
  • Wikipedia:WikiProject Deletion
  • Category:Wikipedia deletion
• Deletion of articles: (see also Deletion
  • Policies, general criteria, and examples: (see also Notability)
    • Wikipedia:List of policies#Deletion: policies about deletion
    • Wikipedia:Deletion policy
    • Wikipedia:List of bad article ideas
    • Wikipedia:Search engine test
    • Wikipedia:Give an article a chance (essay)
    • Wikipedia:I wouldn't know him from a hole in the ground (essay)
    • User:The Transhumanist/Virtual classroom#Elaragirl, about deletion and deletionism
  • Alternatives to deletion:
    • Move to a sister project such as Wiktionary or Wikisource - see Transwiki
    • Wikipedia:Userfication - if article has potential for Wikipedia
    • Help: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 articles and notifying editors:
        • Wikipedia:WikiProject User scripts/Scripts/Easy db - adds tabs when viewing an article, for tagging for speedy deletion
        • User:CSDWarnBot - finds the creator of a tagged article and posts a warning on the user's talk page
      • Pending deletion: 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
      • Wikipedia:WikiProject proposed deletion patrolling
      • User talk:Dycedarg/easyprod.js - user script to propose a page for deletion in one click, and (optionally) notify the author of the page as well
      • User:BJBot - informs major/recent editors of an article that a {{prod}} template has been posted to that article
      • Category:Proposed deletion
    • Formal deletion process (AfD discussions):
      • Wikipedia:Guide to deletion - information on the process
      • Wikipedia: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)
      • User:BJBot - informs major/recent editors of an article that it has been submitted to AfD process
      • Wikipedia:Perennial proposals#Numerical rules for WP:AFD
      • Wikipedia:Perennial proposals#All authors must be notified of deletion
      • Current AfDs:
        • 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) (marked as "historical")
      • 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:
      • Wikipedia:Deletion review#Content review
      • Category:Wikipedia administrators who will provide copies of deleted articles
    • Wikipedia:Perennial proposals#Deleted pages should be visible
  • 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
    • Age of Wikipedia articles at the time of deletion - data for November 2005, February 2006, and September 2007
    • Wikipedia:WikiProject AfD closing - making sure AfDs are added to article talk pages (for articles that survive AfDs)
    • User:Emijrp/Statistics - includes a list of the most-deleted article titles (from a database dump)
• Deletionist: see m:Deletionism
• Diagrams: see Graphics
• Dictionary:
  • Wikipedia:Wikipedia is not a dictionary (policy)
  • For Wiktionary, see also wikt:Main Page
  • Another alternative: Urban Dictionary
• Diff: see History (of a page)
• Directories: (see also Indexes)
  • Wikipedia:Department directory
  • Wikipedia:Quick directory
  • Wikipedia:Requests
  • Special:Specialpages - a list of special pages that are automatically generated and cannot be edited
  • User:Thunderhead/Bookmarks
  • Wikipedia:TourBusStop
  • "Toolsets":
    • Wikipedia:Starter toolset
    • Category:Wikipedia users' toolsets
  • For readers more than for editors, but still useful:
    • Portal:Contents
    • Portal:Contents/Lists of basic topics
• Disambiguation (see also Moving a page, Naming an article)
  • Information about:
    • Wikipedia:Disambiguation (WP:DAB) (guideline)
    • Wikipedia:Manual of Style (disambiguation pages)
    • Wikipedia:Disambiguation and abbreviations (guideline)
    • Special:Disambiguations - pages that link to a disambiguation page and (probably) should link to an article instead
    • Wikipedia:Hatnote - a short note placed at the top of an article before the primary topic, generally to provide disambiguation of closely related terms or to summarize a topic, and explain its boundaries
  • List of pages:
    • Wikipedia:Links to (disambiguation) pages - list of page with "(disambiguation)" in title
    • Wikipedia:Links to disambiguating pages - list of pages marked as disambiguation pages
    • Wikipedia:Multiple-place names - index of disambiguation pages involving places
    • Wikipedia:Non-unique personal name - where Wikipedia has references to two or more persons with the same name
  • Problems:
    • Wikipedia:Disambiguation pages with links
    • Wikipedia:Disambiguation pages with links/Maintenance
    • User:Anomie/linkclassifier.js - User script that changes the color of the wikilink to an article when that article is a redirect or disambiguation page or has been proposed for deletion at AfD
    • Tools:
      • Wikipedia:WikiProject Disambiguation/fixer - CorHomo, downloadable program (pseudo-browser) (Linux only)
      • User:NicoV/Wikipedia Cleaner/Documentation - requires Java (version 6 recommended)
    • Bots:
      • User:Polbot - removes piped linking on disambiguation pages (function #5)
      • User:Commander Keane bot - automated bot for disambiguation
      • User:RussBot - automated bot for disambiguation
  • Templates:
    • mw:MediaWiki:Disambiguationspage - list of templates that categorize disambiguation pages as such (e.g., {{Geodis}})
    • 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
    • Wikipedia:Disambiguation pages aren't articles (essay) - that they are, in most cases, treated like article pages is a posted bug, not a feature
    • Category:Disambiguation
• 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
  • Category:Wikipedia disclaimers
• Discussion pages: see Talk pages
• Disputes: see: Content disputes, Personal attacks
• Disruptive editing (see also Content disputes, Personal attacks)
  • Wikipedia:Disruptive editing
  • Wikipedia:Tendentious editing (essay)
  • Wikipedia:Disruption (essay)
  • Wikipedia:Do not disrupt Wikipedia to illustrate a point (WP: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
  • Wikipedia:User RFC reform (inactive/historical)
• Download of data (database): see Queries (database) (for individual pages, see Exporting (an article))

• Edit conflicts:
  • Help:Edit conflict - when two editors simultaneously edit the same page or section
  • Using an edit lock to prevent edit conflict:
    • Wikipedia:Edit lock (guideline) - asking other editors to let you do major edits undisturbed
    • Template: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
  • Wikipedia:Perennial proposals#Automatically prompt for missing edit summary
• Edit wars: see Content disputes
• Editing: see Edits (in general)
• Editing software: (see also Browsers)
  • 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
    • mw:WYSIWYG editor
    • Wikipedia:MozEx tutorial - how to use the MozEx extension of Mozilla and Mozilla Firefox to select a page editor
    • FCKeditor:
      • FCKeditor integration guide
      • mw:Extension:FCKeditor (by FCKeditor and Wikia)
      • Demo site of the MediaWiki+FCKeditor project
    • Wikiwyg:
      • Demo of Wikiwyg for Wikipedia
      • mw:Extension:Wikiwyg
    • Wikipedia:Wikipedia-mode.el - Emacs
    • Eclipse Wikipedia Editor at SourceForge.net
• 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:Edit toolbar
    • MediaWiki talk:Edittools
  • 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
  • Category:Wikipedia editing
  • Enhancements for edit mode:
    • User:Zocky/Search Box - search and replace
• Elections (articles on):
  • Wikipedia:Articles on elections
  • Wikipedia:Candidates and elections (inactive)
• Email:
  • Help:Email confirmation
  • Wikipedia:Emailing users
• Embedded citations: see Sources
• Encyclopedia: (see also Fiction)
  • Wikipedia:Wikipedia is an encyclopedia (WP:ENC)
  • Wikipedia:What Wikipedia is not#Wikipedia is not a paper encyclopedia (WP:NOT#PAPER)
  • Wikipedia:External peer review - formal and informal reviews of Wikipedia by outside experts
  • Wikipedia:Wikipedia is a work in progress (WP:WIP) (essay)
  • Wikipedia:Fancruft (essay)
  • Criticism:
    • Criticism of Wikipedia
    • Wikipedia:Replies to common objections
    • Wikipedia:Why Wikipedia is not so great
    • User:Ta bu shi da yu/Global Politician - "six sins" of Wikipedia - a rebuttal
    • Wikipedia:Evaluating Wikipedia as an encyclopedia (essay)
    • Wikipedia:Wikipedia is succeeding (essay)
• Endnotes: see Sources
• Enforcement: (see also Administrators, Arbitration, Functionaries)
  • General:
    • Wikipedia:List of policies#Enforcing policies: what action authorized editors can take to enforce other policies
    • Wikipedia:Requests for administrator attention - a directory of places to request administrator help
    • Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard (WP:AN)
    • Wikipedia:Confidential evidence (proposal, November 2007)
  • Blocks (see also Access (limiting)):
    • Wikipedia:Blocking policy (WP:BLOCK)
    • Help:Block and unblock
    • Wikipedia:Blocking IP addresses
    • Wikipedia:Admins willing to make difficult blocks
    • Category:Wikipedia blocking
    • Category:User block templates
    • Special:Log/block - log of blocks
    • Actions by blocked editors:
      • Wikipedia:Blocked users can edit their own talk page
      • Wikipedia:Appealing a block (policy)
      • Requesting unblocking via the Unblock-en-l mailing list
    • mw:Help:Range blocks
    • Wikipedia:Autoblock
    • Template:Schoolblock
    • Special:Ipblocklist - List of currently blocked IP addresses and usernames (searchable)
    • Wikipedia talk:Per-article blocking - 2005 proposal; generally supported by community, not considered critical by developers
  • Bans:
    • Wikipedia:Banning policy
    • Wikipedia:Community sanction noticeboard - forum to discuss community bans (began January 2007, ended October 2007)
    • Wikipedia:List of banned users
• Esperanza: Wikipedia:Esperanza - a group of Wikipedia editors "dedicated to strengthening Wikipedia's sense of community"; created in September 2005, disbanded in January 2007
• Essays:
  • Wikipedia:Policies and guidelines#Non-official essays or proposals
  • Wikipedia:Essays are not policy (essay)
  • Wikipedia:Don't cite essays or proposals as if they were policy (essay)
  • User:Montchav/Don't worry about writing essays (essay)
  • Category:Wikipedia essays
• Ethiopia:
  • Wikipedia:Manual of Style (Ethiopia-related articles)
  • Help:Multilingual support (Ethiopic)
• Etiquette: see Behavior
• Experts: (see also Criticism (of Wikipedia))
  • Wikipedia:Expert retention (essay)
  • Category:Pages needing expert attention
  • Wikipedia:Expert rebellion
  • 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
  • Webaroo has "web packs" of selected (or all) Wikipedia articles that can be downloaded as a set of web pages, for off-line reading
  • Wikipedia:Wiki Markup Language (WKML) (historical)
• Extensions: see MediaWiki
• External links: see Sources, URLs

• FAQs - see Help pages, or specific topics in this index
• Featured content:
  • Wikipedia:New featured content
  • Portal:Featured content
  • Category: Wikipedia featured content
  • Articles: (see also Good articles, Main Page)
    • Wikipedia:Featured articles (WP:FA)
    • Wikipedia:Featured article criteria
    • Wikipedia:Today's featured article - history of what have been Main Page articles
    • Wikipedia:Featured article review
    • Wikipedia:Featured article statistics
    • Wikipedia:Featured article candidates
    • Wikipedia:Featured topics - a collection of inter-related articles that are of a good quality
    • Wikipedia:Compare Criteria Good v. Featured
    • User:Feature Historian - sortable table of articles that are or were FAs
    • Advice on writing a FA:
      • User:Giano/A fool's guide to writing a featured article
      • User:The Transhumanist/Virtual classroom/Dweller, on Featured Article Candidates
      • User:Tony1/How to satisfy Criterion 1a
      • Wikipedia:Featured Article Help Desk (inactive)
    • Increasing the number of FAs:
      • Wikipedia:Article Collaboration and Improvement Drive - a weekly collaboration to improve articles to featured article status
      • Wikipedia:One featured article per quarter - an informal project
      • Wikipedia:100,000 feature-quality articles (essay)
      • Wikipedia:Stabilizing featured articles (inactive/historical)
  • Other:
    • Wikipedia:Featured lists
    • Wikipedia:Featured pictures
    • Portal:Featured portals
    • Portal:Featured sounds
• Fiction: (see also Films
  • Wikipedia:Manual of Style (writing about fiction)
  • Wikipedia:Notability (fiction) (guideline)
  • Wikipedia:Television episodes (guideline)
  • Wikipedia:WikiProject Video games
• Films:
  • Wikipedia:Naming conventions (films)
  • Portal:Film
  • 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)
  • Wikipedia:Manual of Style (flags)
  • Wikipedia:WikiProject Flag Template
• Footnotes: see Sources
• Form (as input): Help:Inputbox (a MediaWiki extension to add predefined HTML forms to wiki pages)
• Formatting of text: (see also Exporting (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:Tutorial (Formatting)
    • Wikipedia:Cheatsheet - quick reference guide
    • User:DarknessLord/EA TUT Thing - guide to basic markup
    • Wikipedia:Manual of Style (command-line examples) - for articles on computer science, how to format words that an editor would type
    • Colors:
      • Wikipedia:Colours (Manual of Style)
      • User:The Transhumanist/Palettes
      • User:Trödel/Color chart (8-bit)
      • Wikipedia:WikiProject Color
  • 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.
    • Wikipedia:SUBTITLES - proposal as of December 2007
  • Discussion of MediaWiki's syntax:
    • Wikitext-l mailing list
    • Wikitext-l Archives
• Formulas: see Graphics
• Forum shopping: see Wikipedia:Spam#Forum shopping
• Foundation: see Wikimedia Foundation
• Frequently asked questions (FAQ): in general, see Help (general); also see specific topics
• Fun:
  • Wikipedia:Department of Fun
  • Wikipedia:List of shortcuts/Project shortcuts#Department of fun
  • Games:
    • Category:Wikipedia games
    • Wikigames at Wikia
  • Wikipedia:Wikipedia holidays
• Functionaries: (see also Enforcement)
  • User:NoSeptember/Functionaries
  • Category:Wikipedia functionaries
  • Wikipedia:User access levels
  • Special:Listusers - page where one can specify a type of functionary to get a list all editors in that group
  • Types:
    • Administrators: q.v.
    • Bureaucrats: q.v.
    • Checkusers: q.v.
    • Clerks:
      • Wikipedia:Arbitration Committee/Clerks
      • For usurpations: March 1, 2007 description
    • m:Stewards - the top-level administrative folks (note: stewardship is designated at Meta rather than individual projects)
    • Oversight: see Wikipedia:Oversight (policy) and Wikipedia:Requests for oversight

• Gadgets: (new tab, as of December 2007, on the "My preferences" page)
  • mw:Extension:Gadgets- a way for editors to pick JavaScript or CSS based "gadgets" that other Wikipedia editors have created, via "my preferences" (implemented December 2007)
  • mw:Gadgets-definition
  • Special:Gadgets - shows underlying scripts and CSS code used for each gadget
• Galleries (see also Images)
  • Wikipedia:What Wikipedia is not#Wikipedia is not a free web host
  • Wikipedia:Gallery tag
  • Help:Images and other uploaded files#Gallery tag, category, table of images
  • Wikipedia:Galleries - rejected proposal
• Games: see Fun (for games within Wikipedia), Video games
• General disclaimer: Wikipedia:General disclaimer
• Glossaries:
  • For terms used by Wikipedia editors, see Terms and terminology
  • For glossaries that are articles (content), see List of glossaries
• "Go" button: Help:Go button
• Good articles: (see also Featured articles)
  • Wikipedia:Good articles - the list
  • Wikipedia:What is a good article? - criteria
  • Wikipedia:Good article nominations
  • Wikipedia:Good article reassessment
  • Wikipedia:Good article statistics
  • Wikipedia:WikiProject Good articles
  • Wikipedia:Good Article Collaboration of the week
• Good faith: see Personal attacks
• Google:
  • Google Earth: see Maps
  • Google test: see Search engine test
  • Wikipedia:Google Web Accelerator - the accelerator should be disabled for the wikipedia.org domain
  • m:Mirror filter - Firefox extension which removes sites which mirror Wikimedia content from Google search results
• Gothic:
  • Wikipedia:Gothic Keyboarding
  • Help:Gothic Unicode Fonts
• Graphics (see also Images)
  • Wikipedia:Graphics tutorials
  • Help:Displaying a formula - markup
  • Wikipedia:ASCII art conversion tool
  • Wikipedia:Chemical ASCII-art
  • Wikipedia:How to create graphs for Wikipedia articles
  • Wikipedia:Graphic Lab (aka "Graphics Lab")
  • Diagrams:
    • Greenspun Illustration Project:
      • Grant proposal (pdf)
      • m:Philip Greenspun illustration project
    • Wikipedia:How to draw a diagram with Dia
    • Wikipedia:How to draw a diagram with Microsoft Word
    • Wikipedia:How to draw a diagram with OpenOffice.org Writer
    • Wikipedia:How to draw a diagram with OpenOffice.org Draw
    • Category:Wikipedia requested diagrams
  • Other:
    • mw:Extension:GraphViz
• Greek: Wikipedia:Naming conventions (Greek) (guideline)
• Guestbooks: see User pages
• Guidelines: see Policies and guidelines

• Hardware: see Technical (hardware and software)
• Harassment (aka "Harrassment"): see Personal attacks
• Harmony: Wikipedia:Harmonious editing club
• Hebrew:
  • Help:Hebrew
  • Wikipedia:Naming conventions (Hebrew) (guideline)
  • Category:Wikipedia Hebrew templates
• Help (directly requesting): (see also Questions)
  • Template:Helpme
  • Category:Wikipedians looking for help
• 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 - "a repository of Frequently Asked Questions about Wikipedia"
  • Categorized pages:
    • Category:Wikipedia help
    • Category:Wikipedia basic information
    • Category:Wikipedia FAQ
    • Category:Wikipedia how-to
• Hieroglyphs: Help:WikiHiero syntax
• History (of a page):
  • Wikipedia:How to read an article history
  • Help:Page history
  • Wikipedia:Copyright violations on history pages
  • Wikipedia:WikiProject User scripts/Scripts/HistoryCount - user script that specifies the number of history entries on the history tab (without the script, 50 entries are shown when the tab is opened)
  • Wikipedia:WikiProject User scripts/Scripts/Six tabs - adds a history tab (and an edit tab) for the page that is paired with the page that is visible
  • Diffs:
    • Help:Diff
    • How-to guides:
      • Wikipedia:Simplest diff guide
      • Wikipedia:Simple diff and link guide
      • Wikipedia:Complete diff and link guide
    • Wikipedia:WikiProject User scripts/Scripts/Compare link - makes the "compare selected versions" button into a link (diffs can be in new windows, tabs, etc.)
    • Wikipedia:WikiProject User scripts/Scripts/Changes since I last edited - adds a tab that does a diff between the editor's last edit and the current version of a page
    • Enhancing the differences in diffs:
      • MediaWiki talk:Monobook.css/Archive 4#Better rendering for .diffchange in diff's...
      • User:Cacycle/wikEdDiff - user script - additions and deletions are highlighted by color in one continuous text
  • 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
    • For counts and major contributor:
      • WikiDashboard
      • 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 pages)

• Images: (see also Censorship, Commons, Copyrights, Galleries, Graphics, Navigation)
  • General information:
    • Help:Images and other uploaded files
    • Help:Image page
    • Wikipedia:Picture tutorial
    • User:Smurrayinchester/Tutorial/Images
    • Wikipedia:Image use policy
    • Wikipedia:Media
    • Category:Wikipedia image help
    • Wikipedia:No 3D illustrations (Manual of Style)
    • Wikipedia:Ten things you may not know about images on Wikipedia
    • Wikipedia:Contact us/Photo submission - for individuals with biographies, or someone representing such an individual
  • 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
      • Template:Reqphoto
      • User:PhotoCatBot does some subcategorization
  • Resources (where to get images) (see also Commons):
    • Wikipedia:Finding images tutorial
    • Wikipedia:Public domain image resources
    • Wikipedia:Free image resources
    • Wikipedia:Wikipedians/Photographers
    • Wikipedia:Photo Matching Service
    • Free Image Search Tool
  • Before uploading:
    • Wikipedia:Preparing images for upload
    • Wikipedia:How to improve image quality
    • Wikipedia:How to reduce colors for saving a JPEG as PNG
    • Wikipedia:Basic bitmap image editing
  • Uploading: (see also Commons)
    • Wikipedia:Upload - wizard
    • MediaWiki:Uploadtext - warns about the need to specify the source of an upload, and copyright information
    • Wikipedia:Upload/Replace this image/People - uploading an image you created or own (not restricted to people)
    • Wikipedia:Image file names (guideline)
    • Wikipedia:Uploading images
    • Wikipedia:Image copyright tags
    • Special:Upload
  • Displaying on a page:
    • Wikipedia:Manual of Style#Images
    • Wikipedia:Extended image syntax - options for displaying an image (size, right/left, etc.)
    • Captions:
      • Wikipedia:Captions (Manual of Style)
      • Wikipedia:Alternative text for images (Manual of Style)
      • Wikipedia:WikiProject Writing Captions (inactive)
    • Wikipedia:How to fix bunched-up edit links - if section edit links are being pushed down by floated images
    • Help:Image page
  • Featured:
    • Wikipedia:Featured pictures
    • Wikipedia:Featured picture criteria
    • Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates
  • Problem images on Wikipedia:
    • Wikipedia:Possibly unfree images
    • Wikipedia:Images and media for deletion
    • Wikipedia:Images for cleanup
    • Wikipedia:WikiProject Image Monitoring Group
    • Wikipedia:Graphic Lab/Images to improve (place to request assistance)
    • Young Orphans - tool to find newly uploaded orphaned images (not functioning as of mid-October 2007)
    • Categories identifying problems:
      • Category:Images with unknown copyright status
      • Category:Images with unknown source
      • Category:Images with no fair use rationale
      • Category:Images with no copyright tag
      • Category:Orphaned fairuse images
    • Automation:
      • User:ImageTaggingBot - inspects newly-uploaded images for ones lacking source information, a license tag, or a fair-use rationale if one is needed; tags as necessary
      • User: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
      • User:OrphanBot - removes links to problematical images, from articles, so administrators can delete the images
      • User:ImageBacklogBot - removes fair use images from outside of article space, removes tags from non-orphaned images.
      • 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:
    • Wikipedia:Template messages/Image namespace
    • Special:Newimages ("Gallery of new files") - images that have just been added to Wikipedia
    • Special:Imagelist - most recently uploaded files
    • Wikipedia:WikiProject Illustration
    • Wikipedia:WikiProject Photography
    • Wikipedia:WikiProject Free images
    • Special:Filepath - to create a link pointing to the current version of an image
    • See also Commons regarding moving images from Wikipedia to Commons
• 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
  • m:Help:Import - sysop-only import; disabled on the English Wikipedia project (related: user group "import")
• Inclusion: Wikipedia:Inclusion is not an indicator of notability (essay)
• Indexes: (see also Directories)
  • Of any namespace in Wikipedia:
    • Special:Allpages - select a starting point for browsing
  • Of articles only:
    • Wikipedia:Quick index - click on a one-or-two character starting point to browse articles
    • Portal:Contents/Categorical index
  • Of project (information/instructional) pages (other than this index itself):
    • Wikipedia:Index
  • Other:
    • m:Help-style indexing - uses keywords
• Indian subcontinent:
  • Wikipedia:Manual of Style (Indic-related articles)
  • Help:Multilingual support (Indic)
  • Wikipedia:Bangla script display help
  • Wikipedia:Kannada support
  • Portal:Bangladesh
  • Portal:India
  • Portal:Pakistan
  • Portal:Sri Lanka
• Indymedia: Wikipedia:Guide for Indymedia authors
• Infobox templates:
  • Wikipedia:Manual of Style (infoboxes)
  • 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
• Instructional material: see Learning
• Internet Relay Chat (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
  • Wikipedia:List of administrators/IRC nicknames
  • Wikipedia:IRC channels/Personal views regarding IRC - regarding use of the admin IRC channel
  • Essays:
    • User:Geogre/IRC considered (essay)
    • Category:User essays on IRC
• Interwiki links: (see also Translations), Transwiki
  • Wikipedia:Wikimedia sister projects (Manual of Style) - templates for links
  • 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:
    • User:COBot
    • User:JL-Bot
• IP lookup: see Vandalism
• Ireland:
  • Wikipedia:Manual of Style (Ireland-related articles)
  • Wikipedia:International Phonetic Alphabet for Irish
  • Portal:Ireland
• ISBN: see Books
• Islam: Wikipedia:Manual of Style (Islam-related articles)

• Japan/Japanese:
  • Wikipedia:Manual of Style (Japan-related articles)
  • Help:Japanese
  • Help:Japanese/Editing
  • Portal:Japan
  • Help:Multilingual support (East Asian)

• Keyboard shortcuts: Wikipedia:Keyboard shortcuts
• Keywords:
  • m:Help-style indexing
  • Wikipedia:WikiProject Keywords
  • Wikipedia:Link intersection
• Korea:
  • Wikipedia:Manual of Style (Korea-related articles)
  • Wikipedia:Naming conventions (Korean)
  • Portal:Korea
  • Help:Multilingual support (East Asian)

• Languages: see Wikipedia:Naming conventions (languages), individual countries/languages, Translations
• Latter Day Saints (Mormons):
  • Wikipedia:Manual of Style (Latter Day Saints)
  • Wikipedia:Naming conventions (Latter Day Saints)
• Layout and sections: (see also Table of contents) (for layout of the standard Wikipedia page, see Customization)
  • Wikipedia:Layout
  • Help:Section
  • Wikipedia:Manual of Style# Article titles, headings and sections
  • Wikipedia:How to fix bunched-up edit links
  • Lead section (aka "Top section", "First section")
    • Wikipedia:Lead section
    • Wikipedia:Writing better articles#Lead section
    • Template:Edit-top-section - adds an "edit" link on the upper right of the lead section
    • Wikipedia:WikiProject Introductions
    • Wikipedia:WikiProject User scripts/Scripts#Navigating to Edit page - several user scripts which make it possible to edit the lead section (section "0") without editing the entire article
  • Summary style: when articles or sections get too long
    • Wikipedia:Summary style
    • Template:Main
    • Category:Articles to harmonize (Template:Sync)
  • Wikipedia:Discuss and draft graphical layout overhauls (guideline) - does not apply to articles, portals, or most other pages
  • User:Anchor Link Bot - automatically adds a comment to section headers that are linked to from other articles
• Lead section: see Layout and sections
• Learning: (see also Help, Questions)
  • Coaching:
    • Wikipedia:Coaching
    • Wikipedia:Adopt-a-User (WP:ADOPT)
    • Wikipedia:Editor review (WP:ER)
    • Wikipedia:Admin coaching (WP:ADCO)
  • Classes:
    • User:The Transhumanist/Virtual classroom
    • User:Brusselsshrek/Wiki School - dormant
  • Other:
    • Wikipedia:Instructional material (includes screencasts)
    • Tutorials and quickstart guides for the WikiEducator wiki - relevant to Wikipedia because that wiki also uses the MediaWiki software
    • MediaWiki Administrators’ Tutorial Guide (book)
• Legal (see also Copyrights, Disclaimers, Wikipedia:Manual of Style (legal), Privacy)
  • Wikipedia:No legal threats (WP:NLT)(policy) - among other things, an editor who makes a legal threat is to refrain from further editing
  • Wikipedia:Don't overlook legal threats (essay)
  • Wikipedia:Perennial proposals#Legal issues
  • Wikipedia:List of policies#Legal and copyright: law-based rules about what material may be used in Wikipedia, and remedies for misuse
  • Wikipedia:Contact us/Article problem/Factual error (from subject) - contacting Wikipedia when an individual has a problem with an article about that person or about someone that person represents
  • Wikipedia:Contact us/Article problem/Factual error (from enterprise) - similarly, with an enterprise
  • Wikipedia:Office actions (WP:OFFICE) (policy) - sometimes Wikimedia Foundation representatives bypass normal procedures because of legal issues
  • Wikipedia:Logos (guideline)
  • Wikipedia:Image use policy
  • Wikipedia:Libel (WP:LIBEL) (policy)
• Links: see Sources (for external links), Wikilinks (for links between wiki articles)
• Lists:
  • Wikipedia:WikiProject Lists
  • Wikipedia:Template messages/Lists
  • Lists as part of an article:
    • Help:List
    • Wikipedia:Embedded list
    • Wikipedia:Manual of Style (lists of works)
    • Wikipedia:Pro and con lists (guideline)
    • Wikipedia:Language order poll
  • Lists that are the sole content of article:
    • Wikipedia: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:Move navigational lists to portal namespace (proposal, January 2008)
    • Wikipedia:Lists in Wikipedia (essay)
    • Special:Prefixindex/List_of - reportedly about 50,000 articles (lists)
    • Problems:
      • Wikipedia:WikiProject Lists#Incomplete lists
      • Category:Lists that should be categories
      • Wikipedia:Listcruft (essay)
  • Other:
    • Wikipedia:WikiProject Laundromat - to reduce the number of "laundry lists" in articles
    • Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Common outcomes#Lists
• Lithuania:
  • Wikipedia:Simplified phonetic transcription for Lithuanian
  • Wikipedia:Translations of Lithuanian administrative divisions
  • Portal: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:
  • Within articles:
    • Wikipedia:Logos (guideline)
    • Template:Logo fur - a template to help editors write fair use rationales ("furs") for non-free logos
  • Wikipedia's logo:
    • Wikipedia:Logos and slogans
    • Wikipedia:Miscellaneous FAQ#Can you tell me anything about the Wikipedia logo?
• Lyrics: Wikipedia:Lyrics and poetry (guideline)

• Magic:
  • Help:Magic
  • Magic words:
    • Help:Magic words
    • Help:Variable
    • Help:Parser function
    • m:Help:ParserFunctions - a collection of parser functions
    • mw:Markup spec/BNF/Magic links
    • Qif:
      • Wikipedia:Conditional tables
      • Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Template:Qif (May 2006)
• Mailing lists: see News (about Wikipedia)
• Main page: (see also Protection of pages)
  • Main Page
  • Wikipedia:Editing the main page (only admins can edit)
  • Wikipedia:Main Page/Errors
  • Wikipedia:Main Page alternatives
  • Wikipedia:Main Page FAQ
  • Sections:
    • Featured article:
      • Wikipedia:Today's featured article
      • Daily-article-l mailing list subscription page - get an extract of the Main Page article via email
      • Wikipedia:Main page featured article stability - proposed (as of March 2007)
    • News:
      • Wikipedia:In the news section on the Main Page
      • Wikipedia:In the news section on the Main Page/Candidates
      • Template talk:In the news
    • "Did you know" (DYK):
      • Wikipedia:Did you know
      • User talk:Dark jedi requiem/DYK tutorial
      • Category:Wikipedia Did you know
      • Wikipedia:Recent additions - old postings to the section
      • Category:Wikipedia Did you know contributors
• Maintenance: (see also Quality of articles, Spelling)
  • General:
    • Wikipedia:Maintenance
    • Wikipedia:Cleanup
    • Wikipedia:Cleanup resources (WP:CR)
    • Wikipedia:WikiGnome
    • Category:Wikipedia maintenance
  • Problems:
    • Category:Wikipedia backlog
    • Wikipedia:Pages needing attention - sorted by topic
    • Category:Cleanup by month
    • Wikipedia:Community Portal/Opentask - pages that need wikification, cleanup, expansion (of stubs), verification, updates, etc.
    • 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
    • Cross-cutting maintenance projects not listed elsewhere in this index:
      • Wikipedia:Cleanup Taskforce
      • Wikipedia:WikiProject League of Copyeditors
      • Wikipedia:WikiProject Wiki Syntax
      • Wikipedia:WikiProject Wikify
      • Wikipedia:Elements of Style improvement project
      • Wikipedia:WikiProject Fix common mistakes
• 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
  • Wikipedia:WikiProject OpenStreetMap
  • 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)
  • Portal:Mathematics
• Meat puppets: see policy on Sock puppets
• Media: (see also Copyright, Images)
  • Wikipedia:Media
  • Wikipedia:Media help
  • Wikipedia:Media help (MIDI)
  • Wikipedia:Media help (Ogg)
  • mw:Extension:OggHandler
  • Wikipedia:Requested recordings
  • Category:Wikipedia requested audio
  • Category:Wikipedians who take recording requests
  • Wikipedia:Free sound resources
  • Wikipedia:WikiProject Sound
  • User:TheDJ/WikimediaPlayer
• Mediation:
  • Wikipedia:Mediation (policy)
  • Informal:Wikipedia:Mediation Cabal
  • Semi-formal:Wikipedia:Community enforceable mediation - experimental alternative (new as of March 2007)
  • Formal:
    • Wikipedia:Requests for mediation
    • Wikipedia:Mediation Committee
    • Wikipedia:Mediation Committee/Nominations
    • Wikipedia:Mediation Committee/Current Nominations
• MediaWiki: (see also specific topics pertaining to the software)
  • 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
  • mw:MediaWiki roadmap - features planned for future releases
  • mw:Project:Support desk - place to ask questions (particularly for non-Wikipedia users of Mediawiki)
  • Help:Testing
  • MediaWiki Administrators’ Tutorial Guide (book)
  • Extensions:
    • m:Extending wiki markup
    • m:MediaWiki extensions
    • mw:Extension Matrix
    • mw:Category:Extensions
    • mw:Manual:Extensions
• Medical:
  • Wikipedia:Medical disclaimer
  • Wikipedia:Manual of Style (medicine-related articles) - proposal as of March 2007
  • Portal:Medicine
• Mentorship: (see also Wikipedia:Adopt-a-User)
  • Wikipedia:Mentorship - either voluntary (informal) or involuntary (from dispute resolution)
  • Wikipedia:Mentorship Committee - inactive/historical
• Merging:
  • Help:Merging and moving pages (WP:MM)
  • Category:Articles to be merged
  • Wikipedia:Template messages/Merging and splitting
  • Wikipedia:WikiProject Integration
• Messages: (see also Internet Relay Chat (IRC), Messageboxes, Talk pages)
  • Wikipedia:Canvassing - votestacking, campaigning, friendly notice, and forum shopping
  • Wikipedia:Emailing users
  • Wikipedia:Template messages
  • User:MelonBot - can post a standard message to the talk pages of a list of editors
• Messageboxes:
  • Wikipedia:Template messages (all messageboxes are templates; not all templates are messageboxes)
  • For messageboxes at the top of articles, see Article message boxes (amboxes)
  • For messageboxes at the top of article talk pages, see Talk pages
• Meta:
  • Wikipedia:Meta
  • Discussion boards:
    • m:Metapub
    • m:Meta:Babel
• 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 articles:
  • Wikipedia:Requested articles (WP:RA)
  • Wikipedia:WikiProject Missing encyclopedic articles
  • Wikipedia:Find-A-Grave famous people
  • Red links:
    • Wikipedia:Most wanted articles (WP:MWA)
    • Wikipedia:Articles requested for more than a year
    • Wikipedia:Articles requested for more than two years
  • Wikipedia:Topics where Wikipedia is weak (inactive)
  • Wikipedia:Redirects with possibilities (inactive)
  • Category:Redirects with possibilities
  • User:Piotrus/Wikipedia interwiki and specialized knowledge test - estimates that Wikipedia should have about 400 million articles
• Mobile version:
  • Wikipedia:WAP access
  • Wapedia
• Moderator: see Administrator
• Money:
  • Wikipedia:Manual of Style (dates and numbers)#Currencies
  • Wikipedia:WikiProject Numismatics/Style (Manual of Style)
• Mongolian: Wikipedia:Naming conventions (Mongolian)
• Monitoring changes: (see also Recent changes)
  • Watchlist
    • Help:Watching pages - about watchlists
    • User:Ais523/watchlistei.js - exporting and importing a watchlist
    • Wikipedia:Copying watchlist to new username
    • MediaWiki:Watcheditlist/Check all - to clear most or all of a checklist
    • Import, export, and edit watchlists as text using the "View raw watchlist" option
    • Wikipedia:Perennial proposals#Create a counter of people watching a page
    • Real-time feeds:
      • User:Lupin/Monitor my watchlist - realtime feed of pages on a watch - requires User:Lupin/Anti-vandal tool (a user script)
      • User:Crazycomputers/WatchlistBot - Jabber editors can have a separate watchlist that is updated in real time via IM
      • API (must be logged in or have "remember me" checked as login option)
      • User:Jyotirmoyb/Watchlistfeed
      • User:Ryos/Watchlist RSS feeder
      • User:Adodge/WLWP (tested: NetNewsWire, Mac only)
    • Wikipedia:WikiProject User scripts/Scripts#Watchlist / Recent Changes
    • Customizing 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 (other than real-time feeds):
      • User:Ais523/topcontrib.js - Color-codes your contributions page based on whether you have the top (most recent) contribution or not for each page edited
      • Special:Recentchangeslinked/User:SpecifiedUsername/OptionalSpecifiedSubpage lists changes to all Wikipedia pages on the User:User:SpecifiedUsername/OptionalSpecifiedSubpage page, for example
      • User:Tra#User watchlist - a watchlist report of edits made by the editors listed on a regular watchlist
  • RSS (page-by-page specification):
    • Wikipedia:Syndication
    • m:Syndication feeds
    • User:Blinklmc (historical: predates implementation of integrated RSS for Wikipedia)
  • Other:
    • User:Anomie/linkclassifier.js - User script that changes the color of the wikilink to an article when that article is a redirect or disambiguation page or has been proposed for deletion at AfD
    • Special:Unwatchedpages - pages not on anyone's watchlist [this special page is viewable only by admins]
• 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:Requested moves - page for moves that require administrator assistance
  • Wikipedia:Moving guidelines for administrators
  • Wikipedia:How to fix cut-and-paste moves
  • Wikipedia:Cut and paste move repair holding pen
• Music:
  • Wikipedia:Manual of Style (music)
  • Wikipedia:Notability (music) (guideline)
  • Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Common outcomes#Music
  • Wikipedia:Naming conventions (pieces of music) (guideline)
  • Wikipedia:Music samples (guideline)
  • Wikipedia:Record charts (Manual of Style)
  • Wikipedia:WikiProject Music
  • Portal:Music

• Name (of a user): see User account and username
• Namespace:
  • Wikipedia:Namespace
  • Help:Namespace
  • m:Help:Namespace manager - for a future version of MediaWiki
  • Prefix namespaces (for redirects):
    • Help:Custom namespaces - prefixes (like :m) that (normally) resolve into an interwiki but can resolve into external source
    • Special:Prefixindex/XXX - can be used to find pseudo-namespaces (shortcuts) in mainspace (substitute "CAT" or "MOS" or whatever for "XXX")
    • Wikipedia:Shortcut#List of prefixes - (pseudo-namespaces)
    • Wikipedia:Cross-namespace redirects (essay)
• Naming a page: 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
• Navigation: (see also Lists) (for changing navigation by changing the location of links on the standard Wikipedia page, see Customization)
  • Anchors: (between pages or within a page)
    • Help:Anchors
    • Template:Anchor
    • Help:HTML in wikitext#Span - using "span id=" for hidden anchors
  • Between pages:
    • Wikipedia:Basic navigation
    • Navigational templates: see Series boxes
    • Keyboard shortcuts:
      • Wikipedia:Keyboard shortcuts
      • Help:Keyboard shortcuts
    • Additional tabs ("cactions") at the top of the page:
      • Wikipedia:WikiProject User scripts/Scripts/Six tabs - adds a history tab (and an edit tab) for the page that is paired with the page that is visible
      • User:Haza-w/Caction tool - adds two tabs, each with a menu with numerous options
    • Clicking on an image:
      • Help:Images and other uploaded files#Navigational maps
      • Template:Click
      • Wikipedia:WikiProject Usability/Clickable images
      • Imagemaps:
        • mw:Extension:ImageMap - "imagemap" tags for linking via clickable images (new as of January 2007)
        • Category:Wikipedia imagemaps
      • The timeline syntax can also be used for clickable images, as in {{Vocal and instrumental pitch ranges}}; see Timelines for details
    • Wikipedia:Tools/Navigation popups (user scripts) - enables mouseover of links; other features
  • Personalized navigation:
    • Wikipedia:Tools/Navigation shortcuts - add one or more personal sidebars, with links, on the left side of the screen
    • User:AndyZ/monobook.js/personalredirect.js - put personalized abbreviations into the search box to go to specific pages
• Needed articles: see Missing articles, Translations
• Neutral point of view (NPOV):
  • General policy and guidance:
    • 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 (essay)
    • Wikipedia:Neutral point of view/Examples
  • Balance and space:
    • Wikipedia:NPOV tutorial#Space and balance
    • Wikipedia:Neutral point of view#Undue weight
    • Wikipedia:Coatrack - an article that is primarily an extended discussion about a peripherally related (bias) subject
    • Wikipedia:Fringe theories/Noticeboard
  • Other:
    • Template:Welcomenpov - for posting to a user talk page
    • Wikipedia:Neutrality Project
    • Category:NPOV disputes - pages with an NPOV dispute tag
    • Category:Neutrality templates
    • Wikipedia:List of controversial issues
    • Category:Wikipedia neutral point of view
• New articles: (see also Deletion of articles, Edits (in general), Missing articles, Naming an article, New pages, Quality of articles)
  • To consider before creating a new article:
    • Wikipedia:Wikipedia is not a dictionary (policy)
    • Wikipedia:Notability (guideline) - if it's not about something notable, it shouldn't be an article in Wikipedia
    • Wikipedia:Wikipedia is not for things made up one day
    • Wikipedia:List of bad article ideas (guideline)
    • Wikipedia:List of really, really, really stupid article ideas that you really, really, really should not create
    • Wikipedia:Fringe theories (guideline)
  • How to: (see also New pages)
    • Wikipedia:Your first article
    • Wikipedia:There is no deadline (essay) - write a really good draft in userspace
  • Proposing or submitting new articles for review
    • In general: Wikipedia:Drawing board
    • Non-registered editors:
      • Wikipedia:Articles for creation/Wizard-Introduction - a series of qualifying questions leading to a page where the proposed new article can be posted
      • Wikipedia:Articles for creation - for both those proposing articles and those reviewing proposed articles
      • Wikipedia:WikiProject Articles for creation
      • User:Henrik/afc-helper (user script) - enables one-click declines for proposed new articles
  • After a new articles is created:
    • Special:Newpages - Lists new articles
    • User:AlexNewArtBot - adds new articles to new article pages of WikiProjects and Portals (as listed at Wikipedia:New articles by topic
    • Patrolling new pages:
      • Patrolled edits for new pages was enabled in November 2007
      • Special:Log/patrol - Patrol log (listing those who marked edits as "patrolled")
      • Wikipedia:New pages patrol - organized effort to review all new pages
      • User:Martinp23/NPWatcher (WP:NPW) Wikipedia tool which helps editors perform new page patrol more easily
    • Wikipedia:WikiProject Advertising (inactive)
  • Checking for copyright violations:
    • User:Wherebot
    • User:COBot
    • User:CorenSearchBot
  • Behind the scene:
    • MediaWiki talk:Newarticletext
• New contributors: see New editors
• New editors (see also Edits (in general), Learning, Questions)
  • Welcoming:
    • Wikipedia:Welcoming committee
    • Standard templates:
      • Wikipedia:Welcoming committee/Standard user greeting
      • Wikipedia:Welcoming committee/Welcome templates, includes Template:Welcome
      • User talk:Nmajdan/welcome newuser.js - quick way to add a welcome template to a new user's talk page
      • Template:WelcomeMenu - one of many templates, pretty good (except for the built-in category)
    • Impact of welcoming:
      • User:TeaDrinker/Welcome study - six day study in May 2007 of the impact of welcoming 100 randomly selected new editors
    • Other:
      • Wikipedia:WikiProject User scripts/Scripts/Friendly - includes welcome templates and other (unrelated) functionality; partially implemented as of November 2007
      • Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/Welcomebot (request denied December 2006)
      • Wikipedia:Perennial proposals#Use a bot to welcome new users
  • Standard postings for mistakes by new editors: Category:Wikipedia standard response templates
  • Suggested reading:
    • Wikipedia:Avoiding common mistakes
    • Wikipedia:Contributing to Wikipedia
    • Wikipedia:Contribute what you know or are willing to learn more about (historical/inactive essay)
  • 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)
• New pages: (see also New articles)
  • Help:Starting a new page
  • Non-talk pages can only be created by registered editors - December 2005
  • Restrictions on names of new pages:
    • mw:Extension:Title Blacklist
    • mw:MediaWiki:Titleblacklist
• New users: see New editors
• New Zealand:
  • Wikipedia:Naming conventions (New Zealand)
  • Portal:New Zealand
• News (about Wikipedia): (for news not about Wikipedia, see Current events)
  • Wikipedia:News
  • Wikipedia:Watch
  • Category:Wikipedia news
  • 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: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 (blog is here)
    • Open Wiki Blog Planet - another blog aggregator
    • Wikimetrics
  • Other external sources:
    • Wikipedia:Wikipedia in the media
    • Wikipedia:WikiProject For the Record - for responding to coverage of Wikipedia in the news media
    • Wikipedia:Wikizine - a weekly (or so) independent electronic magazine
  • Inactive/historical:
    • foundation:Wikimedia Quarto - quarterly publication; last issue was for Q1 2005
    • Wikipedia:Goings-on (prior to the Signpost, this was the weekly newsletter of sorts)
    • Wikipedia:Village pump (news) (inactive)
• Not:
  • Wikipedia:What Wikipedia is not (WP:NOT) (policy) - it's not a paper encyclopedia, a dictionary, a publisher of original thought, a soapbox, a mirror or a repository of links, images, or media, a blog, webspace provider, or social networking site, a directory, an indiscriminate collection of information, a crystal ball, censored, a battleground, an anarchy, a democracy, a bureaucracy
  • Wikis and similar sites which do allow various types of content that Wikipedia does not:
    • Wikipedia:Alternative outlets
    • WikiIndex
• 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):
  • For footnotes in a "Notes" section, see Sources
  • Content notes (a separate section with notes about contents of an article):
    • Templates: {{Cref}}, {{Hcref}}, and {{Cnote}}
    • Examples: Che Guevara, Pericles
    • Note: {{ref}} and {{note}}, though deprecated, are being used in thousands of articles, presumably for content notes
• Noticeboards: Wikipedia:Project notice boards
• NPOV: see Neutral point of view
• Numbers: (see also Mathematics, Units of measurement)
  • Wikipedia:Manual of Style (dates and numbers)
  • Wikipedia:Naming conventions (numbers and dates)
  • Wikipedia:Notability (numbers) (guideline)
  • m:Help:Modulo and round
  • Wikipedia:WikiProject Numbers
  • Template:Nowrap - to ensure that a number and its unit of measurement appear on the same line of text

• Obscenity: see Censorship
• "Office" actions - see Wikimedia Foundation
• Organizations:
  • As subjects of articles: see Companies and organizations
  • Within Wikipedia: (see Wikipedia as community)
• Original research: see Sources
• 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)

• Page protection: see Protection of pages
• Page views (of articles):
  • WikiCharts - top 100 (or 1000) most-viewed article in a specified month
  • Raw counts - beginning (24 hourly snapshots per day) December 10, 2007 (announcement)
  • Monthly chart for any specified article
• Paper: see Wikipedia:What Wikipedia is not#Wikipedia is not a paper encyclopedia
• Parser function: see Magic words
• Password: see Logging in
• People (as subjects of articles, or discussed in articles): see Biographies
• Per: Wikipedia: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 policies and guidelines
    • Wikipedia:Assume good faith (WP:AGF) (guideline)
    • Wikipedia:Civility (WP:CIVIL) (policy)
    • Wikipedia:No personal attacks (WP:NPA) (policy)
    • Wikipedia:Harassment (guideline)
    • Wikipedia:No legal threats (policy)
    • Wikipedia:Attack page (policy)
    • Wikipedia:Linking to external harassment (proposal as of October 2007)
    • Wikipedia:Attack sites (rejected proposal)
  • 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:Harmonious editing club
    • Wikipedia:Concordia (inactive)
  • Remedies (see also Arbitration, Mediation)
    • Wikipedia:No personal attacks#Removal of text
    • Wikipedia:Editor assistance
    • Wikipedia:Wikiquette alerts
    • Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents
    • Wikipedia:Requests for comment/User conduct - requires two or more editors to have posted warnings about another editor
      • See also Wikipedia:RFC/How to present a case
    • Wikipedia:Personal attack intervention noticeboard - closed January 2007
• 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")
• Poems:
  • Wikipedia:Lyrics and poetry (guideline)
  • mw:Extension:Poem - for formatting
• Point: Wikipedia:Do not disrupt Wikipedia to illustrate a point (WP:POINT)
• Point of view (POV): see Neutral point of view (NPOV)
• Poker:
  • Wikipedia:Manual of Style (poker-related articles)
  • Wikipedia:WikiProject Poker
• Policies and guidelines (see also Process)
  • Existing:
    • m:Foundation issues - five policies ("issues") that are "essentially beyond debate"
    • Wikimedia Foundation policies
    • Wikipedia:Trifecta - an unofficial summary of the rules - three guiding principles for editors, with their corollaries.
    • Wikipedia:Policies and guidelines - overview
    • Wikipedia:Key policies and guidelines
    • Wikipedia:Tutorial (Keep in mind)
    • Wikipedia:List of policies
    • Wikipedia:List of guidelines
    • Category:Wikipedia policies and guidelines
  • Misuses:
    • Wikipedia:Gaming the system (guideline)
    • Wikipedia:WikiLawyering (essay)
    • Wikipedia:Don't cite essays or proposals as if they were policy (essay)
  • Changing (in general):
    • Wikipedia:Policy and guideline style (essay)
    • m:Instruction creep
    • Wikipedia:Avoid instruction creep (guideline)
  • Discussions on proposed or changed or questioned policies and guidelines:
    • Wikipedia:Overlapping policies and guidelines
    • Wikipedia:Requests for comment/Policies
    • Wikipedia:Centralized discussion - a way/place to list current major discussions (via {{Cent}})
    • Category:Wikipedia proposals
    • Wikipedia:Village pump (policy)
    • Category:Wikipedia proposals - pages categorized as "Wikipedia proposals"
  • Old discussions:
    • Wikipedia:Centralized discussion/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
    • Category:Wikipedia rejected proposals
  • Other:
    • Wikipedia:Reduce confusion by following policy (essay)
    • Wikipedia:Policy patrol
• Polls: see Consensus and voting
• Portals:
  • Wikipedia:Portal (WP:P)
  • Wikipedia:Portal guidelines (Manual of Style)
  • Wikipedia:Portal/Directory
  • Portal:Contents/Portals - introductory page that organizes and lists all portals
  • Wikipedia:Move navigational lists to portal namespace (proposal, January 2008)
  • Wikipedia:WikiProject Portals
  • Category:Portals
  • Wikipedia:Portal peer review
  • Featured:
    • Portal:Featured portals
    • Wikipedia:Featured portal criteria
    • Wikipedia:Featured portal candidates
  • Bot assistance:
    • User:AlexNewArtBot - bot to identify new articles related to a portal
    • User:Wikinews Importer Bot - imports certain dynamically-generated Wikinews pages into Wikipedia portals
  • Wikipedia:Community Portal
• Portugal: Wikipedia:Manual of Style (Portuguese-related articles)
• Preferences: see #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
    • Wikipedia:Privacy (proposal as of January 2008)
    • Wikipedia:Respect privacy (inactive/historical)
    • 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)
  • Category:Wikipedia processes
• Profanity: see Censorship
• Projects: see Wikiprojects
• "Project" pages: Wikipedia:Project namespace
• Pronunciation:
  • Wikipedia:Manual of Style (pronunciation)
  • Help:Pronunciation respelling key
  • Wikipedia:International Phonetic Alphabet
  • Wikipedia:International Phonetic Alphabet for Irish
• Proposals: see Policies and guidelines
• Protection of pages:
  • Wikipedia:Protection policy (WP:PROT}
  • Wikipedia:Rough guide to semi-protection (essay)
  • MediaWiki:Semiprotectedpagewarning
  • Wikipedia:Requests for page protection - page to request that a page be protected (WP:RPP)
  • Wikipedia:High-risk templates (guideline)
  • Main page featured article:
    • Wikipedia:Main Page featured article protection (guideline)
    • Wikipedia:For and Against TFA protection(essay)
  • m:Protected pages considered harmful
  • 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
  • Category:Page protection
  • Bots that change protection notification templates on pages that are or are not protected:
    • User:DumbBOT
    • User:COBot
    • User:Maelgwnbot
• Punctuation:
  • Wikipedia:Manual of Style
  • Wikipedia:WikiProject Punctuation
  • Dumb quotes - user script that converts "fancy" punctuation to their 7-bit ASCII equivalent

• Quick index: Wikipedia:Quick index (see also Index of pages)
• Quality of articles: (see also Featured articles, Good articles, Maintenance, Stable versions, Style (articles), Vital articles)
  • Guidelines and guidance:
    • Wikipedia:Article development
    • Wikipedia:Simplified ruleset - includes three guidelines for getting to high-quality articles
    • Wikipedia:Writing better articles (Manual of Style)
    • Wikipedia:The perfect article
    • User:AndyZ/Suggestions
  • Central initiatives:
    • Wikipedia Quality website
    • m:Wikiquality
    • Wikiquality-l:
      • Subscription
      • Archives
  • Reviews and assistance for specific articles:
    • Wikipedia:Requests for feedback - a place to get feedback for new articles or for a major edit to an existing article
    • Wikipedia:Peer review - exposes articles to closer scrutiny from a broader group of editors
    • Category:WikiProject peer reviews - pages within WikiProjects for peer reviews
    • User:CloudNineBot: transcludes articles at the main peer review page onto WikiProject peer review pages
    • Wikipedia:Scientific peer review
    • Wikipedia:Academic peer review
    • Category:WikiProject peer reviews - list of pages within WikiProjects that accept articles (falling within that WikiProject scope) for peer reviews
    • User:AndyZ/peerreviewer - automated review
  • Assessments:
    • By editors ("stub" to "featured article"):
      • Wikipedia:WikiProject Council/Assessment FAQ (guideline)
      • Wikipedia:Version 1.0 Editorial Team/Assessment - an assessment scale in use to give "grades" to articles
      • Category:WikiProject assessments - separate pages within WikiProjects that show assessments done and still needed for pages within that WikiProject
      • User 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
    • By viewers (ratings/reviews):
      • m:Article validation feature (was supposed to begin in late 2005)
      • mw:Extension:Review
  • Other:
    • Wikipedia:Forum for Encyclopedic Standards
    • Wikipedia:100,000 feature-quality articles - essay, includes some specific steps
    • Wikipedia:Requests for expansion
    • Category:Wikipedia editorial validation
• Quality of editing, improving: see Learning
• Queries (database) (see also Statistics and reports, 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
  • m:WikiXRay - a robust and extensible software tool for an in-depth quantitative analysis of the whole Wikipedia project (under development as of October 2007)
  • 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
    • Wikimedia Downloads - four types of downloads (was known as "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 all Wikipedia articles 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)
• Quotations s<pan id="Quote"/>
  • Wikipedia:Manual of Style#Quotations
  • Wikipedia:Manual of Style#Quotation marks
  • Wikipedia:Manual of Style#Italics
  • Template:Quote

• Random article:
  • Special:Random (in the standard navigation box on the left) (adding a suffix - /Category, /Help, /Image, /Portal, /Template, /User, or /Wikipedia) will take you to a random page in those namespaces)
  • 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)
  • Choosing a random article from a category - is in MediaWiki software; disabled on Wikipedia for performance reasons
• Recent changes: (see also Monitoring changes, Vandalism)
  • Special:Recentchanges
  • Help:Recent changes
  • Help:Enhanced recent changes
  • Related changes:
    • Help:Related changes
    • Recent changes to all articles in a category: http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Recentchangeslinked&target=Category%3ACategory_name (must use underscores)
  • Wikipedia:Scripts#Recent changes scripts
  • Wikipedia:IRCMonitor - Windows application, primarily for vandal-fighting
  • m:IRC channels#Recent changes
• Recentism: see Bias
• Recognition: see Awards
• Red links:
  • Wikipedia:Red link
  • Wikipedia:WikiProject Red Link Recovery
• Redirects:
  • Wikipedia:Redirect
  • Help:Redirect
  • Wikipedia:Soft redirect (WP:SRD) (guideline)
  • Wikipedia:Tools/Navigation popups/About fixing redirects (basically, don't fix single redirects)
  • Wikipedia:Redirects to be made - for articles that have not been created yet
  • Category:Disambiguation and redirection templates
  • Category:Redirects
  • Wikipedia:Categorizing redirects - most redirects should not have a category on the redirect page
  • Help:Piped link#Using a redirect as an alternative
  • Wikipedia:Cross-namespace redirects (essay)
  • Wikipedia:WikiProject Redirect
  • Tools:
    • What redirects here - finds the redirects that point to a specified page (uses a version of Wikipedia that lags the current version slightly)
    • User:Splarka/fetchredirects.js - adds a link (left side), similar to "What links here"
    • User:Dschwen/HighlightRedirects - limited use; "fixing" redirects is not recommended
    • User:Anomie/linkclassifier.js - User script that changes the color of the wikilink to an article when that article is a redirect or disambiguation page or has been proposed for deletion at AfD
  • Problematical:
    • Special:BrokenRedirects - list of broken redirects (for further processing, see User:SXT-404Bot)
    • Special:DoubleRedirects - list produced every three days or so; listed items are normally fixed by bots such as Computer and COBot
    • Wikipedia:Criteria for speedy deletion#Redirects
    • Wikipedia:Redirects for discussion - where decisions are made about what should be done with problematic redirects, including deletion
    • Wikipedia:Redirects with possibilities - redirects that might be better as articles
    • User:RedirectCleanupBot - deletes redirects to nonexistent pages
    • User:Muro Bot - fixes double redirects
• Redistribution: (see also Competitors, forks, and mirrors, Schools)
  • Wikipedia:DVD
  • Wikipedia:Wikipedia-CD/Download
  • Wikipedia:Version 0.5
  • Wikipedia:Snapshots
  • Category:Wikipedia redistribution
• Refactoring: see Talk pages
• References: see Sources
• Regional noticeboards:
  • Wikipedia:Regional notice boards
  • Category:Regional Wikipedian notice boards
• Registration: see User account and username
• Related changes: see Recent changes
• Reliable sources: see Sources
• Renaming (pages): see Moving a page
• Requests for comment: Wikipedia:Requests for comment
• Reports: see Statistics and reports
• Requested articles: see New articles
• Resources (except image-specific or sound-specific resources, for which see Images, Media):
  Shortcut

  • WP:EIW-Resource
  • Wikipedia:Article development#Research
  • Wikipedia:Public domain resources
  • Wikipedia:GNU Free Documentation License resources (freely usable resources)
  • Wikipedia:Free or semi-free non-Public-Domain information resources
  • Wikipedia:Current science and technology sources
  • Wikipedia:News sources
  • Wikipedia:List of bibliographies
  • Category:Wikipedia sources
  • Template:Article resources
  • Assistance from other editors:
    • Wikipedia:WikiProject Resource Exchange
    • Wikipedia group at LibraryThing.com - to provide a distributed catalogue of books available to editors
  • Other:
    • WikiResearch - a tool for doing research, part of the WikiBrowse package
    • Zotero, an on-line research tool, which can export citations in Wikipedia format
• Reverts:
  • Help:Reverting
  • Wikipedia:Revert only when necessary (WP:ROWN) (essay)
  • 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
  • Talk:Gdansk/Vote - special exception to the 3RR rule
  • Via rollback:
    • Help:Reverting#Rollback
    • By non-admins:
      • Wikipedia:Rollback for non-administrators - discussion, December 2007
      • Wikipedia:Requests for rollback (implemented January 2008)
• Revision (prior version) of a page: see History
• Reward Board: Wikipedia:Reward board (see also Wikipedia:Bounty board)
• RFC automatic links: mw:Manual:RFC
• Risk disclaimer: Wikipedia:Risk disclaimer
• Roads:
  • Wikipedia:Manual of Style (U.S. state and territory highways)
  • Wikipedia:WikiProject U.S. Roads (includes three guidelines)
• Romanian: Help:Romanian characters
• Russian: Wikipedia:Romanization of Russian
• RSS and similar feeds: see Monitoring changes

• Sandbox: a place to practice without hurting anything
  • Wikipedia:About the Sandbox
  • Wikipedia:Sandbox
• Schools:
  • Wikipedia:Schools' FAQ
  • Wikipedia:School and university projects (WP:SUP)
  • Wikipedia:WikiProject Classroom coordination
  • 2007 Wikipedia Selection for schools - 4,600 "good" and above articles, "cleaned up and checked for suitability for children" (background and downloadable version here)
  • Template:Schoolblock
  • Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Common outcomes#Education
  • Tagging by bots:
    • User:SelketBot
    • User:MadmanBot - adds {{SharedIPEDU}} and name of college/university/school to IP user talk pages
• Scripts: see User scripts
• Scrolling reference lists: not allowed per Wikipedia:Citing sources
• Searching Wikipedia: (see also Index of pages, Queries (database))
  • In general:
    • Wikipedia:Searching
    • Help:Searching
    • Wikipedia:Look it up
  • 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
    • User:Zocky/Auto Complete - auto-completes the titles of articles in the search box (JavaScript)
    • Wikipedia:Perennial proposals#Search should detect spelling errors
  • 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 Wikie
      • DBpedia.org
    • Similpedia - uses a URL or a chunk of text to find similar articles in Wikipedia
    • AskWiki - semantic search engine developed in partnership between AskMeNow and the Wikimedia Foundation (beta)
    • Seariki - search engine specifically designed for Wikipedia [(http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikien-l/2007-December/088027.html December 2007 announcement])
  • 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 Layout and sections
• "See also" section: Wikipedia:Layout#See also
• Self-interest: see Conflicts of interest
• Semi-protection of pages: see Protection of pages
• Series boxes:
  • Wikipedia:Article series (Manual of Style)
  • Wikipedia:Incumbent series
  • Wikipedia: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
• Servers: see Statistics, Technical (hardware and software)
• Shortcuts (abbreviated redirects):
  • Wikipedia:Shortcut
  • Wikipedia:List of shortcuts
  • Wikipedia:Shortcuts to talk pages
  • Wikipedia:List of shortcuts/Project shortcuts
  • Wikipedia:WTF? OMG! TMD TLA. ARG! (essay)
  • Category:Redirects from 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:
    • Wikipedia:How to fix your signature
    • User:Athaenara/Gallery
    • User:Smurrayinchester/Tutorial/Signature
    • User:NikoSilver/Signature shop
  • Automatic signing (automated signing):
    • User:SineBot - signs talk pages for editors who forgot, where an editor started a new section or an indented his/her comment (replacement for User:HagermanBot)
    • Category:Wikipedians who have opted out of automatic signing
  • Mediawiki pages where default signatures can be customized: (implemented November 2007
    • mw:Signature
    • mw:Signature-anon
  • Other:
    • Wikipedia:WikiProject User scripts/Scripts#Editing - user scripts to help editors with signing
    • Template:Tilde - notice that can be put on user talk pages to remind editors to sign
• Signon - see Logging in, User account and username
• Single purpose account: Wikipedia:Single-purpose account (essay)
• Sinhala: Help:Sinhala Font Guide
• Signpost - see News (about Wikipedia)
• Sister projects: see 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 accounts - accounts created preemptively to block vandals (allowable)
  • Checkuser (identifying sock puppets by checking IP addresses)
    • Wikipedia:Requests for checkuser
    • m:CheckUser policy
    • Help:CheckUser
    • Wikipedia:Quick and dirty Checkuser policy - failed proposal
• Software:
  • As the subject of an article: Wikipedia:Notability (software) (proposal, as of March 2007)
  • Used for the Wikipedia project: see MediaWiki, Technical (hardware and software)
  • Used for editing: see Browsers, Editing software
• Sound (files): see Media
• Sources (see also Resources, Spam, URLs)
  • WHY and WHEN sources must be given (including avoiding excessive links):
    • Wikipedia:Verifiability (WP:V) (policy)
    • Wikipedia:No original research (WP:NOR) (policy)
    • Wikipedia:Attribution (WP:ATT) (historical)
    • 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:Reliable source examples
    • Wikipedia:Evaluating sources - proposal (as of December 2007)
    • Wikipedia:External links (Manual of Style)
    • Wikipedia:Convenience links (essay) - links to primary sources, or to copies of secondary sources
  • HOW to cite a source:
    • In general (including formatting):
      • Wikipedia:Citing sources#How to cite sources (WP:CITE) (guideline) – badly organized, but probably the best starting place
      • Wikipedia:Citation templates (WP:CITET)
      • Category:Citation templates
      • Help:Citations quick reference
      • Wikipedia:Template messages/Sources of articles/Citation quick reference (WP:CITEQR)
      • Wikipedia:Don't include copies of primary sources (guideline)
      • Wikipedia:Inline citation (essay) (outdated informational page)
      • Wikipedia:Manual of Style (links)#External links – mostly derivative from other pages
      • Wikipedia:How to edit a page#Links and URLs – mostly about wikilinks
    • Three alternative systems:
      • Embedded citations: Wikipedia:Embedded citations
      • Footnotes:
        • Wikipedia:Footnotes (guideline)
        • Help:Footnotes
        • mw: Extension:Cite/Cite.php – technical; discusses issues with current <ref> tags
        • m:Talk:Cite/Cite.php (fork, as of 30 April 2006)
        • Template:Rp - for appending page numbers to Cite.php-generated footnote superscripts (can also be used to add a link, to mimic the embedded citations method)
      • Harvard referencing:
        • Wikipedia:Harvard referencing
        • Wikipedia:Harvard citation template examples
      • Mixing footnotes and Harvard referencing:
        • Discussion: Wikipedia talk:Featured article criteria/Archive 6#Consistent references - mixing Harvard and Chicago
        • User:CitationTool/Hybrid referencing
        • Examples: Charles Darwin, Pericles, Che Guevera, saffron
    • Possible changes to MediaWiki software regarding citations:
      • m:Wikicat
      • mw:Category:Referencing extensions
      • A reference system that support BibTeX databases - under development
      • m:Wikicite - future system for automated fact citation and checking
      • Biblio.php (alternative site)
    • Tools for creating citations:
      • 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
      • Zotero, an on-line research tool, can export citations in Wikipedia format
      • [WPCITE] - Firefox add-on that grabs some information from web page, formatted as web cite template
  • PROBLEMS: Identifying and fixing:
    • In general:
      • Wikipedia:WikiProject Citation cleanup
      • Wikipedia:WikiProject External links
      • Wikipedia:WikiProject Fact and Reference Check
      • Category:Citation and verifiability maintenance templates
    • Footnote problems: User:CitationTool
    • Lack of sources:
      • Wikipedia:Unreferenced articles
      • Wikipedia:WikiProject Unreferenced Article Cleanup
      • Category:Articles lacking sources (Template:Unreferenced)
      • Category:Articles lacking reliable references (Template:Primarysources)
      • Category:All articles with unsourced statements (Template:Fact) ("citation needed")
      • User warning templates: Wikipedia:Recent changes patrol#Lack of sources
    • Unreliable sources: Wikipedia:Reliable sources/Noticeboard
    • 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:Citing sources#What to do when a reference link "goes dead"
        • Wikipedia:Improving referencing efforts (proposal; inactive)
        • Wikipedia:Using the Wayback Machine
        • User:RefBot - not operational due to restrictions on owner - ArbComm cases
  • OTHER:
    • Special:Linksearch - identifying all external links from a given domain that are in Wikipedia articles (useful for spam searches, for example)
    • Category:External link templates
    • 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:Self-references to avoid
    • Top 500 external websites to which Wikipedia links
    • User:Anomie/reftooltip.js - user script to display footnote text as a tooltip when the cursor is on a footnote number
• 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
  • User:MER-C/Spamsearch - searching for a particular (spammy) URL across all 700+ Wikimedia projects
  • Category:Wikipedia spam
  • Spambot:
    • User:AntiSpamBot (was Shadowbot)
    • User:AntiSpamBot/Blacklist requests
  • User:AntiSpamBot/Blacklist requests
  • 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 editors in identifying and reverting spam; under development as July 2007
  • User:The Transhumanist/Virtual classroom/Yuser, on fighting linkspam
  • Wikipedia:Wikipedia is not Google (essay)
  • Wikipedia:WikiProject Advertising (inactive)
• Span tags: Wikipedia:Span tags - common ones are "div" (small font in References/Notes section), strikethrough, and blockquote
• Special characters:
  • Help:Special characters
  • Help:Macrons
• Special pages:
  • Help:Special page
  • Special:Specialpages - list/links
• Spelling: (see also Formatting of text, Maintenance)
  • 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)
    • Wikipedia:Perennial proposals#Enforce American or British spelling
  • Errors:
    • Wikipedia:Spellchecking
    • Wikipedia:Lists of common misspellings
    • Wikipedia:Redirects from misspellings
    • Wikipedia:AutoWikiBrowser/Typos
    • 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 Queries (database)
• Stable versions: (see also Quality of articles)
  • Wikipedia:Why stable versions
  • Wikipedia:Flagged revisions (WP:FLR)
  • mw:Extension:FlaggedRevs - allows for Editor and Reviewer classes of editors to rate articles and set revisions as the default to show normal viewers ("still under development", version 1.11, as of September 2007)
  • Demonstration version, September 2007
  • Discussed in Signpost: March 2005, July 2006, August 2006
  • m:Reviewed article version
  • m:Article validation
  • Veropedia - stable articles imported from Wikipedia
  • Inactive/rejected:
    • m:Article endorsement (alternative proposal; inactive)
    • Wikipedia:Stable versions (inactive)
    • Wikipedia:Stable versions now (rejected proposal)
• Statistics and reports: (see also separate topics, Page views (of articles), Queries (database))
  • Wikipedia:Statistics
  • Special:Statistics
  • Category:Wikipedia statistics
  • Wikipedia:Awareness statistics
  • Wikipedia:Size of Wikipedia
  • Help:Magic words#Statistics - "magic words" that provide statistical information
  • Information kept on wikimedia.org (Foundation) pages:
    • Erik Zachte's Wikipedia Statistics Sitemap
    • Server statistics
  • Wikipedia:Multilingual statistics - by month, for all different language Wikipedias (related)
  • Editing by time of day
  • m:List of Wikipedias
  • User:NoSeptember/Subpages about adminship - many subpages have reports; many include more than just admin-related reports
  • nedworks.org Statistics (charts)
  • Wikipedia:Modelling Wikipedia's growth
  • User:Dragons flight/Log analysis - analysis of both log entries (100%) and a sampling (6%) of article histories (edits), some data back to 2001 (analysis reported October 2007)
  • Category:Wikipedia statistics
• Stewards: see Functionaries
• 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
  • Shortpages - finds pages of less than 50 characters
  • User:Zorglbot/Shortpages
  • Wikipedia:Computer help desk/cleanup/stubsensor/20060810 - project to remove stubs from articles where that tag does not belong
  • User:Triddle/stubsensor - tries to identify out-of-the-ordinary articles tagged as stubs
  • Wikipedia:Stub types for deletion
  • User:Giggabot - does stub sorting
  • 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 (essay) - on criticism of subjects of articles, within those articles
    • Invisible (hidden) comments: Wikipedia:Manual of Style#Invisible comments
    • Wikipedia:WikiProject Usability
    • User:Tony1/How to satisfy Criterion 1a: redundancy exercises
• Subpages:
  • Wikipedia:Subpages (WP:SP) (guideline)
  • Wikipedia:User page#How do I create a user subpage? (WP:USER)(guideline)
  • User:UberScienceNerd/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

• Table of contents: (see also Layout and sections)
  • Category:TOC templates
  • Wikipedia:Template messages/Compact tables of contents
  • Help:Section - covers several aspects of TOCs
• Tables:
  • Wikipedia:How to use tables ("disambiguation" page)
  • Wikipedia:When to use tables (Manual of Style)
  • Help:Table
  • Help:Sorting
  • m:Help:Collapsing
  • User:Smurrayinchester/Tutorial/Tables
  • User:Dcljr/Tables - another user page about tables
  • "Table" namespace:
    • Wikipedia:Table: namespace and editor - proposal that a new table editor should be written and that tables should be moved to a namespace similar to Image namespace
    • Wikipedia:Table namespace
    • Bug 2194 - feature request
  • mw:Word2MediaWikiPlus - convert Microsoft Word tables to wikitables
  • Convert Excel tables to wikitables - saves most formatting like background - and fontcolor, fontstyle(bold/italic), column height and width
• Tags: see Wikipedia:Span tags, Messageboxes (using the term “tags” to refer to messageboxes is common but technically incorrect; messageboxes are templates)
• Talk pages (see also Archiving, Signature, User pages, Warnings)
  • Wikipedia:Talk page guidelines (WP:TPG)
  • Wikipedia:Talk page (WP:TP)
  • m:Help:Talk page
  • Wikipedia:Tutorial (Talk pages)
  • Wikipedia:BOLD, revert, discuss cycle - an exception to discussing content changes on article talk pages
  • Wikipedia:Refactoring talk pages
  • Liquid Threads: planned new system for talk pages
    • mw:Extension:LiquidThreads - proposal
    • Demonstration site
    • In use on a site using MediaWiki software
  • 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:Indentation (essay)
  • Wikipedia:Emoticons
  • Templates for article talk pages: (see also WikiProjects)
    • MediaWiki:Talkpagetext - standard message that appears at top of all (new?) mainspace talk pages - implemented late 2006
    • Template:Talkheader - common template (at least until Talkpagetext was implemented) - "Keep" decision 1/2007
    • Wikipedia:Talk page templates
    • Wikipedia:Template messages/Talk namespace
    • Template:ArticleHistory - consolidates information on multiple talk page templates
    • Category:Talk header templates
    • Template:Skiptotoctalk - template for top of article talk pages, to allow readers to bypass other templates at top of article talk page
    • User:PaievBot - adds specified text (including a parameterized template) to talk pages of articles in a given category and sub-categories
• Technical (hardware and software) (see also Bugs, MediaWiki, Queries (database))
  • General:
    • Wikipedia:Technical FAQ
    • Category:Wikipedia features
    • m:Developers
    • Special:Version - lists extensions and hooks
    • Wikipedia:Don't worry about performance (WP:PERF) (guideline)
    • Wikitech mailing list
    • Operational status
    • Wikipedia: Site internals, configuration, code examples and management issues (pdf), presentation at MySQL Users Conference 2007
  • Troubleshooting:
    • Wikipedia:Problems FAQ
    • Wikipedia:Troubleshooting
    • Wikipedia:Village pump (technical)
    • Wikipedia:Bypass your cache
    • Wikipedia:Purge - clear a page's server cache
  • Other:
    • m:Wikimedia servers
    • Server admin log
    • Uptime statistics - at pingdom.com
    • m:Summer of Code 2006
    • m:Summer of Code 2006/ideas
• Templates: (see also Messageboxes, Talk pages, Transclusion)
  • General information:
    • Wikipedia:Template namespace
    • Help:A quick guide to templates
    • Wikipedia:Anatomy of a template
    • Wikipedia:Template FAQ
    • Help:Template
    • Help:Substitution
    • Wikipedia:Template substitution (guideline) (WP:SUB)
    • User:The Transhumanist/Virtual classroom/Scartol, on template use and design
  • More information:
    • Wikipedia:No disclaimers in articles (guideline) - regarding templates like "This article contains profanity"
    • Wikipedia:Template documentation
    • Wikipedia:Template messages
    • Category:Intricate templates
  • Technical:
    • Wikipedia:Template test cases
    • Wikipedia:Template limits
    • Help:Advanced templates
    • Help:Parameter default - expands templates recursively
    • Help:Editing sections of included templates
    • Special:ExpandTemplates - takes some text and expands all templates in it recursively.
    • Wikipedia:Changing templates
  • Keeping templates from creating categories when they shouldn't:
    • User:Willscrlt/UBX/categories
    • Category:Category suppression supporting templates
  • 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
    • User:SoxBot - Substitutes templates that should be substituted, but were not
  • Other:
    • Category:Wikipedia templates
    • Wikipedia:WikiProject Inline Templates - primarily for inline superscript templates such as {{Fact}}
    • Wikipedia:Avoid template creep (essay)
    • User:Zondor/Toolboxes - list of templates used as tools
• Terms and terminology:
  • Wikipedia:Glossary
  • Wikipedia:Tutorial/Glossary - ten terms not covered in the main part of the tutorial that may be useful for beginners
  • Wikipedia:Edit summary legend - commonly used abbreviations in edit summaries
• Thailand: Wikipedia:Manual of Style (Thailand-related articles)
• Threats: see Wikipedia:No legal threats, Personal attacks
• Three reverts: Wikipedia:Three-revert rule (WP:3RR)
• Timelines:
  • Wikipedia:Timeline
  • Wikipedia:Timeline standards (Manual of Style)
  • Wikipedia:Timeline syntax
  • Wikipedia:EasyTimeline
  • Help:EasyTimeline syntax
  • List of timelines
  • Category:Timelines
  • Category:Graphical timelines
  • {{include timeline}} - template to start process of creating a {{Horizontal timeline}} or a {{Graphical timeline}} (vertical timeline) template linked to a particular article (does not use [Easy]timeline syntax)
  • Easy Timeline index
• Tips:
  • Wikipedia:Tips
  • 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)
    • User:Fuhghettaboutit/Toolbox
    • Template:Tools
    • Template:UserTools
• Top of article: see Layout and sections
• Transclusion: (see also Templates)
  • Wikipedia:Transclusion
  • Help:Embed page
  • Wikipedia:Transclusion costs and benefits
  • m:Help:A simple composite example
  • mw:Extension:Labeled Section Transclusion (not yet enabled)
  • mw:Extension:DynamicPageList - creating a composite article from a collection of sections "chapters" of similar articles
• Translations: (see also Interwiki links)
  • Wikipedia in different languages - overview:
    • Wikipedia:Multilingual coordination
    • Category:Wikipedia multilingual coordination
    • Wikipedia:Contributing to articles outside your native language
  • Information about languages, and translation aids:
    • m:List of Wikipedias
    • Wikipedia:Language recognition chart
    • Help:Special characters
    • Help:Multilingual support (guide to fonts)
    • Category:Multilingual support templates
  • Problems with existing article in the English Wikipedia:
    • Wikipedia:Pages needing translation into English
    • Category:Wikipedia articles needing translation
    • Wikipedia:Content contradictory to other language versions
    • Template:Uw-english
  • Moving information from other language Wikipedias to the English Wikipedia
    • Wikipedia:Translation
    • Wikipedia:French Collaboration Project - for translation of high quality articles from the French Wikipedia
    • Wikipedia:Spanish Translation of the Week
    • Wikipedia:WikiProject Echo - finding information in articles in non-English Wikipedias to be added to this Wikipedia (inactive)
    • Wikipedia Bilingual - side-by-side display of an article in any two languages in which it is available (Firefox browser extension)
  • Editors who can help with translations:
    • Wikipedia:Babel
    • Category:Available translators in Wikipedia
• Transwiki: (see also Interwiki links)
  • Wikipedia:Wikimedia sister projects (Manual of Style) - info on moving articles between other projects such as Wikiquote, Wikisource, Wiktionary, Wikinews, and Wikibooks
  • m:Help:Transwiki
  • Wikipedia:Transwiki log
• Trivia:
  • Wikipedia:Trivia sections (Manual of Style)
  • Template:Trivia
  • Wikipedia:Handling trivia
  • Wikipedia:"In popular culture" articles (essay)
  • Wikipedia:WikiProject Trivia Cleanup
  • Category:Articles with trivia sections
  • m:WikiTrivia - a proposed offshoot of Wikipedia
• Trolls and trolling: Wikipedia:What is a troll? (WP:TROLL) (essay)
• Tutorials: see Help pages

• Undue weight: see Wikipedia:Neutral point of view (called "space and balance" in the NPOV tutorial)
• Unicode: Wikipedia:Scripts#Unicode numeric converter scripts
• Units of measurement:
  • Wikipedia:Manual of Style (dates and numbers)#Units of measurement
  • Template:Convert
  • Category:Conversion templates
• Ukrainian: Wikipedia:Romanization of Ukrainian (Manual of Style)
• URLs: (see also Sources, Wikilinks)
  • Wikipedia:URLs- URLs of pages within Wikipedia: articles, redirects, watchlists, etc.
  • Help:URL
  • Wikipedia:Tutorial (External links)
  • 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:User account 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.
  • Help:Email confirmation
  • Inappropriate usernames:
    • Wikipedia:Usernames for administrator attention - blatantly inappropriate usernames
    • Wikipedia:Requests for comment/User names - discussions
    • Template:Uw-ublock
    • Monitoring bots:
      • User:HBC NameWatcherBot
      • User:DeadBot
  • Changing usernames:
    • Special:Listusers - check if a username exists
    • Wikipedia:Changing username
    • Wikipedia:Changing username/Usurpations - changing a username to another registered but "unused" (no edits) username
    • Wikipedia:Changing usernames guidelines
    • Wikipedia:Copying watchlist to new username
    • Wikipedia:Delete unused username after 90 days - proposal rejected by Wikipedia developers
  • Single signon (single login):
    • m:Help:Unified login and m:Single signon transition - moving to a single username (signon) across all Wikipedia domains
    • mw:Extension:CentralAuth - "allows global/shared accounts between projects"
    • Single-user login conflict search (MySQL server error since mid-2007)
    • 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
• 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
  • Wikipedia:WikiProject Keep It Simple - for Wikipedians who like a simple layout in their user page
  • 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
  • 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:
    • Wikipedia:User categorisation
    • Wikipedia:User categories for discussion
    • Category:Wikipedians - collects subcategories that editors use to label themselves, many generated by userboxes
  • Information about editors:
    • Wikipedia:WikiProject User scripts/Scripts/User tabs - adds tabs for counts (of edits), page moves, contributions, and block logs when viewing user or user talk pages.
    • Wikipedia:WikiProject User scripts/Scripts/User Contribs Tabs - shows contributions, counts (of edits), and edit summary usage when viewing user or user talk pages
  • Other:
    • Wikipedia:Template messages/User namespace
    • Wikipedia:Template messages/User talk namespace
    • Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Autograph books (also known as "guestbooks") - allowed for active editors
• 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) (see also Bots, Tools):
  • Wikipedia:WikiProject User scripts
  • Wikipedia:WikiProject User scripts/Tutorial
  • Wikipedia:Tools
  • Wikipedia:Tools/Navigation popups
  • Help:User style#JavaScript
  • User:Voice of All/UsefulJS
  • User:GeorgeMoney/UserScripts
  • Category:Wikipedia scripts
  • mw:Extension:Gadgets - a way for editors to pick JavaScript or CSS based "gadgets" that other Wikipedia editors have created, via the "my preferences" page
  • Wikipedia:WikiProject User scripts/Scripts/Autolink - makes plaintext wikilinks and templates clickable, for example on monobook.js pages
• Userification: Wikipedia:Userfication - moving a non-notable or very problematical article to user space as an alternative to deletion

• Vandalism (see also Sock puppets, Spam, Stable versions, Warnings)
  • In general:
    • Wikipedia:Vandalism (WP:VAN) (policy)
    • Wikipedia:Cleaning up vandalism
    • Wikipedia:Vandalism in progress - a quick directory
    • Wikipedia:Revert, block, ignore (essay)
    • Wikipedia:Do not insult the vandals (essay)
    • Wikipedia:Deny recognition (essay)
    • Wikipedia:The motivation of a vandal (essay)
    • Category:Wikipedia vandalism
    • Wikipedia:WikiProject Vandalism studies
  • 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
    • User:AmiDaniel/VandalProof - more than 1400 users
    • Wikipedia:WikiProject User scripts/Scripts/Twinkle
    • 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 (announced May 2005)
    • User:Garethfoot/Wiki-Aid - Windows program that adds a sidebar interface
    • User:Shadow1/ShadowTool - anti-vandalism tool for Linux OS
    • User:Lloydpick/Wikipedia Vandalism Watch - Windows program that monitors specified editors' contributions pages for "top" edits
    • WikipediaVision (beta) - shows anonymous edits to Wikipedia (almost) in real-time, on a Google map
    • IP lookup
    • godmode-light - JavaScript that adds rollback buttons to user contribution and article diff pages
    • Schools: post {{schoolblock}} on talk pages
    • Warning vandals:
      • User:Kbh3rd/Vandal warning toolbox
      • User:Adam1213/warn - enter the username and click a button to post a warning (note: still should read the user talk page first)
    • Reporting of vandals at WP:AIV:
      • User:Digitalme/aiv.js - adds "ipvandal" and "vandal" buttons when editing WP:AIV
      • User:Royalguard11/AIV'er - Mac OS X program
  • Coordinated efforts:
    • Wikipedia:Counter-Vandalism Unit
    • Wikipedia:Recent changes patrol
    • Wikipedia:Most vandalized pages
    • Template:Vandalism information
    • Freenode IRC network - #vandalism-en-wp channel
    • Patrolled edits:
      • Help:Patrolled edit (not currently implemented on English Wikipedia)
      • Wikipedia talk:Checked edits brainstorming - January 2005 failed implementation (little participation)
  • Bots:
    • User:MartinBot
    • User:AntiVandalBot
    • User:ClueBot
    • User:CounterVandalismBot
  • Other:
    • Wikipedia:Long term abuse - vandals who have repeatedly returned with different user accounts
    • Wikipedia:Perennial proposals#Prohibit anonymous users from editing
    • WikiTrust Blog - color-coding text in articles based on the calculated level of trust for each contributor
    • m:Friends of gays should not be allowed to edit articles
• Vanity articles: see Conflict of interest and Wikipedia:Criteria for speedy deletion
• Variables: see Magic words
• Verifiability: see Sources
• Version tagging: see Stable versions
• Video: see Media
• Video games: Wikipedia:WikiProject Video games (includes two guidelines)
• Village pump: Wikipedia:Village pump - discussion of technical issues, policies, and operations of Wikipedia
• Vital articles:
  • Wikipedia:Vital articles (WP:VITAL) – most important 1000 (or so) articles and their status (featured, good, templated as needing work, etc.)
  • Wikipedia:Vital articles/Expanded
  • m:List of articles every Wikipedia should have
  • Wikipedia:Version 1.0 Editorial Team/Core topics
• Voting: see Consensus and voting

• Warnings:
  • Wikipedia:Template messages/User talk namespace - discussion and grid of warnings
  • Wikipedia:Template messages/User talk namespace#Warnings and notices
  • Wikipedia:Don't template the regulars (essay)
  • Wikipedia:WikiProject user warnings
  • Template:WarningsSmall (for one's user page)
  • Category:User warning templates
  • Removal is acceptable:
    • Wikipedia:User page#Removal of comments, warnings
    • Wikipedia:Removing warnings - failed proposal to prevent removal of warnings
    • Wikipedia:Perennial proposals#Prohibit removal of warnings
• Watchlist: see Monitoring changes
• Web content as the subject of an article: Wikipedia:Notability (web) (guideline) - includes webcomics, podcasts, blogs, Internet forums, online magazines and other media, web portals and web hosts
• Weight (undue): see Wikipedia:Neutral point of view
• Welcome: see New editors
• What: Wikipedia:What Wikipedia is not - articles and content that are NOT appropriate for Wikipedia
• Wiki markup: see Formatting of text
• Wikibreaks:
  • Wikipedia:Wikibreak
  • Wikipedia:WikiProject User scripts/Scripts/WikiBreak Enforcer - user script
• Wikilawyering: Wikipedia:Wikilawyering (essay)
• 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 (no longer run; excess load on server)
    • Special:Lonelypages - pages with no incoming wikilinks ("orphan" pages)
    • User:SoxBot - adds {{orphan}} template to Lonelypages lacking such
    • Wikipedia:WikiProject Orphanage
    • Category:All orphaned articles
  • Other:
    • Special:Mostlinked - pages with the most links pointing to them
    • Wikipedia:Link intersection (proposal) - using wikilinks in searches
    • User:Zocky/Link Complete -Javascript tool which adds autocomplete functionality for links in the edit box
    • Six degrees of Wikipedia - shortest path query solver
    • Wikipedia:WikiProject User scripts/Scripts/Autolink - makes plaintext wikilinks and templates clickable, for example on monobook.js pages
• Wikimedia Foundation - the parent organization of Wikipedia and numerous other collaborative projects such as Wiktionary and Wikibooks
  • foundation:Home
  • Wikimedia Foundation - Wikipedia article
  • Wikipedia:Elections#Wikimedia Board
  • Wikimedia Information Kit, September 2006 (pdf)
  • Wikipedia:Projects of Wikimedia
  • Other projects:
    • Wikipedia:Wikimedia sister projects (Manual of Style)
    • List of Wikimedia wikis - two-digit abbreviations for all Wikimedia Foundation wikis
  • 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:Pushing to 1.0
  • Wikipedia:Version 1.0 Editorial Team
  • Presentation, June 2006 (pdf)
• Wikipedia as a community (see also Criticism (of Wikipedia), Experts, News (about Wikipedia), WikiProjects)
  • Participants:
    • Wikipedia:Who writes Wikipedia
    • m:Edits by project and country of origin
    • Wikipedia:Why on Earth would I want to contribute to a wiki
    • Wikipedia:Wikipedians
    • Category:Wikipedians - collects subcategories that editors use to label themselves, many generated by userboxes
    • Wikipedia:Facebook
    • Wikipedia:Missing Wikipedians
    • Wikipedia:Editors matter (essay)
  • Philosophies:
    • m:Conflicting Wikipedia philosophies
    • User:Raul654/Raul's laws
  • Forums:
    • Wikipedia:Community Portal - "the central place to find out what's happening on Wikipedia."
    • Wikipedia:Village pump - discussion of technical issues, policies, and operations of Wikipedia
    • The WikBack - for those who prefer a web-based forum (December 2007 announcement)
  • Research and studies:
    • Wikipedia:Wikipedia in academic studies
    • Wikipedia:Researching Wikipedia
    • Wikipedia:WikiProject Wikidemia
    • meta:Wikimedia Research Network
    • Mailing lists:
      • Wiki-research:
        • General info
        • Archives
      • Wiki-research-l:
        • General info
        • Archive
    • "Talk Before You Type: Coordination in Wikipedia", 2007 research paper based on October 2005 database
  • Organizations: (see also WikiProjects
    • Category:Wikipedian organizations
    • Wikipedia:Concordia - inactive as of December 2006; efforts to revive in early 2007
    • Wikipedia:Esperanza - defunct as of January 2007
  • Other:
    • Divisiveness: Wikipedia:Divisiveness
    • 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)
    • Wikipedia:Wikistress Reduction Initiative
    • Category:Wikipedia culture
    • Wikipedia:WikiProject Wikipedia
• Wikipedia basic information:
  • Wikipedia - what it is, history, hardware and software, funding, authorship and management, and much more
  • Wikipedia:About
  • What is Wikipedia? (pdf) - two page flyer
  • Wikipedia:History of Wikipedian processes and people
  • Wikipedia:Historic debates
  • Wikipedia:Ten things you may not know about Wikipedia
  • Late 2001 version of Wikipedia
  • Wikipedia:Why Wikipedia is so great (essay)
  • Wikipedia:Wikipediology/library/essays/Merovingian-1 (essay) - "The Fluid Encyclopedia" - 2001 to 2005
  • Wikipedia Fundraising Central Online Reporting Engine
  • Category:Wikipedia history
• WikiProjects: (for a WikiProject related to a topic within this index, see that topic) (see also Collaborations)
  • In general:
    • Wikipedia:WikiProject - projects within the English Wikimedia (community) project
    • Wikipedia:WikiProject Council - unofficial group to encourage/assist with wikiprojects
    • Wikipedia:WikiProject Turnkey Project
    • Wikipedia:WikiProject Council/Guide (guideline) - best practices
    • Wikipedia:WikiProject Council/Directory - main directory of WikiProjects
    • Wikipedia:WikiProject reform - inactive proposal
  • Bots:
    • User:SatyrBot/WikiProject Services
    • User:PaievBot - adds specified text (including a parameterized template) to talk pages of articles in a given category and sub-categories
    • User:MonoBot - Adds WikiProject templates to article talk pages, including an assessment for the article based on previous ratings
    • User:WatchlistBot - tags pages to create project watchlists
    • User:AlexNewArtBot - identifies new articles related to a WikiProject
    • User:PsychAWB - tags articles with WikiProject banners and adds "stub" assessment to the talk page template if an article has a stub template
    • User:BHGbot - puts a template on the talk pages of categories and articles to identify them as being within the scope of a particular WikiProject
    • User:NeraBot - WikiProject tagging
    • User:Giggabot - WikiProject tagging
    • User:SQLBot - tags article talk pages with wikiproject templates
    • User:COBot - delivers newsletters and does WikiProject tagging
    • User:GrooveBot - delivers newsletters and does WikiProject tagging
    • User:Anibot – delivers newsletters
    • User:R Delivery Bot - delivers newsletters
    • User:ENewsBot - delivers newsletters
    • User:DeliveryBot - delivers newsletters
  • Other:
    • Wikipedia:WikiProject awards
    • Template:WikiProject
    • Category:WikiProjects - pages categorized as WikiProjects
• Wisdom: Wikipedia:Words of wisdom
• Words and wording: (see also Formatting of text, Spelling)
  • Wikipedia:Manual of Style (abbreviations)
  • Wikipedia:Naming conventions (abbreviations) (guideline)
  • Wikipedia:Avoid peacock terms (Manual of Style) - show, don't tell
  • Wikipedia:Explain jargon (Manual of Style)
  • Wikipedia:Avoid neologisms (Manual of Style)
  • Wikipedia:Rhetoric (Manual of Style)
  • Wikipedia:Self-references to avoid (Manual of Style) - "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) (Manual of Style) - "critics/some (many) people/research says/feel/believe ..."
  • Wikipedia:Words to avoid (Manual of Style) - "claim", "however", "extremist", "linked", "cult", etc.
  • Wikipedia:Avoid statements that will date quickly (Manual of Style) (examples: "recently", "is soon to become") (WP:DATED)
  • Wikipedia:WikiProject Grammar

• XML: see Formatting of text, Queries (database)