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A Abbreviations: see Terms and terminology Abuse: see Vandalism Access (limiting): (see also Enforcement) Blocks by governments: Blocking of Wikipedia by the People's Republic of China Wikipedia:Advice to users using Tor to bypass the Great Firewall Wikipedia:WikiProject on closed proxies Tor: mw:Extension:TorBlock (editing through tor requires 100 edits and 90 days to become autoconfirmed, as of June 2008) Wikipedia:Advice to users using Tor to bypass the Great Firewall Preventing abuses via open proxies: Wikipedia:Open proxies (WP:NOP) (policy) Wikipedia:WikiProject on open proxies m:WikiProject on open proxies Wikipedia:Open proxy detection Bots: User:RonaldBot – reports edits done by open proxies User:ClueBot – identifies suspected vandalism using open proxies User:KrimpBot – identifies active Tor exits and IPs that are no longer Tor but still blocked Accessibility: (see also Audio, Usability) Wikipedia:Manual of Style (accessibility) Wikipedia:WikiProject Accessibility JAWS: JAWS (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 (policy) Wikipedia:FAQ/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 Changing the RfA process: Wikipedia:Perennial proposals#Requests for Adminship is broken RfA Review: Wikipedia:RfA Review (essay) (begun June 2008) – "Once all phases are complete, a report will be presented to the community" User:Durova/RFA Review boycott Non-bureaucrat closing of an RfA: User:Enigmaman/SNOW (but first ask the candidate to withdraw) Results of RfAs: Wikipedia:Successful requests for adminship Wikipedia:Unsuccessful adminship candidacies User:NoSeptember/Admin stats After becoming an administrator: Wikipedia:New admin school Wikipedia:Administrators' reading list b:MediaWiki Administrator's Handbook Help:Reverting#Admin features Wikipedia:Advice for new administrators (essay) User:NoSeptember/Subpages about adminship Ubergodmode.js Compilation of user scripts for administrators Wikipedia:IRC/Personal views regarding IRC – regarding proper use of the admin IRC channel Problems with admins: Wikipedia:Requests for comment/User conduct#Use of administrator privileges Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard Reconfirmation and/or recall: Wikipedia:Requests for de-adminship Category:Wikipedia administrators open to recall Wikipedia:Admin Accountability Alliance (essay?) Wikipedia:Community enforced administrator recall (failed proposal) Wikipedia:Perennial proposals#Reconfirm administrators Inactive admins: Wikipedia:List of administrators/Inactive – those who haven't edited in the past three months Wikipedia:Perennial proposals#Demote inactive admins Other: Category:Wikipedia adminship Category:Wikimedia Commons administrators – English Wikipedia editors who are admins at the Commons Wikipedia:Adminship in other languages – French, German, Dutch, Japanese (etc.) versions of Wikipedia Template:Admin help Category:Wikipedians looking for help from administrators User:NoSeptember/The NoSeptember Admin Project User:JamesR/AdminStats – lists of admins, sorted by the number of deletions, restorations, etc. Wikipedia:Adminitis (essay) Wikipedia:Requests for comment/Adminbots Statistical analysis of candidates; proposes "AdminFinderBot" for candidates (April 2008) Wikipedia:WikiProject on Adminship – discussion of new approaches for granting adminship (inactive as of October 2006) Adoption: Wikipedia:Adopt-a-user Adr (address) microformat Wikipedia:WikiProject Microformats Advertisements: On Wikipedia, non-revenue raising: (see also Wikipedia:Motto of the day) 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 users: see Unregistered users Arabic: Wikipedia:Manual of Style (Arabic) Arbitration: Wikipedia:Arbitration Wikipedia:Arbitration/Policy (WP:AP) Wikipedia:Arbitration/Requests Wikipedia:Arbitration/Requests/Enforcement (WP:AE) Wikipedia:General sanctions – active sanctions Wikipedia:Arbitration rationale (unofficial) Wikipedia:Requests for comment/Arbitration enforcement (early 2009 discussion) Arbitration Committee: Wikipedia:Arbitration Committee Wikipedia:Arbitration Committee/Noticeboard Wikipedia:Arbitration Committee/June 2008 announcements/Clarifying the role of the Committee Wikipedia:Arbitration/Index/Cases Wikipedia:Elections#Arbitration Committee Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/2005-09-19/ArbCom election – first in a weekly series of 17 articles on the Arbitration Committee and the January 2006 election Wikipedia:Arbitration Committee/June 2008 announcements – a number of proposals by the committee, plus notice of trial changes being undertaken Wikipedia:Requests for comment/Arbitration Committee – June 2008 RfC Wikipedia:Devolution – failed proposal to establish a mechanism for the committee to devolve selected powers to a designated body {{ArbComOpenTasks}} – template for active ArbCom cases m:Wikimedia Arbitration Committee election processes – describes how the Arbitration Committee is selected on various language Wikipedias Appeals: Wikipedia:Arbitration Committee/June 2008 announcements/Appeals Review List – new (sub)committee or "list" or "panel", subordinate to and supervised by the Arbitration Committee Archiving Wikipedia talk pages: Help:Archiving a talk page User:The Halo/How to Archive (tutorial) User:5Q5#How to Archive a Talk Page by 5Q5 (tutorial) Template:Google custom/doc#How to search subpage trees within Wikipedia – easily make an archive searchable Using a bot: User:MiszaBot/Archive HowTo User:ClueBot III User:MercuryBot User:Werdnabot Article message boxes (amboxes): Wikipedia:Template messages#Article-related namespace Wikipedia:Template standardisation – for articles Wikipedia:Ambox CSS classes – creating article message boxes Wikipedia:Ambox CSS classes/Skins – changing the way that standardized article "tags" are displayed User:Shanes/Why tags are evil – essay about templates placed at the top of articles Articles: see also Content disputes, Edits (in general), History, Importing, Layout and sections, New articles, Page views, Quality of articles, Statistics, Style (articles) Wikipedia:What is an article? Wikipedia:Article development – stages in the life of an article Wikipedia:Editorial oversight and control Wikipedia:Content forking (guideline) – includes POV forking Analysis of: User:R. fiend/How many articles does Wikipedia really have? – categorization by size/source/quality of 500 randomly selected articles, October 2005 User:Knulclunk/Random – categorization by topic/type of 200 randomly selected articles, September 2008 Wikipedia:Unusual articles Article size (particularly long articles): Wikipedia:Article size (Manual of Style) Wikipedia:Summary style (guideline) – when articles get too long Special:Longpages – top 1000 articles, sizewise MediaWiki:Longpagewarning {{PAGESIZE:page name}} – magic word that gives the size of the given page name User talk:Dr pda/prosesize.js – user script that adds link to the toolbox, for displaying some statistics about the size of a page and its components Splitting: Wikipedia:Splitting Wikipedia:Template messages/Splitting Category:Articles to be split Implementing summary style: Wikipedia:Summary style Template:Main Category:Articles to harmonize (Template:Sync) As of: see Current events Assessment: see Quality of articles Assistance (disputes): (see also Content disputes, Help, Personal attacks, Questions) Wikipedia:Editor assistance Wikipedia:Highly Active Users (WP:HAU) – request assistance from users who are currently online Wikipedia:Wikiquette 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) User:Filll/AGF Challenge – a set of exercises based on typical Wikipedia editing situations in controversial areas Attacks: see: Content disputes, Personal attacks Attribution: see Sources Audio: (see also Accessibility) Spoken versions of Wikipedia articles: Wikipedia:WikiProject Spoken Wikipedia Wikipedia:Spoken articles – articles with audio versions Category:Spoken Wikipedia requests – articles for which spoken versions have been requested Pediaphone – automated creation of spoken versions (MP3 file or read on-screen) Audio clips: see Media Autobiographies: see Biographies Autograph books: see User pages Automation: see Bots, Tools, User scripts Awards: Wikipedia:Awards Wikipedia:Personal user awards Wikipedia:Awards by WikiProject Wikipedia:Service awards – self-awarded, based on length of time as an editor and number of edits Wikipedia:Other awards Wikipedia:Barnstars (WP:BARNSTAR) Wikipedia:Barnstar and award proposals (WP:BAP) Template:Barnstar pages Wikipedia:Kindness Campaign Wikipedia:Award templates Category:Wikipedia awards Wikipedia:Ribbons (for organizing multiple awards) Wikipedia:Great editing in progress Image:Barn star free zone.png Wikipedia:Triple Crown Wikipedia:WikiCup B 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 Bible reference template: {{bibleref}} – can give the reader a wide variety of choices in choosing a translation Biographies: In general: Wikipedia:Manual of Style (biographies) Wikipedia:Biographies of living persons (WP:BLP) (policy) Wikipedia:Arbitration Committee/June 2008 announcements/BLP enforcement guidance User:Doc glasgow/The BLP problem Article names: Wikipedia:Naming conventions (people) (guideline) Wikipedia:Naming conventions (royalty and nobility) User:Eubot – creates redirects to prevent multiple articles being created for the same person Notability: Wikipedia:Notability (people) Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Common outcomes#People Wikipedia:Notability (academics) (guideline) Wikipedia:Biographical optout (failed proposal) – individuals who are not "public figures" can have their biography removed upon request Wikipedia:Borderline biographies (essay) Formatted data (see also Series boxes) Wikipedia:Persondata Wikipedia:WikiProject Microformats/hcard Categorization: Wikipedia:Categorization of people (guideline) Wikipedia:Categorization/Ethnicity, gender, religion and sexuality Wikipedia:Do not write articles using categories – do not add a category for every attribute of a person Wikipedia:Naming conventions (identity) (ethnic, national, sexual, etc.) User:SmackBot – adds the DEFAULTSORT template to stubs that are biographical articles Problems: Wikipedia:Contact us/Article problem/Factual error (from subject) – what to do when an individual has a problem with an article about that person or about someone that person represents Wikipedia:Biographies of living persons/Special enforcement log Libel:Wikipedia:Libel (policy) Wikipedia:Biographies of living persons/BLPWatch Wikipedia:Living People Patrol Privacy: Wikipedia:Biographies of living persons#Presumption in favor of privacy Wikipedia:Oversight (policy) and Wikipedia:Requests for oversight – removal of personal or libelous information on older revisions of an article (see also Oversight) Wikipedia:Deletion policy#Courtesy blanking (WP:CBLANK) (guideline) – removal of personal info within a deletion discussion Articles about Wikipedians: (see also Conflicts of interest) Wikipedia:Autobiography (WP:AUTO) (guideline) Wikipedia:Wikipedians with articles Identified cases (see also Conflicts of interest): Wikipedia:Biographies of living persons/Noticeboard (WP:BLP/N) User:Harej/Unreferenced BLPs Other: Wikipedia:Contact us/Photo submission – for individuals with biographies, or someone representing such an individual Wikipedia:Family trees Wikipedia:WikiProject Biography Alternatives (outside of Wikipedia): Biographicon Wikipopuli WikiBiography Wiki Wikipedia:Living People Patrol (inactive) Birthdays: see Biographies Biting: Wikipedia:Please do not bite the newcomers Blocks: see Access (limiting), Enforcement Books: (see also Wikibooks, Collections (books), Resources) Articles about a book: Wikipedia:Notability (books) (guideline) Wikipedia:Naming conventions (books) (guideline) ISBN: Wikipedia:ISBN Wikipedia:Book sources Special:Booksources User:Lunchboxhero/monobook.js – when clicking on an ISBN link, go directly to your preferred book-related website Ottobib – Web page that generates citation if ISBN is known; and another: (not quite as good) Problems: Category:Articles with invalid ISBNs – usually very few articles listed Wikipedia:List of pages with Invalid ISBNs – stubborn cases Other: Template:Gutenberg – for creating a link to a book source available at Project Gutenberg Bootcamp: see Wikipedia:New contributors' help page Bots: (see also Tools, User scripts) Wikipedia:Bot policy Wikipedia:Bots/Frequently denied bots m:Bot policy Wikipedia:Types of bots (not maintained) Wikipedia:History of Wikipedia bots (very sketchy/dated) Creating: Wikipedia:Creating a bot m:Using the python wikipediabot Creating MediaWiki bots in PHP – includes BasicBot Wikipedia:Bot requests (WP:BOTREQ) – requests to existing bot owners; questions about possible new bots, requests for assistance in creating or improving a bot, etc. Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval Special:Log/makebot Wikipedia: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:Bot Approvals Group Template:Bots – template for user pages, to encourage or block (compliant) bots Wikipedia:Requests for comment/Adminbots Cumulative editing statistics for bots Bounty Board: Wikipedia:Bounty board (see also Wikipedia:Reward board) Browsers (for Wikipedia editing): (see also Editing software) Wikipedia:Browser notes m:Browser issues with MediaWiki Wikipedia:Tools/Browser tools Wikipedia:Interfaces/External interfaces User:Dinoguy1000/scripts/safeIEeditlinks.js – makes it safe to click on most links when editing a page in Internet Explorer (normally the links open in the same window, and any edits in progress are lost; this script forces a link to open in a new window) AutoWikiBrowser: (WP:AWB) (a semi-automated Wikipedia editor, Windows only, typically used for vandal patrol or mass edits) Wikipedia:AutoWikiBrowser Category:AutoWikiBrowser User:Kingbotk/Plugin – a set of AWB plugins (included with AWB version 4.1.0.0 on onwards) Wikibrowser: part of the Wikipedia:WikiBrowse package User:Cacycle/wikEd – wikEd, adds enhanced text processing functions to Wikipedia (also available as a gadget, under "my preferences") m:WikiMonitor – fully functional web browser (beta, November 2007) Wikipedia Explorer (beta in March 2007; still beta as of February 2008; requires .NET 3.0) Wikipedia:Wikipedia Widget – for Mac OS X v10.4 or later IndyWiki Wikibench (pre-beta as of February 2008) Extensions (add-ons) to standard browsers (other than for citations): Wikipedia Toolbar – Firefox add-on: Wikipedia:Wikipedia Toolbar Source Bugs: Wikipedia:Bug reports and feature requests mediazilla: – MediaZilla Main Page How to Report Bugs Effectively – general advice on reporting bugs, recommended by MediaZilla, not specific to any particular system Bureaucrats – folks who handle special, higher-level administrative tasks Wikipedia:Bureaucrats Wikipedia:Bureaucrats' noticeboard C Canonicalization: Help:Link#Conversion to canonical form (converting links to URLs) Canvassing: see Messages CAPTCHA: Special:Captcha MediaWiki:Captchahelp-text reCAPTCHA: reCAPTCHA MediaWiki Extension WP:Perennial proposals#Use reCAPTCHA Wikipedia:Village pump (proposals)/Archive 8#reCAPTCHA: adding titles to the Gutemberg Project (November 2007) Captions: see Images Categories: General information: Wikipedia:Categorization – (WP:CAT) (guideline) Help:Category Wikipedia:FAQ/Categorization Wikipedia:Category names (guideline) Wikipedia:WikiProject Categories Portal:Contents/Categories Wikipedia:Categories, lists, and navigation templates (guideline) – comparing alternative approaches Wikipedia:Overcategorization (guideline) – what types of categories are not good ones to create Wikipedia:Classification – putting a set of links on category pages so readers can see the levels above the category Wikipedia:Categories are different from articles (essay) Wikipedia:Do not write articles using categories – do not add a category for every attribute of the subject of an article Special:MostLinkedCategories – the categories that have the highest number of pages belonging to them Listings of categories: Special:Categories – alphabetical category listing Category:Fundamental categories – fundamental categories Special:CategoryTree – can generate a tree of categories, or categories and articles User:Chris G Bot 2 – produces, for a given category, a table listing all articles within that category (and all subcategories of that category), and the status of those articles (a clone of User:PockBot, which is disabled) CatScan Wikipedia:Category types (failed proposal) Possible problems with categories: Wikipedia:Categories for discussion – page to discuss (and nominate) the deletion, merging, and renaming of categories (WP:CFD) Wikipedia:Categorizing redirects – most redirects should not have a category on the redirect page Category:Underpopulated categories Special:Wantedcategories – red link categories on pages Special:Uncategorizedcategories – category pages without at least one parent category Special:Unusedcategories – categories not used for any page User:AKA MBG/Cycles – Where category A is a subcategory of B, and B is a subcategory of A (or more complicated than that) User:TheDJ/Gadget-HotCat.js – user script that provides an easy way to add, modify and remove categories (also available as a gadget, under "my preferences") Articles without categories: Special:UncategorizedPages User:Addbot – adds categories to uncategorized articles, using AWB Intersection of two categories: Wikipedia:Categorization#Searching for articles in categories – via the standard search box (doesn't search subcategories) m:User:Duesentrieb/CatScan – CatScan 0 a tool that can do various types of category scans, including intersection (may or may not be using up-to-date version of database); can search subcategories 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: Wikipedia:Category suppression Bots: Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Working#Bots – bots working on CFD results User:Kbdankbot – CFD tasks such as emptying categories of articles and moving articles from one category to another User:O bot – adds, removes, and moves/renames categories by request (approval) User:Alaibot – cleans up redundant double-categorisation (where an article is in both a category and a parent of that category) User:SoxBot – works on WP:CFD/W User:RockfangBot – does speedy renames; empties or moves categories at WP:CFD/WU; processes categories with "and" results at WP:CFDWM Hidden categories: March 2008 Signpost article Category:Hidden categories Other: bugzilla:6943 – Bug # 6943 – Magic word for number of items in a category User:TheDJ/Gadget-HotCat.js – user script that makes it easy to add, modify and remove categories User:Erwin/CatCount – provides a count of pages in any given category User:Ais523/catwatch.js – for monitoring changes to the pages that are in a specified category Category:Wikipedia categorization Wikipedia:Template messages/Category namespace In category since – tool to list all articles in a category that have been so since a specified date mw:Extension:CategoryTree – describes <categorytree> tags that can be added to articles so that a category for that article can be viewed as a dynamic tree on that page. (Using the page Special:Categorytree is faster, unless the tags are permanent.) Help:Job queue – why changing a category in a template doesn't instantly change all articles with that template User_talk:GregU/randomlink.js – this tool can go to a random page in a category MediaWiki:Catseparator – symbol used to separate categories (can be modified by any admin) User:Dr. Submillimeter/Humorous categories – unusual (and no longer existing) categories random article - redirects to a random article in a given category's tree Censorship: Wikipedia:What Wikipedia is not#Wikipedia is not censored Wikipedia:No disclaimers in articles Wikipedia:Offensive material (Manual of Style) m:Should Wikipedia Use Profanity Wikipedia:Pornography (essay) Wikipedia:Advice for parents (essay) Wikipedia:WikiProject Wikipedians against censorship Wikipedia:WikiProject Sexology and sexuality MediaWiki:Bad image list Wikipedia:Perennial proposals#Content warnings Ways to set personal preferences so as to not see some or all images: Help:Options to not see an image (alternative to censorship) User:Mr.Z-man/badimages Failed proposals: Wikipedia:Offensive Wikipedia:Graphic and potentially disturbing images Wikipedia:Image censorship Wikipedia:Sexual content Chapters: foundation:Local chapters Sub-national chapters Q&A (October 20, 2008) 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 Civility: see Personal attacks Classes: see Learning (for classes of editors, see User rights) Cleanup: see Maintenance, Quality of articles Clerks: see Functionaries Coaching: see Learning Collaborations: (see also WikiProjects) Wikipedia:Collaborations Template:COTWs – collaborations of the week Category:Wikipedia collaborations Wikipedia:WikiProject Reference Desk Article Collaboration Wikipedia:Spotlight Collapsing: m:Help:Collapsing Wikipedia:NavFrame – dynamic navigation (series) boxes (collapsible – hide/show) Collections (books) m:Book tool Wikipedia:Books – books created by the community Help:Books Special:PrefixIndex/Book: – the list of community books Category:Wikipedia books "Books extension enabled" (Signpost article, March 2009) mw:Extension:Collection – organizing a personal selections of pages into a collection Colon trick: Help:Colon trick Comics and comic books: Wikipedia:WikiProject Comics/copyright (guideline) Wikipedia:Naming conventions (comics) (guideline) Wikipedia:Notability (web) (guideline) (includes webcomics) Common sense: (see also Process) Wikipedia:Ignore all rules (WP:IAR) (policy) Wikipedia:What "Ignore all rules" means Wikipedia:Suggestions on how to ignore all rules (essay) Wikipedia:Ignoring all rules - a beginners guide (essay) Wikipedia:Interpret all rules (essay) m:Don't be a dick Category:Wikipedia process discussions Commons (Wikimedia Commons): Wikipedia:Wikimedia Commons – has over three million media files (photographs, diagrams, animations, music, spoken text, video clips, etc.) available for use in any Wikimedia (community) project, to which anyone can contribute; recommended place to upload free images to, rather than to Wikipedia Commons:Welcome Wikimedia Commons - manual that provides the essential information for people interested in contributing their own work to Wikimedia Commons Wikipedia:Commons categories (WP:CC) (guideline) Mayflower – searching the Commons Commons:Commons:Tools Manual for new Commons users (at en.flossmanuals.net) Uploading: Commons:Commons:Tools#Upload media Commons:Commons:Tools/Commonplace – Windows/Linux program for drag-and-drop uploading Upload image – tool to upload images from Flickr Moving images to (from Wikipedia): Wikipedia:Moving files to the Commons Wikipedia:WikiProject Images and Media/Commons CommonsHelper – tool to generate an image description to copy-and-paste for the commons upload form (formerly called "Move-to-commons assistant") User:Fran Rogers/CommonsHelper Helper – user script that adds a button to easily bring up CommonsHelper User:MonoBot – fixes (some) problems when an editor doesn't do a move to Commons totally correctly Duplicate images – tool to show duplicate files between Wikipedia and Commons Push-for-commons – tool to show a set of images from a wikipedia, helping to find license problems, {{NowCommons}} candidates, and images that should be copied/moved to the commons. RSS feeds: Category-based feed (for newly added images) Media file of the Day Other: Category:Wikimedia Commons administrators – English Wikipedia editors who are admins at the Commons m:User:CommonsDelinker – bot that removes links from Wikipedias (all languages) when an image is deleted at Commons Commons interface for the iPhone Flickr-like interface to Commons (no logins or uploads) Commons sum-it-up – tool to generate a summary text for pages on Commons, using Wikipedia articles in different languages Browse Flickr images Communications (communicating with other editors): see Messages Community: see Wikipedia as community Community portal: Wikipedia:Community portal (see also Wikipedia as a community) Companies and organizations: Wikipedia:FAQ/Organizations 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) Wikipedia:Contact us/Article problem/Factual error (from enterprise) – what to do when an individual who owns or represents a business or other organization has a problem with an article about that organization Portal:Business and economics Competitors, forks, and mirrors: Wikipedia:Mirrors and forks m:Mirror filter – Firefox extension which removes sites which mirror Wikimedia content from Google search results Potential resources: Category:Online encyclopedias Citizendium – vetted volunteers (articles that originated in part at Wikipedia are GFDL) (July 2007 analysis in the Signpost) New World Encyclopedia – paid editors (funded by Unification Church through February 2008) (all GFDL) Medpedia (GFDL) (in preview mode as of July 2008) Google "knols" (units of knowledge) – announced December 2007, launched July 2008 (license compatibility unclear) Conflicts of interest: (see also Biographies) Wikipedia:Conflict of interest (WP:COI) (guideline) Wikipedia:Conflict of interest/Noticeboard – reporting cases of conflict of interest policy not being followed {{Request edit}} – for talk page postings; related: Category:Requested edits Automation: User:COIBot User:AlexNewArtBot/COISearchResult – new articles that appear likely to be conflict of interest cases Wikipedia Scanner – identifies unregistered edits from user-specified organizations (Wired magazine story, August 2007) Wikipedia:Suggestions for COI compliance (essay) User:Charles Matthews/Conflict of interest (essay) "The Right Way To Fix Inaccurate Wikipedia Articles", searchengineland.com, August 7, 2007 (article by a Wikipedia editor) Congress: edits by Congressional staffers: 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) Wikipedia:Arbitration Committee/June 2008 announcements/Consensus seeking processes 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:Times that 100 Wikipedians supported something Wikipedia:Delegable proxy (failed proposal) Wikipedia:Straw polls (failed proposal) Conservapedia: Wikipedia vs. Conservapedia Bookmarklet Conservation: Wikipedia:Conservation status (categories) (Manual of Style) Content (how-to): see Content disputes, Edits (in general), New articles, Style (articles) Content disclaimer: Wikipedia:Content disclaimer Content disputes: (see also Consensus, Controversial articles, Disruptive editing, Neutral point of view, Personal attacks) General policies and guidelines: (in addition to WP:NOR, WP:V, WP:NPOV, etc.) Wikipedia:Dispute resolution (WP:DR) (policy) – overview of the process Wikipedia:Ownership of articles (WP:OWN) (policy) – no editor "owns" the content of an article; the only way that an editor can properly prevent 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 Wikipedia:Editing policy#Preserve information (WP:PRESERVE) (policy) endeavour to preserve content Wikipedia:Arbitration Committee/June 2008 announcements/Skilled content warriors Wikipedia:Scientific standards (proposal as of August 2008) 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:Edit warring (policy) Wikipedia:Edit warring#The Three revert rule (WP:3RR) – repeated edits can get a user account blocked (typically, for 24 hours) Wikipedia:Verifiability#Burden of evidence Wikipedia:Accuracy dispute Wikipedia:Uphill Battles (essay) Wikipedia:Disruptive editing (guideline) Wikipedia:Lamest edit wars Wikipedia:Other stuff exists#Precedent in usage (essay) Wikipedia:Don't overuse shortcuts to policy and guidelines to win your argument (essay) Possible solutions: Wikipedia:Staying cool when the editing gets hot (essay) Wikipedia:Forgive and forget (essay) Wikipedia:No angry mastodons (essay) Wikipedia:Don't be a fanatic (essay) Wikipedia:Truce (essay) Wikipedia:Harmonious editing club m:How to win an argument Wikipedia:A nice cup of tea and a sit down Wikipedia:Drop the stick and back slowly away from the horse carcass (essay) Processes for resolving (when informal discussions fail) Wikipedia:Dispute resolution – official policy (overview) Wikipedia:New admin school/Dealing with disputes Category:Wikipedia dispute resolution Wikipedia:Editorial Council (proposal as of August 2008) 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 Other: Wikipedia:Working group on ethnic and cultural edit wars (final report was August 2008) Wikipedia:Requests for remedies (failed proposal) Content notes: see Notes Controversial articles: (see also Content disputes) Wikipedia:Controversial articles (Manual of Style) Wikipedia:List of controversial issues Conversion: Converting page content from one format to another: see Exporting (a page), Importing Converting one unit of measurement into another: see Units of measurement Copyright: (see also Legal) In general: Wikipedia:FAQ/Copyright Wikipedia:Copyrights (policy) Wikipedia:Image use policy Wikipedia:Non-U.S. copyrights (guideline) Wikipedia:Media copyright questions – a place to get help and answers Fair use, non-free use, and public domain: foundation:Resolution:Licensing policy – requires all Foundation projects to create a "Exemption Doctrine Policy (EDP)" for fair use media. Wikipedia:Non-free content criteria (WP:FUC) (policy) Wikipedia:Non-free content (guideline) Wikipedia:Non-free content criteria compliance (proposal as of March 2008) Wikipedia:Non-free use rationale guideline (guideline) Wikipedia:Public domain (guideline) Dispatches: Reviewing non-free images – Signpost article, September 2008 m:Avoid Copyright Paranoia – discussion Wikipedia:WikiProject Images and Media/Non-free Avoiding problems: Wikipedia:File copyright tags Template:USAtags – copyright tags for U.S. images (mostly for U.S. government images) Wikipedia:Requesting copyright permission Wikipedia:Example requests for permission Wikipedia:Donating copyrighted materials Problems: Wikipedia:Contact us/Article problem/Copyright – if an article is using copyrighted content without permission Wikipedia:Copyright violations (WP:COPYVIO) (policy) Wikipedia:Spotting possible copyright violations Wikipedia:Copyright problems Category:Wikipedian copyright problem patrollers Wikipedia:Copyright violations on history pages – dealing with prior versions of an article that have copyright violations and are accessible via history pages foundation:Designated agent – for notification of claimed infringement Wikipedia:Possibly unfree files Wikipedia:Files for deletion Categories for problem images: Category:Wikipedia files with unknown copyright status Category:Wikipedia files with unknown source Category:Wikipedia files with no non-free use rationale Category:Wikipedia files with no copyright tag Bots to find problems: Text: User:Non-Free Content Compliance Bot User:CopyvioHelperBot Images: User:BetacommandBot User:718 Bot – creates lists of images tagged with disputed fair use rationales, sorted by date and type User:AWeenieBot – creates lists of images tagged with disputed fair use rationales, sorted by type and number of times used User:ImageTaggingBot – inspects newly-uploaded images for ones lacking source information, a license tag, or a fair-use rationale if one is needed; tags as necessary User:STBotI – tags images for relatively speedy deletion User:BJBot – tags orphaned images as such; notifies originator of problem User:Erwin85Bot – removes Template:Di-orphaned fair use from pages that are not orphans User:SoxBot VIII – removes fair use images from outside of article space, removes tags from non-orphaned images (replaced User:ImageBacklogBot) User:John Bot II – tags images that lack adequate copyright information User:FairuseBot – does tagging of problematic fairuse images Wikipedia:Suspected copyright violations – where a bot places pages (and URLs) of suspected problems Using Wikipedia content: Wikipedia:Reusing Wikipedia content (policy) Commons:Commons:Reusing content outside Wikimedia Wikipedia:Verbatim copying under the GFDL (essay) GNU Free Documentation License Text at Wikipedia:Text of the GNU Free Documentation License) "GFDL 1.3 released, will allow Wikimedia migration to Creative Commons license" (Signpost article, November 2008) Proposal to license Wikimedia material so it is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike license (CC-BY-SA) m:Licensing update/Questions and Answers m:Licensing update(voting to start April 2009) Counts (of edits, for an editor): (for counts of edits for a page, see History (of a page); for counts of views, see Page views) Wikipedia:Edit count Wikipedia:Tools#Edit counters Wikipedia:WikiProject edit counters Wikicheck] Milestone – finds the nth edit of an editor User:Henrik/live-edit-counter – continuously updated edit counter (userbox) User:Interiot/EditCountOptIn Wikipedia:List of Wikipedians by number of edits Wikipedia:Editcountitis – an essay Creating articles: see New articles Credentials: Wikipedia:There is no credential policy – Wikipedia has no policy on whether credentials should either be disregarded or verified Criticism of Wikipedia: see Encyclopedia, Criticism (of) Current events: (see also News about Wikipedia) Wikinews (sister project) Portal:Current events Wikipedia:How the Current events page works As of: Wikipedia:As of Template:As of Template:Category as of Template:Update after Category:Wikipedia articles in need of updating Wikipedia:Manual of Style (dates and numbers)#Precise language Wikipedia:WikiProject Update Watch Wikipedia:Current event templates Wikipedia:Notability (events) (guideline) Customization: (see also Quickbar, Signatures) Wikipedia:Customisation Via "my preferences": Special:Preferences Help:Preferences Via the Gadgets tab in "my preferences" – see Gadgets Via JavaScript: see User scripts Via Cascading Style Sheets (CSS): Help:Cascading style sheets Skins: Wikipedia:Skin (trivial; probably should be a redirect) m:Customization:Explaining skins MediaWiki talk:Vector.css – place to discuss changes to the Vector skin (standard skin that editors get by default) MediaWiki talk:Monobook.css – place to discuss changes to the Monobook skin (older standard skin) MediaWiki talk:Modern.css – bug reports and other comments for new (January 2008) Modern skin Different customizations of the way Wikipedia pages appear, downloadable from userstyles.org/styles/ (primarily for readers) (Firefox, Thunderbird, Flock, Mozilla Suite, SeaMonkey, and Songbird browsers only) Personal CSS: mw:Gallery of user styles (a mix of MediaWiki-compatible skins, not selectable by editors, and personal css) User:GeorgeMoney/UsefulCSS User:Wolfgangbeyer/monobook.css – monobook.css optimized for color blindness User:Trilobite/Tools – combination of CSS and JavaScript, with a note that "much of this is outdated" 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) D Data download: see Downloading all of Wikipedia, Queries (database) (for individual pages, see Exporting (a page)) 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:Manual of Style#Dates Wikipedia:Manual of Style (dates and numbers)#Date autoformatting Wikipedia:Manual of Style (dates and numbers)/Date autoformatting (essay) Wikipedia talk:Manual of Style (dates and numbers)/RFC: Unresolved date delinking and autoformatting issues (closes February 2009) Wikipedia talk:Manual of Style (dates and numbers)/Archive D1#A new parallel syntax for autoformatting dates Wikipedia:Date formatting and linking poll (March 2009) bugzilla:4582 – Bug #4582 – provide preference-based autoformatting for unlinked dates Wikipedia:Neutral point of view/BCE-CE Debate (failed proposal) "Daughter" articles: see Article size Decision-making: see Consensus and voting, Functionaries, Wikimedia Foundation Deletion: (see also Categories for deletion of categories, Redirect for deletion of redirects, etc.) (for articles, see Deletion of articles, immediately below) Wikipedia:Deletion process (WP:DP) (guideline) Template:Deletion tools (for one's user page) Wikipedia:Introduction to deletion process (essay) Wikipedia:Deletion discussions 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 (how-to) Wikipedia:Give an article a chance (essay) Wikipedia:New admin school/Deleting Wikipedia:I wouldn't know him from a hole in the ground (essay) Wikipedia:Deletion and deletionism Alternatives to deletion: Move to a sister project such as Wiktionary or Wikisource – see Transwiki Wikipedia:Userfication – if article has potential for Wikipedia Help:Merging Wikipedia:Redirect (guideline) Types of deletion: Wikipedia:Page blanking (guideline) (do not blank article pages) Speedy deletion: Wikipedia:Criteria for speedy deletion (WP:CSD) (policy) Tagging articles and notifying editors: Wikipedia:WikiProject User scripts/Scripts/Easy db – adds tabs when viewing an article, for tagging for speedy deletion User:CSDWarnBot – finds the creator of a tagged article and posts a warning on the user's talk page Pending deletion: Category:Candidates for speedy deletion Deletion: User:Chairboy/csdhelper.greasemonkey.js – similar to AutoReason Prod: Wikipedia:Proposed deletion (WP:PROD) (policy) – five-day (countdown) process (no polling of opinions) User:DumbBOT/ProdSummary – articles currently with "prod" templates Wikipedia:WikiProject proposed deletion patrolling User talk:Dycedarg/easyprod.js – user script to propose a page for deletion in one click, and (optionally) notify the author of the page as well User:BJBot – informs major/recent editors of an article that a {{prod}} template has been posted to that article Category:Proposed deletion Formal deletion process (AfD discussions): Wikipedia:Guide to deletion – information on the process Wikipedia:Repeated AfD nomination limitation (failed proposal) – to limit the number of times an article can go through the AfD process Wikipedia:AfD categories Wikipedia:WikiProject Deletion sorting – AfDs organized into topical lists User:Jayden54Bot – bot that notifies creator of article that it has been submitted to AfD process (approved January 2007) (inactive as of May 2009) User:BJBot – informs major/recent editors of an article that it has been submitted to AfD process Wikipedia:Perennial proposals#Numerical rules for WP:AFD Wikipedia:Perennial proposals#All authors must be notified of deletion Current AfDs: 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:Nixeagle/WikiDiscussion Manager – Windows-based application that assists editors with participation in AfD discussions User:Jayden54/AFD Organizer – Windows-based application that provides a set of tools for participating in AfD discussions Arguments and expectations (see also next subsection, "Closing"): Wikipedia:Help, my article got nominated for deletion! (essay) Wikipedia:Arguments to avoid in deletion discussions (essay) Wikipedia:Other stuff exists (essay) Wikipedia:Pokémon test (essay) (marked as "historical") Closing: Wikipedia:Non-admin closure (essay) Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Common outcomes Wikipedia:Speedy keep – closing a discussion early and keeping the article Wikipedia:WikiProject User scripts/Scripts/CloseAFD.js What an administrator won't do upon closing and AfD: User:Mangojuice/Administrators are not slaves (essay) – don't ask administrators to do large amounts of work under the guise of a deletion debate Wikipedia:Closing Administrator is not an Edit on Demand Service (essay) After an article is deleted: Deletionpedia – An automated bot uploads pages to this website as they are deleted from Wikipedia. Wikipedia:Viewing and restoring deleted pages Wikipedia:Arbitration Committee/June 2008 announcements/Activation of view-deleted-pages – request that the community consider giving selected regular editors the ability to view deleted pages Wikipedia:Deletion policy#Courtesy blanking (WP:CBLANK) (guideline) (blanking of the AfD discussion due to privacy issues) Wikipedia:Protection policy#Creation protection (WP:SALT) – "padlocking" or "salting the earth" to protect against further re-creation of deleted pages without prior admin approval Wikipedia:Why was my page deleted? Wikipedia:Deletion review – appeals to restore pages that have been deleted or delete pages which were closed as "keep" in an AfD discussion (WP:DRV) Getting a copy of a deleted article put into one's user space, where it can be improved before going into the article namespace again: Wikipedia:Deletion review#Content review Category:Wikipedia administrators who will provide copies of deleted articles Wikipedia:New admin school/Protecting deleted pages Wikipedia:New admin school/Viewing deleted pages Finding why an article was deleted: Special:Log/delete – deletion log, searchable by article name or user who created the article (alternatively, type the article name (exactly), click "Create the page" when the search fails, and then look for deletion log information) Discussions (if deletion was by AfD) can be found at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Name of Article, Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Name of Article (second nomination), etc. (alternatively, use Special:Prefixindex, in the Wikipedia space, searching on "Articles for deletion/Firstlettersofarticlename") Proposals that the contents of deleted articles should still be accessible: Wikipedia:Perennial proposals#Deleted pages should be visible Wikipedia:Village pump (proposals)/Persistent proposals/Straw poll for view-deleted - proposal, September 2008, that at least some editors should be able to view some types of deleted pages, other than admins Wikipedia:Viewing of deleted articles by non-administrators (historical) Wikipedia:Experimental Deletion (inactive) Wikipedia:Pure wiki deletion system (dormant) Other: Wikipedia:Article Rescue Squadron Wikipedia undelete (user script) – lists versions of a deleted article that are available at archive.org, plus information on why an article was deleted User:Lenticel/Deletion isn't Evil (essay) User:Mailer diablo/The Mailer Diablo Deletion Project Wikipedia:Transparent deletion (essay) Wikipedia:AFD 100 days – June–September 2005 computer-assisted evaluation Age of Wikipedia articles at the time of deletion – data for November 2005, February 2006, and September 2007 User:Emijrp/Statistics#Most deleted ever User:Emijrp/Deleting – statistics, January 2005 to September 2007 Deletionist: see m:Deletionism Diagrams: see Graphics Dictionary: Wikipedia:Wikipedia is not a dictionary (policy) For Wiktionary, see also wikt:Main Page Another alternative: Urban Dictionary WikiLook – Firefox add-on that provides Wiktionary information about any word on a screen, when specially selected (shift or highlight plus mouse move) Diff: see History (of a page) Dimensions: see Units of measurement Directories: (see also Indexes) Wikipedia:Department directory Wikipedia:Quick directory Wikipedia:Requests Special:Specialpages – a list of special pages that are automatically generated and cannot be edited User:Thunderhead/Bookmarks Wikipedia:TourBusStop "Toolsets": Wikipedia:Starter toolset Category:Wikipedia users' toolsets Template:UsefulLinks For readers more than for editors, but still useful: Portal:Contents 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 Template:Other uses Wikipedia:HATTEST List of pages: Wikipedia:Links to (disambiguation) pages – list of page with "(disambiguation)" in title Wikipedia:Links to disambiguating pages – list of pages marked as disambiguation pages Wikipedia:Multiple-place names – index of disambiguation pages involving places Wikipedia:Non-unique personal name – where Wikipedia has references to two or more persons with the same name Problems: Wikipedia:Disambiguation pages with links Wikipedia:Disambiguation pages with links/Maintenance Tools: User:Anomie/linkclassifier.js – User script that changes the color of the wikilink to an article when that article is a redirect or disambiguation page or has been proposed for deletion at AfD Wikipedia:WikiProject Disambiguation/fixer – CorHomo, downloadable program (pseudo-browser) (Linux only) User:NicoV/Wikipedia Cleaner/Documentation – requires Java (version 6 recommended) Bots: User:Polbot – removes piped linking on disambiguation pages (function #5) User:Commander Keane bot – automated bot for disambiguation User:RussBot – automated bot for disambiguation Templates: mw:MediaWiki:Disambiguationspage – list of templates that categorize disambiguation pages as such (e.g., {{Geodis}}) Category:Disambiguation and redirection templates Other: Wikipedia:WikiProject Disambiguation Wikipedia:Disambiguation pages aren't articles (essay) – that they are, in most cases, treated like article pages is a posted bug – see bugzilla:6754, 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, Enforcement, Personal attacks) Wikipedia:Disruptive editing Wikipedia:Tendentious editing (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:Wikipedia is not therapy (essay) Wikipedia:Don't feed the divas (essay) Wikipedia:User RFC reform (inactive/historical) Downloading all of Wikipedia: (see also Mobile access, Queries (database); for downloading individual pages, see Exporting (a page)) Pre-packaged: June 2006 ("official" version) Wikipedia:TomeRaider database Most recent version – £3.00 requested payment; includes £1 donation to the Wikipedia Foundation [sic] Slightly older English version (free) Wikipedia-iphone – complete download for iPhone or iPod Touch Infodisiac downloads (for Windows Mobile/Pocket PC, regular Windows O/S, and Palm) Webaroo – download of all Wikipedia articles as a set of web pages, for off-line reading (not recommended – horribly out-of-date) Do-it-yourself: Wikipedia:Database download Wikimedia Downloads – four types of downloads (was known as "Wikimedia dump service") Wikipedia Static HTML Dumps Wikipedia:FAQ/Forking – downloading all of Wikipedia plus the WikimMedia software to run it Freebase Wikipedia Extraction (WEX) – processed dump of Wikipedia, with machine-readable XML and tabular extracts of relational features Building a (fast) Wikipedia offline reader Dbpedia downloads – structured information extracted from Wikipedia Screencast: "How to install Wikipedia on your iPod Touch or iPhone!", February 8, 2008 E Edit conflicts: Help:Edit conflict – when two editors simultaneously edit the same page or section Using an edit lock to prevent edit conflict: Wikipedia:Edit lock (guideline) – asking other editors to let you do major edits undisturbed Template:In use/doc bugzilla:1510 – Bug #1510 – provide "edit warning" for pages when someone else has just started editing (software change proposal) bugzilla:4745 – Bug #4745 – section edit conflict expands edit box to entire article – proposal to change MediaWiki software behavior when edit conflict involves only a section of a page Edit summary: Help:Edit summary Wikipedia:Edit summary legend – commonly used abbreviations Wikipedia:Edit summary legend/Quick reference Wikipedia:Automatic edit summaries Special:Preferences#prefsection-5 – has option for a prompt (message) when "save" is clicked but edit summary is blank Wikipedia:WikiProject User scripts/Scripts/Force edit summary alternative – flashes a summary box rather than displaying a message that no edit summary was entered bugzilla:10105 – Bug #10105 – Allow editing of edit summaries after the fact Wikipedia:Perennial proposals#Automatically prompt for missing edit summary Edit wars: see Content disputes Editing: see Edits (in general) Editing interface (see also Browsers, Usability, User interface) Tweaking the standard Wikipedia text editing window: see Edits (in general) mw:Markup spec/ANTLR – general specifications for existing markup syntax User:Magnus Manske/less edit clutter.js – interface change, via javascript, that puts references in a separate edit box (screenshot, mailing list discusion) mw:Extension:Uniwiki Generic Edit Page - extension that replaces the default editing page of Mediawiki with a section-based editor (unimplemented) Using an external editor: Wikipedia:Text editor support Help:External editors Wikipedia:WikiProject User scripts/Scripts/External editor – adds a tab to easily invoke an external editor Wikipedia:MozEx tutorial – how to use the MozEx extension of Mozilla and Mozilla Firefox to select a page editor Wikipedia:Wikipedia-mode.el – Emacs Eclipse Wikipedia Editor at SourceForge.net WYSIWYG: mw:WYSIWYG editor Possible candidates: CKEditor (formerly "FCKeditor"): FCKeditor integration guide mw:Extension:FCKeditor (Official) Demo site of the MediaWiki+FCKeditor project Wikiwyg: Demo of Wikiwyg for Wikipedia mw:Extension:Wikiwyg Editor review: Wikipedia:Editor review – to request a review of one's editing Editors: see Wikipedia as a community Edits (in general) (see also Edit summary, Editing software, Formatting of text, Help, New articles, New editors, Page revisions, 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 Modifying: 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 Custom edit buttons (information at Wikia, which uses the MediaWiki software that Wikipedia also uses) Help:Editing FAQ User:Uncle G/Wikipedia triage – a guide to "What to do" with problematical articles (nice categorization) Wikipedia:Basic copyediting Wikipedia:FAQ/Contributing Wikipedia:FAQ/Editing Wikipedia:Be bold Wikipedia:Annotated article – an annotated article that explains various editing decisions, using a sample article Wikipedia:Patent nonsense (guideline) – what to do with not-understandable content in an article m:Help:Dummy edit – generally for the purpose of posting an edit summary Category:Wikipedia editing Enhancements for edit mode: User:Zocky/Search Box – search and replace mw:Extension:Drafts – adds the ability to save a draft of the edit of a page, on the server, while editing; also automatically saves edits in progress every 120 seconds Elections (articles on): Wikipedia:Articles on elections Wikipedia:Candidates and elections (inactive) Email: Help:Email confirmation Wikipedia:E-mailing 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 – information on formal and informal reviews of the overall quality of Wikipedia articles, done by outside experts, not initiated within Wikipedia Wikipedia:Size comparisons Wikipedia:Wikipedia is a work in progress (WP:WIP) (essay) Wikipedia: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, Protection of pages) General: Wikipedia:List of policies#Enforcing policies: what action authorized editors can take to enforce other policies Wikipedia:General sanctions Wikipedia:Requests for administrator attention – a directory of places to request administrator help Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard (WP:AN) Wikipedia:Confidential evidence (inactive proposal) Blocks: (see also Access (limiting)) Wikipedia:Blocking policy (WP:BLOCK) Wikipedia:New admin school/Blocking Wikipedia:Admins willing to make difficult blocks Category:Wikipedia blocking Category:User block templates Special:Log/block – log of blocks Wikipedia:Autoblock Wikipedia talk:Per-article blocking – 2005 proposal; generally supported by community, not considered critical by developers User:Emijrp/Blocking – statistics, December 2004 to September 2007 Blocking IP addresses: Wikipedia:Blocking IP addresses Wikipedia:IP block exemption (policy) mw:Help:Range blocks Template:Schoolblock Special:Ipblocklist – List of currently blocked IP addresses and usernames (searchable) m:Global blocking – new extension; implemented August 2008 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 Bans: Wikipedia:Banning policy Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/Community sanction – forum to discuss community bans (began January 2007, ended October 2007) Wikipedia:List of banned users Other: Wikipedia:Editing restrictions Article probation: Category:Articles on probation Esperanza: Wikipedia:Esperanza – a group of Wikipedia editors "dedicated to strengthening Wikipedia's sense of community"; created in September 2005, disbanded in January 2007 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:Articles needing expert attention Wikipedia:Expert rebellion Wikipedia:WikiProject Expert Request Sorting – changes the general "expert-needed" category in articles to more specific subcategories Exporting (a page): (see also Downloading all of Wikipedia, Collections (books)) Help:Export Special:Export mw:Manual:Parameters to Special:Export PDF: mw:Extension:PDF Writer WikiPDF Wikipedia:Books#Resources Mediawiki2pdf (shows sample Wikibooks url, but reportedly works for Wikipedia articles as well] March 2008 analysis of options for Wikipedia's servers – by Brion Vibber, Wikipedia's chief developer m:Alternative parsers – programs and projects to translate MediaWiki's text markup syntax into something else, such as HTML Wikipedia:Wiki Markup Language (WKML) (historical) Extensions: see MediaWiki External links: see Sources, URLs F FAQs – see Help pages, or specific topics in this index Featured content: (see also Valued content) Wikipedia:New featured content Portal:Featured content Category: Wikipedia featured content User:Rick Bot – bot that maintains various lists of featured content and featured content nominators Articles: (see also Good articles, Main Page) Wikipedia:Featured articles (WP:FA) Wikipedia:Featured article criteria Wikipedia:Featured article candidates Wikipedia:Featured article review Wikipedia:Today's featured article – history of what have been Main Page articles Wikipedia:Featured article statistics Dispatches: History of the featured article process (Signpost article, July 2008) Wikipedia:Compare Criteria Good v. Featured User:Feature Historian – sortable table of articles that are or were FAs Advice on writing a FA: User:Yannismarou/Ten rules to make an article FA (related Signpost tutorial) User:Giano/A fool's guide to writing a featured article User:Dweller/Dweller, on Featured Article Candidates User:Tony1/How to improve your writing Wikipedia:Featured Article Help Desk (inactive) Increasing the number of FAs: Wikipedia:One featured article per quarter – an informal project Wikipedia:100,000 feature-quality articles (essay) Wikipedia:Article Collaboration and Improvement Drive Wikipedia:Stabilizing featured articles (inactive/historical) Featured articles in other language versions of Wikipedia: Wikipedia:Featured articles in other languages Category:Wikipedia featured articles in other languages Bots that add the template {{Link FA}} to articles that are featured in another Wikipedia (the template puts a gold star by the interlanguage link): User:Muro Bot User:LinkFA-Bot Topics: Wikipedia:Featured topics – a collection of inter-related articles that are of a good quality Dispatches: Featured topics – Signpost article, September 2008 Other: Random Featured article Wikipedia:List of Wikipedians by featured article nominations Featured content other than articles: Lists: Wikipedia:Featured lists Wikipedia:List of Wikipedians by featured list nominations Pictures: Wikipedia:Featured pictures Dispatches: Reviewing featured picture candidates (Signpost article, January 2009) Portals: Portal:Featured portals Sounds: Portal:Featured sounds Dispatches: "Featured sounds" (Signpost article, May 2008) Dispatches: "Hundredth Featured sound approaches" (Signpost article, February 2009) Fiction: (see also Films) Wikipedia:Manual of Style (writing about fiction) Wikipedia:Notability (fiction) (guideline) Wikipedia:Television episodes (guideline) Wikipedia:Manual of Style (anime- and manga-related articles) Wikipedia:WikiProject Video games 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 (icons) Wikipedia:WikiProject Flag Template Footnotes: see Sources Form (as input): Help:Inputbox (a MediaWiki extension to add predefined HTML forms to wiki pages) Formatting of text: (see also Exporting (a page)) How to: Wikipedia:Manual of Style (text formatting) – bold, italics, underlines, etc. Help:Editing#Wiki markup Help:Wiki markup m:Help:Reference card – one page summary of important MediaWiki editing commands, intended to be printed out Help:HTML in wikitext Wikipedia:Tutorial/Formatting Quick reference guides: Wikipedia:Cheatsheet Short, printable "cheatsheet" on Wikimedia Commons Wikipedia:Manual of Style (command-line examples) – for articles on computer science, how to format words that an editor would type Colors: Help:Using colours (Manual of Style) User:Trödel/Color chart (8-bit) Wikipedia:WikiProject Color Line breaks and word wrapping: Wikipedia:Don't use line breaks (Manual of Style) Wikipedia:Line break handling Help:Newlines and spaces Other: Wikipedia:Manual of Style (titles) – scientific names, titles of books, etc. Wikipedia:SUBTITLES (inactive proposal) Discussion of MediaWiki's syntax: 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 Wikipedia:April Fool's Main Page 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 Wikipedia:Global rights policy Types: Administrators: q.v. Bureaucrats: q.v. Checkusers: q.v. Clerks: Wikipedia:Arbitration Committee/Clerks For usurpations: March 1, 2007 description Oversight: q.v. Stewards – the top-level administrative folks (note: stewards are selected via Meta rather than individual projects such as the English Wikipedia) m:Stewards m:Steward handbook Wikipedia:Review Board (proposal as of December 2008) – panel of editors for independent review and monitoring of checkuser and oversight access and use, and to oversee the actions of the Arbitration Committee G Gadgets: (new tab, as of December 2007, on the "My preferences" page) mw:Extension:Gadgets- a way for editors to pick JavaScript or CSS based "gadgets" that other Wikipedia editors have created, via "my preferences" (implemented December 2007) mw:Gadgets-definition Special:Gadgets – shows underlying scripts and CSS code used for each gadget Wikipedia:Gadget (WP:GADGET) – lists the available gadgets on Wikipedia Galleries (see also Images) Wikipedia:What Wikipedia is not#Wikipedia is not a free web host Wikipedia:Image use policy#Image galleries Wikipedia:Picture tutorial #Galleries Wikipedia:Gallery tag Wikipedia:Gallery pages (failed proposal) Games: see Fun (for games within Wikipedia), Video games General disclaimer: Wikipedia:General disclaimer Geocoding (graphic coordinates and mapping): (see also Maps) Wikipedia:Obtaining geographic coordinates Wikipedia:WikiProject Geographical coordinates Geo microformat Wikipedia-World – international co-ordination page for the multilingual usage and analysis of the geographical data collected in various projects GeoPedia – provides iPhone owners with a Wikipedia feed customized to their current location Mapping articles: Placeopedia – connects Wikipedia articles with places Google: Google Maps has an option, under "More", to place markers showing Wikipedia articles About the Google Earth Geographic Web Layer Gifs: Wikipedia:Image use policy#Animated images bugzilla:16451 – Bug # 16451 – GIF scaling limit should be applied to animated GIFs only Glossaries: For terms used by Wikipedia editors, see Terms and terminology For glossaries that are articles (content), see Portal:Contents/List of glossaries Wikipedia:WikiProject Glossaries Good articles: (see also Featured articles) Wikipedia:Good articles – the list Wikipedia: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 Random Good article Good faith: see Personal attacks Google: Google Earth: see Maps Google test: see Search engine test Wikipedia:Google Web Accelerator – the accelerator should be disabled for the wikipedia.org domain m:Mirror filter – Firefox extension which removes sites which mirror Wikimedia content from Google search results The page where Google gets its description of Wikipedia – at dmoz.org {{Google templates}} - a list of templates that generate links to various Google services (e.g. search, custom search, image search, language translation) Wikipedia:Purging Google search results (WP:GOOGLEPURGE) - how to remove vandalism, etc., from cached copies of Wikipedia articles in Google search results Gothic: Wikipedia:Gothic Keyboarding Help:Fonts#Gothic Unicode Fonts Graphics (see also Images) Wikipedia:Graphics tutorials Help:Displaying a formula – markup Wikipedia:ASCII art conversion tool Wikipedia:Chemical ASCII-art Wikipedia:How to create graphs for Wikipedia articles Wikipedia:Graphic Lab (aka "Graphics Lab") Diagrams: Greenspun Illustration Project: Grant proposal (pdf) m:Philip Greenspun illustration project August 2008 announcement that Round 1 of the PGIP is open Wikipedia:How to draw a diagram with Dia Wikipedia:How to draw a diagram with Microsoft Word Other: mw:Extension:GraphViz Greek: Wikipedia:Naming conventions (Greek) (guideline) Guestbooks: see User pages Guidelines: see Policies and guidelines H Hardware: see Technical (hardware and software) Harassment (aka "Harassment"): see Personal attacks Harmony: Wikipedia:Harmonious editing club hCalendar microformat Wikipedia:WikiProject Microformats hCard microformat Wikipedia:WikiProject Microformats Hebrew: Help:Hebrew Wikipedia:Naming conventions (Hebrew) (guideline) Category:Wikipedia Hebrew templates Help (directly requesting): (see also Questions) Template:Help me Category:Wikipedians looking for help Template:Admin help Category:Wikipedians looking for help from administrators Wikipedia:Help desk (WP:HD) Wikipedia:Highly Active Users (WP:HAU) – request editing help from users who are currently online Help pages: (for pages that are help-oriented for a specific topic, see that topic); see also Assistance (disputes), Learning, Questions Help:Contents – help directory Wikipedia:Help Page Patrol Frequently asked questions: Wikipedia:FAQ – includes 13 "general" FAQs Nubio – "a repository of Frequently Asked Questions about Wikipedia" Wikipedia:Village pump (technical)/FAQ Categorized pages: Category:Wikipedia help Category:Wikipedia basic information Category:Wikipedia FAQ Category:Wikipedia how-to Other: Helpwiki – planned merger back into Wikipedia (February 2008) Hieroglyphs: Help:WikiHiero syntax History (of a page): Wikipedia:How to read an article history Help:Page history Wikipedia:Copyright violations on history pages Wikipedia:WikiProject User scripts/Scripts/HistoryCount – user script that specifies the number of history entries on the history tab (without the script, 50 entries are shown when the tab is opened) Wikipedia:WikiProject User scripts/Scripts/Six tabs – adds a history tab (and an edit tab) for the page that is paired with the page that is visible Diffs: Help:Diff How-to guides: Wikipedia:Simplest diff guide Wikipedia:Simple diff and link guide Wikipedia:Complete diff and link guide Wikipedia:WikiProject User scripts/Scripts/Compare link – makes the "compare selected versions" button into a link (diffs can be in new windows, tabs, etc.) Wikipedia:WikiProject User scripts/Scripts/Changes since I last edited – adds a tab that does a diff between the editor's last edit and the current version of a page Enhancing the differences in diffs: MediaWiki talk:Monobook.css/Archive 4#Better rendering for .diffchange in diff's... User:Cacycle/wikEdDiff – user script – additions and deletions are highlighted by color in one continuous text User:Js/diffs – another, different user script Exporting: Special:Export Deletions (hiding) of prior versions: Wikipedia:Selective deletion – deletion by an admin; still visible to other admins Oversight – hidden from admins as well Tools: For content: User:Stevage/EnhanceHistory.user.js – Collapses consecutive edits from the same person into one, integrates (shows) diffs on the history page Who did what: WikiBlame – searches for given text in versions of article User:AmiDaniel/WhodunitQuery – Windows application that identifies the edit and user who added a specific word or phrase Tools that use the database (not real time): m:User:Jah/histfilter – Filters out reverted vandal edits, versions that don't affect a specific section, etc. "wikipedia blame": October 2008 blog posting and 1450 articles processed using the code For counts and major contributors: WikiDashboard – when going to a new page, puts a count of top editors, and a histogram of edit activity, at the top of the page (Quick Guide) Revision counter – 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 WikiChecker Article Contribution Counter (beta) – tool that identifies major contributors to an article (a similar feature request is at bugzilla:7988) Other: User:AmiDaniel/SHM – Simple History Merge – Windows application (requires administrator privileges) History Flow Visualization Application Wikipedia Animate – user script; shows the evolution of a page, like a webcast MediaWiki:Histlegend – text that appears at the top of a history page WikiStalk - finds pages that have been edited by two or more specific users Hoaxes: Wikipedia:Do not create hoaxes (guideline) Category:Suspected hoax articles Wikipedia:List of hoaxes on Wikipedia – notable hoaxes House of Representatives (edits by staffers): see Congressional staffer edits How-to: Category:Wikipedia how-to (see also Help pages) Humor: Category:Wikipedia humor I Images: (see also Censorship, Commons, Copyrights, Galleries, Graphics, Navigation) General information: Help:File page Help:Files Wikipedia:Contact us/Photo submission – for individuals with biographies, or someone representing such an individual Wikipedia:Image use policy Wikipedia:Media Wikipedia:No 3D illustrations (Manual of Style) Wikipedia:Picture tutorial Wikipedia:Ten things you may not know about images on Wikipedia Wikipedia:WikiProject Images and Media Category:Wikipedia image help User:Smurrayinchester/Tutorial/Images Needed pictures: Wikipedia:Image placeholders – inserting a request for an image into an article Wikipedia:Requested pictures Wikipedia:Photo Matching Service Category:Wikipedia requested photographs Template:Image requested User:PhotoCatBot does some subcategorization Resources (where to get images) (see also Commons) Wikipedia:Finding images tutorial Wikipedia:Public domain image resources Wikipedia:Free image resources Wikipedia:Wikipedians/Photographers Wikipedia:Photo Matching Service Free Image Search Tool Before uploading: Wikipedia:Preparing images for upload Wikipedia:How to improve image quality Wikipedia:How to reduce colors for saving a JPEG as PNG Wikipedia:Basic bitmap image editing Uploading: (see also Commons) 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:File copyright tags Special:Upload Choosing a License – explanations of what the various Creative Commons options are Displaying on a page: Wikipedia:Manual of Style#Images Wikipedia:Extended image syntax – options for displaying an image (size, right/left, etc.) Captions: [[Wikipedia:Manual of Style (captions) Wikipedia:Alternative text for images (Manual of Style) Wikipedia:WikiProject Writing Captions (inactive) Wikipedia:How to fix bunched-up edit links – if section edit links are being pushed down by floated images Help:File page Featured and valued: Wikipedia:Featured pictures Wikipedia:Featured picture criteria Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates Wikipedia:Valued pictures Improving images: Wikipedia:Graphic Lab (to request assistance) commons:Commons:Media restoration "Dispatches: Vintage image restoration" (Signpost, March 2008) commons:User:Durova/Encyclopedic image restoration Problem images on Wikipedia: (other than Copyrights) Deletion: Wikipedia:Image use policy#Deleting images Wikipedia:Guide to image deletion Wikipedia:Files for deletion Orphans: Category:Orphaned non-free use Wikipedia files Special:Unusedimages Young Orphans – tool to find newly uploaded orphaned images (not functioning as of mid-October 2007) Special:FileDuplicateSearch – search function for duplicate files in imagespace (duplicate images) (uses hash values) Automation: Bots: User:ImageTaggingBot – inspects newly-uploaded images for ones lacking source information, a license tag, or a fair-use rationale if one is needed; tags as necessary User:STBotI – tags images for relatively speedy deletion User:BJBot – tags orphaned images as such; notifies originator of problem User:ImageRemovalBot – removes images links from articles after an image has been deleted User:OrphanBot – removes links to problematical images, from articles, so administrators can delete the images User:Erwin85Bot – removes Template:Di-orphaned fair use from pages that are not orphans User:ImageBacklogBot – removes fair use images from outside of article space, removes tags from non-orphaned images User:John Bot II – tags images that lack adequate copyright information User:FairuseBot – does tagging of problematic fairuse images Other: User:Howcheng/quickimgdelete.js – makes it easier to tag images and nominate images for deletion LicenseToKill at SourceForge.net – Windows application that helps with image deletion tasks, including easy deletion of multiple files within a category or from a list WikiProjects: Wikipedia:WikiProject Photography Wikipedia:WikiProject Images and Media Other: (see also Commons regarding moving images from Wikipedia to Commons) Wikipedia:Template messages/File namespace Special:Newimages ("Gallery of new files") – images that have just been added to Wikipedia Special:ListFiles – most recently uploaded files Help:Options to not see an image – includes CSS modification to prevent display of images on specified pages Template:External media – If an image or other media is available online, but cannot be uploaded to Wikipedia or the Commons, this template provides a referenced direct link Special:Filepath – provides a URL to link directly to the current version of an image bugzilla:7757 – Bug #7757 – allow cropping images when rendered – proposal to enable display of only part of an image Importing: (see also Tables) Wikipedia:How to import articles Microsoft Word documents: Help:WordToWiki m:Word Macros Porting PDF files to MediaWiki (from Appropedia.org) Wikipedia:Tools#Importing (converting) content from other formats to Wikipedia (MediaWiki) format – includes tools for converting Microsoft Word, Microsoft Excel, OpenOffice, HTML, LaTeX, and BibTeX information to the Wikipedia format m:Help:Import – sysop-only import; disabled on the English Wikipedia project (related: user group "import") Inclusion: Wikipedia:Inclusion is not an indicator of notability (essay) Indexes: (see also Directories) Of any namespace in Wikipedia: Special:Allpages – select a starting point for browsing Of articles only: Portal:Contents/A–Z index – click on a one-or-two character starting point to browse articles (formerly called "Quick index") Portal:Contents/Categories Of project (information/instructional) pages (other than this index itself): Wikipedia:Index Other: m:Help-style indexing – uses keywords Indian subcontinent: Wikipedia:Naming conventions (Indic) (proposal as of June 2008) 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 Infoboxes: (templates): Help:Infobox Wikipedia:Manual of Style (infoboxes) Category:Infobox templates Wikipedia:WikiProject Infoboxes Specialized: Wikipedia:Chemical infobox Taxonomy: Template:Taxobox/doc Wikipedia:How to read a taxobox Other: Wikipedia:WikiProject Accessibility/Infobox accessibility User:SmackBot – puts birth dates and death dates into standard formats inside infoboxes Inserting text from one page into another page – see Transclusion Instruction creep: see Policies and guidelines Instructional material: see Learning Interlanguage links: (see also Interwiki links, Translations) Help:Interlanguage links m:A newer look at the interlanguage link – essay about establishing a wiki as a hub for interwiki links Wikipedia:WikiProject Interlanguage Links Internet Relay Chat (IRC): Wikipedia:IRC 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/Personal views regarding IRC – regarding use of the admin IRC channel User:Chris G Bot 3 – IRC users can message the bot when they want the bot to set their status to online or offline Essays: User:Geogre/IRC considered (essay) Category:User essays on IRC Interwiki links: (see also Interlanguage links, Transwiki) Wikipedia:Wikimedia sister projects (Manual of Style) – templates for links Help:Interwiki linking Help:InterWikimedia links m:Interwiki map (links to non-WMF wikis) Wikipedia:Linking to other wikis (proposal, February 2008) Help:Custom namespaces – prefixes (like m:) that normally resolve into an interwiki Bots to fix problems: User:COBot User:JL-Bot IP lookup: see Vandalism Ireland: Wikipedia:Manual of Style (Ireland-related articles) [Help:IPA for Irish]] Portal:Ireland ISBN: see Books Islam: Wikipedia:Manual of Style (Islam-related articles) J Japan/Japanese: Wikipedia:Manual of Style (Japan-related articles) Help:Japanese Help:Japanese/Editing Portal:Japan Help:Multilingual support (East Asian) K 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) L 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) LaTex: mw:Extension:WikiTeX (WikiTeX is a modular system for incorporating LaTeX objects with MediaWiki output) m:Wikitex usability review Layout and sections: (see also Table of contents) (for layout of the standard Wikipedia page, see Customization) Wikipedia:Manual of Style (layout) Help:Section Wikipedia:Manual of Style#Article titles, headings, and sections Wikipedia:How to fix bunched-up edit links Lead section (aka "Top section", "First section", "Lead paragraph") Wikipedia:Manual of Style (lead section) Wikipedia:Writing better articles#Lead section Wikipedia:WikiProject Introductions Wikipedia:WikiProject Lead section cleanup Wikipedia:WikiProject User scripts/Scripts#Navigating to Edit page – several user scripts which make it possible to edit the lead section (section "0") without editing the entire article Summary style (when articles or sections get too long) – see Article size Wikipedia:Be bold#Graphical layout changes (guideline) – does not apply to articles, portals, or most other pages User:Anchor Link Bot – automatically adds a comment to section headers that are linked to from other articles Lead section: see Layout and sections Learning: (see also Help, Questions) Wikipedia:Learning the ropes Tutorials: Wikipedia:Tutorial Wikipedia:Tutorial Drive Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/Tutorial series (2008) Coaching: Wikipedia:Coaching Wikipedia:Adopt-a-user (WP:ADOPT) Wikipedia:Editor review (WP:ER) Wikipedia:Admin coaching (WP:ADCO) Classes: User:Fox/Virtual classroom User:Brusselsshrek/Wiki School – dormant Other: Wikipedia:Instructional material Wikipedia:Lectures Books: Formally published: Wikipedia: The Missing Manual – published January 2008. ISBN 978-0596515164 (online: WP:TMM) How Wikipedia Works – published September 2008. ISBN 978-1593271763 MediaWiki Administrators' Tutorial Guide: Install, manage, and customize your MediaWiki installation – published March 2007. ISBN 978-1904811596 Wikibooks: b:MediaWiki User Guide b:MediaWiki Administrator's Handbook m:Wikipedia Trainers – program started in June 2008 by the Wikimedia Foundation Legal: (see also Copyrights, Disclaimers, Privacy) Threats: Wikipedia:No legal threats (WP:NLT) (policy) – among other things, an editor who makes a legal threat is to refrain from further editing Wikipedia:Don't overlook legal threats (essay) Wikipedia:Manual of Style (legal) Wikipedia:Perennial proposals#Legal issues Wikipedia:List of policies#Legal and copyright: law-based rules about what material may be used in Wikipedia, and remedies for misuse Wikipedia:Contact us/Article problem/Factual error (from subject) – contacting Wikipedia when an individual has a problem with an article about that person or about someone that person represents Wikipedia:Contact us/Article problem/Factual error (from enterprise) – similarly, with an enterprise Wikipedia:Office actions (WP:OFFICE) (policy) – sometimes Wikimedia Foundation representatives bypass normal procedures because of legal issues Wikipedia:Logos (guideline) Wikipedia:Image use policy Wikipedia:Libel (WP:LIBEL) (policy) Links: see Sources (for external links), Wikilinks (for links between wiki articles) Lists: Wikipedia:WikiProject Lists Wikipedia:Template messages/Lists Lists as part of an article: Help:List Wikipedia:Manual of Style (embedded lists) Wikipedia:Manual of Style (lists of works) Wikipedia:Pro and con lists (guideline) Wikipedia:Language order poll Lists that are the sole content of article: Wikipedia:Manual of Style (lists) Wikipedia:Manual of Style (stand-alone lists) Wikipedia:Naming conventions (long lists) (guideline) Wikipedia:Categories, lists, and navigation templates (WP:CLN) (guideline) – comparing alternative approaches Featured lists: Wikipedia:Featured lists Wikipedia:List of Wikipedians by featured list nominations User:Rick Bot – bot that maintains the list of nominators Wikipedia:Requested lists Wikipedia:Move navigational lists to portal namespace (failed proposal) Wikipedia:Lists in Wikipedia (essay) Special:Prefixindex/List_of – reportedly about 50,000 articles (lists) Problems: Wikipedia:WikiProject Lists#Incomplete lists Wikipedia:Listcruft (essay) Wikipedia:Victim lists (essay) Other: 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: (see also User account and username) Help:Logging in Wikipedia:Contact us/login problems mw:Extension:OpenID – lets users log in with an OpenID Security: Wikipedia:Security (essay) Wikipedia:Personal security practices (essay) Secure login m:Don't leave your fly open (essay) Template:User committed identity – preventive action to enable regaining control of a hijacked account (story) 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:Wikipedia logos Wikipedia:FAQ/Miscellaneous#Can you tell me anything about the Wikipedia logo? m:Errors in the Wikipedia logo Lyrics: Wikipedia:Lyrics and poetry (guideline) M Magic: Help:Magic Magic words: Help:Magic words mw:Help:Extension:ParserFunctions mw:Markup spec/BNF/Magic links Qif: Wikipedia:Conditional tables Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Template:Qif (May 2006) Mailing lists: (see also News (about Wikipedia)) Wikimedia Mail Stats: Index] – statistics on all Wikimedia Foundation mailing lists Main page: (see also Protection of pages) Main Page Wikipedia:Editing the main page (only admins can edit) Wikipedia:Main Page/Errors Wikipedia:Main Page alternatives – customizing how the main page appears to you Category:Main Page alternatives Wikipedia:FAQ/Main Page Sections: Featured Article: Wikipedia:Today's featured article Dispatches: Main page day – Signpost article about when what editors should expect when/if their Featured Article is on the Main Page Daily-article-l mailing list subscription page – get an extract of the Main Page article via email "Dispatches: Choosing Today's Featured Article", Signpost, August 2008 Wikipedia:Main page featured article stability (inactive/historical) News: Wikipedia:In the news (ITN) (section on the Main Page) Wikipedia:In the news/Candidates Wikipedia:In the news/Recurring items (guideline) Template:In the news "Dispatches: In the news" (Signpost article, January 2009) "Did you know" (DYK): Wikipedia:Did you know User talk:Dark jedi requiem/DYK tutorial RSS feed Category:Wikipedia Did you know Wikipedia:Recent additions – old postings to the section Category:Wikipedia Did you know contributors Other: Wikipedia:2008 main page redesign proposal Maintenance: (see also Quality of articles, Spelling) General: Wikipedia:Maintenance Wikipedia:Cleanup Wikipedia:Cleanup resources (WP:CR) Wikipedia:WikiGnome Problems: Category:Wikipedia maintenance Category:Wikipedia backlog Wikipedia:Pages needing attention – sorted by topic Category:Cleanup by month Wikipedia:Community portal/Opentask – pages that need wikification, cleanup, expansion (of stubs), verification, updates, etc. Template:Multiple issues – includes a listing of all types of templates that can be used to note issues with articles User:Topbanana/Reports – old reports; useful for ideas Projects: In general: Wikipedia:WikiProject Council/Directory/Wikipedia (page showing active and inactive projects involving maintenance) Template:Active Wiki Fixup Projects Wikipedia:Patrols Cross-cutting maintenance projects not listed elsewhere in this index: Wikipedia:Cleanup Taskforce Wikipedia:WikiProject Guild of Copy Editors Wikipedia:WikiProject Wiki Syntax Wikipedia:WikiProject Wikify Wikipedia:Elements of Style improvement project Wikipedia:WikiProject Fix common mistakes Other: Special:AncientPages – December 2006 listing of the 1000 articles with the longest elapsed time since the last edit Wikipedia:Dusty articles – April 2008 listing of the 100 articles with the longest elapsed time since the last edit (March 2008 database) Wikipedia:WikiProject Abandoned Articles Manual of Style: Wikipedia:Manual of Style Special:Prefixindex/MOS: – lists all redirects in the pseudo-namespace "MOS:" Maps: (see also Geocoding) m:Maps m:Wikimaps Wikipedia:Blank maps – maps that can be colored and labeled in different languages Wikipedia:WikiProject Maps Wikipedia:WikiProject Maps/Source materials Wikipedia:Graphic Lab/Map workshop Commons:Commons:Project Mapmaking Wiki Standards Wikipedia:Producing maps with xplanet Wikipedia:WikiProject OpenStreetMap Category:Wikipedia requested maps Template:Coord – produces a link to a list of map sources, based on the geographical coordinates and other parameters m:WikiMiniAtlas – JavaScript plugin to display a GoogleMaps-like draggable, zoomable, and clickable worldmap in geocoded Wikipedia articles Markup: see Formatting of text Mathematics: (see also Numbers) Wikipedia:Manual of Style (mathematics) Help:Calculation – simple mathematical calculations Wikipedia:Make technical articles understandable (guideline) mw:Extension:ASCIIMath4Wiki – tag that outputs math expressions written in ASCIIMath as MathML Blahtex – a free software tool/library that translates TeX markup into MathML markup Template:Frac (for fractions) Template:Formula links Wikipedia:Evaluating how interesting an integer's mathematical property is (essay) Portal:Mathematics Measurements: see Units of measurement Meat puppets: see policy on Sock puppets Media: (see also Copyright, Images, Music) Wikipedia:Media Wikipedia:Media help Wikipedia:Media help (MIDI) Wikipedia:Media help (Ogg) Wikipedia:Creation and usage of media files mw:Extension:OggHandler Ogg search – search of the Commons for specific audio and video streams Wikipedia:Requested recordings Category:Wikipedia requested audio Category:Wikipedians who take recording requests Wikipedia:Free sound resources Wikipedia:WikiProject Images and Media/Sound User:TheDJ/WikimediaPlayer Components for Mac users – downloads for playing Ogg Vorbis in iTunes or producing Ogg Theora with iMovie Mediation: Wikipedia:Mediation (policy) Informal:Wikipedia:Mediation Cabal Semi-formal:Wikipedia:Community enforceable mediation (inactive) Formal: Wikipedia:Requests for mediation Wikipedia:Mediation Committee MediaWiki: (see also specific topics pertaining to the software) MediaWiki – a web-based wiki software application used by all projects of the Wikimedia Foundation mw:Manual:FAQ mw:MediaWiki roadmap – features planned for future releases mw:Project:Support desk – place to ask questions (particularly for non-Wikipedia users of Mediawiki) Help:Testing mw:How to become a MediaWiki hacker Books: MediaWiki, October 2008 MediaWiki Administrators’ Tutorial Guide (March 2007) Extensions: m:Extending wiki markup m:MediaWiki extensions mw:Extension Matrix mw:Category:Extensions mw:Manual:Extensions Special:Version – lists which extensions are installed Handbook: For readers For editors For moderators For administrators Mediawiki namespace within Wikipedia projects: Help:MediaWiki namespace Wikipedia:MediaWiki messages Searching for information on MediaWiki: Search MediaWiki.org with Google Search Meta-Wiki with Google Other: User:Pyrospirit/Design the interface for newcomers Medical: Wikipedia:Medical disclaimer Wikipedia:Manual of Style (medicine-related articles) (guideline) 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 (WP:MM) Wikipedia:Proposed mergers Wikipedia:Integrate (essay) Category:Articles to be merged Wikipedia:Template messages/Merging and splitting Wikipedia:Mergers for discussion (failed proposal) Messages: (see also Internet Relay Chat (IRC), Messageboxes, Talk pages) Wikipedia:Canvassing – votestacking, campaigning, friendly notice, and forum shopping Wikipedia:E-mailing users Wikipedia:Template messages User:MelonBot – can post a standard message to the talk pages of a list of editors Messageboxes: Via MediaWiki: Wikipedia:Editnotice Via templates: Wikipedia:Template messages (all messageboxes are templates; not all templates are messageboxes) For template messageboxes at the top of articles, see Article message boxes (amboxes) For template messageboxes at the top of article talk pages, see Talk pages Meta: Wikipedia:Meta m:Meta:Babel – general and policy discussion page Microformats Wikipedia:WikiProject Microformats Minor edit: Help:Minor edit Mirrors: Wikipedia:Mirrors and forks – sites that use Wikipedia content Wikipedia:Standard license violation letter Miscellany for deletion: Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion – for deleting any page which is not covered by another deletion process (AfD, CfD, TfD, etc.) Missing articles: Wikipedia:Requested articles (WP:RA) Wikipedia:WikiProject Missing encyclopedic articles Wikipedia:Find-A-Grave famous people Red links (also q.v.): Wikipedia:Most wanted articles (WP:MWA) Wikipedia:Articles requested for more than a year Wikipedia:Topics where Wikipedia is weak (inactive) Category:Redirects with possibilities Wikipedia:Wikipedia:Articles for creation/Redirects – needed redirects for articles that have not been created yet User:Piotrus/Wikipedia interwiki and specialized knowledge test – estimates that Wikipedia should have about 400 million articles Mobile access: "iPhone Gems: Wikipedia Apps" – review of 16 apps for the iPhone or iPod touch (November 2008) Real-time version of Wikipedia: Wikipedia:Mobile access "Accessing Wikipedia via mobile devices", Signpost article, January 2009 Semi-experimental mobile portal (as of February 2008) Wapedia m:Mobile subdomain Wikipanion – Free iPhone/iPod app; searches using a fast, native interface; includes autosuggest, landscape mode, and large, readable text. Downloaded version of Wikipedia: Pocket Wikipedia – 24,000 images and 14 million words (for PocketPC, Windows and Linux machines) Encyclopodia – complete download, for Apple iPod Wikipedia-iphone – complete download for iPhone or iPod Touch WikiPock Screencast: "How to install Wikipedia on your iPod Touch or iPhone!", February 8, 2008 Other: GeoPedia – provides iPhone owners with a Wikipedia feed customized to their current location "Kiwi" client – for iPhone and iPod Moderator: see Administrator Money: Wikipedia:Manual of Style (dates and numbers)#Currencies Wikipedia:WikiProject Numismatics/Style (Manual of Style) Mongolian: Wikipedia:Naming conventions (Mongolian) Monitoring changes: (see also Recent changes) Watchlist Help:Watching pages – about watchlists User:Ais523/watchlistei.js – exporting and importing a watchlist Wikipedia:Copying watchlist to new username MediaWiki:Watcheditlist/Check all – to clear most or all of a checklist Import, export, and edit watchlists as text using the "View raw watchlist" option MediaWiki:Watchlist-details and MediaWiki talk:Watchlist-details – a notice displayed at the top of the Special:Watchlist page for all editors who view that page Wikipedia:Perennial proposals#Create a counter of people watching a page Real-time feeds: User:Lupin/Monitor my watchlist – realtime feed of pages on a watch – requires User:Lupin/Anti-vandal tool (a user script) User:Crazycomputers/WatchlistBot – editors using an XMPP service (such as Google talk), can have a separate watchlist that is updated in real time via IM, by subscribing to the service of this bot API (must be logged in or have "remember me" checked as login option) User:Jyotirmoyb/Watchlistfeed User:Ryos/Watchlist RSS feeder User:Adodge/WLWP (tested: NetNewsWire, Mac only) Wikipedia:WikiProject User scripts/Scripts#Watchlist / Recent Changes Customizing a watchlist (other than by using "my preferences"): Wikipedia:Added or removed characters – changing whether the watchlist shows or does not show the number of characters added or deleted by each edit User:Stevage/filterwatchlist.user.js – Removes various namespaces from watchlist display User talk:Alex Smotrov/wlunwatch.js – adds an "unwatch" link to each entry on a watchlist (uses AJAX) user:js/watchlist – multiple changes, including sorting by namespace and showing only edits since that last time the watchlist report was generated User:Quarl/watchlist.js – adds buttons to watchlist: "unwatch", "diff since" Alternatives to the standard watchlist (other than real-time feeds): User:Ais523/topcontrib.js – Color-codes your contributions page based on whether you have the top (most recent) contribution or not for each page edited Special:Recentchangeslinked/User:SpecifiedUsername/OptionalSpecifiedSubpage lists changes to all Wikipedia pages on the User:SpecifiedUsername/OptionalSpecifiedSubpage page, for example User:Tra#User watchlist – a watchlist report of edits made by the editors listed on a regular watchlist gWatch (Global Watchlist) – Watchlist for all Wikimedia wikis RSS (page-by-page specification): Wikipedia:Syndication m:Syndication feeds User:Blinklmc (historical: predates implementation of integrated RSS for Wikipedia) Other: User:Anomie/linkclassifier.js – User script that changes the color of the wikilink to an article when that article is a redirect or disambiguation page or has been proposed for deletion at AfD User:Ais523/catwatch.js – for monitoring changes to the pages that in a specified category Wikipedia:Hide Pages in Watchlist – User script that allows an editor to hide selected talk pages from watchlist reports Special:Unwatchedpages – pages not on anyone's watchlist [this special page is viewable only by admins] Motto: Wikipedia:Motto of the day "WikiProject Report: Motto of the Day" (Signpost article, January 2009) Movies: see Films Moving a page: (see also Disambiguation, Naming an article, Redirects) Help:Page name Wikipedia:Moving a page (WP:MOVE) Wikipedia:Requested moves – page for moves that require administrator assistance Wikipedia:Requested moves/Closing instructions Wikipedia:How to fix cut-and-paste moves Wikipedia:Cut and paste move repair holding pen MediaWiki:Movenotallowed MediaWiki:Movepage-moved – page that an editor sees after a successful move Music: (see also Media) Wikipedia:Manual of Style (music) Wikipedia:Notability (music) (guideline) Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Common outcomes#Music Wikipedia:Naming conventions (music) (guideline) Wikipedia:Manual of Style (music samples) Wikipedia:Manual of Style (record charts) Wikipedia:WikiProject Music Wikipedia:WikiProject Free music mw:Extension:AbcMusic – for typesetting music using the ABC notation Portal:Music Wikifm – a mashup of Last.fm and Wikipedia N Name (of a user): see User account and username Namespaces: Wikipedia:Namespace Query results – existing namespaces – also indicates which are allowed to have subpages m:Help:Namespace manager – for a future version of MediaWiki Links from articles to generally inappropriate namespaces such as "User" and "User talk": mw:Extension:CrossNamespaceLinks Wikipedia talk:Special:CrossNamespaceLinks Special:CrossNamespaceLinks Prefix namespaces (for redirects): Help:Custom namespaces – prefixes (like :m) that (normally) resolve into an interwiki but can resolve into external source Special:Prefixindex/XXX – can be used to find pseudo-namespaces (shortcuts) in mainspace (substitute "CAT" or "MOS" or whatever for "XXX") Wikipedia:Shortcut#List of prefixes – (pseudo-namespaces) Wikipedia:Cross-namespace redirects (essay) Naming a page: see Naming an article, New pages Naming an article: (see also Disambiguation, Moving a page, New pages) Wikipedia:Article titles (WP:NC) (policy) In general: Wikipedia:Manual of Style (abbreviations) Wikipedia:Naming conventions (use English) (guideline) Wikipedia:Naming conventions (capitalization) (guideline) Wikipedia:Naming conventions (plurals) (guideline) Wikipedia:Articles with slashes in title Wikipedia:Naming conventions (technical restrictions) (guideline) Specific topics: (see also elsewhere in this index) Wikipedia:Naming conventions (geographic names) (guideline) Wikipedia:Naming conventions (events) (guideline) Wikipedia:Naming conventions (fauna) (guideline) Wikipedia:WikiProject Tree of Life Other: Special:ProtectedTitles – page titles that are protected to prevent them from being created Navigation: (see also Lists) (for changing navigation by changing the location of links on the standard Wikipedia page, see Customization) Anchors: (between pages or within a page) Help:Link#Section linking (anchors) Template:Anchor Help:HTML in wikitext#Span – using "span id=" for hidden anchors Between pages: Help:Navigation Navigational templates: see Series boxes Wikipedia:Keyboard shortcuts Additional tabs ("cactions") at the top of the page: Wikipedia:WikiProject User scripts/Scripts/Six tabs – adds a history tab (and an edit tab) for the page that is paired with the page that is visible User:Haza-w/Drop-down menus – revises and expands the top tabs, setting up each with a menu with numerous options Clicking on an image: Template:Click Wikipedia:WikiProject Usability/Clickable images mw:Help:Linked images ImageMaps: mw:Extension:ImageMap – "imagemap" tags for linking via clickable images (new as of January 2007) Tutorial in the Signpost Image map editor User:Nihiltres/Click-to-ImageMap – easy conversion of the {{click}} template to an ImageMap (only for MacOS) Category:Wikipedia image maps The timeline syntax can also be used for clickable images, as in {{Vocal and instrumental pitch ranges}}; see Timelines for details Wikipedia:Tools/Navigation popups (user scripts) – enables mouseover of links; other features (as of March 2008, planned to be replaced a version using the new api.php – see User:TheDJ/apipopups.js; existing version uses query.php) (also available as a gadget, under "my preferences") Personalized navigation: User:Anakin101/toplinks.js – adds a "top" link next to every "edit" link, to make it easy to go to the top of a page Wikipedia:Tools/Navigation shortcuts – add one or more personal sidebars, with links, on the left side of the screen User:AndyZ/monobook.js/personalredirect.js – put personalized abbreviations into the search box to go to specific pages Needed articles: see Missing articles, Translations Neutral point of view (NPOV): General policy and guidance: Wikipedia:Neutral point of view (WP:NPOV) (policy) Wikipedia:Neutral point of view/FAQ (policy) Wikipedia:NPOV dispute – how-to guidance Wikipedia:NPOV tutorial Wikipedia:Describing points of view (essay) Wikipedia:Writing for the opponent (essay) Wikipedia:Avoid thread mode (essay) Wikipedia:Neutral point of view/Examples Balance and space: Wikipedia:NPOV tutorial#Space and balance Wikipedia:Neutral point of view#Undue weight Wikipedia:Coatrack – an article that is primarily an extended discussion about a peripherally related (bias) subject Wikipedia:Fringe theories/Noticeboard Wikipedia:Pro and con lists (guideline) Other: Template:Welcomenpov – for posting to a user talk page Wikipedia:WikiProject Neutrality Category:NPOV disputes – pages with an NPOV dispute tag Category:Neutrality templates Wikipedia:List of controversial issues Category:Wikipedia neutral point of view Wikipedia:Advocacy (essay) Wikipedia:Scientific point of view (failed proposal) New accounts: see New editors, User account and username New articles: (see also Conflicts of interest, Deletion of articles, Edits (in general), Missing articles, Naming an article, New pages, Quality of articles) To consider before creating a new article: Wikipedia:Wikipedia is not a dictionary (policy) Wikipedia:Notability (guideline) – if it's not about something notable, it shouldn't be an article in Wikipedia Wikipedia:Wikipedia is not for things made up one day Wikipedia:List of bad article ideas (guideline) Wikipedia:List of really, really, really stupid article ideas that you really, really, really should not create Wikipedia:Fringe theories (guideline) Wikipedia:Content policy in a nutshell (essay) Feedback on a planned new article: Wikipedia:Drawing board How to: (see also New pages) Wikipedia:Your first article Wikipedia:There is no deadline (essay) – write a really good draft in userspace mw:Extension:Uniwiki CreatePage (not implemented on the English Wikipedia); uses mw:Extension:Uniwiki Layouts New articles proposed by non-registered editors: Wikipedia:Article Wizard – a series of qualifying questions leading to a page where the proposed new article can be posted Wikipedia:Articles for creation – for both those proposing articles and those reviewing proposed articles Wikipedia:WikiProject Articles for creation User:Henrik/afc-helper (user script) – enables one-click declines for proposed new articles After a new article is created: User:AlexNewArtBot – adds new articles to new article pages of WikiProjects and Portals (as listed at Wikipedia:New articles by topic Checking for copyright violations: User:Wherebot User:COBot User:CorenSearchBot Other: New articles created by any specified editor MediaWiki talk:Newarticletext {{HD/new}} and {{creation}}. New contributors: see New editors New editors: (see also Edits (in general), Learning, Questions, User account and username, User rights) Welcoming: Wikipedia:Welcoming committee MediaWiki:Welcomecreation – page for automatic welcome message for all new accounts (transitory; is not posted to user talk pages) Standard templates: Wikipedia:Welcoming committee/Standard user greeting Wikipedia:Welcoming committee/Welcome templates, includes Template:Welcome User talk:Nmajdan/welcome newuser.js – quick way to add a welcome template to a new user's talk page Template:WelcomeMenu – one of many templates, pretty good (except for the built-in category) User:SQLBot-Hello – adds a welcome section for new editors who have gotten accounts via Wikipedia:Request an account and have opted-in for such a welcome Impact of welcoming: User:TeaDrinker/Welcome study – six day study in May 2007 of the impact of welcoming 100 randomly selected new editors Other: Wikipedia:Friendly – includes welcome templates and other (unrelated) functionality (also available as a gadget, under "my preferences") Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/Welcomebot (request denied December 2006) Wikipedia:Perennial proposals#Use a bot to welcome new users Standard postings for mistakes by new editors: Category:Wikipedia standard response templates Suggested reading: 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 User:Emijrp/New users – statistics on new accounts User:Pyrospirit/Design the interface for newcomers User:AlMac/Wiki Start Map – visual organization of Wikipedia pages for editors (incomplete, outdated) New pages: (see also New articles) Help:Page name Help:Starting a new article Non-talk pages can only be created by registered editors – December 2005 Special:Newpages – Lists new pages just created; shows which pages have been marked as "patrolled" Restrictions on names of new pages: mw:Extension:Title Blacklist mw:MediaWiki:Titleblacklist Special:ProtectedTitles Patrolling new pages: Signpost article, November 2007, about new process Special:Log/patrol – Patrol log (listing those who marked edits as "patrolled") Wikipedia:New pages patrol – organized effort to review all new pages Wikipedia:WikiProject New page User:JVbot – bot which marks new pages as "patrolled" if the editor who created the page is listed at User:JVbot/patrol whitelist User:Martinp23/NPWatcher (WP:NPW) Wikipedia tool which helps editors perform new page patrol more easily Wikipedia:WikiProject Advertising (inactive) New users: see New editors New Zealand: Wikipedia:Naming conventions (New Zealand) Portal:New Zealand News (about Wikipedia): (for news not about Wikipedia, see Current events) Wikipedia:News Wikipedia:Dashboard (keeps track of various discussions on Wikipedia) Category:Wikipedia news Wikipedia:Community portal#CBB – Community bulletin board (particularly the "Notices" section) Wikipedia:Announcements Signpost (internal newspaper): Wikipedia:Signpost/About Receiving: Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/Subscribe – as a message on a user talk page Template:Signpost-subscription – in a box (transcluded) on a user page Via blog (including RSS option) Via twitter Wikipedia:WikipediaWeekly – a weekly (or so) podcast Wikipedia:Wikivoices – skypecasts and other community connection 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 [១]) Open Wiki Blog Planet – another blog aggregator Newsgroup: gmane.org.wikimedia.foundation Other external sources: WikiChecker (media) Wikipedia:Wikipedia in the media Wikipedia:WikiProject For the Record – for responding to coverage of Wikipedia in the news media Wikipedia:Wikizine – a weekly (or so) independent electronic magazine Inactive/historical: foundation:Wikimedia Quarto – quarterly publication; last issue was for Q1 2005 Wikipedia:Goings-on (prior to the Signpost, this was the weekly newsletter of sorts) Wikipedia:Village pump (news) (inactive) Not: Wikipedia:What Wikipedia is not (WP:NOT) (policy) – it's not a paper encyclopedia, a dictionary, a publisher of original thought, a soapbox, a mirror or a repository of links, images, or media, a blog, webspace provider, or social networking site, a directory, an indiscriminate collection of information, a crystal ball, censored, a battleground, an anarchy, a democracy, a bureaucracy Wikipedia:Victim lists (essay) Wikis and similar sites which do allow various types of content that Wikipedia does not: 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 – guidelines and discussions User:Uncle G/On notability (essay) Wikipedia:Inclusion is not an indicator of notability Wikipedia:Fringe theories (guideline) Wikipedia:Search engine test (how-to guide) Wikipedia:Notability (events) Wikipedia:WikiProject Notability Category:Articles with topics of unclear notability Wikipedia:Wikipuffery (essay) Wikipedia:Other stuff exists#Inherent notability (essay) Wikipedia:Notability (science) (failed proposal) Notes (in articles): For footnotes in a "Notes" section, see Sources Content notes (a separate section with notes about contents of an article): Templates: {{Cref}}, {{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:Noticeboards English wiki Noticeboard Archive Search Tool – searches various noticeboards, and all their archives NPOV: see Neutral point of view Numbers: (see also Mathematics, Units of measurement) Wikipedia:Manual of Style (dates and numbers) Wikipedia:Naming conventions (numbers and dates) Wikipedia:Notability (numbers) (guideline) m:Help:Modulo and round Wikipedia:WikiProject Numbers Template:Nowrap – to ensure that a number and its unit of measurement appear on the same line of text O Obscenity: see Censorship "Office" actions – see Wikimedia Foundation Organizations: As subjects of articles: see Companies and organizations Within Wikipedia: (see Wikipedia as community) Original research: see Sources Output: see Exporting (a page) Overcategorization: Wikipedia:Overcategorization (guideline) – what types of categories are not good ones to create (see also Categories) Oversight: Wikipedia:Oversight (policy) Wikipedia:Requests for oversight Wikipedia:Arbitration Committee/CheckUser and Oversight Wikipedia:Arbitration Committee/CheckUser and Oversight appointments (discussion, January 2009) m:Oversight mw:Bitfields for rev deleted – removes specific revisions from public view ("public" includes admins) Example of how oversighted revisions now appear on history pages mw:Extension:Oversight – oversighted revisions are permanently hidden from all users (no longer in effect) Ownership: Wikipedia:Ownership of articles (WP:OWN) – about editors who don't like to have their words edited by others (For ownership of Wikipedia, see Wikimedia Foundation.) P Page protection: see Protection of pages Page size: see Article size Page revisions: (see also Counts) Wikirage – list of pages with high levels of edits (most edits per unique editor) – recently Special:MostRevisions – "Pages with the most revisions" (top 1000) – cumulative Wikipedia:Most frequently edited pages – 4 December 2007 to 2 January 2008 – top 5000 pages Page views: (see also Counts) Most viewed (English Wikipedia): Wikipedia:Popular pages Most accessed pages per day (Wikistics) Wikipedia article traffic statistics – pages with the most views (February 2008) For any specific article or other page: Monthly chart for any specified page ("Wikipedia article traffic statistics") (for pages that are not articles, include the namespace as a prefix) Raw counts – beginning (24 hourly snapshots per day) December 10, 2007 (announcement) Different language Wikipedias: Comparison of page views for the various language Wikipedias (March 2008) Wikipedia Page Views – page views per language per month 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) (inactive proposal) Personal attacks: (see also: Content disputes, Disruptive editing) Core policies and guidelines Wikipedia:Assume good faith (WP:AGF) (guideline) Wikipedia:Civility (WP:CIVIL) (policy) Wikipedia:No personal attacks (WP:NPA) (policy) Wikipedia:Harassment (guideline) Wikipedia:No legal threats (policy) Wikipedia:Attack page (policy) Wikipedia:Linking to external harassment (guideline) Wikipedia:Attack sites (failed proposal) Avoiding problems: Wikipedia: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 (essay) Wikipedia:How to be civil (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:Requests for remedies (failed proposal) Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/Personal attacks (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:WikiProject Poker Policies and guidelines (see also Process) Existing: m:Community foundation issues – five core principles guiding all Wikimedia projects. Wikimedia Foundation policies Wikipedia:Trifecta – an unofficial summary of the rules – three guiding principles for editors, with their corollaries. Wikipedia:Policies and guidelines – overview Wikipedia:Key policies and guidelines User:Tony1/Monthly updates of styleguide and policy changes Wikipedia:Tutorial/Keep in mind Wikipedia:List of policies Wikipedia:List of guidelines Category:Wikipedia policies and guidelines Wikipedia Policies – information and statistics about the talk pages of all policies and guidelines Misuses: Wikipedia:Gaming the system (guideline) Wikipedia:Wikilawyering (essay) Wikipedia:Don't overuse shortcuts to policy and guidelines to win your argument (essay) Wikipedia:Don't cite essays or proposals as if they were policy (essay) Changing (in general): Wikipedia:Style of policy and guideline pages (inactive) m:Instruction creep Wikipedia:Avoid instruction creep (guideline) Wikipedia:How to contribute to Wikipedia guidance (essay) Wikipedia:Editing policy pages (failed proposal) Discussions on proposed or changed or questioned policies and guidelines: Wikipedia:Overlapping policies and guidelines Wikipedia:Requests for comment/Wikipedia policies and guidelines Wikipedia:Centralized discussion – a way/place to list current major discussions (via {{Cent}}) Category:Wikipedia proposals Wikipedia:Village pump (policy) Category:Wikipedia proposals – pages categorized as "Wikipedia proposals" Old discussions: Wikipedia:Centralized discussion/Archive – a list of centralized discussions that have been completed, and the conclusions that have been drawn from them Wikipedia:Perennial proposals – things that are frequently proposed on Wikipedia, and have been rejected by the community several times in the past Category:Wikipedia rejected proposals Other: Wikipedia:Process is important (essay) Wikipedia:Policy patrol Wikipedia:If you could re-write the rules (essay) Polls: see Consensus and voting Portals: Wikipedia:Portal (WP:P) Wikipedia:Portal guidelines (Manual of Style) Wikipedia:Portal/Directory Portal:Contents/Portals – introductory page that organizes and lists all portals Wikipedia:Move navigational lists to portal namespace (failed proposal) Wikipedia:WikiProject Portals Category:Portals Wikipedia:Portal peer review Featured: 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 Customization 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:Js/ajaxPreview – quick AJAX preview User:CBM/quickpreview.js – ditto User:Anomie/ajaxpreview.js – quick AJAX preview, also displays footnotes in the preview when editing a section Bugzilla:2679 – Bug # 2679 – show category links above the edit box rather than at the bottom of the screen, on preview Showing footnotes automatically when previewing: Bugzilla:5492 – Bug # 5492 – add <references/> text to the preview when editing a section User:Anomie/ajaxpreview.js Printing: Help:Printable Privacy: For subjects of articles: see Biographies For editors and readers: Wikipedia:Privacy policy m:Privacy policy m:Draft Privacy Policy June 2008 Wikipedia:How to not get outed on Wikipedia (essay) Wikipedia:Privacy (inactive/historical) Wikipedia:Respect privacy (inactive/historical) Secure access: Secure (SSL) access for reading and editing User:Anakin101/alwayssecurewikipedia.js – user script to keep the secure connection for all Wikipedia pages 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 (guideline) 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) Wikipedia:Pronunciation respelling key Wikipedia:IPA Wikipedia:IPA for Irish Proposals: (see also Policies and guidelines) Wikipedia:Village pump (proposals) – new ideas and proposals that are not policy related Wikipedia:Village pump (proposals)/Persistent proposals – for proposals with consensus that haven't been implemented yet Wikipedia:Areas for Reform Protection of pages: Help:Protection Wikipedia:Protection policy (WP:PROT) Wikipedia:Requests for page protection – page to request that a page be protected (WP:RPP) Wikipedia:New admin school/Protecting Wikipedia:Rough guide to semi-protection (essay) Wikipedia:New admin school/Protecting deleted pages MediaWiki:Semiprotectedpagewarning 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 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 User:Emijrp/Statistics#Most protected ever Unimplemented: mw:Extension:ProtectSection – blocks editing of part of a page by a regular editors mw:Extension:PageSecurity – allows specified pages to be edited only by editors who are part of (a) specified group(s) Punctuation: Wikipedia:Manual of Style Wikipedia:WikiProject Punctuation Dumb quotes – user script that converts "fancy" punctuation to their 7-bit ASCII equivalent User:GregU/dashes.js – tool for fixing hyphens, dashes and minus signs Q Quality of articles: (see also Featured articles, Good articles, Maintenance, Stable versions, Style (articles), Vital articles) Guidelines and guidance: Wikipedia:Article development Wikipedia:Simplified ruleset – includes three guidelines for getting to high-quality articles Wikipedia:Writing better articles (Manual of Style) Wikipedia:The perfect article User:AndyZ/Suggestions Central initiatives: Wikipedia Quality website m:Wikiquality Wikiquality-l: 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 Peer reviews: Main peer review: Wikipedia:Peer review – exposes articles to closer scrutiny from a broader group of editors User:CloudNineBot – transcludes articles at the main peer review page onto WikiProject peer review pages User:AndyZ/peerreviewer – automated review Dispatches: Interview with Ruhrfisch, master of Peer review, Signpost article, September 2008 WikiProject peer reviews: Category:WikiProject peer reviews – pages within WikiProjects for peer reviews User:CloudNineBot – transcludes articles at the main peer review page onto WikiProject peer review pages User:PeerReviewBot – archives peer review pages Other peer review: Wikipedia:Scientific peer review Wikipedia:Academic peer review Assessments: By editors (from "stub" (worst) to "featured article" (best)): Wikipedia:WikiProject Council/Assessment FAQ Wikipedia:Version 1.0 Editorial Team/Assessment (guideline) – an assessment scale in use to give "grades" to articles Category:WikiProject assessments – separate pages within WikiProjects that show assessments done and still needed for pages within that WikiProject User:VeblenBot – updates a table with counts of article ratings By viewers (ratings/reviews) (not implemented): m:Article validation feature (was supposed to begin in late 2005) mw:Extension:Review Based on quality of editors: WikiTrust: Announcement of Version 2, August 2008 Blog Main Page Other: m:Wikimedia Sverige/Lennart thoughts of Quality Wikipedia:Forum for Encyclopedic Standards Wikipedia:Quality control Wikipedia:100,000 feature-quality articles – essay, includes some specific steps Category:Wikipedia editorial validation Quality of editing, improving: see Learning Queries (database) (see also Downloading all of Wikipedia, Statistics and reports, Technical (hardware and software)) Wikipedia:Database queries mw:API:Query m:Requests for queries – SQL queries against wiki projects, including Wikipedia API to query data directly from the MediaWiki servers WikiXMLDB – Wikipedia content has been parsed into well-structured XML representation and loaded into a Sedna XML database, and an XQuery Web interface has been set up Online version of dbpedia.org – structured information extracted from Wikipedia Query Wikipedia – semantic database extracted from Wikipedia that can be queried m:WikiXRay – a robust and extensible software tool for an in-depth quantitative analysis of the whole Wikipedia project (under development as of October 2007) User talk:TonyBot – bot that can do database queries upon request (requires registration) Wikipedia:Scripts#Database scripting – scripts that can be used with a downloaded database Analysis: Wikipedia:WikiProject Database analysis – collaboration of editors who use XML database dumps User:Bluemoose/DataBaseSearchTool – for searching a database dump Wikipedia:Computer help desk/ParseMediaWikiDump Questions: (see also Assistance, 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: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) Quickbar: (the set of links on the left side of the page, often called "sidebar") mw:Sidebar – standard links for the top two boxes of the quickbar Wikipedia:Tools/Navigation shortcuts – add one or more personal sidebars, with links, on the left side of the screen User:Trilobite/Tools#Replace sidebar navbox with personal tools – uses CSS to move the links at the upper right to the left side of the screen Floating the quickbar: m:Help:User style/floating quickbar bugzilla:287 – Bug #287 – floating quickbar support for the Monobook skin Quotations: Wikipedia:Manual of Style#Quotations Wikipedia:Manual of Style#Quotation marks Wikipedia:Manual of Style#Italics Template:Quote R Random article: Special:Random (in the standard navigation box on the left) (adding a suffix – /Category, /Help, /Image, /Portal, /Template, /User, or /Wikipedia) will take you to a random page in those namespaces) Wikipedia:Random Wikipedia:Random page patrol Wikipedia:Random pages test Portal:Middle-earth/Random-article – example of how to generate a random article from a specified set of articles User:Misza13/Random – Random number generator (via a template) Random article tools: Random Featured article Random Good article Random article in a category Wiki ToDo – Randomly selects an article, provides a statistical analysis, and suggests ways to improve it User_talk:GregU/randomlink.js – Follow a random link or go to a random page in a category, list or WikiProject Recent changes: (see also Monitoring changes, Vandalism) Special:Recentchanges Help:Recent changes Help:Enhanced recent changes Related changes (recent changes to a limited subset of pages) Help:Related changes Recent changes to all articles in a category: http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Recentchangeslinked&target=Category%3ACategory_name (must use underscores) Wikipedia:Scripts#Recent changes scripts Different ways to get recent changes Toolserver (websocket): http://toolserver.org/~thomasv/wprc.html Wikipedia:IRCMonitor – Windows application, primarily for vandal-fighting m:IRC/Channels#Recent changes Recentism: see Bias Recognition: see Awards Red links: (aka "redlinks") Wikipedia:Red link MediaWiki:Red-link-title – standard tool-tip message Wikipedia:WikiProject Red Link Recovery Wikipedia:Most wanted articles (WP:MWA) Wikipedia:Articles requested for more than a year Wikipedia:Write the article first (essay) – don't create red links, and then write the article. Redirects: Wikipedia:Redirect Help:Redirect Wikipedia:Template messages/Redirect pages Wikipedia:Soft redirect (WP:SRD) (guideline) Wikipedia:Tools/Navigation popups/About fixing redirects (basically, don't fix single redirects) Category:Disambiguation and redirection templates Category:Redirects Wikipedia:Categorizing redirects – most redirects should not have a category on the redirect page Help: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 generally not a good idea [Monobook skin] User:Anomie/linkclassifier.js – User script that changes the color of the wikilink to an article when that article is a redirect or disambiguation page or has been proposed for deletion at AfD Problematical: Broken redirects (point to non-existent page) Special:BrokenRedirects – list Bots: User:SQLBot User:RedirectCleanupBot Double redirects: Wikipedia:Double redirects Special:DoubleRedirects – list produced every three days or so Automated correction by MediaWiki software (as of July 2008) Signpost note about software change Wikitech-l posting, "Double redirect fixer", July 2008 Bug #4578 – "Page moves should not create double redirects" Bots that fix: User:COBot User:Muro Bot User:Stwalkerbot User:SoxBot To be deleted or discussed: Wikipedia:Criteria for speedy deletion#Redirects Wikipedia:Redirects for discussion – where decisions are made about what should be done with problematic redirects, including deletion Redistribution: (see also Competitors, forks, and mirrors, Schools) Wikipedia:DVD Wikipedia:Wikipedia CD Selection 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): (for how to do a citation, see Sources) Wikipedia:Article development#Research Wikipedia:Public domain resources Wikipedia:GNU Free Documentation License resources (freely usable resources) Wikipedia:Free or semi-free non-Public-Domain information resources Wikipedia:Current science and technology sources Wikipedia:News sources Wikimediareference discussion list (initial purpose was to discuss free Credo accounts) Dispatches: Find reliable sources online, Signpost, July 2008 Dispatches: Sources in biology and medicine, Signpost, June 2008 Wikipedia Reference Search: Search page (Google) User:Nicolas1981/Wikipedia Reference Search – underlying list of sources (domains) Appropedia's Public Domain Search Wikipedia:List of bibliographies Category:Wikipedia sources Template:Article resources Assistance from other editors: 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:Edit warring#The three revert rule – more than three reverts by one editor to one article within 24 hours is grounds for an automatic block (WP:3RR) User warning: Template:uw-3rr Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/Edit warring – place to report 3RR violations (WP:AN/3RR) Wikipedia:Three revert rule enforcement – 2004 poll about whether admins should enforce 3RR rule (was being enforced by Arbitration Committee) Wikipedia:WikiProject User scripts/Scripts/Revert tools Talk:Gdansk/Vote – special exception to the 3RR rule Via rollback: Help:Reverting#Rollback Wikipedia:Rollback feature Wikipedia:New admin school/Rollback Category:Wikipedia rollback feature Wikipedia:Village pump (technical)/Archive 55#This week's software updates – how to hide "rollback" links in one's watchlist and on user pages By non-admins: Wikipedia:Rollback for non-administrators – discussion, December 2007; implemented January 2008 Wikipedia:Requests for permissions – place to ask for rollback user rights Category:Wikipedia administrators willing to grant rollback requests bugzilla:12534 – Bug #12534 – Rollback on en.wiki (resolved/closed; link is here for those interested in the history of this feature) Wikipedia:Requests for rollback/Draft poll Revision (prior version) of a page: see History Reward Board: Wikipedia:Reward board (see also Wikipedia:Bounty board) RFC automatic links: mw:Manual:RFC Risk disclaimer: Wikipedia:Risk disclaimer Roads: Wikipedia:Naming conventions (U.S. state and territory highways) Wikipedia:WikiProject U.S. Roads (includes three guidelines) Romanian: Help:Romanian characters Russian: Wikipedia:Romanization of Russian RSS and similar feeds: see Monitoring changes S Sandbox: a place to practice without hurting anything Wikipedia:About the Sandbox Wikipedia:Sandbox Cleaning: User:OverlordQBot, User:SoxBot IV, User:Addbot, User:ClueBot II Schools: Wikipedia:FAQ/Schools Wikipedia:School and university projects (WP:SUP) Wikipedia:College and university article guidelines Wikipedia:WikiProject Classroom coordination 2008/2009 Wikipedia Selection for schools – 5,500 "good" and above articles, cleaned up and checked for suitability for children, on a single DVD (background and downloadable version of the earlier, 2007 selection here [២]) Template:Schoolblock Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Common outcomes#Education Scripts: see User scripts Scrolling reference lists: not allowed per Wikipedia:Citing sources Searching Wikipedia: (see also Index of pages, Queries (database)) In general: Help:Searching From within Wikipedia: Search engine: "MediaWiki search engine improved" (Signpost article, November 2008) Special:Search – regular search with a wider box to enter text Test web interface for lucene-search 2.1 User:Zocky/Auto Complete – auto-completes the titles of articles in the search box (JavaScript) (no longer required as of May 2008; this is built into the search function now) Invoking search: Wikipedia:FAQ/Main Page#Why doesn't the cursor appear in the search box, like with Google? – provides JavaScript so that the page focus is automatically in the search box Other: Special:Prefixindex – lists articles that begin with any chosen initial character string From outside Wikipedia: Firefox: Using Wikipedia for the search box provides an autocomplete feature Creating a smart keyword – can replace "site:en.wikipedia.org" in searches Wikiseek: Wikiseek – A better way to search Wikipedia – beta, January 2007; includes Firefox extension Wikiseek Community Wikie DBpedia.org Similpedia – uses a URL or a chunk of text to find similar articles in Wikipedia AskWiki – semantic search engine developed in partnership between AskMeNow and the Wikimedia Foundation (beta) Powerset – natural language search of Wikipedia Yahoo's Wikipedia SearchMonkey App Seariki – search engine specifically designed for Wikipedia [(http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikien-l/2007-December/088027.html December 2007 announcement]) Powerset – semantic search (May 2008) Googlepedia – Firefox add-on; shows a relevant Wikipedia article along with Google search results Preventing search engines from searching pages: Robots.txt file – specifies search engines that are not allowed to crawl all or part of Wikipedia, as well as pages/namespaces that are not to be indexed by any search engine MediaWiki:Robots.txt – direct editing of robots.txt mw:Extension:NoRobots allows editors to mark specific pages as not to be included by all outside search engines [not implemented as of April 2008] Wikipedia:Talk pages not indexed by Google (feature request) Tools: 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:Manual of Style (layout)#See also Self-interest: see Conflicts of interest Semi-protection of pages: see Protection of pages Series boxes: Wikipedia:Article series (Manual of Style) Wikipedia:Incumbent series Wikipedia:Navigation templates Category:Navigational templates Wikipedia:List of article series Wikipedia:NavFrame – dynamic navigation (series) boxes (collapsible – hide/show) Template:Navigation tabs Wikipedia:Categories, lists, and navigation templates – compares alternative approaches Servers: see Statistics, Technical (hardware and software) Shortcuts (abbreviated redirects): Wikipedia:Shortcut Wikipedia:List of shortcuts Wikipedia:Shortcuts to talk pages Wikipedia:List of shortcuts/Project shortcuts Wikipedia:WTF? OMG! TMD TLA. ARG! (essay) Category:Redirects from shortcuts User:Deathlime/Deredirectification – user script so that a mousing over a shortcut shows the name of the page that the shortcut points to Wikipedia:Full meta links – failed proposal to implement templates to replace shortcuts Signatures: (see also Customization, Talk pages) Wikipedia:Signatures (WP:SIG) (guideline) bugzilla:8458 – Bug #8458 – proposed restriction for length of signatures Individual changes to the default signature: Wikipedia:How to fix your signature User:Athaenara/Gallery User:Smurrayinchester/Tutorial/Signature User:NikoSilver/Signature shop Automatic signing (automated signing): User:SineBot – signs talk pages for editors who forgot, where an editor started a new section or an indented his/her comment (replacement for User:HagermanBot) Category:Wikipedians who have opted out of automatic signing Pages where default signatures can be customized: (implemented November 2007 Mediawiki:Signature Mediawiki:Signature-anon Other: Wikipedia:WikiProject User scripts/Scripts#Editing – user scripts to help editors with signing Template:Uw-tilde – notice that can be put on user talk pages to remind editors to sign MediaWiki:Signature – format of default signature for editors who haven't changed the default in their preferences Signon – see Logging in, User account and username Single purpose account: Wikipedia:Single-purpose account (essay) Sinhala: Help:Sinhala Font Guide Signpost – see News (about Wikipedia) Sister projects: see Transwiki Slovenia: Wikipedia:Naming conventions (Slovenian vs Slovene) (guideline) Sock puppets (multiple accounts by one person): Wikipedia:Sock puppetry (WP:SOCK) (policy) Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations Wikipedia:Suspected sock puppets – discussion and reporting (inactive/historical) Wikipedia:Username policy#Doppelganger accounts – accounts created preemptively to block vandals (allowable) Intersection contribs – lists all pages edited by both of two specified editors Muliple contributors – A "recent edits" listing for a group of (specified) editors Checkuser: (identifying sock puppets by checking IP addresses) Wikipedia:CheckUser (policy) Wikipedia:Requests for checkuser – requests for review of addresses Wikipedia:Quick and dirty Checkuser policy (failed proposal) How editors become checkusers: Wikipedia:Arbitration Committee/CheckUser and Oversight Wikipedia:Requests for checkusership (failed proposal) Wikipedia:Arbitration Committee/June 2008 announcements/Checkuser appointments Wikipedia:Arbitration Committee/CheckUser and Oversight appointments (discussion, January 2009) Software: As the subject of an article: Wikipedia:Notability (software) (inactive proposal) Used for the Wikipedia project: see MediaWiki, Technical (hardware and software) Used for editing: see Browsers, Editing software Sound (files): see Media Sources (see also Resources, Spam, URLs) WHY and WHEN sources must be given (including avoiding excessive links): Wikipedia:Verifiability (WP:V) (policy) Original research: Wikipedia:No original research (WP:NOR) (policy) Wikipedia:These are not original research (essay) Wikipedia:Attribution (WP:ATT) (essay) Wikipedia:Common knowledge (essay) User:Uncle G/On sources and content Wikipedia:Citing sources#When to cite sources (WP:CITE) (guideline) Wikipedia:When to cite (essay or guideline – disputed as of March 2008) Wikipedia:Scientific citation guidelines (Manual of Style) WHAT can properly be used as a source, and WHERE links/sources should appear: Wikipedia:Identifying reliable sources (WP:RS) (guideline) Wikipedia:Reliable source examples Dispatches: Reliable sources in content review processes, Signpost article, June 2008 Wikipedia:Identifying reliable sources (medicine) Wikipedia:Evaluating sources (essay) Wikipedia:External links (Manual of Style) Wikipedia:Convenience link (essay) – links to primary sources, or to copies of secondary sources HOW to cite a source: In general (including formatting): 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:Do not include the full text of lengthy primary sources (guideline) Wikipedia:Inline citation (essay) (outdated informational page) Wikipedia:Manual of Style (linking)#External links – mostly derivative from other pages Help:Editing#Links and URLs – mostly about wikilinks Wikipedia:Verification methods (essay/how-to) Three alternative systems: Embedded citations: Wikipedia:Embedded citations Footnotes: Wikipedia:Manual of Style (footnotes) (guideline) Help:Footnotes Wikipedia:Referencing for beginners mw: Extension:Cite/Cite.php – technical; discusses issues with current <ref> tags m:Talk:Cite/Cite.php (fork, as of 30 April 2006) Template:Rp – for appending page numbers to Cite.php-generated footnote superscripts (can also be used to add a link, to mimic the embedded citations method) User:Magnus Manske/less edit clutter.js – interface change, via javascript, that puts references in a separate edit box (screenshot, mailing list discusion) Parenthetical referencing (was "Harvard referencing", "Author-date referencing"): Wikipedia:Parenthetical referencing Wikipedia:Harvard citation template examples Mixing footnotes and parenthetical referencing: Discussion: Wikipedia talk:Featured article criteria/Archive 6#Consistent references - mixing Harvard and Chicago User:CitationTool/Hybrid referencing Examples: Charles Darwin, Pericles, Che Guevara, saffron Possible changes to MediaWiki software regarding citations: m:Wikicat mw:Category:Referencing extensions bugzilla:423 – Bug #423 – a reference system that support BibTeX databases (under development) m:Wikicite – future system for automated fact citation and checking Biblio.php (alternative site) Tools for creating citations: Wikipedia:Citation tools Wikipedia:RefToolbar (available via the Gadgets tab) Universal reference formatter Other: User:Citation bot – Adds Digital object identifiers (DOIs), PubMed Identifiers (PMIDs), and ISBNs, and fixes common formatting errors, in citations which use the templates {{cite journal}}, {{cite book}}, {{cite arXiv}}, and {{citation}} PROBLEMS: Preventing, identifying, and fixing: In general: Wikipedia:WikiProject Citation cleanup Wikipedia:WikiProject External links Wikipedia:WikiProject Fact and Reference Check Category:Wikipedians who convert reference tags Wikipedia:WikiProject critical source examination Category:Citation and verifiability maintenance templates Footnote problems, other than bad external links (for which, see below): Help:Cite errors Category:Pages with incorrect ref formatting User:LemmeyBOT – fixes incorrect ref tag formatting User:DumZiBoT – adds a title (from page HTML) for a naked URL enclosed by <ref> tags User:CitationTool (inactive or never functional) User:Fictional tool (inactive or never functional) Lack of sources: Wikipedia:WikiProject Unreferenced articles – project to review articles that are in Category:Articles lacking sources Category:Articles lacking sources (Template:Unreferenced) Category:Articles lacking reliable references (Template:Primary sources) "Citation needed" tag (template: {{fact}}): Wikipedia:Citation needed