This index for editors is intended to help find anything not in the encyclopedia itself, including administration pages such as guidelines, policies, essays, informative, discussion and process pages. See about this index for tips on how to use this, and for instructions on maintaining consistency when editing it. See also Reader's index to Wikipedia and Editor's index to Commons.
For a smaller listing of "help" and "how to" pages, see the Help directory. For other useful directories and indexes, see Wikipedia:Directories and indexes. See also Wikipedia:The Wikipedia Library/A–Z.
Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Accessibility (WP:ACCESS)
Wikipedia:WikiProject Accessibility (Signpost article, November 2013)
Wikipedia:Accessibility advocates
Wikipedia:Accessibility dos and don'ts
usability:Accessibility Initiative – information about the Wikipedia Usability Initiative and the Multimedia Usability Project, both grant-funded and discontinued as of January 2011
Contacting an administrator: (see also specific topics such as Vandalism)
Wikipedia:Requests for administrator attention – a directory of places to request administrator help
Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard – message board for coordinating and discussing administrative tasks on Wikipedia (not supposed to be for incidents; see that page or elsewhere in this index for other pages on which to report incidents) (WP:AN)
Current administrators:
Wikipedia:List of administrators
Special:Listusers/sysop
Category:Wikipedia administrators
Active/inactive/activity:
Wikipedia:List of administrators/Active
Wikipedia:List of administrators/Inactive – those who haven't edited in the past three months
User:JamesR/AdminStats – lists of admins, sorted by the number of deletions, restorations, etc.
Wikipedia:Requests for comment/Arbitration enforcement (early 2009 discussion)
Arbitration Committee:
Wikipedia:Arbitration Committee
Wikipedia:Arbitration Committee/Noticeboard
Wikipedia:Arbitration Committee/June 2008 announcements/Clarifying the role of the Committee
Wikipedia:Arbitration/Index/Cases
Wikipedia:Elections#Arbitration Committee
Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/2005-09-19/ArbCom election – first in a weekly series of 17 articles on the Arbitration Committee and the January 2006 election
Wikipedia:Arbitration Committee/June 2008 announcements – a number of proposals by the committee, plus notice of trial changes being undertaken
Wikipedia:Requests for comment/Arbitration Committee – June 2008 RfC
m:Arbitration committee/EnglishArbComInterviews – email interviews with four committee members (June 2013)
{{ArbComOpenTasks}} – template for active ArbCom cases
m:Wikimedia Arbitration Committee election processes – describes how the Arbitration Committee is selected on various language Wikipedias
Appeals: Wikipedia:Arbitration Committee/June 2008 announcements/Appeals Review List – new (sub)committee or "list" or "panel", subordinate to and supervised by the Arbitration Committee
Wikipedia:Devolution – failed proposal to establish a mechanism for the committee to devolve selected powers to a designated body
Shortcut: WP:EIW#Archive
Archiving Wikipedia talk pages:
Help:Archiving a talk page
User:The Halo/How to Archive (tutorial)
User:5Q5#How to Archive a Talk Page by 5Q5 (tutorial)
Template:Google custom/doc#How to search subpage trees within Wikipedia – easilys make an archive searchable
Template:Archives
Using a bot:
User:lowercase sigmabot III/Archive HowTo
User:ClueBot III
User:MercuryBot
User:Werdnabot
User:HBC Archive Indexerbot (replaced by Legobot)
User:Legobot
Shortcut: WP:EIW#Ambox
Article message boxes (amboxes): (sometimes called "tags"; these are templates)
Wikipedia:Article development – stages in the life of an article
Wikipedia:Editorial oversight and control
Wikipedia:Content forks (guideline) – pieces of content on the same subject (some types are good, some types are bad)
Analysis of:
User:R. fiend/How many articles does Wikipedia really have? – categorization by size/source/quality of 500 randomly selected articles, October 2005
User:Knulclunk/Random – categorization by topic/type of 200 randomly selected articles, September 2008
Wikipedia:Unusual articles
Article size (particularly long articles):
Shortcut: WP:EIW#Long
Wikipedia:Article size (Manual of Style)
Wikipedia:Summary style (guideline) – when articles get too long
Special:Longpages – top 1000 articles, sizewise
{{PAGESIZE:page name}} – magic word that gives the size of the given page name
User talk:Dr pda/prosesize.js – user script that adds link to the toolbox, for displaying some statistics about the size of a page and its components (alternative: User:Dr pda/prosesize)
mw:Extension:TorBlock (editing through tor requires 100 edits and a 90 days to become autoconfirmed, as of June 2008)
Changes:
Wikipedia:Autoconfirmed Proposal/Poll – proposal, May 2008, to increase the requirements for autoconfirmed status by requiring new editors to have a specific number of edits, and possibly increasing the four-day waiting period
Bug# 14191 – Autoconfirmed settings on enwiki changed to 4 days and 10 edits as of May 2008
Wikipedia talk:Autoconfirmed Proposal/Poll2 – proposal, June 2008, to increase requirements to 7 days, 20 edits (about 65% supported)
Wikipedia:Service awards – self-awarded, based on length of time as an editor and number of edits
Wikipedia:Other awards
Wikipedia:Barnstars (WP:BARNSTAR)
Wikipedia:Barnstar and award proposals (WP:BAP)
Template:Barnstar pages
Wikipedia:Kindness Campaign
Wikipedia:Four Award – for starting an article, having that article get a Did You Know? item on the Main Page, and getting the article to Featured status
Wikipedia:Biographies of living persons/Noticeboard (WP:BLP/N)
Wikipedia:Biographies of living persons/BLPWatch
Wikipedia:Living People Patrol
Categories of problems:
Category:Biography articles needing attention
Category:All unreferenced BLPs
Category:BLP articles lacking sources
Wikipedia:Database reports/Untagged biographies of living people (biographical articles without a {{bio}} template on the article talk page)
Wikipedia:Contact us - Subjects – what to do when an individual has a problem with an article about that person or about someone that person represents
Libel: Wikipedia:Libel (policy)
Privacy:
Wikipedia:Biographies of living persons#Presumption in favor of privacy
Wikipedia:Oversight (policy) and Wikipedia:Requests for oversight – removal of personal or libelous information on older revisions of an article (see alsoOversight)
Wikipedia:Deletion policy#Courtesy blanking (WP:CBLANK) (guideline) – removal of personal info within a deletion discussion
Articles about Wikipedians:
Wikipedia:Autobiography (WP:AUTO) (guideline)
Wikipedia:Wikipedians with articles
Identified problems:
Wikipedia:Database reports: Unbelievable life spans, biographies of dead people (entire section), biographies of living people (entire section)
Other:
Wikipedia:Contact us - Licensing – for problems with copyright, or to put content on Wikipedia
Wikipedia:Family trees
Wikipedia:WikiProject Biography
"Missing from Wikipedia" – a tool to identify people who should have a biography but do not
Wikipedia:History of Wikipedia bots (very sketchy/dated)
Creating:
Wikipedia:Creating a bot
m:Using the python wikipediabot
Creating MediaWiki bots in PHP – includes BasicBot
Wikipedia:Bot requests (WP:BOTREQ) – requests to existing bot owners; questions about possible new bots, requests for assistance in creating or improving a bot, etc.
Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval
Special:Log/makebot
Wikipedia:Bots/Status – list of all bots
Category:Wikipedia bots
Special:Listusers – set to "Bots"; user accounts listed have been flagged as doing very low-risk edits
Wikipedia:Bot owners' noticeboard
Wikipedia:Bot Approvals Group
Template:Bots – template for user pages, to encourage or block (compliant) bots
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)
Wikipedia:Categories for discussion – page to discuss (and nominate) the deletion, merging, and renaming of categories (WP:CFD)
Wikipedia:Categorizing redirects – most redirects should not have a category on the redirect page
Category:Overpopulated categories
Special:Wantedcategories – red link categories on pages
Special:Uncategorizedcategories – category pages without at least one parent category
Special:Unusedcategories – categories not used for any page
Wikipedia:Database reports/Polluted categories – Categories that contain pages in both the (Main) namespace and user namespaces
User:AKA MBG/Cycles – Where category A is a subcategory of B, and B is a subcategory of A (or more complicated than that)
User:TheDJ/Gadget-HotCat.js – user script that provides an easy way to add, modify and remove categories (also available as a gadget, under "Preferences")
Articles without categories:
Special:UncategorizedPages
User:Addbot – adds categories to uncategorized articles, using AWB
Intersection of two categories:
Wikipedia:Categorization#Searching for articles in categories – via the standard search box (doesn't search subcategories)
CatScan – a tool that can do various types of category scans, including intersection (may or may not be using up-to-date version of database); can search subcategories
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)
Wikipedia:Category suppression – keeping templates from creating categories when they shouldn't:
Bots:
Shortcut: WP:EIW#Catbot
Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Working#Bots – bots working on CFD results
User:Kbdankbot – CFD tasks such as emptying categories of articles and moving articles from one category to another
User:O bot – adds, removes, and moves/renames categories by request (approval)
User:Alaibot – cleans up redundant double-categorisation (where an article is in both a category and a parent of that category)
User:Yetanotherbot – works on WP:CFD/W
User:RockfangBot – does speedy renames; empties or moves categories at WP:CFD/WU; processes categories with "and" results at WP:CFDWM
Hidden categories:
March 2008 Signpost article
Category:Hidden categories
Other:
Bug# 6943 – Magic word for number of items in a category
User:TheDJ/Gadget-HotCat.js – user script that makes it easy to add, modify and remove categories
User:Erwin/CatCount – provides a count of pages in any given category
User:Ais523/catwatch.js – for monitoring changes to the pages that are in a specified category
Category:Wikipedia categorization
Wikipedia:Template messages/Category namespace
In category since – tool to list all articles in a category that have been so since a specified date (at the toolserver)
mw:Extension:CategoryTree – describes <categorytree> tags that can be added to articles so that a category for that article can be viewed as a dynamic tree on that page. (Using the page Special:Categorytree is faster, unless the tags are permanent.)
Help:Job queue – why changing a category in a template doesn't instantly change all articles with that template
User talk:GregU/randomlink.js – this tool can go to a random page in a category
User:Dr. Submillimeter/Humorous categories – unusual (and no longer existing) categories
random article – redirects to a random article in a given category's tree (at the toolserver)
Shortcuts: WP:EIW#Cen WP:EIW#Censor
Censorship:
Wikipedia is not censored
Wikipedia:No disclaimers in articles
Wikipedia:Offensive material (Manual of Style)
m:Should Wikipedia Use Profanity
Wikipedia:Pornography (essay)
Wikipedia:Advice for parents (essay)
Wikipedia:WikiProject Wikipedians against censorship
Wikipedia:Suggestions on how to ignore all rules (essay)
Wikipedia:Ignoring all rules – a beginner's guide (essay)
Wikipedia:Interpret all rules (essay)
Shortcut: WP:EIW#Commons
Commons (Wikimedia Commons):
Wikipedia:Wikimedia Commons – as of September 2013, has over 18 million media files (photographs, diagrams, animations, music, spoken text, video clips, etc.) available for use in any Wikimedia (community) project, as well as for free downloading by anyone. Anything other than non-free content should be uploaded to the Commons, not to the English Wikipedia.
Commons:Welcome
A guide to getting started on Wikimedia Commons
Wikimedia Commons – manual that provides the essential information for people interested in contributing their own work to Wikimedia Commons
Mayflower – searching the Commons (at the toolserver)
Commons:Commons:Tools
Manual for new Commons users (at en.flossmanuals.net)
Commons:Commons:GLAMToolset project – a set of tools to make easier the batch uploads of GLAM (Galleries, Libraries, Archives, and Museums) material
Other processes: see Commons:Commons:Upload tools (includes tools for Flickr, Android, and iPhone)
Moving images to Commons (from Wikipedia):
Shortcut: WP:EIW#MoveToCommons
Wikipedia:Moving files to the Commons
Wikipedia:WikiProject Images and Media/Commons
CommonsHelper – tool to generate an image description to copy-and-paste for the commons upload form (formerly called "Move-to-commons assistant") (at the toolserver)
User:Fran Rogers/CommonsHelper Helper – user script that adds a button to easily bring up CommonsHelper
User:MonoBot – fixes (some) problems when an editor doesn't do a move to Commons totally correctly
Duplicate images – tool to show duplicate files between Wikipedia and Commons (at the toolserver)
Push-for-commons – tool to show a set of images from a wikipedia, helping to find license problems, {{NowCommons}} candidates, and images that should be copied/moved to the commons (at the toolserver)
Community portal: Wikipedia:Community portal – a place to find collaborations, tasks, and news about English Wikipedia (see alsoWikipedia as a community)
Shortcut: WP:EIW#Company
Companies and organizations:
Wikipedia:FAQ/Article subjects
Wikipedia:Companies, corporations and economic information
Wikipedia:Notability (organizations and companies) (guideline)
Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Common outcomes#Companies
Infoboxes:
Template:Infobox organization
Template:Organization infoboxes
Category:Organization infobox templates
Wikipedia:Contact us - Subjects – what to do when an individual who owns or represents a business or other organization has a problem with an article about that organization
Portal:Business and economics
Shortcut: WP:EIW#Compete
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)
General policies and guidelines: (in addition to WP:NOR, WP:V, WP:NPOV, etc.)
Wikipedia:Dispute resolution (WP:DR) (policy) – overview of the process
Wikipedia:Ownership of articles (WP:OWN) (policy) – no editor "owns" the content of an article; the only way that an editor can properly prevent their words from being edited is to not put them into a Wikipedia article in the first place
Wikipedia:Controversial articles (Manual of Style)
Wikipedia:Etiquette (WP:EQ) (guideline) – how to work with others on Wikipedia
Wikipedia:Editing policy#Preserve information (WP:PRESERVE) (policy) endeavour to preserve content
Duplication Detector (at the toolserver) – compare any two web pages to identify text which has been copied from one to the other
Category:Wikipedian copyright problem patrollers
Wikipedia:Copyright violations on history pages – dealing with prior versions of an article that have copyright violations and are accessible via history pages
wmf:Designated agent – for notification of claimed infringement
Wikipedia:Files for discussion
Categories for problem images:
Category:Wikipedia files with unknown copyright status
Category:Wikipedia files with unknown source
Category:Wikipedia files with no non-free use rationale
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
Using Wikipedia content outside of Wikipedia:
Shortcut: WP:EIW#Reusing
Wikipedia:Reusing Wikipedia content (policy)
Commons:Commons:Reusing content outside Wikimedia
Wikipedia:Buying Wikipedia articles in print or another form (commercial use)
Different customizations of the way Wikipedia pages appear, downloadable from userstyles.org/styles/ (primarily for readers) (Firefox, Thunderbird, Flock, Mozilla Suite, SeaMonkey, and Songbird browsers only)
Personal CSS:
mw:Gallery of user styles (a mix of MediaWiki-compatible skins, not selectable by editors, and personal css)
User:GeorgeMoney/UsefulCSS
User:Wolfgangbeyer/monobook.css – monobook.css optimized for color blindness
Technical:
Help:User style
m:Help:Cascading style sheets
Wikipedia:Catalogue of CSS classes
Wikipedia:Useful styles
m:Customize page layout – should be at Mediawiki; how to rework standard page seen by all non-logged in readers
Deletion: (see alsoCategories for deletion of categories, Redirect for deletion of redirects, etc.) (for articles, seeDeletion of articles, immediately below)
Wikipedia:Deletion process (WP:DP) (guideline)
Template:Deletion tools (for one's user page)
Wikipedia:Introduction to deletion process (essay)
Wikipedia:Deletion process
Wikipedia:Deletion guidelines for administrators (WP:DGFA) (guideline)
User talk:Dycedarg/easyprod.js – user script to propose a page for deletion in one click, and (optionally) notify the author of the page as well
User:BJBot – informs major/recent editors of an article that a {{prod}} template has been posted to that article
Wikipedia:Database reports/PRODed articles with deletion logs (not necessarily current)
Category:Proposed deletion
Formal deletion process (AfD discussions) (Articles for deletion):
Shortcut: WP:EIW#AfD
Wikipedia:Guide to deletion – information on the process
Wikipedia:Repeated AfD nomination limitation (failed proposal) – to limit the number of times an article can go through the AfD process
Wikipedia:Afd categories
Deletion sorting – AfDs organized into topical lists
Wikipedia:WikiProject Deletion sorting
User:John Vandenberg/Deletion sorting tool
User:Jayden54Bot – bot that notifies creator of article that it has been submitted to AfD process (approved January 2007) (inactive as of May 2009)
User:BJBot – informs major/recent editors of an article that it has been submitted to AfD process
Wikipedia:Perennial proposals#Numerical rules for WP:AFD
Wikipedia:Perennial proposals#All authors must be notified of deletion
Wikipedia:Perennial proposals#Rename AFD – rename to "Articles for Discussion"
Current AfDs:
Wikipedia:Articles for deletion (AfD) – shows how to create a new AfD, links to current AfDs
Wikipedia:Articles for deletion#Current discussions – articles proposed for deletion in the past five or so days via the AfD process
Tools for participation:
User:Jnothman/afd helper – makes voting on an AFD a one-click process (user script)
User:Nixeagle/WikiDiscussion Manager – Windows-based application that assists editors with participation in AfD discussions
User:Jayden54/AFD Organizer – Windows-based application that provides a set of tools for participating in AfD discussions
Arguments and expectations (see also next subsection, "Closing"):
Wikipedia:Help, my article got nominated for deletion! (essay)
Wikipedia:Arguments to avoid in deletion discussions (essay)
Wikipedia:Other stuff exists (essay)
Wikipedia:Pokémon test (essay) (marked as "historical")
Closing:
Wikipedia:Non-admin closure (essay)
Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Common outcomes
Wikipedia:Speedy keep – closing a discussion early and keeping the article
Wikipedia:WikiProject User scripts/Scripts/CloseAFD.js
What an administrator won't do upon closing and AfD:
User:Mangojuice/Administrators are not slaves (essay) – don't ask administrators to do large amounts of work under the guise of a deletion debate
Wikipedia:Closing Administrator is not an Edit on Demand Service (essay)
After an article is deleted:
Shortcut: WP:EIW#Postmortem
Deletionpedia – An automated bot uploads pages to this website as they are deleted from Wikipedia.
Wikipedia:Viewing and restoring deleted pages
Wikipedia:Arbitration Committee/June 2008 announcements/Activation of view-deleted-pages – request that the community consider giving selected regular editors the ability to view deleted pages
Wikipedia:Deletion policy#Courtesy blanking (WP:CBLANK) (guideline) (blanking of the AfD discussion due to privacy issues)
Wikipedia:Protection policy#Creation protection (WP:SALT) – "padlocking" or "salting the earth" to protect against further re-creation of deleted pages without prior admin approval
Wikipedia:Why was the page I created deleted? (essay)
Wikipedia:Deletion review – appeals to restore pages that have been deleted or delete pages which were closed as "keep" in an AfD discussion (WP:DRV)
Getting a copy of a deleted article put into one's user space, where it can be improved before going into the article namespace again:
Wikipedia:Requests for undeletion
Wikipedia:Deletion review#Content review
Category:Wikipedia administrators who will provide copies of deleted articles
Wikipedia:New admin/Protecting deleted pages
Wikipedia:New admin/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, 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
WikiLook – Firefox add-on that provides Wiktionary information about any word on a screen, when specially selected (shift or highlight plus mouse move)
Wikipedia:Disambiguation and abbreviations (guideline)
Special:DisambiguationPageLinks – pages that link to a disambiguation page and (probably) should link to an article instead
Hatnotes (a short note placed at the top of an article before the primary topic, generally to provide disambiguation of closely related terms or to summarize a topic, and explain its boundaries)
Wikipedia:Hatnote
Template:Other uses
Wikipedia:HATTEST
List of pages:
Special:DisambiguationPages
Wikipedia:Links to (disambiguation) pages – list of page with "(disambiguation)" in title
Wikipedia:Links to disambiguating pages – list of pages marked as disambiguation pages
Wikipedia:Multiple-place names – index of disambiguation pages involving places
Wikipedia:Non-unique personal name – where Wikipedia has references to two or more persons with the same name
Possible problems:
Category:Disambiguation pages to be converted to broad concept articles
Special:DisambiguationPageLinks – Pages linking to disambiguation pages
Wikipedia:Disambiguation pages with links
Wikipedia:Disambiguation pages with links/Maintenance
Template:Incoming links (placed on disambiguation pages)
User:Anomie/linkclassifier.js – User script that changes the color of the wikilink to an article when that article is a redirect or disambiguation page or has been proposed for deletion at AfD
Wikipedia:WikiProject Disambiguation/fixer – CorHomo, downloadable program (pseudo-browser) (Linux only)
Wikipedia:WPCleaner – requires Java 5 or later
Bots:
User:DPL bot
User:Polbot – removes piped linking on disambiguation pages (function #5)
User:Commander Keane bot – automated bot for disambiguation
User:RussBot – automated bot for disambiguation
Templates:
mw:MediaWiki:Disambiguationspage – list of templates that categorize disambiguation pages as such (e.g., {{Geodis}})
Category:Disambiguation and redirection templates
Other:
mw:Extension:Disambiguator – allows all disambiguation pages to be designated with the __DISAMBIG__ magic word (or an equivalent)
Wikipedia:WikiProject Disambiguation
Wikipedia:Disambiguation pages aren't articles (essay) – that they are, in most cases, treated like article pages is a posted bug – see Bug# 6754, not a feature
Category:Wikipedia disambiguation
Shortcut: WP:EIW#Disclaim
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
Help:Edit conflict – when two editors simultaneously edit the same page or section
Using an edit lock to prevent edit conflict:
Wikipedia:Edit lock (guideline) – asking other editors to let you do major edits undisturbed
Template:In use/doc
Bug# 1510 – provide "edit warning" for pages when someone else has just started editing (software change proposal)
Bug# 4745 – section edit conflict expands edit box to entire article – proposal to change MediaWiki software behavior when edit conflict involves only a section of a page
Shortcut: WP:EIW#EditSumm
Edit summary:
Help:Edit summary
Wikipedia:Edit summary legend – commonly used abbreviations
Wikipedia:Edit summary legend/Quick reference
Wikipedia:Automatic edit summaries
Help:Dummy edit – to post a "follow-up" edit summary when the first is missing, incomplete, or incorrect
Special:Preferences#prefsection-5 – has option for a prompt (message) when "save" is clicked but edit summary is blank
Wikipedia:WikiProject User scripts/Scripts/Force edit summary alternative – flashes a summary box rather than displaying a message that no edit summary was entered
Bug# 10105 – Allow editing of edit summaries after the fact
Wikipedia:Perennial proposals#Automatically prompt for missing edit summary
mw:Markup spec/ANTLR – general specifications for existing markup syntax
WikiEditor:
mw:Extension:WikiEditor
Tweaking the standard Wikipedia text editing window: seeEdits (in general)
Enhancements:
CodeEditor – adds syntax highlighting, easier insertion of tab characters, etc.
mw:Extension:CodeEditor
meta:CodeEditor
Wikipedia:RefToolbar/2.0
mw:Manual:Custom edit buttons
mw:Extension:WikiEditor/Toolbar customization
VisualEditor: (sometimes "Visual Editor")
foundation:2011-2012 Annual Plan Questions and Answers#What are the 2011-12 plan targets? – Initial goal of opt-in production-ready version by December 2011
Wikipedia:VisualEditor
mw:VisualEditor
Wikipedia:VisualEditor/Feedback
User:John Vandenberg/switch editor – can begin editing in VE, and then switch – mid-edit – to WikiEditor without losing any editing work
Documentation:
mw:Help:VisualEditor/User guide
mw:Help:VisualEditor/FAQ
mw:VisualEditor:TestingRefs
Pages marked as not to be edited using VE:
Category:Pages with content uneditable in VisualEditor
Templates:
Template:Disable VE top
Template:Disable VE bottom
Alternatives:
User:Magnus Manske/less edit clutter.js – interface change, via javascript, that puts references in a separate edit box (screenshot, mailing list discusion)
mw:Extension:Uniwiki Generic Edit Page – extension that replaces the default editing page of Mediawiki with a section-based editor (unimplemented)
Wikipedia:User scripts#Editing – user scripts that add search and replace, quick preview, and modifications to the edit toolbar
mw:User:Remember the dot/Syntax highlighter – a script that makes syntax stand out colorfully in the edit box
Custom edit buttons (information at Wikia, which uses the MediaWiki software that Wikipedia also uses)
Help:Editing FAQ
User:Uncle G/Wikipedia triage – a guide to "What to do" with problematical articles (nice categorization)
Wikipedia:Basic copyediting
Wikipedia:FAQ/Contributing
Wikipedia:FAQ/Editing
Wikipedia:Be bold
Wikipedia:Annotated article – an annotated article that explains various editing decisions, using a sample article
Wikipedia:Patent nonsense (guideline) – what to do with not-understandable content in an article
m:Help:Dummy edit – generally for the purpose of posting an edit summary
Category:Wikipedia editing
Enhancements for edit mode:
User:Zocky/Search Box – search and replace
mw:Extension:Drafts – adds the ability to save a draft of the edit of a page, on the server, while editing; also automatically saves edits in progress every 120 seconds
Wikipedia:What Wikipedia is not#Wikipedia is not a paper encyclopedia (WP:NOT#PAPER)
Wikipedia:External peer review – information on formal and informal reviews of the overall quality of Wikipedia articles, done by outside experts, not initiated within Wikipedia
Wikipedia:Size comparisons
Wikipedia:Wikipedia is a work in progress (WP:WIP) (essay)
Wikipedia:There is a deadline (essay) – Why it's important to contribute now
Wikipedia talk:Per-article blocking – 2005 proposal; generally supported by community, not considered critical by developers
User:Emijrp/Blocking – statistics, December 2004 to September 2007
Blocking IP addresses:
Wikipedia:Blocking IP addresses
Wikipedia:IP block exemption (policy)
mw:Help:Range blocks
Template:School block
Special:Ipblocklist – List of currently blocked IP addresses and usernames (searchable)
m:Global blocking – new extension; implemented August 2008
Actions by blocked editors:
Wikipedia:Appealing a block (policy)
Wikipedia:Blocked users can edit their own talk page
Template:Unblock
Wikipedia:Unblock Ticket Request System
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
Esperanza: Wikipedia:Esperanza – a group of Wikipedia editors "dedicated to strengthening Wikipedia's sense of community"; created in September 2005, disbanded in January 2007
Shortcut: WP:EIW#Essay
Essays:
Wikipedia:Policies and guidelines#Non-official essays or proposals
Wikipedia:The difference between policies, guidelines and essays (WP:PGE)
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 (inactive/historical) – proposal for a panel of editors for independent review and monitoring of checkuser and oversight access and use, and to oversee the actions of the Arbitration Committee
Gadgets: (new tab, as of December 2007, on the "Preferences" page) (see alsoUser scripts)
mw:Extension:Gadgets- a way for editors to pick JavaScript or CSS based "gadgets" that other Wikipedia editors have created, via "Preferences" (implemented December 2007)
mw:Gadgets-definition
Special:Gadgets – shows underlying scripts and CSS code used for each gadget
Wikipedia:Gadget (WP:GADGET) – lists the available gadgets on Wikipedia
GeoLocator – "Interactive tool ... to ease georeferencing and geotagging"
Geo microformat
Wikipedia-World – international co-ordination page for the multilingual usage and analysis of the geographical data collected in various projects
GeoPedia – provides iPhone owners with a Wikipedia feed customized to their current location
mw:Beta Features/Nearby Pages – Adds a button to the top right corner of pages that contain geographical information, to get the reader to "nearby" pages
Showing existing Wikipedia articles on a map:
Wikimapia
Google:
Google Maps has an option, under "More", to place markers showing Wikipedia articles
About the Google Earth Geographic Web Layer
Shortcut: WP:EIW#Gloss
Gifs:
Wikipedia:Image use policy#Animated images
Bug# 16451 – GIF scaling limit should be applied to animated GIFs only
Shortcut: WP:EIW#GLAM
GLAM: (Galleries, Libraries, Archives, and Museums)
Outreach:GLAM
Outreach:GLAM/Newsletter
Wikipedia:GLAM
Commons:Commons:GLAMToolset project – a set of tools to make easier the batch uploads of GLAM material
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
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
User:Stevage/EnhanceHistory.user.js – Greasemonkey script. Collapses consecutive edits from the same person into one, integrates (shows) diffs on the history page
Who did what:
WikiBlame – searches for given text in versions of article
User:AmiDaniel/WhodunitQuery – Windows application that identifies the edit and user who added a specific word or phrase
Tools that use the database (not real time):
m:User:Jah/histfilter – Filters out reverted vandal edits, versions that don't affect a specific section, etc.
"wikipedia blame": October 2008 blog posting and 1450 articles processed using the code
For counts and major contributors:
WikiDashboard – when going to a new page, puts a count of top editors, and a histogram of edit activity, at the top of the page (Quick Guide)
Revision counter[dead link] – counts revisions (edits) (at the toolserver)
WikiSense – Contributors – lists edits, similar to page history, but can be sorted by contributor; easy to exclude different groups (at the toolserver)
Wikipedia Page History Statistics – builds an edit history overview page
WikiChecker
Article Contribution Counter (beta) – tool that identifies major contributors to an article (at the toolserver) (a similar feature request is at Bug# 7988)
Articleinfo – Article revision statistics
Other:
User:AmiDaniel/SHM – Simple History Merge – Windows application (requires administrator privileges)
History Flow Visualization Application
Wikipedia Animate – user script; shows the evolution of a page, like a webcast
How-to: Category:Wikipedia how-to (see alsoHelp pages)
HTML:
Help:HTML in wikitext
Wikipedia:Tools#Importing – (converting) content from other formats to Wikipedia (MediaWiki) format – includes tools for converting HTML to the Wikipedia (wikitext) format
Help:Markup validation
Humor:
Category:Wikipedia humor
"Humorous essays" are listed at Template:Wikipedia essays
Problem images on Wikipedia: (other than Copyrights)
Deletion:
Wikipedia:Image use policy#Deleting images
Wikipedia:Guide to image deletion
Wikipedia:Arguments to avoid in image deletion discussions
Wikipedia:Files for discussion
Orphans:
Category:Orphaned non-free use Wikipedia files
Special:Unusedimages
Young Orphans – tool to find newly uploaded orphaned images (at the toolserver) (not functioning as of mid-October 2007)
Special:FileDuplicateSearch – search function for duplicate files in imagespace (duplicate images) (uses hash values)
Wikipedia:File namespace noticeboard – requests for assistance involving the File namespace, for multiple files or other larger issues
Automation:
Bots:
User:ImageTaggingBot – inspects newly uploaded images for ones lacking source information, a license tag, or a fair-use rationale if one is needed; tags as necessary
User:STBotI – tags images for relatively speedy deletion
User:BJBot – tags orphaned images as such; notifies originator of problem
User:ImageRemovalBot – removes images links from articles after an image has been deleted
User:OrphanBot – removes links to problematical images, from articles, so administrators can delete the images
User:Erwin85Bot – removes Template:Di-orphaned fair use from pages that are not orphans
User:ImageBacklogBot – removes fair use images from outside of article space, removes tags from non-orphaned images
User:John Bot II – tags images that lack adequate copyright information
User:FairuseBot – does tagging of problematic fairuse images
Other:
Annotations:
Template:Annotated image and Template:Annotated image 4 – allows users to add annotated wikitext on any image used in wikipedia articles or project namespaces.
commons:Help:Gadget-ImageAnnotator – allows users to place comments onto images shown on file description pages at Commons
User:Howcheng/quickimgdelete.js – makes it easier to tag images and nominate images for deletion
LicenseToKill at SourceForge.net – Windows application that helps with image deletion tasks, including easy deletion of multiple files within a category or from a list
WikiProjects:
Wikipedia:WikiProject Photography
Wikipedia:WikiProject Images and Media
Other: (see alsoCommons regarding moving images from Wikipedia to Commons)
Wikipedia:Template messages/File namespace
Special:Newimages ("Gallery of new files") – images that have just been added to Wikipedia
Special:ListFiles – most recently uploaded files
Help:Options to hide an image (how-to guide) – includes CSS modification to prevent display of images on specified pages
Template:External media – If an image or other media is available online, but cannot be uploaded to Wikipedia or the Commons, this template provides a referenced direct link
Special:Filepath – provides a URL to link directly to the current version of an image
Bug# 7757 – allow cropping images when rendered – proposal to enable display of only part of an image
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)
User:Equazcion/SidebarTranslate – translates interlanguage links into English
Wikidata: (sister project)
Wikipedia:Wikidata
meta:Wikidata
d:Wikidata:Main Page
d:Help:FAQ
d:Wikidata:Introduction
Help:
d:Wikidata:Project chat
#wikimedia-wikidataconnect – IRC chat room
Tools:
d:Wikidata:Tools
Autolist – query tool
meta:Grants:IEG/Wikidata Toolkit – project to create a modular toolkit for loading, querying, and analysing Wikidata data will make it easy for developers to use Wikidata in their applications (funded late 2013)
Category:Wikidata
m:A newer look at the interlanguage link – essay about establishing a wiki as a hub for interwiki links
Languages: see also Wikipedia:Naming conventions (languages), individual countries/languages, Translations
mw:Universal Language Selector – MediaWiki extension that allows users to change (display) language settings and configurations, including fonts
mw:Universal Language Selector/FAQ
Shortcut: WP:EIW#LDS
Latter Day Saints (Mormons):
Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Latter Day Saints
Wikipedia:Naming conventions (Latter Day Saints)
Shortcut: WP:EIW#LaTex
LaTex:
mw:Extension:WikiTeX (WikiTeX is a modular system for incorporating LaTeX objects with MediaWiki output)
m:Wikitex usability review
Shortcut: WP:EIW#Layout
Layout and sections: (see alsoTable of contents) (for changing the layout of elements common to all Wikipedia pages, see Customization)
Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Layout
Help:Section
Wikipedia:Manual of Style#Article titles, headings, and sections
Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Accessibility
Wikipedia:How to fix bunched-up edit links
Wikipedia:Perennial proposals#Changes to standard appendices – Varying the names and sequence of sections at the end of articles
Lead section (aka "Top section", "First section", "Lead paragraph")
Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Lead section
Wikipedia:Writing better articles#Lead section
Wikipedia:WikiProject Introductions
Wikipedia:WikiProject Lead section cleanup
Wikipedia:WikiProject User scripts/Scripts#Navigating to Edit page – several user scripts which make it possible to edit the lead section (section "0") without editing the entire article
Summary style (when articles or sections get too long) – seeArticle 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
Wikipedia:No legal threats (WP:NLT) (policy) – among other things, an editor who makes a legal threat is to refrain from further editing
Wikipedia:Don't overlook legal threats (essay)
Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Legal
Wikipedia:Perennial proposals#Legal issues
Wikipedia:List of policies#Legal and copyright: law-based rules about what material may be used in Wikipedia, and remedies for misuse
Wikipedia:Contact us - Subjects – contacting Wikipedia when someone has a problem about an article about them, their company, or somebody they represent.
Wikipedia:Office actions (WP:OFFICE) (policy) – sometimes Wikimedia Foundation representatives bypass normal procedures because of legal issues
Wikipedia:Logos (guideline)
Wikipedia:Image use policy
Wikipedia:Libel (WP:LIBEL) (policy)
meta:Wikilegal
Links: seeSources (for external links), Wikilinks (for links between wiki articles)
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:
{{Cleanup}} – template (at top of article) for listing details of what needs to be cleaned up. (It's better to just fix problems, but if you lack the time or knowledge, use this template.) [Note that {{Wikify}} has been deprecated and should no longer be used.]
Articles that may need updating:
Wikipedia:Dusty articles – 100 articles with the longest elapsed time since the last edit
Wikipedia:Database reports/Forgotten articles – up to 1000 articles that have not been edited in the past three years
Special:AncientPages – automated report on "dormant pages"; currently disabled
Wikipedia:Blank maps – maps that can be colored and labeled in different languages
Wikipedia:WikiProject Maps
Wikipedia:WikiProject Maps/Source materials
Wikipedia:Graphics Lab/Map workshop
Commons:Commons:Project Mapmaking Wiki Standards
Commons:Commons:Map resources
mw:Extension:Maps
Wikipedia:Producing maps with xplanet
OpenStreetMap:
Wikipedia:WikiProject OpenStreetMap
"Collaboration with Wikipedia" at openstreetmap.org
"Key:wikipedia" at openstreetmap.org
[tools:~kolossos/openlayers/kml-on-ol.php?lat=51.52214&lon=-0.06012&zoom=10&lang=en Wikipedia on OpenStreetMap] (at the toolserver)
Templates for maps:
Category:Graphic templates (most individual pages in this category are map-related)
Category:Dynamic map templates
Category:Mapping templates
Category:Geography templates
Category:Wikipedia requested maps
Template:Coord – produces a link to a list of map sources, based on the geographical coordinates and other parameters
m:WikiMiniAtlas – JavaScript plugin to display a GoogleMaps-like draggable, zoomable, and clickable worldmap in geocoded Wikipedia articles
meta:Grants:IEG/Wikimaps Atlas – project to automate the creation of SVG base maps in a well researched cartographic style using the latest and most accurate open geographic data (funded late 2013)
Wikipedia:Notifications – notifies an editor of new talk page messages, edit reverts, mentions (User:Whatever), links to a page that they created, thanks, and changes in user rights, page reviews
Wikipedia:Notifications/FAQ
mw:Help:Notifications
Template:Reply to
MassMessage: (for admins)
meta:MassMessage
mw:Help:Extension:MassMessage
Thanks:
Wikipedia:Notifications/Thanks
Thanks log
User:Equazcion/DynaThank – hides "thank" links on History pages
Development:
mw:Echo (Notifications)/Feature requirements
mw:Echo (Notifications)/Testing
Template:Talkback
Wikipedia:Emailing users
Wikipedia:Canvassing – votestacking, campaigning, friendly notice, and forum shopping
Wikipedia:Template messages
User:MelonBot – can post a standard message to the talk pages of a list of editors
Shortcut: WP:EIW#Messageboxes
Messageboxes:
Via MediaWiki:
Wikipedia:Editnotice (how-to guide) – an editnotice appears above the edit window, in edit mode. Anyone can create editnotices for their user and talk pages; elsewhere, only administrators and template editors can do this.
Via templates:
Wikipedia:Template messages (all messageboxes are templates; not all templates are messageboxes)
For template messageboxes at the top of article talk pages, seeTalk pages
Shortcut: WP:EIW#Meta
Meta:
Wikipedia:Meta
m:Meta:Babel – general and policy discussion page
Microformats
Help:Microformats
Wikipedia:WikiProject Microformats
Category:Microformats
Category:Templates generating microformats
Category:Articles with microformats
User:Hans Adler/Microformats – list of discussions, 2007-2010, about microformats
Minor edit: Help:Minor edit
Shortcut: WP:EIW#Mirror
Mirrors:
Wikipedia:Mirrors and forks – sites that use Wikipedia content
Wikipedia:Standard license violation letter
Shortcut: WP:EIW#Missing
Miscellany for deletion: Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion – for deleting any page which is not covered by another deletion process (AfD, CfD, TfD, etc.)
Wikipedia:Perennial proposals#Watchlist changes (multiple watchlists, interwiki watchlists, public watchlists, watchlisting individual sections of a page)
Wikipedia:User_scripts#Watchlist
User:Ais523/watchlistei.js – exporting and importing a watchlist
Wikipedia:Copying watchlist to new username
Special:EditWatchlist/raw – Edit, import, and/or export your watchlist, in "raw" text format
User:Lupin/Monitor my watchlist – realtime feed of pages on a watch – requires User:Lupin/Anti-vandal tool (a user script)
User:Crazycomputers/WatchlistBot – editors using an XMPP service (such as Google talk), can have a separate watchlist that is updated in real time via IM, by subscribing to the service of this bot
API (must be logged in or have "remember me" checked as login option)
User:Jyotirmoyb/Watchlistfeed
User:Ryos/Watchlist RSS feeder
User:Adodge/WLWP (tested: NetNewsWire, Mac only)
Wikipedia:WikiProject User scripts/Scripts#Watchlist / Recent Changes
Customizing a watchlist (other than by using "Preferences"):
Wikipedia:Added or removed characters – changing whether the watchlist shows or does not show the number of characters added or deleted by each edit
User:Stevage/filterwatchlist.user.js – Removes various namespaces from watchlist display
User talk:Alex Smotrov/wlunwatch.js – adds an "unwatch" link to each entry on a watchlist (uses AJAX)
user:js/watchlist – multiple changes, including sorting by namespace and showing only edits since that last time the watchlist report was generated
User:Quarl/watchlist.js – adds buttons to watchlist: "unwatch", "diff since"
Alternatives to the standard watchlist (other than real-time feeds):
User:Ais523/topcontrib.js – Color-codes your contributions page based on whether you have the top (most recent) contribution or not for each page edited
Special:Recentchangeslinked/User:SpecifiedUsername/OptionalSpecifiedSubpage lists changes to all Wikipedia pages on the User:SpecifiedUsername/OptionalSpecifiedSubpage page, for example
User:Tra#User watchlist – a watchlist report of edits made by the editors listed on a regular watchlist
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)
Special:ProtectedTitles – page titles that are protected to prevent them from being created
Shortcut: WP:EIW#Naviga
Navigation: (see alsoLists) (for changing navigation by changing the location of links on the standard Wikipedia page, see Customization, Quickbar [left sidebar])
Anchors: (between pages or within a page)
Help:Link#Section linking (anchors)
Template:Anchor
Help:HTML in wikitext#Span – using "span id=" for hidden anchors
MediaWiki:Welcomecreation – page for automatic welcome message for all new accounts (transitory; is not posted to user talk pages)
Standard welcoming messages (templates):
Wikipedia:Welcoming committee/Standard user greeting
Wikipedia:Welcoming committee/Welcome templates, includes Template:Welcome
User talk:Nmajdan/welcome newuser.js – quick way to add a welcome template to a new user's talk page
Template:WelcomeMenu – one of many templates, pretty good (except for the built-in category)
User:SQLBot-Hello – adds a welcome section for new editors who have gotten accounts via Wikipedia:Request an account and have opted-in for such a welcome
Impact of welcoming:
User:TeaDrinker/Welcome study – six day study in May 2007 of the impact of welcoming 100 randomly selected new editors
Other:
Wikipedia:Twinkle – includes welcome templates and other (unrelated) functionality (also available as a gadget, under "Preferences")
Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/Welcomebot (request denied December 2006)
Wikipedia:Perennial proposals#Use a bot to welcome new users
"Onboarding":
mw:Onboarding new Wikipedians
mw:Extension:GettingStarted
Wikipedia:GettingStarted
Help:Getting started
The Teahouse – "A friendly place to help new editors become accustomed to Wikipedia culture, ask questions, and develop community relationships."
Wikipedia:Teahouse
Category:Wikipedia Teahouse
Standard postings for mistakes by new editors: Category:Wikipedia standard response templates
Suggested reading:
Wikipedia:A Primer for newcomers
Wikipedia:Avoiding common mistakes
Wikipedia:Contributing to Wikipedia
Wikipedia:Contribute what you know or are willing to learn more about (historical/inactive essay)
Other:
mw:MoodBar – experimental feature aimed at getting quick feedback on the editing experience of new editors
Wikipedia:Starter toolset – page to copy and modify
Wikipedia:Please do not bite the newcomers (WP:BITE) (guideline)
Special:Log/newusers – new accounts
Wikipedia:Guide for Everything2 noders
User:Emijrp/New users – statistics on new accounts
Source of first talk page postings for new editors, 2004-2011
User:Pyrospirit/Design the interface for newcomers
User:AlMac/Wiki Start Map – visual organization of Wikipedia pages for editors (incomplete, outdated)
News (about Wikipedia): (for news not about Wikipedia, seeCurrent events)
Wikipedia:News
Wikipedia:Dashboard (keeps track of various discussions on Wikipedia)
Category:Wikipedia news
Wikipedia:Community portal#CBB – Community bulletin board (particularly the "Notices" section)
Wikipedia:Milestones
Signpost (internal, weekly newspaper):
Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/About
Receiving:
Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/Subscribe – as a message on a user talk page
Template:Signpost-subscription – in a box (transcluded) on a user page
Via blog (including RSS option)
Signpost app – via mobile phone; app includes push notifications (Android only)
Via twitter
Wikipedia:WikipediaWeekly – a weekly (or so) podcast
Wikipedia:Not The Wikipedia Weekly (WikiProject) (inactive)
Mailing lists:
Wikipedia:Mailing lists
m:List Summary Service – summarizes of what has been discussed on various mailing lists, with links
Wikien-l mailng list – threaded version (also citable)
Wikiien-l mailing list – forum format
Foundation-l mailing list – threaded version (also citable)
Blogs:
m:Planet Wikimedia, hosted by the Wikimedia Foundation, began March 2007 – blog aggregator (blog is here [1])
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:
wmf:Wikimedia Quarto – quarterly publication; last issue was for Q1 2005
Wikipedia:Goings-on (prior to the Signpost, this was the weekly newsletter of sorts)
Wikipedia:Village pump (news) (inactive)
Shortcut: WP:EIW#Not
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
Shortcut: WP:EIW#Notable
Notability: (see also specific subject areas)
Wikipedia:Notability (guideline) – also lists types of articles for which more specific criteria has been created
Wikipedia:Notability (events)
Wikipedia:Fringe theories (guideline)
Search results and notability
Wikipedia:Search engine test (how-to guide)
Wikipedia:Google searches and numbers – considerations regarding search results
Wikipedia:The answer to life, the universe, and everything (information page) – Articles require significant coverage in reliable sources that are independent of the subject (WP:VRS)
Wikipedia:WikiProject Notability
Category:Wikipedia notability – guidelines and discussions
Category:Articles with topics of unclear notability
Essays:
User:Uncle G/On notability
Wikipedia:Inclusion is not an indicator of notability
Wikipedia:Wikipuffery
Wikipedia:Other stuff exists#Inherent notability
Others: See "Essays on notability" at Template:Wikipedia essays
WikiShark – Wikipedia article traffic and trends since 2008
For any specific article or other page:
Monthly chart for any specified page ("Wikipedia article traffic statistics") (for pages that are not articles, include the namespace as a prefix) ("Hendrik's tool")
tools:~emw/wikistats/ – Wikipedia article traffic statistics (alpha, as of November 2013)
Raw counts – beginning (24 hourly snapshots per day) December 10, 2007 (announcement)
Different language Wikipedias:
Comparison of page views for the various language Wikipedias (March 2008)
Wikipedia Page Views – page views per language per month
Paper: see Wikipedia:What Wikipedia is not#Wikipedia is not a paper encyclopedia
Wikipedia:The difference between policies, guidelines and essays (WP:PGE)
Existing:
m:Community foundation issues – five core principles guiding all Wikimedia projects.
Wikimedia Foundation policies
Wikipedia:Trifecta – an unofficial summary of the rules – three guiding principles for editors, with their corollaries.
Wikipedia:Policies and guidelines – overview
Wikipedia:Key policies and guidelines
Template:Wikipedia policies and guidelines
Wikipedia:List of policies
Wikipedia:List of guidelines
Category:Wikipedia policies and guidelines
Updates:
Wikipedia:Update – A quarterly history of changes to policy pages. (As of 2012, limited to content policies; deletion and enforcement policy pages were also covered before 2012)
User:Tony1/Monthly updates of styleguide and policy changes
Wikipedia:Tutorial/Keep in mind
Wikipedia Policies – information and statistics about the talk pages of all policies and guidelines
Misuses:
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 failed proposals
Other:
Wikipedia:WikiProject Policy and Guidelines (semi-active)
m:Requests for queries – SQL queries against wiki projects, including Wikipedia
API to query data directly from the MediaWiki servers
User talk:TonyBot – bot that can do database queries upon request (requires registration)
m:WikiXRay – a robust and extensible software tool for an in-depth quantitative analysis of the whole Wikipedia project (under development as of October 2007)
Queries of database dumps (downloaded databases):
Wikipedia:WikiProject Database analysis – collaboration of editors who use XML database dumps
User:Bluemoose/DataBaseSearchTool – for searching a database dump
Wikipedia:Computer help desk/ParseMediaWikiDump
Wikipedia:Scripts#Database scripting – scripts that can be used with a downloaded database
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
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)
Related changes (recent changes to a limited subset of pages)
Help:Related changes
Recent changes to all articles in a category: http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Recentchangeslinked&target=Category%3ACategory_name (must use underscores)
Wikipedia:Scripts#Recent changes scripts
Different ways to get recent changes
Wikipedia:IRCMonitor – Windows application, primarily for vandal-fighting
Wikipedia:Write the article first (essay) – don't create red links, and then write the article.
Shortcut: WP:EIW#Redirect
Redirects:
Wikipedia:Redirect
Help:Redirect
Wikipedia:Template messages/Redirect pages
Wikipedia:Soft redirect (WP:SRD) (guideline)
Wikipedia:Tools/Navigation popups/About fixing redirects (basically, don't fix single redirects)
Categories
Wikipedia:Categorizing redirects – most redirects should not have a article category on the redirect page (most should have a maintenance category)
Category:Disambiguation and redirection templates
Category:Wikipedia redirects
Wikipedia:Category redirects that should be kept – essay on redirected category pages
Help:Link#Using a redirect as an alternative
Wikipedia:Cross-namespace redirects (essay)
Wikipedia:WikiProject Redirect
Tools:
What redirects here – finds the redirects that point to a specified page (uses a version of Wikipedia that lags the current version slightly) (at the toolserver)
User:Splarka/fetchredirects.js – adds a link (left side), similar to "What links here"
User:Dschwen/HighlightRedirects – limited use; "fixing" redirects is generally not a good idea [Monobook skin]
User:Anomie/linkclassifier.js – User script that changes the color of the wikilink to an article when that article is a redirect or disambiguation page or has been proposed for deletion at AfD
Broken redirects (point to non-existent page)
Special:BrokenRedirects – list
Bots:
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:Yetanotherbot
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
Template:Library resources box (Forward to Libraries)
Dispatches: Find reliable sources online, Signpost, July 2008
Dispatches: Sources in biology and medicine, Signpost, June 2008
Wikipedia Reference Search:
Search page (Google)
User:Nicolas1981/Wikipedia Reference Search – underlying list of sources (domains)
Appropedia's Public Domain Search
Wikipedia:List of bibliographies
Category:Wikipedia sources
Template:Article resources
mw:AcademicAccess (abandoned 2011 project)
Assistance from other editors:
Wikipedia:WikiProject Resource Exchange
Wikipedia group at LibraryThing.com – to provide a distributed catalogue of books available to editors
Other:
WikiResearch – a tool for doing research, part of the WikiBrowse package
Zotero, an on-line research tool, which can export citations in Wikipedia format
Shortcut: WP:EIW#Revert
Reverts: (see also the "Reverts and other disagreements" section of Content disputes)
Help:Reverting
meta:Research:Revert detection
Wikipedia:Revert only when necessary (WP:ROWN) (essay)
Wikipedia:Edit warring#The three revert rule – more than three reverts by one editor to one article within 24 hours is grounds for an automatic block (WP:3RR)
User warning: Template:uw-3rr
Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/Edit warring – place to report 3RR violations (WP:AN/3RR)
Wikipedia:Three revert rule enforcement – 2004 poll about whether admins should enforce 3RR rule (was being enforced by Arbitration Committee)
Wikipedia:WikiProject User scripts/Scripts/Revert tools
Talk:Gdansk/Vote – special exception to the 3RR rule
Via rollback:
Help:Reverting#Rollback
Wikipedia:Rollback (guideline) (WP:ROLL)
Wikipedia:New admin/Rollback
Category:Wikipedia rollback feature
Wikipedia:Village pump (technical)/Archive 55#This week's software updates – how to hide "rollback" links in one's watchlist and on user pages
By non-admins:
Wikipedia:Rollback for non-administrators – discussion, December 2007; implemented January 2008
Wikipedia:Requests for permissions/Rollback – place to ask for rollback user rights
Category:Wikipedia administrators willing to grant rollback requests
Bug# 12534 – Rollback on en.wiki (resolved/closed; link is here for those interested in the history of this feature)
Sandbox: a place to practice without hurting anything
Wikipedia:About the Sandbox (information page)
Wikipedia:Sandbox
Cleaning: User:OverlordQBot, User:SoxBot IV, User:Addbot, User:ClueBot II
Shortcut: WP:EIW#School
Schools:
Wikipedia:FAQ/Schools
Wikipedia:Student assignments (WP:ASSIGN)
Wikipedia:College and university article guidelines
Wikipedia:WikiProject Classroom coordination
2008/2009 Wikipedia Selection for schools – 5,500 "good" and above articles, cleaned up and checked for suitability for children, on a single DVD (background and downloadable version of the earlier, 2007 selection here [2])
Template:School block
Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Common outcomes#Education
Across language Wikipedias: Global Wikipedia Article Search
From within Wikipedia:
Search engine:
"MediaWiki search engine improved" (Signpost article, November 2008)
Special:Search – regular search with a wider box to enter text
Test web interface for lucene-search 2.1
Help:Advanced search
User:Zocky/Auto Complete – auto-completes the titles of articles in the search box (JavaScript) (no longer required as of May 2008; this is built into the search function now)
Invoking search:
Wikipedia:FAQ/Main Page#Why doesn't the cursor appear in the search box, like with Google? – provides JavaScript so that the page focus is automatically in the search box
Other:
Special:Prefixindex – lists articles that begin with any chosen initial character string
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
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
Bug# 8458 – proposed restriction on length of signatures
Individual changes to the default signature:
Help:How to fix your signature
User:Athaenara/Gallery
Wikipedia:Smurrayinchester's signature tutorial
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 comment (replacement for User:HagermanBot)
Category:Wikipedians who have opted out of automatic signing
Pages where default signatures can be customized: (implemented November 2007
Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Linking#External links section
Help:Editing#Links and URLs – mostly about wikilinks
Wikipedia:Verification methods (essay/how-to)
Wikipedia:Perennial proposals#Establish a house citation style
Template:Subscription required – to flag an external link that requires a paid subscription to view source information
Three alternative systems:
Footnotes
Wikipedia:Citing sources#Footnotes
Help:Referencing for beginners
Help:Footnotes
Help:List-defined references – all reference (footnote) detail is in the "References" section; the body of the article has only reference names
mw: Extension:Cite/Cite.php – technical; discusses issues with current <ref> tags
m:Talk:Cite/Cite.php (fork, as of 30 April 2006)
Template:Rp – for appending page numbers to Cite.php-generated footnote superscripts (can also be used to add a link, to mimic the embedded citations method)
User:Magnus Manske/less edit clutter.js – interface change, via javascript, that puts references in a separate edit box (screenshot, mailing list discusion)
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:
Shortcut: WP:EIW#Citeprobs
In general:
Wikipedia:WikiProject Citation cleanup
Wikipedia:WikiProject External links
Wikipedia:WikiProject Fact and Reference Check
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:Articles with incorrect citation syntax (includes the following, plus many more):
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
ErrorZilla – Firefox add-on; when a link is not found, the error screen offers (among other things) a search of archive.org
User:RefBot – not operational due to restrictions on owner – ArbComm cases
OTHER:
Help:Reference display customization
w:fr:Aide:Espace référence – Information about the "Reference" namespace of the French Wikipedia; each source has its own page (with multiple editions of a source – say, of a book -– on a single page)
Special:Linksearch – identifying all external links from a given domain that are in Wikipedia articles (useful for spam searches, for example)
Category:External link templates
Help:Link#Conversion to canonical form – how links work (technical)
Help:Custom namespaces – prefixes (like :m) that (normally) resolve into an interwiki but can resolve into external source
Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Self-references to avoid
Top 500 external websites to which Wikipedia links
User:Anomie/reftooltip.js – user script to display footnote text as a tooltip when the cursor is on a footnote number
User:Anomie/ajaxpreview.js – user script to display footnotes in the preview when editing a section
m:File:Screencast - Spam blacklist introduction and COIBot reports - best.ogv
Wikipedia:WikiProject Spam
User:Thomas Larsen/Yuser, on fighting linkspam
Special:Linksearch – tool for finding all articles with similar spam (spam domain)
Wikipedia:Template messages/User talk namespace#Grid of warnings – warnings (templates) for spammers
m:Anti-spam features – some built in, some optional
Template:Spamsearch – list of spam terms ("our products") to search for
Category:Wikipedia spam
Automation:
Bots:
User:AntiSpamBot (was Shadowbot)
User:XLinkBot (was SquelchBot) and User talk:XLinkBot/RevertList
User:COIBot – reports linkadditions where the editor's name has a significant overlap with the domain of the link added, or (for IP/unregistered editors) the IP of the link is close to the IP of the editor
User:RBSpamAnalyzerBot – uses database dumps to analyze pages for potential spam
User:Nixeagle/Linkwatcher – bot that identifies links added in edits; feed is via #wikipedia-spamconnect
User:MER-C/Spamsearch – searching for a particular (spammy) URL across all 700+ Wikimedia projects
User: RoboMaxCyberSem – removal of links to blacklisted and other problem sites
m:Spamda – anti-spam program to assist editors in identifying and reverting spam; under development as July 2007
Wikipedia:Search engine optimization (essay)
Wikipedia:Spam event horizon (essay)
Wikipedia:WikiProject Marketing & Advertising
Span tags: Wikipedia:Span tags – common ones are "div" (small font in References/Notes section), strikethrough, and blockquote
Shortcut: WP:EIW#SpecialChar
Special characters:
Help:Special characters
Help:Macrons
Shortcut: WP:EIW#Special
Special pages:
Help:Special page
m:Help:Special page
Bug# 15434 – All special pages that had been disabled will be run twice per year (as of August 2013)
User:NoSeptember/Subpages about adminship – many subpages have reports; many include more than just admin-related reports
nedworks.org Statistics (charts)
Wikipedia:Modelling Wikipedia's growth
User:Dragons flight/Log analysis – analysis of both log entries (100%) and a sampling (6%) of article histories (edits), some data back to 2001 (analysis reported October 2007)
Wikipedia:Database reports/Stubs included directly in stub categories (stub categories should be generated by templates; that's not the case with these articles)
Wikipedia:Template messages/Compact tables of contents
Help:Section – covers several aspects of TOCs
Shortcut: WP:EIW#Table
Tables:
Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Tables
Help:Table
Help:Sorting
m:Help:Collapsing
Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Accessibility#Tables
User:Smurrayinchester/Tutorial/Tables
User:Dcljr/Tables – another user page about tables
"Table" namespace:
mw:Extension:TableEdit
Wikipedia:Table: namespace and editor – proposal that a new table editor should be written and that tables should be moved to a namespace similar to Image namespace
Wikipedia:Table namespace
Bug# 2194 – feature request
Exporting a table from a page:
Data Scraping Wikipedia with Google Spreadsheets
Importing data from existing spreadsheets:
mw:Extension:SimpleTable – allows tabular data to be easily cut-and-pasted (proposal)
mw:Extension:Word2MediaWikiPlus – convert Microsoft Word tables to wikitables
Convert Excel tables to wikitables – saves most formatting like background – and fontcolor, fontstyle(bold/italic), column height and width
Tabs: Template:Page tabs
Tags: see Wikipedia:Span tags, Article message boxes, Messageboxes (using the term "tags" to refer to messageboxes is common but technically incorrect; messageboxes are templates)
Wikipedia:Perennial proposals#Allow discussion about the topic of the article
Wikipedia:Tutorial/Talk pages
Wikipedia:Talk page layout (information page)
Wikipedia:BOLD, revert, discuss cycle – an exception to discussing content changes on article talk pages
Template:Reflist-talk – a version of {{reflist}}, to show a reference section for a talk page discussion within a bordered box.
Wikipedia:Refactoring talk pages
Wikipedia:A researcher's guide to discussion pages
Template:Uw-english – when an editor posts a comment in a language other than English
Wikipedia:Talk page highlights – humor
Wikipedia:WikiProject User scripts/Scripts/Talk page section tabs – if redlink to a talk page is clicked, uses the "new section" option for editing, not "new page" option
Wikipedia:Indentation (essay)
Wikipedia:Emoticons
Coordination of user talk page discussions: (see also "Notifications" section of Messages)
{{usertalkback}} and {{talkback}}
IP user talk pages:
Wikipedia:IP talk page proposal
Template:IPtalk
Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/MonoBot 2 – adds a header (template) to long IP user talk pages
New systems for talk pages:
Flow
Wikipedia:Flow (WP:FLOW)
mw:Flow
Liquid Threads: (now unlikely to be implemented on English Wikipedia)
Shortcut: WP:EIW#LT
mw:Extension:LiquidThreads – proposal
Demonstration site
In use on a site using MediaWiki software
Templates for article talk pages: (see alsoWikiProjects)
MediaWiki:Talkpagetext – standard message that appears at top of all (new?) mainspace talk pages – implemented late 2006
Template:Talk header – common template (at least until Talkpagetext was implemented) – header "Keep" decision 1/2007
Wikipedia:Talk page templates
Wikipedia:Template messages/Talk namespace
Template:Article history – consolidates information on multiple talk page templates (discussed at Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/2008-03-24/Dispatches)
Template:WikiProjectBanners and Template:WikiProjectBannerShell – for consolidating WikiProject templates at the top of article talk pages (discussed at Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/2008-03-24/Dispatches)
Category:Talk header templates
Template:Skip to talk – template for top of article talk pages, to allow readers to bypass other templates at top of article talk page
Bots:
User:PaievBot – adds specified text (including a parameterized template) to talk pages of articles in a given category and sub-categories
User:GimmeBot – adds information about events such as peer reviews and outcomes of featured and good article candidates to the Articlehistory template
{{include timeline}} – template to start process of creating a {{Horizontal timeline}} or a {{Graphical timeline}} (vertical timeline) template linked to a particular article (does not use [Easy]timeline syntax)
Easy Timeline index
Shortcut: WP:EIW#Tip
Tips:
Wikipedia:Tips – complete library of tips arranged by subject
Wikipedia:Tip of the day – schedule of 366 daily tips
m:Meta:Babylon – Meta translations portal and noticeboard
Embassies:
m:Wikimedia Embassy – central place for resources to help with cross-language issues that affect everyone
Wikipedia:Local Embassy – the English language Embassy
Category:Wikipedia multilingual coordination
Wikipedia:Contributing to articles outside your native language
incubator:Main Page – Wikimedia Incubator, for developing potential Wikimedia project wikis in new language versions
Information about languages, and translation aids:
mw:Extension:Live Translate
Wikipedia:Local Embassy
m:List of Wikipedias
Language recognition chart
Help:Special characters
Help:Multilingual support (guide to fonts)
Category:Wikipedia multilingual support templates
Using a different language article to create or improve an article in the English Wikipedia:
Wikipedia:Copying within Wikipedia#Translating from other language Wikimedia Projects
Template:Expand language – a header banner with the text "This article may be expanded with text translated from the corresponding article in the [other language] Wikipedia."
Category:Expand by language Wikipedia templates
Template:Rough translation
Template:Cleanup-translation
Template:Proofreader needed
Template:Translated page
Problems with existing article in the English Wikipedia:
{{Not English}} and {{Rough translation}}
Wikipedia:Pages needing translation into English
Category:Wikipedia articles needing translation
Wikipedia:Content contradictory to other language versions
Moving information from other language Wikipedias to the English Wikipedia
Wikipedia:Translation
Wikipedia:French Collaboration Project – for translation of high quality articles from the French Wikipedia
Wikipedia:Spanish Translation of the Week
Wikipedia:WikiProject Echo – finding information in articles in non-English Wikipedias to be added to this Wikipedia (inactive)
Wikipedia Bilingual – side-by-side display of an article in any two languages in which it is available (Firefox browser extension)
Wikipedia:Wikimedia sister projects (Manual of Style) – info on moving articles between other projects such as Wikiquote, Wikisource, Wiktionary, Wikinews, and Wikibooks
Wikipedia:Why create an account? – benefits to a person who decides to register
Wikipedia:The benefits of requiring account creation on Wikipedia (essay) – arguments against allowing IP editors
Wikipedia:The benefits of not requiring account creation on Wikipedia (essay) – arguments in favor of IP editors
Wikipedia:IPs are human too (essay) – arguments on not assuming IP editors do not make positive contributions
Starting out:
Wikipedia:Username policy (WP:U)
Wikipedia:Tutorial/Registration
Special:Userlogin – to request an account
Wikipedia:Request an account – for those who wish to create an account but cannot read the CAPTCHA image that is part of the standard registration process as of February 2007
Wikipedia:Keep It Simple – for editors who want a simple layout on their user page
Wikipedia:User page design center
Wikipedia:Userfication – moving an article from Wikipedia mainspace to a user subpage, usually because of failure to establish notability of the subject of the article
Current status of an editor:
Shortcut: WP:EIW#Status
Wikipedia:Editor activity indicator – in, around, somewhere, out
User:Misza13/Scripts#Status switcher – adds "in", "busy" and "out" links next to the "log out" link
User:Xenocidic/statusChanger2.js
Template:Statustop
User:Hersfold/StatusTemplate – "one-click way to update your status yourself"
User:TheDJ/Qui – script and system to track the online/offline status of specified other editors
User:Chris G Bot 3 – IRC users can message the bot when they want the bot to set their status to online or offline
Bug# 14384 – New #lastedit parserfunction (accepts a username as input and return a standard timestamp of the last edit by that username)
mw:Extension:OnlineStatus
Categories:
Wikipedia:User categories
Wikipedia:Categories for discussion
Category:Wikipedians – collects subcategories that editors use to label themselves, many generated by userboxes
Information about editors:
Wikipedia:WikiProject User scripts/Scripts/User tabs – adds tabs for counts (of edits), page moves, contributions, and block logs when viewing user or user talk pages.
Wikipedia:WikiProject User scripts/Scripts/User Contribs Tabs – shows contributions, counts (of edits), and edit summary usage when viewing user or user talk pages
Secret pages:
User:Bahamut0013/Secret pages
Proposal to ban, April 2008 (no consensus)
Other:
Wikipedia:Editnotice#Editnotices for user space
Wikipedia:Template messages/User namespace
Wikipedia:Template messages/User talk namespace
Template:User committed identity – a way to prove that you are the owner of an account, should your password become compromised
Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Autograph books (also known as "guestbooks" or "signature books") – may be allowed for active editors (case-by-case)
Shortcut: WP:EIW#UserRights
User rights (also known as "permissions", "usergroups", "user groups", and "user privileges"):
Special:ListGroupRights
Wikipedia:User access levels
Wikipedia:Requests for permissions
Category:Wikipedia requests for permissions
Wikipedia:Global rights policy
{{NUMBERINGROUP}} – magic word that counts the number of users in a particular group; for instance: {{NUMBERINGROUP:rollbacker}}
API query that returns a listing showing the rights assigned to each usergroup
Shortcuts: WP:EIW#Script WP:EIW#UserScript
User scripts: (JavaScript) (.js pages) (see alsoBots, Gadgets, Tools):
Wikipedia:WikiProject User scripts
Wikipedia:User scripts/Guide
mw:Gadget kitchen – where developers can coordinate their work on user scripts and gadgets
Wikibits – "MediaWiki JavaScript support functions" (good source of code)
Wikipedia:Tools
Wikipedia:Tools/Navigation popups
Help:User style#JavaScript
User:Aaron Schulz/UsefulJS
User:GeorgeMoney/UserScripts
Category:Wikipedia scripts
mw:Extension:Gadgets – a way for editors to pick JavaScript or CSS based "gadgets" that other Wikipedia editors have created, via the "Preferences" page
Wikipedia:WikiProject User scripts/Scripts/Autolink – makes plaintext wikilinks and templates clickable, for example on monobook.js pages
Wikipedia:Edit filter – extension that analyzes (filters) edits and takes rules-based action (let edit happen, prevent edit, issue warning, etc.)
"Abuse Filter is enabled" (Signpost article, March 2009)
mw:Extension:AbuseFilter
Log: Special:AbuseLog
mw:AbuseFilter Priorities / Design
mw:Extension:Phalanx – integrated special control mechanism originally developed by and for Wikia; has not been modified to run on Wikipedia
Getting assistance:
Wikipedia:Guide to administrator intervention against vandalism
Wikipedia:Administrator intervention against vandalism – page to report vandalism incidents to administrators (WP:AIV)
Wikipedia:Abuse response – reporting abuse of an IP address to a school, university, or internet provider (must have been at least five blocks on the IP address) (WP:ABUSE)
Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents – for complex cases where WP:AIV is inadequate (WP:AN/I)
Coordinated efforts:
Wikipedia:Counter-Vandalism Unit
Wikipedia:Recent changes patrol
Wikipedia:Most vandalized pages
Template:Vandalism information
Libera Chat IRC network – #vandalism-en-wp channel
Patrolled edits:
Wikipedia:New pages patrol
Wikipedia talk:Checked edits brainstorming – January 2005 failed implementation (little participation)
User:Henna/VF – Vandal-fighter – software that watches Wikipedia edits in real-time (announced May 2005)
User:Garethfoot/Wiki-Aid – Windows program that adds a sidebar interface
User:Lloydpick/Wikipedia Vandalism Watch – Windows program that monitors specified editors' contributions pages for "top" edits
WikipediaVision (beta) – shows unregistered edits to Wikipedia (almost) in real-time, on a Google map
IP lookup
godmode-light – JavaScript that adds rollback buttons to user contribution and article diff pages
Schools: post {{school block}} on talk pages
Warning vandals:
User:Kbh3rd/Vandal warning toolbox
User:Adam1213/warn – enter the username and click a button to post a warning (note: still should read the user talk page first)
Reporting of vandals at WP:AIV:
User:Digitalme/aiv.js – adds "ipvandal" and "vandal" buttons when editing WP:AIV
User:Royalguard11/AIV'er – Mac OS X program
Bots:
Identifying and fixing vandalism:
User:AntiVandalBot
User:ClueBot
User:CounterVandalismBot
User:AntiAbuseBot – Watches the Recent Changes (RC) feed for actions that match known vandals; then sends off an alert on irc, reverts the edit, reverts the edit and blocks the user, or just blocks the user
Assisting at WP:AIV:
User:HBC AIV helperbot3
User:HBC AIV helperbot5
User:HBC AIV helperbot7
User:HBC AIV helperbot 8
Other:
TemplateRevs – shows last edit for all templates transcluded on a page (default is WP:AN/I) (for suspected template vandalism)
Wikipedia:Long-term abuse – vandals who have repeatedly returned with different user accounts
Wikipedia:Perennial proposals#Prohibit anonymous users from editing
m:Friends of gays should not be allowed to edit articles
Vanity articles: see Conflicts of interest and Wikipedia:Criteria for speedy deletion
Web content as the subject of an article: Wikipedia:Notability (web) (guideline) – includes webcomics, podcasts, blogs, Internet forums, online magazines and other media, web portals and web hosts
Weight (undue): see Wikipedia:Neutral point of view
Wikipedia:Concordia – inactive as of December 2006; efforts to revive in early 2007
Wikipedia:Esperanza – defunct as of January 2007
Retention:
Wikipedia:Editor engagement
meta:Editor engagement experiments
meta:List of editor engagement projects
Other:
Divisiveness: Wikipedia:Divisiveness
Wikipedia:Meetup – face-to-face meetings of Wikipedians in cities around the world
Wikipedia:Geonotice – a notice displayed to editors who are calculated (based on their IP address) to be in a specific geographical area, such as a metropolitan area. Currently only shown to editors looking at their watchlists.
Wikipedia:Wikipediology – a WikiProject for "a serious study of the dynamics and problems of the Wikipedia community and providing resources about the Wikipedia community that currently do not exist" (inactive)
Wikipedia:Wikistress Reduction Initiative
Category:Wikipedia culture
Wikipedia:WikiProject Wikipedia
Shortcuts: WP:EIW#WP WP:EIW#Basic_Info
Wikipedia basic information:
Wikipedia – what it is, history, hardware and software, funding, authorship and management, and much more
Wikipedia:History of Wikipedian processes and people
Wikipedia:Historic debates
Wikipedia:Role of Jimmy Wales
Wikipedia:Ten things you may not know about Wikipedia (essay)
Late 2001 version of Wikipedia (nostalgia.wikipedia.org)
Wikipedia:Why Wikipedia is so great (essay)
Wikipedia:Wikipediology/library/essays/Merovingian-1 (essay) – "The Fluid Encyclopedia" – 2001 to 2005
Wikipedia Fundraising Central Online Reporting Engine
Category:Wikipedia history
Wikipedia:General reading list
Wikipedia:Instructional material
Wikipedia:Learning the ropes
Shortcuts: WP:EIW#WikiProject WP:EIW#Project
WikiProjects: (for a WikiProject related to a topic within this index, see that topic) (see alsoCollaborations)
In general:
Wikipedia:WikiProject – projects within the English Wikimedia (community) project
Wikipedia:WikiProject Council – unofficial group to encourage/assist with wikiprojects
Wikipedia:WikiProject Council/Guide (guideline) – best practices
Wikipedia:WikiProject Council/Guide#Advice pages – Any WikiProject advice page that has not been formally approved by the full Wikipedia community has the actual status of an optional essay
Wikipedia:WikiProject Council/Directory – main directory of WikiProjects
Wikipedia:Reform of WikiProjects (essay)
"WikiProject Report: Lessons from the dead and dying", Signpost, October 30, 2013
Activity:
Wikipedia:Database reports/WikiProject watchers – number of watchers of the main page of each WikiProject
Logos:
"Great WikiProject Logos", Signpost article, October 2011
"More Great WikiProject Logos", Signpost article, December 2013
Bots:
User:AlexNewArtBot – identifies new articles related to a WikiProject
User:BHGbot – puts a template on the talk pages of categories and articles to identify them as being within the scope of a particular WikiProject
User:SQLBot – tags article talk pages with wikiproject templates
Other:
User:ClockworkSoul/Igor – a standalone multi-functional management tool for maintaining and managing a medium-to-large WikiProject
Wikipedia:Awards by WikiProject
Template:WikiProject
Category:WikiProjects – pages categorized as WikiProjects
For a listing of current collaborations, tasks, and news, see the Community portal. For a listing of ongoing discussions and current requests, see the Dashboard.