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- Abuse: see Vandalism
- Access (limiting): (see also Enforcement)
- Tor:
- mw:Extension:TorBlock (editing through tor requires 100 edits and 90 days to become autoconfirmed, as of June 2008)
- w:Wikipedia:Advice to users using Tor to bypass the Great Firewall
- Preventing abuses via open proxies:
- Tor:
- Account: see User account and username
- Administrators: (see also Access (limiting), Deletion, Enforcement)
- General information:
- Contacting an administrator: (see also specific topics such as Vandalism)
- Commons:Administrators' noticeboard/Attention – a directory of places to request administrator help (page is inactive for discussion)
- Commons:Administrators' noticeboard/Vandalism
- Commons:Administrators' noticeboard/User problems
- Commons:Administrators' noticeboard/Blocks and protections
- Commons:Administrators' noticeboard (COM:AN) - none of the above; for coordinating and discussing administrative tasks on Commons
- Current administrators:
- Becoming an administrator:
- Results of RfAs:
- After becoming an administrator:
- Problems with admins:
- Reconfirmation and/or recall:
- Inactive admins:
- Problems with admins:
- Other:
- Arbitration:
- Archiving pages:
- User:MiszaBot - automatically archives a page, such as a talk page
- Assessment: see Quality of articles
- Assistance (disputes): (see also Content disputes, Help, Personal attacks, Questions)
- Audio clips: see Media
- Awards:
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- Backlogs:
- Commons:CommonTasks (inactive project)
- Banners:
- 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)
- Blocks: see Access (limiting), Enforcement
- Boldness: Commons:Don't be bold (essay)
- Bots: (see also Tools, User scripts)
- Commons:Bots - computer programs which automate repetitive editing tasks on Commons
- Commons:Bots/Requests
- Commons:Bots/Work requests
- Commons:Bots/Bots List
- Commons:Rename a category#Bots
- Commons:AutoWikiBrowser
- Commons:MediaMoveBot
- w:WP#EIW#Bots - information about bots on the English Wikipedia
- Browsers (for Wikipedia editing): (see also Editing software)
- Bundesarchiv: see German Federal Archives
- Bugs:
- Commons:Bugs
- 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
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- CAPTCHA:
- Captions: see Images
- Categories:
- General information:
- Commons:Categories – (COM:Cat) (guideline)
- m:Help:Category - general help on categories from the MediaWiki Handbook
- Commons:First steps/Sorting - how to sort and categorize images and other media files
- Commons:Naming categories
- Commons:Rename a category
- Commons:Guide to layout/Category pages
- Listings of categories:
- Special:Categories – alphabetical category listing
- Category:Fundamental – fundamental categories
- Special:CategoryTree – can generate a tree of categories, or categories and articles
- CatScan
- Commons:Tag categories - for organizing messagebox templates (incorrectly called "tags")
- Category:Commons category schemes - manually-edited pages that display subject-specific portions of the category scheme on Commons
- Possible problems with categories:
- Commons:Categories for discussion – page to discuss (and nominate) the deletion, merging, and renaming of categories (COM:CFD)
- 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
- Files without categories:
- Intersection of two categories:
- 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
- m:Help:DPL – a MediaWiki extension supporting intersections and other set operations of pages belonging to several categories
- Keeping templates from creating categories when they shouldn't:
- Bots:
- Tools:
- Commons:AutoWikiBrowser
- Help:Gadget-HotCat - In "Gadgets" tab of Special:Preferences, augments category bar with quick links to remove, change, or add categories
- MediaWiki talk:Gadget-Cat-a-lot.js
- tools:~agony/incatsince/ - In category since – tool to list all articles in a category that have been so since a specified date
- User talk:CommonsDelinker/commands
- Hidden categories:
- Other:
- bugzilla:6943 – Bug # 6943 – Magic word for number of items in a category
- Wikipedia:Template messages/Category namespace
- 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.)
- MediaWiki:Catseparator – symbol used to separate categories (can be modified by any admin)
- General information:
- Censorship:
- Common sense: (see also Process)
- Commons:Use common sense (COM:SENSE) (proposed guideline)
- Commons:Tools#CommonSense - web based tool for finding appropriate categories for images on Commons
- m:Don't be a dick
- w:Wikipedia:There is no common sense (essay) – Base your argument on existing agreements, foundation issues and the interests of the project, not your own common sense.
- Category:Commons proposed policies and guidelines
- Commons (Wikimedia Commons):
- w: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
- Commons:Categories (COM:Cat) (guideline)
- Mayflower – searching the Commons
- Commons:Tools
- Manual for new Commons users (at en.flossmanuals.net)
- Uploading: (see also Uploading)
- Commons:Tools#Upload media
- Commons:Tools/Commonplace – Windows/Linux program for drag-and-drop uploading (dysfunctional now)
- Upload image – tool to upload images from Flickr
- Moving images to (from Wikipedia):
- w:Wikipedia:Moving images to the Commons
- w:Wikipedia:WikiProject Moving free images to Wikimedia Commons
- w:Wikipedia:Criteria for speedy deletion#F8 (w:WP:CSD#F8) - final step in the move-to-Commons procedure: speedy deletion criteria for files on Wikipedia after someone copies them to Commons
- CommonsHelper – tool to generate an image description to copy-and-paste for the commons upload form (formerly called "Move-to-commons assistant")
- User:Magnus Manske/Commonshelper interface/Help en - documentation for CommonsHelper
- User:Fran Rogers/CommonsHelper Helper – user script that adds a button to easily bring up CommonsHelper
- w: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:
- w: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
- Communications (communicating with other editors): see Messages
- Community: see Wikipedia as community
- Community portal: Commons:Community portal (see also Wikipedia as a community)
- Consensus and voting:
- w:Wikipedia:Consensus (w:WP:CON) (policy on Wikipedia; Commons appears to have no separate policy on consensus)
- m:Power structure
- m:Polling is evil
- Conservation: Commons:Taxobox (COM:TX) (inactive)
- Content (how-to): see Content disputes, Edits (in general), New articles, Style (articles)
- Content disclaimer: Commons:General disclaimer
- Content disputes: (see also Consensus, Controversial articles, Disruptive editing, Neutral point of view, Personal attacks)
- General policies and guidelines: (in addition to w:WP:NOR, w:WP:V, w:WP:NPOV, etc.)
- Commons:Disputes noticeboard (COM:DN)
- Commons:Project scope/Neutral point of view - It is not the role of Commons to adjudicate on subject-matter disputes nor to force local projects to use one version of a file
- Processes for resolving (when informal discussions fail)
- General policies and guidelines: (in addition to w:WP:NOR, w:WP:V, w:WP:NPOV, etc.)
- Content notes: see Notes
- Controversial images: (see also Content disputes)
- Conversion:
- Converting page content from one format to another: see Exporting (a page), Importing
- Converting one unit of measurement into another: see Units of measurement
- Converting media file formats:
- Copyright: (see also Legal, Uploading) - how to determine what is acceptable to upload to Commons
- In general:
- Commons:Project scope/Precautionary principle (COM:PRP) - in general, assume a media file is not free content unless we can prove it is free
- Commons:Licensing (COM:L) - gives non-lawyers an overview of complicated copyright laws through an example-based tutorial
- Commons:Project scope#Must be freely licensed or public domain
- Commons:Copyright rules (guideline)
- Commons:Non-copyright restrictions
- Commons:FAQ#Copyright questions
- Commons:Image casebook (COM:CB) - discusses copyright issues with many types of images
- Commons:Choosing a license - how to donate your own work under a free license
- Commons:Derivative works (COM:DW) - usually you should not upload works derived from other copyrighted works onto Commons
- w:Idea-expression divide - a concept which explains the appropriate function of copyright laws
- Specific cases:
- Commons:Currency - copyright rules for currencies of various nations
- Commons:Fan art (COM:FAN) - artistic re-creations not licensed by the copyright holder of the original work are generally not suitable for Commons
- Commons:Screenshots - A screenshot may be published under a free license only if all the graphics shown have a free license, or the copyright holder agrees to license the screenshot freely via OTRS
- Public domain:
- w:Wikipedia:Public domain (w:WP:PD) - extensive discussion of what "public domain" means
- Help:Public domain - helps determine whether a given work is in the public domain (especially older works), and which template (i.e. license tag) to use
- Commons:Donate to the public domain - how to donate your work to the public domain
- Commons:Reuse of PD-Art photographs
- Commons:When to use the PD-Art tag (COM:PDART) - {{PD-Art}} asserts that a photograph of an old, public domain, two-dimensional work of art can have no independent copyright
- Commons:Stamps/Public domain - a list of postage stamps by country that are in the public domain
- Commons:Hirtle chart - a best effort guide to determine when images enter the public domain in the United States
- Fair use, non-free use: (see also Fair use)
- Commons:Fair use (COM:FAIRUSE)
- m:Avoid Copyright Paranoia – discussion
- Commons:Freedom of panorama (COM:FOP)
- Commons:De minimis (COM:DM) - copying of such trivial nature it can be ignored
- Requesting permission from copyright holders (see also OTRS):
- Commons:Permission - as of July, 2009, a proposed guideline explaining what to do about images having the {{Npd}} (no permission) template
- w:Wikipedia:Requesting copyright permission (w:WP:COPYREQ)
- w:Wikipedia:Example requests for permission (w:WP:ERFP)
- Commons:Email templates (not actually templates in the MediaWiki technical sense, but rather boilerplate letters one can customize)
- Copyright tags (i.e. templates, incorrectly called "tags") (see also Uploading):
- Commons:Copyright tags
- Commons:Copyright tags
- Commons:Image copyright tags visual
- Commons:Creative Commons copyright tags
- Category:PD-USGov license tags – copyright tags for U.S. government images
- Problems:
- Commons:Deletion policy (COM:DP)
- Commons:How to detect copyright violations
- foundation:Designated agent – for notification of claimed infringement
- Categories for problem images:
- Bots to find problems:
- Images:
- User:BetacommandBot
- User:STBotI – tags images for relatively speedy deletion
- User:John Bot II – tags images that lack adequate copyright information
- Images:
- w:Wikipedia:Media copyright questions - a page for asking questions on the w:English Wikipedia
- Using Commons content:
- In general:
- Counts (of edits, for an editor): (for counts of edits for a page, see History (of a page); for counts of views, see Page views)
- w:Wikipedia:Tools#Edit counters
- Milestone – finds the nth edit of an editor
- Creative Commons: (see also Copyright, Flickr, Free media resources)
- Information about the Creative Commons licenses that Wikimedia Commons allows:
- Commons:Licensing#Well-known licenses
- Commons:First steps/License selection#Better practices
- Commons:Licensing/Creative Commons 3.0 - the Commons community has not yet decided whether to allow or disallow images under this license
- Templates for identifying the Creative Commons licenses of media files:
- Finding media under Creative Contents licenses:
- Commons:Free media resources/Free content search engines - lists some ways to search the Web for content under Creative Commons licenses
- Media on Commons under Creative Commons licenses:
- Other:
- Category:Creative Commons Newsletter
- w:Wikipedia:Transition to CC-BY-SA - (proposal) - Wikipedia may change its licensing from the GFDL to CC-BY-SA
- w:Wikipedia:Comparison of GFDL and CC-BY-SA
- Information about the Creative Commons licenses that Wikimedia Commons allows:
- Credentials:
- w:Wikipedia:There is no credential policy – Wikipedia has no policy on whether credentials should either be disregarded or verified, Commons probably follows this
- Current events: (see also News about Commons)
- Wikinews (sister project)
- Commons:Deletion requests/Current events - Commons no longer has a Current events page
- Customization: (see also Quickbar, Signatures)
- Via "my preferences":
- Via the Gadgets tab in "my preferences" – see Gadgets
- Via JavaScript: see User scripts
- Via w:Cascading Style Sheets (CSS):
- w:Help:Cascading style sheets
- Skins:
- m:Customization:Explaining skins
- MediaWiki talk:Monobook.css – place to discuss changes to the Monobook skin (standard skin that editors get by default)
- Different customizations of the way Wikipedia pages appear, downloadable from userstyles.org/styles/ (primarily for readers) (Firefox, Thunderbird, Flock, Mozilla Suite, SeaMonkey, and Songbird browsers only)
- Personal CSS:
- m:Gallery of user styles (a mix of MediaWiki-compatible skins, not selectable by editors, and personal css)
- Technical:
- w:Help:User style
- m:Help:Cascading style sheets
- MediaWiki:Common.css
- m:Customize page layout – should be at Mediawiki; how to rework standard page seen by all non-logged in readers
- Editors who know CSS: w:Category:User css
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- Data download: see Downloading all of Commons, Queries (database) (for individual pages, see Exporting (a page))
- Database query: see Queries (database)
- Decision-making: see Consensus and voting, Functionaries, Wikimedia Foundation
- Deletion: (see also Categories for deletion of categories, Copyright for reasons to delete some media files, Redirect for deletion of redirects, etc.)
- Commons:Deletion policy (COM:DP)
- Commons:Deletion requests (COM:RFD)
- {{Deletion menu}}
- Commons:How to detect copyright violations
- Commons:Project scope
- Commons:Licensing
- Special:Log/delete
- Commons:Superseded images policy (COM:SUP) - deletion of superseded images has been suspended indefinitely
- Deletionist: see m:Deletionism
- Diagrams: see Graphics
- Dictionary:
- For Wiktionary, see also wikt:Main Page
- Another alternative: w: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)
- Directories: (see also Indexes)
- Commons:Picture requests
- Special:Specialpages – a list of special pages that are automatically generated and cannot be edited
- Disambiguation (see also Moving a page, Naming an article)
- w:Wikipedia:Disambiguation (w:WP:DAB) (guideline on Wikipedia - I don't see a separate guideline for Commons)
- Special:Disambiguations – pages that link to a disambiguation page and (probably) should link to an article instead
- Commons:Language policy (COM:LP)
- Bots:
- User:Polbot – removes piped linking on disambiguation pages (function #5)
- 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
- Template:Otheruses
- Other:
- Disclaimers:
- Commons:General disclaimer
- On the English Wikipedia:
- Discussion pages: (see also Help, Questions, Talk pages)
- Commons:Discussion index (COM:DI)
- {{Discussion menu}} - navigation template with links to major discussion pages on Commons
- Categories:
- Category:Image detail for discussion - images uploaded specifically for discussing improvements
- Disputes: see: Content disputes, Personal attacks
- Disruptive editing (see also Content disputes, Enforcement, Personal attacks)
- Downloading all of Commons: (see also Mobile access, Queries (database); for downloading individual pages, see Exporting (a page))
- Wikimedia Downloads of text content from Commons – unfortunately, no bulk download of images is available yet
- Picture of the year archives for 2006 and 2007
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- Edit conflicts:
- w:Help:Edit conflict – when two editors simultaneously edit the same page or section
- 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 notices: see COM:EIC#Messageboxes
- Edit summary:
- Help:Edit summary
- w:Wikipedia:Edit summary legend – commonly used abbreviations
- w:Wikipedia:Edit summary legend/Quick reference
- Commons:Automatic edit summary (COM:AES)
- Special:Preferences, Editing tab – has option for a prompt (message) when you click "save" but edit summary is blank
- w: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
- w:Wikipedia:Perennial proposals#Automatically prompt for missing edit summary
- m:Help:Dummy edit – generally for the purpose of posting an edit summary
- Edit wars: see Content disputes
- Editing: see Edits (in general)
- Editing interface (for text; user interface): (see also Browsers)
- Modifying the standard Wikipedia text editing window: see Edits (in general)
- mw:Markup spec/ANTLR – general specifications for existing markup syntax
- Wikimedia Foundation initiative (2009-2010):
- 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:
- w:Wikipedia:Text editor support
- Help:External editors
- w:Wikipedia:WikiProject User scripts/Scripts/External editor – adds a tab to easily invoke an external editor
- w:Wikipedia:MozEx tutorial – how to use the MozEx extension of Mozilla and Mozilla Firefox to select a page editor
- w:Wikipedia:Wikipedia-mode.el – Emacs
- Eclipse Wikipedia Editor at SourceForge.net
- w:WYSIWYG:
- Edits (of text; in general) (see also Edit summary, Editing software, Formatting of text, Help, New articles, New editors, Page revisions, Preview, Quality of articles, Sources)
- Help:Contents
- Standard editing screen:
- w:Help:Edit toolbar
- MediaWiki talk:Edittools
- Modifying:
- w:Wikipedia:Tools/Editing tools
- w: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 w:Wikia, which uses the MediaWiki software that Wikipedia also uses)
- w:Help:Editing FAQ
- m:Help:Dummy edit – generally for the purpose of posting an edit summary
- Enhancements for edit mode:
- w:User:Zocky/Search Box – search and replace
- Elections:
- Email:
- w:Help:Email confirmation
- w:Wikipedia:E-mailing users
- Commons:Email templates (COM:ET)
- Commons:OTRS (COM:OTRS) - procedure for obtaining permission to use a photo freely by e-mail
- Commons:Privacy policy#E-mail, mailing lists and IRC
- Embedded citations: see Sources
- Endnotes: see Sources
- Enforcement: (see also Administrators, Arbitration, Functionaries, Protection of pages)
- General:
- Blocks: (see also Access (limiting))
- Commons:Blocking policy (COM:BP)
- Commons:Administrators' noticeboard/Blocks and protections (COM:AN/B)
- Category:User block templates
- Special:Log/block – log of blocks
- Blocking IP addresses:
- w:Wikipedia:Blocking IP addresses
- Commons:IP block exemption (COM:IPE) (policy)
- mw:Help:Range blocks
- {{Blocked school}}
- Special:Ipblocklist – List of currently blocked IP addresses and usernames (searchable)
- m:Global blocking – new extension; implemented August 2008
- Actions by blocked editors:
- Essays:
- Etiquette: see Behavior
- Exporting (a page): (see also Downloading all of Wikipedia)
- w:Help:Export
- Special:Export
- mw:Manual:Parameters to Special:Export
- mw:Extension:Collection – organizing a personal selections of pages into a collection
- PDF:
- WikiPDF
- w:Wikipedia:WikiReader#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
- w:Wikipedia:Wiki Markup Language (WKML) (historical)
- Extensions: see MediaWiki
- External links: see Sources, URLs
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- FAQs – see Help pages, or specific topics in this index
- Fair use: (see also Copyright)
- Featured content: (see also Quality images, Valued images)
- Commons:Featured pictures (COM:FP)
- Commons:Featured sounds (COM:FS)
- Commons:Featured galleries (COM:FG) - still under development
- Special:Prefixindex/Commons:Featured
- Category:Featured pictures
- Category:Formerly featured pictures
- Category:Featured Article icons
- Category:Featured pictures on Wikimedia Commons
- Category:Featured sounds
- Category:Featured pictures by Derek Ramsey
- Category:Featured picture templates
- Commons:Quality images
- Special:Prefixindex/Commons:Quality
- Commons:Valued images
- Special:Prefixindex/Commons:Valued
- Files: (see also Copyrights, Images)
- Commons:File types
- w:Wikipedia:Graphic Lab/Resources/SVG
- Category:Commons resources - resources, help, tools, links, FAQs, labs, software, etc..
- Commons:Map resources
- Commons:Chart and graph resources
- en:Wikipedia:Graphic Lab/Image workshop
- meta:Philip Greenspun illustration project/Requests - request creation/improvement of illustrations
- Wikipedia:WikiProject Illustration - Ask project members for help
- Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Illustration - Ask at this talk page
- Category:Wikipedia image help
- Commons:Guide to layout/File description pages
- Names:
- MediaWiki:Titleblacklist - contains rules for filenames that Commons does not allow, when evaluating the "Destination filename" field on the upload form
- mw:Extension:Title Blacklist - documents the syntax for the filename rules
- Moving/renaming:
- Bug #709 – code has been written (not implemented as of mid-May 2008) to allow editors to rename/move images and other media files
- Commons:FAQ#How can I rename/move an image or other media file?
- Commons:File renaming
- File-related tutorials:
- Commons:First steps/Quality and description
- Commons:Media help: Help for how to play and create media files
- Help:Converting video: Help for converting video format
- Help:Creating a DjVu file
- Help:Scanning - how to create a scan, once you have determined that scanning is permissible
- Commons:Software: If you need help with viewing or creating these formats, please see the useful software
- Flags:
- Of nations:
- Bot-related: (see Bots)
- Flickr (photo-sharing site). (See also Free media resources)
- w:Flickr - general information
- Category:Commons. Flickr
- Commons:Flickr files (COM:FLICKR)
- Commons:Flickr files/Guide
- Special:Prefixindex/Commons:Flickr files - subpages
- Commons:WikiProject Flickr (COM:WPF)
- Reviewing images uploaded from Flickr:
- Tools:
- Flinfo - fills out an {{Information}} template for a Flickr photo
- User:Flominator/Flinfo - instructions for using Flinfo
- User:Teratornis/Flickr examples - worked out examples of uploading photos using Flinfo
- Simple Commons upload form to paste the {{Information}} template from Flinfo into
- {{Flickr free}} - search for photos with licenses suitable for Commons
- Browse Flickr images
- Bryan's Upload Flickr images (experimental, not working reliably as of 2009-01-23)
- Magnus' Flickr2Commons upload tool page (instant copying)
- Flickrripper - for batch uploading large numbers of images
- Flinfo - fills out an {{Information}} template for a Flickr photo
- Problems:
- Commons:Flickr washing (COM:FLICKRW) - an unacceptable tactic for making unfree images appear to be free
- Form (as input): w:Help:Inputbox (a MediaWiki extension to add predefined HTML forms to wiki pages)
- Formatting of text: (see also Exporting (a page))
- How to: (most text formatting instructions are on Wikipedia rather than Commons)
- w:Wikipedia:Manual of Style (text formatting) – bold, italics, underlines, etc.
- w:Wikipedia:How to edit a page#Wiki markup
- w:Help:Wikitext examples
- m:Help:Reference card – one page summary of important MediaWiki editing commands, intended to be printed out
- Help:HTML in wikitext
- w:Wikipedia:Tutorial (Formatting)
- Quick reference guides:
- w:Wikipedia:Cheatsheet (w:WP:CHEAT)
- Short, printable "cheatsheet" on Wikimedia Commons
- w:Wikipedia:Manual of Style (command-line examples) – for articles on w:computer science, how to format words that an editor would type, useful for documenting tools
- Colors:
- Discussion of MediaWiki's syntax:
- How to: (most text formatting instructions are on Wikipedia rather than Commons)
- Formulas: see Graphics
- Forum shopping: see w:Wikipedia:Spam#Forum shopping
- Foundation: see Wikimedia Foundation
- Free media resources (see also Flickr and German Federal Archives (Bundesarchiv))
- Commons:Free media resources
- Special:Prefixindex/Commons:Free media
- Commons:Free media resources/Drawing
- Commons:Free media resources/General Public Domain sources
- Commons:Free media resources/Music
- Commons:Free media resources/Painting
- Commons:Free media resources/Photography
- Commons:Free media resources/Sound
- Commons:Free media resources/Video
- Commons:Free media resources/Photography
- Commons:Sources - Photographers
- w:Wikipedia:Public domain image resources
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- Gadgets: (new tab, since December 2007, on the "My preferences" page)
- Commons:Gadget - overview of what gadgets are, with useful links
- 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)
- MediaWiki:Gadgets-definition
- Special:Gadgets – shows underlying scripts and CSS code used for each gadget
- w:Wikipedia:Gadget (w:WP:GADGET) – lists the available gadgets on Wikipedia
- Galleries (see also Images)
- Commons:Guide to layout/Gallery pages
- Commons:Galleries
- Commons:Featured galleries - still under development as of July, 2009
- Related information from the English Wikipedia:
- Other:
- Commons:Collages - combination of multiple images arranged in a single image
- Games: see Fun (for games within Wikipedia), Video games
- General disclaimer: Commons:General disclaimer
- Geocoding (graphic coordinates and mapping): (see also Maps)
- Commons:Geocoding (COM:GEO)
- Commons:GeoCommons
- Commons:Map resources
- Commons:Geocode Users
- Commons:Microformats Project - geo microformat
- w:Wikipedia:Obtaining geographic coordinates
- w:Wikipedia:WikiProject Geographical coordinates
- {{Location}} template for adding coordinates to media files
- 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
- German Federal Archives (see also Free content resources)
- w:German Federal Archives or Bundesarchiv (BArch) (German: Bundesarchiv) are the w:National Archives of Germany
- Commons:Bundesarchiv
- Commons:Bundesarchiv/Gallery
- Special:Prefixindex/Commons:Bundesarchiv - subpages
- Category:Bundesarchiv
- Glossaries:
- For terms used by Wikipedia editors, see Terms and terminology
- For glossaries that are articles (content), see w:Portal:Contents/List of glossaries
- w:Wikipedia:Glossary (w:WP:G) - list of terms used on Wikipedia (many also used on Commons)
- w:Wikipedia:Alphabet soup - list of abbreviations used on Wikipedia for various pages, processes, policies, and proposals
- Commons:Language policy#Titles of articles - contains a short glossary of terms
- Commons:Photography terms
- Good faith: see Personal attacks
- Google:
- w:Google Earth: see Maps
- Google test: see Search engine test
- w: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
- w:Template:Google templates - a list of templates that generate links to various Google services (e.g. search, custom search, image search, language translation)
- Graphics (see also Galleries, Images, Inkscape, Maps)
- w:Wikipedia:Graphics tutorials
- w:Help:Displaying a formula – markup
- w:Wikipedia:ASCII art conversion tool
- w:Wikipedia:Chemical ASCII-art
- w:Wikipedia:How to create graphs for Wikipedia articles
- Commons:Graphic Lab (aka "Graphics Lab")
- Commons:Graphics village pump (COM:GVP) - where to get help with graphics
- Special:Prefixindex/Graphic
- Diagrams:
- Other:
- Commons:Collages - combination of multiple images arranged in a single image
- mw:Extension:GraphViz
- Category:Graphics abilities - categorizes users by their graphics skills
- Guestbooks: see User pages
- Guidelines: see Policies and guidelines
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- Hardware: see Technical (hardware and software)
- Harassment (aka "Harassment"): see Personal attacks
- Help (directly requesting): (see also Discussions, Questions)
- Commons:Help desk (COM:HD) - general help questions
- Commons:Village pump (COM:VP) - technical questions
- Commons:Graphics village pump (COM:GVP) - questions about graphics
- Special:PrefixIndex/Commons:Graphics village pump - to list the archive pages
- Commons talk:Licensing - licensing/copyright questions
- Special:PrefixIndex/Commons talk:Licensing/Archive - to list the archive pages
- To-do: list the other places to request various kinds of assistance
- 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
- Frequently asked questions:
- Categorized pages:
- Categorized images:
- Category:Help for Wikipedia newbies - screenshots to illustrate tutorials
- History (of a page):
- w:Wikipedia:How to read an article history
- w:Help:Page history
- w:WP:EIW#History - more entries on the Editor's index to Wikipedia
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- Images: (see also Censorship, Commons, Copyrights, Files, Galleries, Graphics, Inkscape, Navigation)
- General information:
- Needed pictures:
- Resources (where to get images) (see also Commons, Flickr, Free media resources):
- Before uploading:
- Commons:Preparing images for upload
- Commons:Media restoration
- Dispatches: Vintage image restoration, w:Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/2008-03-13/Dispatches
- Uploading: (see also Commons)
- Commons:First steps - overviews the process
- Commons:Upload – wizard
- MediaWiki:Uploadtext – warns about the need to specify the source of an upload, and copyright information
- Commons:Upload
- Commons:Copyright tags
- Special:Upload
- Choosing a License – explanations of what the various Creative Commons options are
- Displaying on a page: (see also Gallery)
- Featured and valued: (see also Featured content)
- Improving images:
- Commons:Media for cleanup
- Commons:Graphic Lab
- Commons:Graphic Lab School/Images to improve (place to request assistance)
- Cropping images:
- bugzilla:7757 – Bug #7757 – allow cropping images when rendered – proposal to enable display of only part of an image
- User:Cropbot - a bot which crops an image without requiring the user to download a copy
- Metadata: (see also Geocoding)
- Commons:EXIF - how to edit the EXIF data of a JPEG image
- Annotating:
- Help:Gadget-ImageAnnotator - Javascript extension allowing users to place comments onto images shown on file description pages
- Collages:
- Commons:Collages - combination of multiple images arranged in a single image
- Problem images on Wikipedia: (other than Copyrights)
- Deletion: (see Deletion)
- Orphans:
- Commons:Tools#OrphanImages
- 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:STBotI – tags images for relatively speedy deletion
- User:John Bot II – tags images that lack adequate copyright information
- Other:
- 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
- Bots:
- Other: (see also Commons regarding moving images from Wikipedia to Commons)
- Special:Newimages ("Gallery of new files") – images that have just been added to Wikipedia
- Special:ListFiles – most recently uploaded files
- Special:Filepath – provides a URL to link directly to the current version of an image
- Commons:Image classification system
- Importing: (see also Tables)
- Commons:OpenOffice.org SVG Import
- Porting PDF files to MediaWiki (from Appropedia.org)
- w: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")
- Indexes: (see also Directories)
- Of any namespace on Commons:
- Special:Allpages – select a starting point for browsing
- Other:
- Of any namespace on Commons:
- Infoboxes: (templates):
- Inserting text from one page into another page – see Transclusion
- Instructional material: see Learning
- Inkscape: (See also Graphics, Images, Maps, Tools)
- Help:Inkscape - Inkscape is a vector graphics editor application for graphically editing SVG files
- Help:Text and Inkscape - how to create SVG representations of text using Inkscape
- Help:Vector graphics tutorial - how to create SVG files with Inkscape
- Help:SVG
- Commons:Transition to SVG - how to replace existing bitmap (raster) files with vector files
- Commons:Media for cleanup#PNG or JPEG images that should be SVG
- Inkscape: Guide to a Vector Drawing Program
- Templates:
- {{Bitmap from Inkscape}} - to mark images that someone created by downsampling from an SVG file originally created in Inkscape
- {{Convert to SVG}} - to mark raster images that someone should vectorize
- {{Created with Inkscape}} - to mark images someone created with Inkscape
- {{Inkscape-hand}} - to mark images someone created with Inkscape, and then edited the SVG code in a text editor program
- {{User Inkscape}} - a user box for Inkscape users
- {{Vector version available}} - to mark bitmap images for which a corresponding SVG file exists
- Category:SVG marker templates
- Commons:SVG marker templates - visual guide to SVG-related templates
- Related media:
- Category:Created with Inkscape - if you use Inkscape to make a file, then mark it with {{Created with Inkscape}} when you upload it
- Category:Inkscape - general category for other pertinent documents and images to the software itself
- Category:Inkscape instruction - a category for SVG images to use in Inkscape tutorials
- Commons:Meet our illustrators - some are highly skilled Inkscape users
- Librsvg bugs - examples of SVG images that do not (or did not) render correctly on Commons
- Resources on the English Wikipedia:
- w:Inkscape - general information about the program
- w:Wikipedia:Graphic Lab/Resources/SVG
- w:Wikipedia:How to draw a diagram with Inkscape
- w:Wikipedia:SVG Help
- w:Wikipedia:SVG image support
- w:Wikipedia:WikiProject Electronics/Programs - has some tips on drawing electronic schematics with Inkscape
- Interlanguage links: (see also Interwiki links, Translations)
- w:Help:Interlanguage links
- m:A newer look at the interlanguage link – essay about establishing a wiki as a hub for interwiki links
- Internet Relay Chat (IRC):
- Commons:Internet Relay Chat
- w:Wikipedia:IRC channels
- w: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
- Commons:Community portal
- m:IRC channel cloaks
- Wikipedia IRC help channel – a login page
- Interwiki links: (see also Interlanguage links, Transwiki)
- w:Help:Interwiki linking
- Template:W - a template for creating interwiki links to the various language Wikipedias
- IP lookup: see Vandalism
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- Keyboard shortcuts: w:Wikipedia:Keyboard shortcuts
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- Languages: see w:Wikipedia:Naming conventions (languages), individual countries/languages, Translations
- Layout and sections: (see also Table of contents) (for layout of the standard Wikipedia page, see Customization)
- Commons:Guide to layout (COM:LAYOUT) - outlines some of the basics for laying out gallery pages, file description pages, and category pages
- Special:Prefixindex/Commons:Guide to layout - a list of all the Guide to layout subpages
- w:Help:Section
- Commons:Guide to layout/Category pages
- Commons:Guide to layout/File description pages
- Commons:Guide to layout/Gallery pages
- Commons:Guide to layout (COM:LAYOUT) - outlines some of the basics for laying out gallery pages, file description pages, and category pages
- Learning: (see also Help, Questions)
- Help:Vector graphics tutorial
- Commons:Tutorial for Bitmap graphism
- Commons:Tutorial for Audio file editors
- Commons:Ancient Chinese characters:Tutorial
- Commons:How to take pictures for Wikimedia Commons
- Commons:Cleaning up interference with Fourier analysis
- Commons:Preparing images for upload
- User:Al2/Tutorial about Illustrations
- Commons:Meet our illustrators (COM:MOI)
- Commons:Map resources#Tutorials
- Legal: (see also Copyrights, Disclaimers, Privacy)
- Commons:Photographs of identifiable people (COM:IDENT) - guidelines for pictures of identifiable people on Commons
- Commons:Help page maintenance/Legal pages
- Commons:Reusing content outside Wikimedia
- Commons:Credit line - holds information that an author of a work requests all users to include with the work, as a condition of use enforced by the license
- Commons:Freedom of panorama
- Commons:Deletion policy
- Commons:Coats of Arms#Legal restrictions on usage (COM:COA)
- Commons:Non-copyright restrictions
- Commons:Ownership of pages and files
- Commons:Licensing
- Licensing: see Copyright
- Links: see Sources (for external links), Wikilinks (for links between wiki articles)
- Logging in: (see also User account and username)
- Commons:First steps/Account
- mw:Extension:OpenID – lets users log in with an OpenID
- Security:
- w:Wikipedia:Security (essay)
- w: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: (see also Copyright, Trademarks)
- Fair use claimed:
- {{Fair use}} is a redirect to {{Fair use}} because files with fair use claims are not permitted on Commons
- Commons's logo:
- Wikipedia's logo:
- Logos by others, as media:
- Category:Logos
- Commons:Image casebook#Trademarks - discussion of copyright as it applies to corporate logos and trademarked images
- On the English Wikipedia:
- Fair use claimed:
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- Magic:
- w:Help:Magic
- Magic words:
- Help:Magic words
- Help:Variable
- w:Help:Parser function
- m:Help:ParserFunctions – a collection of parser functions
- mw:Markup spec/BNF/Magic links
- Mailing lists: (see also News (about Wikipedia))
- Commons:Mailing lists
- Wikimedia Mail Stats: Index] – statistics on all Wikimedia Foundation mailing lists
- Main page: (see also Protection of pages)
- Maintenance: (see also Quality of articles, Spelling, Things to do)
- Commons:Help page maintenance (COM:HPM)
- Special:Prefixindex/Commons:Help page maintenance
- Commons:Media for cleanup
- Commons:Category scheme Commons maintenance/en
- Special:Prefixindex/Commons:Category scheme Commons maintenance
- Category:Commons maintenance content
- {{Maintenance announcements}}
- Other:
- Special:AncientPages – 1 September 2007 listing of the 5000 pages with the longest elapsed time since the last edit
- Manual of Style:
- w:Wikipedia:Manual of Style (Commons has no Manual of Style yet)
- Maps: (see also Geocoding)
- m:Maps
- m:Wikimaps
- w:Wikipedia:Blank maps – maps that can be colored and labeled in different languages
- w:Wikipedia:WikiProject Maps
- w:Wikipedia:WikiProject Maps/Source materials
- w:Wikipedia:Graphic Lab/Map workshop
- Commons:Project Mapmaking Wiki Standards
- w:Wikipedia:Producing maps with xplanet
- w:Wikipedia:WikiProject OpenStreetMap
- w::Category:Wikipedia requested maps
- {{Location}} – 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
- Commons:Featured pictures/Non-photographic media/Maps
- Commons:Categories/Maps
- Commons:United States county locator maps
- Commons:Map resources
- Special:Prefixindex/Commons:Map resources
- Commons:WikiProject Atlas
- Commons:Geocoding
- Mapmaking tools:
- Cartographic tutorials:
- fr:Wikipédia:Atelier graphique/Didacticiels cartographiques - mapmaking tutorials in French
- w:Wikipedia:Graphic Lab/Resources/Tutorials - some of the French mapmaking tutorials translated to English
- Markup: see Formatting of text
- Mathematics: (see also Numbers)
- Meat puppets: see policy on Sock puppets
- Media: (see also Copyright, Images, Music)
- Commons:Media help
- Special:Prefixindex/Commons:Media help
- mw:Extension:OggHandler
- Ogg search – search of the Commons for specific audio and video streams
- Commons:Picture requests
- Commons:Video
- Commons:Audio and video requests
- Mediation:
- w:Wikipedia:Mediation (policy on Wikipedia - Commons has no separate policy)
- 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)
- w:Help:Testing
- 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:
- Messages: (see also Internet Relay Chat (IRC), Messageboxes, Talk pages)
- w:Wikipedia:Canvassing – votestacking, campaigning, friendly notice, and forum shopping
- w:Wikipedia:E-mailing users
- Commons:Templates
- Messageboxes:
- Via MediaWiki:
- Via templates:
- Commons:Templates (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: - a wiki-based web site that is auxiliary for coordinating all the Wikimedia Foundation projects
- w:Wikipedia:Meta
- m:Meta:Babel – general and policy discussion page
- Microformats
- Minor edit: w:Help:Minor edit
- Mirrors:
- In the computer science sense:
- w:Wikipedia:Mirrors and forks – sites that use Wikipedia content
- w:Wikipedia:Standard GFDL violation letter
- Classifying images of actual mirrors:
- In the computer science sense:
- Missing media:
- Mobile access:
- To-do: determine whether there is any information about mobile access to Commons; the links in this entry pertain to mobile access to Wikipedia
- "iPhone Gems: Wikipedia Apps" – review of 16 apps for the iPhone or iPod touch (November 2008)
- Real-time version of Wikipedia:
- w:Wikipedia:Mobile access
- 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
- Other:
- GeoPedia – provides iPhone owners with a Wikipedia feed customized to their current location
- "Kiwi" client – for iPhone and iPod
- Moderator: see Administrator
- Monitoring changes: (see also Recent changes)
- Commons:Administrators' Category watch
- Watchlist
- w:Help:Watching pages – about watchlists
- w:Wikipedia:Copying watchlist to new username
- 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
- w:Wikipedia:Perennial proposals#Create a counter of people watching a page
- Real-time feeds:
- API with feedwatchlist option (must be logged in or have "remember me" checked as login option)
- Alternatives to the standard watchlist (other than real-time feeds):
- Special:Recentchangeslinked/User:SpecifiedUsername/OptionalSpecifiedSubpage lists changes to all Wikipedia pages on the User:SpecifiedUsername/OptionalSpecifiedSubpage page, for example
- gWatch (Global Watchlist) – Watchlist for all Wikimedia wikis
- RSS (page-by-page specification):
- Other:
- Special:Unwatchedpages – pages not on anyone's watchlist [this special page is viewable only by admins]
- Movies: see Films To-do: determine how best to deal with this entry; maybe link it to media or video instead
- Moving a page: (see also Disambiguation, Naming an article, Redirects)
- Commons:First steps/Upload form
- w:Help:Moving a page (w:WP:MOVE)
- w:Help:Merging and moving pages (w:WP:MM)
- Commons:Rename a category
- w:Wikipedia:Moving guidelines for administrators
- w:Wikipedia:How to fix cut-and-paste moves
- MediaWiki:Movenotallowed
- MediaWiki:Movepage-moved – page that an editor sees after a successful move
- Moving a file:
- Bug #709 – code has been written (not implemented as of mid-May 2008) to allow editors to rename/move images and other media files
- Commons:FAQ#How can I rename/move an image or other media file?
- Commons:File renaming
- Music: (see also Media)
- Commons:Free media resources/Music
- Commons:Valued images by topic/Works of art/Music
- w:Wikipedia:Music samples (guideline)
- w:Wikipedia:WikiProject Music
- w:Wikipedia:WikiProject Free music
- mw:Extension:AbcMusic – for typesetting music using the ABC notation
- w:Portal:Music
- Wikifm – a mashup of Last.fm and Wikipedia
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- Name (of a user): see User account and username
- Namespaces:
- w:Wikipedia:Namespace
- Help:Namespaces
- Commons:Project namespace (copied from Wikipedia; needs editing for Commons)
- Query results – existing namespaces – also indicates which are allowed to have subpages
- m:Help:Namespace manager – for a future version of MediaWiki
- Special:CrossNamespaceLinks – links from articles to generally inappropriate namespaces such as "User" and "User talk"
- Prefix namespaces (for redirects):
- w:Help:Custom namespaces – prefixes (like :m) that (normally) resolve into an interwiki but can resolve into external source
- Special:Prefixindex/COM – finds shortcut (redirect) pages in mainspace that link to pages in the Commons: (Project:) namespace
- Special:Prefixindex/CAT – finds shortcut (redirect) pages in mainspace that link to pages in the Category: namespace
- Commons:COM – redirect pages in the COM: pseudo-namespace
- Naming: (see also Disambiguation, Moving a page, New pages)
- Commons:Language policy (COM:LP)
- 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)
- w:Help:Anchors
- Template:Anchor
- Help:HTML in wikitext#Span – using "span id=" for hidden anchors
- Between pages:
- w:Wikipedia:Basic navigation
- Navigational templates: see Series boxes
- Keyboard shortcuts:
- Clicking on an image:
- Commons:First steps/Upload form#Navigational maps
- w:Wikipedia:WikiProject Usability/Clickable images
- mw:Help:Linked images
- ImageMaps:
- Commons:Image map resources
- mw:Extension:ImageMap – "imagemap" tags for linking via clickable images (new as of January 2007)
- Tutorial in the Signpost
- Image map editor
- Category:Clickable maps
- Anchors: (between pages or within a page)
- Neutral point of view (NPOV):
- New articles: (see also Conflicts of interest, Deletion of articles, Edits (in general), Missing articles, Naming an article, New pages, Quality of articles)
- New contributors: see New editors
- New editors: (see also Edits (in general), Learning, Questions, User rights)
- Welcoming:
- {{Welcome}} - a template for welcoming new users
- Commons:Welcome log (COM:W) - a list of users welcomed automatically by a bot program
- Commons:First steps (COM:FS)
- Special:Log/newusers – new accounts
- Special:Contributions/newbies – edits by new editors
- Welcoming:
- New pages: (see also New articles)
- Commons:First steps/Upload form
- Help:Starting a new page (merely redirects to Help:Contents - try to find something on Commons which actually applies to this topic)
- 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"
- Commons:Patrol (COM:PATROL) - explains the patrol user right
- Restrictions on names of new pages:
- MediaWiki:Titleblacklist - page title restrictions currently in force on Commons
- mw:Extension:Title Blacklist - documentation about the MediaWiki extension which allows system administrators to implement page title restrictions
- mw:MediaWiki:Titleblacklist
- Special:ProtectedTitles
- New users: see New editors
- News (about Commons): (for news not about Wikipedia, see Current events)
- Commons:Community portal – has a short entry for a new item
- Commons:Community news - archived news items
- Mailing lists:
- Commons: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)
- Not:
- Commons:What Commons is not (still under development)
- Wikis and similar sites which do allow various types of content that Wikipedia does not:
- Notability: (see also specific subject areas)
- w:Wikipedia:Notability (guideline) – Commons has no separate notability guideline
- Commons:Project scope
- Noticeboards:
- Commons:Administrators' noticeboard
- Special:Prefixindex/Commons:Administrators' noticeboard
- 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)
- w:Wikipedia:Manual of Style (dates and numbers)
- w:Wikipedia:Naming conventions (numbers and dates)
- m:Help:Modulo and round
- w:Wikipedia:WikiProject Numbers
- Template:Nowrap – to ensure that a number and its unit of measurement appear on the same line of text
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- Obscenity: see Censorship
- "Office" actions – see Wikimedia Foundation
- Open-source Ticket Request System (OTRS):
- Commons:OTRS (COM:OTRS) - for validating permission to use a photo, obtained through e-mail from the copyright holder
- Category:Commons OTRS volunteers
- {{OTRS}} - a message template to place on file pages for which permission is on file in OTRS
- Special:WhatLinksHere/Template:OTRS - file pages displaying the {{OTRS}} message template
- Special:PrefixIndex/Template:OTRS - message templates relating to OTRS and the various stages of validating permission
- m:Info-en mission – incoming emails in English
- m:OTRS
- m:OTRS/Info-en recruiting – information on volunteering ("experienced admins" only, in theory)
- m:OTRS/volunteering – page for volunteers to list their names
- Organizations:
- As subjects of articles: see Companies and organizations
- Within Wikipedia: (see Wikipedia as community)
- Original research: see Sources
- OTRS: see Open-source Ticket Request System
- Output: see Exporting (a page)
- Overcategorization: Commons:Categories#Over-categorization (COM:OVERCAT) (see also Categories)
- Ownership: (for ownership of Commons itself, see Wikimedia Foundation)
- Commons:Ownership of pages and files (COM:OWN) – about editors who don't like to have their words edited by others
- Commons:Image casebook
- Commons:Patient images
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- 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
- Page views: (see also Counts)
- Most viewed (English Wikipedia):
- 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
- Most viewed (English Wikipedia):
- Paper: see w:Wikipedia:What Wikipedia is not#Wikipedia is not a paper encyclopedia
- Parser function: see Magic words
- Password: see Logging in
- People (as subjects of photographs):
- Per: w:Wikipedia:Per – how to interpret "per COM:OWN" and similar comments by other editors
- Personal attacks: (see also: Content disputes, Disruptive editing)
- Core policies and guidelines
- w:Wikipedia:Assume good faith (w:WP:AGF) (COM:AGF)(guideline)
- w:Wikipedia:Civility (w:WP:CIVIL) (policy)
- w:Wikipedia:No personal attacks (w:WP:NPA) (policy)
- w:Wikipedia:Harassment (guideline)
- w:Wikipedia:No legal threats (policy)
- w:Wikipedia:Attack page (policy)
- w:Wikipedia:Linking to external harassment (guideline)
- Avoiding problems:
- w:Wikipedia:Avoid personal remarks
- w:Wikipedia:Etiquette (w:WP:EQ) (guideline) – how to work with others on Wikipedia
- m:Don't be a dick
- w:Wikipedia:Don't call the kettle black (essay)
- w:Wikipedia:How to be civil (essay)
- Remedies (see also Arbitration, Mediation)
- Core policies and guidelines
- Personal information: see Privacy
- Photography (see also Images)
- Commons:Meet our photographers
- Commons:Macro - advice on how to photograph small objects
- Commons:Photography terms - a glossary
- User:Yug/Camera - advice on cameras
- Commons:Photography critiques
- Wikipedia:Wikipedians/Photographers - English Wikipedia users who will take photographs of various locations
- Pictures: see Images
- Piped links (changing the visible text for a wikilink):
- w:Wikipedia:Piped link
- w:Help:Piped link
- w:Wikipedia:Manual of Style (disambiguation pages)#Piping – generally, don't use piped links on disambiguation pages
- w: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:
- w:Wikipedia:Lyrics and poetry (guideline)
- mw:Extension:Poem – for formatting
- Point: w:Wikipedia:Do not disrupt Wikipedia to illustrate a point (w:WP:POINT)
- Point of view (POV): see Neutral point of view (NPOV)
- Policies and guidelines (see also Process)
- Existing:
- Commons:Policies and guidelines (COM:POL) - a list of policies and guidelines on Commons
- m:Foundation issues – five policies ("issues") that are "essentially beyond debate"
- Wikimedia Foundation policies
- w:Wikipedia:Trifecta – an unofficial summary of the rules – three guiding principles for editors, with their corollaries.
- Category:Commons policies
- Misuses:
- Changing (in general):
- Templates:
- {{Commons policies and guidelines}} - a navigation template linking to some policy and guideline pages
- Existing:
- Polls: see Consensus and voting
- Portals: (Commons has no Portal: namespace)
- Preferences: see Customization
- Prefixes: w:Wikipedia:Shortcut#List of prefixes – (pseudo-namespaces on Wikipedia; Commons uses COM: and CT:, possibly others)
- Preview:
- w:Help:Show preview
- w:Help:Editing shortcuts (poor page name; it's about previews)
- 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
- Printing: w:Help:Printable
- Privacy:
- For subjects of photographs: see People
- For editors and readers:
- Commons:Privacy policy
- m:Privacy policy
- m:Draft Privacy Policy June 2008
- w:Wikipedia:How to not get outed on Wikipedia (essay)
- w:Wikipedia:Privacy (inactive/historical)
- w:Wikipedia:Respect privacy (inactive/historical)
- Secure access:
- foundation: Access to nonpublic data policy
- m:Ombudsman commission – processes complaints about violations of the privacy policy
- w:Wikipedia:Harassment#Types of harassment
- w:Wikipedia:Protecting children's privacy (essay)
- Removal (from view) of selected versions of pages:
- w:Wikipedia:Selective deletion – by administrators
- Commons:Oversight and Wikipedia:Requests for oversight – by editors given "oversight" authority
- m:Right to vanish
- w:Wikipedia:Right to vanish (guideline)
- Process: (see also Common sense, Policies and guidelines)
- w:Wikipedia:What Wikipedia is not (policy) – Wikipedia is not a bureaucracy, and not an anarchy
- w:Wikipedia:Snowball clause – more than an essay, less than a policy
- w:Wikipedia:Process is important (essay)
- w:Wikipedia:Practical process (essay)
- w:Wikipedia:Product, process, policy (essay)
- w:Category:Wikipedia processes
- Profanity: see Censorship
- Projects: see Wikiprojects
- "Project" pages: Commons:Project namespace
- Pronunciation:
- Protection of pages:
- Commons:Protection policy (COM:PROTECT)
- Commons:Administrators' noticeboard/Blocks and protections – page to request that a page be protected (WP:RPP)
- w:Wikipedia:New admin school/Protecting
- w:Wikipedia:Rough guide to semi-protection (essay)
- w:Wikipedia:New admin school/Protecting deleted pages
- MediaWiki:Semiprotectedpagewarning
- w:Wikipedia:High-risk templates (guideline)
- 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
- Commons:Protection policy – example
- Bots that change protection notification templates on pages that are or are not protected:
- 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:
- w:Wikipedia:Manual of Style
- w:Wikipedia:WikiProject Punctuation
- Dumb quotes – user script that converts "fancy" punctuation to their 7-bit ASCII equivalent
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- 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
- w:Wikipedia:Tools/Navigation shortcuts – add one or more personal sidebars, with links, on 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
- Quality of images: (see also Featured content, Maintenance)
- Quality of editing, improving: see Learning
- Queries (database) (see also Downloading all of Wikipedia, Statistics and reports, Technical (hardware and software))
- w: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)
- Analysis:
- w:Wikipedia:WikiProject Database analysis – collaboration of editors who use XML database dumps
- w:Wikipedia:Computer help desk/ParseMediaWikiDump
- Questions: (see also Assistance, Help, Learning)
- Commons:Help desk (COM:HD)
- Commons:Village pump (COM:VP)
- On a user talk page, via {{Tl:Help}}
- IRC: Wikipedia IRC help channel (irc://irc.freenode.net/wikipedia-en-help)
- Quotations:
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- 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)
- w:Portal:Middle-earth/Random-article – example on Wikipedia of how to generate a random article from a specified set of articles
- w:User:Misza13/Random – Random number generator (via a template)
- Bug #2170 – choosing a random article from a category is available in MediaWiki software; disabled on Wikipedia for performance reasons
- Recent changes: (see also Monitoring changes, Related changes, Vandalism)
- Special:Recentchanges
- w:Help:Recent changes
- w:Help:Enhanced recent changes
- w:Wikipedia:Scripts#Recent changes scripts
- w:Wikipedia:IRCMonitor – Windows application, primarily for vandal-fighting
- m:IRC/Channels#Recent changes
- Recognition: see Awards
- Red links:
- w:Wikipedia:Red link (w:WP:RED)
- MediaWiki:Red-link-title – standard tool-tip message
- Redirects:
- w:Wikipedia:Redirect
- w:Help:Redirect
- Commons:Category redirects suck
- Category:Disambiguation and redirection templates
- Category:Redirects
- Problematical:
- Broken redirects (point to non-existent page)
- Special:BrokenRedirects – list
- Double redirects:
- w: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"
- Broken redirects (point to non-existent page)
- Redistribution: (see also Competitors, forks, and mirrors, Schools)
- Refactoring: see Talk pages
- References: see Sources
- Registration: see User account and username
- Related changes: (see also Recent changes)
- w:Help:Related changes
- Recent changes to all articles in a category:
- Commons:Categories#Applying "Related Changes" to a category
- By directly editing a URL: http://commons.wikimedia/w/index.php?title=Special:Recentchangeslinked&target=Category%3ACategory_name (must use underscores)
- Using a magic word in wikitext: {{fullurl:Special:Recentchangeslinked|target=Category name}} (underscores are not necessary in the category name by this method)
- or browse to the category page and click "Related changes" in the toolbox
- Reliable sources: see Sources
- Renaming (pages): see Moving a page
- Reports: see Statistics and reports
- Requested articles: see New articles
- Resources (see also Free media resources)
- Reverts:
- Commons:Vandalism (COM:V) - instructions for reverting a file after someone uploads a malicious revision
- w:Help:Reverting
- w:Wikipedia:Revert only when necessary (w:WP:ROWN) (essay)
- w:Wikipedia:Three-revert rule – Commons has no formal three-revert rule; this doesn't mean that edit warring or upload warring is acceptable (COM:GTA#Un/blocking)
- Revision (prior version) of a page: see History
- RFC automatic links: mw:Manual:RFC
- Roads:
- Category:Roads
- w:Wikipedia:Manual of Style (U.S. state and territory highways)
- w:Wikipedia:WikiProject U.S. Roads (includes three guidelines)
- RSS and similar feeds: see Monitoring changes
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- Sandbox: a place to practice without hurting anything
- Schools:
- w:Wikipedia:FAQ/Schools
- w:Wikipedia:School and university projects (w:WP:SUP)
- 2008/2009 Wikipedia Selection for schools – 5,500 "good" and above articles, cleaned up and checked for suitability for children, on a single DVD (background and downloadable version of the earlier, 2007 selection here)
- Template:Blocked school (analogous to w:Template:Schoolblock on Wikipedia)
- Tagging by bots:
- User:SelketBot
- w:User:MadmanBot – adds {{SharedIPEDU}} and name of college/university/school to IP user talk pages
- Scripts: see User scripts
- Searching Commons
- Mayflower – searching the Commons
- Special:Search
- Searching Wikipedia (some functional overlap with searching Commons): (see also Index of pages, Queries (database))
- In general:
- From within Wikipedia:
- Search engine:
- "MediaWiki search engine improved" (Signpost article, November 2008)
- Special:Search – regular search with a wider box to enter text
- w:Help:Short words in searches
- w:Wikipedia:Perennial proposals#Search should detect spelling errors
- Test web interface for lucene-search 2.1
- Invoking search:
- w:Help:Go button
- w:Wikipedia:FAQ/Main Page#Why doesn't the cursor appear in the search box, like with Google? – provides JavaScript so that the page focus is automatically in the search box
- Other:
- Special:Prefixindex – lists articles that begin with any chosen initial character string
- Search engine:
- From outside Wikipedia:
- Firefox:
- Using Wikipedia for the search box provides an autocomplete feature
- Creating a smart keyword – can replace "site:en.wikipedia.org" in searches
- Wikiseek:
- Wikiseek – A better way to search Wikipedia – beta, January 2007; includes Firefox extension
- Wikiseek Community Wikie
- DBpedia.org
- Similpedia – uses a URL or a chunk of text to find similar articles in Wikipedia
- AskWiki – semantic search engine developed in partnership between AskMeNow and the Wikimedia Foundation (beta)
- Powerset – natural language search of Wikipedia
- Yahoo's Wikipedia SearchMonkey App
- Seariki – search engine specifically designed for Wikipedia [(http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikien-l/2007-December/088027.html December 2007 announcement])
- Powerset – semantic search (May 2008)
- Googlepedia – Firefox add-on; shows a relevant Wikipedia article along with Google search results
- Preventing search engines from searching pages:
- 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]
- w:Wikipedia:Talk pages not indexed by Google (feature request)
- Firefox:
- Tools:
- w:Wikipedia:Tools#Searching (may eventually merge into Wikipedia:Searching)
- w:Wikipedia:WikiProject User scripts/Scripts#Searching
- Semantic MediaWiki:
- w:Semantic MediaWiki – version 0.7 was released April 2007
- m:Semantic MediaWiki
- Semantic MediaWiki at Sourceforge.net
- Wikipedia Concept Extractor at Sourceforge.net
- Commons:Microformats Project – metadata
- Sections (of articles): see Layout and sections
- "See also" section: w:Wikipedia:Layout#See also
- Self-interest: see Conflicts of interest
- Semi-protection of pages: see Protection of pages
- Series boxes:
- w:Wikipedia:Navigation templates
- Category:Navigational templates - templates for navigating galleries and/or images
- Category:Category navigational templates - templates for navigating categories
- Category:Commons navigational templates - templates for navigating pages in project namespace
- w:Template:NavFrame – dynamic navigation (series) boxes (collapsible – hide/show)
- w:Wikipedia:Categories, lists, and navigation templates – compares alternative approaches
- Servers: see Statistics, Technical (hardware and software)
- Shortcuts (abbreviated redirects):
- Commons:COM
- Special:Prefixindex/CAT: - find all shortcuts beginning with CAT:
- Special:Prefixindex/COM: - find all shortcuts beginning with COM:
- Special:Prefixindex/CT: - find all shortcuts beginning with CT:
- w:Wikipedia:Full meta links – failed proposal to implement templates to replace shortcuts
- Signatures: (see also Customization, Talk pages)
- As a feature of MediaWiki:
- w:Wikipedia:Signatures (w:WP:SIG) (guideline)
- Commons:Changing username - Instead of changing your name, you can change your signature at User Preferences
- bugzilla:8458 – Bug #8458 – proposed restriction for length of signatures
- Individual changes to the default signature:
- Automatic signing (automated signing):
- w:User:SineBot – signs talk pages for editors who forgot, where an editor started a new section or an indented his/her comment (replacement for w:User:HagermanBot)
- w:Category:Wikipedians who have opted out of automatic signing
- Pages where default signatures can be customized: (implemented November 2007
- Other:
- MediaWiki:Signature – format of default signature for editors who haven't changed the default in their preferences
- Hand-written signatures as media:
- Commons:When to use the PD-signature tag (COM:SIG)
- {{PD-signature}} - template for marking images of hand-written signatures that are free from copyright
- Category:Signatures
- Category:PD signature
- As a feature of MediaWiki:
- Signon – see Logging in, User account and username
- Single purpose account: w:Wikipedia:Single-purpose account (essay)
- Signpost – see News (about Wikipedia)
- Sister projects: see Transwiki
- Sock puppets (multiple accounts by one person):
- w:Wikipedia:Sock puppetry (w:WP:SOCK) (policy on Wikipedia)
- tools:~pietrodn/intersectContribs.php Intersection contribs – lists all pages edited by both of two specified editors
- tools:~erwin85/contribs.php Muliple contributors – A "recent edits" listing for a group of (specified) editors
- Checkuser (identifying sock puppets by checking IP addresses)
- w:Wikipedia:CheckUser (policy on Wikipedia)
- Commons:Requests for checkuser – requests for review of addresses
- Software:
- As the subject of a screenshot image:
- Commons:Screenshots - A screenshot may be published under a free license only if all the graphics shown have a free license, or the copyright holder agrees to license the screenshot freely via OTRS
- Commons:Upload/screenshot - start of upload form
- Used for the Wikipedia project: see MediaWiki, Technical (hardware and software)
- Used for editing: see Browsers, Editing software
- As the subject of a screenshot image:
- Sound (files): see Media
- Sources (see also Resources, Spam, URLs)
- w:WP:EIW#Source - extensive information about sources of articles on Wikipedia
- Category:Citation templates
- Source information in media files:
- {{No source since}} - template message to place on media files lacking source information
- Commons:Essential information
- Sources of media files: (see also Free media resources)
- Commons:Bad sources
- Commons:Problematic sources
- Commons:Sources - Photographers
- {{information}} has a
Sourcefield which should document the source of every media file
- Bad external links: (link rot)
- Finding bad links:
- Checklinks (generates a report for links on any requested page):
- Checklinks
- w:User:Dispenser/Checklinks – documentation
- m:Weblinkchecker.py -script to find and report external links that are no longer available
- Checklinks (generates a report for links on any requested page):
- Identified bad links:
- Fixing bad external links:
- w:Wikipedia:Citing sources#What to do when a reference link "goes dead"
- Archive.org:
- w:Wikipedia:Using the Wayback Machine
- ErrorZilla – Firefox add-on; when a link is not found, the error screen offers (among other things) a search of archive.org
- Finding bad links:
- Other:
- Special:Linksearch – identifying all external links from a given domain that are in Wikipedia articles (useful for spam searches, for example)
- Category:External link templates
- w:Wikipedia:Canonicalization – how links work (technical)
- w:Help:Custom namespaces – prefixes (like :m) that (normally) resolve into an interwiki but can resolve into external source
- w:WebCite – a way to archive a copy of a page that is an external link
- Spam: (see also Sources, Vandalism)
- w:Wikipedia:Spam (w:WP:SPAM) (guideline on Wikipedia)
- m:Spam blacklist – blocked domains
- MediaWiki:Spam-blacklist
- Commons:Watermarks (proposed guideline)
- Special:Linksearch – tool for finding all articles with similar spam (spam domain)
- {{Spam}} – a template to use for warning spammers
- m:Anti-spam features – some built in, some optional
- Commons:Project scope/Pages, galleries and categories – guideline against advertising
- The meat product "Spam":
- Images relating to e-mail spam:
- Span tags: w:Wikipedia:Span tags – common ones are
div(small font in References/Notes section),strikethrough, andblockquote
- Special characters:
- Special pages:
- Help:Special page
- m:Help:Special page
- Special:Specialpages – list/links
- Spelling: (see also Formatting of text, Maintenance)
- w:Wikipedia:Proper names
- U.S. and Commonwealth differences:
- w:Wikipedia:Manual of Style (spelling)
- w:Wikipedia:Manual of Style (capital letters)
- w:Wikipedia:List of spelling variants
- w:Wikipedia:Articles using British English titles
- w:Wikipedia:Articles using American English titles
- w:Wikipedia:Manual of Style (national varieties of English) (failed proposal)
- w:Wikipedia:Perennial proposals#Enforce American or British spelling
- Errors in articles:
- w:Wikipedia:Spellchecking
- w:Wikipedia:Lists of common misspellings
- w:Wikipedia:Redirects from misspellings
- w:Wikipedia:AutoWikiBrowser/Typos
- w:Wikipedia:Typo Team
- w:User:TypoBot
- w:User:SpellCheckerBot – will generate lists of suspected spelling errors which individual editors can then review and correct
- w:Wikipedia:AutoWikiBrowser/Typos – set of regular expressions used to automatically fix common typos and misspellings
- Other:
- Spell checkers for various browsers: see w:Wikipedia:Tip of the day/September 2
- Errors when doing a search: see w:Wikipedia:Perennial proposals#Search should detect spelling errors
- Spoiler:
- Not giving away plot details of a book or film:
- w:Wikipedia:Spoiler (w:WP:SPOIL) (guideline)
- The aerodynamic device:
- Not giving away plot details of a book or film:
- SQL query: see Queries (database)
- Statistics and reports: (see also separate topics, Page views (of articles), Queries (database))
- w:Wikipedia:Statistics
- Special:Statistics
- Commons:MIME type statistics - bot-compiled counts of files on Commons by MIME type
- Infodisiac blog – postings by Eric Zachte, hired September 1, 2008 to maintain and develop code for metrics for Wikimedia Foundation projects
- Help:Magic words#Statistics – magic words that provide statistical information
- Information kept on wikimedia.org (Foundation) pages:
- Editing by time of day
- m:List of Wikipedias
- Commons:Administrator permission for statistics – which administrators give permission for statistics to be published about their administrator activities
- nedworks.org Statistics (charts)
- Commons:CommonTasks/Statistics
- Formatting:
- {{0}} - template for padding statistics and other numeric data in tables so they align
- Media relating to statistics: (only a partial list)
- Stewards: see Functionaries
- Style (articles) (see also Accessibility, Dates, Formatting of text, Layout and sections, Punctuation, Quality of articles, Words and wording)
- Style guidelines on Wikipedia:
- Subpages:
- w:Wikipedia:Subpages (w:WP:SP) (guideline)
- w:Wikipedia:User page#How do I create a user subpage? (w:WP:USER) (guideline)
- w:User:UberScienceNerd/Tutorials/Using subpages
- Query results – existing namespaces – lists which namespaces are allowed to have subpages
- Subsections (of articles): see Layout and sections
- Substitution: see Templates
- SVG: see Inkscape
- Synonyms: Synarcher at SourceForge.net – search and visual display
- Sysop: see Administrator
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- Table of contents: (see also Layout and sections)
- Category:TOC templates
- w:Wikipedia:Template messages/Compact tables of contents - displays compact tables of contents on Wikipedia
- w:Help:Section – covers several aspects of TOCs
- Tables:
- w:Wikipedia:How to use tables ("disambiguation" page)
- w:Wikipedia:When to use tables (Manual of Style)
- w:Help:Table
- w:Help:Sorting
- m:Help:Collapsing
- w:User:Smurrayinchester/Tutorial/Tables
- w:User:Dcljr/Tables – another user page about tables
- Exporting a table from a page:
- Importing data from existing spreadsheets:
- mw:Extension:SimpleTable – allows tabular data to be easily cut-and-pasted (proposal)
- mw:Extension:Word2MediaWikiPlus – convert Microsoft Word tables to wikitables
- Convert Excel tables to wikitables – saves most formatting like background – and fontcolor, fontstyle(bold/italic), column height and width
- Tabs: w:Template:PageTabs
- Tags: see w:Wikipedia:Span tags, Messageboxes (using the term “tags” to refer to messageboxes is common but technically incorrect; messageboxes are templates)
- Talk pages (see also Archiving, Signature, User pages, Warnings)
- Commons:Talk page guidelines (COM:TALK)
- w:Wikipedia:Talk page (w:WP:TP)
- Help:Talk page
- m:Help:Talk page
- w:Wikipedia:Tutorial (Talk pages)
- w:Wikipedia:BOLD, revert, discuss cycle – an exception to discussing content changes on article talk pages
- w:Wikipedia:Refactoring talk pages
- Templates for avoiding having user talk page discussions on two different pages: {{usertalkback}} and {{talkback}}
- Liquid Threads: planned new system for talk pages
- Templates for article talk pages: (see also WikiProjects)
- MediaWiki:Talkpagetext – standard message that appears at top of all (new?) mainspace talk pages – implemented late 2006
- 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
- Technical (hardware and software) (see also Bugs, MediaWiki, Queries (database))
- General:
- w:Wikipedia:FAQ/Technical
- Commons:Features - historical page
- m:System administrators (formerly "Developers")
- Special:Version – lists extensions and hooks
- w:Wikipedia:Don't worry about performance (w:WP:PERF) (guideline)
- Wikimedia Technical Blog - real-time postings from Wikimedia system administrators about server status, software updates, etc.
- Wikitech mailing list
- Operational status
- Wikipedia: Site internals, configuration, code examples and management issues (pdf), presentation at MySQL Users Conference 2007
- Troubleshooting:
- w:Wikipedia:FAQ/Problems
- w:Wikipedia:Troubleshooting
- w:Wikipedia:Village pump (technical)
- w:Wikipedia:Bypass your cache
- w:Wikipedia:Purge – clear a page's server cache
- Other:
- General:
- Templates: (see also Article message boxes, Infoboxes, Messageboxes, Series boxes, Transclusion, Userboxes)
- General information:
- w:Help:A quick guide to templates
- w:Wikipedia:Anatomy of a template (tutorial)
- w:Wikipedia:FAQ/Template
- Help:Template
- Commons:Template standardization
- Commons:Template i18n - template translation
- Commons:User-specific galleries, templates and categories policy (COM:USER)
- Category:Commons templates (CAT:T)
- Pages which demonstrate templates:
- More information:
- Substitution:
- Help:Substitution
- w:Wikipedia:Template substitution (guideline) (w:WP:SUB)
- User:MBisanzBot – does substitution when an editor forgets to do so
- Technical:
- w:Wikipedia:Template test cases
- w:Wikipedia:Template limits
- w:Help:Advanced templates
- w:Help:Parameter default – expands templates recursively
- w:Help:Editing sections of included templates
- Special:ExpandTemplates – takes some text and expands all templates in it recursively.
- w:Wikipedia:Changing templates
- w:User:Willscrlt/commons/Category suppression in templates (en) – keeping templates from creating categories when they shouldn't
- Problems:
- Commons:Administrators' noticeboard/Blocks and protections (COM:AN/B) - a place to request protection for a high-risk template
- Category:Protection templates
- Commons:Deletion requests (merely a redirect to Commons:Deletion requests; there is no separate page on Commons for template deletion requests)
- Category:Pages where template include size is exceeded
- w:Help:Job queue – why changing a category in a template doesn't instantly change all articles with that template
- Other:
- tools:~cbm/cgi-bin/queries/TemplateRevs – shows last edit for all templates transcluded on a page (default is w:WP:AN/I)
- General information:
- Terms and terminology: (see also Glossaries)
- w:Wikipedia:Glossary
- w:Wikipedia:Tutorial/Glossary – ten terms not covered in the main part of the tutorial that may be useful for beginners
- w:Wikipedia:Edit summary legend – commonly used abbreviations in edit summaries
- w:Wikipedia:WikiSpeak – alternative definitions
- Threats: (see also Personal attacks)
- Legal threats: see Legal
- Violence:
- Things to do: (see also Maintenance)
- Commons:Bundesarchiv/Todo
- Wiki ToDo – Randomly selects an article, provides a statistical analysis, and suggests ways to improve it
- Three reverts: w:Wikipedia:Three-revert rule (w:WP:3RR)
- Time:
- Adjusting date/time shown on watchlists and other special pages: see "my preferences", "date and time" tab
- User:Gary King/localize comments.js – converts all timestamps on a displayed Wikipedia page to the user's local time
- Timelines:
- Category:Timelines - media relating to timelines
- Timelines on Wikipedia:
- w:Wikipedia:Timeline
- w:Wikipedia:Timeline standards (Manual of Style)
- w:Wikipedia:Timeline syntax
- w:Wikipedia:EasyTimeline
- w:Help:EasyTimeline syntax
- mw:Extension:WikiTimeLine (version 1.0 as of July 2008)
- Tips:
- Commons:Categories#Categorization tips
- Tips on Wikipedia:
- Template for one's user page: w:Template:totd
- w:Category:Wikipedia Tip of the day
- w:Wikipedia:Wikipedia tipster
- Tools: (see also Bots, Extensions, Upload tools, User scripts)
- Top of article: see Layout and sections
- Trademarks: (see also Copyrights, Logos)
- w:Trademark - general information
- Commons:Image casebook#Tradmarks (COM:CB#Trademarks) - many trademarks are copyrighted, but trademarked images too simple to be copyrighted may be acceptable for uploading to Commons
- Commons:Non-copyright restrictions - further discussion on trademark restrictions
- Commons:Trademarks proposal - a proposal to delete any image that depicts a registered trademark (inactive)
- Media:
- Category:Trademark symbols - symbols for indicating trademarks
- Category:With trademark - images containing trademarks
- Category:Wikimedia Community Logos - images to use freely to avoid infringing on the Wikimedia Foundation's logo copyright and trademark
- Templates:
- {{Trademarked}} - to place on trademarked media files
- Transclusion: (see also Templates)
- w:Wikipedia:Transclusion
- w:Help:Embed page
- m:Help:A simple composite example
- mw:Extension:Labeled Section Transclusion (not yet enabled)
- mw:Extension:DynamicPageList – creating a composite article from a collection of sections "chapters" of similar articles
- Translations: (see also Interwiki links)
- {{Translation possible}}
- Commons:Translation possible/Learn more
- Wikipedia in different languages – overview:
- Commons:Multilinguality
- m:Meta:Babylon – Meta translations portal and noticeboard
- m:Wikimedia Embassy – central place for resources to help with cross-language issues that affect everyone
- incubator:Main Page – Wikimedia Incubator, for developing potential Wikimedia project wikis in new language versions
- Information about languages, and translation aids:
- Editors who can help with translations:
- Transwiki: (see also Interwiki links)
- w:Wikipedia:Wikimedia sister projects (Manual of Style) – info on moving articles between other projects such as Wikiquote, Wikisource, Wiktionary, Wikinews, and Wikibooks
- m:Help:Transwiki
- Category:Help Transwiki - for pictures about how to transwiki import a page from another wiki
- Commons:Transwiki
- Information on specific sister projects:
- Trolls and trolling: w:Wikipedia:What is a troll? (w:WP:TROLL) (essay)
- Tutorials: see Help pages
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- Units of measurement:
- Universities: see Schools
- Uploading files: (see also Copyright, Copyright tags)
- Commons:First steps/Account - to upload files, you must first create an account
- Upload (COM:U) - top-level page with links to specialized upload forms:
- one's own work
- someone else's work from Flickr (see Flickr)
- a derivative work of a file from Commons
- from another Wikimedia project (Wikipedia, Wikibooks, Wikinews, etc.)
- from a US federal government source
- a free software screenshot
- from somewhere else
- Commons:Upload/Unknown author or license
- For experienced users:
- Already know the license, and its copyright tag? Go directly to the main upload form.
- Already have an {{information}} template ready? (For instance, generated by the Flinfo tool?) Use the basic upload form.
- Upload tools: (see also Tools)
- Commons:Redesigning the upload form
- URLs: (see also Sources, Wikilinks)
- w:Wikipedia:URLs- URLs of pages within Wikipedia: articles, redirects, watchlists, etc.
- Help:URL
- w:Wikipedia:Tutorial (External links)
- mw:Help:Magic words#URL data - useful for wrapping URLs containing wikitext characters
- User account and username: (see also Logging in, Privacy, Signature, User pages, User rights)
- Registered accounts versus anonymous IP editing:
- w:Wikipedia:Why create an account? – benefits to a person who decides to register
- w:Wikipedia:The benefits of requiring account creation on Wikipedia (essay) – arguments against allowing IP editors
- w:Wikipedia:The benefits of not requiring account creation on Wikipedia (essay) – arguments in favor of IP editors
- Starting out:
- Commons:Username policy (proposed)
- Commons:First steps/Account
- Special:Userlogin – to request an account
- w:Wikipedia:Request an account – for those who wish to create an account but cannot read the w:CAPTCHA image that is part of the standard registration process as of February 2007.
- w:Help:Email confirmation
- Inappropriate usernames
- {{Inappropriate username}}
- On Wikipedia):
- w:Wikipedia:Usernames for administrator attention – blatantly inappropriate usernames
- w:Wikipedia:Requests for comment/User names – discussions
- w:Template:Uw-ublock
- Monitoring bots:
- Changing usernames:
- Special:Listusers – check if a username exists
- Commons:Changing username
- Single signon (single login):
- bugzilla:57 – Bug #57 – feature request
- Signpost articles: August 2006, August 2007
- m:Help:Unified login and m:Single signon transition – moving to a single username (signon) across all Wikipedia domains
- mw:Extension:CentralAuth – "allows global/shared accounts between projects"
- Identifying existing accounts for a user name:
- User contributions – tool on the German Wikipedia
- Single-user login conflict search (MySQL server error since mid-2007)
- Unification:
- Special:MergeAccount – to check one's own status, and to do login unification
- m:Special:GlobalUsers – editors who have opted into single signon
- Other:
- Registered accounts versus anonymous IP editing:
- User interface: (see also Customization)
- Special:AllMessages – system messages available in the MediaWiki: namespace
- User pages: (see also Archiving, Galleries, User account and username, Userboxes, Warnings)
- Commons:User-specific galleries, templates and categories policy (COM:USER)
- On Wikipedia:
- w:Wikipedia:User page (w:WP:USER) (guideline)
- w:Wikipedia:Subpages (guideline)
- w:Wikipedia:User Page Design Center
- Current status of an editor:
- bugzilla:14384 – 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:
- Category:User - sorts users by languages spoken, interests, activities
- Category:Wikipedians – images of Wikipedia users
- Other:
- Template:User committed identity - a way to prove that you are the owner of an account, should your password become compromised
- User rights (also known as "user privileges", "user groups", and "usergroups"):
- Special:ListGroupRights
- Commons:User access levels
- w:Wikipedia:Global rights usage (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
- Autoconfirm:
- Commons:Autoconfirmed users - lists the specific rights that autoconfirmed users have on Commons
- mw:Extension:Automatic Groups
- mw:Manual:$wgAutopromote
- mw:Extension:TorBlock (editing through tor requires 100 edits and a 90 days to become autoconfirmed, as of June 2008)
- Changes:
- w: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
- Bugzilla #14191 – Autoconfirmed settings on enwiki changed to 4 days and 10 edits as of May 2008
- w:Wikipedia talk:Autoconfirmed Proposal/Poll2 – proposal, June 2008, to increase requirements to 7 days, 20 edits (about 65% supported)
- Userboxes (see also User pages)
- Commons:Userboxes (COM:UBX)
- w:Wikipedia:Userboxes – describes standard format and links to thousands of userboxes
- w:Wikipedia:Userbox Maker
- Category:Userbox templates
- w:Wikipedia:Jimbo on Userboxes (w:WP:JOU)
- User scripts: (JavaScript) (.js pages) (see also Bots, Gadgets, Tools):
- w:Wikipedia:WikiProject User scripts
- w:Wikipedia:WikiProject User scripts/Tutorial
- Wikibits – "MediaWiki JavaScript support functions" (good source of code)
- Commons:Tools
- Commons:Tool integration
- Category:User scripts
- mw:Extension:Gadgets – a way for editors to pick JavaScript or CSS based "gadgets" that other Wikipedia editors have created, via the "my preferences" page
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- Valued images: (see also Featured content)
- Vandalism (see also Sock puppets, Spam, Stable versions, Warnings)
- In general:
- On Wikipedia:
- Tutorial: Reporting and dealing with vandals – w:Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/2008-01-28/Tutorial
- w:Wikipedia:Vandalism in progress – a quick directory
- w:Wikipedia:Revert, block, ignore (essay)
- w:Wikipedia:Do not insult the vandals (essay)
- w:Wikipedia:Deny recognition (essay)
- w:Wikipedia:The motivation of a vandal (essay)
- w:Category:Wikipedia vandalism
- w:Wikipedia:WikiProject Vandalism studies
- Getting assistance:
- Tools: (see also Recent changes)
- Commons:AutoWikiBrowser
- Commons:Twinkle (also available as a gadget, under "my preferences")
- Commons:Huggle – in development as of January 2008
- WikipediaVision (beta) – shows anonymous edits to Wikipedia (almost) in real-time, on a Google map
- IP lookup
- godmode-light – JavaScript that adds rollback buttons to user contribution and article diff pages
- Schools: post {{schoolblock}} on talk pages
- Category:User block templates
- Bots:
- Identifying and fixing vandalism:
- Other:
- tools:~cbm/cgi-bin/queries/TemplateRevs – shows last edit for all templates transcluded on a page (default is w:WP:AN/I) (for suspected template vandalism)
- WikiTrust Blog – color-coding text in articles based on the calculated level of trust for each contributor
- m:Friends of gays should not be allowed to edit articles
- Category:Vandalism - images of vandalism in the real world
- Variables: see Magic words
- Vector graphics: see Inkscape
- Verifiability: see Sources
- Version tagging: see Stable versions
- Video: see also Media
- Video games:
- Village pump: Commons:Village pump – discussion of technical issues, policies, and operations of Commons
- Voting: see Consensus and voting
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- Warnings:
- Watchlist: see Monitoring changes
- Weight (undue): see Neutral point of view
- Welcome: see New editors
- What: Commons:Project scope – what media are suitable for Commons
- Wiki markup: see Formatting of text
- Wikibreaks:
- w:Wikipedia:Wikibreak
- Self-specified (enforced) breaks:
- LeachBlock – Firefox add-on (for any website)
- Wikilawyering: see Policies and guidelines (misuses of)
- Wikilinks: (see also Piped links, Red links)
- w:Wikipedia:How to edit a page#Links and URLs
- w:Wikipedia:Tutorial (Wikipedia links)
- w:Wikipedia:Manual of Style (links)
- w:Help:Contents/Links
- Commons:First steps/Reuse
- w:Help:Self link
- w:Help:What links here – identifying wikilinks that point to an existing page
- Technical:
- w:Wikipedia:Link color
- w:Wikipedia:Canonicalization – how wikilinks work (technical)
- w:Wikipedia:Template messages/Links
- Pages where lack of wikilinks indicates a problem:
- Special:DeadendPages – pages with no outgoing wikilinks
- Special:Lonelypages – pages with no incoming wikilinks ("orphan" pages)
- Other:
- Special:Mostlinked – pages with the most links pointing to them
- Six degrees of Wikipedia – shortest path query solver
- Wikimedia Foundation – the parent organization of Wikipedia and numerous other collaborative projects such as Wiktionary and Wikibooks
- foundation:Home
- m:Metapub – central place for questions and discussions about the Foundation and its projects
- m:Wikimedia Embassy – central place for resources to help with cross-language issues that affect everyone
- Wikimedia Foundation – Wikipedia article
- Foundation blog
- w:Wikipedia:Elections#Wikimedia Board
- Wikimedia Information Kit, September 2006 (pdf)
- Projects:
- w:Wikipedia:Projects of Wikimedia
- w:Wikipedia:Wikimedia sister projects (Manual of Style)
- mw:Special:SiteMatrix – list of two-digit abbreviations for all Wikimedia Foundation wikis
- w:Wikipedia:Office actions (w:WP:OFFICE) (policy) – immediate editing actions to deal with potential legal issues
- OTRS: see Open-source Ticket Request System
- Commons:OTRS (COM:OTRS)
- Category:Commons OTRS volunteers
- m:Info-en mission – incoming emails in English
- m:OTRS
- m:OTRS/Info-en recruiting – information on volunteering ("experienced admins" only, in theory)
- m:OTRS/volunteering – page for volunteers to list their names
- Wikipedia 1.0: (see also Stable versions)
- Wikipedia as a community (see also Criticism (of Wikipedia), Experts, News (about Wikipedia), WikiProjects)
- m:Wikicommunity
- Participants:
- w:Wikipedia:Who writes Wikipedia
- m:Why Wikimedians edit
- m:Edits by project and country of origin
- w:Wikipedia:Why on Earth would I want to contribute to a wiki
- w:Wikipedia:Wikipedians
- w:Category:Wikipedians – collects subcategories that editors use to label themselves, many generated by userboxes
- w:Wikipedia:Wikipedians with articles – Wikipedia editors notable enough (almost always for other reasons) to have a mainspace article about them
- w:Wikipedia:Facebook
- w:Wikipedia:Missing Wikipedians
- w:Wikipedia:Editors matter (essay)
- w:Wikipedia:Patrols
- w:Template:Wikipediholicism
- Philosophies:
- m:Conflicting Wikipedia philosophies
- w:Wikipedia:Laissez-faire (essay) – also known as "wikilibertarianism"
- w:Wikipedia:Why do you care? (essay)
- w:User:Raul654/Raul's laws
- Forums:
- w:Wikipedia:Community portal – "the central place to find out what's happening on Wikipedia"
- w:Wikipedia:Village pump – discussion of technical issues, policies, and operations of Wikipedia
- The WikBack – for those who prefer a web-based forum (December 2007 announcement)
- Research and studies:
- w:Wikipedia:Wikipedia in academic studies
- w:Wikipedia:Researching Wikipedia
- w:Wikipedia:WikiProject Wikidemia
- meta:Wikimedia Research Network
- w:Wikipedia:Ethically researching Wikipedia – proposal (as of November 2008)
- Mailing lists:
- Wiki-research:
- Wiki-research-l:
- "Talk Before You Type: Coordination in Wikipedia", 2007 research paper based on October 2005 database
- Organizations: (see also WikiProjects)
- w:Category:Wikipedian organizations
- w:Wikipedia:Concordia – inactive as of December 2006; efforts to revive in early 2007
- w:Wikipedia:Esperanza – defunct as of January 2007
- Other:
- Divisiveness: w:Wikipedia:Divisiveness
- w:Wikipedia:Meetup – face-to-face meetings of Wikipedians in cities around the world
- w:Wikipedia:Geonotice – a notice displayed only on watchlists of editors who are calculated (based on their IP address) to be in a specific geographical area, such as a metropolitan area.
- w: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)
- w:Wikipedia:Wikistress Reduction Initiative
- w:Category:Wikipedia culture
- w:Wikipedia:WikiProject Wikipedia
- Wikipedia basic information:
- w:Wikipedia – what it is, history, hardware and software, funding, authorship and management, and much more
- w:Wikipedia:About
- What is Wikipedia? (pdf) – two page flyer
- w:Wikipedia:History of Wikipedian processes and people
- w:Wikipedia:Historic debates
- w:Wikipedia:Role of Jimmy Wales
- w:Wikipedia:Ten things you may not know about Wikipedia
- Late 2001 version of Wikipedia (nostalgia.wikipedia.org)
- w:Wikipedia:Why Wikipedia is so great (essay)
- w:Wikipedia:Wikipediology/library/essays/Merovingian-1 (essay) – "The Fluid Encyclopedia" – 2001 to 2005
- Wikipedia Fundraising Central Online Reporting Engine
- w::Category:Wikipedia history
- WikiProjects: (for a WikiProject related to a topic within this index, see that topic) (see also Collaborations)
- In general:
- Category:WikiProjects – projects within the Commons (community) project
- Special:PrefixIndex/Commons:WikiProject - most WikiProjects are not in Category:WikiProjects
- Bots:
- User:Giggabot – WikiProject tagging and newspaper delivery
- User:John Bot – tags article talk pages
- In general:
- Words and wording: (see also Formatting of text, Spelling)
- w:Wikipedia:Manual of Style
- w:Wikipedia:Manual of Style (abbreviations)
- w:Wikipedia:Avoid peacock terms (Manual of Style) – show, don't tell
- w:Wikipedia:Explain jargon (Manual of Style)
- w:Wikipedia:Avoid neologisms (Manual of Style)
- w:Wikipedia:Rhetoric (Manual of Style)
- w:Wikipedia:Self-references to avoid (Manual of Style) – "this website", "this Wikipedia article" (okay on talk pages, but not articles)
- w:Wikipedia:Technical terms and definitions (Manual of Style)
- w:Wikipedia:Manual of Style (trademarks)
- w:Wikipedia:Avoid weasel words (w:WP:AWW) (Manual of Style) – "critics/some (many) people/research says/feel/believe ..."
- w:Wikipedia:Words to avoid (Manual of Style) – "claim", "however", "extremist", "linked", "cult", and so on.
- w:Wikipedia:Manual of Style (dates and numbers)#Precise language (WP:DATED)
- w:Wikipedia:Make technical articles accessible (Manual of Style)
- w:Wikipedia:WikiProject Grammar
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- XML: see Formatting of text, Queries (database)
