Wikipedia:Topical index
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[edit] Mostly merged
- Category:Wikipedia help forums
- Category:Wikipedia community forums
- Category:Wikipedia vandalism
- Category:Wikipedia awards
- Category:Wikipedia deletion
- Indexes: Wikipedia:Category schemes
- Problems in need of fixing, things to watch: Wikipedia:Maintenance.
- Category:Wikipedia featured content
- Category:Wikipedia resources for researchers
- Privacy policy
- Category:Wikipedia statistics
- Category:Wikipedia publicity
- Category:Wikipedia essays
- Category:Wikipedia proposals
- Category:Wikipedia culture
- Category:Wikipedians
- Category:Wikipedia history
- Category:Wikipedia multilingual coordination
[edit] Policies and guidelines
[edit] About us
- Wikipedia:Designated agent
- Wikipedia:Text of the GNU Free Documentation License
- Wikipedia:Verbatim copying
[edit] Guidelines and information
[edit] Boilerplate
- Wikipedia:Boilerplate request for permission
- Wikipedia:Confirmation of permission
- Boilerplate text (various texts)
- Spoiler warning
- Boilerplate request for permission
- Standard user greeting
- Standard GFDL violation letter
[edit] Policy, advice, and help
- Category:Wikipedia help
- Category:Wikipedia policies and guidelines
- Category:Wikipedia how-to
- Category:Wikipedia style guidelines
- Category:Wikipedia naming conventions
- Category:Wikipedia dispute resolution
- Wikipedia:Guide to improving articles
[edit] Key policies
- Be bold in updating pages
- Wikiquette
- Neutral point of view (NPOV)
- Manual of Style
- Policy on permanent deletion of pages
- What Wikipedia is not
[edit] How-to
- How does one edit a page
- How to add content to Wikipedia with minimal effort
- How to edit an article so long that you can't edit
- How to reduce colors for saving a JPEG as PNG
- How to rename a page
- How to revert a page to an earlier version
- How to start a page
- How to archive a talk page
- How to archive Current Events
- How to use tables
- How to log in
[edit] Information
- Algorithms on Wikipedia
- Browser notes
- Bots
- Canonicalization
- Contributing FAQ
- Copyrights
- De-adminship
- Disambiguation
- Edit conflicts
- Guide to writing better articles
- Image use policy
- Including corporate logos
- Interlanguage links
- ISBN
- Lists in general
- List pages - How to create them
- Lists in articles - How to create them
- List of common misspellings
- MediaWiki namespace
- Multimedia
- Searching
- Go button
- Special characters
- Tables
- TeX markup
- Troubleshooting
- How to use redirect pages
- How to set preferences
- What is an article
[edit] Policies and guidelines
- Policies and guidelines
- Alternate text for images
- Always fill summary field
- Avoid statements that will date quickly
- Avoid weasel words
- Build the web
- Check your facts
- Cite your sources
- Contribute what you know or are willing to learn about
- Contributing to Wikipedia
- Don't include copies of primary sources
- Editing policy -- Perfection not required; or, the joy of editing
- Explain jargon
- Follow highlighting conventions
- Footnotes
- Foul language
- Guide to Layout
- Headlines
- Ignore all rules
- Image markup
- Make articles useful for readers
- Make omissions explicit
- Make only links relevant to the context
- Make smart use of soft line breaks
- Measurements Debate
- News style
- Page size
- Talk page
- The perfect article
- The perfect stub article
- Pronunciation guide
- Sign your posts on talk pages
- Summarize discussion
- Timeline standards
- User page guidelines
- Use short sentences and lists
- Use subheads sparingly
- Warn readers about spoilers
- Why aren't these pages copyedited
- Wikipedia is not a dictionary
[edit] Editing
[edit] Advice and information
- Wikipedia:Guide to improving articles
- Wikipedia:How to write a great article
- Wikipedia:Avoiding common mistakes
- Wikipedia:Perfect stub article
- Wikipedia:The perfect article
[edit] Rule stubs
[edit] Rules to consider
[edit] What to write on
[edit] Things to do
[edit] Things not to do
[edit] Deprecated in favor of MediaWiki pages at Meta (or Wikimedia Foundation)
- Wikipedia:Special characters
- Wikipedia:TeX markup
- Wikipedia:Turkish characters
- Wikipedia:Donation addresses
- Wikipedia:Donations
[edit] Misc
- Wikipedia:Annotated edit page announcement (proposal) rev. 1.1
- Wikipedia:Article size
- Wikipedia:POV
- Wikipedia:NPOV tutorial
- Wikipedia:Text editor support
- Wikipedia:URLs
- Wikipedia:How to use tables
- Wikipedia:How to break up a page
- Wikipedia:How to import articles
- Wikipedia:Improving WikiWeb
- Wikipedia:Long article layout
- Wikipedia:Proper names
- Wikipedia:Committee of Wikipedians
[edit] Style and How to series
- Wikipedia:How to edit a page
- Wikipedia:How-to
- Wikipedia:Avoid statements that will date quickly
- Wikipedia:Guide to layout
- Wikipedia:Make articles useful for readers
- Wikipedia:Make only links relevant to the context
- Wikipedia:Words to avoid
- Wikipedia:Bypass your cache
- Wikipedia:Researching with Wikipedia
[edit] Wikipedia Manual of Style
- Wikipedia:Style and How-to Directory
- Wikipedia:How to link to sister projects
- Wikipedia:Footnotes
- Wikipedia:Manual of Style (legal)
- Wikipedia:Manual of Style (titles)
- Wikipedia:History standards for China-related articles
- Wikipedia:Wikipedia medicine standards
[edit] Wikipedia Dictionaries
- Wikipedia:Free On-line Dictionary of Computing/symbols - B
- Wikipedia:Free On-line Dictionary of Computing/C - D
- Wikipedia:Free On-line Dictionary of Computing/E - H
- Wikipedia:Free On-line Dictionary of Computing/I - K
- Wikipedia:Free On-line Dictionary of Computing/L - N
- Wikipedia:Free On-line Dictionary of Computing/O - Q
- Wikipedia:Free On-line Dictionary of Computing/R - S
- Wikipedia:Free On-line Dictionary of Computing/T - W
- Wikipedia:Free On-line Dictionary of Computing/X - Z
[edit] Wikipedia features/techniques
[edit] Protection
[edit] Disambiguation
[edit] Lists
- Wikipedia:Links to (disambiguation) pages
- Wikipedia:Links to disambiguating pages
- Wikipedia:Non-unique personal name
- Wikipedia:Undisambiguated abbreviations/CIA World Factbook
- Wikipedia:Undisambiguated abbreviations/Country codes
- Wikipedia:Undisambiguated abbreviations/Currency codes
- Wikipedia:Undisambiguated abbreviations/Elements
- Wikipedia:Undisambiguated abbreviations/file extensions
- Wikipedia:Undisambiguated abbreviations/State codes
- Wikipedia:Undisambiguated abbreviations/units of measurement
[edit] Using links
- Wikipedia:Links
- Wikipedia:Build the web
- Wikipedia:External links
- Wikipedia:Piped link
- Wikipedia:Self link
[edit] Administrator information
[edit] Lists of Wikipedia namespace pages
[edit] American - British Pages
- Wikipedia:Articles using American English titles
- Wikipedia:Articles using British English titles
- Wikipedia:List of spelling variants
[edit] Naming conventions
[edit] Non-text content
[edit] Images
[edit] Image inclusion guidelines
- Wikipedia:Extended image syntax
- Wikipedia:Alternative text for images
- Wikipedia:Image copyright tags
- Wikipedia:Image description page
[edit] Image creation resources
- Wikipedia:Basic bitmap image editing
- Wikipedia:ASCII art conversion tool
- Wikipedia:Blank maps
- Wikipedia:Chemical ASCII-art
- Wikipedia:Graphics tutorials
- Wikipedia:How to draw a diagram with Dia
- Wikipedia:How to draw a diagram with Microsoft Word
- Wikipedia:How to draw a diagram with OpenOffice.org Writer
- Wikipedia:How to keep image file sizes as small as possible
- Wikipedia:How to reduce colors for saving a JPEG as PNG
- Wikipedia:How to use the GIMP
[edit] Image finding
- Wikipedia:Choosing appropriate illustrations
- Wikipedia:Finding images tutorial (Part of Style and How to series)
- Wikipedia:Maps
[edit] Lists
- Wikipedia:Images with missing articles
- Wikipedia:Images from Amazon.com
- Wikipedia:Imported pictures (includes links to pages arranged by source)
- Wikipedia:Plant photo collection I
- Wikipedia:Unidentified flowers
- Wikipedia:Wing Commander (computer game) images
- Wikipedia:List of images
[edit] Blank
[edit] Other
[edit] Bibliographies/Works cited
- Wikipedia:Cite sources
- Wikipedia:Citing Wikipedia
- Wikipedia:Citing Wikipedia Turabian-style
- Wikipedia:Fair use
- Wikipedia:Foldoc license
- Wikipedia:GFDL History (unofficial)
- Wikipedia:GFDL upgrade
- Wikipedia:List of bibliographies
- Wikipedia:References
- Wikipedia:Standard GFDL violation letter
[edit] Proposals
[edit] General proposals
[edit] Legal proposals
- Wikipedia:Copyrights and Warranty Disclaimers (proposal)
- Wikipedia:Submission Standards
- Wikipedia:Terms of use
- Wikipedia:Terms of use (proposal)
[edit] Editing proposals
- Wikipedia:Neutral point of view/Examples
- Wikipedia:Neutral point of view/Examples Debate
- Wikipedia:Web comics
- Wikipedia:Technical terms and definitions
- Wikipedia:English phonetic spelling
- Wikipedia:Geographical names naming policy (proposed)
- Wikipedia:Algorithms on Wikipedia
[edit] Dispute resolution proposals
[edit] WikiMoney
[edit] Discussion
- Wikipedia:Copyright issues
- Wikipedia:Copyright violations on history pages
- Wikipedia:When people complain rather than edit
- Wikipedia:Pronunciation guide
- Wikipedia:Manual of Style (pronunciation)
- Wikipedia:Designation of capitals
- Wikipedia:Guidelines for the spelling of names of Polish rulers
- Wikipedia:Measurements Debate
- Wikipedia:Language-independent images
- Wikipedia:Offensive image
- Wikipedia:Approval mechanism
[edit] Active (requesting, voting, discussing) pages
[edit] Work requested
- Wikipedia:Pages needing translation into English
- Wikipedia:Vandalism in progress
- Wikipedia:TeX requests
- Wikipedia:Find or fix a stub
[edit] Discussion requested
- Wikipedia:Requests for comment (includes archives)
[edit] Voting requested
[edit] Congratulations requested
[edit] Lists of articles to be fixed
[edit] Tag pages (describing article tags)
[edit] Behavior
[edit] Advice
[edit] Jargon
[edit] Dealing with problems
[edit] Advice
[edit] Mediation and arbitration
- Wikipedia:Arbitration Committee
- Wikipedia:Arbitration rationale
- Wikipedia:Mediation
- Wikipedia:Mediation Committee
- Wikipedia:Requests for arbitration (includes links to specific cases)
- Wikipedia:Requests for mediation (includes links to specific cases)
[edit] Deletion related
- Wikipedia:Articles for deletion
- Wikipedia:Categories for discussion
- Wikipedia:Images for deletion
- Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion
- Wikipedia:Redirects for deletion
- Wikipedia:Speedy deletions
- Wikipedia:Templates for deletion
- Wikipedia:Viewing and restoring deleted pages by sysops
- Wikipedia:Votes for undeletion
[edit] Misuse of the system
[edit] The Wikipedia community
[edit] Communication
- Wikipedia:Emailing users
- Wikipedia:Instant Messaging Wikipedians
- Wikipedia:IRC channel cloaks
- Wikipedia:IRC channels
- Wikipedia:Mailing lists
- Wikipedia:Meetup
- Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost (Wikipedia's internal newspaper)
[edit] News
- Wikipedia:Announcements (includes links to pages with archived announcements)
- Wikipedia:Goings-on
[edit] People
- Wikipedia:Wikipedians (includes subpages for groupings by continent, country, region, state, etc.)
- Wikipedia:Alphabetical list of Wikipedians
- Wikipedia:Facebook
- Wikipedia:Missing Wikipedians
- Wikipedia:Long usernames
[edit] Wikipedia and other Wikimedia projects
[edit] Proposals
- Wikipedia:Deletion requests
- Wikipedia:Deletion requests/mock-up
- Wikipedia:Deletion requests/mock-up2
[edit] Community groups
[edit] Administration
- Wikipedia:List of administrators
- Wikipedia:Administration FAQ
- Wikipedia:Administrators
- Wikipedia:Administrators' reading list
- Wikipedia:Bureaucrats
- Wikipedia:Elections
- Wikipedia:Meta
[edit] Activity logs
- Wikipedia:Log (see also Special:Log)
- Wikipedia:New user log
- Wikipedia:Recently created admins
- Wikipedia:Recently created bureaucrats
- Wikipedia:Upload log archive
- Upload log
- Deletion log
- Old deletion log
- Protection log
- Block log
- List of currently blocked IP addresses and usernames
[edit] International
[edit] Wikimedia related
- Wikipedia:Projects of Wikimedia
- Wikipedia:Elections for the Board of Trustees of the Wikimedia Foundation
- Wikipedia:List of interwiki redirects
- Wikipedia:Nupedia and Wikipedia
- Wikipedia:Other projects similar to Wikipedia
- Wikipedia:Simple English Wikipedia
- Wikipedia:Things to be moved to Wiktionary
- Wikipedia:TourBusStop
- Wikipedia:Transwiki log
[edit] Publicity
- Category:Wikipedia publicity
- Category:Wikipedia in the media
[edit] Statistics
[edit] Technical issues
- Wikipedia:Technical FAQ
- Wikipedia:Troubleshooting
- Wikipedia:Database download
- Contingency Page For When The Main Wikipedia Server Is Down
- Tools and Helpers
- Magic Button
- Text editor support for Wikipedia syntax (Emacs and Vim)
- Translator from HTML to Wikipedia
- User:hfastedge offering free off-server custom coding (1 request per person) as part of a research project.
[edit] Technical request pages
- Wikipedia:Changing attribution for an edit (includes links to subpages with old logs)
- Wikipedia:Changing username
- Wikipedia:SQL query requests
[edit] Specific problems
- Wikipedia:List of pages whose correct title is not allowed by MediaWiki
- Wikipedia:Browser notes
- Wikipedia:Browser page size limits
- Clear your cache
- Wikipedia:Scripts
- Wikipedia:Technical assistance for katakana
[edit] Technical details
- Wikipedia:Canonicalization
- Wikipedia:Common words, searching for which is not possible
- Wikipedia:Database queries
- Wikipedia:History of Wikipedia bots
- Wikipedia:Types of bots
- Wikipedia:TomeRaider database
- Wikipedia:TomeRaider database - download instructions
- Unicode numeric conversion
- Database download
- Database queries
[edit] Wikipedia hardware
[edit] Wikipedia software
- Ignored feature requests (don't request new features here)
- Wikipedia:PHP script new features
- Wikipedia:PHP script tech talk
- Lag
- Wikipedia:Bug reports (includes links to archived bug reports and feature requests)
- Wikipedia:Ignored feature requests
- Wikipedia:IRC channel scripts
- Wikipedia:MediaWiki
- Wikipedia:MediaWiki FAQ
- Wikipedia:MediaWiki future directions
- Wikipedia:MediaWiki namespace
- Wikipedia:Navigational templates
- Wikipedia:PHP script automatic wikification
- Wikipedia:Software screenshots
- Wikipedia:Software Phase III
- Wikipedia:Software status
- Wikipedia:Software updates
- Wikipedia:Template messages
- Wikipedia:Template messages:Quick reference
- Wikipedia:Unprotected MediaWiki messages
- Wikipedia:User interface ideas
- Wikipedia:Wikipedia3 documentation
[edit] Tasks and resources for Wikipedia
[edit] Ideas for contributing
- Wikipedia:Collaboration of the week
- Wikipedia:Most wanted articles
- Wikipedia:Most wanted stubs
- Wikipedia:Peer review
- Wikipedia:Requested articles
- Wikipedia:Requested pictures
- Wikipedia:Requests for summaries
- Wikipedia:Translation into English
[edit] Cleanup
[edit] Main Page and current events
- Wikipedia:Editing the main page
- Wikipedia:How the Current events page works
- Wikipedia:How to archive Current Events
- Wikipedia:In the news section on the Main Page
- Wikipedia:Recent additions
[edit] Coordinating related subjects
- Wikipedia:Article series
- Wikipedia:Classbox
- Wikipedia:Companies, Corporations and Economic Information
- Wikipedia:Incumbent series
- Wikipedia:Infobox
- Wikipedia:Page footers
- Wikipedia:Manual of Style (mathematics)
- Wikipedia:WikiProject (includes links to separate WikiProjects)
- Wikipedia:Year in Review guidelines
[edit] Research resources
Wikipedia research resources |
GFDL resources |
[edit] Indexes
[edit] Project Lists
- Wikipedia:Incomplete lists
- Wikipedia:List of common misspellings
- Wikipedia:List of controversial issues
- Wikipedia:List of lists
- Wikipedia:List of pages in the Wikipedia namespace
- Wikipedia:List of screenshots
- Wikipedia:Status of FOLDOC import
- Wikipedia:Status of the porting of the CIA World Factbook
- Wikipedia:Status of the porting of U.S. Dept of State info
[edit] List info pages
[edit] Not Sorted Yet
- Wikipedia:Eurovision
- Wikipedia:History of computing/Permission
- Wikipedia:Mirroring content
- Wikipedia:Organizations with .INT domain names
- Wikipedia:Status of FOLDOC import
The below is from Wikipedia:Recentchanges.
This page: | Discuss this page - What does this page mean? |
Projects: | Meta - Wiktionary - Wikiquote - Wikibooks - Wikisource - Wikispecies - Commons - Wikinews - Wikiversity |
Utilities: | RC patrol - New - Newbies' contribs - Dead-end - Needy - Cleanup - Vandalism - Deletion - RfC - Backlogs |
About us: | Introduction/FAQ/Policy - Stats - News - Announcements - Village pump - Mailing lists - Chat |
Requests: | Ramanujan summation - Toral automorphism - Griff - Salegy - Lyman-alpha emitter - Abraham Cohen |
Challenges: | André Schwarz-Bart - Massimo Campigli - 4chan - Queenscliff, Victoria |