Wikipedia:Utilities
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This page is obsolete, and is currently being merged into Category:Wikipedia and Wikipedia:Community Portal.
"Utilities" is not to be confused with software utilities, which are collected in Wikipedia:Tools.
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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.
- Good articles: Featured articles
- 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
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: | Atrophic factor - Dik Mik Davies - Symplectic flow - Toral automorphism - Coinduction - Asian drama |
| Challenges: | African American culture - Polar regions - Henry Tye - Black Friday (1944) |
[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] Information
- Algorithms on Wikipedia
- Browser notes
- Bots
- Canonicalization
- Contributing FAQ
- Copyrights
- De-adminship
- Disambiguation
- Edit conflicts
- Guide to writing better articles
- 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
- 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] General 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
- How-to
- How to write a great article
- 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] Boilerplate text
- Boilerplate text (various texts)
- Spoiler warning
- Boilerplate request for permission
- Standard user greeting
- Standard GFDL violation letter
[edit] Logs
- Upload log
- Deletion log
- Protection log
- Block log
- List of currently blocked IP addresses and usernames
[edit] Software and hardware
- Troubleshooting
- Browser notes
- Bug reports and feature requests
- Ignored feature requests (don't request new features here)
- MediaWiki
- 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.
- Unicode numeric conversion
- Database download
- Database queries
- New server madness
- Lag
- Servers
- Software Phase III
- User interface ideas
- Wikipedia3 documentation
- Wikipedia IRC channel scripts
