Help:Contents/The Wikipedia community

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Help:Contents
The Wikipedia community

Contents

The Community Portal
Wikipedia department directory
Wikipedia quick directory

Community support

Harmonious editing club - keep the peace, peacefully.
Kindness Campaign - spread kindness and recognition of users.
Reach out - where to go to get your spirits lifted.
Adopt-a-User - experienced editors can "adopt" newer editors, helping to mentor them along the way as they learn about Wikipedia.
Stress alerts - alert the community to stressed-out Wikipedians, so others can help with kind intervention.

Voting and consensus

Feedback by editors, to editors.

Featuring an article
Featuring pictures
Featuring lists
Peer review
Administrator nominations

You can also ask the Wikipedia community to consider...

...deleting a page, such as...
...deleting an article (full policy)
...deleting, merging, or renaming a category
...deleting a template (or a stub type)
...deleting images and other media
...moving a page or merging it with another (and how to actually do it)
...protecting a page (full policy)

Resolving disputes

Stay cool!
Be nice to newcomers
Alert others
Dispute resolution
Arbitration policy

Keeping informed: News

Community Portal – Bulletin board collaborations and updates – Wikipedia's hub of activity.
The Signpost – Wikipedia's newspaper
Wikipedia in the media
Wikipedia milestone announcements
Wikizine – news letter about the Wikimedia projects
Press releases
Stats
Milestones
Regional notice boards

Administrators

Admin coaching
Administrator nominations
List of administrators
Administration FAQ
Administrator's reading list
Bureaucrats
Elections
Meta
Fix cut & paste moves
Page protection

Wikipedian culture

Wikipedians: the people who contribute to Wikipedia
List of Wikipedians
WikiProjects: where people interested in specific topics work together
List of WikiProjects
WikiProjects category
Collaborations: Wikipedians focusing on one article for a set amount of time
List of collaborations
Wikipedian humor
Bad jokes and other deleted nonsense
Department of Fun
Wikipediholism
Unusual articles
Editcountitis: a condition that can be fatal
The edit counter ("Interiot's tool")
Wikipedian games
Awards

More about Wikipedia

Overview of Wikipedia (All about Wikipedia)
Category:Wikipedia
Category-based access to pages about Wikipedia
Another way to browse help topics
Category:Wikipedia how-to (a full list of help topics)