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- Access (limiting): (see also Enforcement)
- Blocks by governments:
- Tor:
- Preventing abuses via open proxies:
- Administrators: (see also Enforcement)
- General information:
- Contacting an administrator: (see also specific topics such as Vandalism)
- Current administrators:
- Becoming an administrator:
- Non-bureaucrat closing of an RfA: User:Enigmaman/SNOW (but first ask the candidate to withdraw)
- Results of RfAs:
- After becoming an administrator:
- Other:
- Adoption: Wikipedia:Adopt-a-user
- Adr (address) microformat
- Archiving Wikipedia talk pages:
- Article message boxes (amboxes):
- Bias:
- Bible reference template: {{bibleref}} – can give the reader a wide variety of choices in choosing a translation
- Bureaucrats – folks who handle special, higher-level administrative tasks
- Categories:
- General information:
- Listings of categories:
- Possible problems with categories:
- Articles without categories:
- Intersection of two categories:
- How articles are listed:
- Template:DEFAULTSORT – specifies how an article will be listed on category pages (for example, an article on "F.M. Smith" could be listed as "Smith, F.M." on all category pages)
- User:Helpful Pixie Bot (formerly SmackBot) – adds DEFAULTSORT to people-related article stubs
- Keeping templates from creating categories when they shouldn't: Wikipedia:Category suppression
- Bots:
- Hidden categories:
- Other:
- Companies and organizations:
- Competitors, forks, and mirrors:
- Conflicts of interest: (see also Biographies)
- Congress: edits by Congressional staffers:
- Copyright: (see also Legal)
- In general:
- Fair use, non-free use, and public domain:
- Avoiding problems:
- Problems:
- Using Wikipedia content:
- Deletion of articles: (see also Deletion)
- Policies, general criteria, and examples: (see also Notability)
- Alternatives to deletion:
- Types of deletion:
- Wikipedia:Page blanking (guideline) (do not blank article pages)
- Speedy deletion:
- Prod:
- Formal deletion process (AfD discussions):
- After an article is deleted:
- Proposals that the contents of deleted articles should still be accessible:
- Other:
- Deletionist: see m:Deletionism
- Diagrams: see Graphics
- Edit conflicts:
- Help:Edit conflict – when two editors simultaneously edit the same page or section
- Using an edit lock to prevent edit conflict:
- 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
- Email:
- Embedded citations: see Sources
- FAQs – see Help pages, or specific topics in this index
- Fiction: (see also Films)
- Flags: (as content, not database fields)
- Footnotes: see Sources
- Form (as input): Help:Inputbox (a MediaWiki extension to add predefined HTML forms to wiki pages)
- Geocoding (graphic coordinates and mapping): (see also Maps)
- Help (directly requesting): (see also Questions)
- Images: (see also Censorship, Commons, Copyrights, Galleries, Graphics, Navigation)
- General information:
- Needed pictures:
- Resources (where to get images) (see also Commons)
- Before uploading:
- Uploading: (see also Commons)
- Displaying on a page:
- Featured and valued:
- Improving images:
- Problem images on Wikipedia: (other than Copyrights)
- Deletion:
- Orphans:
- Special:FileDuplicateSearch – search function for duplicate files in imagespace (duplicate images) (uses hash values)
- Automation:
- WikiProjects:
- Other: (see also Commons regarding moving images from Wikipedia to Commons)
- Indexes: (see also Directories)
- Of any namespace in Wikipedia:
- Of articles only:
- Other:
- Internet Relay Chat (IRC):
- Latter Day Saints (Mormons):
- Maintenance: (see also Quality of articles, Spelling)
- General:
- Problems:
- Projects:
- In general:
- Cross-cutting maintenance projects not listed elsewhere in this index:
- Other:
- {{Cleanup}} – template (at top of article) for listing details of what needs to be cleaned up. (It's better to just fix problems, but if you lack the time or knowledge, use this template.) [Note that {{Wikify}} has been deprecated and should no longer be used.]
- Articles that may need updating:
- MediaWiki: (see also specific topics pertaining to the software)
- Messageboxes:
- Via MediaWiki:
- Via templates:
- Miscellany for deletion: Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion – for deleting any page which is not covered by another deletion process (AfD, CfD, TfD, etc.)
- Missing articles:
- Mobile access:
- "iPhone Gems: Wikipedia Apps" – review of 16 apps for the iPhone or iPod touch (November 2008)
- Real-time version of Wikipedia:
- Downloaded version of Wikipedia:
- 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)
- Watchlist
- RSS (page-by-page specification):
- Other:
- Motto:
- Movies: see Films
- 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)
- Between pages:
- Personalized navigation:
- Needed articles: see Missing articles, Translations
- News (about Wikipedia): (for news not about Wikipedia, see Current events)
- Not:
- Wikipedia:What Wikipedia is not (WP:NOT) (policy) – it's not a paper encyclopedia, a dictionary, a publisher of original thought, a soapbox, a mirror or a repository of links, images, or media, a blog, webspace provider, or social networking site, a directory, an indiscriminate collection of information, a crystal ball, censored, a battleground, an anarchy, a democracy, a bureaucracy
- Wikipedia:Victim lists (essay)
- Wikis and similar sites which do allow various types of content that Wikipedia does not:
- Notability: (see also specific subject areas)
- Notes (in articles):
- For footnotes in a "Notes" section, see Sources
- Content notes (a separate section with notes about contents of an article):
- Templates: {{Cref}} and {{Cnote}}
- Examples: Che Guevara, Pericles
- Note: {{ref}} and {{note}}, though deprecated, are being used in thousands of articles, presumably for content notes
- Noticeboards:
- NPOV: see Neutral point of view
- Page revisions: (see also Counts)
- Policies and guidelines (see also Process)
- Existing:
- Misuses:
- Changing (in general):
- Discussions on proposed or changed or questioned policies and guidelines:
- Old discussions:
- Other:
- Polls: see Consensus and voting
- Privacy:
- For subjects of articles: see Biographies
- For editors and readers:
- Quickbar: (the set of links on the left side of the page, often called "sidebar")
- Red links: (aka "redlinks")
- Resources (except image-specific or sound-specific resources, for which see Images, Media): (for how to do a citation, see Sources)
- Sandbox: a place to practice without hurting anything
- Shortcuts (abbreviated redirects):
- Sock puppets (multiple accounts by one person):
- Software:
- Sound (files): see Media
- Sources (see also Resources, Spam, URLs)
- WHY and WHEN sources must be given (including avoiding excessive links):
- WHAT can properly be used as a source, and WHERE links/sources should appear:
- HOW to cite a source:
- In general (including formatting):
- Three alternative systems:
- Embedded citations: Wikipedia:Embedded citations
- Footnotes:
- Parenthetical referencing (was "Harvard referencing", "Author-date referencing"):
- Mixing footnotes and parenthetical referencing:
- Possible changes to MediaWiki software regarding citations:
- Tools for creating citations:
- Other:
- PROBLEMS: Preventing, identifying, and fixing:
- In general:
- Footnote problems, other than bad external links (for which, see below):
- Lack of sources:
- Unreliable sources: Wikipedia:Reliable sources/Noticeboard
- Bad external links: (link rot)
- In general:
- Preventing:
- Finding bad links:
- Checklinks (generates a report for links on any requested page):
- m:Weblinkchecker.py -script to find and report external links that are no longer available
- Bots:
- Identified bad links:
- Fixing bad external links:
- OTHER:
- Translations: (see also Interwiki links)
- Wikipedia in different languages – overview:
- Information about languages, and translation aids:
- Problems with existing article in the English Wikipedia:
- Moving information from other language Wikipedias to the English Wikipedia
- Editors who can help with translations:
- User rights (also known as "user privileges", "user groups", and "usergroups"):
- User scripts: (JavaScript) (.js pages) (see also Bots, Gadgets, Tools):
- Userification: Wikipedia:Userfication – moving a non-notable or very problematical article to user space as an alternative to deletion
- Wikimedia Foundation – the parent organization of Wikipedia and numerous other collaborative projects such as Wiktionary and Wikibooks
- Wikipedia basic information:
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