User:Al83tito/subpage1

This is a subpage of user Al83tito. Here I am drafting a personal summary of different aspects of Wikipedia. This is not an official policy page, but rather a user essay. Furthermore I am working on it slowly, so it will be incomplete (and possibly inaccurate) for a long time. ---

Wikipedia is an encyclopedia created in 2001. It nested in a parent organization called the Wikimedia Foundation. Wikipedia's existence can be explained by the existence of four main components: the encyclopedic articles (the visible output and its raison d'etre); the technological and legal "infrastructure" that makes it possible; the set of policies that govern it; and the user community that contributes to it.

Normative structure. Project structure.

Wikipedia is a multilingual, web-based, free encyclopedia that is based on a model of openly editable content. It is owned and supported by the Wikimedia Foundation, a US-based non-profit organization. Wikipedia was launched on January 15, 2001 by Jimmy Wales and Larry Sanger, as an off-shoot of Nupedia. As of 2018, Wikipedia is composed of 290 Wikipedia encyclopedias, and it comprises more than 40 million articles in 301 different languages. That means that an article on the same subject (e.g: World War II) may be found in multiple languages. Each

Creative Commons license; Text of Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License Each language wikipedia is its own Wiki (?)... Wiki software

Differences between Wikipedia, Wikimedia, MediaWiki, and wiki wikipedia vs wikia

User:JimmyBlackwing magazine archive

Counter-Vandalism Unit Cleaning up vandalism

https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-sf Meetup

User:Guy Macon/One against many Perennial proposals

Closing discussions

Snowball clause

Wikimedia sister project Template:Wikipedia's sister projects Wikimedia Foundation History of Wikipedia MediaWiki

Categories, lists, and navigation templates Wikipedia's oldest articles

About

Teahouse/About Core content policies

Notability

Project namespace

Help:Cheatsheet

Policies have wide acceptance among editors and describe standards that all users should normally follow. All policy pages are in List of policies and guidelines and Category:Wikipedia policies. For summaries of key policies, see also List of policies.

List of policies List of guidelines Essays in a nutshell Simplified ruleset

Help: Wikipedia: The Missing Manual

Wikipedia:Template messages/Cleanup

Deletionism and inclusionism in Wikipedia

Deletionpedia Noticeboards

This is a good article. Follow the link for more information. Mzoli's

Policies and guidelines

In such situations editors may propose that a policy be demoted to a guideline, or that a policy or guideline be demoted to a supplement, informational page, essay or historical page. In certain cases, a policy or guideline may be superseded, in which case the old page is marked and retained for historical interest.

Building Wikipedia membership/Sample solicitation

Template:Wikipedia technical help

Help desk, Teahouse, Reference desk

Paid-contribution disclosure Five pillars

Statistics

Administration

Contributing to Wikipedia

Wikimedia Foundation

Bots Bot policy

The difference between policies, guidelines and essays

Essay directory

Contact us Requests for comment

WIKIMEDIA META https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/OTRS

Values Resolution:Wikimedia Foundation Guiding Principles

Template:WP:UBS Template:Orders, decorations, and medals of Wikipedia

Notifications/Thanks Template:Wikipedia positive feed

Dashboard

https://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Policies Strategy/Wikimedia movement/2017 WM FAQs Founding principles

Template:Useful links Shortcut

{{Permanently protected template {{Template:Deletion debates}}

https://www.tools.wmflabs.org/citationhunt/en?id=d44f15d9

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:Committed_identity

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:To-do_list

https://journalistsresource.org/media/website-linking-best-practices-media-online-publishers/

https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Editor_Survey_2011/Profiles

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:The_Wikipedia_Adventure

https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Community_Wishlist_Survey_2021

https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_projects

Administrators' noticeboard

Template:Noticeboard links

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:Getting_started

Review governance

https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_movement_affiliates#chapters
 * https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Deutschland
 * https://www.wikimedia.de/en/homepage/

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Introduction_to_Wikipedia_in_French_by_Dominique_Yao_recorded_by_Art%2BFeminism_in_March_2020.webm

https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Community_Resources#Grantmaking_and_Evaluation

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:PrefixIndex?prefix=Guy+Macon&namespace=2 (some interesting perspectives in essays there)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Guy_Macon/Archive_4#There_is_an_attitude_around_Wikipedia_of_putting_up_with_minor_annoyances_and_glitches_rather_than_making_the_software_excellent.

{{Annual readership}}

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Top_25_Report

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:The_difference_between_policies,_guidelines_and_essays

https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Association_of_Inclusionist_Wikipedians

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Project_namespace#How-to_and_information_pages

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:A_primer_for_newcomers

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Contents/Portals

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:List_of_Wikipedians_by_featured_article_nominations

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Personal_user_awards https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Flaming-wiki.jpg

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:List_of_Wikipedians_by_featured_article_nominations

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Mav https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Wehwalt https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Flaming-wiki.jpg

https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Strategy/Wikimedia_movement/2018-20/Recommendations

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2022-06-26/News_from_the_WMF

https://www.wikiwho.net/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Dispute_resolution_requests

https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Community_Insights

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:Interwiki_linking

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedians

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Notability_(local_interests)/failed

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Deletion_reform

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_(idea_lab)/Archive_41#Idea:_In_policies_and_guidelines,_place_links_to_the_discussion_pages_that_shaped_them_--_so_all_Wikipedians_can_easily_learn_of_the_decision-making_processes_and_rationales_behind_policies

https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion/The_Church_of_Jesus_Christ_of_Latter-day_Saints_in_Bulgaria&diff=next&oldid=1097851945&diffmode=source

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:The_perfect_article

https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:PageTriage

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Reward_board

https://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikipedian_in_Residence#Core_characteristics_of_a_Wikipedian_in_Residence

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:CheckUser

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2022-09-30/In_focus

Reliable sources/Perennial sources

Reliable_sources/Noticeboard

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deletion_of_articles_on_Wikipedia