User:Chitransh Gaurav/Useful links and bookmarks

The most important link of all: First and foremost WIKIPEDIA IS AN ENCYCLOPEDIA!

Notability

 * WikiProject Notability
 * Bare notability
 * Inherent notability
 * What notability is not
 * Wikipedia:Notability/RFC:compromise
 * Wikipedia:Notability/RFC:Reevaluation
 * Existence ≠ Notability
 * Notable person survival kit
 * Red flags of non-notability
 * Run-of-the-mill
 * Other stuff exists
 * Why should I care?
 * I wouldn't know him from a hole in the ground
 * Too Soon

Verifiability

 * Template messages/Cleanup
 * Citing sources/Further considerations
 * Attribution/FAQ
 * Improving referencing efforts
 * Wikipedia:Handling primary, secondary and tertiary sources
 * Otto Middleton (or why newspapers are dubious sources)
 * Reliable sources may be non-neutral
 * Reliable source examples
 * Third-party sources
 * Party and person
 * Citation templates
 * When to cite
 * User essay: On sources and content
 * WebCite form

Useful or interesting links

 * Wikipedia:Text of Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License
 * Text of the GNU Free Documentation License
 * Errors in the Encyclopædia Britannica that have been corrected in Wikipedia
 * Researching Wikipedia
 * We aren't Citizendium
 * Expert retention
 * Scientific standards
 * Quality control


 * Administration
 * What adminship is not
 * Readers first
 * Enjoy yourself
 * Practical process
 * Edit this proposal
 * Beef up that first revision
 * Permastub
 * Don't feed the divas
 * Wikipedia is not therapy
 * Free speech
 * Criticisms
 * Recentism
 * Recent additions
 * Good article nominations
 * Vital articles
 * DYKSTATS
 * Featured topics
 * Featured picture candidates
 * Graphic Lab
 * Finding images tutorial
 * Extended image syntax
 * Publicgirluk photo debate
 * Sound/list
 * Wikivoices
 * Books
 * Avoid Parkinson's Bicycle Shed Effect
 * Arguments to avoid in adminship discussions
 * Words to avoid
 * Advocacy
 * Avoiding POV funnels
 * Civil POV pushing
 * NPOV tutorial
 * Describing points of view
 * Kindness Campaign
 * Reward board
 * Dashboard
 * Issues
 * Local Embassy
 * Wikiquette assistance
 * Requests for feedback
 * Controversial articles
 * Editing frequency
 * Editing policy
 * Editor assistance
 * Editor's index to Wikipedia
 * Every edit must stand on its own feet
 * List of hoaxes on Wikipedia
 * List of base pages in the Wikipedia namespace


 * List of administrators
 * Areas for Reform
 * Governance reform
 * How to contribute to Wikipedia guidance
 * Wikipedia Committees
 * Arbitration Committee/CheckUser and Oversight
 * Arbitration/Index/Principles
 * Advisory Council on Project Development
 * IRC/Personal views regarding IRC
 * Wikipedia in culture
 * Modelling Wikipedia's growth
 * History of Wikipedian processes and people
 * Historic debates
 * Perennial proposals
 * Lost functionalities
 * Alternative outlets
 * Long-term abuse
 * Replies to common objections
 * Quote your own essay
 * About essay searching
 * The value of essays


 * Help:Wikipedia: The Missing Manual
 * Help:User style
 * Help:Special page


 * Category:User essays
 * Category:User essays on style
 * Category:Wikipedia rejected proposals
 * Category:Wikipedia resources for researchers


 * Book:Wikipedia Signpost

User essays

 * User:Filll/AGF Challenge
 * User:Ling.Nut/V-challenged
 * User:Jimbo Wales/Statement of principles
 * User:Redthoreau/Nuggets of Wiki Wisdom
 * User:Piotrus/Morsels of wikiwisdom
 * User:Antandrus/observations on Wikipedia behavior
 * User:Tony1/How to improve your writing - Very useful guide on writing articles
 * User:Giano/A fool's guide to writing a featured article
 * User:Beyond My Ken/thoughts - Excellent essay
 * User:Isomorphic/Essays/Deletionism
 * User:Art LaPella/Devil's Dictionary of Wikipedia Policy - A great read
 * User:Mangojuice/Administrators are not slaves
 * User:Larry Sanger/Origins of Wikipedia
 * meta:User:Larry Sanger - Larry's Columns on meta, some interesting reading

Featured Signpost articles

 * Wikipedia Signpost/2011-03-07/Deletion controversy

External

 * The WikimediaAnnounce-l Archives
 * stats.grok.se - Wikipedia article traffic statistics


 * Wikimedia Research Network
 * Communication Projects Group/Useful Links
 * meta:Research:Oral Citations
 * Rule of diminishing replies - the best way to deal with trolls
 * Wikipedia power structure
 * Avoid copyright paranoia
 * Megalomaniacal point of view
 * Steward requests
 * mw:Manual:MediaWiki feature list
 * Article creation workflow
 * Wikimedia Ethics
 * wikiversity:Wikiversity:Featured
 * Wikinews:Video 2.0
 * Welcome to Wikipedia (Bookshelf)


 * Wikimedia blog
 * Wikimedia Quarto newsletter


 * The consequences of vandalizing Wikipedia...
 * Wiki Experts Paid editing team for hire
 * Who runs Wikipedia?
 * Tricky questions to expect
 * How Wikipedia Works (Old URL dead) (Signpost book review)
 * Ask Jimmy!


 * Wikipedia news stories from BayNewser
 * EN Wikizine
 * English Wikipedia mailing list archive
 * The Wikipedian
 * On Wikipedia
 * Wikilivres The Canadian Wikisource
 * WikiTrust
 * Criticism
 * Criticism of Wikipedia Gotta maintain a neutral point of view...
 * Wikipedia Review
 * Wikipedia Controversies
 * Zombie Drama Queens from Wikipedia
 * Examples of Bias in Wikipedia - Lol
 * I'm on Wikipedia, get me out of here


 * This is not Wikipedia
 * A Brief History of Usenet: What went wrong? A great essay to read and compare with Wikipedia's growth
 * The Missing Wikipedians - On the current and future state of Wikipedia, very interesting reading
 * The Hive - On the history of Wikipedia and its processes, by Marshall Poe


 * Mozilla wiki
 * 2008/9 Wikipedia Selection for schools


 * Wikipedia Merchandise
 * Wikipedia 10th Anniversary wiki
 * Wikipedia Maze
 * Wikipedia Game
 * Wikipedia Story
 * Wikipedia Studies
 * WikiLove
 * WikiStics
 * WikiReader
 * WikiInstant
 * WikiMissing
 * WikiButcher
 * Snapshots of Wikipedia
 * The Wikipedia Dispute Index
 * The State of Wikipedia
 * I love Wikipedia
 * WikipediaVision
 * DBpedia: Querying Wikipedia like a Database
 * Twitter WikiSignpost
 * Twitter WikipediaNews

Technical and Advanced

 * Wikimedia Technical Blog
 * Bugs, Repairs, and Internal Operational News
 * Catalogue of CSS classes
 * Database queries
 * FAQ/Technical
 * Advanced footnote formatting
 * Advanced table formatting
 * Advanced text formatting
 * meta:Help:Advanced templates
 * mw:Help:Extension:ParserFunctions
 * mw:Help:Range blocks
 * mw:Project:Support desk
 * Help:WikiHiero syntax
 * Help:Wiki markup
 * Secure login


 * http://status.wikimedia.org/
 * http://torrus.wikimedia.org
 * http://nagios.wikimedia.org/
 * http://ganglia.wikimedia.org/


 * http://etherpad.wikimedia.org/

Maintenance and tools

 * Maintenance
 * Alert
 * Update
 * Maintenance
 * Dusty articles
 * Starter toolset
 * Database reports
 * Article Incubator
 * Responsible tagging
 * Open proxy detection
 * Cleaning up vandalism
 * List of progress boxes
 * WikiProject Orphanage
 * WikiProject Laundromat
 * WikiProject Check Wikipedia
 * Community portal/Opentask
 * Graphic Lab/Maintenance
 * Purging Google search results
 * Disambiguation pages with links
 * Articles requested for more than a year
 * Alleviate negative unsourced statements
 * Requests for comment/Wikipedia style and naming
 * Otheruses templates (example usage) Hatnotes
 * Template messages/WikiProject banners WikiProject banners
 * Template messages/Talk namespace Talk page templates
 * Template messages/User talk namespace User warnings, etc.
 * WikiProject Stub sorting/Stub types For stub sorting
 * Category:All redirect templates For redirect sorting
 * Category:Unresolved questions or requests
 * Category:Unreviewed new articles created via the Article Wizard
 * Category:Wikipedia cleanup
 * Category:Wikipedia feedback pages
 * Category:Wikipedians looking for help
 * Category:Wikipedia backlog
 * Special:UncategorizedPages
 * Special:UnwatchedPages
 * Template:Backlog status
 * Template:Fix For custom inline templates
 * Template:Italic title For italicizing article titles
 * WP:FLAG-/templates Flagging problematic articles
 * Template:HD Answers for Help Desk questions
 * User:WolterBot/Cleanup statistics
 * Tools
 * Tools
 * WikiProject User scripts/Scripts
 * Special:Gadgets
 * Special:Specialpages
 * Abuse filter log
 * User:WebCiteBOT
 * User:AmiDaniel/WhodunitQuery
 * User:Ale jrb/Scripts
 * User:Svick/CW, Category Watcher
 * WikiScanner
 * Interwiki map
 * mw:Help:Magic words


 * Toolserver table of contents
 * Random featured article
 * Page hit counter
 * WikiTodo tool
 * Can we link it? tool
 * Find link tool
 * CatScan
 * Watcher - how many are watchlisting your page?
 * RFC posting script
 * WikiBlame
 * Poor Man's Checkuser
 * Username search
 * WikiProject popular pages list
 * Free image search tool
 * Countervandalism.net, WPCVN.com
 * Check TOR
 * RfA vote count
 * Odd links
 * IBM's Chromogram - Visualize your edit history
 * Java-based Wikipedia Library - An application programming interface for Wikipedia


 * Deletion


 * Deletion policy
 * Deletion process
 * Deletion discussions
 * Deletion guidelines for administrators
 * Selective deletion
 * Arguments to avoid in deletion discussions
 * Articles for deletion/Common outcomes
 * Articles for deletion/Precedents/Archive
 * WikiProject Deletion sorting/Living people/archive
 * WikiProject proposed deletion patrolling
 * How to save an article proposed for deletion
 * Proposed deletion
 * Field guide to proper speedy deletion
 * Redirects for discussion
 * Alternative outlets
 * Follow the leader
 * Vanispamcruftisement
 * Template:Afd see also documentation
 * Template:DRV see also documentation
 * Deletion review guide
 * Inclupedia
 * Includipedia (down)
 * Deletionpedia
 * Wikibin: The Recycle Bin of Wikipedia
 * Visualizing Deletion Discussions

It's all fun and games until...

 * Terminal Event Management Policy
 * Arbitration Committee/Magic 8 Ball
 * April fools
 * Department of Fun
 * Wikipedia is an MMORPG - I love this page..
 * Wikipediholism test
 * WikiSpeak
 * WikiGoon
 * Unusual articles
 * Unusual requests
 * Userboxes/Wikipedia/humour
 * Hyperion Frobnosticating Endoswitch


 * User:KnowledgeOfSelf/Funny things
 * User:Hans Dunkelberg/Denis Diderot and Jimmy Wales
 * User:Yomangan/A bastard's guide to writing a featured article
 * User:GlassCobra/Essays/Hotties are always notable
 * User:GlassCobra/Editor for deletion
 * User:Radiant!/Classification of admins
 * User:Tony1/Silliest wikilink of the month award
 * User:Bishonen/European toilet paper holder - A great hoax article
 * User:Thesevenseas - This user had an impressive image on his userpage that looks like it was created from only ASCII characters
 * User:Wasbeer - Another interesting piece of userpage ASCII art
 * User talk:Romulus32 - Our beloved one millionth registered user, his selfless dedication to Wikipedia and tireless contributing will live on...


 * File:HFE Very High Five.JPG - the things people upload to Wikipedia...


 * Category:Wikipedia culture
 * Category:Wikipedia humor
 * Category:Wikipedia games

Polak inventions: Solar-powered flashlight, Helicopter ejection seat
 * Big tits!!!
 * Sugar tits
 * Hairy dick
 * Big Dick
 * Lick my ass
 * Eat Shit Retard


 * Wacky Wikinews
 * Wiktionary's collection of penis names
 * A place on Wiktionary to add all your made-up words
 * Wiktionary:Bad jokes and other deleted nonsense
 * Poles are evil!
 * Friends of gays should not be allowed to edit articles - "The last and most active group of vandals is, unfortunately, overly proud friends and acquaintances of gays and lesbians."
 * meta:Redirect arrow contest - check out the first one


 * ,, - funny edit summaries
 * the stay puft marshmellow man apparently he's a violent racist
 * Main Page vandalism


 * Bad Jokes and Other Deleted Nonsense! Dedicated site
 * How to be a sock-puppet
 * The High Priests of Wikipedia
 * Wickerpedia


 * The last page on Wikipedia.
 * User:MC10/Funny stuff - a collection of funny diffs and links from other Wikipedians



Interesting user names
-- Some of these use extended characters; if your browser or OS isn't setup to see these I've included descriptions. If you know of any other interesting, funny, or silly usernames you may add them here, but it's probably a good idea to ask that user for permission first:
 * -- This one spells something out that doesn't quite conform to Username policy.
 * -- A pair of eyes with eyebrows.
 * -- A peace sign.
 * -- Can be either a pair of eyes with a nose, or a penis and testicles depending on your frame of mind.
 * Then there's Ѿ which just looks like someone's bum.

And my favorite article: œ