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Wikis : English - French - Commons - Japanese

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 S ome have magic.

Like good teachers, like the kind that have twinkles in their eyes when talking about something they love.

And it's contagious. Sometimes so strong, you would actually start enjoying stuff you used to hate.

Some pages here are like that, you feel the guy loves what he's talking about.

PS: The below is mostly for myself! :P

  Quick Links & 2 Read Stuff 

Getting Around Wikipedia
 * Help:Searching
 * Special pages
 * Administrators' noticeboard
 * Wikipedia Department directory

Have time?
 * Maintenance
 * WikiProject Wikify
 * Uncategorized
 * Graphic Lab

Tech Info
 * Special Characters with Magic
 * Magic words
 * Links Howto
 * Citation quick reference
 * Extended image syntax
 * Stub types
 * Templates
 * User page design center.

Guides
 * Beginners' guide to the Manual of Style
 * Help:Wikipedia: The Missing Manual|
 * Various types of unhelpful edits
 * Interlingual coordination
 * Help:Japanese


 * Public Domain Resource

  Quick Tips For Newbies  These are tips, stuff I found out by chance, and highlights related to mistakes I have done. (-_-' )


 * Don't get lost :  There are so many help and guide articles, try to stick to one simple one that fits your needs. When necessary, complete it with search.
 * Finding tips : Learn how to use advanced Search. There are many cool tips, guides and resources on userpages. eg. Try ""tips for" (start OR beginner OR newbie)"
 * Avoiding mistakes : Seeing mistakes maybe the easiest way to learn. You can find them navigating article histories.
 * Try to see what Wiki bots have done, who removed what and why...
 * One thing you'll learn is that it's a waste of time if you don't do thing properly.
 * ... and it can be quit funny when you see stuff added and removed many times.
 * Before you...
 * Add text : Better know in what order sections should be mentionned.
 * Add a link: You must fly over this and this.
 * New domains: CAREFUL, search and ask here to see if it's OK. I find it easier to simply avoid it, let more experienced editors be judge of that. Referenced pages can be automatically archived [i] ... sure it's worth it?
 * Citing reference : Some sites look serious and seem like good source... but they cay be Wikipedia Mirrors! You'd be surprised! (well I was) It's realy worth checking out this list. - and if you see any ine articles, they can be removed.
 * Dead links : If you see a dead link [i], don't remove it but add   inside the tag.
 * Getting Help : To ask, go to Questions. To call, add : helpme or adminhelp</tt> to your talk page to get an editor or administrator to visit you. If you want more, you can ask to be “adopted” by adding.
 * Coaches have created questionnaires. Have a look at them.

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Citing
 * RefMaker
 * Citation Wizards offer three Citation Styles: APA, CSE, formerly known as CBE, and MLA. All feature specific templates for citing online Journals, Web pages with and without authors, electronic Books and Databases.
 * Bibme: Free citation generator that pulls reference content from a database of resources.
 * EasyBib: Automatic bibliography and citation maker
 * Son of Citation Machine (David Warlick)
 * OttoBibJust enter the ISBN (for books only)
 * Scripts Tagged wikipedia – Userscripts.org
 * Wikipedia Footnote Popup Show footnotes in tooltips - Userscript and bookmarklet
 * Citation scripts for Greasemonkey browser extension (eg. Citation wikitext generator)
 * Research tools with ref support: iCyte.com, Zotero, NoodleTools,

Category
 * Category Root
 * Category Search
 * Alphabetic list
 * CategoryTree
 * Catgraph Toolserver tool to visualize category structures
 * Wikimedia search images on a map
 * Cat Scan
 * Multi-category search
 * Linkintersection Category intersection search
 * Catfood

Markup
 * Free Meta Image Search
 * Wiki Table Editor - SIMILE Visual table editor Bookmarklet
 * WikiLink Bookmarklet to generate the wikilink of the current page
 * html2wiki Convert HTML text to wiki markup file or text input
 * WikyBox Online bidirectional Wiki2HTML<->HTML2Wiki converter
 * MediaWiki2HTML
 * HTML Table to Wiki Converter converts the HTML table tags into their wiki equivalents
 * Txt2tags Markup convertor (online demo) HTML, XHTML, SGML, LaTeX, Wikipedia/MediaWiki, Google Code Wiki, DokuWiki...
 * GeoLocator you can copy paste
 * BibTeX Converter BibTeX to Wikipedia

Misc
 * Mibbit Webchat Web IRC app, if your browser does not support Java (eg. help channel)
 * The Super-Simple Userbox Maker
 * Flat Userbox box generator
 * Google Translator Toolkit Wikipedia™ article

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If no one is around to add something to the spam blacklist, contact users at #wikipedia-spam-t here.
 * WikiProject Spam
 * TinEye Reverse Image Search to check image validity
 * Microsoft's Commercial Intention Detector Tool to evaluate an articles promotional level
 * Squarefree Link Bookmarklets many useful bookmarklets to spot external link spam.
 * Special:Linksearch – Find all external links to a particular site on en:Wikipedia; useful when a spam link is added by many different IP addresses or accounts.
 * Cross wiki linksearch – Search for a link across other language Wikipedias.
 * Search several common archives for variations of a URL – This is useful for finding previous conversations about particular sites.
 * Search for articles in need of cleanup – Shows edits tagged with Cleanup-spam.
 * External Link Cleanup – Sows External links (see also Wikipedia spam cleanup Search)
 * local spam blacklist Wikimedia Global spam blacklist User talk:XLinkBot/RevertList.

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See also Style guidelines and Typo Team About Spelling and Typo
 * Add Proofreader - by afterthedeadline.com Check Spelling, Style, and Grammar in Bookmarklet - Works with the default editor (not the experimental one)
 * SpellCheckPlus Online Spelling and Grammar Checker (for English as a Second Language)
 * InstaCalc Bookmarklet advanced calculator (eg. easy calculate thumbnail sizes and much more!)
 * Convert Center - Convertors for just about anything to anything else

IPA related: See Wikipedia IPA Category
 * IPA Trainer Practice and transcribe phonetics using the IPA.
 * International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) Chart Unicode “Keyboard”
 * Type IPA phonetic symbols Interactive reference chart - online keyboard
 * Transcriber is an online to practice phonetic transcription
 * UCL Speech, Hearing & Phonetic Sciences Information and resource

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Monitoring
 * [|Edit Counter] View user edits across Wikis
 * User Edit Counter
 * Deletionpedia Search deleted articles (article)
 * Trending Topics Hot Articles
 * Per-page contributions shows a user's contributions for just a particular article.
 * User contributions (Tool server) lists edits, similar to page history...
 * Watcher for all Wikipedia Wikis (article)
 * Wiki Alarm Monitoring service to send email alerts when selected articles are edited on Wikipedia.
 * WikiBlame searches for given text in versions of article
 * WikipediaVision Map of Anonymous edits to Wikipedia (almost) in real-time. (article)
 * WikiScanner for anonymous edits (article)
 * diffbot.com Officially a Webpage monitor - Enables to easily see differences, highlight new edits of the pages you have bookmarked.

Statistics
 * Official Wiki Statistics
 * Wikistats: Wikimedia Statistics Statistics per Wikimedia project
 * WikiDashboard Injects additional information into pages, like this. There's also a bookmarklet (See: Reliability of Wikipedia)
 * Wikipedia Article Traffic Statistics See your article stats (eg: This page)
 * Wikipedia Visualizations Links to several visualizations of Wikipedia



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Search
 * Best Picture Oscar Winners by Wikipedia pageviews
 * Clusty Wikipedia Meta searchengine
 * Faceted Natural language Wikipedia search
 * Global Wikipedia Article Search
 * Gollum an other wiki browser
 * Lexisum Wikipédia Summaries, Browse as you type & saves session history
 * LuMriX alternative interface
 * Powerset Natural language search & generates topic pages
 * Qwika Search other languages
 * Similpedia Search Similar articles
 * VisWiki an other Wikipedia search, let's you create lists
 * Wikibu German Wikipedia search engine with article rating
 * WikiMindMap Browse Wikipedia visually
 * Wiki-search-engine Real Time Search (tool server)
 * Global Wikipedia Article Search Search all major Wikipedia sites for articles with the given name (eg. for wikilinks)
 * Wikipedia Gateway Multilingual Search, Image & External Links
 * Wikipedia Roll Browse Wikipedia visually
 * Wikiwix Meta search combining Wikimedia projects, enables to create lists, + RSS support
 * wikiwax Wikipedia Search using LookAhead from SurfWax

Mobile
 * Wikipedia mobile Official Wikipedia mobile version with speech support
 * Wikipedia official site that caters to more advanced mobile devices
 * Wikipedia Mobile
 * MiniWiki.org
 * mlvb.net
 * Wapedia (article)
 * Semapedia.org: Wiki RQcode generator

Software
 * Okawix Software for downloading and reading Wikipedia off line
 * Wikipedia Toolbar Browser toolbar

Misc
 * SnapAsk Query Wikipedia by email.
 * PEDIAPHON Convert articles to speech - podcasts, mp3
 * WikiMatrix Website to Search & Compare wikis

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Wikimedians
 * Wales Jimmy Wales Founder of Wikipedia
 * A12 Illustration & tips
 * Muhammad Mahdi Karim Beautiful photos

WikiSites
 * What Is Wikipedia - Ultra Simple Video Explication By Common Craft
 * Wiki.org What is a wiki?
 * The Wikimedia Foundation
 * Wikipedia Spoken articles
 * Planet Wikimedia - See what's up in the foundation


 * Featured pictures
 * How I became a Wikipedian
 * Wikipedia Fun stuff
 * | Wikipedia reddit sub

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 * If you leave me a message: I will answer on my talk page, then place on your talk.
 * If I left you a message: please answer on your talk page, then place on my talk.
 * <SPAN CLASS="plainlinks">[ Please click here to leave me a new message.]</SPAN>

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 * If you also want this on your user page, copy past this:  on your own page.

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