User:Dsprc

The Wikipedia Adventure

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Getting Help

 * Support and Safety
 * Suicide.org - List of international suicide hotlines.


 * The Teahouse: helpful and friendly environment to ask your first basic questions about contributing to Wikipedia.
 * Help:Cheatsheet: examples of basic formatting that are used most often when editing.
 * Help: Wikipedia: The Missing Manual
 * Expectations and norms of the Wikipedia community
 * wmf:Policy:Universal Code of Conduct
 * "Encyclopedia Frown". Auerbach, David (11 Dec. 2014). Slate.
 * "Wikipedia Editors Call Out the Site's Abuse Problems". Reader, Ruth (18 May 2016). Mic.
 * "Wikipedia Editor Says Site’s Toxic Community Has Him Contemplating Suicide". Koebler, Jason (17 May 2016). Vice.
 * "Handful of 'highly toxic' Wikipedia editors cause 9% of abuse on the site". Annalee Newitz (10 February 2017). Ars Technica.
 * "Wikipedia Isn’t Officially a Social Network. But the Harassment Can Get Ugly.". Julia Jacobs (8 April 2019). The New York Times.
 * "Wikimedia is writing new policies to fight Wikipedia harassment". Adi Robertson (25 May 2020). The Verge.
 * "I quit Twitter and discovered Wikipedia’s righteous, opinionated, utterly absorbing battles over The Truth". Shaun Cammack (8 July, 2022). The Boston Globe.
 * "The Wikipedia elite who control the world's knowledge". Harry de Quetteville (28 April 2023). The Daily Telegraph.
 * Simplified ruleset
 * Trifecta
 * Ignore all rules


 * Help desk: for technical questions about using Wikipedia (how to edit, images, categories etc.)
 * WP:Village pump: for questions about Wikipedia policies, guidelines or operations
 * WP:Reference desk: for questions about subjects other than Wikipedia (including topics covered in the articles contained therein)
 * WP:The Wikipedia Library


 * WP:Administrators' noticeboard: to report a problem (vandalism, etc.)
 * Question help: to find out more about where to ask questions or make comments on Wikipedia
 * Help:Contents/Directory: all of the help pages. Everything.
 * (except the List of cabals because They™ don't want you to know! Bwahaha!) ;-D
 * Or if you are looking for a department, but don't know what it is called, try the Department directory.


 * WP:Dispute resolution: resolve disputes or potential conflicts
 * Starting an article: guide and tips for creating new articles
 * List of bad article ideas


 * Sixty ways to help new editors - Wikimedia Blog (from discussion @ Wikimania 2014)
 * Help:Using the Wayback Machine: to recover lost, moved or deleted pages on the Web (helpful for dead links).
 * User page design center

Spam

 * outreach:GLAM/Newsletter


 * WikiProject Women in Red

Motto of the day :

Watchlist insufficient?:
 * Syndication
 * MediaWiki API
 * Above have hard limit on number of entries provided & thus may require frequent polling
 * m:User:Hedonil/XTools

Other stuff

 * User:Zhaofeng Li/reFill — incredibly helpful tool which automates the task of filling-out text for bare URLs used as references

This bucket of bolts

 * $ telnet telnet.wmflabs.org — telnet to Wikipedia. (telnet gateway) Telnet bridge is currently offline. :(
 * Server Admin Log (wikitech.wikimedia.org)
 * Current status Wikimedia Foundation - Core services (status.wikimedia.org)
 * WMF Status Dashboards - perf mon (gdash.wikimedia.org)
 * Wikitech (wikitech.wikimedia.org)
 * Special:Version: shows the version of the software the site is currently running, and a listing of extensions installed
 * Wikimedia Code Review (gerrit.wikimedia.org)
 * Wikimedia Phabricator (phabricator.wikimedia.org)

Propaganda

 * Internet censorship and surveillance by country
 * 2013 mass surveillance disclosures
 * Aftermath of the global surveillance disclosure
 * Electronic Frontier Foundation


 * Free Software Foundation Europe
 * Free software
 * Citizen Lab

Vidya
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