User:Epipelagic/sandbox/reference


 * Project management
 * GreenReaper - When, why and how to start a WikiProject (or a separate wiki ); finding and supporting project members; the importance of focus. (slides)
 * ClockworkSoul, The Stages of a WikiProject's Life (or How To Keep Your Project Alive). Every project passes through a number of developmental phases as it matures, each with its own management needs.


 * Random stuff


 * The Missing Manual
 * Military history/Academy
 * WP's biggest problem
 * technical accessiblity
 * FAQ/Technical
 * not papers
 * reliable sources
 * Reliable sources/Noticeboard
 * Graphic Lab
 * How Users Read on the Web
 * galleries
 * style checklist scroll down
 * anonymous edits
 * Wikipedia Animate
 * link counter
 * Tools
 * Resource Exchange
 * DYK check
 * External link search
 * Are you still beating your wife
 * Editor's index
 * index
 * Glossary
 * New articles (New Zealand)
 * Notability guidelines for people
 * AfD notability
 * bias
 * WP:CROWN
 * Mirrors and forks
 * BOLD, revert, discuss cycle
 * Hanlon's razor
 * The Argument Sketch
 * Disruptive editing
 * Omegatron: Policy proposal.
 * Shanes/Why_tags_are_evil
 * Blocking policy
 * meltdown 1
 * meltdown 2
 * fringe
 * fringe


 * style
 * Who, what, where, when, why?
 * Summary Lead section, then inverted pyramid.
 * Omit needless words.
 * The Economist Style Guide
 * HOWTO: write bad documentation that looks good. "Why" is almost more important than "what."
 * Brevity. "It's about viral payload density." &mdash; John Hawkes-Reed
 * fog index about 12
 * Explain jargon
 * logorrhoea
 * Sokal affair.
 * Giano's FA
 * FA tips
 * Simplified ruleset
 * Readability tool
 * Which versus that
 * 47 Rules for Writers
 * |The Wrong Version
 * Technical articles


 * categories
 * categories for discussion
 * categories for renaming


 * templates
 * template help
 * template namespace
 * template messages
 * variables
 * timeline template


 * images
 * images
 * [[Image:Nz large simple downsampled.gif|40px|NZ map]]
 * upload image
 * image copyright
 * WP:ICT Image copyright tags
 * Example requests for permission
 * WP:PIC Picture Tutorial
 * WP:EIS Extended Image Syntax (syntax notes only)


 * copyright
 * Copyright infringement
 * gnu


 * better articles
 * Plain English
 * FA tips
 * User tutorial
 * Guidelines for properly writing and formatting articles
 * external links
 * overlinking
 * disambiguation
 * peer review
 * better articles
 * Advice on researching with Wikipedia
 * Suggestions for excellent content by User:AndyZ
 * Librarian's Guide to the way Wikipedia works by User:DGG
 * Librarian's view of Wikipedia and Reliability also by User:DGG


 * abrasion
 * deletionism and inclusionism
 * Wikitruth
 * settling disputes
 * wikiquette alerts
 * vandal
 * sockpuppet - sockpuppet2
 * troll - troll2
 * blocks


 * admin
 * admins
 * policies
 * disclaimer
 * Inkscape


 * external
 * commons search
 * requesting graphics
 * obscurity
 * imperial war picts
 * Han-shan
 * change
 * Andrew White
 * ship badges
 * google earth hacks
 * Imperial war museum photographs
 * The Magic Dragon Reports
 * Quicklinks for Researchers - National Library of NZ


 * More random stuff (pinched from Jayron32)
 * User:Uncle G/On notability Best essay on notability and why it should matter.
 * Who Writes Wikipedia Essay with some preliminary research that provides an interesting perspective on how Wikipedia works.
 * Don't be a Dick Primary civility criteria. Like the primary notability criteria, only better.
 * Funniest. Wikipedia. Humor. Ever.
 * User:Opabinia regalis/Article statistics Some interesting statistics on edits at wikipedia.
 * User:Raul654/Raul's laws Raul's laws. Cool read.  I agree with most of it.  Not all, but most.
 * Wikipedia Spin Hmmm. Nice to see someone finally did this.  Vedy interesting...
 * SEO Tips & Tactics From A Wikipedia Insider and The Right Way To Fix Inaccurate Wikipedia Articles Two great articles by Durova.
 * User:Uncle G/On sources and content another great Uncle G essay.
 * The 8 Most Needlessly Detailed Wikipedia Entries What it says. Some of these may have since been deleted, but these were all at one time real articles.
 * Don't "call a spade a spade" AWESOME essay about avoiding ad hominem comments and maintaining the moral high ground in disputes.
 * Wikipedia Rules Article in the Phoenix about wikipedia. Quite well written and comprehensive.
 * User:Misza13/Nobody cares about your credentials Another great essay.
 * Talk page highlights Funny "haha" and funny "strange" all at once.
 * Calculating the airspeed of an unladen swallow Ok. This has nothing to do with Wikipedia, but it may be the best thing ever written by humans EVER.
 * WP:HOTTIE. Click it.  I dare ya...
 * Funny shit It's The Onion, but even when they aren't telling the truth, they are... You know?
 * The Scandal of Olivia Newton John AV club found the WP:LAME page... nicely written list of the Lamest of the Lame.
 * PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE give me a reason to block you!!!
 * best post ever. Period. End of discussion.
 * Don't Feed the Divas. Is it time for my closeup yet, Mr. DeMille?
 * Notability (Septuagenarian female plumbers with red hair and freckles) The most important notability guide out there!
 * my rough analysis of article creation rate at Wikipedia. As of May 2009, it was roughly one article every 54 seconds.  The same number was arrived at using short-term (500 articles at one batch) and long term (all articles created between article #2,000,000 till I did the analysis) calculations.
 * User:Jayron32/Orthodoxy and heresy at Wikipedia An essay inspired by the rather contentious MfD for Esperanza
 * User:Jayron32/How to argue effectively I was getting tired of reading bad, illogical, or otherwise ineffective arguments on XfD and other discussions.
 * User:Jayron32/Jayron32's Principles of Vandal Fighting
 * User:Jayron32/Observations from a new Admin
 * User:Jayron32/The Featured Article test
 * User:Jayron32/On positions of authority at Wikipedia
 * User:Jayron32/Wikipedia translator


 * more random stuff
 * admin related stats
 * User:Improv/Quotes
 * User:Angela/What Wikipedia is not
 * We need a policy to deal with policy
 * User:Linuxbeak/There really isn't a cabal
 * User:Revolución/Statement against Jimbocracy
 * decision making on WP:BN
 * User:Mboverload/Zero Featured Article - RfA criteria
 * User:Dbuckner/Expert rebellion
 * User:LinaMishima/Experts Problem
 * List of cabals
 * Knowledge Access as a Public Good - Danah Boyd
 * Bizarre And Improbable Giraffe Herding Techniques

If you would like to try your hand at making maps, for Wikipedia or other purposes, I also wholeheartedly recommend this link:
 * OMC maps (pinched from Kelisi)


 * The THOROUGHLY AWESOME Online Map Creation site

I have discovered a little bug in this site. You must of course enter map coördinates – latitude and longitude – to generate your map, and instead of using the letters N, S, W and E to indicate hemisphere, you put a minus sign if you mean latitude south of the equator or longitude west of Greenwich. The trouble crops up when you want to generate a map of an area that straddles the 180th meridian. Have a look at my Fiji map up above and you'll notice that the 180th passes right through the country, but to generate the map, I had to specify an eastern limit of 182°, not -178° which I found caused an error message. But honestly, whoever heard of the 182nd meridian?! Anyway, the system does at least translate this into -178° when the map appears.

Another thing that can be annoying about OMC maps is that they are limited in size. You can make bigger maps, though, by generating 4 (or 9, or 16) maps of contiguous areas and then using Microsoft Paint, or another graphics programme, to stitch them together. However, this only works well if you use the Mercator projection, which is not always handy.

To do maps of a countries subdivions, go to the gData website, then select "administrative divisions", "roads", "railways", or anything else you want on the map, then, select a country from the list, you'll have to download a ZIP file, then, extract the file(s) with the file extension ".shp" and upload it to MapSharer where you can edit the map. When you finished, download the map as an EPS, and convert it to SVG, best using Ghostscript and GSview. Then, edit the map to meet your needs using Inkscape. See this?
 * other


 * tools
 * Tools
 * WikiProject Edit Counters
 * Interiot's External Edit Counter
 * Mathbot's edit summary usage of a Wikipedia editor
 * WikiProject User scripts/Scripts
 * Tools/Navigation popups -- udeful
 * Special:Linksearch searches for links from Wikipedia articles to sites outside Wikipedia. E.g., all Wikipedia pages linking to Yahoo.com