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Wikipedia:

 * Wikipedia (2001.01.15-; by Jimmy Wales and Larry Sanger): largest and most popular general reference work on the Internet ; praised as a news source due to articles related to breaking news often being rapidly updated. Most common and obvious types of vandalism include insertion of obscenities and crude humor; deliberate addition of plausible but false information to an article, can be more difficult to detect. Biographical articles of living people. Content in Wikipedia is subject to the laws (in particular, the copyright laws) of USA and of the U.S. state of Florida, where the majority of Wikipedia's servers are located . "Verifiability, not truth"; NPOV; Dispute resolution; "edit war". Arbitration Committee is the ultimate dispute resolution method. Particular problem occurs in the case of an individual who is relatively unimportant and for whom there exists a Wikipedia page against her or his wishes. Many levels of volunteer stewardship: "administrator" (not supposed to enjoy any special privilege in decision-making). 2009 study by Business Insider editor and journalist Henry Blodget showed that in a random sample of articles most content in Wikipedia (measured by the amount of contributed text that survives to the latest sampled edit) is created by "outsiders" (users with low edit counts), while most editing and formatting is done by "insiders" (a select group of established users). 2007.01 Wikipedia entered for the first time the top-ten list of the most popular websites in USA. 2012.01.18 English Wikipedia participated in a series of coordinated protests against two proposed laws in the United States Congress—SOPA and PIPA. Explicit content ("internet is for porn"; Wikipedia is for (self) education)
 * Wikipedia milestones: all (2004-09-20 1,000,000 articles; 2010-04-16 1,000,000,000 edits; 2013-02-19 25,000,000 articles); en (2006-03-01 1,000,000 articles; 2007-09-09 2,000,000 articles; 2012-07-13 4,000,000 articles)
 * Wikipe-tan (ウィキペたん Wikipetan): personification of Wikipedia and was created in 2006.01 by the editor User:Kasuga.
 * Search engine optimization: Wikipedia use "noindex" and "nofollow" URL attributes. "Matt Cutts, a software engineer at Google, has claimed that Wikipedia's nofollow policy will not seriously affect Google's search results "given the way that we process Wikipedia links." That cryptic comment may suggest Google was already treating Wikipedia links differently than other links."

Many Wikipedia-only policies, notices, organizational structures come to be transferred to Meta-Wiki.
 * External links/Perennial websites: Facebook, YouTube, LinkedIn, IMDb, (?)Wikileaks

Internet
 * Wikipedia Signpost/2009-06-01/Book review: Internet and Wikipedia; the worst case scenario which can be realistic if Wikipedia becomes more and more important website.

Human interaction
 * FAQ/Organization: attack page ("The article on me/my organization is an attack. What can I do?")

Wikipedias in other languages than English:
 * lt:Lietuviškoji Vikipedija: lietuvių kalba kuriamas laisvosios interneto enciklopedijos Vikipedijos skyrius, Vikimedijos fondo projektas. Interneto enciklopedija kuriama, remiantis atvirojo turinio (open content) bei vikio (wiki) principais. Vikipedija yra viena iš lankomiausių svetainių Lietuvoje, per mėnesį lietuviškoje Vikipedijoje apsilanko maždaug 3 mln. unikalių lankytojų, o lietuviškų puslapių peržiūrų skaičius siekia daugiau nei 300 tūkst. per dieną [2017].
 * German Wikipedia: Compared to the English Wikipedia, the German edition tends to be more selective in its coverage, often rejecting small stubs, articles about individual fictional characters and similar materials. Instead, there is usually one article about all the characters from a specific fictional setting, usually only when the setting is considered important enough (for example, all characters from Star Wars are listed in a single article). A dedicated article about a single fictional entity generally exists only if the character in question has a very significant impact on popular culture (for example, Hercule Poirot).
 * Russian Wikipedia: largest Wikipedia written in any Slavic language surpassing its nearest rival, the Polish Wikipedia, eightfold by the parameter of depth. Russian Wikipedia is the largest Wikipedia written in Cyrillic or in a script other than Latin script. Blackout: 2012.07.10 - Russian Wikipedia closed access to its contents for 24 hours in protest against proposed amendments to Russia's Information Act (Bill No. 89417-6) regulating the accessibility of Internet-based information to children. Russian Wikipedia blacklisted: 2013.04.05 - it was confirmed by a spokesperson for the Federal Service for Supervision of Communications, Information Technology and Mass Media that Wikipedia had been blacklisted over the article 'Cannabis Smoking' on Russian Wikipedia.
 * Spanish Wikipedia
 * Portuguese Wikipedia
 * Featured articles in other languages: effort to highlight articles that have gained featured article status in other languages but are not as detailed (or do not even exist) in English; focuses on seven of the other major languages; Top 20 articles that are significantly larger in the other language. Chinese, Dutch, Finnish, French, German, Hebrew, Italian, Polish, Portuguese, Spanish, Catalan.


 * Help:Wikipedia: The Missing Manual


 * The Wikipedia Library: helps editors access reliable sources to improve Wikipedia.
 * TWL/About: open research hub, a place for active Wikipedia editors to gain access to the vital reliable sources that they need to do their work and to be supported in using those resources to improve the encyclopedia. We aim to make access and use of sources free, easy, collaborative and efficient.


 * WikiProject Open Access/Signalling OA-ness: This page is about how Wikipedia pages could signal to readers whether a particular reference is open access or not, as outlined in this Signpost op-ed.


 * Edit summary legend: list of commonly used edit summary abbreviations.


 * Wikipedia's oldest articles
 * First 100 pages: Here are the first 100 pages created on Wikipedia, per Tim Starling's archives. The format of this list is page title, time of creation, creator.


 * Unusual articles: Of the over six million articles in the English Wikipedia there are some articles that Wikipedians have identified as being somewhat unusual. These articles are verifiable, valuable contributions to the encyclopedia, but are a bit odd, whimsical, or something one would not expect to find in Encyclopædia Britannica. We should take special care to meet the highest standards of an encyclopedia with these articles lest they make Wikipedia appear idiosyncratic.

Wikipedia: policies, guidelines, politics and economics

 * Template:Wikipedia policies and guidelines


 * Neutral point of view (NPOV): Articles must not take sides, but should explain the sides, fairly and without editorial bias. This applies to both what you say and how you say it.
 * Explanation of the neutral point of view: Avoid stating opinions as facts; Avoid stating seriously contested assertions as facts; Avoid stating facts as opinions; Prefer nonjudgmental language; Indicate the relative prominence of opposing views.
 * Achieving neutrality: Naming (Wikipedia:Article titles § Neutrality in article titles); Article structure (MOS/Layout); Due and undue weight: Balancing aspects, Giving "equal validity" can create a false balance; Good research; Balance; Impartial tone; Describing aesthetic opinions and reputations; Words to watch; Bias in sources.
 * Handling neutrality disputes: Attributing and specifying biased statements; Point-of-view forks; Making necessary assumptions.
 * Controversial subjects: Fringe theories and pseudoscience; Religion.


 * Fringe theories: term fringe theory is used in a very broad sense to describe an idea that departs significantly from the prevailing views or mainstream views in its particular field. Because Wikipedia aims to summarize significant opinions with representation in proportion to their prominence, a Wikipedia article should not make a fringe theory appear more notable or more widely accepted than it is. Statements about the truth of a theory must be based upon independent reliable sources. If discussed in an article about a mainstream idea, a theory that is not broadly supported by scholarship in its field must not be given undue weight, and reliable sources must be cited that affirm the relationship of the marginal idea to the mainstream idea in a serious and substantial manner. Identifying fringe theories: Spectrum of fringe theories: Pseudoscience; Questionable science; Alternative theoretical formulations. Sourcing: Reliable sources; Independent sources; Parity of sources; Attribution: Quotations, In-text attribution.


 * Consensus: primary way decisions are made on Wikipedia, and it is accepted as the best method to achieve our goals. Decisions not subject to consensus of editors: certain policies and decisions made by the Wikimedia Foundation ("WMF"), its officers, and the Arbitration Committee of Wikipedia are outside the purview of editor consensus.


 * Oversight (suppression): form of enhanced deletion which, unlike normal deletion, expunges information from any form of usual access even by administrators. It is used within strict limits to remove defamatory material, to protect privacy, and sometimes to remove serious copyright violations, from any page or log entry (including, if required, the list of users) on the English Wikipedia.


 * User:Maxim/Administrator inactivity: current state of our administrator inactivity rules. In brief: if an admin goes 12 or months without a single edit or logged action, the +sysop flag is removed. While the original policy in 2011 allowed for restoration at any time by request to WP:BN, it has since been amended a few times to provide for cases where the flag cannot be restored via a simple noticeboard request. I think the crux of my comment at the time (while buried in a bunch of text) is that our current inactivity policy and their attendant rules, are a demonstration of the legal maxim that hard cases make bad law.


 * Lamest edit wars: Occasionally, even experienced Wikipedians lose their heads and devote every waking moment to edit warring over the most trivial thing, wasting time debating topics of no practical value, or wrestling over questions whose answers hold no practical consequence. This page documents our lamest examples. It isn't comprehensive or authoritative, but it serves as a showcase of situations where people lose sight of the big picture and obsessively expend huge amounts of energy fighting over something that, in the end, isn't really so important.

Wikipedia: how-to guides

 * How to create charts for Wikipedia articles: Here are some hints on how to create a graph. The source code for each of the example images on this page can be accessed by clicking the image to go to the image description page.
 * Guidelines: 1. Use the SVG format whenever possible. 2. Plots should be as language-free as possible, and uploaded to Wikimedia Commons, so that they may be used in any language version of Wikipedia.
 * Plotting: gnuplot: SVG, Raster; Maxima; GNU Octave; Matplotlib; Wikimedia SVG Chart; Xfig; R; Gri; Maple.
 * Dynamic geometry: GeoGebra, C.a.R.
 * Surfaces & solids: POV-Ray; Other surface tools: Blender.
 * Figures, diagrams & charts: Graphviz; Inkscape; LibreOffice and Apache OpenOffice; Gnumeric.
 * Post-processing: Modifying SVG images; Converting PostScript to SVG; Editing PostScript colors and linestyles manually; Converting PostScript to PNG and editing with the GIMP; Converting PostScript to PNG with ImageMagick.

Sources, reliable sources, perennial sources

 * Reliable sources/Perennial sources: a list of repeatedly discussed sources, collected and summarized for convenience. Consensus can change, and context matters tremendously when determining how to use this list. Note that some of the most prestigious academic journals in the world, like Nature and The Lancet, are entirely missing from this list, most likely because they are so clearly reliable that there was no need to discuss them at all.
 * Reliable sources/Perennial sources

Vikipedija

 * lt:Kategorija:Vikipedijos pavyzdiniai straipsniai
 * lt:Kategorija:Vertingi straipsniai


 * lt:Vikipedija:Pavyzdiniai straipsniai (14 [2014], 24 [21/10/31])
 * lt:Vikipedija:Vertingi straipsniai (91 [2014], 88 [21/10/31])


 * lt:Lietuviškoji Vikipedija

Academic studies about Wikipedia (research)

 * Wikipedia in academic studies:
 * Researching Wikipedia: collection of stats; outdated (~2008)
 * User survey: Wikipedia-de stats
 * 2009/04/16/first-preliminary-results-from-unu-merit-survey-of-wikipedia-readers-and-contributors-available/: comprehensive stats

Sample word-of-mouth statistics:
 * "the number of people with accounts and 0 edits who have recently used Wikipedia is actually surprisingly high; happy to pull hard data from the db for you if you so wish" Okeyes (WMF) (talk) 14:33, 24 January 2013 (UTC)

Wikipedia history

 * History of the Klingon Wikipedia: created in June 2004 and was permanently locked in August 2005. It remains in editable form offsite at klingon.wikia.com where it continues to grow.

Article

 * Article classes: Grades: FA, A, GA, B, C, Start, Stub, FL, List. Non-standard grades: B+, Future, Current, Disambig, NA, Redirect, Book, Template, Category.
 * Good articles & Good article criteria & Good article reassessment
 * Featured article criteria
 * How do they appear? Timescale.
 * Are there many battling out editors or just one main editor who pulls it out?
 * Maybe >60% FAs are pulled by one or two editors? Maybe >60% of FAs are pulled by a flock/team of editors?
 * Do FAs vary in quality? Why? Science vs. non-science FAs? Any other quality division of FAs?
 * What is the extent of FA staying an FA in one year from now?


 * WikiCup: championship that has taken place every year on Wikipedia since 2007; played and won by skill of editing
 * WikiCup/History: by the 2010 competition, edit count no longer counted for points, regardless of whether or not it was in the mainspace. FA [100 pt], GA [30 pt], FL [45 pt], FP [35 pt], FPO (Featured portal) [35 pt], FT (Featured topic) [10 pt/article], GT (Good topic) [3 pt/article], DYK [5 or 10 pt], ITN (In the News) [10 pt], GAR (Good article reviews) [4 pt].


 * Vital articles/Level/1 (10 subjects): These are ten subjects on which Wikipedia should have corresponding high-quality articles. They form Level 1 of the Vital Articles list.
 * Vital articles/Level/2 (100 subjects): These are one hundred subjects on which Wikipedia should have corresponding high-quality articles. They form Level 2 of the Vital Articles list and include all subjects on the Level 1 list, which are marked in bold.
 * Vital articles (~1000 subjects): list of subjects for which Wikipedia should have corresponding high-quality articles. It serves as a centralized watchlist to track the status of Wikipedia's most essential articles.
 * Vital articles/Expanded (~10,000 subjects): Wikipedia should ultimately have high-quality articles. It expands on Wikipedia:Vital articles, which lists 1000 articles. This list is in the process of being refined and prioritized on the basis of topic-by-topic discussion and !voting. Because of its size, Vital Articles/Expanded has been split into eleven sublists:
 * Vital articles/Expanded/Anthropology, psychology and everyday life: Anthropology, Culture, Ethnology, Family and kinship, Cooking, Household items, Sexuality, Stages of life, Psychology, Language, Sports and recreation, Timekeeping, Colors
 * List of articles every Wikipedia should have (1000 subjects): There are a growing number of Wikipedia projects, some very active and others quite stagnant. This list is intended as a guideline for those projects so that they will contain a minimum amount of basic, useful information. This way, people will be encouraged to use these projects and help in their growth. The articles should contain at least basic information on the topics they describe, thus providing a starting point for growth besides being a useful reference for the readers.
 * List of articles every Wikipedia should have/Version 1.1 (1000 subjects; 2008.11.15)


 * User:TCO/Improving Wikipedia's important articles: collected data manually on page views and looked at cases to analyze quality versus importance.
 * File:Wikipedia’s poor treatment of its most important articles.pdf: Presentation giving analysis and recommendations related to Vital Articles, Good Articles, and Featured Articles on Wikipedia. Main thesis is that Wiki needs to concentrate more on the high view articles, vice "star collecting" on obscure topics.
 * Multiyear ranking of most viewed pages: from 2007.12.01 to the present demonstrates human interests during that period. The views data for Wikipedia's first years (2001-2007) is fragmentary and complete data on mobile views is available only since 2015.07.01. This presently precludes the possibility of all-time ranking with the multiyear perspective being the closest we can get to. Top-100 list; Countries; Cities; People: Singers, Actors, Sportsmen, Modern political leaders, Pre-modern people (before AD 1400; exception is made for Joan of Arc born in 1412), 3rd-millennium people; Music bands; Sport teams; Films and TV series; Albums; Books and book series: Pre-modern books and texts (before 1500 AD)


 * Flagged revisions: extension to the MediaWiki software; permits the managers of a particular MediaWiki installation to define certain conditions by which trusted editors can rate an article's "revisions" and to "flag" one of those revisions.
 * mw:Extension:FlaggedRevs: allows for MediaWiki to act more like a Content Management System (CMS).
 * mw:Help:Extension:FlaggedRevs
 * Sighting (obsolete)
 * Pending changes: protection is a tool used to suppress vandalism and certain other persistent problems on Wikipedia while allowing good-faith users to submit their edits for review; pending changes protection can be used as an alternative to semi-protection and full protection to allow unregistered and new users to edit pages, while keeping the edits hidden to most readers until they are accepted by a reviewer. There are still relatively few articles on Wikipedia with this type of protection.
 * Reviewing: is intended as a quick check to ensure edits don't contain vandalism, violations of the policy on living people, copyright violations, or other obviously inappropriate content.
 * Protection policy: However, in some particular circumstances, because of a specifically identified likelihood of damage resulting if editing is left open, some individual pages may need to be subject to technical restrictions (often only temporary but sometimes indefinitely) on who is permitted to modify them. The placing of such restrictions on pages is called protection. Protection can be applied to or removed from pages only by Wikipedia's administrators, although any user may request protection. Protection can be indefinite or expire after a specified time period. The most commonly used types of protection are full protection, which means that a page can be modified only by administrators; and semi-protection, which means that a page can be modified only by users who are logged in and whose accounts have been confirmed (any account is automatically confirmed if it has existed for at least four days and has made at least ten edits).
 * Who Wrote That? (WWT): browser extension which displays authorship information directly on Wikipedia articles. When you hover over content, the tool highlights all content by the same author. When you click on content, the tool identifies the author of the revision, along with revision details. Overall, WWT allows users to discover the source and background of an edit, without digging through revision history. This project was completed in February 2020.


 * Wikipedia article depth (editing depth): one of several possible rough indicators of the encyclopedia's collaborative quality, showing how frequently its articles are updated.

Editing

 * Editor's index to Wikipedia
 * Category:Wikipedia editor handbook
 * m:Category:Editor handbook
 * Help:Editing
 * Help:Introduction


 * Help:Reverting: means undoing or otherwise negating the effects of one or more edits, which results in the page being restored to a previous version. Partial reversion; Self-reversion. Any method of editing that has the practical effect of returning some or all of the page to a previous version can be considered a reversion.
 * Undo: It is also possible to undo several consecutive edits, even if they conflict among themselves: view the diff to be removed (by selecting the two extremal revisions in the history and clicking "compare selected revisions"), and click the "undo" link.
 * Moving a page


 * Countervandalism Network: Documented on this page are the general procedures for countervandalism users, including local channel operators, staff and senior staff.


 * Text editor support: often convenient to edit Wikipedia articles using a full-fledged text editor, instead of the standard text area of a web browser.


 * Help:Using colours: font colour, Wikimedia colour schemes


 * Categories, lists, and navigation templates: several ways to group articles (categories, lists (including embedded lists, like lists included in See also sections), and navigation templates (of which article series boxes are one type)); each method of organizing information has its own advantages and disadvantages, and is applied for the most part independently of the other methods following the guidelines and standards that have evolved on Wikipedia for each of these systems. Overlapping categories, lists and navigation templates are not considered duplicative.
 * Categories versus lists: main advantages of lists over categories.


 * Help:User contributions: automatically generated pages that list the edits that an individual user has made on the English Wikipedia. Your own contributions: Special:MyContributions. Another user's: go to (logged in) user page and click on Toolbox>User contributions; this works even if the user page has not been created yet. IP address: loooong process.


 * How to delete a page: if it is not a page you created yourself, put   at the top of it; if it is a page you created yourself, add    at the top.


 * Help:Hidden text (HTML comment):  


 * Help:Colon trick: method of providing a link to a category, image or interwiki link without adding the page to the category, displaying the image or adding the interwiki link to the interlanguage links. It also allows for linking to pages with titles beginning with a recognized external link prefix, such as http:// or //Hus.

Uploading media files

 * Creation and usage of media files: As of March 2010, the following file types may be uploaded: png, gif, jpg/jpeg, xcf, pdf, mid, ogg/ogv/oga, svg, djvu. All others are prohibited for security reasons, and pdf and djvu are intended primarily for projects like Wikisource.
 * Help:Files: uploading files, using files, naming files, renaming files
 * Extended image syntax: syntax for displaying an image; multimedia syntax (sound (Ogg, MIDI), video (Ogg)).
 * Template:Annotation: creates an annotation for annotated images.
 * Template:Annotated image: addition of explanatory notes to images in the form of actual text (which can also contain links), which is usually more legible than text built into the image – especially if the image is reduced to thumbnail size.

Templates

 * Help:A quick guide to templates:
 * mw:Help:Templates
 * Template messages: standard templates in use within Wikipedia
 * Help:Template


 * Template:Age in years and days nts: template returns the number of full years and surplus days between two specified dates. If only one date is entered, the template returns the number of full years and surplus days between the specified date and today's date.


 * Template:Gdansk-Vote-Notice: historical (on Wikipedia) decision by voting about the naming of Gdańsk (Danzig) in different articles because this city was inhabited by different proportions of German or Polish speakers over the ages.


 * Template:Library resources box: sidebar box of external links to resources in the user's preferred library about or by the topic of an article.


 * Template:Charmap: creates a standard computer encoding table for writing system character articles


 * Template:Anchor: The template inserts one or more HTML anchors in a page; those locations can then be linked to using … syntax. If using ==  Section title ==, then add.


 * Template editor: user right allows trusted coders to edit templates and modules that, due to a high transclusion rate, have been protected with the "protected template" protection level. It also allows those editors to edit edit notices, all of which are permanently uneditable without template editor, account creator, or administrator rights.


 * Template:Collapsible option: To set the template's initial visibility, the |state= parameter may be used:
 * |state=collapsed
 * |state=expanded
 * |state=autocollapse


 * Template:Outdent: For outdenting a reply on a talk page when indentation gets too deep.

Citations and templates

 * Citing sources: a citation, or reference, uniquely identifies a source.
 * use Wikidata and Cite Q
 * Types of citation
 * When and why to cite sources
 * Inline citations:
 * How to create the list of citations: ;
 * Repeated citations: ;
 * Citation style
 * Handling links in citations
 * Text-source integrity
 * Bundling citations
 * In-text attribution
 * Dealing with unsourced material
 * Citation templates and tools
 * Help:Footnotes: how to create Footnotes in articles; used most commonly to provide references (bibliographic citations) to reliable sources in articles, explanatory information, and source information for tables and other elements.


 * WikiProject Unique Identifiers: project for Wikipedians using Unique Identifiers (UIDs) for article subjects; particulary where a more specific UID project does not already exist.
 * Scientific citation guidelines: guideline for Mathematics, Physics, Molecular and cellular biology and Chemistry WikiProjects
 * How to mine a source
 * {q.v. Wikicite}

Template:Wikipedia referencing
 * Template:International numbers (DOI, PMID, ISBN, JSTOR...):
 * Template:Cite doi
 * User:Smith609 - creator of DOI bot
 * Template:Cite pmid: PMCID starts with "PMC" prefix. PMCID is yet another number given by PubMed Central archive to some publications which have PMID
 * Template:Cite jstor
 * User:Citation bot
 * User:WebCiteBOT: WebCite archives web pages on demand. Authors can subsequently cite the archived web pages through WebCite, in addition to citing the original URL of the web page. Readers are able to retrieve the archived web pages indefinitely, without regard to whether the original web page is revised or removed (so-called link rot).
 * ORCID
 * Help:Citation tools: can help you assemble a citation from limited information, with limited effort.
 * Citation templates
 * COinS (ContextObjects in Spans): method of embedding latent OpenURL ContextObjects in web pages. This allows client software to retrieve bibliographic metadata and to use an OpenURL resolver to find a mediated link. A principal advantage of using COinS, rather than giving a static OpenURL, is that the client can determine which resolver to use. This allows, for instance, searching for a copy of a book in one's own library..
 * Citing sources with Zotero: adding references from Zotero to Wikipedia by "drag and drop" (started in Talk:Zotero : Integrating Zotero with Wikipedia).

Citation templates

 * Citation templates
 * Wikidata (everything)


 * book


 * website

Chemistry templates

 * Category:Chemistry templates


 * Template:Chem: serves to simplify the writing of chemical formulae

Genetics templates, protein templates

 * Template:Infobox gene: Infobox gene template. The data in the infobox is sourced from wikidata. lua. Data structure: A) connected to Human gene data page, B) connected to Human protein data page.

Chemistry templates
IUPAC official books:
 * Template:GoldBookRef: for referencing the Internet version of the IUPAC Compendium of Chemical Terminology, more commonly known as the Gold Book.
 * BlueBook:
 * Template:BlueBook1979
 * Template:BlueBook1993
 * Template:BlueBook2004
 * Template:GreenBook2nd
 * Template:RedBook2005
 * Template:OrangeBook3rd

Categorization, categories

 * Category:Wikipedia categorization


 * Categorization: provide navigational links to all Wikipedia pages in a hierarchy of categories which readers, knowing essential—defining—characteristics of a topic, can browse and quickly find sets of pages on topics that are defined by those characteristics. Naming conventions: general conventions, special conventions. Category tree organization: subcategorization, diffusing large categories, non-diffusing subcategories, eponymous categories
 * FAQ/Categorization
 * FAQ/Categories: main types of categories: administration categories or project categories (stub category), container categories (intermediate categories), set categories, topic categories, set-and-topic categories, universal categories.
 * Classification: is used on category pages to show the hierarchy of the category.


 * Special:CategoryTree: enter a category name to see its contents as a tree structure.
 * mw:Extension:CategoryTree: extension provides a dynamic view of the wiki's category structure as a tree; AJAX.
 * CatScan: external tool that searches an article category (and its subcategories) according to specified criteria to find articles, stubs, images, and categories. It can also be used for finding all articles that belong to two specified categories (the intersection).
 * CatScan2
 * Category intersection: ability to find all articles that are members of more than one category. It requires a change to the MediaWiki software as well as a major change to the policies related to how categories are populated. Using MediaWiki search to find category intersections: only work for categories which have been directly entered into articles (better use CatScan2).


 * Category:Contents
 * Category:Articles
 * Category:Main topic classifications

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 * Overcategorization: not every verifiable fact (or the intersection of two or more such facts) in an article requires an associated category; for lengthy articles, this could potentially result in hundreds of categories, most of which aren't particularly relevant.


 * Categories for discussion: where deletion, merging, and renaming of categories (pages in the Category namespace) are discussed.
 * Template:Category redirect

Portals

 * Portal:Contents: Overview Outlines Lists Glossaries Portals Categories Indexes | Reference Culture Geography Health History Mathematics Nature People Philosophy Religion Society Technology.
 * Portal:Contents/Categories
 * Portal:Contents/Outlines
 * Portal:Contents/Glossaries
 * Portal:Contents/Indexes
 * Portal:Contents/Overviews
 * Portal:Contents/Lists

Maths

 * mw:Extension:Math: extension provides support for rendering mathematical formulas on-wiki via texvc and other backends. Client-side rendering with MathJax [a bit slow on large page of maths 14/10/01].
 * Texvc (TeX validator and converter): one of many external programs that are necessary for the typing of formulas in MediaWiki. Validates AMS-LaTeX mathematical expressions and converts them to HTML, MathML, or PNG graphics.
 * Help:Displaying a formula: Help:Displaying a formula - Pros of HTML, Pros of TeX, MathJax. Formatting using TeX - Functions, symbols, special characters; Larger expressions; Alphabets and typefaces (See also: Help:Displaying a formula - Commutative diagrams)


 * Rendering math: This essay offers a comparison of different encodings and presentation of mathematical formulae. The three principal ones are the tag, raw wiki (or HTML) code and "texhtml" templates. The  and "texhtml" encoding may have different presentations for registered users, depending on user preferences and personal styles.
 * Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Mathematics/Archive/2014/Aug


 * User:IanDavidWild/Mathematical Content in Electronic Media
 * User:IanDavidWild/mimeTeX


 * Talk:Complex number/Archive 1: some mathematics books use non italic $$i / \imath / \jmath (j)$$ . Main reason is semantics: if all variables are italic and all constants are non-italic, then it is easier to read the mathematical texts. But in the end: only vector are non-italic and bold, while constants and variables are italic, only the symbols for constants are NOT used as variables.

Statistics; Special:Statistics

 * Special:Statistics, de:Spezial:Statistik, ru:Служебная:Статистика, lt:Specialus:Statistika


 * Statistics: Visualizations: stats.wikimedia.org


 * mw:Manual:Using custom namespaces: "number of articles" or "number of content pages" = be in the main namespace; not a redirect; contain at least one internal link.

https://stats.wikimedia.org/ https://stats.wikimedia.org/wikimedia/squids/SquidReportPageViewsPerLanguageBreakdown.htm [2014.01.01-2014.03.31]: Wikipedias in various languages for each country (+ Portal). Langs in DE: de, en, ru. Langs in JP: jp, en. Langs in RU: ru, en. Langs in FR: fr, en. Langs in IT: it, en. Langs in CA: en, fr, cn. Langs in BR: pt, en. Langs in PL: pl, en. Langs in Mexico, Spain...: es, en (Catalan, fr). Langs in PRC (China): cn, en, jp. Trend: in every country there is a significant en-lang reader community and the linguistic minorities shine in the case of ES, DE. And then come the "funny" countries where the quality of the larger wikipedia wins over their "native/local" smaller wikipedia: UA: ru, ua, en; NL: nl (54%), en (38%), de; SE: se (45%), en (41%), fr, fi, dk, de; Indonesia: Indonesian (59%), en (36%); NO: en (48%), Bokmål (41%), Nynorsk (1.3%), se de, pl (immigrants); S. Korea ko (47%), en (36%); Greece: en (60%), el (34%); DK: en (54%), da (38%), de; RO: en (53%), ro (37%), hu; <...>; LT: en (43%), lt (42%), ru (10%), pl; EE: en (49%), ee (27%), ru (19%); LV: en (39%), ru (36%), lv (20%), de. And of course, the multi-lang countries: BE: nl (33%), fr (33%), en (26%), de; Switzerland: de (52%), en (22%), fr (17%), it (4.3%); IS: Hebrew (48%), en (36%), ru (7.3%), ar (4.4%). TL;DR: en is the lang of the Internets and esp. Wikipedia; outside of native speakers, the countries of the world are bringing up a generation of L2/L1 en speakers whose mother tongue is not en. (readers included!). https://stats.wikimedia.org/wikimedia/squids/SquidReportPageViewsPerCountryTrends.htm [2009.07.01-2013.10.31]: Wikipedia Page Views Per Country - Trends. TL;DR: Internet languages of the world: en, ru, de (very localized in EU), cn, es (esp. Spain + Americas), fr (localized) https://stats.wikimedia.org/wikimedia/squids/SquidReportPageViewsPerLanguageBreakdown.htm [2014.01.01-2014.03.31]: Page Views Per Wikipedia Language - Breakdown

Main Wikipedia categories

 * Category:Contents: top level of Wikipedia's category system (which is why it has no parent category). Its subcategories contain various types of encyclopaedic content (e.g. articles and glossaries), content that assists with the navigation of the encyclopaedia (e.g. indexes and portals), as well as pages related to the maintenance of the encyclopaedia (e.g. Wikipedia administration and WikiProjects).
 * Category:Wikipedia administration: top-level category to organise the Wikipedia project. Project pages and categories of project pages should be included here.
 * Category:Articles: highest-level category for all articles in Wikipedia. Articles do not appear in this category directly, but at lower levels in its hierarchy of subcategories.
 * Category:Wikipedia drafts
 * Category:Featured content
 * Category:Help
 * Category:Wikipedia navigation
 * Category:Portals: category contains Wikipedia portals. A portal is a focus page which highlights a particular subject, to complement the main article on that subject. Portals feature articles covering the portal's theme, and generally provide lists of related articles, and thus provide an alternative means to browse on Wikipedia.


 * Category:Articles
 * Category:Main topic classifications: This is a list of Wikipedia's major topic classifications. They are used throughout Wikipedia to organize the presentation of links to articles on its various reference systems, including Wikipedia's lists, portals, and categories.
 * Category:Articles with connected contributors: Contributors to Wikipedia who are covered by, or significantly related to, an article on Wikipedia
 * Category:Broad-concept articles
 * Category:Wikipedia controversial topics
 * Category:Featured articles
 * Category:Good articles
 * Category:Articles linked from high traffic sites
 * Category:Wikipedia article lists
 * Category:Lists of popular pages by WikiProject
 * Category:Wikipedia articles published in peer-reviewed literature
 * Category:Wikipedia requested articles


 * Category:Main topic classifications
 * Category:Main topic articles: This category contains the 41 articles that correspond to one of Wikipedia's major topic classifications.
 * Category:Business {q.v. User:Kazkaskazkasako/Books/All}
 * Category:Academic disciplines: subdivision of knowledge that is taught and researched at the college or university level.
 * Category:Concepts: Articles under this category are topics which are primarily ideas, concepts or abstractions. This is to say that they are primarily ideas, and not some physical object which can also be "thought of" such as the "idea of a table." These articles are ideas which do not necessarily appear to the mind as an image of an object. For any article in this category structure it can be said that the topic of the article does not exist at any particular time or place, but rather exists generally.
 * Category:Culture {q.v. User:Kazkaskazkasako/Books/All}
 * Category:Economy {q.v. User:Kazkaskazkasako/Books/All}
 * Category:Education {q.v. User:Kazkaskazkasako/Books/All}
 * Category:Energy {q.v. User:Kazkaskazkasako/Books/Physical_sciences}
 * Category:Engineering {q.v. User:Kazkaskazkasako/Books/All}
 * Category:Entertainment {q.v. User:Kazkaskazkasako/Books/All}
 * Category:Entities: main article for this category is Legal person
 * Category:Ethics: This category puts articles relevant to well-known ethical (right and wrong, good and bad) debates and decisions in one place - including practical problems long known in philosophy, and the more abstract subjects in law, politics, and some professions and sciences. It lists also those core concepts essential to understanding ethics as applied in various religions, some movements derived from religions, and religions discussed as if they were a theory of ethics making no special claim to divine status.
 * Category:Events
 * Category:Food and drink: The term food does not include liquid drinks. Food is the main source of energy and of nutrition for animals, and is usually of animal or plant origin.
 * Category:Geography {q.v. User:Kazkaskazkasako/Books/Physical_sciences}
 * Category:Government {q.v. User:Kazkaskazkasako/Books/All}
 * Category:Health
 * Category:History {q.v. User:Kazkaskazkasako/Books/History}
 * Category:Human nature
 * Category:Humanities {q.v. User:Kazkaskazkasako/Books/All}
 * Category:Knowledge
 * Category:Language {q.v. User:Kazkaskazkasako/Books/All}
 * Category:Law
 * Category:Life
 * Category:Mass media {q.v. User:Kazkaskazkasako/Books/All}
 * Category:Mathematics {q.v. User:Kazkaskazkasako/Books/Mathematics}
 * Category:Military: This category is one of the two root categories for all aspects of the military and warfare — the other is Category:War.
 * Category:Music
 * Category:Nature
 * Category:Objects: main articles for this category are Physical objects and Object (philosophy)
 * Category:Organizations: This category collects subcategories organizations, social structures of Category:People with a common purpose, ideology, belief, or interest. Major organizational subtrees include business (companies); religions; government and military; educational and scientific; non-profit/charitable; and social/professional.
 * Category:People: master category for all of the many and various categories about individual humans, i.e. people. Articles about individual persons should never be categorized directly in this umbrella category; they belong only in the appropriate subcategories.
 * Category:Philosophy {q.v. User:Kazkaskazkasako/Books/All}
 * Category:Policy
 * Category:Politics {q.v. User:Kazkaskazkasako/Books/All}
 * Category:Religion {q.v. User:Kazkaskazkasako/Books/All}
 * Category:Science and technology
 * Category:Society
 * Category:Sports {q.v. User:Kazkaskazkasako/Books/All}
 * Category:Universe {q.v. User:Kazkaskazkasako/Books/Physical_sciences}
 * Category:World
 * Category:Continents

Plagiarism and copyright

 * FCDW/Plagiarism: a good in-depth discussion
 * Plagiarism vs. Common knowledge. It's never black and white, it's always shades of grey in between the black and white. But one can use 28 colors/shades for grey between white and black or 216, or any other number to quantize this more-or-less continuous spectrum of grey. And lawyers must do this quantization; not physicists nor mathematicians nor philosophers; just plain ordinary lawyers...


 * User:MadmanBot/exclude: known Wikipedia mirrors

Essays (which can become guidelines)

 * Avoid copyright paranoia
 * Evaluating Wikipedia as an encyclopedia


 * Many things to many people: a general encyclopedia, but it is also many specialist encyclopedias. Might result in the need for, yes, two different articles treating the same subject on two different levels; the resulting "Introduction to..." articles should not be shunned as un-encyclopedic, they should be accepted for what they are: a necessary tool that allows Wikipedia to remain many things for many people. Luckily, we have no such space limitations.| The different parts of the readership can coexist peacefully side by side; except for encyclopedia purists, no one is going to be bothered if there are articles in Wikipedia you wouldn't find outside specialist encyclopedias in the regular book world.| Sometimes, being many things to many people can lead to complications. For whom are we writing this? Are we writing for the college student? The "man in the street"? The "average curious reader", whoever he or she may be?


 * User:Anonymous Dissident/Why Wikipedia is not a sinking ship


 * Vanispamcruftisement (VSCA): portmanteau comprising several editorial faults which some Wikipedians see as cardinal sins: vanity (i.e., conflict of interest), spam, cruft, and advertisement.


 * Beware of the tigers: Wikipedia's articles are no place for strong views. Or rather, we feel about strong views the way that a natural history museum feels about tigers. We admire them and want our visitors to see how fierce and clever they are, so we stuff them and mount them for close inspection. We put up all sorts of carefully worded signs to get people to appreciate them as much as we do. But however much we adore tigers, a live tiger loose in the museum is seen as an urgent problem.


 * Too long; didn't read: ("I have made this letter longer than usual, because I lack the time to make it short" Pascal): shorthand notation added by an editor indicating a passage appeared to be too long to invest the time to digest. Long used on the Internet, it has birthed the wikilink TL;DR to indicate a cited passage is being protested. Einstein described the challenge of making a theory as simple as possible while still explaining all empirical cases, often paraphrased "Everything should be made as simple as possible, but no simpler." Pursuing Occam's razor is especially difficult when faced with corner cases. Avoid ad hominems; substituting a flippant "tl;dr" for reasoned response and cordiality stoops to ridicule and amounts to thought-terminating cliché; just as one cannot prove through verbosity, neither can they wielding a four letter acronym; when illumination, patience, and wisdom are called for, answer with them.

Wikipedia fun essays

 * Category:Wikipedia essays: project pages on Wikipedia-related topics, but with no official status
 * Category:Humorous Wikipedia essays
 * Category:Wikipedia humor
 * Category:Humorous Wikipedia essays


 * List of cabals:
 * User:Vhoscythe/THCCMC TEH HIGH COMMUNIST CABAL!


 * Cabals official definition
 * Tag team a bit unofficial


 * Silly Things
 * BJAODN, the BEST of Wikipedia vandalisms


 * Competency is required (WP:COMPETENCE): Competence is required as well (besides "assume good faith") on behalf of the editor. Not every person belongs at Wikipedia, because some people are not sufficiently competent. See one's own incompetence is hard, but seeing other's - much easier.


 * User:Durova/The dark side
 * Wikipedia is in the real world: your activity here has real consequences, because Wikipedia is in the real world.
 * The deadline is now: when an article contains unverifiable content, it needs to be corrected now before someone reads it and is misled by it (e.g. pre-election massive editing of the party and presidential/mayor-candidate pages; smearing campaigns between the countries and their citizens).
 * There is no justice: dispute resolution is not a legal system.


 * User:Raul654/Raul's laws: laws (more like observations and the most memorable moments) of Wikipedia written by the Wikipedians.


 * Be Afraid: apart from the projects, task forces, templates, stubs, categories, renaming articles, performing original research, avoiding information that is not attributable to reliable sources, not showing any bias, maintaining a Neutral Point of View, complying with the three-revert rule, following all naming conventions and not making anyone mad, feel free to Be Bold!TM. {Funny & deep!}
 * Follow all rules


 * Wikipedia is an MMORPG: one theory that explains the addictive nature of Wikipedia and its tendency to produce Wikipediholics is that Wikipedia is MMORPG. Wikipedia has an immersive gameworld with over million players and over  million unique locations, including over 0 undiscovered secret areas, 0 completely explored dungeons, and 0 boss levels.


 * The Wrong Version: version of a page that is protected during an edit war. The Wrong Version is biased, nationalistic, libellous, inaccurate and a disgrace to Wikipedia in general. There are no reports of a sysop ever having protected the "right" version. Involving Jimbo.


 * Xkcd in popular culture: popular webcomic xkcd is famed for its Internet-savvy plots and references to obscure science and cult fiction. As a result, people often take subjects which xkcd has covered, run off to Wikipedia and add "xkcd covered this" to a section called "In popular culture" or "External links" or the like.

People, wikipedians, users

 * Wikipedians
 * Stub Makers

{q.v. } for Wikimedia people


 * School and university projects
 * WikiProject Computational Biology/ISCB competition announcement 2014
 * WikiProject Biophysics/Biophysics wiki-edit contest


 * Board of Trustees: oversees the foundation and its work, as its ultimate corporate authority. {OLD: manages the foundation and supervises the disposition and solicitation of donations. The Board is the ultimate corporate authority for the Wikimedia Foundation, Inc. (article IV, sec. 1 of the Wikimedia Foundation bylaws)}

Users:
 * Template:User committed identity: This template gives you a way to later prove that you are the person who was in control of your account on the day this template was placed. This is done by putting a code (called a "hash") on your user page so that, in the event that your account is compromised, you can convince someone else that you are really the person behind your username.

Privacy:
 * Privacy policy
 * Ombudsman commission: investigates complaints about violations of the privacy policy (in particular concerning the use of CheckUser tools) on any Wikimedia project for the Board of Trustees. To file a complaint, please contact an Ombudsman privately.


 * Help:Unified login: mechanism which allows users to use a single login across the majority of the Wikimedia Foundation's projects; removal of the threat that impersonation poses and the ability to visit many projects without having to go through the labors of logging in everywhere
 * Single User Login finalisation announcement

Security:
 * 2013/06/14/prism-surveillance-wikimedia: Wikimedia Foundation has not received requests or legal orders to participate in PRISM, to comply with the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA), or to participate in or facilitate any secret intelligence surveillance program. We also have not “changed” our systems to make government surveillance easier, as the New York Times has claimed is the case for some service providers. In our opinion, governments must be transparent to their publics.


 * Category:Wikipedia blocking


 * Template:Wikipedia accounts
 * Open proxies: Because of the potential for abuse and technical limitations on the MediaWiki software, open proxies may be blocked from editing for any period at any time. Note that if you see a block message and if you are on an Apple device, it may be because you have enabled iCloud Private Relay.


 * Autoblock: automatic block of an IP address, done by the MediaWiki software; when a blocked user attempts to edit the site, the IP from which they are editing is "autoblocked," so that they may not make the same edit anonymously or under a different username.


 * Delete unused username after 90 days: Usernames with at least one edit will be kept for the entire life of the database.


 * Notifications: web service designed to inform users about new activity on Wikipedia in a unified way; when you have new talk page messages, edit reverts, mentions or links; augment (rather than replace) the watchlist
 * Echo (Notifications): project hub; new engagement tool for Wikipedia and MediaWiki sites; designed to replace and/or augment existing notification systems on MediaWiki sites, as well as provide significantly more control to users as to how their notifications are handled, read, and deleted. This notifications project is being developed by the Wikimedia Foundation's editor engagement team. Out-of-scope: no cross-wiki support in 1st release;

Earth to earth, ashes to ashes, dust to dust:
 * Deceased Wikipedians & Deceased Wikipedians/Guidelines
 * Deceased editors
 * commons:Commons:Deceased contributors


 * Gender gap: The gender gap has long been known to exist in computer-related occupations, and indeed the Wikimedia community was aware of this issue from the very early days.
 * Gender bias on Wikipedia: one of the major criticisms of Wikipedia. The gender bias of Wikipedia is connected with the fact that the majority of editors are male, and coverage of articles about men and male-related subjects is generally more extensive than coverage of articles about women and female-related subjects. Reasons:
 * a simple lack of user-friendliness in the editing process;
 * not having enough free time;
 * lack of self-confidence;
 * aversion to conflict and a disinterest in participating in lengthy edit wars;
 * belief that their contributions will be changed or deleted ;
 * some find its overall atmosphere misogynistic;
 * Wikipedia culture is sexual in ways they find off-putting ;
 * being addressed as male is off-putting to women whose primary language has grammatical gender;
 * fewer opportunities than other sites for social relationships and a welcoming tone.


 * Role account: account that is not associated with a particular person, but with an office, position, or task. Those doing the task use the account only to do the task. They have other accounts for other work.

Memorable editors

 * User:Jbmurray (Jon Beasley-Murray): "I believe that academics should be involved in Wikipedia, and that Wikipedia has a place in higher education. This does not mean, however, that I endorse everything about the encyclopedia. Indeed, I believe that almost all the criticisms you hear about Wikipedia are almost entirely correct; but that this is precisely why we should be involved." "I try to edit in line with the Bold, Revert, Discuss cycle. And in response to other people's edits, I hold dear the maxim that "when someone makes an edit you consider biased or inaccurate, improve the edit if you can, rather than reverting it." A good faith edit, even when it itself is wrong, almost always indicates a problem with the original text, which should therefore be improved somehow." "This is therefore an attempt to keep to a zero revert rule. I admit that I'm not always successful, and that I take short cuts when I feel pressed for time."
 * User:Jbmurray/Madness (2008-03-18::2008-03-27): At present, Wikipedia hovers at the fringes of academia, like an uninvited guest; Still, everybody uses it, in one way or another, even if they might want not to admit to the fact; I decided to include Wikipedia as a central part of a course I was teaching in the belief that it was only by actively contributing to the encyclopedia that students would learn about its weaknesses, as well as its strengths; But one could argue that for most of the occupations that most of these students will be entering after they finish their time in academia, argumentation is not in fact so important as it is in the academy itself . Information gathering, presentation, meticulousness, teamwork, and the ability to negotiate with the public sphere are (I hesitate perhaps to admit) much more useful to them.


 * User:Mikeblas: "If we let Wikipedia continue to publish and grow without fixing what it has, we're slowly poisoning the common knowledge of the people. An incorrect fact published here, gone unverified, given the credibility, replication, and reach the site has, means that bad information is spreading very fast. And it's lodging in people, where it's possibly the hardest to work out."

Editor conflicts, debates, disputes

 * Requests for arbitration/Transnistria: Single-purpose accounts; Astroturfing {q.v. User:Kazkaskazkasako/Books/History Media of Transnistria: Transnistrian propaganda}
 * User:MariusM: This user was involved in an arbitration case {q.v. ↑ Transnistria} from where he escaped unharmed, despite 3 admins asking for his permaban.


 * Historic debates: This page is a short description of large-scale disputes that have occurred on Wikipedia and have shaped its evolution. The list is arranged in chronological order.
 * Summary motion regarding biographies of living people deletions: "The administrators who carried out these actions are commended for their efforts to enforce policy and uphold the quality of the encyclopedia, but are urged to conduct future activities in a less chaotic manner." & "The administrators who interfered with these actions are reminded that the enforcement of the policy on biographies of living people takes precedence over mere procedural concerns."

Community

 * Times that 100 Wikipedians supported something
 * Times that 200 Wikipedians supported something
 * Times that 300 or more Wikipedians supported something

Wikiprojects

 * WikiProject Featured articles/FA-Team: improving an article to FA standard is not easy, and there are plenty of obstacles and not enough support. The purpose of the FA-Team is to link and coordinate editors who want to help overcome the obstacles and provide support to all those who want to write great articles. We also believe that contributing to Wikipedia should be fun, and that is the spirit in which the team has been created.


 * WikiProject Murder Madness and Mayhem: by User:Jbmurray


 * WikiProject Microformats


 * Wiki Project Med
 * WikiProject Medicine

{q.v. User:Kazkaskazkasako/Work}

User interface

 * mw:Category:User interface


 * mw:Manual:Interface: entirety of the output HTML code of a wiki page except the body text itself. The interface includes the tabs above each page, the side bar, and personal links.
 * mw:Manual:Interface/JavaScript:
 * (Integer): internal ID of the article, if the page is an article. For special pages it is zero (is wgArticleId the same as curid and pageid?)


 * mw:Manual:Interface/Sidebar (e.g. MediaWiki:Sidebar is the sidebar of en Wikipedia): navigation bar, which provides links to the most important locations in the wiki and supplies site administrators with a place to add a persistent collection of links. On en Wikipedia the sidebar shows: Main page, Contents, Featured content, Current events, Random article, Donate to Wikipedia; Interaction: Help, About Wikipedia, Community portal, Recent changes, Contact page; Toolbox: What links here, Related changes, Upload file, Special pages, Permanent link, Page information; Print/export: Create a book, Download as PDF, Printable version; Languages: many.
 * Page information (Information for " "):
 * Basic information: Display title, Default sort key, Page length (in bytes), Page ID (aka, ), Page content language, Search engine status, Number of page watchers, Redirects to this page, Counted as a content page, Wikidata Item ID
 * Page protection: Edit, Move
 * Edit history: Page creator, Date of page creation, Latest editor, Date of latest edit, Total number of edits, Total number of distinct authors, Recent number of edits (within past 30 days), Recent number of distinct authors (many things similar to )
 * Page properties: Hidden categories, Transcluded templates
 * External tools: Revision history search, Contributors, User edits, Page view statistics

User account

 * Request for an account on the Foundation wiki: This page is for requesting the creation of a user account on the Wikimedia Foundation's website (not on any other wiki).
 * m:Meta:Changing username: This is NOT the place to ask for a global rename. In fact, there's no such thing as a "global rename" feature yet.

Bureaucracy (power, "rulers", bureaucrats)
Category:Wikipedia administration
 * Category:Wikipedia editorial validation
 * Category:WikiJournal


 * User access levels
 * Global rights usage: who has global rights & why; Wikimedia foundation staff, stewards (above sysops!), sysadmins (don't mix with sysops!), ombudsmen (for pricacy (defamation), copyright infringement). Here is the full list of all User groups.
 * Wikipedia power structure


 * Special:ListUsers: different groups of users (e.g. Administrators) can be found here in alphabetical or other order.

The social aspects, organization and "governing" of Wikipedia: Wikimedia Foundation:
 * Advisory Board (approved in 2006, start in 2007): international network of experts who have agreed to give the Wikimedia Foundation meaningful help on a regular basis in many different areas, including law, organizational development, technology, policy, and outreach.


 * Journal to wiki publication: model of Wikipedia-integrated dual publishing where new Review articles are written to be peer reviewed and published in academic journal, then copied across to become a new Wikipedia article.

ArbCom, Arbitration Committee

 * User:Risker/What I learned while being an Arbitrator:
 * The Arbitration Committee's purpose is to look out for the best interests of Wikipedia, not (individual) editors, and not (any aspect of) the community
 * Wikipedia is becoming increasingly rules-oriented
 * The locus of the case is almost irrelevant to the nature and outcome of the case
 * One arbitrator acting rashly or in a manner that reduces the effectiveness of the committee causes harm to the reputation and functioning of the committee
 * Time-limited sanctions are rarely effective at this level of dispute resolution
 * Wikipedia space is a terrible place to have a discussion
 * Some people are always interested in your opinion
 * It's an encyclopedia: Perspective is important. In most cases, disagreements on Wikipedia reflect disagreements in the world outside of the project. When one considers that the most voluminous Arbcom case ever involved date formatting, and the longest-running one resulted in a decision that removed one administrator's tools and otherwise boiled down to "play nicely", one realises that some people take this project far too seriously.


 * User:Maxim/Thoughts on arbitration:
 * Unblock requests: Corollary: it is useful to have an experienced and technically confident checkuser (and then maybe a second one) on the Committee.
 * There is significant variety as to the emails sent to arbcom. Sometimes, we receive them because there's no other good place to send them.
 * Admin cases: when arbcom desysops an admin, it runs the risk of telling someone that they are not fit to be an administrator now or ever. Possible corollary: it makes it difficult to accept cases that are likely to end with a slap on the wrist. A particular consideration is whether it's worth to subject a volunteer to a month-long circus that ends with an admonishment (or nothing at all!). Possible second corollary: a particular perennial problem is that we don't have a good mechanism to deal with less-than-ideal-but-not-terrible administrator behaviour.
 * While the Arbitration Committee is considered to be the final step in Wikipedia's dispute resolution framework, it in practice tends to be a disciplinary committee that can, but not always, rely on previous decisions.

Editing controversies

 * Timothy Messer-Kruse: despite the prevailing belief that little or no evidence was presented at trial {Haymarket affair}, he {Kruse} found that evidence had been presented over the course of six weeks. Messer-Kruse and editors of Wikipedia were subsequently involved in a conflict over the content and editing procedure of the Wikipedia article on the Haymarket affair.

Conflict of interest

 * Conflict of interest (WP:COI, WP:CONFLICT): Do not edit Wikipedia to promote your own interests, or those of other individuals or of organizations, including employers. Do not write about these things unless you are certain that a neutral editor would agree that your edits improve Wikipedia . When advancing outside interests is more important to an editor than advancing the aims of Wikipedia, that editor stands in a conflict of interest. When investigating COI editing, be careful not to reveal the identity of editors against their wishes. Wikipedia's policy against harassment takes precedence over this guideline . Covert advertising: 2012 German court ruling (EU: Unfair Commercial Practices Directive) on incense article in Wikipedia-de & Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) in the UK ruling on Nike using footballers' Twitters while not clearly identified as Nike marketing communications; Writing about yourself and people you know; Citing yourself; Campaigning; Self-promotion. Wikipedia's Law of Unintended Consequences . How to handle conflicts of interest: Noticeboards and templates, Avoid outing, Importance of civility, Blocks.


 * Corporate Representatives for Ethical Wikipedia Engagement (CREWE; 2012.01-): Facebook group started by Phil Gomes, senior vice-president at Edelman Digital; composed of PR professionals and some Wikipedia editors, the group's aim is to improve the relationship between the PR industry and the encyclopedia; lobbies for greater involvement by PR professionals on Wikipedia, with the stated goal of maintaining accurate articles about corporations.
 * WikiProject Cooperation: facilitates collaboration with editors paid to edit Wikipedia; we provide education and outreach to PR and marketing professionals, freelance editors, and employees working on assignments from their employers; intended to support ethical, transparent paid editors that opt-in to collaborative efforts to meet Wikipedia's encyclopedic goals, serve the public's interest and avoid even the perception of impropriety . Scope; Paid editor help; Mentor program: Participant expectations (The apprentice is strongly encouraged not to make edits directly to articles), Mentor expectations, How to participate; Education

Conflict-of-interest editing on Wikipedia

 * Category:Conflict-of-interest editing on Wikipedia


 * Conflict-of-interest editing on Wikipedia: occurs when edits are made to advance the personal interests of an editor rather than the interests and aims of the Wikipedia project. Various organizations and individuals have tried to edit articles on the encyclopedia related to themselves. Several Wikipedia policies and guidelines however exist to minimize or combat the effects of conflict of interest levels, in order to try to maintain neutral point of view. Laws against covert advertising: United States Federal Trade Commission; European fair trading law.
 * Church of Scientology editing on Wikipedia
 * Wiki-PR editing of Wikipedia: consulting firm that formerly marketed the ability to edit Wikipedia. It was then banned, including all of its employees, contractors, and owners, by the Wikipedia community for unethical editing. Despite the ban, the firm currently markets its ability to advise clients on how to interact with the Wikipedia community. The company gained media attention in 2013 after a sockpuppet investigation related to the company resulted in 250 Wikipedia user accounts being blocked or banned .

Multilingual Wikipedia; Wikipedia in many languages

 * m:Category:Multilingual Wikipedia


 * Multilingual Wikipedia
 * Small Wiki Monitoring Team
 * Tell us about your Wikipedia


 * Meetup: regular (or more spontaneous) face-to-face meetings of Wikipedians take place in cities around the world


 * de:Wikipedia:Treffen der Wikipedianer
 * de:Wikipedia:Stammtisch: regionale bis internationale Treffen der Wikipedianer zu organisieren und koordinieren
 * de:Wikipedia:Persönliche Bekanntschaften (en: Personal acquaintances): Gemeinschaft der im realen Leben aktiven Wikipedianer sichtbar machen und vorstellen kann; Hauptkonto bekannt geben und von anderen Benutzern bestätigen (verbürgen) lassen.


 * User:Elian/comparison: Wikipedia-en vs Wikipedia-de comparison; why de succeeds on quality, while en leads in quantity?

Core features (team)

 * Core features: development team has the following goals: Acquisition (Encourage more new users to sign up for and contribute to Wikimedia projects); Engagement (Encourage new editors to continue participating); Retention (Keep contributors motivated to contribute more)
 * Flow: build a modern discussion and collaboration system for all Wikimedia projects. Flow will eventually replace the current Wikipedia talk page system and will provide features that are present on most modern websites, but which are not possible to implement in wikitext. For example, Flow will enable automatic signing of posts, automatic threading, and per-thread notifications.
 * Flow
 * MoodBar
 * Page Curation
 * mw:Extension:PageTriage: extension that aims to provide a feature-rich interface for triaging newly-created articles. It is intended to replace the new page patrol core function while adding additional functionality for reviewing, tagging, and improving new articles
 * mw:Extension:Thanks
 * WikiLove
 * Article feedback: initiative of the Wikimedia Foundation to engage Wikimedia readers in the assessment of article quality, one of the five priorities defined in the strategic plan; currently deployed on a subset of pages on the French Wikipedia, while it's being removed from the English and German Wikipedias.
 * Article Feedback Tool: On the English Wikipedia, the Article Feedback was disabled (made opt-in) on March 5, 2013, following an RfC. It was later discontinued in March 2014; feedback records are no longer readable via MediaWiki interface.
 * Requests for comment/Article feedback: Short version No to full roll-out but there is a large enough minority to support continued experimentation if the foundation wants to do that.

Wikimedia

 * Wikimedia Foundation (WMF, Wikimedia): USA non-profit and charitable organization headquartered in San Francisco, California. The foundation was founded in 2003 by Jimmy Wales as a way to fund Wikipedia and its sibling projects through non-profit means. On September 25, 2007, the foundation's board gave notice that the operations would be moving to the San Francisco Bay Area. Major considerations cited for choosing San Francisco were proximity to like-minded organizations and potential partners, a better talent pool, as well as cheaper and more convenient international travel than is available from St. Petersburg, Florida. Lila Tretikov was appointed executive director of the Wikimedia Foundation in May 2014. She resigned in March 2016. Former chief communications officer Katherine Maher was appointed the interim executive director, a position made permanent in June 2016.


 * Wikimedia official marks: officially trademarked images belonging to the Wikimedia Foundation. Wikipedia puzzle globe and wordmark; stylized 'W' of Wikipedia; Wikipedia affiliate mark; Wikimedia Foundation mark; Other project marks.
 * Wikimedia official marks/About the official Marks: original Wikipedia wordmark was created with the Hoefler typeface, designed by typographer Jonathan Hoefler in 1991, but now open-source Linux Libertine typeface is used.
 * Wikimedia official marks/Word mark creation: technical info
 * Wikipedia/Logo: this page was used for discussions about the current Wikipedia logo, as well as fixing the errors on the logo and the characters which go on the hidden portions of the logo as well as the two puzzle pieces on bottom.
 * Errors in the Wikipedia logo: page for documenting errors in the Wikipedia logo.


 * Wikimedia Foundation transparency gap: Wikimedia Foundation has a formal position that transparency is a core principle. This page is intended to collect information about areas in which the organization may have opportunities to improve its adherence to that principle.

Main persons

 * Staff and contractors


 * Sue Gardner: On March 27, 2013, Gardner announced she would be leaving her position at the Wikimedia Foundation. She states that the Wikimedia Foundation is doing well now but that the Internet is not. She will be helping in that area in her future.
 * 2013/03/27/sue-gardner-departure-announcement/

Funding

 * Benefactors

Law and licensing

 * c:Commons:Choice of law: issue that may arise in copyright disputes with international dimensions, when a court deciding a dispute must choose which set of laws to apply. Different laws may be applied to different parts of a dispute, such as the determination of copyright ownership and the determination of copyright infringement.
 * c:Commons:Lex loci protectionis: legal principle in intellectual property law that "the law of the country in which legal protection for the intellectual property is claimed" applies. Although the principle is a longstanding one, the practical application of lex loci protectionis is uncertain within and between countries. In principle, Commons might need to consider every country's copyright law! Since this is clearly impractical, Commons:Licensing policy requires material to be either freely licensed or in the public domain in at least the source country and the United States.

MediaWiki and other technology

 * MediaWiki history: Phase I: UseModWiki (GPL; CameCase, no history); Phase II: the PHP script (MySQL-backed); Phase III: MediaWiki (June 2003 is also when Jimmy Wales created the Wikimedia Foundation, a nonprofit to support Wikipedia and manage its infrastructure and day-to-day operations. The "Wikipedia software" was officially named "MediaWiki" in July, as wordplay by Daniel Mayer on the Wikimedia Foundation's name. What was thought at the time to be a clever pun would confuse generations of users and developers .)
 * User:Conversion script: was the script which converted Wikipedia from UseModWiki format to the phase II format. This conversion occurred on 2002.01.25 . However, most of the edits by the script are dated from 2002.02 due to an early database glitch.
 * User:Ryguasu/conversion script AI (Does the "Conversion Script" have artificial intelligence?)
 * Usemod article histories: 2002.09.20 Brion Vibber managed to extract the surviving history from the UseModWiki era and added it to the main English Wikipedia database. However, the last edit to each page under UseModWiki was not imported, so the diffs of edits by Conversion script often show the last edit along with the conversion.


 * m:Help:Contents: Reader, Editor, Moderator (MediaWiki:Manual:Administrators), System admins (MediaWiki:Sysadmin hub)


 * mw:Manual:Parser.php: PHP parser which is defining what Wikitext of Wikipedia is
 * Help:Magic words (which include: parser functions, variables and behavior switches): features of wiki markup that enable various instructions to be given to the MediaWiki software.
 * mw:Help:Magic words: strings of text that MediaWiki associates with a return value or function, such as time, site details, or page names
 * URL data:
 * Page names:, , , , ,
 * mw:Help:Extension:ParserFunctions: extension provides 11 additional parser functions to supplement the "magic words", which are already present in MediaWiki.
 * m:Help:Parser function
 * Formatting:
 * ANCHORENCODE: Note that (contrary to urlencode) the encoding made by "anchorencode", which uses the dot charactor as a prefix before a byte repesented in hexadecimal, is not fully reversible. "anchorencode" is then NOT suitable for passing query parameters. However, the encoding made by "urlencode" (which uses "%" characters) is not compatible with the more restricted character sets allowed in HTML and XML for ids. The two encodings (ANCHORENCODE and Percent-encoding) also differ in the way they encode the space. The encoding made by anchorencode is suitable to give anchor names within pages made with MediaWiki.
 * mw:Extension:ExpandTemplates
 * mw:Category:Parser
 * Markup spec: Wiki markup or Wikipedia Wikitext is defined by the parser and is supposed to be:
 * Help:Wiki markup: Free links ( ... )
 * context-sensitive language (not expressable in EBNF or BNF)
 * Help:URL
 * Naming conventions (technical restrictions): some page names are not possible because of limitations imposed by the MediaWiki software; most commonly encountered problems are that:
 * Restrictions and workarounds:
 * titles cannot begin with a lowercase letter;
 * titles cannot contain certain restricted characters.
 * Forbidden characters: # < > [ ] | { }
 * Other problematic characters
 * Forward slashes and periods
 * Spaces and underscores: In links, spaces and underscores (_) are treated equivalently.
 * Colons
 * Percent and encoded characters
 * Question marks and plus signs
 * Three consecutive tildes
 * Title length: Titles must be less than 256 bytes long when encoded in UTF-8.
 * Italics and formatting
 * Pictorial names


 * Percent-encoding: Implementation:
 * m:Help:URL
 * Python library for percent encoding/decoding
 * mw:Manual:PAGENAMEE encoding: Encodings compared


 * wikicreole.org
 * Wiki Creole 1.0 syntax


 * HTML restriction: some HTML, but not all, can be used in the Wikitext
 * m:Help:HTML in wikitext


 * Secure server:
 * 2011/09/27/protocol-relative-urls-enabled-on-all-wikimedia-foundation-wikis (September 27th, 2011) & :2011/10/03/native-https-support-enabled-for-all-wikimedia-foundation-wikis (October 3rd, 2011)


 * Media help: Firefox 3.5 natively supports all media on Wikipedia; VLC as well. Wikipedia uses .ogg container, which can contain Vorbis audio (lossy) and Theora video (lossy) formats.

Labeling:
 * Authority control integration proposal ⇒ Authority control integration proposal/FAQ


 * Sites using MediaWiki: besides Wikimedia sister projects, many other sites exist that are using MediaWiki engine; such sites based on our software generally display the Powered by icon near the bottom right corner of their pages

Localisation and Internationalization:
 * Universal Language Selector (ULS): provides a flexible way to configure and deliver language settings like interface language, fonts, and input methods (keyboard mappings); allow users to type text in different languages not directly supported by their keyboard, read content in a script for which fonts are not available locally, or customise the language in which menus are displayed.
 * Language codes
 * Special language codes: In most cases, the subdomain names that we use for projects correspond to language codes, but there are some exceptions. Usually this is for historical reasons, where a valid ISO 639 code was not available at the time of creation of the project. Subdomains that do not conform to a valid ISO 639 language code.

Tags (abuse filter module of MediaWiki):
 * Tags & Special:Tags (visualeditor, ...): brief messages that the software automatically places next to certain edits in histories, recent changes and other special pages.


 * Wikibase/DataModel: describes the structure of the data that is handled in Wikibase. In particular, it specifies which kind of information users can contribute to the system.

VisualEditor

 * WYSIWYG editor
 * mw:Extension:WikiEditor: extendable framework with a set of feature-based modules that improve the user experience of editing. It is also the editing interface that Wikipedia currently uses [13/06/11].
 * VisualEditor: will let people edit without needing to learn wikitext syntax, and the articles they edit will look very similar to the final product. With VisualEditor, formatted entries will appear as fast as they are typed – like writing a document in a word processor.
 * VisualEditor/FAQ: there are no plans to remove the “Edit source” option
 * VisualEditor/RFC: "I think it is in any case a storm in a teacup" Peter (Southwood) (talk): 20:14, 11 July 2013 (UTC).
 * VisualEditor/TemplateData: VisualEditor includes a wizard to easily edit templates. However, in order for that tool to be most useful, it needs to be able to pull information about the template; mostly, it needs a list of possible parameters for the template, and their characteristics.
 * m:Research:VisualEditor's effect on newly registered editors/Results

History:
 * VisualEditor/Feedback: at first VisualEditor was enabled by default for all IP editors; around 2013.07-08 was the "storm in a cup"|STORM raging; then VisualEditor was only enabled for logged in beta testers...

Offline Wikipedia; Wikipedia on smartphone, tablet, USB, ebook reader...

 * Database download: databases can be used for mirroring, personal use, informal backups, offline use or database queries
 * Wiki Project Med/App
 * Kiwix
 * ZIM (file format): open file format that stores wiki content for offline usage; primary focus is on the contents of Wikipedia and other Wikimedia projects; compression of articles using LZMA2, features a full-text search index and native category and image handling similar to MediaWiki.

MediaWiki components

 * mw:Category:MediaWiki components
 * mw:Category:Database


 * mw:Manual:Database layout: most important tables are probably page, revision, pagelinks and text.
 * current:
 * mw:Manual:Page table: can be considered the "core of the wiki" . Each page in a MediaWiki installation has an entry here which identifies it by title and contains some essential metadata. It was first introduced in r6710, in MediaWiki 1.5. : uniquely identifying primary key; value is preserved across edits and renames (is this mySQL field the same as   in queries?).
 * mw:Manual:Revision table: holds metadata for every edit done to a page within the wiki. Every edit of a page creates a revision row, which holds information such as the user who made the edit, the time at which the edit was made, and a reference to the new wikitext in the text table.
 * mw:Manual:Text table (if using Postgres: pagecontent): holds the wikitext of individual page revisions.
 * mw:Manual:Pagelinks table: tracks all internal links in the Wiki . Each entry contains the source page's ID, and the namespace (number) and article name (in text) that is being linked to within that source page. There may be many instances of the source page's ID, as many as the internal links within it, but there can be only one entry per internal link for any page ID (or MySQL will yell out a fatal error).
 * obsolete:
 * mw:Manual:Cur table: was used in older versions of MediaWikis to store the current revision of a page . cur table + old table = page table + revision table + text table''.


 * mw:Manual:Pywikibot: collection of tools that automate work on MediaWiki sites. Originally designed for Wikipedia, it is now used throughout the Wikimedia Foundation's projects and on many other MediaWiki wikis.

Editing history on MediaWiki

 * Help talk:Recent changes: to see older than 30 days and more than the last 500 changes just edit the URL query!

Extensions to MediaWiki

 * mw:Extension:Cite:
 * mw:Extension:Cite/Cite.php:  and
 * mw:Extension:Cite/Special:Cite.php: creates a special page (Special:Cite) and in the main namespace, a toolbox link to it; useful to cite articles in WikiMedia database.
 * Wikicite: proposal for a Wikimedia project that provide a single page for every reference, citation, or source used in any page on any Wikimedia project . Wikicite would provide a page with metadata, summaries, important context, and information on relevance. The wiki would use talk pages to host discussion and debate on the reliability, quality, or limitations of sources. {q.v. }
 * WikiCite 2016
 * Wikipedia as the front matter to all research: "more Wikipedia users click on and follow citations to the scholarly literature *from* Wikipedia domains than from any single scholarly publisher in the world" Geoffrey Bilder, CrossRef.
 * Reference database
 * WikiScholar (Inactive proposal. --Sannita (talk) 18:41, 17 September 2013 (UTC))


 * BlueSpice for MediaWiki: especially developed for businesses as an enterprise wiki distribution for MediaWiki


 * HHVM (HipHop Virtual Machine): virtual machine for PHP, with an associated just-in-time compiler (JIT). Deploying HHVM on a MediaWiki wiki should lead to performance improvements across the board for most users.
 * HHVM/About

Media
Images, files:
 * mw:Help:Images: whole manual, e.g. Stopping the text flow:


 * Picture tutorial: basic intro

Syntax of text, programming languages:
 * mw:Extension:Geshi & mw:Extension:SyntaxHighlight GeSHi:  (E.g.   to specify programming language) tags allow the display of preformatted code modules but in addition they add coloring according to the code language settings.


 * GLAM: acronym for ''Galleries, Libraries, Archives and Museums; also incorporates other cultural institutions such as theatres, zoos, botanical gardens, public broadcasters etc.
 * GLAM/Model projects/Adding a Wikipedia citation template to your database: citation templates in practice
 * Wikipedians in Residence: Wikimedians who dedicate time to working in-house at an organization.

Namespaces

 * Template:Namespaces & Namespace: set of Wikipedia pages whose names begin with a reserved word recognized by the MediaWiki software (followed by a colon); in the case of the article (or main) namespace, the namespace name is nameless. 28 current namespaces: 13 basic namespaces, each with a corresponding talk namespace; and two virtual namespaces (Special & Media).
 * Aliases: WP=Wikipedia=(Project), WT=Wikipedia talk, Image=File, Image talk=File talk, Project=Wikipedia, Project talk=Wikipedia talk.
 * Pseudo namespaces representing hundreds of some of the most referenced, edited, and discussed administrative imperatives are: CAT: (Category namespace), H: (Help namespace), MOS: (Manual of Style), P: (Portal namespace), T: (Template namespace)
 * Help:Special page (-1): pages that have no wikitext, but are generated by the software on demand ; special pages often take arguments; some information is generated by toolserver rather than by special pages.
 * Main/Article=0; Talk=1
 * User=2; Talk=3
 * Project namespace (project namespace=4; Talk=5): information or discussion about Wikipedia.
 * File=6; Talk=7
 * Help:MediaWiki namespace (8; Talk=9): Template namespace was born out of MediaWiki namespace. MediaWiki namespace has all the disclaimers in the language needed and all the interface instructions and sentences and words.
 * Template=10; Talk=11
 * Help namespace (12; Talk=13): information intended to help use Wikipedia or its software; some of the pages in the Help namespace are copied from Meta-Wiki; large amount of overlap between the Help namespace and the Project/Wikipedia namespace.
 * Help:Category (14; Talk=15): intended to group together pages on similar subjects. Categories are normally found at the bottom of an article page. {q.v. }
 * Portal=100; Talk=101
 * Book=108; Talk=109
 * Course pages (Education Program=446; Talk=447): students of the educational courses should use course pages, either in the "Wikipedia" namespace, the "User" namespace, or using semi-automated structured course pages in the "Education Program" namespace
 * Assignments for student editors: can be a great way to improve Wikipedia, but it is important to understand how Wikipedia works, to avoid problems that have often occurred. Advice for students, Advice for instructors, Advice for editors, Advice for ambassadors; Editing considerations: Choosing a topic, Plagiarism and copyright infringement, Editing medicine and health topics
 * mw:Extension:TimedMediaHandler (TimedText=710; Talk=711): synchronized subtitles for media files; extension which allows you to display audio and video files in wiki pages, using the same syntax as for image files.
 * Lua (828; Talk=829. Module namespace): Lua is a programming language that is now available, via the Scribunto MediaWiki extension, on the English Wikipedia. Lua code can now be embedded into wiki templates by employing the " " functionality of the Scribunto MediaWiki extension. Lua source code is stored in pages called modules.
 * mw:Extension:Scribunto (LA: they shall write): extension for embedding scripting languages in MediaWiki. Currently the only supported scripting language is Lua.

APIs

 * Ubiquitous Knowledge Processing Lab (UKP Lab): Wikipedia API (Java Wikipedia Library (JWPL)); Wiktionary API (Java Wiktionary Library (JWKTL))


 * m:Data dumps: Wikimedia provides public dumps of our wikis' content.
 * m:WikiXRay: programmed in Python and R
 * m:WikiXRay Python parser: process the XML dumps of Wikipedia and extract relevant information. System requirements: MySQL 5.0.x or higher, Python 2.5.1 or higher, mysqldb module (Debian package python-mysqldb) 1.2.1 or higher


 * Is http://de.wikipedia.org/?curid= supported as short url for article by page ID or unofficial?: curid vs oldid; "curid is the page's number. oldid is the revision number. oldid changes on every revision. curid only changes on edge cases (like being deleted and restored). Note that the proposed short url extension will use a different number that is neither curid or the oldid." Bawolff (talk) [22:48, 30 March 2012].


 * mw:Manual:Index.php: main access point for a MediaWiki site. The other main access point is api.php which handles requests for the MediaWiki API.
 * mw:Manual:Parameters to index.php: partial list of the parameters to index.php, the main script of the MediaWiki software. Most of these arguments are usually given as GET parameters in the URL, but can also be passed as POST data. POST is actually required in some cases, such as the purge action for anonymous users. ;   (same numbers passed as for  );  ...
 * example queries: ≡  (possibility to shorten URLs WITHOUT revealing the name of Wikipedia page )


 * mw:Manual:Api.php: external access point for the MediaWiki API.
 * : each Mediawiki installation of Wikimedia has the same API documentation: "All features shown on this page should be working, but the API is still in active development, and may change at any time. Make sure to monitor our mailing list for any updates". oldid, pageid - as parameters
 * mw:API:Main page:  - the endpoint; like the home page of the Mediawiki web service API; this URL is the base URL for English Wikipedia's API . If you're writing a program to use English Wikipedia, every URL you construct will begin with this base URL. If you're using a different MediaWiki installation, you'll need to find its endpoint and use that instead. All Wikimedia wikis have endpoints that follow this pattern.  ;  ;  ;  ;.
 * example queries:
 * ( of up to 50 pages for humans and 500 for bots). For a single page, use   instead:
 * : total number of articles

Wikitech; Tools

 * Category:Wikipedia tools


 * Main Page (Wikitech): make it easier for developers and system administrators to try out improvements to Wikimedia infrastructure, including MediaWiki, and to do analytics and bot work. Unicorn ! For internal technical documentation for the Wikimedia Foundation
 * 2012/04/16/introduction-to-wikimedia-labs (Opening our operations with Wikimedia Labs): announcement (PR). Labs is "environment where users can create and manage entire computing and networking infrastructures".
 * 2011/09/19/ever-wondered-how-the-wikimedia-servers-are-configured: Wikimedia servers are configured with Puppet.


 * Wikimedia Labs (WMFLabs, Tool Labs, WikiLabs, Labs): WMF's cloud computing environment for developing software for the Foundation's operations; also hosts bots and tools maintained and used by the community to maintain the foundation's projects; Wikimedia Labs project is managed from the Wikitech wiki which also hosts technical docs about the foundation's main servers (aka the production environment).
 * Wikimedia Labs: two-part project aimed at helping volunteers get involved in Wikimedia operations and software development. The first part of this project is Test/Dev Labs, and the second part is Tool Labs.
 * wikitech:Nova Resource:Tools/Help: Tool Labs is a reliable, scalable hosting environment for community developers working on tools and bots that help users maintain and use wikis. The cloud-based infrastructure was developed by WMF and is supported by a dedicated group of WMF staff and volunteers. DEEP and TECHNICAL.
 * Developer hub: high-level overview of MediaWiki development, including links to the key documents, resources and tools available to MediaWiki developers. It is written for skilled LAMP developers who have experience using MediaWiki.

wikitech:Portal:Toolforge: a hosting environment. Toolforge makes it easy for you to perform analytics, administer bots, run webservices, and create tools. Tools help project editors, technical contributors, and other volunteers who work on Wikimedia projects. Toolforge is part of the Wikimedia Cloud Services (WMCS) suite of services. It is supported by Wikimedia Foundation staff and volunteers. wikitech:Help:Cloud_Services_Introduction (WMCS): provides tools, services, and support for technical collaborators who want to contribute to Wikimedia software projects. WMCS is a computing ecosystem built on OpenStack, GridEngine, and Kubernetes.


 * Toolserver: tools for common public developed by professional programmers; sometimes it is incubator of new ideas which will become commonplace in Wiki later
 * ~magnus → tools.wmflabs.org/magnustools


 * Tools

Diffs:
 * Help:Diff & m:Help:Diff: difference between two versions of a page. Unchanged text is dark grey on light grey (only parts before and after changed text are shown). Paragraphs which have changed are black on white, with an orange border on the old version side and a blue border on the new version side. Inserted and removed text is highlighted with the border color and bolded. Where whole paragraphs have been removed or inserted, no highlighting or bolding is applied and the other side is blank. Some editors find that having additional line breaks to break up the text improves the diff function; large, massive globs of text are difficult to compare; keep sentences limited in length, and seek shorter paragraphs; long reftag footnotes () may be split with internal newlines as well.
 * User:Cacycle/diff: free JavaScript diff implementation that has been optimized for the comparison of Wikipedia source texts; in contrast to most other diff implementations, moved text blocks are detected and their original positions are displayed ; output highlights additions (dark green) and deletions (dark red) in the new text. Used by wikEd and by wikEdDiff.


 * User:ProveIt GT: ProveIt is a user script that makes it easy to find, edit, add, and cite references in Wikipedia articles.

Outreach
{q.v. }


 * Main Page: home for several outreach and collaboration initiatives. It's a bookshelf, a collection of best practices, and a coordination point for any activity that is directed to the public, to cultural institutions, or to universities. Ambassador Program; Best practices; Bookshelf Project; Education; GLAM; Success stories; Wikipedia student clubs.


 * Public Policy Initiative: use of Wikipedia as a teaching tool in higher education.

Manual of Style

 * Manual of Style (MoS, MOS): style guide for all Wikipedia articles. Chemistry style (esp. the drawing (SVG), reactions, MSDS)
 * Manual of Style/Words to watch: words that may introduce bias: puffery (peacock terms), contentious labels, unsupported attributions (weasel words), expressions of doubt, editorializing, synonyms for said; expressions that lack precision: euphemisms (use "blind", "died" instead of "sightless", "passed away"), clichés and idioms, relative time references, neologisms and new compounds; vulgarities, obscenities, profanities.
 * WikiProject Computer science/Manual of style: Algorithms: There are no universally accepted standards for presenting algorithms on Wikipedia.


 * Template:Wikipedia referencing
 * Inline citation: When you must use inline citations: Direct quotations, any challenged statement (verifiability), any statement likely to be challenged, anything about living persons. References/Notes section

Rules

 * Trifecta: Remain neutral; Be considerate; Ignore all rules.
 * Don't be a dick: The presence of this page does not itself license any editor to refer to any other identifiable editor as "a dick". Coping with accusations of dickery; How to deal with dicks without being a dick yourself (Focus on behaviour, not on individuals. Say what you want and why you want it. Say why you think the other person's behaviour is counter-productive...)

Search and access
{q.v. }


 * Help:Searching: Wikipedia has its own search engine as represented by the search box and the search results page. Search engine features: Syntax: phrases in double quotes [""], boolean search ["-" = "logical not", AND, OR, grouping parenthesis] (AND operator is assumed for all terms (separated by spaces)), exclusion ["-"], wildcard search [*] (standing for any length of character-string can prefix or suffix a word or string), search fuzzily [ ~] (spelling relaxation occurs by suffixing a tilde), search results! [~ ] (prefixing a tilde; never jumps to a single title); Parameters: [intitle: ], [incategory: ], [namespace name: OR All: ] (given only at the beginning of the query, a namespace name followed by a colon limits search results to that namespace), [prefix: ] (given only at the last part of a search box query, "prefix: " refers to matching only the beginning characters of a ); Stemming (stemming may be deactivated by using double quotes). Special searches: External link URL search


 * Search engine test, use of Google


 * Special:SpecialPages
 * Special:Search
 * Special:Search Advanced: can select any namespace combination.


 * Help:Mobile access: access Wikipedia on wireless devices such as mobile phones and PDAs.
 * Wikipedia Zero: project by the Wikimedia Foundation to provide Wikipedia free of charge on mobile phones, particularly in developing markets.
 * Wikipedia Zero


 * FAQ/Categories: basic search box does not search category names.

Google search in Wikipedia

 * site:en.wikipedia.org intitle:"User talk*-Wikipedia" :: searches for something containing "User talk" (wild character meaning as described by Google)
 * site:en.wikipedia.org intitle:"Talk****-Wikipedia" -intitle:user :: excluding "user", i.e. searching only for Wikipedia pages, NOT user talk pages.
 * site:en.wikipedia.org intitle:"Wikipedia**-Wikipedia" -intitle:user :: the number of "*" determines the number of, therefore use "*", "**", "***", "****",... to catch more words in the page title
 * site:en.wikipedia.org intitle:"MediaWiki****-Wikipedia" -intitle:user

Preferences, customizing Wikipedia, JavaScript

 * Special:Preferences: the Preferences (aka Preferences of YOUR account seen only by you and highest level (?) admins)


 * Help:Preferences: user options for browsing, editing, searching, notifications, and more; offers an extraordinary number of feature settings.
 * Gadgets: software contributed by users, not the software that runs Wikipedia, and so you'll see the group names Editing and Appearance are the same as the tab names on the preferences page. Just like extensions/add-ons/plug-ins to browsers, just specific to MediaWiki wikis.
 * mw:Reference Tooltips & mw:Talk:Reference Tooltips: enabled by default on English Wikipedia
 * Compact Personal Bar
 * Universal Language Selector/Design/Interlanguage links
 * Customisation


 * Scripts
 * User scripts


 * Help:Wikipedia: The Missing Manual/Customizing Wikipedia/Easier Editing with JavaScript


 * Beta Features: a way for you to test new features on Wikipedia and other Wikimedia sites before they are released for everyone. Go to your preferences to enable Beta Features for yourself; remember enabling features works on a per site basis.

Links

 * Help:Interwiki linking: w:, wikt:, b:, wmf: (Wikimedia Foundation), m: (Wikimedia Meta-Wiki), mw: (MediaWiki), d: (Wikidata), c: (Wikimedia Commons), voy: (Wikivoyage), q: (Wikiquote), s: (Wikisource), v: (Wikiversity), wikitech:, toolforge:
 * Special:Interwiki: wmfblog: (//blog.wikimedia.org/$1), wmdeblog (//blog.wikimedia.de/$1)
 * Help:Interwikimedia links
 * For interlanguage links {q.v. }


 * Wikimedia sister projects
 * Wikimedia project: Wikipedia, Wiktionary, Wikibooks, Wikinews, Wikiquote, Wikisource, Wikiversity, Wikivoyage (2006.12.10; on WMF: 2013.01.15), Wikimedia Commons, Wikimedia Incubator, Meta-Wiki, Wikispecies, Wikidata, Wikimapia. Codes that do not agree with the ISO 639 meaning or are deprecated: ar (Arabic), zh (Chinese), sh (Serbo-Croatian), simple (Simple English), bat-smg (Samogitian)

Wikidata

 * Wikidata: collaboratively edited multilingual knowledge graph hosted by the Wikimedia Foundation. It is a common source of open data that Wikimedia projects such as Wikipedia, and anyone else, can use under the CC0 public domain license. Wikidata is powered by the software Wikibase.
 * Concept: label, item identifier (QID), description, aliases; statement group: property: rank, value - qualifiers, references.
 * Main parts: Fundamentally, an item consists of: Obligatorily, an identifier (the QID), related to a label and a description; Optionally, multiple aliases and some number of statements (and their properties and values).
 * Statements
 * Property and value
 * Lexemes


 * Wikibase: set of MediaWiki extensions for working with versioned semi-structured data in a central repository based upon JSON instead of the unstructured data of MediaWiki wikitext. Its primary components are the Wikibase Repository, an extension for storing and managing data, and the Wikibase Client which allows for the retrieval and embedding of structured data from a wikibase repository. Wikibase was developed for and is used by Wikidata.


 * d:Wikidata:Main Page: (2013/01/14/first-steps-of-wikidata-in-the-hungarian-wikipedia; launched 2012.10.30): collaboratively edited knowledge base; intended to provide a common source of certain data types (for example, birth dates) which can be used by Wikimedia projects; document-oriented database, focused around items.
 * {q.v. Wikicite} : to be implemented into Wikidata [2013].
 * Wrong ordering of search results: funny bug due to "Much of the problem comes from the fact that Wikidata lacks the necessary text to build the relevance of the article, we need something else. Without this it will be somewhat random which entries turns up first and last."
 * History of Wikidata:
 * OLD: Wikidata: to be started in 2012 March, end date: 2013 March. Still in trial phase, with full WikiMedia support. Wikidata will allow for central access to the data in a way similar to what Wikimedia Commons does for multimedia files. Wikidata/Introduction & Wikidata/Technical proposal. Obsolete: mw:Wikidata and m:Wikidata/historical.
 * OLDER: A new look at the interwiki link, too many links!


 * Wikidata: Managing Interlanguage links with Wikidata: New articles; Moved articles; Incorrect interwiki links; More than one interwiki family; Migrating new interwiki links; Persistent conflicts.
 * d:Help:Sitelinks (Interwiki links, Interlanguage links, List of pages linked to an item): special links that contain a site and a title, and go from individual items in Wikidata to pages on other sites such as Wikipedia. Guidelines: Namespaces (Wikidata community agreed in an RFC that all namespaces of Wikipedia projects other than "User" are eligible for storage on Wikidata); Interlanguage links with anchors; Badges( future feature (e.g. FA, GA)); Interwiki conflicts; Other Wikimedia projects (Wikidata supports interlanguage links of Wikipedia, Wikisource, Wikivoyage, and Commons, not yet for other Wikimedia projects).
 * Help:Sources: majority of statements on Wikidata should be verifiable insofar as they are supported by referenceable sources of information such as a book, scientific publication, or newspaper article. In Wikidata, references are used to point to specific sources that back up the data provided in a statement. Different types of sources: Books; Scientific, newspaper or magazine article; Reports, policy, legislation and technical documentation; Web page; Databases; Media & Entertainment (TV/radio/music/video).


 * d:Wikidata:Glossary: defines important Wikidata concepts and refers to more detailed information.


 * d:Help:Label: is like a page title, but is the smallest unit of information that names the subject; allowed to be ambiguous—they are disambiguated using descriptions; use the subject's most common name, and only capitalize proper nouns


 * Lounge/Growing items


 * Wikidata/2017 State of affairs: preparation for a sitewide RfC about the role of Wikidata on enwiki. Before an RFC can be had, it seems like a good idea to list a few things here. Perceived benefits of using Wikidata on enwiki; Perceived disadvantages of using Wikidata on enwiki; Prior and current discussions about the use of Wikidata.


 * Persondata: was a special set of metadata that could be added to biographical articles only. It has now been removed. From now on, such data should be added, with a citation, to Wikidata instead.


 * Use of Wikidata in Wikipedia: This Wikipedia page needs to be updated.


 * scholia: search engine relying on wikidata, mainly for scientific publications.

Development of Wikidata

 * Wikidata/Development: open source development project. The initial development is being performed by a team working at Wikimedia Deutschland in Berlin. In order to facilitate external collaboration, these pages document the current state of the development. For development, we are following scrum, as this also enables to have a visible status report on what is going on in the project.


 * Wikidata/Notes/Future: This page collects possible future use cases. Please describe here how you would like to use Wikidata, or what functionality you want to see added to it in the future. Give examples! Feel free to expand and discuss, add questions, make sub pages, etc.
 * Wikipedia
 * Bibliographies
 * Wikisource: Wikisource
 * Commons: ton of bugs [14/12/18]
 * Authoritative Records
 * OpenSeaMap
 * Wikiquote: Structured Wikiquote
 * Wiktionary: disagreement, because "language defines how you think about objects: "best example given is -sche's comment that "what English grammarians think of as an "adjective" roughly maps to at least three different parts of speech in Japanese (形容詞 [keiyōshi], 形容動詞 [keiyō dōshi], and 連体詞 [rentaishi])""
 * Wikispecies
 * Wikivoyage
 * Sister project links
 * World University and School
 * Wikidata/Notes/References: Wikidata aims not to create a database of facts about the world, but to collect references to such knowledge. As such, Wikidata will be a secondary knowledge base. To every statement in Wikidata there will be the option to add references to primary or referenceable sources.


 * m:Grants:IEG: Individual Engagement Grants support Wikimedians to complete projects that benefit the Wikimedia movement. Our focus is on experimentation for online impact.
 * m:Grants:IEG: current projects [17/04/04]
 * m:Grants:IdeaLab/Reform of citation structure for all Wikimedia projects (created on: 11:48, 18 March 2014)
 * m:Grants:IdeaLab/Tools for using wikidata items as citations (created on 11:23, 20 September 2014 (UTC))
 * Village pump (proposals)/Archive 110 (Sowlos 06:24, 6 April 2014 (UTC))


 * 2014/10/22/establishing-wikidata-as-the-central-hub-for-linked-open-life-science-data/: Thanks to the amazing work of the Wikidata community, every human gene (according to the United States National Center for Biotechnology Information; Entrez Gene DB) now has a representative entity on Wikidata. {q.v. User:Kazkaskazkasako/Work Gene Wiki}
 * 2014/12/05/wikidata-for-research-a-grant-proposal-that-anyone-can-edit/
 * WikiProject Wikidata for research

Wikibooks

 * b:Category:Print templates
 * b:Template:Print entry

Wikisource

 * Wikisource: online digital library of free-content textual sources on a wiki, operated by the Wikimedia Foundation. The project's aim is to host all forms of free text, in many languages, and translations. Originally conceived as an archive to store useful or important historical texts (its first text was the Déclaration universelle des Droits de l'Homme), it has expanded to become a general-content library. The project officially began on 2003.11.24 under the name Project Sourceberg, a play on the famous Project Gutenberg. The project holds works that are either in the public domain or freely licensed; professionally published works or historical source documents, not vanity products; and are verifiable. Some individual Wikisources, each representing a specific language, now only allow works backed up with scans. While the bulk of its collection are texts, Wikisource as a whole hosts other media, from comics to film to audio books.

https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Category:Authors https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Wikisource:Authors : index of documents by author

Wikiversity

 * Wikiversity: Wikimedia Foundation project that supports learning communities, their learning materials, and resulting activities. It differs from Wikipedia in that it offers tutorials and other materials for the fostering of learning, rather than an encyclopedia; like Wikipedia it is available in many languages.
 * Project details:
 * WikiJournals: started with WikiJournal of Medicine in 2014. Sister journals WikiJournal of Science and WikiJournal of Humanities both began publishing in 2018. The WikiJournal User Group received an open publishing award in November 2019.
 * WikiDebates


 * v:Category:WikiJournal
 * WikiJournal of Science
 * WikiJournal of Medicine
 * WikiJournal of Humanities


 * User:Mikael Häggström: Doctor of Medicine. He graduated from Uppsala University, Faculty of Medicine in 2013, and is currently working as a physician under specialist training in radiology at the NU Hospital Group, Sweden. He was born in Gothenburg, in 1986 (currently aged 30), and grew up in nearby Uddevalla by the coast. He decided to become a doctor while backpacking for half a year in 2005, taking the Trans-Siberian train to China and crossing the Himalayas from Tibet to Nepal. He has contributed to Wikipedia since 2006. He is the creator and editor-in-chief of WikiJournal of Medicine, a new Wikipedia-integrated, peer-reviewed, open-access academic journal.
 * User:Mikael Häggström/Gallery
 * WikiJournal of Medicine/Medical gallery of Mikael Häggström 2014

Future of Wikimedia projects

 * RENDER: Wikimedia Deutschland e. V., the German Wikimedia Chapter, is one use case partner in the European Union-funded international research project RENDER. This project is concerned with the reflection and leverage of knowledge diversity in different settings and applications. We develop tools that enable Wikipedia editors to find, understand and cure biased and non-neutral articles.
 * de:Wikipedia:RENDER: beschäftigt sich mit der Darstellung und Nutzung von Wissensvielfalt in verschiedenen Anwendungsfällen. Dabei werden Werkzeuge und Technologien entwickelt, die es Wikipedia-Autoren ermöglichen, unausgewogene und nicht neutrale Artikel zu finden, zu verstehen und zu verbessern. Darüber hinaus werden Wikipedia-Leser in die Lage versetzt, selbst aktiv zu werden.


 * Requests for comment/Adopt OmegaWiki: what is the ultimate dictionary? How to replicate IPA, pronunciation OGGs and anything else that is shared between the dictionaries, but keep the meanings of the words unique for one Wiktionary with each meaning being translated into the other languages and this being consistent with the Wiktionary of the other language?
 * m:Research:Oral Citations: help overcome a lack of published material in emerging languages on Wikipedia. Indian languages, South African languages. Can unwritten (i.e. NONsearchable) sources be inspected for accuracy? Transcribing the speech and putting on the web and then using as a source is expensive?


 * Global-Wiki: global container of wiki pages, to be linked and/or included from other wikis; global user page, global preferences, global gadgets, templates.


 * Improving "Wikipedia:Category intersection" {q.v. }

Resolved "future projects":
 * WikiMusic: LyricWiki.org - external Wiki.
 * Wikimusic II ⇒ WikiScores: Rejected, because we have Wikisource for the public domain sheet music.
 * Wikidata (Interwiki linking :: between languages): ✓
 * DataNamespace: proposal to create a dedicated namespace to host open (tabular) data and make these datasets persistently identifiable, version controlled and easily embeddable into other wikis.
 * Wikivoyage (wikivoyage.org; 2013/01/15/wikimedia-foundation-launches-wikivoyage-a-free-worldwide-travel-guide-that-anyone-can-edit/)
 * Wikivoyage (Wikimedia Foundation) vs Wikitravel (Internet Brands) drama: 2013/02/15/a-victory-for-wikivoyage-and-free-knowledge/


 * Perennial proposals: frequently proposed on Wikipedia, and have been rejected by the community several times in the past

Wikipedia and the World

 * Censorship of Wikipedia: PRC, France (Pierre-sur-Haute military radio station), Iran, Italy (DDL Intercettazioni or the Wiretapping Act), Pakistan, Russian (starting 2013.04.05, RU selectively blocks the Internet), Saudi Arabia, Syria, Thailan (lèse majesté), Tunisia (2006.11.23-27), UK (Virgin Killer album cover), Uzbekistan.

Alternatives to Wikipedia, other internet encyclopedias

 * Category:Internet encyclopedias

{q.v. User:Kazkaskazkasako/Books/All}


 * RationalWiki: wiki written from a skeptical, secular, and progressivist perspective. It was originally created as a counter to Conservapedia after an incident in which contributors attempting to edit Conservapedia were banned.