User:OlEnglish/Useful links and bookmarks

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

Now read:
 * Everything you need to know

Notability

 * WikiProject Notability
 * Bare notability
 * Inherent notability
 * What notability is not
 * Wikipedia:Notability/RFC:compromise
 * Wikipedia:Notability/RFC:Reevaluation
 * Existence ≠ Notability
 * Generally notable people
 * Notable person survival kit
 * Red flags of non-notability
 * Run-of-the-mill
 * Other stuff exists
 * Too soon
 * Why should I care?
 * No one cares about your garage band
 * Wikipedia doesn't care how many friends you have
 * I wouldn't know him from a hole in the ground

Verifiability

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

Useful or interesting links

 * Labels
 * Wikipedia:Text of Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License
 * Text of the GNU Free Documentation License
 * Language recognition chart
 * Requesting free content
 * Errors in the Encyclopædia Britannica that have been corrected in Wikipedia
 * Researching Wikipedia
 * We aren't Citizendium
 * Expert retention
 * Scientific standards
 * Specialized-style fallacy
 * Quality control
 * Buy one, get one free
 * Be the glue
 * Somebody else's problem
 * Getting to Philosophy


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


 * List of administrators
 * Areas for Reform
 * Governance reform
 * How to contribute to Wikipedia guidance
 * Wikipedia Committees
 * Arbitration Committee/CheckUser and Oversight
 * Arbitration/Index/Principles
 * Advisory Council on Project Development
 * IRC/Personal views regarding IRC
 * Wikipedia in culture
 * Modelling Wikipedia's growth
 * History of Wikipedian processes and people
 * Historic debates
 * Perennial proposals
 * Lost functionalities
 * Alternative outlets
 * Long-term abuse
 * Replies to common objections
 * Quote your own essay
 * About essay searching
 * The value of essays
 * The Wikipedia Adventure
 * GLAM/MonmouthpediA
 * Top 25 Report
 * Database reports/Most-watched users


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


 * Category:User essays
 * Category:User essays on style
 * Category:Wikipedia failed proposals
 * Category:Wikipedia important community decisions
 * Category:Wikipedia resources for researchers


 * Book:Wikipedia Signpost


 * Special:NewPagesFeed

User essays

 * User:Filll/AGF Challenge
 * User:Ling.Nut/V-challenged
 * User:Jimbo Wales/Statement of principles
 * User:Redthoreau/Nuggets of Wiki Wisdom
 * User:Piotrus/Morsels of wikiwisdom
 * User:Only/On retiring
 * User:Antandrus/observations on Wikipedia behavior
 * User:Tony1/How to improve your writing - Very useful guide on writing articles
 * User:Giano/A fool's guide to writing a featured article
 * User:Beyond My Ken/thoughts - Excellent essay
 * User:Isomorphic/Essays/Deletionism
 * User:Art LaPella/Devil's Dictionary of Wikipedia Policy - A great read
 * User:Mangojuice/Administrators are not slaves
 * User:Larry Sanger/Origins of Wikipedia
 * User:Jayen466/Hannibal Fogg Watch
 * User:Guy Macon/Wikipedia has Cancer
 * meta:User:Larry Sanger - Larry's Columns on meta, some interesting reading

Featured Signpost articles

 * Wikipedia Signpost/2011-03-07/Deletion controversy - Deletion of article about website angers gaming community
 * Wikipedia Signpost/2011-11-28/In the news - The closed, unfriendly world of Wikipedia, fundraiser fun and games, and chemists vs pornstars
 * Wikipedia Signpost/2013-10-09/News and notes - Wiki-PR's extensive network of clandestine paid advocacy exposed
 * Wikipedia Signpost/2015-12-02/Op-ed - Whither Wikidata?

External/Sister

 * https://wikiedu.org/
 * The WikimediaAnnounce-l Archives
 * stats.grok.se - Wikipedia article traffic statistics
 * dumps.wikimedia.org - Data dumps
 * tools.wmflabs.org - Recently Active Users


 * Wikimedians of Canada


 * Wikimedia Canada
 * Wikimedia Research Network
 * Merchandise giveaways
 * 2015 Community Wishlist Survey
 * Communication Projects Group/Useful Links
 * Rule of diminishing replies - the best way to deal with trolls
 * Wikipedia power structure
 * Avoid copyright paranoia
 * Megalomaniacal point of view
 * Steward requests
 * WikiLove/Stories
 * meta:Research:WikiPride
 * meta:Research:Oral Citations
 * Wikidata
 * Reports
 * Citation Hunt
 * mw:Manual:MediaWiki feature list
 * Article creation workflow
 * commons:Commons:Copyright rules by subject matter
 * List of meta category criteria
 * Wikimedia Ethics
 * wikiversity:Wikiversity:Featured
 * wikiversity:Portal:Humanities
 * Wikinews:Video 2.0
 * Welcome to Wikipedia (Bookshelf)
 * Questions that need answers


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 * Wikimedia blog
 * Wikimedia Quarto newsletter


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


 * http://wikiverse.io/
 * Wikipedia news stories from BayNewser
 * EN Wikizine
 * English Wikipedia mailing list archive
 * The Wikipedian
 * Wikilivres The Canadian Wikisource
 * WikiTrust
 * Listen to Wikipedia
 * Criticism
 * Criticism of Wikipedia Gotta maintain a neutral point of view...
 * Wikipediocracy
 * Wikipedia Review
 * Wikipedia Controversies
 * Zombie Drama Queens from Wikipedia
 * Examples of Bias in Wikipedia - Lol
 * I'm on Wikipedia, get me out of here
 * Class war! Wikipedia's workers revolt again: Bourgeois paper-shufflers have 'suspended democracy', sniff unpaid proles


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


 * Mozilla wiki
 * 2008/9 Wikipedia Selection for schools


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


 * The Full Wiki
 * Qwika

Technical and Advanced

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


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


 * http://etherpad.wikimedia.org/

Maintenance and tools

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


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


 * Deletion


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

It's all fun and games until...

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


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


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


 * File:What Commons Does Not Need.jpg


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


 * ,, - funny edit summaries
 * Just a bit too informal..
 * the stay puft marshmellow man apparently he's a violent racist
 * the Canadarm commits Seppuku
 * This guy seriously needs help
 * Main Page vandalism


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


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



Interesting user names
-- Some of these use extended characters; if your browser or OS isn't setup to see these I've included descriptions.


 * -- This one spells something out that doesn't quite conform to Username policy.
 * -- A pair of eyes with eyebrows.
 * -- A peace sign.
 * -- Can be either a pair of eyes with a nose, or a penis and testicles depending on your frame of mind.