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• Abbreviations: see Terms and terminology
• Abuse: see Vandalism

Shortcut: WP:EIW#Access

• Access (limiting): (see also Enforcement)
  • Blocks by governments:
    • Blocking of Wikipedia in mainland China
    • Wikipedia:Advice to users using Tor to bypass the Great Firewall
    • Wikipedia:WikiProject on closed proxies
  • Tor:
    • mw:Extension:TorBlock (editing through tor requires 100 edits and 90 days to become autoconfirmed, as of June 2008)
    • Wikipedia:Advice to users using Tor to bypass the Great Firewall
  • Preventing abuses via open proxies:
    • Wikipedia:Open proxies (WP:NOP) (policy)
    • Wikipedia:WikiProject on open proxies
    • m:WikiProject on open proxies
    • Wikipedia:Open proxy detection
    • Bots:
      • User:RonaldBot – reports edits done by open proxies
      • User:ClueBot – identifies suspected vandalism using open proxies
      • User:KrimpBot – identifies active Tor exits and IPs that are no longer Tor but still blocked

Shortcut: WP:EIW#Ability

• Accessibility: (see also Audio, Usability)
  • Wikipedia:Accessibility (guideline)
  • Wikipedia:WikiProject Accessibility
  • Wikipedia:WikiProject Usability/Infobox accessibility
  • JAWS:
    • JAWS (screen reader)
    • Wikipedia:Using JAWS
    • Wikipedia Guide for JAWS Readers
  • User:Wolfgangbeyer/monobook.css – monobook.css optimized for color blindness
  • Wikipedia:HiddenStructure – CSS feature that was disabled in December 2006 because of accessibility issues
  • Category:Wikipedia accessibility
• Account: see User account and username
• Admin coaching: Wikipedia:Admin coaching – a one-on-one coaching program (formerly by the Wikipedia:Esperanza association of editors but now standalone)
• Administration: see Enforcement, Functionaries

Shortcut: WP:EIW#Admin

• Administrators: (see also Enforcement)
  • General information:
    • Wikipedia:Administrators
    • Wikipedia:FAQ/Administration
    • Wikipedia:What adminship is not
    • Wikipedia:Perennial proposals#Hierarchical structures – there should be some kind of "partial admin"
  • Contacting an administrator: (see also specific topics such as Vandalism)
    • Wikipedia:Requests for administrator attention – a directory of places to request administrator help
    • Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard – message board for coordinating and discussing administrative tasks on Wikipedia (not supposed to be for incidents; see that page or elsewhere in this index for other pages on which to report incidents (WP:AN)
  • Current administrators:
    • Wikipedia:List of administrators
    • Wikipedia:List of administrators/Active
    • Special:Listusers/sysop
    • Category:Wikipedia administrators
  • Becoming an administrator:
    • Wikipedia:Miniguide to requests for adminship (unofficial)
    • Wikipedia:Guide to requests for adminship
    • Category:Wikipedia administrator hopefuls
    • Wikipedia:Requests for adminship – nominations of individuals seeking/willing to become an administrator (WP:RFA)
    • Wikipedia:Arguments to avoid in adminship discussions (essay)
    • User:Dragons flight/RFA summary – bot-generated summary of the current RfAs
    • Changing the RfA process:
      • Wikipedia:Perennial proposals#Requests for Adminship is broken
      • RfA Review:
        • Wikipedia:RfA Review (essay) (begun June 2008) – "Once all phases are complete, a report will be presented to the community"
        • User:Durova/RFA Review boycott
  • Non-bureaucrat closing of an RfA: User:Enigmaman/SNOW (but first ask the candidate to withdraw)
  • Results of RfAs:
    • Wikipedia:Successful requests for adminship
    • Wikipedia:Unsuccessful adminship candidacies
    • User:NoSeptember/Admin stats
  • After becoming an administrator:
    • Wikipedia:New admin school
    • Wikipedia:Administrators' reading list
    • b:MediaWiki Administrator's Handbook
    • Help:Reverting#Admin features
    • Wikipedia:Advice for new administrators (essay)
    • Wikipedia:Wheel war (WP:WW) (policy) – Do not repeat an administrative action when another administrator opposes it
    • User:NoSeptember/Subpages about adminship
    • Ubergodmode.js Compilation of user scripts for administrators
    • Wikipedia:IRC channels/Personal views regarding IRC – regarding proper use of the admin IRC channel
    • Problems with admins:
      • Wikipedia:Requests for comment/User conduct#Use of administrator privileges
      • Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard
      • Reconfirmation and/or recall:
        • Wikipedia:Requests for de-adminship
        • Category:Wikipedia administrators open to recall
        • Wikipedia:Admin Accountability Alliance (essay?)
        • Wikipedia:Community enforced administrator recall (failed proposal)
        • Wikipedia:Perennial proposals#Reconfirm administrators
    • Inactive admins:
      • Wikipedia:List of administrators/Inactive – those who haven't edited in the past three months
      • Wikipedia:Perennial proposals#Demote inactive admins
  • Other:
    • Category:Wikipedia adminship
    • Category:Wikimedia Commons administrators – English Wikipedia editors who are admins at the Commons
    • Wikipedia:Adminship in other languages – French, German, Dutch, Japanese (etc.) versions of Wikipedia
    • Template:Adminhelp
    • Category:Wikipedians looking for help from administrators
    • User:NoSeptember/The NoSeptember Admin Project
    • User:JamesR/AdminStats – lists of admins, sorted by the number of deletions, restorations, etc.
    • Wikipedia:Adminitis (essay)
    • Wikipedia:Requests for comment/Adminbots
    • [http://www.thoughtcrumbs.com/publications/chi1364-burke.pdf Statistical analysis of candidates; proposes "AdminFinderBot" for candidates) (April 2008)
    • Wikipedia:WikiProject on Adminship – discussion of new approaches for granting adminship (inactive as of October 2006)
• Adoption: Wikipedia:Adopt-a-User

Shortcut: WP:EIW#Advert

• Adr (address) microformat
  • Wikipedia:WikiProject Microformats
• Advertisements:
  • On Wikipedia, non-revenue raising: (see also Wikipedia:Motto of the day)
    • Template:Wikipedia ads/doc – process
    • Template:Wikipedia ads
    • Template:Wikipedia-adnavbox – list of current ads
  • On Wikipedia, revenue-raising
    • Wikipedia:Advertisements (essay)
    • Wikipedia:Perennial proposals#Advertising
  • Off Wikipedia, for Wikipedia:
    • m:Wikimedia urban postering campaign
  • On Wikipedia, by outside groups and individuals, without paying Wikipedia: see Spam
• Advice: see Help, Learning, New editors, Questions
• AfD (Articles for Deletion): see Deletion of articles
• Algorithms: Wikipedia:Algorithms on Wikipedia
• Anchors: see Navigation

Shortcut: WP:EIW#Anon

• Anonymous editors (see also Access (limiting), Vandalism) **Disadvantages: Wikipedia:Why create an account?
  • MediaWiki:Anoneditwarning
  • Wikipedia:Welcome anonymous editing (essay)
  • Wikipedia:Editors should be logged in users (failed proposal)
  • Who Writes Wikipedia – asserts that anons add the bulk of new text
• Arabic: Wikipedia:Manual of Style (Arabic)

Shortcut: WP:EIW#Arb

• Arbitration:
  • Wikipedia:Arbitration
  • Wikipedia:Arbitration/Policy (WP:AP)
  • Wikipedia:Arbitration/Requests
  • Wikipedia:Arbitration/Requests/Enforcement (WP:AE)
  • Wikipedia:General sanctions – active sanctions
  • Wikipedia:Arbitration rationale (unofficial)
  • Wikipedia:Requests for comment/Arbitration enforcement (early 2009 discussion)
  • Arbitration Committee:
    • Wikipedia:Arbitration Committee
    • Wikipedia:Arbitration Committee/Noticeboard
    • Wikipedia:Arbitration Committee/June 2008 announcements/Clarifying the role of the Committee
    • Wikipedia:Arbitration/Index/Cases
    • Wikipedia:Elections#Arbitration Committee
    • Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/2005-09-19/ArbCom election – first in a weekly series of 17 articles on the Arbitration Committee and the January 2006 election
    • Wikipedia:Arbitration Committee/June 2008 announcements – a number of proposals by the committee, plus notice of trial changes being undertaken
    • Wikipedia:Requests for comment/Arbitration Committee – June 2008 RfC
    • Wikipedia:Devolution – failed proposal to establish a mechanism for the committee to devolve selected powers to a designated body
    • {{ArbComOpenTasks}} – template for active ArbCom cases
    • m:Wikimedia Arbitration Committee election processes – describes how the Arbitration Committee is selected on various language Wikipedias
  • Appeals: Wikipedia:Arbitration Committee/June 2008 announcements/Appeals Review List – new (sub)committee or "list" or "panel", subordinate to and supervised by the Arbitration Committee

Shortcut: WP:EIW#Archive

• Archiving pages:
  • Help:Archiving a talk page
  • User:The Halo/How to Archive (tutorial)
  • User:5Q5#How to Archive a Talk Page by 5Q5 (tutorial)
  • Template:Google custom/doc#How to search subpage trees within Wikipedia – easily make an archive searchable
  • Using a bot:
    • User:MiszaBot/Archive HowTo
    • User:ClueBot III
    • User:MercuryBot
    • User:Werdnabot

Shortcut: WP:EIW#Ambox

• Article message boxes (amboxes):
  • Wikipedia:Template messages#Article-related namespace
  • Wikipedia:Template standardisation – for articles
  • Wikipedia:Ambox CSS classes – creating article message boxes
  • Wikipedia:Ambox CSS classes/Skins – changing the way that standardized article "tags" are displayed
  • User:Shanes/Why tags are evil – essay about templates placed at the top of articles

Shortcut: WP:EIW#Article

• Articles: see also Content disputes, Edits (in general), History, Importing, Layout and sections, New articles, Page views, Quality of articles, Statistics, Style (articles)
  • Wikipedia:What is an article?
  • Wikipedia:Article development – stages in the life of an article
  • Wikipedia:Editorial oversight and control
  • Wikipedia:Content forking (guideline) – includes POV forking
  • Analysis of:
    • User:R. fiend/How many articles does Wikipedia really have? – categorization by size/source/quality of 500 randomly selected articles, October 2005
    • User:Knulclunk/Random – categorization by topic/type of 200 randomly selected articles, September 2008
  • Wikipedia:Unusual articles
  • Article size (particularly long articles):

    Shortcut: WP:EIW#Long

    • Wikipedia:Article size (Manual of Style)
    • Wikipedia:Summary style (guideline) – when articles get too long
    • Special:Longpages – top 1000 articles, sizewise
    • MediaWiki:Longpagewarning
    • {{PAGESIZE:page name}} – magic word that gives the size of the given page name
    • User talk:Dr pda/prosesize.js – user script that adds link to the toolbox, for displaying some statistics about the size of a page and its components
    • Splitting:
      • Wikipedia:Splitting
      • Wikipedia:Template messages/Splitting
      • Category:Articles to be split
    • Implementing summary style:
      • Wikipedia:Summary style
      • Template:Main
      • Category:Articles to harmonize (Template:Sync)
• As of: see Current events
• Assessment: see Quality of articles

Shortcut: WP:EIW#Assist

• Assistance (disputes): (see also Content disputes, Help, Personal attacks, Questions)
  • Wikipedia:Editor assistance
  • Wikipedia:Highly Active Users (WP:HAU) – request assistance from users who are currently online
  • Wikipedia:Wikiquette alerts
  • Wikipedia:Requests for comment/User conduct
  • Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents (urgent/severe cases only)
• Association of Members' Advocates (AMA): inactive as of May 2007
• Assuming good faith:
  • Wikipedia:Assume good faith (WP:AGF) (guideline)
  • User:Filll/AGF Challenge – a set of exercises based on typical Wikipedia editing situations in controversial areas
• Attacks: see: Content disputes, Personal attacks
• Attribution: see Sources

Shortcut: WP:EIW#Audio

• Audio: (see also Accessibility)
  • Spoken versions of Wikipedia articles:
    • Wikipedia:WikiProject Spoken Wikipedia
    • Wikipedia:Spoken articles – articles with audio versions
    • Category:Spoken Wikipedia requests – articles for which spoken versions have been requested
    • Pediaphone – automated creation of spoken versions (MP3 file or read on-screen)
  • Audio clips: see Media
• Autobiographies: see Biographies
• Autograph books: see User pages
• Automation: see Bots, Tools, User scripts

Shortcut: WP:EIW#Award

• Awards:
  • Wikipedia:Awards
  • Wikipedia:Personal user awards
  • Wikipedia:Awards by WikiProject
  • Wikipedia:Service awards – self-awarded, based on length of time as an editor and number of edits
  • Wikipedia:Other awards
  • Wikipedia:Barnstars (WP:BARNSTAR)
  • Wikipedia:Barnstar and award proposals (WP:BAP)
  • Template:Barnstarpages
  • Wikipedia:Kindness Campaign
  • Wikipedia:Award templates
  • Category:Wikipedia awards
  • Wikipedia:Ribbons (for organizing multiple awards)
  • Wikipedia:Great editing in progress
  • Image:Barn star free zone.png
  • User:Durova/Triple crown winner's circle
  • Wikipedia:WikiCup

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Shortcut: WP:EIW#Backlog

• Backlogs:
  • Category:Wikipedia backlog
  • Category:Administrative backlog
  • Wikipedia:Admin backlog contest
• Balance and space: see Neutral point of view
• Banners:
  • For the Wikipedia project itself: Wikipedia:Banners and buttons
  • At the top of pages and sections: see Templates (in general) and specific topics as well (articles, talk pages, maintenance, etc.)
• Banning: see Enforcement
• Barnstars: see Awards

Shortcut: WP:EIW#Behave

• Behavior (see also Disruptive editing, Enforcement, Personal attacks, Spam, Vandalism)
  • Wikipedia:List of policies#Behavioral: standards for behavior of Wikipedia editors
  • Wikipedia:Simplified ruleset#Safe behaviours – twelve guidelines for "safe behaviours"
  • Wikipedia:Etiquette (WP:EQ) (guideline) – how to work with others on Wikipedia
  • User:Antandrus/observations on Wikipedia behavior (essay)
  • m:Don't be a dick
  • Wikipedia:Wikiquette alerts
  • Wikipedia:Avoid personal remarks
  • Wikipedia:Don't call the kettle black – an essay
  • Wikipedia:Harmonious editing club
  • Category:Wikipedia user conduct
• Being bold: Wikipedia:Be bold (WP:BOLD or WP:BB) (guideline)

Shortcut: WP:EIW#Bias

• Bias:
  • Wikipedia:WikiProject Countering systemic bias
  • Wikipedia:Recentism – an essay on the tendency to overweight recent events when adding information or creating new articles
  • Wikipedia:WikiProject Historical information
• Bible reference template: {{bibleref}} – can give the reader a wide variety of choices in choosing a translation

Shortcut: WP:EIW#Bio

• Biographies:
  • In general:
    • Wikipedia:Manual of Style (biographies)
    • Wikipedia:Biographies of living persons (WP:BLP) (policy)
    • Wikipedia:Arbitration Committee/June 2008 announcements/BLP enforcement guidance
    • User:Doc glasgow/The BLP problem
  • Article names:
    • Wikipedia:Naming conventions (people) (guideline)
    • Wikipedia:Naming conventions (names and titles)
    • User:Eubot – creates redirects to prevent multiple articles being created for the same person
  • Notability:
    • Wikipedia:Notability (people)
    • Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Common outcomes#People
    • Wikipedia:Notability (academics) (guideline)
    • Wikipedia:Biographical optout (failed proposal) – individuals who are not "public figures" can have their biography removed upon request
    • Wikipedia:Borderline biographies (essay)
  • Formatted data (see also Series boxes)
    • Wikipedia:Persondata
    • Wikipedia:WikiProject Microformats/hcard
  • Categorization:
    • Wikipedia:Categorization of people (guideline)
    • Wikipedia:Categorization/Gender, race and sexuality
    • Wikipedia:Do not write articles using categories – do not add a category for every attribute a person
    • Wikipedia:Naming conventions (identity) (ethnic, national, sexual, etc.)
    • User:SmackBot – adds the DEFAULTSORT template to stubs that are biographical articles
  • Problems:
    • Wikipedia:Contact us/Article problem/Factual error (from subject) – what to do when an individual has a problem with an article about that person or about someone that person represents
    • Wikipedia:Biographies of living persons/Special enforcement log
    • Libel:Wikipedia:Libel (policy)
    • Wikipedia:Biographies of living persons/BLPWatch
    • Wikipedia:Living People Patrol
    • Privacy:
      • Wikipedia:Biographies of living persons#Presumption in favor of privacy
      • Wikipedia:Oversight (policy) and Wikipedia:Requests for oversight – removal of personal or libelous information on older revisions of an article (see also Oversight)
      • Wikipedia:Deletion policy#Courtesy blanking (WP:CBLANK) (guideline) – removal of personal info within a deletion discussion
    • Articles about Wikipedians: (see also Conflicts of interest)
      • Wikipedia:Autobiography (WP:AUTO) (guideline)
      • Wikipedia:Wikipedians with articles
    • Identified cases (see also Conflicts of interest):
      • Wikipedia:Biographies of living persons/Noticeboard (WP:BLP/N)
      • User:Harej/Unreferenced BLPs
  • Other:
    • Wikipedia:Contact us/Photo submission – for individuals with biographies, or someone representing such an individual
    • Wikipedia:Family trees
    • Wikipedia:WikiProject Biography
    • Alternative: Biographicon
    • Wikipedia:Living People Patrol (inactive)
• Birthdays: see Biographies
• Biting: Wikipedia:Please do not bite the newcomers
• Blocks: see Access (limiting), Enforcement

Shortcut: WP:EIW#Books

• Books: (see also Wikibooks, Collections (books), Resources)
  • Articles about a book:
    • Wikipedia:Notability (books) (guideline)
    • Wikipedia:Naming conventions (books) (guideline)
  • ISBN:
    • Help:ISBN links
    • Wikipedia:ISBN
    • Wikipedia:Book sources
    • Special:Booksources
    • User:Lunchboxhero/monobook.js – when clicking on an ISBN link, go directly to your preferred book-related website
    • Ottobib – Web page that generates citation if ISBN is known; and another: (not quite as good)
    • Problems:
      • Category:Articles with invalid ISBNs – usually very few articles listed
      • Wikipedia:List of pages with Invalid ISBNs – stubborn cases
  • Other:
    • Template:Gutenberg – for creating a link to a book source available at Project Gutenberg
• Bootcamp: see Wikipedia:New contributors' help page

Shortcut: WP:EIW#Bot

• Bots: (see also Tools, User scripts)
  • Wikipedia:Bot policy
  • Wikipedia:Bots/Frequently denied bots
  • m:Bot policy
  • Wikipedia:Types of bots (not maintained)
  • Wikipedia:History of Wikipedia bots (very sketchy/dated)
  • Creating:
    • Wikipedia:Creating a bot
    • m:Using the python wikipediabot
    • Creating MediaWiki bots in PHP – includes BasicBot
  • Wikipedia:Bot requests (WP:BOTREQ) – requests to existing bot owners; questions about possible new bots, requests for assistance in creating or improving a bot, etc.
  • Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval
  • Special:Log/makebot
  • Wikipedia:Registered bots (inactive/historical list of active bots)
  • Category:Wikipedia bots
  • Special:Listusers – set to "Bots"; user accounts listed have been flagged as doing very low-risk edits
  • Wikipedia:Bot owners' noticeboard
  • Wikipedia:Bot Approvals Group
  • Template:Bots – template for user pages, to encourage or block (compliant) bots
  • Wikipedia:Requests for comment/Adminbots
  • Cumulative editing statistics for bots
• Bounty Board: Wikipedia:Bounty board (see also Wikipedia:Reward board)

Shortcut: WP:EIW#Browser

• Browsers (for Wikipedia editing): (see also Editing software)
  • Wikipedia:Browser notes
  • m:Browser issues with MediaWiki
  • Wikipedia:Tools/Browser tools
  • Wikipedia:Interfaces/External interfaces
  • User:Dinoguy1000/safeIEeditlinks.js – makes it safe to click on most links when editing a page in Internet Explorer (normally the links open in the same window, and any edits in progress are lost; this script forces a link to open in a new window)
  • AutoWikiBrowser: (WP:AWB) (a semi-automated Wikipedia editor, Windows only, typically used for vandal patrol or mass edits)

    Shortcuts: WP:EIW#AutoWi WP:EIW#AutoWikiBrowser

    • Wikipedia:AutoWikiBrowser
    • Category:AutoWikiBrowser
    • User:Kingbotk/Plugin – a set of AWB plugins (included with AWB version 4.1.0.0 on onwards)
  • Wikibrowser: part of the Wikipedia:WikiBrowse package
  • User:Cacycle/wikEd – wikEd, adds enhanced text processing functions to Wikipedia (also available as a gadget, under "my preferences")
  • m:WikiMonitor – fully functional web browser (beta, November 2007)
  • Wikipedia Explorer (beta in March 2007; still beta as of February 2008; requires .NET 3.0)
  • Wikipedia:Wikipedia Widget – for Mac OS X v10.4 or later
  • IndyWiki
  • Wikibench (pre-beta as of February 2008)
  • Extensions (add-ons) to standard browsers (other than for citations):
    • Wikipedia Toolbar – Firefox add-on:
      • Wikipedia:Wikipedia Toolbar
      • Source

Shortcut: WP:EIW#Bugs

• Bugs:
  • Wikipedia:Bug reports and feature requests
  • mediazilla: – MediaZilla Main Page
  • How to Report Bugs Effectively – recommended by MediaZilla

Shortcut: WP:EIW#Bureau

• Bureaucrats – folks who handle special, higher-level administrative tasks
  • Wikipedia:Bureaucrats
  • Wikipedia:Bureaucrats' noticeboard

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• Canonicalization – converting links to URLs
• Canvassing: see Messages

Shortcut: WP:EIW#CAPTCHA

• CAPTCHA:
  • Special:Captcha
  • MediaWiki:Captchahelp-text
  • reCAPTCHA:
    • reCAPTCHA MediaWiki Extension
    • WP:Perennial proposals#Use reCAPTCHA
    • Wikipedia:Village pump (proposals)/Archive 8#reCAPTCHA: adding titles to the Gutemberg Project (November 2007)
• Captions: see Images

Shortcut: WP:EIW#Cat

• Categories:
  • General information:
    • Wikipedia:Categorization – (WP:CAT) (guideline)
    • Help:Category
    • Wikipedia:FAQ/Categorization
    • Wikipedia:Naming conventions (categories)
    • Wikipedia:WikiProject Categories
    • Portal:Contents/Categorical index
    • Wikipedia:Categories, lists, and navigation templates (guideline) – comparing alternative approaches
    • Wikipedia:Overcategorization (guideline) – what types of categories are not good ones to create
    • Wikipedia:Classification – putting a set of links on category pages so readers can see the levels above the category
    • Wikipedia:Categories are different from articles (essay)
    • Wikipedia:Do not write articles using categories – do not add a category for every attribute of the subject of an article
    • Special:MostLinkedCategories – the categories that have the highest number of pages belonging to them
  • Listings of categories:
    • Special:Categories – alphabetical category listing
    • Category:Fundamental – fundamental categories
    • Special:CategoryTree – can generate a tree of categories, or categories and articles
    • User:Chris G Bot 2 – produces, for a given category, a table listing all articles within that category (and all subcategories of that category), and the status of those articles (a clone of User:PockBot, which is disabled)
    • CatScan
    • Wikipedia:Category types (failed proposal)
  • Possible problems with categories:
    • Wikipedia:Categories for discussion – page to discuss (and nominate) the deletion, merging, and renaming of categories (WP:CFD)
    • Wikipedia:Categorizing redirects – most redirects should not have a category on the redirect page
    • Wikipedia:Category deletion policy
    • Category:Lists that should be categories
    • Category:Underpopulated categories
    • Special:Wantedcategories – red link categories on pages
    • Special:Uncategorizedcategories – category pages without at least one parent category
    • Special:Unusedcategories – categories not used for any page
    • User:AKA MBG/Cycles – Where category A is a subcategory of B, and B is a subcategory of A (or more complicated than that)
    • User:TheDJ/Gadget-HotCat.js – user script that provides an easy way to add, modify and remove categories (also available as a gadget, under "my preferences")
  • Articles without categories:
    • Special:UncategorizedPages
    • User:Addbot – adds categories to uncategorized articles, using AWB
  • Intersection of two categories:
    • Wikipedia:Categorization#Searching for articles in categories – via the standard search box (doesn't search subcategories)
    • m:User:Duesentrieb/CatScan – CatScan 0 a tool that can do various types of category scans, including intersection (may or may not be using up-to-date version of database); can search subcategories
    • Wikipedia:Category intersection – a feature request
    • m:Help:DPL – a MediaWiki extension supporting intersections and other set operations of pages belonging to several categories
  • How articles are listed:
    • Template:DEFAULTSORT – specifies how an article will be listed on category pages (for example, an article on "F.M. Smith" could be listed as "Smith, F.M." on all category pages)
    • User:SmackBot – adds DEFAULTSORT to people-related article stubs
  • Keeping templates from creating categories when they shouldn't:
    • Category suppression in templates
  • Bots:

    Shortcut: WP:EIW#Catbot

    • Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Working#Bots – bots working on CFD results
    • User:Kbdankbot – CFD tasks such as emptying categories of articles and moving articles from one category to another
    • User:O bot – adds, removes, and moves/renames categories by request (approval)
    • User:Alaibot – cleans up redundant double-categorisation (where an article is in both a category and a parent of that category)
    • User:SoxBot – works on WP:CFD/W
    • User:RockfangBot – does speedy renames; empties or moves categories at WP:CFD/WU; processes categories with "and" results at WP:CFDWM
  • Hidden categories:
    • March 2008 Signpost article
    • Category:Hidden categories
  • Other:
    • bugzilla:6943 – Bug # 6943 – Magic word for number of items in a category
    • User:TheDJ/Gadget-HotCat.js – user script that makes it easy to add, modify and remove categories
    • User:Erwin/CatCount – provides a count of pages in any given category
    • User:Ais523/catwatch.js – for monitoring changes to the pages that are in a specified category
    • Category:Wikipedia categorization
    • Wikipedia:Template messages/Category namespace
    • In category since – tool to list all articles in a category that have been so since a specified date
    • mw:Extension:CategoryTree – describes <categorytree> tags that can be added to articles so that a category for that article can be viewed as a dynamic tree on that page. (Using the page Special:Categorytree is faster, unless the tags are permanent.)
    • Help:Job queue – why changing a category in a template doesn't instantly change all articles with that template
    • User:Proteins/followrandomlinkonpage.js – user script for following a random link from any page, including a category page
    • MediaWiki:Catseparator – symbol used to separate categories (can be modified by any admin)
    • User:Dr. Submillimeter/Humorous categories – unusual (and no longer existing) categories

Shortcuts: WP:EIW#Cen WP:EIW#Censor

• Censorship:
  • Wikipedia:What Wikipedia is not#Wikipedia is not censored
  • Wikipedia:No disclaimers in articles
  • Wikipedia:Profanity (Manual of Style)
  • m:Should Wikipedia Use Profanity
  • Wikipedia:Pornography (essay)
  • Wikipedia:Advice for parents (essay)
  • Wikipedia:WikiProject Wikipedians against censorship
  • Wikipedia:WikiProject Sexology and sexuality
  • MediaWiki:Bad image list
  • Wikipedia:Perennial proposals#Content warnings
  • Ways to set personal preferences so as to not see some or all images:
    • Wikipedia:Options to not see an image (alternative to censorship)
    • User:Mr.Z-man/badimages
  • Failed proposals:
    • Wikipedia:Offensive
    • Wikipedia:Graphic and potentially disturbing images
    • Wikipedia:Image censorship
    • Wikipedia:Sexual content

Shortcut: WP:EIW#Chapters

• Chapters:
  • foundation:Local chapters
  • Sub-national chapters Q&A (October 20, 2008)
• Characters (special): Help:Special characters
• Checkuser: see Sock puppets
• Children: see Privacy

Shortcut: WP:EIW#China

• China:
  • Wikipedia:Manual of Style (use of Chinese language)
  • Wikipedia:History standards for China-related articles
  • Portal:China
  • Wikipedia:Advice to users using Tor to bypass the Great Firewall
  • Help:Multilingual support (East Asian)

Shortcut: WP:EIW#Cite

• Citations:
  • Within articles: see Sources
  • If others want to cite Wikipedia: Wikipedia:Citing Wikipedia
• Civility: see Personal attacks
• Classes: see Learning (for classes of editors, see User rights)
• Cleanup: see Maintenance, Quality of articles
• Clerks: see Functionaries
• Coaching: see Learning

Shortcut: WP:EIW#Collaboration

• Collaborations: (see also WikiProjects)
  • Wikipedia:Collaborations
  • Template:COTWs – collaborations of the week
  • Category:Wikipedia collaborations
  • Wikipedia:WikiProject Reference Desk Article Collaboration
  • Wikipedia:Spotlight

Shortcut: WP:EIW#Collapsing

• Collapsing:
  • m:Help:Collapsing
  • Wikipedia:NavFrame – dynamic navigation (series) boxes (collapsible – hide/show)

Shortcut: WP:EIW#Collect

• Collections (books)
  • m:Book tool
  • Wikipedia:Books – books created by the community
  • Help:Books
  • Special:PrefixIndex/Wikipedia:Books/ – the list of community books
  • Category:Wikipedia:Books
  • "Books extension enabled" (Signpost article, March 2009)
  • mw:Extension:Collection – organizing a personal selections of pages into a collection
• Colon trick: Help:Colon trick

Shortcut: WP:EIW#Comic

• Comics and comic books:
  • Wikipedia:WikiProject Comics/copyright (guideline)
  • Wikipedia:Naming conventions (comics) (guideline)
  • Wikipedia:Notability (web) (guideline) (includes webcomics)

Shortcut: WP:EIW#Common

• Common sense: (see also Process)
  • Wikipedia:Ignore all rules (WP:IAR) (policy)
  • Wikipedia:What "Ignore all rules" means
  • Wikipedia:Suggestions on how to ignore all rules (essay)
  • Wikipedia:Ignoring all rules - a beginners guide (essay)
  • Wikipedia:Interpret all rules (essay)
  • m:Don't be a dick
  • Wikipedia:Use common sense (essay)
  • Wikipedia:There is no common sense (essay) – Base your argument on existing agreements, foundation issues and the interests of the encyclopedia, not your own common sense.
  • Category:Wikipedia process discussions

Shortcut: WP:EIW#Commons

• Commons (Wikimedia Commons):
  • Wikipedia:Wikimedia Commons – has over three million media files (photographs, diagrams, animations, music, spoken text, video clips, etc.) available for use in any Wikimedia (community) project, to which anyone can contribute; recommended place to upload free images to, rather than to Wikipedia
  • Commons:Welcome
  • Wikimedia Commons - manual that provides the essential information for people interested in contributing their own work to Wikimedia Commons
  • Wikipedia:Commons categories (WP:CC) (guideline)
  • Mayflower – searching the Commons
  • Commons:Commons:Tools
  • Manual for new Commons users (at en.flossmanuals.net)
  • Uploading:
    • Commons:Commons:Tools#Upload media
    • Commons:Commons:Tools/Commonplace – Windows/Linux program for drag-and-drop uploading
    • Upload image – tool to upload images from Flickr
  • Moving images to (from Wikipedia):

    Shortcut: WP:EIW#MoveToCommons

    • Wikipedia:Moving images to the Commons
    • Wikipedia:WikiProject Images and Media/Commons
    • CommonsHelper – tool to generate an image description to copy-and-paste for the commons upload form (formerly called "Move-to-commons assistant")
    • User:Krimpet/CommonsHelper Helper – user script that adds a button to easily bring up CommonsHelper
    • User:MonoBot – fixes (some) problems when an editor doesn't do a move to Commons totally correctly
    • Duplicate images – tool to show duplicate files between Wikipedia and Commons
    • Push-for-commons – tool to show a set of images from a wikipedia, helping to find license problems, {{NowCommons}} candidates, and images that should be copied/moved to the commons.
  • RSS feeds:
    • Category-based feed (for newly added images)
    • Media file of the Day
  • Other:
    • Category:Wikimedia Commons administrators – English Wikipedia editors who are admins at the Commons
    • m:User:CommonsDelinker – bot that removes links from Wikipedias (all languages) when an image is deleted at Commons
    • Commons interface for the iPhone
    • Flickr-like interface to Commons (no logins or uploads)
    • Commons sum-it-up – tool to generate a summary text for pages on Commons, using Wikipedia articles in different languages
    • Browse Flickr images
• Communications (communicating with other editors): see Messages
• Community: see Wikipedia as community
• Community portal: Wikipedia:Community portal (see also Wikipedia as a community)

Shortcut: WP:EIW#Company

• Companies and organizations:
  • Wikipedia:FAQ/Organizations
  • Wikipedia:Companies, corporations and economic information ((Manual of Style)
  • Wikipedia:Notability (organizations and companies) (guideline)
  • Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Common outcomes#Companies
  • Wikipedia:Naming conventions (companies) (guideline)
  • Wikipedia:Contact us/Article problem/Factual error (from enterprise) – what to do when an individual who owns or represents a business or other organization has a problem with an article about that organization
  • Portal:Business and economics

Shortcut: WP:EIW#Compete

• Competitors, forks, and mirrors:
  • Wikipedia:Mirrors and forks
  • m:Mirror filter – Firefox extension which removes sites which mirror Wikimedia content from Google search results
  • Potential resources:
    • Category:Online encyclopedias
    • Citizendium – vetted volunteers (articles that originated in part at Wikipedia are GFDL) (July 2007 analysis in the Signpost)
    • New World Encyclopedia – paid editors (funded by Unification Church through February 2008) (all GFDL)
    • Medpedia (GFDL) (in preview mode as of July 2008)
    • Google "knols" (units of knowledge) – announced December 2007, launched July 2008 (license compatibility unclear)
• Conflicts of interest: (see also Biographies)
  • Wikipedia:Conflict of interest (WP:COI) (guideline)
  • Wikipedia:Conflict of interest/Noticeboard – reporting cases of conflict of interest policy not being followed
  • {{Request edit}} – for talk page postings; related: Category:Requested edits
  • Automation:
    • User:COIBot
    • User:AlexNewArtBot/COISearchResult – new articles that appear likely to be conflict of interest cases
    • Wikipedia Scanner – identifies anonymous IP edits from user-specified organizations (Wired magazine story, August 2007)
  • Wikipedia:Suggestions for COI compliance (essay)
  • User:Charles Matthews/Conflict of interest (essay)
  • "The Right Way To Fix Inaccurate Wikipedia Articles", searchengineland.com, August 7, 2007 (article by a Wikipedia editor)

Shortcut: WP:EIW#Congress

• Congress: edits by Congressional staffers:
  • Wikipedia:Congressional staffer edits
  • U.S. House of Representatives rule against use of government equipment for political purposes

Shortcut: WP:EIW#Consensus

• Consensus and voting:
  • Wikipedia:Consensus (WP:CON) (policy)
  • Wikipedia:Consensus#Consensus can change (WP:CCC)
  • Wikipedia:Arbitration Committee/June 2008 announcements/Consensus seeking processes
  • m:Power structure
  • Wikipedia:Elections
  • Wikipedia:Requests for comment
  • m:Polling is evil
  • Wikipedia:What Wikipedia is not#Wikipedia is not a democracy
  • Wikipedia:Polling is not a substitute for discussion (guideline)
  • Wikipedia:Canvassing (WP:CANVAS) (guideline)
  • Wikipedia:Voting is not evil (essay)
  • Wikipedia:Times that 100 Wikipedians supported something
  • Wikipedia:Delegable proxy (failed proposal)
  • Wikipedia:Straw polls (failed proposal)
• Conservapedia: Wikipedia vs. Conservapedia Bookmarklet
• Conservation: Wikipedia:Conservation status (categories) (Manual of Style)
• Content (how-to): see Content disputes, Edits (in general), New articles, Style (articles)
• Content disclaimer: Wikipedia:Content disclaimer

Shortcut: WP:EIW#Dispute

• Content disputes: (see also Consensus, Controversial articles, Disruptive editing, Neutral point of view, Personal attacks)
  • General policies and guidelines: (in addition to WP:NOR, WP:V, WP:NPOV, etc.)
    • Wikipedia:Dispute resolution (WP:DR) (policy) – overview of the process
    • Wikipedia:Ownership of articles (WP:OWN) (policy) – no editor "owns" the content of an article; the only way that an editor can properly prevent his/her words from being edited is to not put them into a Wikipedia article in the first place
    • Wikipedia:Controversial articles (Manual of Style)
    • Wikipedia:Etiquette (WP:EQ) (guideline) – how to work with others on Wikipedia
    • Wikipedia:Editing policy#Preserve information (WP:PRESERVE) (policy) endeavour to preserve content
    • Wikipedia:Arbitration Committee/June 2008 announcements/Skilled content warriors
    • Wikipedia:Scientific standards (proposal as of August 2008)
  • Reverts and other disagreements:
    • Wikipedia:BOLD, revert, discuss cycle – Boldly edit, revert once, discuss – an essay on reaching consensus
    • Wikipedia:Disputed statement (guideline)
    • Wikipedia:NPOV dispute – how-to guidance
    • Wikipedia:Three-revert rule (WP:3RR) (policy) – repeated edits can get a user account blocked (typically, for 24 hours)
    • Wikipedia:Edit war (policy)
    • Wikipedia:Burden of evidence (failed proposal)
    • Wikipedia:Accuracy dispute
    • Wikipedia:Uphill Battles (essay)
    • Wikipedia:Disruptive editing (guideline)
    • Wikipedia:Lamest edit wars
    • Wikipedia:Other stuff exists#Precedent in usage (essay)
    • Wikipedia:Don't overuse shortcuts to policy and guidelines to win your argument (essay)
  • Possible solutions:
    • Wikipedia:Staying cool when the editing gets hot (essay)
    • Wikipedia:Forgive and forget (essay)
    • Wikipedia:No angry mastodons (essay)
    • Wikipedia:Don't be a fanatic (essay)
    • Wikipedia:Truce (essay)
    • Wikipedia:Harmonious editing club
    • m:How to win an argument
    • Wikipedia:A nice cup of tea and a sit down
    • Wikipedia:Drop the stick and back slowly away from the horse carcass (essay)
  • Processes for resolving (when informal discussions fail)
    • Wikipedia:Dispute resolution – official policy (overview)
    • Wikipedia:New admin school/Dealing with disputes
    • Category:Wikipedia dispute resolution
    • Wikipedia:Editorial Council (proposal as of August 2008)
    • Post at Wikipedia:Wikiquette alerts
    • Ask for a third opinion: Wikipedia:Third opinion – for relatively obscure pages (rule: only two parties involved).
    • Requests for comment:
      • Wikipedia:Requests for comment
      • Wikipedia:RFC/How to present a case (essay)
    • Mediation:
      • Wikipedia:Mediation (policy)
      • Wikipedia:Requests for mediation – formal mediation
      • Wikipedia:Community enforceable mediation – experimental alternative (began March 2007, marked historical/inactive December 2007)
      • Wikipedia:Mediation Cabal – informal mediation
  • Other:
    • Wikipedia:Working group on ethnic and cultural edit wars (final report was August 2008)
    • Wikipedia:Requests for remedies (failed proposal)
• Content notes: see Notes

Shortcut: WP:EIW#Contro

• Controversial articles: (see also Content disputes)
  • Wikipedia:Controversial articles (Manual of Style)
  • Wikipedia:List of controversial issues

Shortcut: WP:EIW#Conver

• Conversion:
  • Converting page content from one format to another: see Exporting (a page), Importing
  • Converting one unit of measurement into another: see Units of measurement

Shortcut: WP:EIW#Copy

• Copyright: (see also Legal)
  • In general:
    • Wikipedia:FAQ/Copyright
    • Wikipedia:Copyrights (policy)
    • Wikipedia:Image use policy
    • Wikipedia:Non-U.S. copyrights (guideline)
    • Wikipedia:Media copyright questions – a place to get help and answers
  • Fair use, non-free use, and public domain:
    • foundation:Resolution:Licensing policy – requires all Foundation projects to create a "Exemption Doctrine Policy (EDP)" for fair use media.
    • Wikipedia:Non-free content criteria (WP:FUC) (policy)
    • Wikipedia:Non-free content (guideline)
    • Wikipedia:Non-free content criteria compliance (proposal as of March 2008)
    • Wikipedia:Non-free use rationale guideline (guideline)
    • Wikipedia:Public domain (guideline)
    • Dispatches: Reviewing non-free images – Signpost article, September 2008
    • m:Avoid Copyright Paranoia – discussion
    • Wikipedia:WikiProject Images and Media/Non-free
  • Avoiding problems:
    • Wikipedia:Image copyright tags
    • Template:USAtags – copyright tags for U.S. images (mostly for U.S. government images)
    • Wikipedia:Requesting copyright permission
    • Wikipedia:Example requests for permission
    • Wikipedia:Donating copyrighted materials
  • Problems:
    • Wikipedia:Contact us/Article problem/Copyright – if an article is using copyrighted content without permission
    • Wikipedia:Copyright violations (WP:COPYVIO) (policy)
    • Wikipedia:Spotting possible copyright violations
    • Wikipedia:Copyright problems
    • Category:Wikipedian copyright problem patrollers
    • Wikipedia:Copyright violations on history pages – dealing with prior versions of an article that have copyright violations and are accessible via history pages
    • foundation:Designated agent – for notification of claimed infringement
    • Wikipedia:Possibly unfree files
    • Wikipedia:Files for deletion
    • Categories for problem images:
      • Category:Wikipedia files with unknown copyright status
      • Category:Wikipedia files with unknown source
      • Category:Wikipedia files with no non-free use rationale
      • Category:Wikipedia files with no copyright tag
    • Bots to find problems:
      • Text:
        • User:Non-Free Content Compliance Bot
        • User:CopyvioHelperBot
      • Images:
        • User:BetacommandBot
        • User:718 Bot – creates lists of images tagged with disputed fair use rationales, sorted by date and type
        • User:AWeenieBot – creates lists of images tagged with disputed fair use rationales, sorted by type and number of times used
        • User:ImageTaggingBot – inspects newly-uploaded images for ones lacking source information, a license tag, or a fair-use rationale if one is needed; tags as necessary
        • User:STBotI – tags images for relatively speedy deletion
        • User:BJBot – tags orphaned images as such; notifies originator of problem
        • User:Erwin85Bot – removes Template:Di-orphaned fair use from pages that are not orphans
        • User:SoxBot VIII – removes fair use images from outside of article space, removes tags from non-orphaned images (replaced User:ImageBacklogBot)
        • User:John Bot II – tags images that lack adequate copyright information
        • User:FairuseBot – does tagging of problematic fairuse images
    • Wikipedia:Suspected copyright violations – where a bot places pages (and URLs) of suspected problems
  • Using Wikipedia content:

    Shortcut: WP:EIW#Reusing

    • Wikipedia:Reusing Wikipedia content (policy)
    • Commons:Commons:Reusing content outside Wikimedia
    • Wikipedia:Verbatim copying (essay)
    • GNU Free Documentation License
      • Text at Wikipedia:Text of the GNU Free Documentation License)
      • "GFDL 1.3 released, will allow Wikimedia migration to Creative Commons license" (Signpost article, November 2008)
    • Proposal to license Wikimedia material so it is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike license (CC-BY-SA)
      • m:Licensing update/Questions and Answers
      • m:Licensing update(voting to start April 2009)

Shortcut: WP:EIW#Count

• Counts (of edits, for an editor): (for counts of edits for a page, see History (of a page); for counts of views, see Page views)
  • Wikipedia:Edit count
  • Wikipedia:Tools#Edit counters
  • Wikipedia:WikiProject edit counters
  • Wikicheck]
  • Milestone – finds the nth edit of an editor
  • User:Henrik/live-edit-counter – continuously updated edit counter (userbox)
  • User:Interiot/EditCountOptIn
  • Wikipedia:List of Wikipedians by number of edits
  • Wikipedia:Editcountitis – an essay
• Creating articles: see New articles

Shortcut: WP:EIW#Cred

• Credentials:
  • Wikipedia:There is no credential policy – Wikipedia has no policy on whether credentials should either be disregarded or verified
• Criticism of Wikipedia: see Encyclopedia, Criticism (of)

Shortcut: WP:EIW#Current

• Current events: (see also News about Wikipedia)
  • Wikinews (sister project)
  • Portal:Current events
  • Wikipedia:How the Current events page works
  • As of:
    • Wikipedia:As of
    • Template:As of
    • Template:Cat ASOF
  • Template:Update after
  • Category:Wikipedia articles in need of updating
  • Wikipedia:Manual of Style (dates and numbers)#Precise language
  • Wikipedia:WikiProject Update Watch
  • Wikipedia:Current and future event templates
  • Wikipedia:Notability (news events) (proposal as of September 2008)

Shortcut: WP:EIW#Custom

• Customization: (see also Quickbar, Signatures)
  • Wikipedia:Customisation
  • Via "my preferences":
    • Special:Preferences
    • Help:Preferences
  • Via the Gadgets tab in "my preferences" – see Gadgets
  • Via JavaScript: see User scripts
  • Via Cascading Style Sheets (CSS):
    • Help:Cascading style sheets
    • Skins:
      • Wikipedia:Skin (trivial; probably should be a redirect)
      • m:Customization:Explaining skins
      • MediaWiki talk:Monobook.css – place to discuss changes to the Monobook skin (standard skin that editors get by default)
      • Different customizations of the way Wikipedia pages appear, downloadable from userstyles.org/styles/ (primarily for readers) (Firefox, Thunderbird, Flock, Mozilla Suite, SeaMonkey, and Songbird browsers only)
    • MediaWiki talk:Modern.css – bug reports and other comments for new (January 2008) Modern skin
    • Personal CSS:
      • mw:Gallery of user styles (a mix of MediaWiki-compatible skins, not selectable by editors, and personal css)
      • User:GeorgeMoney/UsefulCSS
      • User:Wolfgangbeyer/monobook.css – monobook.css optimized for color blindness
      • User:Trilobite/Tools – combination of CSS and JavaScript, with a note that "much of this is outdated"
    • Technical:
      • Help:User style
      • m:Help:Cascading style sheets
      • Wikipedia:Catalogue of CSS classes
      • Wikipedia:Useful styles
      • m:Customize page layout – should be at Mediawiki; how to rework standard page seen by all non-logged in readers
    • Editors who know CSS: Category:User css
• Cyrillic: Wikipedia:Naming conventions (Cyrillic)

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• Data download: see Downloading all of Wikipedia, Queries (database) (for individual pages, see Exporting (a page))
• Database query: see Queries (database)

Shortcut: WP:EIW#Dates

• Dates: (see also Current events)
  • Wikipedia:Manual of Style (dates and numbers)
  • Wikipedia:Naming conventions (numbers and dates)
  • Wikipedia:Manual of Style#Chronological items
  • m:Dynamic dates
  • Help:Calendar – code to include the image of a small '"calendar page", including a time display, on a Wikipedia page
  • Wikilinking of dates:
    • Wikipedia:Manual of Style#Dates
    • Wikipedia:Manual of Style (dates and numbers)#Date autoformatting
    • Wikipedia:Manual of Style (dates and numbers)/Date autoformatting (essay)
    • Wikipedia talk:Manual of Style (dates and numbers)/RFC: Unresolved date delinking and autoformatting issues (closes February 2009)
    • Wikipedia talk:Manual of Style (dates and numbers)/Archive D1#A new parallel syntax for autoformatting dates
    • Wikipedia:Date formatting and linking poll (March 2009)
    • bugzilla:4582 – Bug #4582 – provide preference-based autoformatting for unlinked dates
  • Wikipedia:Neutral point of view/BCE-CE Debate (failed proposal)
• "Daughter" articles: see Article size
• Decision-making: see Consensus and voting, Functionaries, Wikimedia Foundation

Shortcuts: WP:EIW#Delete WP:EIW#Del

• Deletion: (see also Categories for deletion of categories, Redirect for deletion of redirects, etc.) (for articles, see Deletion of articles, immediately below)
  • Wikipedia:Deletion process (WP:DP) (guideline)
  • Template:deletiontools (for one's user page)
  • Wikipedia:Levels of deletion
  • Wikipedia:Introduction to deletion process (essay)
  • Wikipedia:Deletion discussions
  • Wikipedia:Deletion guidelines for administrators (WP:DGFA) (guideline)
  • Wikipedia:WikiProject Deletion
  • Category:Wikipedia deletion

Shortcut: WP:EIW#AfD-etc

• Deletion of articles: (see also Deletion)
  • Policies, general criteria, and examples: (see also Notability)
    • Wikipedia:List of policies#Deletion: policies about deletion
    • Wikipedia:Deletion policy
    • Wikipedia:List of bad article ideas
    • Wikipedia:Search engine test (how-to)
    • Wikipedia:Give an article a chance (essay)
    • Wikipedia:New admin school/Deleting
    • Wikipedia:I wouldn't know him from a hole in the ground (essay)
    • Wikipedia:Deletion and deletionism
  • Alternatives to deletion:
    • Move to a sister project such as Wiktionary or Wikisource – see Transwiki
    • Wikipedia:Userfication – if article has potential for Wikipedia
    • Help:Merging and moving pages
    • Wikipedia:Redirect (guideline)
  • Types of deletion:
    • Blanking a page: see Wikipedia:No page blanks (guideline) (for articles)
    • Speedy deletion:

      Shortcut: WP:EIW#Speedy

      • Wikipedia:Criteria for speedy deletion (WP:CSD) (policy)
      • Tagging articles and notifying editors:
        • Wikipedia:WikiProject User scripts/Scripts/Easy db – adds tabs when viewing an article, for tagging for speedy deletion
        • User:CSDWarnBot – finds the creator of a tagged article and posts a warning on the user's talk page
      • Pending deletion: Category:Candidates for speedy deletion
      • Deletion:
        • User:Chairboy/csdhelper.greasemonkey.js – similar to AutoReason
    • Prod:

      Shortcut: WP:EIW#Prod

      • Wikipedia:Proposed deletion (WP:PROD) (policy) – five-day (countdown) process (no polling of opinions)
      • User:DumbBOT/ProdSummary – articles currently with "prod" templates
      • Wikipedia:WikiProject proposed deletion patrolling
      • User talk:Dycedarg/easyprod.js – user script to propose a page for deletion in one click, and (optionally) notify the author of the page as well
      • User:BJBot – informs major/recent editors of an article that a {{prod}} template has been posted to that article
      • Category:Proposed deletion
    • Formal deletion process (AfD discussions):

      Shortcut: WP:EIW#AfD

      • Wikipedia:Guide to deletion – information on the process
      • Wikipedia:Repeated AfD nomination limitation policy – failed proposal to limit the number of times an article can go through the AfD process
      • Wikipedia:AfD categories
      • Wikipedia:WikiProject Deletion sorting – AfDs organized into topical lists
      • User:Jayden54Bot – bot that notifies creator of article that it has been submitted to AfD process (approved January 2007) (inactive as of May 2009)
      • User:BJBot – informs major/recent editors of an article that it has been submitted to AfD process
      • Wikipedia:Perennial proposals#Numerical rules for WP:AFD
      • Wikipedia:Perennial proposals#All authors must be notified of deletion
      • Current AfDs:
        • Wikipedia:Articles for deletion (AfD) – shows how to create a new AfD, links to current AfDs
        • Wikipedia:Articles for deletion#Current discussions – articles proposed for deletion in the past five or so days via the AfD process
      • Tools for participation:
        • Wikipedia:Quicker access to votes for deletion – JavaScript bookmarklet
        • User:Jnothman/afd helper – makes voting on an AFD a one-click process (user script)
        • User:Nixeagle/WikiDiscussion Manager – Windows-based application that assists editors with participation in AfD discussions
        • User:Jayden54/AFD Organizer – Windows-based application that provides a set of tools for participating in AfD discussions
      • Arguments and expectations:
        • User:Mangojuice/Slave (essay) – don't ask administrators to do large amounts of work under the guise of a deletion debate
        • Wikipedia:Help, my article got nominated for deletion! (essay)
        • Wikipedia:Arguments to avoid in deletion discussions (essay)
        • Wikipedia:Other stuff exists (essay)
        • Wikipedia:Pokémon test (essay) (marked as "historical")
      • Closing:
        • Wikipedia:Non-admin closure (essay)
        • Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Common outcomes
        • Wikipedia:Speedy keep – closing a discussion early and keeping the article
        • Wikipedia:WikiProject User scripts/Scripts/CloseAFD.js
        • What an administrator won't do upon closing:
          • User:Mangojuice/Slave (essay)
          • Wikipedia:Closing Administrator is not an Edit on Demand Service (essay)
  • After an article is deleted:

    Shortcut: WP:EIW#Postmortem

    • Deletionpedia – An automated bot uploads pages to this website as they are deleted from Wikipedia.
    • Wikipedia:Viewing and restoring deleted pages
    • Wikipedia:Arbitration Committee/June 2008 announcements/Activation of view-deleted-pages – request that the community consider giving selected regular editors the ability to view deleted pages
    • Wikipedia:Deletion policy#Courtesy blanking (WP:CBLANK) (guideline) (blanking of the AfD discussion due to privacy issues)
    • Wikipedia:Protection policy#Creation protection (WP:SALT) – "padlocking" or "salting the earth" to protect against further re-creation of deleted pages without prior admin approval
    • Wikipedia:Why was my page deleted?
    • Wikipedia:Deletion review – appeals to restore pages that have been deleted or delete pages which were closed as "keep" in an AfD discussion (WP:DRV)
    • Getting a copy of a deleted article put into one's user space, where it can be improved before going into the article namespace again:
      • Wikipedia:Deletion review#Content review
      • Category:Wikipedia administrators who will provide copies of deleted articles
      • Wikipedia:New admin school/Protecting deleted pages
      • Wikipedia:New admin school/Viewing deleted pages
    • Finding why an article was deleted:
      • Special:Log/delete – deletion log, searchable by article name or user who created the article (alternatively, type the article name (exactly), click "Create the page" when the search fails, and then look for deletion log information)
      • Discussions (if deletion was by AfD) can be found at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Name of Article, Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Name of Article (second nomination), etc. (alternatively, use Special:Prefixindex, in the Wikipedia space, searching on "Articles for deletion/Firstlettersofarticlename")
  • Proposals that the contents of deleted articles should still be accessible:
    • Wikipedia:Perennial proposals#Deleted pages should be visible
    • Wikipedia:Village pump (proposals)/Persistent proposals/Straw poll for view-deleted - proposal, September 2008, that at least some editors should be able to view some types of deleted pages, other than admins
    • Wikipedia:Viewing of deleted articles by non-administrators (historical)
    • Wikipedia:Experimental Deletion (inactive)
    • Wikipedia:Pure wiki deletion system (dormant)
  • Other:
    • Wikipedia:Article Rescue Squadron
    • Wikipedia undelete (user script) – lists versions of a deleted article that are available at archive.org, plus information on why an article was deleted
    • User:Lenticel/Deletion isn't Evil (essay)
    • User:Mailer diablo/The Mailer Diablo Deletion Project
    • Wikipedia:Transparent deletion (essay)
    • Wikipedia:AFD 100 days – June–September 2005 computer-assisted evaluation
    • Age of Wikipedia articles at the time of deletion – data for November 2005, February 2006, and September 2007
    • User:Emijrp/Statistics#Most deleted ever
    • User:Emijrp/Deleting – statistics, January 2005 to September 2007
• Deletionist: see m:Deletionism
• Diagrams: see Graphics

Shortcut: WP:EIW#Dict

• Dictionary:
  • Wikipedia:Wikipedia is not a dictionary (policy)
  • For Wiktionary, see also wikt:Main Page
  • Another alternative: Urban Dictionary
  • WikiLook – Firefox add-on that provides Wiktionary information about any word on a screen, when specially selected (shift or highlight plus mouse move)
• Diff: see History (of a page)

Shortcut: WP:EIW#Directory

• Directories: (see also Indexes)
  • Wikipedia:Department directory
  • Wikipedia:Quick directory
  • Wikipedia:Requests
  • Special:Specialpages – a list of special pages that are automatically generated and cannot be edited
  • User:Thunderhead/Bookmarks
  • Wikipedia:TourBusStop
  • "Toolsets":
    • Wikipedia:Starter toolset
    • Category:Wikipedia users' toolsets
    • Template:UsefulLinks
  • For readers more than for editors, but still useful:
    • Portal:Contents
    • Portal:Contents/Outline of knowledge

Shortcut: WP:EIW#Disambig

• Disambiguation (see also Moving a page, Naming an article)
  • Information about:
    • Wikipedia:Disambiguation (WP:DAB) (guideline)
    • Wikipedia:Manual of Style (disambiguation pages)
    • Wikipedia:Disambiguation and abbreviations (guideline)
    • Special:Disambiguations – pages that link to a disambiguation page and (probably) should link to an article instead
    • Wikipedia:Hatnote – a short note placed at the top of an article before the primary topic, generally to provide disambiguation of closely related terms or to summarize a topic, and explain its boundaries
  • List of pages:
    • Wikipedia:Links to (disambiguation) pages – list of page with "(disambiguation)" in title
    • Wikipedia:Links to disambiguating pages – list of pages marked as disambiguation pages
    • Wikipedia:Multiple-place names – index of disambiguation pages involving places
    • Wikipedia:Non-unique personal name – where Wikipedia has references to two or more persons with the same name
  • Problems:
    • Wikipedia:Disambiguation pages with links
    • Wikipedia:Disambiguation pages with links/Maintenance
    • Tools:
      • User:Anomie/linkclassifier.js – User script that changes the color of the wikilink to an article when that article is a redirect or disambiguation page or has been proposed for deletion at AfD
      • Wikipedia:WikiProject Disambiguation/fixer – CorHomo, downloadable program (pseudo-browser) (Linux only)
      • User:NicoV/Wikipedia Cleaner/Documentation – requires Java (version 6 recommended)
    • Bots:
      • User:Polbot – removes piped linking on disambiguation pages (function #5)
      • User:Commander Keane bot – automated bot for disambiguation
      • User:RussBot – automated bot for disambiguation
  • Templates:
    • mw:MediaWiki:Disambiguationspage – list of templates that categorize disambiguation pages as such (e.g., {{Geodis}})
    • Category:Disambiguation and redirection templates
    • Template:Otheruses
    • Wikipedia:Otheruses templates (example usage)
  • Other:
    • Wikipedia:WikiProject Disambiguation
    • Wikipedia:Disambiguation pages aren't articles (essay) – that they are, in most cases, treated like article pages is a posted bug – see bugzilla:6754, not a feature
    • Category:Disambiguation

Shortcut: WP:EIW#Disclaim

• Disclaimers:
  • Wikipedia:General disclaimer
  • Wikipedia:Legal disclaimer
  • Wikipedia:Content disclaimer
  • Wikipedia:Medical disclaimer
  • Wikipedia:Risk disclaimer
  • Wikipedia:No disclaimers in articles (WP:NDT)
  • Wikipedia:Non-Wikipedia disclaimers – examples from other information providers
  • Category:Wikipedia disclaimers
• Discussion pages: see Talk pages
• Disputes: see: Content disputes, Personal attacks

Shortcut: WP:EIW#Disrup

• Disruptive editing (see also Content disputes, Enforcement, Personal attacks)
  • Wikipedia:Disruptive editing
  • Wikipedia:Tendentious editing (essay)
  • Wikipedia:Do not disrupt Wikipedia to illustrate a point (WP:POINT)(guideline)
  • Wikipedia:Harassment (WP:HAR) (guideline)
  • Wikipedia:Requests for comment/User conduct – requires two or more editors to have posted warnings about another editor
  • Wikipedia:Wikipedia is not therapy (essay)
  • Wikipedia:Don't Feed the Divas (essay)
  • Wikipedia:User RFC reform (inactive/historical)

Shortcut: WP:EIW#Download

• Downloading all of Wikipedia: (see also Mobile access, Queries (database); for downloading individual pages, see Exporting (a page))
  • Pre-packaged:
    • June 2006 ("official" version)
    • Wikipedia:TomeRaider database
      • Most recent version – £3.00 requested payment; includes £1 donation to the Wikipedia Foundation [sic]
      • Slightly older English version (free)
    • Wikipedia-iphone – complete download for iPhone or iPod Touch
    • Infodisiac downloads (for Windows Mobile/Pocket PC, regular Windows O/S, and Palm)
    • Webaroo – download of all Wikipedia articles as a set of web pages, for off-line reading (not recommended – horribly out-of-date)
  • Do-it-yourself:
    • Wikipedia:Database download
    • Wikimedia Downloads – four types of downloads (was known as "Wikimedia dump service")
    • Wikipedia Static HTML Dumps
    • Wikipedia:FAQ/Forking – downloading all of Wikipedia plus the WikimMedia software to run it
    • Freebase Wikipedia Extraction (WEX) – processed dump of Wikipedia, with machine-readable XML and tabular extracts of relational features
    • Building a (fast) Wikipedia offline reader
    • Dbpedia downloads – structured information extracted from Wikipedia
    • Screencast: "How to install Wikipedia on your iPod Touch or iPhone!", February 8, 2008

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Shortcut: WP:EIW#EditCon

• Edit conflicts:
  • Help:Edit conflict – when two editors simultaneously edit the same page or section
  • Using an edit lock to prevent edit conflict:
    • Wikipedia:Edit lock (guideline) – asking other editors to let you do major edits undisturbed
    • Template:Inuse/doc
    • bugzilla:1510 – Bug #1510 – provide "edit warning" for pages when someone else has just started editing] – software change proposal
  • bugzilla:4745 – Bug #4745 – section edit conflict expands edit box to entire article – proposal to change MediaWiki software behavior when edit conflict involves only a section of a page

Shortcut: WP:EIW#EditSumm

• Edit summary:
  • Help:Edit summary
  • Wikipedia:Edit summary legend – commonly used abbreviations
  • Wikipedia:Edit summary legend/Quick reference
  • Wikipedia:Automatic edit summaries
  • Special:Preferences#prefsection-5 – has option for a prompt (message) when "save" is clicked but edit summary is blank
  • Wikipedia:WikiProject User scripts/Scripts/Force edit summary alternative – flashes a summary box rather than displaying a message that no edit summary was entered
  • bugzilla:10105 – Bug #10105 – Allow editing of edit summaries after the fact
  • Wikipedia:Perennial proposals#Automatically prompt for missing edit summary
• Edit wars: see Content disputes
• Editing: see Edits (in general)

Shortcuts: WP:EIW#EditSoft WP:EIW#Interface

• Editing interface (see also Browsers, Usability, User interface)
  • Tweaking the standard Wikipedia text editing window: see Edits (in general)
  • mw:Markup spec/ANTLR – general specifications for existing markup syntax
  • User:Magnus Manske/less edit clutter.js – interface change, via javascript, that puts references in a separate edit box (screenshot, mailing list discusion)
  • mw:Extension:Uniwiki Generic Edit Page - extension that replaces the default editing page of Mediawiki with a section-based editor (unimplemented)
  • Using an external editor:
    • Wikipedia:Text editor support
    • Help:External editors
    • Wikipedia:WikiProject User scripts/Scripts/External editor – adds a tab to easily invoke an external editor
    • Wikipedia:MozEx tutorial – how to use the MozEx extension of Mozilla and Mozilla Firefox to select a page editor
    • Wikipedia:Wikipedia-mode.el – Emacs
    • Eclipse Wikipedia Editor at SourceForge.net
  • WYSIWYG:

    Shortcut: WP:EIW#WYSIWYG

    • mw:WYSIWYG editor
    • Possible candidates:
      • FCKeditor:
        • FCKeditor integration guide
        • mw:Extension:FCKeditor (by FCKeditor and Wikia)
        • Demo site of the MediaWiki+FCKeditor project
      • Wikiwyg:
        • Demo of Wikiwyg for Wikipedia
        • mw:Extension:Wikiwyg
• Editor review: Wikipedia:Editor review – to request a review of one's editing
• Editors: see Wikipedia as a community

Shortcut: WP:EIW#Edits

• Edits (in general) (see also Edit summary, Editing software, Formatting of text, Help, New articles, New editors, Page revisions, Preview, Quality of articles, Sources)
  • Wikipedia:Wikipedia in brief
  • Wikipedia:Editing policy – official policy
  • Wikipedia:Introduction
  • Wikipedia:Tutorial (Editing)
  • Help:Editing
  • Standard editing screen:
    • Help:Edit toolbar
    • MediaWiki talk:Edittools
    • Modifying:
      • Wikipedia:Tools/Editing tools
      • Wikipedia:WikiProject User scripts/Scripts#Editing – user scripts that add search and replace, quick preview, and modifications to the edit toolbar
      • Custom edit buttons (information at Wikia, which uses the MediaWiki software that Wikipedia also uses)
  • Help:Editing FAQ
  • User:Uncle G/Wikipedia triage – a guide to "What to do" with problematical articles (nice categorization)
  • Wikipedia:How to edit a page – a pretty comprehensive discussion; best to read other information first
  • Wikipedia:How to copy-edit
  • Wikipedia:FAQ/Contributing
  • Wikipedia:FAQ/Editing
  • Wikipedia:Be bold
  • Wikipedia:Annotated article – an annotated article that explains various editing decisions, using a sample article
  • Wikipedia:Patent nonsense (guideline) – what to do with not-understandable content in an article
  • m:Help:Dummy edit – generally for the purpose of posting an edit summary
  • Category:Wikipedia editing
  • Enhancements for edit mode:
    • User:Zocky/Search Box – search and replace
    • mw:Extension:Drafts – adds the ability to save a draft of the edit of a page, on the server, while editing; also automatically saves edits in progress every 120 seconds

Shortcut: WP:EIW#Elect

• Elections (articles on):
  • Wikipedia:Articles on elections
  • Wikipedia:Candidates and elections (inactive)

Shortcut: WP:EIW#Email

• Email:
  • Help:Email confirmation
  • Wikipedia:E-mailing users
• Embedded citations: see Sources

Shortcut: WP:EIW#Enc

• Encyclopedia: (see also Fiction)
  • Wikipedia:Wikipedia is an encyclopedia (WP:ENC)
  • Wikipedia:What Wikipedia is not#Wikipedia is not a paper encyclopedia (WP:NOT#PAPER)
  • Wikipedia:External peer review – information on formal and informal reviews of the overall quality of Wikipedia articles, done by outside experts, not initiated within Wikipedia
  • Wikipedia:Size comparisons
  • Wikipedia:Wikipedia is a work in progress (WP:WIP) (essay)
  • Wikipedia:Fancruft (essay)
  • Criticism:

    Shortcut: WP:EIW#Critic

    • Criticism of Wikipedia
    • Wikipedia:Replies to common objections
    • Wikipedia:Why Wikipedia is not so great
    • User:Ta bu shi da yu/Global Politician – "six sins" of Wikipedia – a rebuttal
    • Wikipedia:Evaluating Wikipedia as an encyclopedia (essay)
    • Wikipedia:Wikipedia is succeeding (essay)
• Endnotes: see Sources

Shortcut: WP:EIW#Enforce

• Enforcement: (see also Administrators, Arbitration, Functionaries, Protection of pages)
  • General:
    • Wikipedia:List of policies#Enforcing policies: what action authorized editors can take to enforce other policies
    • Wikipedia:General sanctions
    • Wikipedia:Requests for administrator attention – a directory of places to request administrator help
    • Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard (WP:AN)
    • Wikipedia:Wikipedia:Arbitration/Requests/Enforcement
    • Wikipedia:Confidential evidence (inactive proposal)
  • Blocks: (see also Access (limiting))
    • Wikipedia:Blocking policy (WP:BLOCK)
    • Wikipedia:New admin school/Blocking
    • Wikipedia:Admins willing to make difficult blocks
    • Category:Wikipedia blocking
    • Category:User block templates
    • Special:Log/block – log of blocks
    • Wikipedia:Autoblock
    • Wikipedia talk:Per-article blocking – 2005 proposal; generally supported by community, not considered critical by developers
    • User:Emijrp/Blocking – statistics, December 2004 to September 2007
    • Blocking IP addresses:
      • Wikipedia:Blocking IP addresses
      • Wikipedia:IP block exemption (policy)
      • mw:Help:Range blocks
      • Template:Schoolblock
      • Special:Ipblocklist – List of currently blocked IP addresses and usernames (searchable)
      • m:Global blocking – new extension; implemented August 2008
    • Actions by blocked editors:
      • Wikipedia:Blocked users can edit their own talk page
      • Wikipedia:Appealing a block (policy)
      • Requesting unblocking via the Unblock-en-l mailing list
  • Bans:
    • Wikipedia:Banning policy
    • Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/Community sanction – forum to discuss community bans (began January 2007, ended October 2007)
    • Wikipedia:List of banned users
  • Other:
    • Wikipedia:Editing restrictions
    • Article probation:
      • Category:Articles on probation
• Esperanza: Wikipedia:Esperanza – a group of Wikipedia editors "dedicated to strengthening Wikipedia's sense of community"; created in September 2005, disbanded in January 2007

Shortcut: WP:EIW#Essay

• Essays:
  • Wikipedia:Policies and guidelines#Non-official essays or proposals
  • Wikipedia:Essays are not policy (essay)
  • Wikipedia:Don't cite essays or proposals as if they were policy (essay)
  • User:Montchav/Don't worry about writing essays (essay)
  • Category:Wikipedia essays

Shortcut: WP:EIW#Ethiopia

• Ethiopia:
  • Wikipedia:Manual of Style (Ethiopia-related articles)
  • Help:Multilingual support (Ethiopic)
• Etiquette: see Behavior

Shortcut: WP:EIW#Expert

• Experts: (see also Criticism (of Wikipedia))
  • Wikipedia:Expert retention (essay)
  • Category:Articles needing expert attention
  • Wikipedia:Expert rebellion
  • Wikipedia:WikiProject Expert Request Sorting – changes the general "expert-needed" category in articles to more specific subcategories

Shortcut: WP:EIW#Export

• Exporting (a page): (see also Downloading all of Wikipedia, Collections (books))
  • Help:Export
  • Special:Export
  • mw:Manual:Parameters to Special:Export
  • PDF:
    • [mw:Extension:PDF Writer]]
    • WikiPDF
    • Wikipedia:WikiReader#Resources
    • Mediawiki2pdf (shows sample Wikibooks url, but reportedly works for Wikipedia articles as well]
    • March 2008 analysis of options for Wikipedia's servers – by Brion Vibber, Wikipedia's chief developer
  • m:Alternative parsers – programs and projects to translate MediaWiki's text markup syntax into something else, such as HTML
  • Wikipedia:Wiki Markup Language (WKML) (historical)
• Extensions: see MediaWiki
• External links: see Sources, URLs

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• FAQs – see Help pages, or specific topics in this index

Shortcut: WP:EIW#Feature

• Featured content: (see also Valued content)
  • Wikipedia:New featured content
  • Portal:Featured content
  • Category: Wikipedia featured content
  • User:Rick Bot – bot that maintains various lists of featured content and featured content nominators
  • Articles: (see also Good articles, Main Page)
    • Wikipedia:Featured articles (WP:FA)
    • Wikipedia:Featured article criteria
    • Wikipedia:Featured article candidates
    • Wikipedia:Featured article review
    • Wikipedia:Today's featured article – history of what have been Main Page articles
    • Wikipedia:Featured article statistics
    • Dispatches: History of the featured article process (Signpost article, July 2008)
    • Wikipedia:Compare Criteria Good v. Featured
    • User:Feature Historian – sortable table of articles that are or were FAs
    • Advice on writing a FA:
      • User:Yannismarou/Ten rules to make an article FA (related Signpost tutorial)
      • User:Giano/A fool's guide to writing a featured article
      • User:Dweller/Dweller, on Featured Article Candidates
      • User:Tony1/How to satisfy Criterion 1a
      • Wikipedia:Featured Article Help Desk (inactive)
    • Increasing the number of FAs:
      • Wikipedia:One featured article per quarter – an informal project
      • Wikipedia:100,000 feature-quality articles (essay)
      • Wikipedia:Article Collaboration and Improvement Drive
      • Wikipedia:Stabilizing featured articles (inactive/historical)
    • Featured articles in other language versions of Wikipedia:
      • Wikipedia:Featured articles in other languages
      • Category:Wikipedia featured articles in other languages
      • Bots that add the template {{Link FA}} to articles that are featured in another Wikipedia (the template puts a gold star by the interlanguage link):
        • User:Muro Bot
        • User:LinkFA-Bot
    • Topics:
      • Wikipedia:Featured topics – a collection of inter-related articles that are of a good quality
      • Dispatches: Featured topics – Signpost article, September 2008
    • Other:
      • Random Featured article
      • Wikipedia:List of Wikipedians by featured article nominations
  • Featured content other than articles:
    • Lists:
      • Wikipedia:Featured lists
      • Wikipedia:List of Wikipedians by featured list nominations
    • Pictures:
      • Wikipedia:Featured pictures
      • Dispatches: Reviewing featured picture candidates (Signpost article, January 2009)
    • Portals:
      • Portal:Featured portals
    • Sounds:
      • Portal:Featured sounds
      • Dispatches: "Featured sounds" (Signpost article, May 2008)
      • Dispatches: "Hundredth Featured sound approaches" (Signpost article, February 2009)

Shortcut: WP:EIW#Fiction

• Fiction: (see also Films)
  • Wikipedia:Manual of Style (writing about fiction)
  • Wikipedia:Notability (fiction) (guideline)
  • Wikipedia:Television episodes (guideline)
  • Wikipedia:Manual of Style (anime- and manga-related articles)
  • Wikipedia:WikiProject Video games

Shortcut: WP:EIW#Film

• Films:
  • Wikipedia:Naming conventions (films)
  • Portal:Film
  • Wikipedia:IMDb (Internet Movie Database) – templates
  • The Movie Dude – user script that cross-links various movie related sites with Wikipedia
• Five pillars: Wikipedia:Five pillars

Shortcut: WP:EIW#Flag

• Flags: (as content, not database fields)
  • Wikipedia:Manual of Style (icons)
  • Wikipedia:WikiProject Flag Template
• Footnotes: see Sources
• Form (as input): Help:Inputbox (a MediaWiki extension to add predefined HTML forms to wiki pages)

Shortcut: WP:EIW#Format

• Formatting of text: (see also Exporting (a page))
  • How to:
    • Wikipedia:Manual of Style (text formatting) – bold, italics, underlines, etc.
    • Wikipedia:How to edit a page#Wiki markup
    • Help:Wikitext examples
    • m:Help:Reference card – one page summary of important MediaWiki editing commands, intended to be printed out
    • Help:HTML in wikitext
    • Wikipedia:Tutorial (Formatting)
    • Quick reference guides:
      • Wikipedia:Cheatsheet
      • Short, printable "cheatsheet" on Wikimedia Commons
    • Wikipedia:Manual of Style (command-line examples) – for articles on computer science, how to format words that an editor would type
    • Colors:

      Shortcut: WP:EIW#Color

      • Wikipedia:Colours (Manual of Style)
      • User:Trödel/Color chart (8-bit)
      • Wikipedia:WikiProject Color
  • Line breaks and word wrapping:
    • Wikipedia:Don't use line breaks (Manual of Style)
    • Wikipedia:Line break handling
    • Help:Newlines and spaces
  • Other:
    • Wikipedia:Manual of Style (titles) – scientific names, titles of books, etc.
    • Wikipedia:SUBTITLES (inactive proposal)
  • Discussion of MediaWiki's syntax:
    • Wikitext-l mailing list
    • Wikitext-l Archives
• Formulas: see Graphics
• Forum shopping: see Wikipedia:Spam#Forum shopping
• Foundation: see Wikimedia Foundation
• Frequently asked questions (FAQ): in general, see Help (general); also see specific topics

Shortcut: WP:EIW#Fun

• Fun:
  • Wikipedia:Department of Fun
  • Wikipedia:List of shortcuts/Project shortcuts#Department of fun
  • April Fool's Day:
    • Wikipedia:April Fool's Main Page – 2008
    • Wikipedia talk:April Fool's Main Page – 2009
  • Games:
    • Category:Wikipedia games
    • Wikigames at Wikia
  • Wikipedia:Wikipedia holidays

Shortcut: WP:EIW#Function

• Functionaries: (see also Enforcement)
  • User:NoSeptember/Functionaries
  • Category:Wikipedia functionaries
  • Wikipedia:User access levels
  • Special:Listusers – page where one can specify a type of functionary to get a list all editors in that group
  • Wikipedia:Global rights policy
  • Types:
    • Administrators: q.v.
    • Bureaucrats: q.v.
    • Checkusers: q.v.
    • Clerks:
      • Wikipedia:Arbitration Committee/Clerks
      • For usurpations: March 1, 2007 description
    • Oversight: q.v.
    • Stewards – the top-level administrative folks (note: stewards are selected via Meta rather than individual projects such as the English Wikipedia)
      • m:Stewards
      • m:Steward handbook
    • Wikipedia:Review Board (proposal as of December 2008) – panel of editors for independent review and monitoring of checkuser and oversight access and use, and to oversee the actions of the Arbitration Committee

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Shortcut: WP:EIW#Gadget

• Gadgets: (new tab, as of December 2007, on the "My preferences" page)
  • mw:Extension:Gadgets- a way for editors to pick JavaScript or CSS based "gadgets" that other Wikipedia editors have created, via "my preferences" (implemented December 2007)
  • mw:Gadgets-definition
  • Special:Gadgets – shows underlying scripts and CSS code used for each gadget
  • Wikipedia:Gadget (WP:GADGET) – lists the available gadgets on Wikipedia

Shortcut: WP:EIW#Gallery

• Galleries (see also Images)
  • Wikipedia:What Wikipedia is not#Wikipedia is not a free web host
  • Wikipedia:Gallery tag
  • Help:Images and other uploaded files#Gallery tag, category, table of images
  • Wikipedia:Galleries (failed proposal)
• Games: see Fun (for games within Wikipedia), Video games
• General disclaimer: Wikipedia:General disclaimer

Shortcut: WP:EIW#Geo

• Geocoding (graphic coordinates and mapping): (see also Maps)
  • Wikipedia:Obtaining geographic coordinates
  • Wikipedia:WikiProject Geographical coordinates
  • Geo microformat
  • Wikipedia-World – international co-ordination page for the multilingual usage and analysis of the geographical data collected in various projects
  • GeoPedia – provides iPhone owners with a Wikipedia feed customized to their current location
  • Mapping articles:
    • Placeopedia – connects Wikipedia articles with places
    • Google:
      • Google Maps has an option, under "More", to place markers showing Wikipedia articles
      • About the Google Earth Geographic Web Layer

Shortcut: WP:EIW#Gloss

• Gifs:
  • Wikipedia:Image use policy#Animated images
  • bugzilla:16451 – Bug # 16451 – GIF scaling limit should be applied to animated GIFs only
• Glossaries:
  • For terms used by Wikipedia editors, see Terms and terminology
  • For glossaries that are articles (content), see Portal:Contents/List of glossaries

Shortcut: WP:EIW#Good

• Good articles: (see also Featured articles)
  • Wikipedia:Good articles – the list
  • Wikipedia:Good article criteria
  • Wikipedia:Good article nominations
  • Wikipedia:Good article reassessment
  • Wikipedia:Good article statistics
  • Wikipedia:WikiProject Good articles
  • Wikipedia:Good Article Collaboration of the week
  • Random Good article
• Good faith: see Personal attacks

Shortcut: WP:EIW#Google

• Google:
  • Google Earth: see Maps
  • Google test: see Search engine test
  • Wikipedia:Google Web Accelerator – the accelerator should be disabled for the wikipedia.org domain
  • m:Mirror filter – Firefox extension which removes sites which mirror Wikimedia content from Google search results
  • The page where Google gets its description of Wikipedia – at dmoz.org
  • {{Google templates}} - a list of templates that generate links to various Google services (e.g. search, custom search, image search, language translation)

Shortcut: WP:EIW#Gothic

• Gothic:
  • Wikipedia:Gothic Keyboarding
  • Help:Gothic Unicode Fonts

Shortcut: WP:EIW#Graphic

• Graphics (see also Images)
  • Wikipedia:Graphics tutorials
  • Help:Displaying a formula – markup
  • Wikipedia:ASCII art conversion tool
  • Wikipedia:Chemical ASCII-art
  • Wikipedia:How to create graphs for Wikipedia articles
  • Wikipedia:Graphic Lab (aka "Graphics Lab")
  • Diagrams:
    • Greenspun Illustration Project:
      • Grant proposal (pdf)
      • m:Philip Greenspun illustration project
      • August 2008 announcement that Round 1 of the PGIP is open
    • Wikipedia:How to draw a diagram with Dia
    • Wikipedia:How to draw a diagram with Microsoft Word
  • Other:
    • mw:Extension:GraphViz
• Greek: Wikipedia:Naming conventions (Greek) (guideline)
• Guestbooks: see User pages
• Guidelines: see Policies and guidelines

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• Hardware: see Technical (hardware and software)
• Harassment (aka "Harassment"): see Personal attacks
• Harmony: Wikipedia:Harmonious editing club
• hCalendar microformat
  • Wikipedia:WikiProject Microformats
• hCard microformat
  • Wikipedia:WikiProject Microformats
• Hebrew:
  • Help:Hebrew
  • Wikipedia:Naming conventions (Hebrew) (guideline)
  • Category:Wikipedia Hebrew templates

Shortcut: WP:EIW#Help

• Help (directly requesting): (see also Questions)
  • Template:Helpme
  • Category:Wikipedians looking for help
  • Template:Adminhelp
  • Category:Wikipedians looking for help from administrators
  • Wikipedia:Help desk (WP:HD)
  • Wikipedia:Highly Active Users (WP:HAU) – request editing help from users who are currently online

Shortcut: WP:EIW#HelpPage

• Help pages: (for pages that are help-oriented for a specific topic, see that topic); see also Assistance (disputes), Learning, Questions
  • Help:Contents – help directory
  • Wikipedia:Help Page Patrol
  • Frequently asked questions:
    • Wikipedia:FAQ – includes 13 "general" FAQs
    • Nubio – "a repository of Frequently Asked Questions about Wikipedia"
    • Wikipedia:Village pump (technical)/FAQ
  • Categorized pages:
    • Category:Wikipedia help
    • Category:Wikipedia basic information
    • Category:Wikipedia FAQ
    • Category:Wikipedia how-to
  • Other:
    • Helpwiki – planned merger back into Wikipedia (February 2008)
• Hieroglyphs: Help:WikiHiero syntax

Shortcut: WP:EIW#History

• History (of a page):
  • Wikipedia:How to read an article history
  • Help:Page history
  • Wikipedia:Copyright violations on history pages
  • Wikipedia:WikiProject User scripts/Scripts/HistoryCount – user script that specifies the number of history entries on the history tab (without the script, 50 entries are shown when the tab is opened)
  • Wikipedia:WikiProject User scripts/Scripts/Six tabs – adds a history tab (and an edit tab) for the page that is paired with the page that is visible
  • Diffs:
    • Help:Diff
    • How-to guides:
      • Wikipedia:Simplest diff guide
      • Wikipedia:Simple diff and link guide
      • Wikipedia:Complete diff and link guide
    • Wikipedia:WikiProject User scripts/Scripts/Compare link – makes the "compare selected versions" button into a link (diffs can be in new windows, tabs, etc.)
    • Wikipedia:WikiProject User scripts/Scripts/Changes since I last edited – adds a tab that does a diff between the editor's last edit and the current version of a page
    • Enhancing the differences in diffs:
      • MediaWiki talk:Monobook.css/Archive 4#Better rendering for .diffchange in diff's...
      • User:Cacycle/wikEdDiff – user script – additions and deletions are highlighted by color in one continuous text
      • User:Js/diffs – another, different user script
  • Exporting: Special:Export
  • Deletions (hiding) of prior versions:
    • Wikipedia:Selective deletion – deletion by an admin; still visible to other admins
    • Oversight – hidden from admins as well
  • Tools:

    Shortcut: WP:EIW#HistTools

    • For content:
      • User:Stevage/EnhanceHistory.user.js – Collapses consecutive edits from the same person into one, integrates (shows) diffs on the history page
      • Who did what:
        • WikiBlame – searches for given text in versions of article
        • User:AmiDaniel/WhodunitQuery – Windows application that identifies the edit and user who added a specific word or phrase
        • Tools that use the database (not real time):
          • m:User:Jah/histfilter – Filters out reverted vandal edits, versions that don't affect a specific section, etc.
          • "wikipedia blame": October 2008 blog posting and 1450 articles processed using the code
    • For counts and major contributors:
      • WikiDashboard – when going to a new page, puts a count of top editors, and a histogram of edit activity, at the top of the page (Quick Guide)
      • Revision counter – counts revisions (edits)
      • Contributors – lists edits, similar to page history, but can be sorted by contributor; easy to exclude different groups
      • Wikipedia Page History Statistics – builds an edit history overview page
      • WikiChecker
      • Article Contribution Counter (beta) – tool that identifies major contributors to an article (a similar feature request is at bugzilla:7988)
    • Other:
      • User:AmiDaniel/SHM – Simple History Merge – Windows application (requires administrator privileges)
      • History Flow Visualization Application
      • Wikipedia Animate – user script; shows the evolution of a page, like a webcast
      • MediaWiki:Histlegend – text that appears at the top of a history page
      • WikiStalk - finds pages that have been edited by two or more specific users

Shortcut: WP:EIW#Hoax

• Hoaxes:
  • Wikipedia:Do not create hoaxes (guideline)
  • Category:Suspected hoax articles
  • User:Shii/Hoaxes – list of notable hoaxes
• House of Representatives (edits by staffers): see Congressional staffer edits
• How-to: Category:Wikipedia how-to (see also Help pages)

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Shortcut: WP:EIW#Image

• Images: (see also Censorship, Commons, Copyrights, Galleries, Graphics, Navigation)
  • General information:
    • Help:Images and other uploaded files
    • Help:Image page
    • Wikipedia:Picture tutorial
    • User:Smurrayinchester/Tutorial/Images
    • Wikipedia:Image use policy
    • Wikipedia:Media
    • Category:Wikipedia image help
    • Wikipedia:No 3D illustrations (Manual of Style)
    • Wikipedia:Ten things you may not know about images on Wikipedia
    • Wikipedia:Contact us/Photo submission – for individuals with biographies, or someone representing such an individual
    • Wikipedia:WikiProject Images and Media
  • Needed pictures:
    • Wikipedia:Image placeholders – inserting a request for an image into an article
    • Wikipedia:Requested pictures
    • Wikipedia:Photo Matching Service
    • Category:Wikipedia requested photographs
      • Template:Reqphoto
      • User:PhotoCatBot does some subcategorization
  • Resources (where to get images) (see also Commons):

    Shortcut: WP:EIW#ImgResources

    • Wikipedia:Finding images tutorial
    • Wikipedia:Public domain image resources
    • Wikipedia:Free image resources
    • Wikipedia:Wikipedians/Photographers
    • Wikipedia:Photo Matching Service
    • Free Image Search Tool
  • Before uploading:
    • Wikipedia:Preparing images for upload
    • Wikipedia:How to improve image quality
    • Wikipedia:How to reduce colors for saving a JPEG as PNG
    • Wikipedia:Basic bitmap image editing
  • Uploading: (see also Commons)
    • Wikipedia:Upload – wizard
    • MediaWiki:Uploadtext – warns about the need to specify the source of an upload, and copyright information
    • Wikipedia:Upload/Replace this image/People – uploading an image you created or own (not restricted to people)
    • Wikipedia:Image file names (guideline)
    • Wikipedia:Uploading images
    • Wikipedia:Image copyright tags
    • Special:Upload
    • Choosing a License – explanations of what the various Creative Commons options are
  • Displaying on a page:
    • Wikipedia:Manual of Style#Images
    • Wikipedia:Extended image syntax – options for displaying an image (size, right/left, etc.)
    • Captions:
      • Wikipedia:Captions (Manual of Style)
      • Wikipedia:Alternative text for images (Manual of Style)
      • Wikipedia:WikiProject Writing Captions (inactive)
    • Wikipedia:How to fix bunched-up edit links – if section edit links are being pushed down by floated images
    • Help:Image page
  • Featured and valued:
    • Wikipedia:Featured pictures
    • Wikipedia:Featured picture criteria
    • Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates
    • Wikipedia:Valued pictures
  • Improving images:
    • Wikipedia:Images for cleanup
    • Wikipedia:Graphic Lab/Image workshop (place to request assistance)
    • commons:Commons:Media restoration
    • "Dispatches: Vintage image restoration" (Signpost, March 2008)
    • commons:User:Durova/Encyclopedic image restoration
  • Problem images on Wikipedia: (other than Copyrights)
    • Deletion:
      • Wikipedia:Image use policy#Deleting images
      • Wikipedia:Guide to image deletion
      • Wikipedia:Files for deletion
    • Orphans:
      • Category:Orphaned non-free use Wikipedia files
      • Special:Unusedimages
      • Young Orphans – tool to find newly uploaded orphaned images (not functioning as of mid-October 2007)
    • Special:FileDuplicateSearch – search function for duplicate files in imagespace (duplicate images) (uses hash values)
    • Automation:
      • Bots:
        • User:ImageTaggingBot – inspects newly-uploaded images for ones lacking source information, a license tag, or a fair-use rationale if one is needed; tags as necessary
        • User:STBotI – tags images for relatively speedy deletion
        • User:BJBot – tags orphaned images as such; notifies originator of problem
        • User:ImageRemovalBot – removes images links from articles after an image has been deleted
        • User:OrphanBot – removes links to problematical images, from articles, so administrators can delete the images
        • User:Erwin85Bot – removes Template:Di-orphaned fair use from pages that are not orphans
        • User:ImageBacklogBot – removes fair use images from outside of article space, removes tags from non-orphaned images
        • User:John Bot II – tags images that lack adequate copyright information
        • User:FairuseBot – does tagging of problematic fairuse images
      • Other:
        • User:Howcheng/quickimgdelete.js – makes it easier to tag images and nominate images for deletion
        • LicenseToKill at SourceForge.net – Windows application that helps with image deletion tasks, including easy deletion of multiple files within a category or from a list
  • WikiProjects:
    • Wikipedia:WikiProject Illustration
    • Wikipedia:WikiProject Photography
    • Wikipedia:WikiProject Images and Media
  • Other: (see also Commons regarding moving images from Wikipedia to Commons)
    • Wikipedia:Template messages/Image namespace
    • Special:Newimages ("Gallery of new files") – images that have just been added to Wikipedia
    • Special:ListFiles – most recently uploaded files
    • Wikipedia:Options to not see an image – includes CSS modification to prevent display of images on specified pages
    • Template:External media – If an image or other media is available online, but cannot be uploaded to Wikipedia or the Commons, this template provides a referenced direct link
    • Special:Filepath – provides a URL to link directly to the current version of an image
    • bugzilla:7757 – Bug #7757 – allow cropping images when rendered – proposal to enable display of only part of an image

Shortcut: WP:EIW#Import

• Importing: (see also Tables)
  • Wikipedia:How to import articles
  • Microsoft Word documents:
    • Help:WordToWiki
    • m:Word Macros
  • Porting PDF files to MediaWiki (from Appropedia.org)
  • Wikipedia:Tools#Importing (converting) content from other formats to Wikipedia (MediaWiki) format – includes tools for converting Microsoft Word, Microsoft Excel, OpenOffice, HTML, LaTeX, and BibTeX information to the Wikipedia format
  • m:Help:Import – sysop-only import; disabled on the English Wikipedia project (related: user group "import")
• Inclusion: Wikipedia:Inclusion is not an indicator of notability (essay)

Shortcut: WP:EIW#Index

• Indexes: (see also Directories)
  • Of any namespace in Wikipedia:
    • Special:Allpages – select a starting point for browsing
  • Of articles only:
    • Portal:Contents/Quick index – click on a one-or-two character starting point to browse articles (also called "A–Z Index")
    • Portal:Contents/Categorical index
  • Of project (information/instructional) pages (other than this index itself):
    • Wikipedia:Index
  • Other:
    • m:Help-style indexing – uses keywords

Shortcut: WP:EIW#Indian

• Indian subcontinent:
  • Wikipedia:Naming conventions (Indic) (proposal as of June 2008)
  • Help:Multilingual support (Indic)
  • Wikipedia:Bangla script display help
  • Wikipedia:Kannada support
  • Portal:Bangladesh
  • Portal:India
  • Portal:Pakistan
  • Portal:Sri Lanka
• Indymedia: Wikipedia:Guide for Indymedia authors

Shortcut: WP:EIW#Infobox

• Infoboxes: (templates):
  • Wikipedia:Manual of Style (infoboxes)
  • Help:Infobox
  • Wikipedia:Manual of Style (infoboxes)
  • Category:Infobox templates
  • Wikipedia:WikiProject Infoboxes
  • Specialized:
    • Wikipedia:Chemical infobox
    • Taxonomy:
      • Wikipedia:Taxobox usage (Manual of Style)
      • Wikipedia:How to read a taxobox
  • Other:
    • Wikipedia:WikiProject Usability/Infobox accessibility
    • User:SmackBot – puts birth dates and death dates into standard formats inside infoboxes
• Inserting text from one page into another page – see Transclusion
• Instruction creep: see Policies and guidelines
• Instructional material: see Learning

Shortcut: WP:EIW#Interlanguage

• Interlanguage links: (see also Interwiki links, Translations)
  • Help:Interlanguage links
  • m:A newer look at the interlanguage link – essay about establishing a wiki as a hub for interwiki links
  • Wikipedia:WikiProject Interlanguage Links

Shortcut: WP:EIW#IRC

• Internet Relay Chat (IRC):
  • Wikipedia:IRC channels
  • Wikipedia:IRC tutorial
  • m:IRC/Channels
  • m:IRC Group Contacts – liaisons between Wikimedia and the staff of the freenode IRC network
  • m:IRC guidelines/wikipedia
  • Wikipedia:Scripts#IRC channel scripts
  • m:IRC channel cloaks
  • Wikipedia IRC help channel – a login page
  • Wikipedia:List of administrators/IRC nicknames
  • Wikipedia:IRC channels/Personal views regarding IRC – regarding use of the admin IRC channel
  • User:Chris G Bot 3 – IRC users can message the bot when they want the bot to set their status to online or offline
  • Essays:
    • User:Geogre/IRC considered (essay)
    • Category:User essays on IRC

Shortcut: WP:EIW#Interwiki

• Interwiki links: (see also Interlanguage links, Transwiki)
  • Wikipedia:Wikimedia sister projects (Manual of Style) – templates for links
  • Help:Interwiki linking
  • Wikipedia:InterWikimedia links
  • m:Interwiki map (links to non-WMF wikis)
  • Wikipedia:Linking to other wikis (proposal, February 2008)
  • Help:Custom namespaces – prefixes (like m:) that normally resolve into an interwiki
  • Bots to fix problems:
    • User:COBot
    • User:JL-Bot
• IP lookup: see Vandalism

Shortcut: WP:EIW#Ireland

• Ireland:
  • Wikipedia:Manual of Style (Ireland-related articles)
  • [Help:IPA for Irish]]
  • Portal:Ireland
• ISBN: see Books
• Islam: Wikipedia:Manual of Style (Islam-related articles)

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Shortcut: WP:EIW#Japan

• Japan/Japanese:
  • Wikipedia:Manual of Style (Japan-related articles)
  • Help:Japanese
  • Help:Japanese/Editing
  • Portal:Japan
  • Help:Multilingual support (East Asian)

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• Keyboard shortcuts: Wikipedia:Keyboard shortcuts

Shortcut: WP:EIW#Keyword

• Keywords:
  • m:Help-style indexing
  • Wikipedia:WikiProject Keywords
  • Wikipedia:Link intersection

Shortcut: WP:EIW#Korea

• Korea:
  • Wikipedia:Manual of Style (Korea-related articles)
  • Wikipedia:Naming conventions (Korean)
  • Portal:Korea
  • Help:Multilingual support (East Asian)

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• Languages: see Wikipedia:Naming conventions (languages), individual countries/languages, Translations

Shortcut: WP:EIW#LDS

• Latter Day Saints (Mormons):
  • Wikipedia:Manual of Style (Latter Day Saints)
  • Wikipedia:Naming conventions (Latter Day Saints)

Shortcut: WP:EIW#LaTex

• LaTex:
  • mw:Extension:WikiTeX (WikiTeX is a modular system for incorporating LaTeX objects with MediaWiki output)
  • m:Wikitex usability review

Shortcut: WP:EIW#Layout

• Layout and sections: (see also Table of contents) (for layout of the standard Wikipedia page, see Customization)
  • Wikipedia:Layout
  • Help:Section
  • Wikipedia:Manual of Style# Article titles, headings and sections
  • Wikipedia:How to fix bunched-up edit links
  • Lead section (aka "Top section", "First section", "Lead paragraph")
    • Wikipedia:Lead section
    • Wikipedia:Writing better articles#Lead section
    • Wikipedia:WikiProject Introductions
    • Wikipedia:WikiProject Lead section cleanup
    • Wikipedia:WikiProject User scripts/Scripts#Navigating to Edit page – several user scripts which make it possible to edit the lead section (section "0") without editing the entire article
  • Summary style (when articles or sections get too long) – see Article size
  • Wikipedia:Discuss and draft graphical layout overhauls (guideline) – does not apply to articles, portals, or most other pages
  • User:Anchor Link Bot – automatically adds a comment to section headers that are linked to from other articles

Shortcut: WP:EIW#Lead

• Lead section: see Layout and sections

Shortcut: WP:EIW#Learning

• Learning: (see also Help, Questions)
  • Wikipedia:Learning the ropes
  • Tutorials:
    • Wikipedia:Tutorial
    • Wikipedia:Tutorial Drive
    • Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/Tutorial series (2008)
  • Coaching:
    • Wikipedia:Coaching
    • Wikipedia:Adopt-a-User (WP:ADOPT)
    • Wikipedia:Editor review (WP:ER)
    • Wikipedia:Admin coaching (WP:ADCO)
  • Classes:
    • User:Garden/Virtual classroom
    • User:Brusselsshrek/Wiki School – dormant
  • Other:
    • Wikipedia:Instructional material
    • Wikipedia:Lectures
    • Books:
      • Formally published:
        • Wikipedia: The Missing Manual – published January 2008. ISBN 978-0596515164
        • How Wikipedia Works – published September 2008. ISBN 978-1593271763 (online, complete version)
        • MediaWiki Administrators' Tutorial Guide: Install, manage, and customize your MediaWiki installation – published March 2007. ISBN 978-1904811596
      • Wikibooks:
        • b:MediaWiki User Guide
        • b:MediaWiki Administrator's Handbook
    • m:Wikipedia Trainers – program started in June 2008 by the Wikimedia Foundation

Shortcut: WP:EIW#Legal

• Legal: (see also Copyrights, Disclaimers, Privacy)
  • Wikipedia:No legal threats (WP:NLT) (policy) – among other things, an editor who makes a legal threat is to refrain from further editing
  • Wikipedia:Manual of Style (legal)
  • Wikipedia:Don't overlook legal threats (essay)
  • Wikipedia:Perennial proposals#Legal issues
  • Wikipedia:List of policies#Legal and copyright: law-based rules about what material may be used in Wikipedia, and remedies for misuse
  • Wikipedia:Contact us/Article problem/Factual error (from subject) – contacting Wikipedia when an individual has a problem with an article about that person or about someone that person represents
  • Wikipedia:Contact us/Article problem/Factual error (from enterprise) – similarly, with an enterprise
  • Wikipedia:Office actions (WP:OFFICE) (policy) – sometimes Wikimedia Foundation representatives bypass normal procedures because of legal issues
  • Wikipedia:Logos (guideline)
  • Wikipedia:Image use policy
  • Wikipedia:Libel (WP:LIBEL) (policy)
• Links: see Sources (for external links), Wikilinks (for links between wiki articles)

Shortcut: WP:EIW#Lists

• Lists:
  • Wikipedia:WikiProject Lists
  • Wikipedia:Template messages/Lists
  • Lists as part of an article:
    • Help:List
    • Wikipedia:Embedded list
    • Wikipedia:Manual of Style (lists of works)
    • Wikipedia:Pro and con lists (guideline)
    • Wikipedia:Language order poll
  • Lists that are the sole content of article:
    • Wikipedia:Lists
    • Wikipedia:Stand-alone lists (Manual of Style)
    • Wikipedia:Naming conventions (long lists) (guideline)
    • Wikipedia:Categories, lists, and navigation templates (WP:CLN) (guideline) – comparing alternative approaches
    • Featured lists:
      • Wikipedia:Featured lists
      • Wikipedia:List of Wikipedians by featured list nominations
      • User:Rick Bot – bot that maintains the list of nominators
    • Wikipedia:Requested lists
    • Wikipedia:Move navigational lists to portal namespace (failed proposal)
    • Wikipedia:Lists in Wikipedia (essay)
    • Special:Prefixindex/List_of – reportedly about 50,000 articles (lists)
    • Problems:
      • Wikipedia:WikiProject Lists#Incomplete lists
      • Category:Lists that should be categories
      • Wikipedia:Listcruft (essay)
      • Wikipedia:Victim Lists (essay)
  • Other:
    • Wikipedia:WikiProject Laundromat – to reduce the number of "laundry lists" in articles
    • Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Common outcomes#Lists

Shortcut: WP:EIW#Lithuania

• Lithuania:
  • Wikipedia:Simplified phonetic transcription for Lithuanian
  • Wikipedia:Translations of Lithuanian administrative divisions
  • Portal:Lithuania
• Living people: see Biographies

Shortcut: WP:EIW#Login

• Logging in: (see also User account and username)
  • Help:Logging in
  • Wikipedia:Contact us/login problems
  • mw:Extension:OpenID – lets users log in with an OpenID
  • Security:
    • Wikipedia:Security (essay)
    • Wikipedia:Personal security practices (essay)
    • Secure login
    • m:Don't leave your fly open (essay)
    • Template:User committed identity – preventive action to enable regaining control of a hijacked account (story)

Shortcut: WP:EIW#Logo

• Logos:
  • Within articles:
    • Wikipedia:Logos (guideline)
    • Template:Logo fur – a template to help editors write fair use rationales ("furs") for non-free logos
  • Wikipedia's logo:
    • Wikipedia:Wikipedia logos
    • Wikipedia:FAQ/Miscellaneous#Can you tell me anything about the Wikipedia logo?
    • m:Errors in the Wikipedia logo
• Lyrics: Wikipedia:Lyrics and poetry (guideline)

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Shortcut: WP:EIW#Magic

• Magic:
  • Help:Magic
  • Magic words:
    • Help:Magic words
    • Help:Variable
    • Help:Parser function
    • m:Help:ParserFunctions – a collection of parser functions
    • mw:Markup spec/BNF/Magic links
    • Qif:
      • Wikipedia:Conditional tables
      • Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Template:Qif (May 2006)
• Mailing lists: (see also News (about Wikipedia))
  • Wikimedia Mail Stats: Index] – statistics on all Wikimedia Foundation mailing lists

Shortcut: WP:EIW#Main

• Main page: (see also Protection of pages)
  • Main Page
  • Wikipedia:Editing the main page (only admins can edit)
  • Wikipedia:Main Page/Errors
  • Wikipedia:Main Page alternatives – customizing how the main page appears to you
  • Category:Main Page alternatives
  • Wikipedia:FAQ/Main Page
  • Sections:
    • Featured Article:
      • Wikipedia:Today's featured article
      • Dispatches: Main page day – Signpost article about when what editors should expect when/if their Featured Article is on the Main Page
      • Daily-article-l mailing list subscription page – get an extract of the Main Page article via email
      • "Dispatches: Choosing Today's Featured Article", Signpost, August 2008
      • Wikipedia:Main page featured article stability (inactive/historical)
    • News:
      • Wikipedia:In the news section on the Main Page
      • Wikipedia:In the news section on the Main Page/Candidates
      • Wikipedia:Recurring items on ITN (guideline)
      • Template talk:In the news
      • "Dispatches: In the news" (Signpost article, January 2009)
    • "Did you know" (DYK):
      • Wikipedia:Did you know
      • User talk:Dark jedi requiem/DYK tutorial
      • RSS feed
      • Category:Wikipedia Did you know
      • Wikipedia:Recent additions – old postings to the section
      • Category:Wikipedia Did you know contributors
  • Other:
    • Wikipedia:2008 main page redesign proposal

Shortcut: WP:EIW#Maintain

• Maintenance: (see also Quality of articles, Spelling)
  • General:
    • Wikipedia:Maintenance
    • Wikipedia:Cleanup
    • Wikipedia:Cleanup resources (WP:CR)
    • Wikipedia:WikiGnome
  • Problems:
    • Category:Wikipedia maintenance
    • Category:Wikipedia backlog
    • Wikipedia:Pages needing attention – sorted by topic
    • Category:Cleanup by month
    • Wikipedia:Community portal/Opentask – pages that need wikification, cleanup, expansion (of stubs), verification, updates, etc.
    • Template:Articleissues – includes a listing of all types of templates that can be used to note issues with articles
    • User:Topbanana/Reports – old reports; useful for ideas
  • Projects:
    • In general:
      • Wikipedia:WikiProject Council/Directory/Wikipedia (page showing active and inactive projects involving maintenance)
      • Template:Active Wiki Fixup Projects
      • Wikipedia:Patrols
    • Cross-cutting maintenance projects not listed elsewhere in this index:
      • Wikipedia:Cleanup Taskforce
      • Wikipedia:WikiProject Guild of Copy Editors
      • Wikipedia:WikiProject Wiki Syntax
      • Wikipedia:WikiProject Wikify
      • Wikipedia:Elements of Style improvement project
      • Wikipedia:WikiProject Fix common mistakes
  • Other:
    • Special:AncientPages – December 2006 listing of the 1000 articles with the longest elapsed time since the last edit
    • Wikipedia:Dusty articles – April 2008 listing of the 100 articles with the longest elapsed time since the last edit (March 2008 database)
    • Wikipedia:WikiProject Abandoned Articles

Shortcut: WP:EIW#MOS

• Manual of Style:
  • Wikipedia:Manual of Style
  • Special:Prefixindex/MOS: – lists all redirects in the pseudo-namespace "MOS:"

Shortcut: WP:EIW#Map

• Maps: (see also Geocoding)
  • m:Maps
  • m:Wikimaps
  • Wikipedia:Blank maps – maps that can be colored and labeled in different languages
  • Wikipedia:WikiProject Maps
  • Wikipedia:WikiProject Maps/Source materials
  • Wikipedia:Graphic Lab/Map workshop
  • Commons:Commons:Project Mapmaking Wiki Standards
  • Wikipedia:Producing maps with xplanet
  • Wikipedia:WikiProject OpenStreetMap
  • Category:Wikipedia requested maps
  • Template:Coor – produces a link to a list of map sources, based on the geographical coordinates and other parameters
  • m:WikiMiniAtlas – JavaScript plugin to display a GoogleMaps-like draggable, zoomable, and clickable worldmap in geocoded Wikipedia articles
• Markup: see Formatting of text

Shortcut: WP:EIW#Math

• Mathematics: (see also Numbers)
  • Wikipedia:Manual of Style (mathematics)
  • Help:Calculation – simple mathematical calculations
  • Wikipedia:Make technical articles accessible (guideline)
  • mw:Extension:ASCIIMath4Wiki – tag that outputs math expressions written in ASCIIMath as MathML
  • Blahtex – a free software tool/library that translates TeX markup into MathML markup
  • Template:Frac (for fractions)
  • Template:Formula links
  • Wikipedia:Evaluating how interesting an integer's mathematical property is (essay)
  • Portal:Mathematics
• Meat puppets: see policy on Sock puppets

Shortcut: WP:EIW#Media

• Media: (see also Copyright, Images, Music)
  • Wikipedia:Media
  • Wikipedia:Media help
  • Wikipedia:Media help (MIDI)
  • Wikipedia:Media help (Ogg)
  • Wikipedia:Creation and usage of media files
  • mw:Extension:OggHandler
  • Ogg search – search of the Commons for specific audio and video streams
  • Wikipedia:Requested recordings
  • Category:Wikipedia requested audio
  • Category:Wikipedians who take recording requests
  • Wikipedia:Free sound resources
  • Wikipedia:WikiProject Images and Media/Sound
  • User:TheDJ/WikimediaPlayer
  • Components for Mac users – downloads for playing Ogg Vorbis in iTunes or producing Ogg Theora with iMovie

Shortcut: WP:EIW#Mediation

• Mediation:
  • Wikipedia:Mediation (policy)
  • Informal:Wikipedia:Mediation Cabal
  • Semi-formal:Wikipedia:Community enforceable mediation – experimental alternative (new as of March 2007)
  • Formal:
    • Wikipedia:Requests for mediation
    • Wikipedia:Mediation Committee
    • Wikipedia:Mediation Committee/Nominations
    • Wikipedia:Mediation Committee/Current Nominations

Shortcut: WP:EIW#MediaWiki

• MediaWiki: (see also specific topics pertaining to the software)
  • MediaWiki – a web-based wiki software application used by all projects of the Wikimedia Foundation
  • mw:Manual:FAQ
  • mw:MediaWiki roadmap – features planned for future releases
  • mw:Project:Support desk – place to ask questions (particularly for non-Wikipedia users of Mediawiki)
  • Help:Testing
  • mw:How to become a MediaWiki hacker
  • Books:
    • MediaWiki, October 2008
    • MediaWiki Administrators’ Tutorial Guide (March 2007)
  • Extensions:
    • m:Extending wiki markup
    • m:MediaWiki extensions
    • mw:Extension Matrix
    • mw:Category:Extensions
    • mw:Manual:Extensions
    • Special:Version – lists which extensions are installed
  • Handbook:
    • For readers
    • For editors
    • For moderators
    • For administrators
    • Mediawiki namespace within Wikipedia projects:
      • Wikipedia:MediaWiki namespace
      • Help:MediaWiki namespace
      • Wikipedia talk:MediaWiki namespace text
  • Searching for information on MediaWiki:
    • Search MediaWiki.org with Google
    • Search Meta-Wiki with Google
  • Other:
    • User:Pyrospirit/Design the interface for newcomers

Shortcut: WP:EIW#Medical

• Medical:
  • Wikipedia:Medical disclaimer
  • Wikipedia:Manual of Style (medicine-related articles) (guideline)
  • Portal:Medicine
• Mentorship: (see also Wikipedia:Adopt-a-User)
  • Wikipedia:Mentorship – either voluntary (informal) or involuntary (from dispute resolution)
  • Wikipedia:Mentorship Committee – inactive/historical

Shortcut: WP:EIW#Merge

• Merging:
  • Help:Merging and moving pages (WP:MM)
  • Wikipedia:Proposed mergers
  • Category:Articles to be merged
  • Wikipedia:Template messages/Merging and splitting
  • Wikipedia:Mergers for discussion (proposal as of March 2009)
  • Wikipedia:WikiProject Integration

Shortcut: WP:EIW#Messages

• Messages: (see also Internet Relay Chat (IRC), Messageboxes, Talk pages)
  • Wikipedia:Canvassing – votestacking, campaigning, friendly notice, and forum shopping
  • Wikipedia:E-mailing users
  • Wikipedia:Template messages
  • User:MelonBot – can post a standard message to the talk pages of a list of editors

Shortcut: WP:EIW#Messageboxes

• Messageboxes:
  • Via MediaWiki:
    • Wikipedia:Editnotice
  • Via templates:
    • Wikipedia:Template messages (all messageboxes are templates; not all templates are messageboxes)
    • For template messageboxes at the top of articles, see Article message boxes (amboxes)
    • For template messageboxes at the top of article talk pages, see Talk pages

Shortcut: WP:EIW#Meta

• Meta:
  • Wikipedia:Meta
  • m:Meta:Babel – general and policy discussion page
• Microformats
  • Wikipedia:WikiProject Microformats
• Minor edit: Help:Minor edit

Shortcut: WP:EIW#Mirror

• Mirrors:
  • Wikipedia:Mirrors and forks – sites that use Wikipedia content
  • Wikipedia:Standard GFDL violation letter

Shortcut: WP:EIW#Missing

• Miscellany for deletion: Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion – for deleting any page which is not covered by another deletion process (AfD, CfD, TfD, etc.)
• Missing articles:
  • Wikipedia:Requested articles (WP:RA)
  • Wikipedia:WikiProject Missing encyclopedic articles
  • Wikipedia:Find-A-Grave famous people
  • Red links (also q.v.):
    • Wikipedia:Most wanted articles (WP:MWA)
    • Wikipedia:Articles requested for more than a year
  • Wikipedia:Topics where Wikipedia is weak (inactive)
  • Category:Redirects with possibilities
  • Wikipedia:Redirects to be made – for listing a set of needed redirects for articles that have not been created yet
  • User:Piotrus/Wikipedia interwiki and specialized knowledge test – estimates that Wikipedia should have about 400 million articles

Shortcut: WP:EIW#Mobile

• Mobile access:
  • "iPhone Gems: Wikipedia Apps" – review of 16 apps for the iPhone or iPod touch (November 2008)
  • Real-time version of Wikipedia:
    • Wikipedia:Mobile access
    • "Accessing Wikipedia via mobile devices", Signpost article, January 2009
    • Semi-experimental mobile portal (as of February 2008)
    • Wapedia
    • m:Mobile subdomain
    • Wikipanion – Free iPhone/iPod app; searches using a fast, native interface; includes autosuggest, landscape mode, and large, readable text.
  • Downloaded version of Wikipedia:
    • Pocket Wikipedia – 24,000 images and 14 million words (for PocketPC, Windows and Linux machines)
    • Encyclopodia – complete download, for Apple iPod
    • Wikipedia-iphone – complete download for iPhone or iPod Touch
    • WikiPock
    • Screencast: "How to install Wikipedia on your iPod Touch or iPhone!", February 8, 2008
  • Other:
    • GeoPedia – provides iPhone owners with a Wikipedia feed customized to their current location
    • "Kiwi" client – for iPhone and iPod
• Moderator: see Administrator

Shortcut: WP:EIW#Money

• Money:
  • Wikipedia:Manual of Style (dates and numbers)#Currencies
  • Wikipedia:WikiProject Numismatics/Style (Manual of Style)
• Mongolian: Wikipedia:Naming conventions (Mongolian)

Shortcuts: WP:EIW#Monitor WP:EIW#Watch

• Monitoring changes: (see also Recent changes)
  • Watchlist
    • Help:Watching pages – about watchlists
    • User:Ais523/watchlistei.js – exporting and importing a watchlist
    • Wikipedia:Copying watchlist to new username
    • MediaWiki:Watcheditlist/Check all – to clear most or all of a checklist
    • Import, export, and edit watchlists as text using the "View raw watchlist" option
    • MediaWiki:Watchlist-details and MediaWiki talk:Watchlist-details – a notice displayed at the top of the Special:Watchlist page for all editors who view that page
    • Wikipedia:Perennial proposals#Create a counter of people watching a page
    • Real-time feeds:
      • User:Lupin/Monitor my watchlist – realtime feed of pages on a watch – requires User:Lupin/Anti-vandal tool (a user script)
      • User:Crazycomputers/WatchlistBot – editors using an XMPP service (such as Google talk), can have a separate watchlist that is updated in real time via IM, by subscribing to the service of this bot
      • API (must be logged in or have "remember me" checked as login option)
      • User:Jyotirmoyb/Watchlistfeed
      • User:Ryos/Watchlist RSS feeder
      • User:Adodge/WLWP (tested: NetNewsWire, Mac only)
    • Wikipedia:WikiProject User scripts/Scripts#Watchlist / Recent Changes
    • Customizing a watchlist (other than by using "my preferences"):
      • Wikipedia:Added or removed characters – changing whether the watchlist shows or does not show the number of characters added or deleted by each edit
      • User:Stevage/filterwatchlist.user.js – Removes various namespaces from watchlist display
      • User talk:Alex Smotrov/wlunwatch.js – adds an "unwatch" link to each entry on a watchlist (uses AJAX)
      • user:js/watchlist – multiple changes, including sorting by namespace and showing only edits since that last time the watchlist report was generated
      • User:Quarl/watchlist.js – adds buttons to watchlist: "unwatch", "diff since"
    • Alternatives to the standard watchlist (other than real-time feeds):
      • User:Ais523/topcontrib.js – Color-codes your contributions page based on whether you have the top (most recent) contribution or not for each page edited
      • Special:Recentchangeslinked/User:SpecifiedUsername/OptionalSpecifiedSubpage lists changes to all Wikipedia pages on the User:SpecifiedUsername/OptionalSpecifiedSubpage page, for example
      • User:Tra#User watchlist – a watchlist report of edits made by the editors listed on a regular watchlist
    • gWatch (Global Watchlist) – Watchlist for all Wikimedia wikis
  • RSS (page-by-page specification):
    • Wikipedia:Syndication
    • m:Syndication feeds
    • User:Blinklmc (historical: predates implementation of integrated RSS for Wikipedia)
  • Other:
    • User:Anomie/linkclassifier.js – User script that changes the color of the wikilink to an article when that article is a redirect or disambiguation page or has been proposed for deletion at AfD
    • User:Ais523/catwatch.js – for monitoring changes to the pages that in a specified category
    • Wikipedia:Hide Pages in Watchlist – User script that allows an editor to hide selected talk pages from watchlist reports
    • Special:Unwatchedpages – pages not on anyone's watchlist [this special page is viewable only by admins]
• Motto:
  • Wikipedia:Motto of the day
  • "WikiProject Report: Motto of the Day" (Signpost article, January 2009)
• Movies: see Films

Shortcut: WP:EIW#Moving

• Moving a page: (see also Disambiguation, Naming an article, Redirects)
  • Help:Page name
  • Help:Moving a page (WP:MOVE)
  • Help:Merging and moving pages (WP:MM)
  • Wikipedia:Requested moves – page for moves that require administrator assistance
  • Wikipedia:Moving guidelines for administrators
  • Wikipedia:How to fix cut-and-paste moves
  • Wikipedia:Cut and paste move repair holding pen
  • MediaWiki:Movenotallowed
  • MediaWiki:Movepage-moved – page that an editor sees after a successful move
  • Bug #709 – code has been written (not implemented as of mid-May 2008) to allow editors to rename/move images and other media files

Shortcut: WP:EIW#Music

• Music: (see also Media)
  • Wikipedia:Manual of Style (music)
  • Wikipedia:Notability (music) (guideline)
  • Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Common outcomes#Music
  • Wikipedia:Naming conventions (pieces of music) (guideline)
  • Wikipedia:Music samples (guideline)
  • Wikipedia:Record charts (Manual of Style)
  • Wikipedia:WikiProject Music
  • Wikipedia:WikiProject Free music
  • mw:Extension:AbcMusic – for typesetting music using the ABC notation
  • Portal:Music
  • Wikifm – a mashup of Last.fm and Wikipedia

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• Name (of a user): see User account and username
• Namespaces:
  • Wikipedia:Namespace
  • Help:Namespace
  • Query results – existing namespaces – also indicates which are allowed to have subpages
  • m:Help:Namespace manager – for a future version of MediaWiki
  • Special:CrossNamespaceLinks – links from articles to generally inappropriate namespaces such as "User" and "User talk"
  • Prefix namespaces (for redirects):
    • Help:Custom namespaces – prefixes (like :m) that (normally) resolve into an interwiki but can resolve into external source
    • Special:Prefixindex/XXX – can be used to find pseudo-namespaces (shortcuts) in mainspace (substitute "CAT" or "MOS" or whatever for "XXX")
    • Wikipedia:Shortcut#List of prefixes – (pseudo-namespaces)
    • Wikipedia:Cross-namespace redirects (essay)
• Naming a page: see Naming an article, New pages

Shortcut: WP:EIW#Naming

• Naming an article: (see also Disambiguation, Moving a page, New pages)
  • Basics:
    • Wikipedia:Naming conventions (WP:NC) (policy)
    • Wikipedia:Naming conventions (common names) (guideline)
    • Wikipedia:Naming conflict (guideline)
  • In general:
    • Wikipedia:Manual of Style (abbreviations)
    • Wikipedia:Naming conventions (use English) (guideline)
    • Wikipedia:Naming conventions (capitalization) (guideline)
    • Wikipedia:Naming conventions (plurals) (guideline)
    • Wikipedia:Naming conventions (precision) (guideline)
    • Wikipedia:Articles with slashes in title
    • Wikipedia:Naming conventions (technical restrictions) (guideline)
  • Parts of speech:
    • Wikipedia:Naming conventions (adjectives) (guideline)
    • Wikipedia:Naming conventions (verbs) (guideline)
  • Specific topics: (see also elsewhere in this index)
    • Wikipedia:Naming conventions (geographic names) (guideline)
    • Wikipedia:Naming conventions (events) (guideline)
    • Wikipedia:Naming conventions (fauna) (guideline)
    • Wikipedia:WikiProject Tree of life
  • Other:
    • Special:ProtectedTitles – page titles that are protected to prevent them from being created

Shortcut: WP:EIW#Naviga

• Navigation: (see also Lists) (for changing navigation by changing the location of links on the standard Wikipedia page, see Customization)
  • Anchors: (between pages or within a page)
    • Help:Anchors
    • Template:Anchor
    • Help:HTML in wikitext#Span – using "span id=" for hidden anchors
  • Between pages:
    • Wikipedia:Basic navigation
    • Navigational templates: see Series boxes
    • Keyboard shortcuts:
      • Wikipedia:Keyboard shortcuts
      • Help:Keyboard shortcuts
    • Additional tabs ("cactions") at the top of the page:
      • Wikipedia:WikiProject User scripts/Scripts/Six tabs – adds a history tab (and an edit tab) for the page that is paired with the page that is visible
      • User:Haza-w/Drop-down menus – revises and expands the top tabs, setting up each with a menu with numerous options
    • Clicking on an image:

      Shortcut: WP:EIW#Clickable

      • Help:Images and other uploaded files#Navigational maps
      • Template:Click
      • Wikipedia:WikiProject Usability/Clickable images
      • mw:Help:Linked images
      • ImageMaps:

        Shortcut: WP:EIW#ImageMap

        • mw:Extension:ImageMap – "imagemap" tags for linking via clickable images (new as of January 2007)
        • Tutorial in the Signpost
        • Image map editor
        • User:Nihiltres/Click-to-ImageMap – easy conversion of the {{click}} template to an ImageMap (only for MacOS)
        • Category:Wikipedia imagemaps
      • The timeline syntax can also be used for clickable images, as in {{Vocal and instrumental pitch ranges}}; see Timelines for details
    • Wikipedia:Tools/Navigation popups (user scripts) – enables mouseover of links; other features (as of March 2008, planned to be replaced a version using the new api.php – see User:TheDJ/apipopups.js; existing version uses query.php) (also available as a gadget, under "my preferences")
  • Personalized navigation:
    • User:Anakin101/toplinks.js – adds a "top" link next to every "edit" link, to make it easy to go to the top of a page
    • Wikipedia:Tools/Navigation shortcuts – add one or more personal sidebars, with links, on the left side of the screen
    • User:AndyZ/monobook.js/personalredirect.js – put personalized abbreviations into the search box to go to specific pages
• Needed articles: see Missing articles, Translations

Shortcut: WP:EIW#NPOV

• Neutral point of view (NPOV):
  • General policy and guidance:
    • Wikipedia:Neutral point of view (WP:NPOV) (policy)
    • Wikipedia:Neutral point of view/FAQ (policy)
    • Wikipedia:NPOV dispute – how-to guidance
    • Wikipedia:NPOV tutorial
    • Wikipedia:Describing points of view (essay)
    • Wikipedia:Writing for the enemy (essay)
    • Wikipedia:Avoid thread mode (essay)
    • Wikipedia:Neutral point of view/Examples
  • Balance and space:
    • Wikipedia:NPOV tutorial#Space and balance
    • Wikipedia:Neutral point of view#Undue weight
    • Wikipedia:Coatrack – an article that is primarily an extended discussion about a peripherally related (bias) subject
    • Wikipedia:Fringe theories/Noticeboard
    • Wikipedia:Pro and con lists (guideline)
  • Other:
    • Template:Welcomenpov – for posting to a user talk page
    • Wikipedia:WikiProject Neutrality
    • Category:NPOV disputes – pages with an NPOV dispute tag
    • Category:Neutrality templates
    • Wikipedia:List of controversial issues
    • Category:Wikipedia neutral point of view
    • Wikipedia:Advocacy (essay)
    • Wikipedia:Scientific point of view (failed proposal)
• New accounts: see New editors, User account and username

Shortcut: WP:EIW#NewA

• New articles: (see also Conflicts of interest, Deletion of articles, Edits (in general), Missing articles, Naming an article, New pages, Quality of articles)
  • To consider before creating a new article:
    • Wikipedia:Wikipedia is not a dictionary (policy)
    • Wikipedia:Notability (guideline) – if it's not about something notable, it shouldn't be an article in Wikipedia
    • Wikipedia:Wikipedia is not for things made up one day
    • Wikipedia:List of bad article ideas (guideline)
    • Wikipedia:List of really, really, really stupid article ideas that you really, really, really should not create
    • Wikipedia:Fringe theories (guideline)
    • Wikipedia:Content policy in a nutshell (essay)
  • Feedback on a planned new article: Wikipedia:Drawing board
  • How to: (see also New pages)
    • Wikipedia:Your first article
    • Wikipedia:There is no deadline (essay) – write a really good draft in userspace
    • mw:Extension:Uniwiki CreatePage (not implemented on the English Wikipedia); uses mw:Extension:Uniwiki Layouts
  • New articles proposed by non-registered editors:
    • Wikipedia:Articles for creation/Wizard-Introduction – a series of qualifying questions leading to a page where the proposed new article can be posted
    • Wikipedia:Articles for creation – for both those proposing articles and those reviewing proposed articles
    • Wikipedia:WikiProject Articles for creation
    • User:Henrik/afc-helper (user script) – enables one-click declines for proposed new articles
  • After a new article is created:
    • User:AlexNewArtBot – adds new articles to new article pages of WikiProjects and Portals (as listed at Wikipedia:New articles by topic
  • Checking for copyright violations:
    • User:Wherebot
    • User:COBot
    • User:CorenSearchBot
  • Other:
    • New articles created by any specified editor
    • MediaWiki talk:Newarticletext
    • {{HD/new}} and {{creation}}.
• New contributors: see New editors

Shortcut: WP:EIW#NewE

• New editors: (see also Edits (in general), Learning, Questions, User account and username, User rights)
  • Welcoming:
    • Wikipedia:Welcoming committee
    • MediaWiki:Welcomecreation – page for automatic welcome message for all new accounts (transitory; is not posted to user talk pages)
    • Standard templates:
      • Wikipedia:Welcoming committee/Standard user greeting
      • Wikipedia:Welcoming committee/Welcome templates, includes Template:Welcome
      • User talk:Nmajdan/welcome newuser.js – quick way to add a welcome template to a new user's talk page
      • Template:WelcomeMenu – one of many templates, pretty good (except for the built-in category)
    • User:SQLBot-Hello – adds a welcome section for new editors who have gotten accounts via Wikipedia:Request an account and have opted-in for such a welcome
    • Impact of welcoming:
      • User:TeaDrinker/Welcome study – six day study in May 2007 of the impact of welcoming 100 randomly selected new editors
    • Other:
      • Wikipedia:Friendly – includes welcome templates and other (unrelated) functionality (also available as a gadget, under "my preferences")
      • Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/Welcomebot (request denied December 2006)
      • Wikipedia:Perennial proposals#Use a bot to welcome new users
  • Standard postings for mistakes by new editors: Category:Wikipedia standard response templates
  • Suggested reading:
    • Wikipedia:Avoiding common mistakes
    • Wikipedia:Contributing to Wikipedia
    • Wikipedia:Contribute what you know or are willing to learn more about (historical/inactive essay)
  • Other:
    • Wikipedia:Starter toolset – page to copy and modify
    • Wikipedia:Please do not bite the newcomers (WP:BITE) (guideline)
    • Special:Log/newusers – new accounts
    • Special:Contributions/newbies – edits by new editors
    • User:Emijrp/New users – statistics on new accounts
    • User:Pyrospirit/Design the interface for newcomers
    • User:AlMac/Wiki Start Map – visual organization of Wikipedia pages for editors (incomplete, outdated)

Shortcut: WP:EIW#New_page

• New pages: (see also New articles)
  • Help:Page name
  • Help:Starting a new page
  • Non-talk pages can only be created by registered editors – December 2005
  • Special:Newpages – Lists new pages just created; shows which pages have been marked as "patrolled"
  • Restrictions on names of new pages:
    • mw:Extension:Title Blacklist
    • mw:MediaWiki:Titleblacklist
    • Special:ProtectedTitles
  • Patrolling new pages:
    • Signpost article, November 2007, about new process
    • Special:Log/patrol – Patrol log (listing those who marked edits as "patrolled")
    • Wikipedia:New pages patrol – organized effort to review all new pages
    • Wikipedia:WikiProject New page
    • User:JVbot – bot which marks new pages as "patrolled" if the editor who created the page is listed at User:JVbot/patrol whitelist
    • User:Martinp23/NPWatcher (WP:NPW) Wikipedia tool which helps editors perform new page patrol more easily
    • Wikipedia:WikiProject Advertising (inactive)
• New users: see New editors
• New Zealand:
  • Wikipedia:Naming conventions (New Zealand)
  • Portal:New Zealand

Shortcut: WP:EIW#News

• News (about Wikipedia): (for news not about Wikipedia, see Current events)
  • Wikipedia:News
  • Wikipedia:Watch
  • Category:Wikipedia news
  • Wikipedia:Community portal#CBB – Community bulletin board (particularly the "Notices" section)
  • Wikipedia:Announcements
  • Signpost (internal newsletter):
    • Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/About
    • Receiving:
      • Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/Tools/Spamlist – as a message on a user talk page
      • Template:Signpost-subscription – in a box (transcluded) on a user page
      • As email
      • [http://www.wikipediasignpost.com/blog/ Via blog) (including RSS option)
      • Via twitter
  • Wikipedia:WikipediaWeekly – a weekly (or so) podcast
  • Wikipedia:Wikivoices – skypecasts and other community connection
  • Mailing lists:
    • Wikipedia:Mailing lists
    • m:List Summary Service – summarizes of what has been discussed on various mailing lists, with links
    • Wikien-l mailng list – threaded version (also citable)
    • Wikiien-l mailing list – forum format
    • Foundation-l mailing list – threaded version (also citable)
  • Blogs:
    • m:Planet Wikimedia, hosted by the Wikimedia Foundation, began March 2007 – blog aggregator (blog is here)
    • Open Wiki Blog Planet – another blog aggregator
  • Newsgroup:
    • gmane.org.wikimedia.foundation
  • Other external sources:
    • WikiChecker (media)
    • Wikipedia:Wikipedia in the media
    • Wikipedia:WikiProject For the Record – for responding to coverage of Wikipedia in the news media
    • Wikipedia:Wikizine – a weekly (or so) independent electronic magazine
  • Inactive/historical:
    • foundation:Wikimedia Quarto – quarterly publication; last issue was for Q1 2005
    • Wikipedia:Goings-on (prior to the Signpost, this was the weekly newsletter of sorts)
    • Wikipedia:Village pump (news) (inactive)

Shortcut: WP:EIW#Not

• Not:
  • Wikipedia:What Wikipedia is not (WP:NOT) (policy) – it's not a paper encyclopedia, a dictionary, a publisher of original thought, a soapbox, a mirror or a repository of links, images, or media, a blog, webspace provider, or social networking site, a directory, an indiscriminate collection of information, a crystal ball, censored, a battleground, an anarchy, a democracy, a bureaucracy
  • Wikipedia:Victim Lists (essay)
  • Wikis and similar sites which do allow various types of content that Wikipedia does not:
    • Wikipedia:Alternative outlets
    • WikiIndex

Shortcut: WP:EIW#Notable

• Notability: (see also specific subject areas)
  • Wikipedia:Notability (guideline) – also lists types of articles for which more specific criteria has been created
  • Category:Wikipedia notability – guidelines and discussions
  • User:Uncle G/On notability (essay)
  • Wikipedia:Inclusion is not an indicator of notability
  • Wikipedia:Fringe theories (guideline)
  • Wikipedia:Search engine test (how-to guide)
  • Wikipedia:Notability (criminal acts) (proposal as of March 2008)
  • Wikipedia:WikiProject Notability
  • Category:Articles with topics of unclear notability
  • Wikipedia:Wikipuffery (essay)
  • Wikipedia:Other stuff exists#Inherent notability (essay)
  • Wikipedia:Notability (science) (failed proposal)

Shortcut: WP:EIW#Notes

• Notes (in articles):
  • For footnotes in a "Notes" section, see Sources
  • Content notes (a separate section with notes about contents of an article):
    • Templates: {{Cref}}, {{Hcref}}, and {{Cnote}}
    • Examples: Che Guevara, Pericles
    • Note: {{ref}} and {{note}}, though deprecated, are being used in thousands of articles, presumably for content notes
• Noticeboards:
  • Wikipedia:Noticeboards
  • English wiki Noticeboard Archive Search Tool – searches various noticeboards, and all their archives
• NPOV: see Neutral point of view

Shortcut: WP:EIW#Number

• Numbers: (see also Mathematics, Units of measurement)
  • Wikipedia:Manual of Style (dates and numbers)
  • Wikipedia:Naming conventions (numbers and dates)
  • Wikipedia:Notability (numbers) (guideline)
  • m:Help:Modulo and round
  • Wikipedia:WikiProject Numbers
  • Template:Nowrap – to ensure that a number and its unit of measurement appear on the same line of text

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• Obscenity: see Censorship
• "Office" actions – see Wikimedia Foundation
• Organizations:
  • As subjects of articles: see Companies and organizations
  • Within Wikipedia: (see Wikipedia as community)
• Original research: see Sources
• Output: see Exporting (a page)
• Overcategorization: Wikipedia:Overcategorization (guideline) – what types of categories are not good ones to create (see also Categories)

Shortcut: WP:EIW#Oversight

• Oversight:
  • Wikipedia:Oversight (policy)
  • Wikipedia:Requests for oversight
  • Wikipedia:Arbitration Committee/CheckUser and Oversight elections
  • Wikipedia:Arbitration Committee/CheckUser and Oversight appointments (discussion, January 2009)
  • m:Oversight
  • mw:Bitfields for rev deleted – removes specific revisions from public view ("public" includes admins)
• Example of how oversighted revisions now appear on history pages
  • mw:Extension:Oversight – oversighted revisions are permanently hidden from all users (no longer in effect)

Shortcut: WP:EIW#Own

• Ownership: Wikipedia:Ownership of articles (WP:OWN) – about editors who don't like to have their words edited by others (for ownership of Wikipedia, see Wikimedia Foundation)

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• Page protection: see Protection of pages
• Page size: see Article size

Shortcut: WP:EIW#Page revision

• Page revisions: (see also Counts)
  • Wikirage – list of pages with high levels of edits (most edits per unique editor) – recently
  • Special:MostRevisions – "Pages with the most revisions" (top 1000) – cumulative
  • Wikipedia:Most frequently edited pages – 4 December 2007 to 2 January 2008 – top 5000 pages

Shortcut: WP:EIW#Page_v

• Page views: (see also Counts)
  • Most viewed (English Wikipedia):
    • Wikipedia:Popular pages
    • Most accessed pages per day (Wikistics)
    • Wikipedia article traffic statistics – pages with the most views (February 2008)
  • For any specific article or other page:
    • Monthly chart for any specified page ("Wikipedia article traffic statistics") (for pages that are not articles, include the namespace as a prefix)
    • Raw counts – beginning (24 hourly snapshots per day) December 10, 2007 (announcement)
  • Different language Wikipedias:
    • Comparison of page views for the various language Wikipedias (March 2008)
    • Wikipedia Page Views – page views per language per month
• Paper: see Wikipedia:What Wikipedia is not#Wikipedia is not a paper encyclopedia
• Parser function: see Magic words
• Password: see Logging in
• People (as subjects of articles, or discussed in articles): see Biographies

Shortcut: WP:EIW#Per

• Per: Wikipedia:Per – how to interpret "per WP:PAGE" and similar comments by other editors
• Persian: Wikipedia:Manual of Style (Persian) (inactive proposal)

Shortcut: WP:EIW#Person

• Personal attacks: (see also: Content disputes, Disruptive editing)
  • Core policies and guidelines
    • Wikipedia:Assume good faith (WP:AGF) (guideline)
    • Wikipedia:Civility (WP:CIVIL) (policy)
    • Wikipedia:No personal attacks (WP:NPA) (policy)
    • Wikipedia:Harassment (guideline)
    • Wikipedia:No legal threats (policy)
    • Wikipedia:Attack page (policy)
    • Wikipedia:Linking to external harassment (guideline)
    • Wikipedia:Attack sites (failed proposal)
  • Avoiding problems:
    • Wikipedia:Avoid personal remarks
    • Wikipedia:Etiquette (WP:EQ) (guideline) – how to work with others on Wikipedia
    • m:Don't be a dick
    • Wikipedia:Don't call the kettle black (essay)
    • Wikipedia:How to be civil (essay)
  • Organized efforts to minimize:
    • Wikipedia:Harmonious editing club
    • Wikipedia:Concordia (inactive)
  • Remedies (see also Arbitration, Mediation)
    • Wikipedia:No personal attacks#Removal of text
    • Wikipedia:Editor assistance
    • Wikipedia:Wikiquette alerts
    • Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents
    • Wikipedia:Requests for comment/User conduct – requires two or more editors to have posted warnings about another editor
      • See also Wikipedia:RFC/How to present a case
    • Wikipedia:Requests for remedies (failed proposal)
    • Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/Personal attacks (closed January 2007
• Personal information: see Privacy
• Phillipines: Wikipedia:Manual of Style (Philippine-related articles)
• Pictures: see Images

Shortcut: WP:EIW#Piped

• Piped links (changing the visible text for a wikilink):
  • Wikipedia:Piped link
  • Help:Piped link
  • Wikipedia:Manual of Style (disambiguation pages)#Piping – generally, don't use piped links on disambiguation pages
  • Help:Pipe trick – avoiding some typing when shortening a page title that has a colon or parentheses in it
• Plagiarism: see Copyright (particularly "Problems")
• Poems:
  • Wikipedia:Lyrics and poetry (guideline)
  • mw:Extension:Poem – for formatting
• Point: Wikipedia:Do not disrupt Wikipedia to illustrate a point (WP:POINT)
• Point of view (POV): see Neutral point of view (NPOV)

Shortcut: WP:EIW#Poker

• Poker:
  • Wikipedia:Manual of Style (poker-related articles)
  • Wikipedia:WikiProject Poker

Shortcut: WP:EIW#Policy

• Policies and guidelines (see also Process)
  • Existing:
    • m:Community foundation issues – five core principles guiding all Wikimedia projects.
    • Wikimedia Foundation policies
    • Wikipedia:Trifecta – an unofficial summary of the rules – three guiding principles for editors, with their corollaries.
    • Wikipedia:Policies and guidelines – overview
    • Wikipedia:Key policies and guidelines
    • User:Tony1/Monthly updates of styleguide and policy changes
    • Wikipedia:Tutorial (Keep in mind)
    • Wikipedia:List of policies
    • Wikipedia:List of guidelines
    • Category:Wikipedia policies and guidelines
    • Wikipedia Policies – information and statistics about the talk pages of all policies and guidelines
  • Misuses:
    • Wikipedia:Gaming the system (guideline)
    • Wikipedia:Wikilawyering (essay)
    • Wikipedia:Don't overuse shortcuts to policy and guidelines to win your argument (essay)
    • Wikipedia:Don't cite essays or proposals as if they were policy (essay)
  • Changing (in general):
    • Wikipedia:Style of policy and guideline pages (inactive)
    • m:Instruction creep
    • Wikipedia:Avoid instruction creep (guideline)
    • Wikipedia:How to contribute to Wikipedia guidance (essay)
    • Wikipedia:Editing policy pages (failed proposal)
  • Discussions on proposed or changed or questioned policies and guidelines:
    • Wikipedia:Overlapping policies and guidelines
    • Wikipedia:Requests for comment/Policies
    • Wikipedia:Centralized discussion – a way/place to list current major discussions (via {{Cent}})
    • Category:Wikipedia proposals
    • Wikipedia:Village pump (policy)
    • Category:Wikipedia proposals – pages categorized as "Wikipedia proposals"
  • Old discussions:
    • Wikipedia:Centralized discussion/Archive – a list of centralized discussions that have been completed, and the conclusions that have been drawn from them
    • Wikipedia:Perennial proposals – things that are frequently proposed on Wikipedia, and have been rejected by the community several times in the past
    • Category:Wikipedia rejected proposals
  • Other:
    • Wikipedia:Process is important (essay)
    • Wikipedia:Policy patrol
    • Wikipedia:If you could re-write the rules (essay)
• Polls: see Consensus and voting

Shortcut: WP:EIW#Portal

• Portals:
  • Wikipedia:Portal (WP:P)
  • Wikipedia:Portal guidelines (Manual of Style)
  • Wikipedia:Portal/Directory
  • Portal:Contents/Portals – introductory page that organizes and lists all portals
  • Wikipedia:Move navigational lists to portal namespace (failed proposal)
  • Wikipedia:WikiProject Portals
  • Category:Portals
  • Wikipedia:Portal peer review
  • Featured:
    • Portal:Featured portals
    • Wikipedia:Featured portal criteria
    • Wikipedia:Featured portal candidates
  • Bot assistance:
    • User:AlexNewArtBot – bot to identify new articles related to a portal
    • User:Wikinews Importer Bot – imports certain dynamically-generated Wikinews pages into Wikipedia portals
  • Wikipedia:Community portal
• Portugal: Wikipedia:Manual of Style (Portuguese-related articles)
• Preferences: see Customization
• Prefixes: Wikipedia:Shortcut#List of prefixes – (pseudo-namespaces)

Shortcut: WP:EIW#Preview

• Preview:
  • Help:Show preview
  • Help:Editing shortcuts (poor page name; it's about previews)
  • User:Pilaf/InstaView – near-instantaneous preview (user script)
  • User talk:Alex Smotrov/qpreview.js – quick AJAX preview
  • User:CBM/quickpreview.js – ditto
  • User:Anomie/ajaxpreview.js – quick AJAX preview, also displays footnotes in the preview when editing a section
  • Bugzilla:2679 – Bug # 2679 – show category links above the edit box rather than at the bottom of the screen, on preview
  • Showing footnotes automatically when previewing:
    • Bugzilla:5492 – Bug # 5492 – add <references/> text to the preview when editing a section
    • User:DatRoot/Scripts/PreviewRefs.js‎
    • User:Anomie/ajaxpreview.js
• Printing: Help:Printable

Shortcut: WP:EIW#Privacy

• Privacy:
  • For subjects of articles: see Biographies
  • For editors and readers:
    • Wikipedia:Privacy policy
    • m:Privacy policy
    • m:Draft Privacy Policy June 2008
    • Wikipedia:How to not get outed on Wikipedia (essay)
    • Wikipedia:Privacy (inactive/historical)
    • Wikipedia:Respect privacy (inactive/historical)
    • Secure access:
      • Secure (SSL) access for reading and editing
      • User:Anakin101/alwayssecurewikipedia.js – user script to keep the secure connection for all Wikipedia pages
    • foundation: Access to nonpublic data policy
    • m:Ombudsman commission – processes complaints about violations of the privacy policy
    • Wikipedia:Harassment#Types of harassment
    • Wikipedia:Protecting children's privacy (essay)
    • Removal (from view) of selected versions of pages:
      • Wikipedia:Selective deletion – by administrators
      • Wikipedia:Oversight and Wikipedia:Requests for oversight – by editors given "oversight" authority
    • m:Right to vanish
    • Wikipedia:Right to vanish (guideline)

Shortcut: WP:EIW#Process

• Process: (see also Common sense, Policies and guidelines)
  • Wikipedia:What Wikipedia is not (policy) – Wikipedia is not a bureaucracy, and not an anarchy
  • Wikipedia:Snowball clause – more than an essay, less than a policy
  • Wikipedia:Process is important (essay)
  • Wikipedia:Practical process (essay)
  • Wikipedia:Product, process, policy (essay)
  • Category:Wikipedia processes
• Profanity: see Censorship
• Projects: see Wikiprojects
• "Project" pages: Wikipedia:Project namespace

Shortcut: WP:EIW#Pronounce

• Pronunciation:
  • Wikipedia:Manual of Style (pronunciation)
  • Wikipedia:Pronunciation respelling key
  • Wikipedia:IPA
  • Wikipedia:IPA for Irish
• Proposals: (see also Policies and guidelines)
  • Wikipedia:Village pump (proposals) – new ideas and proposals that are not policy related
  • Wikipedia:Village pump (proposals)/Persistent proposals – for proposals with consensus that haven't been implemented yet

Shortcut: WP:EIW#Protec

• Protection of pages:
  • Wikipedia:Protection policy (WP:PROT)
  • Wikipedia:Requests for page protection – page to request that a page be protected (WP:RPP)
  • Wikipedia:New admin school/Protecting
  • Wikipedia:Rough guide to semi-protection (essay)
  • Wikipedia:New admin school/Protecting deleted pages
  • MediaWiki:Semiprotectedpagewarning
  • Wikipedia:High-risk templates (guideline)
  • Main page featured article:
    • Wikipedia:Main Page featured article protection (guideline)
    • Wikipedia:For and Against TFA protection(essay)
  • m:Protected pages considered harmful
  • Special:Protectedpages – list of protected pages
  • Requesting administrator editing of a protected page: use the {{editprotected}} template.
  • m:The Wrong Version – why a version of an article that is protected is always the wrong version
  • Wikipedia:Version to protect – proposed policy
  • Wikipedia:This page is protected – example
  • User:Steel359/Protection js – makes the page protection process easier for administrators
  • Category:Page protection
  • Bots that change protection notification templates on pages that are or are not protected:
    • User:DumbBOT
    • User:COBot
    • User:Maelgwnbot
  • User:Emijrp/Statistics#Most protected ever
  • Unimplemented:
    • mw:Extension:ProtectSection – blocks editing of part of a page by a regular editors
    • mw:Extension:PageSecurity – allows specified pages to be edited only by editors who are part of (a) specified group(s)

Shortcut: WP:EIW#Punctuate

• Punctuation:
  • Wikipedia:Manual of Style
  • Wikipedia:WikiProject Punctuation
  • Dumb quotes – user script that converts "fancy" punctuation to their 7-bit ASCII equivalent

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Shortcut: WP:EIW#Quality

• Quality of articles: (see also Featured articles, Good articles, Maintenance, Stable versions, Style (articles), Vital articles)
  • Guidelines and guidance:
    • Wikipedia:Article development
    • Wikipedia:Simplified ruleset – includes three guidelines for getting to high-quality articles
    • Wikipedia:Writing better articles (Manual of Style)
    • Wikipedia:The perfect article
    • User:AndyZ/Suggestions
  • Central initiatives:
    • Wikipedia Quality website
    • m:Wikiquality
    • Wikiquality-l:
      • Subscription
      • Archives
  • Reviews and assistance for specific articles:
    • Wikipedia:Requests for feedback – a place to get feedback for new articles or for a major edit to an existing article
    • Peer reviews:
      • Main peer review:
        • Wikipedia:Peer review – exposes articles to closer scrutiny from a broader group of editors
        • User:CloudNineBot – transcludes articles at the main peer review page onto WikiProject peer review pages
        • User:AndyZ/peerreviewer – automated review
        • Dispatches: Interview with Ruhrfisch, master of Peer review, Signpost article, September 2008
      • WikiProject peer reviews:
        • Category:WikiProject peer reviews – pages within WikiProjects for peer reviews
        • User:CloudNineBot – transcludes articles at the main peer review page onto WikiProject peer review pages
        • User:PeerReviewBot – archives peer review pages
      • Other peer review:
        • Wikipedia:Scientific peer review
        • Wikipedia:Academic peer review
  • Assessments:

    Shortcut: WP:EIW#Assessment

    • By editors (from "stub" (worst) to "featured article" (best)):
      • Wikipedia:WikiProject Council/Assessment FAQ
      • Wikipedia:Version 1.0 Editorial Team/Assessment (guideline) – an assessment scale in use to give "grades" to articles
      • Category:WikiProject assessments – separate pages within WikiProjects that show assessments done and still needed for pages within that WikiProject
      • User talk:Outriggr/metadatatest.js – talk-page project templates can be added or modified from the article page via drop-downs, and an article's project assessments are displayed when looking at the article
      • User:VeblenBot – updates a table with counts of article ratings
    • By viewers (ratings/reviews) (not implemented):
      • m:Article validation feature (was supposed to begin in late 2005)
      • mw:Extension:Review
    • Based on quality of editors:
      • WikiTrust:
        • Announcement of Version 2, August 2008
        • Blog
        • Main Page
  • Other:
    • m:Wikimedia Sverige/Lennart thoughts of Quality
    • Wikipedia:Forum for Encyclopedic Standards
    • Wikipedia:Quality control
    • Wikipedia:100,000 feature-quality articles – essay, includes some specific steps
    • Category:Wikipedia editorial validation
• Quality of editing, improving: see Learning

Shortcut: WP:EIW#Query

• Queries (database) (see also Downloading all of Wikipedia, Statistics and reports, Technical (hardware and software))
  • Wikipedia:Database queries
  • mw:API:Query
  • m:Requests for queries – SQL queries against wiki projects, including Wikipedia
  • API to query data directly from the MediaWiki servers
  • WikiXMLDB – Wikipedia content has been parsed into well-structured XML representation and loaded into a Sedna XML database, and an XQuery Web interface has been set up
  • Online version of dbpedia.org – structured information extracted from Wikipedia
  • Query Wikipedia – semantic database extracted from Wikipedia that can be queried
  • m:WikiXRay – a robust and extensible software tool for an in-depth quantitative analysis of the whole Wikipedia project (under development as of October 2007)
  • User talk:TonyBot – bot that can do database queries upon request (requires registration)
  • Wikipedia:Scripts#Database scripting – scripts that can be used with a downloaded database
  • Analysis:
    • Wikipedia:WikiProject Database analysis – collaboration of editors who use XML database dumps
    • User:Bluemoose/DataBaseSearchTool – for searching a database dump
    • Wikipedia:Computer help desk/ParseMediaWikiDump
    • User:Topbanana/Reports/Scripts/Create Link Analysis Database – script to analyze links within a downloaded database

Shortcut: WP:EIW#Question

• Questions: (see also Assistance, Help, Learning)
  • Wikipedia:Questions
  • Specific places to ask questions:
    • Wikipedia:Help desk (WP:HD)
    • Wikipedia:New contributors' help page (WP:NCHP)
    • Wikipedia:Media copyright questions (WP:MCQ)
    • Wikipedia:Village pump (technical) (WP:VPT)
    • Wikipedia:Reach out – a place to post about one's troubles as a Wikipedia editor
    • Wikipedia:Reference desk (WP:RD) – a librarian service; not for help with editing
    • On a user talk page, via Template:Helpme
    • IRC: Wikipedia IRC help channel (irc://irc.freenode.net/wikipedia-en-help)
• Quick index: Portal:Contents/Quick index (see also Index of pages)

Shortcut: WP:EIW#Quickbar

• Quickbar: (the set of links on the left side of the page, often called "sidebar")
  • mw:Sidebar – standard links for the top two boxes of the quickbar
  • Wikipedia:Tools/Navigation shortcuts – add one or more personal sidebars, with links, on the left side of the screen
  • User:Trilobite/Tools#Replace sidebar navbox with personal tools – uses CSS to move the links at the upper right to the left side of the screen
  • Floating the quickbar:
    • m:Help:User style/floating quickbar
    • bugzilla:287 – Bug #287 – floating quickbar support for the Monobook skin

Shortcut: WP:EIW#Quote

• Quotations:
  • Wikipedia:Manual of Style#Quotations
  • Wikipedia:Manual of Style#Quotation marks
  • Wikipedia:Manual of Style#Italics
  • Template:Quote

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Shortcut: WP:EIW#Random

• Random article:
  • Special:Random (in the standard navigation box on the left) (adding a suffix – /Category, /Help, /Image, /Portal, /Template, /User, or /Wikipedia) will take you to a random page in those namespaces)
  • Wikipedia:Random page patrol
  • Portal:Middle-earth/Random-article – example of how to generate a random article from a specified set of articles
  • User:Misza13/Random – Random number generator (via a template)
  • Bug #2170 – choosing a random article from a category is available in MediaWiki software; disabled on Wikipedia for performance reasons
  • Random article tools:
    • Random Featured article
    • Random Good article
    • Wiki ToDo – Randomly selects an article, provides a statistical analysis, and suggests ways to improve it
    • User:Proteins/followrandomlinkonpage.js – user script for following a random link on a page

Shortcut: WP:EIW#Recent

• Recent changes: (see also Monitoring changes, Vandalism)
  • Special:Recentchanges
  • Help:Recent changes
  • Help:Enhanced recent changes
  • Related changes:
    • Help:Related changes
    • Recent changes to all articles in a category: http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Recentchangeslinked&target=Category%3ACategory_name (must use underscores)
  • Wikipedia:Scripts#Recent changes scripts
  • Wikipedia:IRCMonitor – Windows application, primarily for vandal-fighting
  • m:IRC/Channels#Recent changes
• Recentism: see Bias
• Recognition: see Awards

Shortcuts: WP:EIW#Red WP:EIW#Red_links

• Red links:
  • Wikipedia:Red link
  • MediaWiki:Red-link-title – standard tool-tip message
  • Wikipedia:WikiProject Red Link Recovery
  • Wikipedia:Write the Article First (essay) – don't create red links, and then write the article.

Shortcut: WP:EIW#Redirect

• Redirects:
  • Wikipedia:Redirect
  • Help:Redirect
  • Wikipedia:Template messages/Redirect pages
  • Wikipedia:Soft redirect (WP:SRD) (guideline)
  • Wikipedia:Tools/Navigation popups/About fixing redirects (basically, don't fix single redirects)
  • Category:Disambiguation and redirection templates
  • Category:Redirects
  • Wikipedia:Categorizing redirects – most redirects should not have a category on the redirect page
  • Help:Piped link#Using a redirect as an alternative
  • Wikipedia:Cross-namespace redirects (essay)
  • Wikipedia:WikiProject Redirect
  • Tools:
    • What redirects here – finds the redirects that point to a specified page (uses a version of Wikipedia that lags the current version slightly)
    • User:Splarka/fetchredirects.js – adds a link (left side), similar to "What links here"
    • User:Dschwen/HighlightRedirects – limited use; "fixing" redirects is not recommended
    • User:Anomie/linkclassifier.js – User script that changes the color of the wikilink to an article when that article is a redirect or disambiguation page or has been proposed for deletion at AfD
  • Problematical:
    • Broken redirects (point to non-existent page)
      • Special:BrokenRedirects – list
      • Bots:
        • User:SQLBot
        • User:RedirectCleanupBot
    • Double redirects:
      • Wikipedia:Double redirects
      • Special:DoubleRedirects – list produced every three days or so
      • Automated correction by MediaWiki software (as of July 2008)
        • Signpost note about software change
        • Wikitech-l posting, "Double redirect fixer", July 2008
        • Bug #4578 – "Page moves should not create double redirects"
      • Bots that fix:
        • User:タチコマ robot
        • User:COBot
        • User:Muro Bot
        • User:Stwalkerbot
        • User:SoxBot
    • To be deleted or discussed:
      • Wikipedia:Criteria for speedy deletion#Redirects
      • Wikipedia:Redirects for discussion – where decisions are made about what should be done with problematic redirects, including deletion

Shortcut: WP:EIW#Redistribution

• Redistribution: (see also Competitors, forks, and mirrors, Schools)
  • Wikipedia:DVD
  • Wikipedia:Wikipedia CD Selection
  • Wikipedia:Version 0.5
  • Wikipedia:Snapshots
  • Category:Wikipedia redistribution
• Refactoring: see Talk pages
• References: see Sources

Shortcut: WP:EIW#Region

• Regional noticeboards:
  • Wikipedia:Regional notice boards
  • Category:Regional Wikipedian notice boards
• Registration: see User account and username
• Related changes: see Recent changes
• Reliable sources: see Sources
• Renaming (pages): see Moving a page
• Requests for comment: Wikipedia:Requests for comment
• Reports: see Statistics and reports
• Requested articles: see New articles

Shortcuts: WP:EIW#Resource WP:EIW-Resource

• Resources (except image-specific or sound-specific resources, for which see Images, Media): (for how to do a citation, see Sources)
  • Wikipedia:Article development#Research
  • Wikipedia:Public domain resources
  • Wikipedia:GNU Free Documentation License resources (freely usable resources)
  • Wikipedia:Free or semi-free non-Public-Domain information resources
  • Wikipedia:Current science and technology sources
  • Wikipedia:News sources
  • Dispatches: Find reliable sources online, Signpost, July 2008
  • Dispatches: Sources in biology and medicine, Signpost, June 2008
  • Wikipedia Reference Search:
    • Search page (Google)
    • User:Nicolas1981/Wikipedia Reference Search – underlying list of sources (domains)
  • Appropedia's Public Domain Search
  • Wikipedia:List of bibliographies
  • Category:Wikipedia sources
  • Template:Article resources
  • Assistance from other editors:
    • Wikipedia:WikiProject Resource Exchange
    • Wikipedia:List of sources
    • Wikipedia group at LibraryThing.com – to provide a distributed catalogue of books available to editors
  • Other:
    • WikiResearch – a tool for doing research, part of the WikiBrowse package
    • Zotero, an on-line research tool, which can export citations in Wikipedia format

Shortcut: WP:EIW#Revert

• Reverts:
  • Help:Reverting
  • Wikipedia:Revert only when necessary (WP:ROWN) (essay)
  • Wikipedia:Three-revert rule – more than three reverts by one editor to one article within 24 hours is grounds for an automatic block (WP:3RR)
  • User warning: Template:uw-3rr
  • Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/Edit warring – place to report 3RR violations (WP:AN/3RR)
  • Wikipedia:Three revert rule enforcement – 2004 poll about whether admins should enforce 3RR rule (was being enforced by Arbitration Committee)
  • Wikipedia:WikiProject User scripts/Scripts/Revert tools
  • Talk:Gdansk/Vote – special exception to the 3RR rule
  • Via rollback:
    • Help:Reverting#Rollback
    • Wikipedia:Rollback feature
    • Wikipedia:New admin school/Rollback
    • Category:Wikipedia rollback feature
    • Wikipedia:Village pump (technical)/Archive 55#This week's software updates – how to hide "rollback" links in one's watchlist and on user pages
    • By non-admins:
      • Wikipedia:Rollback for non-administrators – discussion, December 2007; implemented January 2008
      • Wikipedia:Requests for permissions – place to ask for rollback user rights
      • Category:Wikipedia administrators willing to grant rollback requests
      • bugzilla:12534 – Bug #12534 – Rollback on en.wiki (resolved/closed; link is here for those interested in the history of this feature)
      • Wikipedia:Requests for rollback/Draft poll
• Revision (prior version) of a page: see History
• Reward Board: Wikipedia:Reward board (see also Wikipedia:Bounty board)
• RFC automatic links: mw:Manual:RFC
• Risk disclaimer: Wikipedia:Risk disclaimer

Shortcut: WP:EIW#Roads

• Roads:
  • Wikipedia:Manual of Style (U.S. state and territory highways)
  • Wikipedia:WikiProject U.S. Roads (includes three guidelines)
• Romanian: Help:Romanian characters
• Russian: Wikipedia:Romanization of Russian
• RSS and similar feeds: see Monitoring changes

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Shortcut: WP:EIW#Sandbox

• Sandbox: a place to practice without hurting anything
  • Wikipedia:About the Sandbox
  • Wikipedia:Sandbox
  • Cleaning: User:OverlordQBot, User:SoxBot IV, User:Addbot, User:ClueBot II

Shortcut: WP:EIW#School

• Schools:
  • Wikipedia:FAQ/Schools
  • Wikipedia:School and university projects (WP:SUP)
  • Wikipedia:WikiProject Universities/Article guidelines – guideline for articles within the scope of this WikiProject
  • Wikipedia:WikiProject Classroom coordination
  • 2008/2009 Wikipedia Selection for schools – 5,500 "good" and above articles, cleaned up and checked for suitability for children, on a single DVD (background and downloadable version of the earlier, 2007 selection here)
  • Template:Schoolblock
  • Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Common outcomes#Education
  • Tagging by bots:
    • User:SelketBot
    • User:MadmanBot – adds {{SharedIPEDU}} and name of college/university/school to IP user talk pages
• Scripts: see User scripts
• Scrolling reference lists: not allowed per Wikipedia:Citing sources

Shortcut: WP:EIW#Search

• Searching Wikipedia: (see also Index of pages, Queries (database))
  • In general:
    • Wikipedia:Searching
    • Help:Searching
    • Wikipedia:Look it up
  • From within Wikipedia:
    • Search engine:
      • "MediaWiki search engine improved" (Signpost article, November 2008)
      • Special:Search – regular search with a wider box to enter text
      • Test web interface for lucene-search 2.1
      • User:Zocky/Auto Complete – auto-completes the titles of articles in the search box (JavaScript) (no longer required as of May 2008; this is built into the search function now)
      • Invoking search:
        • Help:Go button
        • Wikipedia:FAQ/Main Page#Why doesn't the cursor appear in the search box, like with Google? – provides JavaScript so that the page focus is automatically in the search box
    • Other:
      • Special:Prefixindex – lists articles that begin with any chosen initial character string
  • From outside Wikipedia:
    • Firefox:
      • Using Wikipedia for the search box provides an autocomplete feature
      • Creating a smart keyword – can replace "site:en.wikipedia.org" in searches
    • Wikiseek:
      • Wikiseek – A better way to search Wikipedia – beta, January 2007; includes Firefox extension
      • Wikiseek Community Wikie
      • DBpedia.org
    • Similpedia – uses a URL or a chunk of text to find similar articles in Wikipedia
    • AskWiki – semantic search engine developed in partnership between AskMeNow and the Wikimedia Foundation (beta)
    • Powerset – natural language search of Wikipedia
    • Yahoo's Wikipedia SearchMonkey App
    • Seariki – search engine specifically designed for Wikipedia [(http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikien-l/2007-December/088027.html December 2007 announcement])
    • Powerset – semantic search (May 2008)
    • Googlepedia – Firefox add-on; shows a relevant Wikipedia article along with Google search results
    • Preventing search engines from searching pages:
      • Robots.txt file – specifies search engines that are not allowed to crawl all or part of Wikipedia, as well as pages/namespaces that are not to be indexed by any search engine
      • MediaWiki:Robots.txt – direct editing of robots.txt
      • mw:Extension:NoRobots allows editors to mark specific pages as not to be included by all outside search engines [not implemented as of April 2008]
      • Wikipedia:Talk pages not indexed by Google (feature request)
  • Tools:
    • Wikipedia:Tools#Searching (may eventually merge into Wikipedia:Searching)
    • Wikipedia:WikiProject User scripts/Scripts#Searching
  • Semantic MediaWiki:
    • Semantic MediaWiki – version 0.7 was released April 2007
    • m:Semantic MediaWiki
    • Semantic MediaWiki at Sourceforge.net
    • Wikipedia Concept Extractor at Sourceforge.net
  • Wikipedia:WikiProject Microformats – metadata
• Sections (of articles): see Layout and sections
• "See also" section: Wikipedia:Layout#See also
• Self-interest: see Conflicts of interest
• Semi-protection of pages: see Protection of pages

Shortcut: WP:EIW#Series

• Series boxes:
  • Wikipedia:Article series (Manual of Style)
  • Wikipedia:Incumbent series
  • Wikipedia:Navigation templates
  • Category:Navigational templates
  • Wikipedia:List of article series
  • Wikipedia:NavFrame – dynamic navigation (series) boxes (collapsible – hide/show)
  • Template:Navigation tabs
  • Wikipedia:Categories, lists, and navigation templates – compares alternative approaches
• Servers: see Statistics, Technical (hardware and software)

Shortcut: WP:EIW#Shortcuts

• Shortcuts (abbreviated redirects):
  • Wikipedia:Shortcut
  • Wikipedia:List of shortcuts
  • Wikipedia:Shortcuts to talk pages
  • Wikipedia:List of shortcuts/Project shortcuts
  • Wikipedia:WTF? OMG! TMD TLA. ARG! (essay)
  • Category:Redirects from shortcut
  • User:Deathlime/Deredirectification – user script so that a mousing over a shortcut shows the name of the page that the shortcut points to
  • Wikipedia:Full meta links – failed proposal to implement templates to replace shortcuts

Shortcut: WP:EIW#Sign

• Signatures: (see also Customization, Talk pages)
  • Wikipedia:Signatures (WP:SIG) (guideline)
  • bugzilla:8458 – Bug #8458 – proposed restriction for length of signatures
  • Individual changes to the default signature:
    • Wikipedia:How to fix your signature
    • User:Athaenara/Gallery
    • User:Smurrayinchester/Tutorial/Signature
    • User:NikoSilver/Signature shop
  • Automatic signing (automated signing):
    • User:SineBot – signs talk pages for editors who forgot, where an editor started a new section or an indented his/her comment (replacement for User:HagermanBot)
    • Category:Wikipedians who have opted out of automatic signing
  • Pages where default signatures can be customized: (implemented November 2007
    • Mediawiki:Signature
    • Mediawiki:Signature-anon
  • Other:
    • Wikipedia:WikiProject User scripts/Scripts#Editing – user scripts to help editors with signing
    • Template:Tilde – notice that can be put on user talk pages to remind editors to sign
    • MediaWiki:Signature – format of default signature for editors who haven't changed the default in their preferences
• Signon – see Logging in, User account and username
• Single purpose account: Wikipedia:Single-purpose account (essay)
• Sinhala: Help:Sinhala Font Guide
• Signpost – see News (about Wikipedia)
• Sister projects: see Transwiki
• Slovenia: Wikipedia:Naming conventions (Slovenian vs Slovene) (guideline)

Shortcut: WP:EIW#Sock

• Sock puppets (multiple accounts by one person):
  • Wikipedia:Sock puppetry (WP:SOCK) (policy)
  • Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations
  • Wikipedia:Suspected sock puppets – discussion and reporting (inactive/historical)
  • Wikipedia:Username policy#Doppelganger accounts – accounts created preemptively to block vandals (allowable)
  • tools:~pietrodn/intersectContribs.php Intersection contribs – lists all pages edited by both of two specified editors
  • tools:~erwin85/contribs.php Muliple contributors – A "recent edits" listing for a group of (specified) editors
  • Checkuser: (identifying sock puppets by checking IP addresses)

    Shortcut: WP:EIW#Checkuser

    • Wikipedia:CheckUser (policy)
    • Wikipedia:Requests for checkuser – requests for review of addresses
    • Wikipedia:Quick and dirty Checkuser policy (failed proposal)
    • How editors become checkusers:
      • Wikipedia:Arbitration Committee/CheckUser and Oversight elections
      • Wikipedia:Requests for checkusership (proposal as of April 2008)
      • Wikipedia:Arbitration Committee/June 2008 announcements/Checkuser appointments
      • Wikipedia:Arbitration Committee/CheckUser and Oversight appointments (discussion, January 2009)
• Software:
  • As the subject of an article: Wikipedia:Notability (software) (inactive proposal)
  • Used for the Wikipedia project: see MediaWiki, Technical (hardware and software)
  • Used for editing: see Browsers, Editing software
• Sound (files): see Media

Shortcut: WP:EIW#Source

• Sources (see also Resources, Spam, URLs)
  • WHY and WHEN sources must be given (including avoiding excessive links):
    • Wikipedia:Verifiability (WP:V) (policy)
    • Original research:
      • Wikipedia:No original research (WP:NOR) (policy)
      • Wikipedia:These are not original research (essay)
    • Wikipedia:Attribution (WP:ATT) (essay)
    • Wikipedia:Common knowledge (essay)
    • User:Uncle G/On sources and content
    • Wikipedia:Citing sources#When to cite sources (WP:CITE) (guideline)
    • Wikipedia:When to cite (essay or guideline – disputed as of March 2008)
    • Wikipedia:Scientific citation guidelines (Manual of Style)
  • WHAT can be properly be used as a source, and WHERE links/sources should appear:
    • Wikipedia:Reliable sources (WP:RS) (guideline)
    • Wikipedia:Reliable source examples
    • Dispatches: Reliable sources in content review processes, Signpost article, June 2008
    • Wikipedia:Reliable sources (medicine-related articles)
    • Wikipedia:Evaluating sources (essay)
    • Wikipedia:External links (Manual of Style)
    • Wikipedia:Convenience link (essay) – links to primary sources, or to copies of secondary sources
  • HOW to cite a source:

    Shortcut: WP:EIW#Citesource

    • In general (including formatting):
      • Wikipedia:Citing sources#How to cite sources (WP:CITE) (guideline) – badly organized, but probably the best starting place
      • Wikipedia:Citation templates (WP:CITET)
      • Category:Citation templates
      • Help:Citations quick reference
      • Wikipedia:Template messages/Sources of articles/Citation quick reference (WP:CITEQR)
      • Wikipedia:Do not include the full text of lengthy primary sources (guideline)
      • Wikipedia:Inline citation (essay) (outdated informational page)
      • Wikipedia:Linking#External links – mostly derivative from other pages
      • Wikipedia:How to edit a page#Links and URLs – mostly about wikilinks
      • Wikipedia:Verification methods (essay/how-to)
    • Three alternative systems:
      • Embedded citations: Wikipedia:Embedded citations
      • Footnotes:
        • Wikipedia:Footnotes (guideline)
        • Help:Footnotes
        • Wikipedia:Referencing for beginners
        • mw: Extension:Cite/Cite.php – technical; discusses issues with current <ref> tags
        • m:Talk:Cite/Cite.php (fork, as of 30 April 2006)
        • Template:Rp – for appending page numbers to Cite.php-generated footnote superscripts (can also be used to add a link, to mimic the embedded citations method)
        • User:Magnus Manske/less edit clutter.js – interface change, via javascript, that puts references in a separate edit box (screenshot, mailing list discusion)
        • Template:Source list – for creating a hidden list of sources; typically placed in the "References" section
      • Parenthetical referencing (was "Harvard referencing", "Author-date referencing"):
        • Wikipedia:Parenthetical referencing
        • Wikipedia:Harvard citation template examples
      • Mixing footnotes and parenthetical referencing:
        • Discussion: Wikipedia talk:Featured article criteria/Archive 6#Consistent references - mixing Harvard and Chicago
        • User:CitationTool/Hybrid referencing
        • Examples: Charles Darwin, Pericles, Che Guevara, saffron
    • Possible changes to MediaWiki software regarding citations:
      • m:Wikicat
      • mw:Category:Referencing extensions
      • bugzilla:423 – Bug #423 – a reference system that support BibTeX databases (under development)
      • m:Wikicite – future system for automated fact citation and checking
      • Biblio.php (alternative site)

        Shortcut: WP:EIW#Citetools

    • Tools for creating citations:
      • Wikipedia:Citation tools
      • User:Mr.Z-man/refToolbar (available via the Gadgets tab)
      • Universal reference formatter
    • Other:
      • User:Citation bot – Adds Digital object identifiers (DOIs), PubMed Identifiers (PMIDs), and ISBNs, and fixes common formatting errors, in citations which use the templates {{cite journal}}, {{cite book}}, {{cite arXiv}}, and {{citation}}
  • PROBLEMS: Preventing, identifying, and fixing:

    Shortcut: WP:EIW#Citeprobs

    • In general:
      • Wikipedia:WikiProject Citation cleanup
      • Wikipedia:WikiProject External links
      • Wikipedia:WikiProject Fact and Reference Check
      • Category:Wikipedians who convert reference tags
      • Wikipedia:WikiProject critical source examination
      • Category:Citation and verifiability maintenance templates
    • Footnote problems, other than bad external links (for which, see below):
      • Help:Cite errors
      • Category:Pages with incorrect ref formatting
      • User:LemmeyBOT – fixes incorrect ref tag formatting
      • User:DumZiBoT – adds a title (from page HTML) for a naked URL enclosed by <ref> tags
      • User:CitationTool (inactive or never functional)
      • User:Fictional tool (inactive or never functional)
    • Lack of sources:
      • Wikipedia:Unreferenced articles – project to review articles that are in [[Category:Articles lacking sources]]
      • Wikipedia:WikiProject Unreferenced Article Cleanup
      • Category:Articles lacking sources (Template:Unreferenced)
      • Category:Articles lacking reliable references (Template:Primary sources)
      • "Citation needed" tag (template: {{fact}}):
        • Wikipedia:Citation needed
        • Category:All articles with unsourced statements
      • User warning templates: Wikipedia:Recent changes patrol#Lack of sources
    • Unreliable sources: Wikipedia:Reliable sources/Noticeboard
    • Bad external links: (link rot)

      Shortcut: WP:EIW#LinkRot

      • Preventing:
        • WebCite – a way to archive a copy of a page that is an external link
        • Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/WebCiteBOT (proposed, February 2009)
      • Finding bad links:
        • Checklinks (generates a report for links on any requested page):
          • Checklinks
          • User:Dispenser/Checklinks – documentation
        • m:Weblinkchecker.py -script to find and report external links that are no longer available
        • Bots:
          • User:EchoBot – bot that posts messages on article talk pages when a dead external link is found
          • User:Stwalkerbot – bot that posts messages on article talk pages when a dead external link is found
          • Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/ShakingBot – inactive request for bot to flag bad external links
      • Identified bad links:
        • Wikipedia:Dead external links – lists bad links
        • Template:dead link
        • Category:Wikipedia external links cleanup
      • Fixing bad external links:
        • Wikipedia:Citing sources#Dead links
        • Wikipedia:Improving referencing efforts (proposal)
        • Archive.org:
          • Wikipedia:Using the Wayback Machine
          • ErrorZilla – Firefox add-on; when a link is not found, the error screen offers (among other things) a search of archive.org
        • User:RefBot – not operational due to restrictions on owner – ArbComm cases
  • OTHER:
    • Special:Linksearch – identifying all external links from a given domain that are in Wikipedia articles (useful for spam searches, for example)
    • Category:External link templates
    • Wikipedia:Canonicalization – how links work (technical)
    • Help:Custom namespaces – prefixes (like :m) that (normally) resolve into an interwiki but can resolve into external source
    • Wikipedia:Self-references to avoid
    • Top 500 external websites to which Wikipedia links
    • User:Anomie/reftooltip.js – user script to display footnote text as a tooltip when the cursor is on a footnote number
    • User:Anomie/ajaxpreview.js – user script to display footnotes in the preview when editing a section

Shortcut: WP:EIW#Spam

• Spam: (see also Sources, Vandalism)
  • Wikipedia:Spam (WP:SPAM) (guideline)
  • Blacklist:
    • m:Spam blacklist – blocked domains
    • MediaWiki:Spam-blacklist
    • m:File:Screencast - Spam blacklist introduction and COIBot reports - best.ogv
  • Wikipedia:WikiProject Spam
  • User:Thomas H. Larsen/Yuser, on fighting linkspam
  • Special:Linksearch – tool for finding all articles with similar spam (spam domain)
  • Wikipedia:Template messages/User talk namespace#Grid of warnings – warnings (templates) for spammers
  • m:Anti-spam features – some built in, some optional
  • Template:Spamsearch – list of spam terms ("our products") to search for
  • Category:Wikipedia spam
  • Automation:
    • Bots:
      • User:AntiSpamBot (was Shadowbot)
      • User:XLinkBot (was SquelchBot) and User talk:XLinkBot/RevertList
      • User:COIBot – reports linkadditions where the editor's name has a significant overlap with the domain of the link added, or (for IP editors) the IP of the link is close to the IP of the editor
      • User:RBSpamAnalyzerBot – uses database dumps to analyze pages for potential spam
      • User:Nixeagle/Linkwatcher – bot that identifies links added in edits; feed is via Freenode
      • User:MER-C/Spamsearch – searching for a particular (spammy) URL across all 700+ Wikimedia projects
      • User: RoboMaxCyberSem – removal of links to blacklisted and other problem sites
    • m:Spamda – anti-spam program to assist editors in identifying and reverting spam; under development as July 2007
  • Wikipedia:Search engine optimization (essay)
  • Wikipedia:Spam event horizon (essay)
  • Wikipedia:Wikipedia is not Google (essay)
  • Wikipedia:WikiProject Advertising (inactive)
• Span tags: Wikipedia:Span tags – common ones are "div" (small font in References/Notes section), strikethrough, and blockquote

Shortcut: WP:EIW#SpecialChar

• Special characters:
  • Help:Special characters
  • Help:Macrons

Shortcut: WP:EIW#Special

• Special pages:
  • Help:Special page
  • m:Help:Special page
  • Special:Specialpages – list/links

Shortcut: WP:EIW#Spell

• Spelling: (see also Formatting of text, Maintenance)
  • Wikipedia:Proper names
  • U.S. and Commonwealth differences:
    • Wikipedia:Manual of Style (spelling)
    • Wikipedia:Manual of Style (capital letters)
    • Wikipedia:List of spelling variants
    • Wikipedia:Articles using British English titles
    • Wikipedia:Articles using American English titles
    • Wikipedia:Manual of Style (national varieties of English) (failed proposal)
    • Wikipedia:Perennial proposals#Enforce American or British spelling
  • Errors in articles:
    • Wikipedia:Spellchecking
    • Wikipedia:Lists of common misspellings
    • Wikipedia:Redirects from misspellings
    • Wikipedia:AutoWikiBrowser/Typos
    • Wikipedia:Typo Team
    • User:TypoBot
    • User:SpellCheckerBot – will generate lists of suspected spelling errors which individual editors can then review and correct
    • Spellbot: User talk:Rambot (awaiting code rewrite as of March 2007)
    • Wikipedia:AutoWikiBrowser/Typos – set of regular expressions used to automatically fix common typos and misspellings
    • Other:
      • Spell checkers for various browsers: see Wikipedia:Tip of the day/September 2
• Splitting: see Article size
• Spoiler: Wikipedia:Spoiler (WP:SPOIL) (guideline)
• SQL query: see Queries (database)

Shortcut: WP:EIW#Stable

• Stable versions: (see also Quality of articles)
  • Wikipedia:Why stable versions
  • Wikipedia:Flagged revisions (WP:FLR)
  • mw:Extension:FlaggedRevs – allows for Editor and Reviewer classes of editors to rate articles and set revisions as the default to show normal viewers
  • Implementation on German Wikipedia:
    • User:Dapete/Report on Flagged Revisions, December 14, 2008 (status report)
    • Implementation statistics
  • Demonstrations:
    • On a version of Mediawiki software not run by the Wikimedia Foundation (starting September 2007)
    • Beta version on Foundation software (starting March 2008)
  • Discussed in Signpost: March 2005, July 2006, August 2006, March 2008
  • m:Reviewed article version
  • m:Article validation
  • Veropedia – stable articles imported from Wikipedia
  • Inactive/rejected:
    • m:Article endorsement (inactive proposal)
    • Wikipedia:Stable versions (inactive)
    • Wikipedia:Stable versions now (failed proposal)

Shortcut: WP:EIW#Statistic

• Statistics and reports: (see also separate topics, Page views (of articles), Queries (database))
  • Wikipedia:Statistics
  • Special:Statistics
  • Category:Wikipedia statistics
  • Wikipedia:Awareness statistics
  • Wikipedia:Size of Wikipedia
  • Wikipedia:Modelling Wikipedia's growth
  • WikiProjects:
    • Wikipedia:Statistics Department
    • Wikipedia:WikiProject Editing trends
  • User:Katalaveno/TBE – time between (10 million) edits of the English Wikipedia
  • Infodisiac blog – postings by Eric Zachte, hired September 1, 2008 to maintain and develop code for metrics for Wikimedia Foundation projects
  • Help:Magic words#Statistics – "magic words" that provide statistical information
  • Information kept on wikimedia.org (Foundation) pages:
    • Erik Zachte's Wikipedia Statistics Sitemap
    • Server statistics
  • Wikipedia:Multilingual statistics – by month, for all different language Wikipedias (related)
  • Editing by time of day
  • m:List of Wikipedias
  • User:NoSeptember/Subpages about adminship – many subpages have reports; many include more than just admin-related reports
  • nedworks.org Statistics (charts)
  • Wikipedia:Modelling Wikipedia's growth
  • User:Dragons flight/Log analysis – analysis of both log entries (100%) and a sampling (6%) of article histories (edits), some data back to 2001 (analysis reported October 2007)
• Stewards: see Functionaries

Shortcut: WP:EIW#Stub

• Stubs:
  • Wikipedia:Stub (WP:STUB) (guideline)
  • User:Grutness/Stubbing how-to
  • Wikipedia:Most wanted stubs
  • Wikipedia:WikiProject Stub sorting
  • Wikipedia:WikiProject Stub sorting/Naming guidelines
  • Wikipedia:WikiProject Anti-Stub
  • Special:Shortpages
  • Shortpages – finds pages of less than 50 characters
  • User:Zorglbot/Shortpages
  • Wikipedia:Computer help desk/cleanup/stubsensor/20060810 – project to remove stubs from articles where that tag does not belong
  • User:Triddle/stubsensor – tries to identify out-of-the-ordinary articles tagged as stubs
  • Wikipedia:Stub types for deletion
  • User:Ais523/stubtagtab.js – adds tab for easy application of {{stub}} and more specific stub templates
  • Bots:
    • User:Giggabot – does stub sorting
    • User:Addbot – checks articles in Category:Stubs to see if they should still be in that category
    • User:RockfangBot – prepares stub types to be deleted (orphans them)

Shortcut: WP:EIW#Style

• Style (articles) (see also Accessibility, Dates, Formatting of text, Layout and sections, Punctuation, Quality of articles, Words and wording)
  • General:
    • Wikipedia:Manual of Style
    • Wikipedia:Guidance on applying the Manual of Style
    • Wikipedia:Requests for comment/Style issues
    • Wikipedia:Annotated article – an annotated article that explains various editing decisions, using a sample article
    • Wikipedia:List of policies#Content and Style – which topics are welcome on Wikipedia, and quality and naming standards
    • User:Tony1/Monthly updates of styleguide and policy changes
    • Category:Wikipedia style guidelines
  • Other:
    • Wikipedia:Abundance and redundancy (essay)
    • User:Wooyi/Readability (essay)
    • Wikipedia:Criticism (essay) – on criticism of subjects of articles, within those articles
    • Invisible (hidden) comments: Wikipedia:Manual of Style#Invisible comments
    • Wikipedia:WikiProject Usability
    • User:Tony1/How to satisfy Criterion 1a: redundancy exercises

Shortcut: WP:EIW#Subpage

• Subpages:
  • Wikipedia:Subpages (WP:SP) (guideline)
  • Wikipedia:User page#How do I create a user subpage? (WP:USER) (guideline)
  • User:UberScienceNerd/Tutorials/Using subpages
  • Query results – existing namespaces – lists which namespaces are allowed to have subpages
  • Deleting: Template:Db-u1 for userspace pages
• Subsections (of articles): see Layout and sections
• Substitution: see Templates
• Synonyms: Synarcher at SourceForge.net – search and visual display
• Sysop: see Administrator

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Shortcut: WP:EIW#TOC

• Table of contents: (see also Layout and sections)
  • Category:TOC templates
  • Wikipedia:Template messages/Compact tables of contents
  • Help:Section – covers several aspects of TOCs

Shortcut: WP:EIW#Table

• Tables:
  • Wikipedia:How to use tables ("disambiguation" page)
  • Wikipedia:When to use tables (Manual of Style)
  • Help:Table
  • Help:Sorting
  • m:Help:Collapsing
  • User:Smurrayinchester/Tutorial/Tables
  • User:Dcljr/Tables – another user page about tables
  • "Table" namespace:
    • mw:Extension:TableEdit
    • Wikipedia:Table: namespace and editor – proposal that a new table editor should be written and that tables should be moved to a namespace similar to Image namespace
    • Wikipedia:Table namespace
    • bugzilla:2194 – Bug # 2194 – feature request
  • Exporting a table from a page:
    • Data Scraping Wikipedia with Google Spreadsheets
  • Importing data from existing spreadsheets:
    • mw:Extension:SimpleTable – allows tabular data to be easily cut-and-pasted (proposal)
    • mw:Extension:Word2MediaWikiPlus – convert Microsoft Word tables to wikitables
    • Convert Excel tables to wikitables – saves most formatting like background – and fontcolor, fontstyle(bold/italic), column height and width
• Tabs: Template:PageTabs
• Tags: see Wikipedia:Span tags, Messageboxes (using the term “tags” to refer to messageboxes is common but technically incorrect; messageboxes are templates)

Shortcut: WP:EIW#Talk

• Talk pages (see also Archiving, Signature, User pages, Warnings)
  • Wikipedia:Talk page guidelines (WP:TPG)
  • Wikipedia:Talk page (WP:TP)
  • m:Help:Talk page
  • Wikipedia:Tutorial (Talk pages)
  • Wikipedia:BOLD, revert, discuss cycle – an exception to discussing content changes on article talk pages
  • Wikipedia:Refactoring talk pages
  • Wikipedia:A researcher's guide to discussion pages
  • Template:Uw-english – when an editor posts a comment in a language other than English
  • Wikipedia:Talk page highlights – humor
  • Wikipedia:WikiProject User scripts/Scripts/Talk page section tabs – if redlink to a talk page is clicked, uses the "new section" option for editing, not "new page" option
  • Wikipedia:Indentation (essay)
  • Wikipedia:Emoticons
  • Templates for avoiding having user talk page discussions on two different pages: {{usertalkback}} and {{talkback}}
  • IP user talk pages:
    • Wikipedia:IP talk page proposal
    • Template:IPtalk
    • Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/MonoBot 2 – adds a header (template) to long IP user talk pages
  • Liquid Threads: planned new system for talk pages

    Shortcut: WP:EIW#LT

    • mw:Extension:LiquidThreads – proposal
    • Demonstration site
    • In use on a site using MediaWiki software
  • Templates for article talk pages: (see also WikiProjects)
    • MediaWiki:Talkpagetext – standard message that appears at top of all (new?) mainspace talk pages – implemented late 2006
    • Template:Talkheader – common template (at least until Talkpagetext was implemented) – "Keep" decision 1/2007
    • Wikipedia:Talk page templates
    • Wikipedia:Template messages/Talk namespace
    • Template:ArticleHistory – consolidates information on multiple talk page templates (discussed at Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/2008-03-24/Dispatches)
    • Template:WikiProjectBanners and Template:WikiProjectBannerShell – for consolidating WikiProject templates at the top of article talk pages (discussed at Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/2008-03-24/Dispatches)
    • Category:Talk header templates
    • Template:Skip to talk – template for top of article talk pages, to allow readers to bypass other templates at top of article talk page
    • Bots:
      • User:PaievBot – adds specified text (including a parameterized template) to talk pages of articles in a given category and sub-categories
      • User:GimmeBot – adds information about events such as peer reviews and outcomes of featured and good article candidates to the Articlehistory template

Shortcut: WP:EIW#Technical

• Technical (hardware and software) (see also Bugs, MediaWiki, Queries (database))
  • General:
    • Wikipedia:FAQ/Technical
    • Category:Wikipedia features
    • m:System administrators (formerly "Developers")
    • Special:Version – lists extensions and hooks
    • Wikipedia:Don't worry about performance (WP:PERF) (guideline)
    • Wikimedia Technical Blog
    • Wikitech mailing list
    • Operational status
    • Wikipedia: Site internals, configuration, code examples and management issues (pdf), presentation at MySQL Users Conference 2007
  • Troubleshooting:
    • Wikipedia:FAQ/Problems
    • Wikipedia:Troubleshooting
    • Wikipedia:Village pump (technical)
    • Wikipedia:Bypass your cache
    • Wikipedia:Purge – clear a page's server cache
  • Other:
    • m:Wikimedia servers
    • Server admin log
    • Uptime statistics – at pingdom.com
    • m:Summer of Code 2006
    • m:Summer of Code 2006/ideas

Shortcut: WP:EIW#Template

• Templates: (see also Article message boxes, Infoboxes, Messageboxes, Series boxes, Transclusion, Userboxes)
  • General information:
    • Wikipedia:Template namespace
    • Help:A quick guide to templates
    • Wikipedia:Anatomy of a template (tutorial)
    • Wikipedia:FAQ/Template
    • Help:Template
  • More information:
    • Wikipedia:Template documentation
    • Wikipedia:Template messages
    • Wikipedia:No disclaimers in articles (guideline) – regarding templates like "This article contains profanity"
    • User:Scartol/Scartol, on template use and design
    • Templatology, an essay
  • Substitution:
    • Help:Substitution
    • Wikipedia:Template substitution (guideline) (WP:SUB)
    • User:MBisanzBot – does substitution when an editor forgets to do so
  • Technical:
    • Wikipedia:Template test cases
    • Wikipedia:Template limits
    • Help:Advanced templates
    • Help:Parameter default – expands templates recursively
    • Help:Editing sections of included templates
    • Special:ExpandTemplates – takes some text and expands all templates in it recursively.
    • Wikipedia:Changing templates
    • User:Willscrlt/commons/Category suppression in templates (en) – keeping templates from creating categories when they shouldn't
  • Problems:
    • Wikipedia:High-risk templates – authorizes permanent protection for such templates
    • Wikipedia:Requested templates
    • Wikipedia:Templates for deletion
    • Category:Pages containing omitted template arguments
    • Category:Pages where template include size is exceeded
    • Wikipedia:Templates with red links
    • Help:Job queue – why changing a category in a template doesn't instantly change all articles with that template
    • User:SoxBot – Substitutes templates that should be substituted, but were not
  • Other:
    • Category:Wikipedia templates
    • Category:Intricate templates
    • tools:~cbm/cgi-bin/queries/TemplateRevs – shows last edit for all templates transcluded on a page (default is WP:AN/I)
    • Wikipedia:WikiProject Inline Templates – primarily for inline superscript templates such as {{Fact}}
    • Wikipedia:Avoid template creep (essay)
    • User:Zondor/Toolboxes – list of templates used as tools
    • Wikipedia:Avoid using meta-templates (failed proposal)

Shortcut: WP:EIW#Terms

• Terms and terminology: (abbreviations and acronyms)
  • Wikipedia:Glossary
  • Wikipedia:Tutorial/Glossary – ten terms not covered in the main part of the tutorial that may be useful for beginners
  • Wikipedia:Edit summary legend – commonly used abbreviations in edit summaries
  • Wikipedia:Alphabet soup
  • Wikipedia:WikiSpeak – alternative definitions
• Thailand: Wikipedia:Manual of Style (Thailand-related articles)

Shortcut: WP:EIW#Threat

• Threats: (see also Personal attacks)
  • Legal threats: see Legal
  • Violence:
    • Wikipedia:Threats of violence
    • User:Mendaliv/TOV letter

Shortcut: WP:EIW#ToDo

• Things to do:
  • User:SuggestBot – generates a list of articles with known problems that the requesting editor might be interested in fixing
  • Wiki ToDo – Randomly selects an article, provides a statistical analysis, and suggests ways to improve it
  • Wikipedia:Maintenance
  • Wikipedia:The Cure for WikiBoredom
• Three reverts: Wikipedia:Three-revert rule (WP:3RR)
• Time:
  • Adjusting date/time shown on watchlists and other special pages: see "my preferences", "date and time" tab
  • User:Gary King/localize comments.js – converts all timestamps on a displayed Wikipedia page to the user's local time

Shortcut: WP:EIW#Timeline

• Timelines:
  • Wikipedia:Timeline
  • Wikipedia:Timeline standards (Manual of Style)
  • Wikipedia:Timeline syntax
  • Wikipedia:EasyTimeline
  • Help:EasyTimeline syntax
  • mw:Extension:WikiTimeLine (version 1.0 as of July 2008)
  • Lists of timelines
  • Category:Timelines
  • Category:Graphical timelines
  • {{include timeline}} – template to start process of creating a {{Horizontal timeline}} or a {{Graphical timeline}} (vertical timeline) template linked to a particular article (does not use [Easy]timeline syntax)
  • Easy Timeline index

Shortcut: WP:EIW#Tip

• Tips:
  • Wikipedia:Tips
  • Wikipedia:Tip of the day
  • Template for one's user page: {{totd}}
  • Category:Wikipedia Tip of the day
  • Wikipedia:Wikipedia tipster

Shortcut: WP:EIW#Tools

• Tools: (see also Bots, Extensions, User scripts)
  • Wikipedia:Tools
  • Category:Wikipedia tools
  • m:Open Source Toolset
  • m:User:Duesentrieb/Tools
  • m:Open Source Toolset
  • m:Toolserver
  • Wikipedia:Toolserver
  • "Wikr" bookmarklet
  • Wikipedia:Tools/Optimum tool set
  • Wikipedia:Tools/Not English – tools in languages other than English that need translation
  • Toolboxes (templates)
    • User:Fuhghettaboutit/Toolbox
    • Template:Tools
    • Template:UserTools
• Top of article: see Layout and sections

Shortcut: WP:EIW#Transclude

• Transclusion: (see also Templates)
  • Wikipedia:Transclusion
  • m:Help:A simple composite example
  • mw:Extension:Labeled Section Transclusion (not yet enabled)
  • mw:Extension:DynamicPageList – creating a composite article from a collection of sections "chapters" of similar articles

Shortcut: WP:EIW#Translate

• Translations: (see also Interwiki links)
  • Wikipedia in different languages – overview:
    • Wikipedia:Multilingual coordination
    • m:Meta:Babylon – Meta translations portal and noticeboard
    • m:Wikimedia Embassy – central place for resources to help with cross-language issues that affect everyone
    • Category:Wikipedia multilingual coordination
    • Wikipedia:Contributing to articles outside your native language
    • incubator:Main Page – Wikimedia Incubator, for developing potential Wikimedia project wikis in new language versions
  • Information about languages, and translation aids:
    • Wikipedia:Local Embassy
    • m:List of Wikipedias
    • Wikipedia:Language recognition chart
    • Help:Special characters
    • Help:Multilingual support (guide to fonts)
    • Category:Multilingual support templates
  • Problems with existing article in the English Wikipedia:
    • Wikipedia:Pages needing translation into English
    • Category:Wikipedia articles needing translation
    • Wikipedia:Content contradictory to other language versions
  • Moving information from other language Wikipedias to the English Wikipedia
    • Wikipedia:Translation
    • Wikipedia:French Collaboration Project – for translation of high quality articles from the French Wikipedia
    • Wikipedia:Spanish Translation of the Week
    • Wikipedia:WikiProject Echo – finding information in articles in non-English Wikipedias to be added to this Wikipedia (inactive)
    • Wikipedia Bilingual – side-by-side display of an article in any two languages in which it is available (Firefox browser extension)
  • Editors who can help with translations:
    • Wikipedia:Babel
    • Category:Available translators in Wikipedia
    • mw:Extension:Babel

Shortcut: WP:EIW#Transwiki

• Transwiki: (see also Interwiki links)
  • Wikipedia:Wikimedia sister projects (Manual of Style) – info on moving articles between other projects such as Wikiquote, Wikisource, Wiktionary, Wikinews, and Wikibooks
  • m:Help:Transwiki
  • Category:Transwiki templates
  • Wikipedia:Transwiki log
  • Information on specific sister projects:
    • Wikiversity: Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/2008-05-09/Wikiversity interview

Shortcut: WP:EIW#Trivia

• Trivia:
  • Wikipedia:Trivia sections (Manual of Style)
  • Template:Trivia
  • Wikipedia:Handling trivia
  • Wikipedia:"In popular culture" articles (essay)
  • Wikipedia:WikiProject Trivia Cleanup
  • Category:Articles with trivia sections
  • m:WikiTrivia – a proposed offshoot of Wikipedia
• Trolls and trolling: Wikipedia:What is a troll? (WP:TROLL) (essay)
• Tutorials: see Help pages

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• Undue weight: see Wikipedia:Neutral point of view (called "space and balance" in the NPOV tutorial)
• Unicode: Wikipedia:Scripts#Unicode numeric converter scripts

Shortcut: WP:EIW#Unit

• Units of measurement:
  • Wikipedia:Manual of Style (dates and numbers)#Units of measurement
  • Template:Convert
  • Category:Conversion templates
• Ukrainian: Wikipedia:Romanization of Ukrainian (Manual of Style)
• Universities: see Schools

Shortcut: WP:EIW#URL

• URLs: (see also Sources, Wikilinks)
  • Wikipedia:URLs- URLs of pages within Wikipedia: articles, redirects, watchlists, etc.
  • Help:URL
  • Wikipedia:Tutorial (External links)
  • {{urlencode:}} – magic word that encodes non-alphanumeric characters in a URL (for example, one that has brackets within it)
  • Template:Querylink – how to avoid showing the external link graphic for a URL for a Wikipedia page where the URL has a query string

Shortcut: WP:EIW#Usable

• Usability: (see also Accessibility, Editing interface)
  • Wikipedia:WikiProject Usability
  • m:Usability group
  • m:Usability
  • Wikimedia Foundation usability initiative (2009-2010):
    • Press release: Wikipedia to become more user-friendly for new volunteer writers (December 3, 2008)
    • Stanton Grant Q&A
    • m:Wikipedia Usability Initiative (Meta page)
    • Main page (wiki)
  • User:M/Wikipedia usability problems
  • User:AxelBoldt/Wikipedia usability problems

Shortcut: WP:EIW#Username

• User account and username: (see also Logging in, Privacy, Signature, User pages, User rights)
  • Registered accounts versus anonymous IP editing:
    • Wikipedia:Why create an account? – benefits to a person who decides to register
    • Wikipedia:The benefits of requiring account creation on Wikipedia (essay) – arguments against allowing IP editors
    • Wikipedia:The benefits of not requiring account creation on Wikipedia (essay) – arguments in favor of IP editors
  • Starting out:
    • Wikipedia:Username policy (WP:U)
    • Wikipedia:Tutorial (Registration)
    • Special:Userlogin – to request an account
    • Wikipedia:Request an account – for those who wish to create an account but cannot read the CAPTCHA image that is part of the standard registration process as of February 2007.
  • Help:Email confirmation
  • Inappropriate usernames:
    • Wikipedia:Usernames for administrator attention – blatantly inappropriate usernames
    • Wikipedia:Requests for comment/User names – discussions
    • Template:Uw-ublock
    • Monitoring bots:
      • User:HBC NameWatcherBot
      • User:DeadBot
  • Changing usernames:
    • Special:Listusers – check if a username exists
    • Wikipedia:Changing username
    • Wikipedia:Changing username/Usurpations – changing a username to another registered but "unused" (no edits) username
    • Wikipedia:Changing usernames guidelines
    • Wikipedia:Copying watchlist to new username
  • Removing accounts without any edits:
    • foundation:Privacy policy#User accounts and authorship
    • Wikipedia:Delete unused username after 90 days – proposal rejected by Wikipedia developers
  • Single signon (single login):

    Shortcut: WP:EIW#SingleSignon

    • bugzilla:57 – Bug #57 – feature request
    • Signpost articles: August 2006, August 2007
    • m:Help:Unified login and m:Single signon transition – moving to a single username (signon) across all Wikipedia domains
    • mw:Extension:CentralAuth – "allows global/shared accounts between projects"
    • Identifying existing accounts for a user name:
      • User contributions – tool on the German Wikipedia
      • Single-user login conflict search (MySQL server error since mid-2007)
    • Unification:
      • Special:MergeAccount – to check one's own status, and to do login unification
      • m:Special:GlobalUsers – editors who have opted into single signon
  • Gender:
    • Special:Preferences has (as of early 2009) an optional, user-selected field for gender
    • Templates that use this field: {{heorshe}} and {{hisorher}}
  • Other:
    • Multiple accounts: see Sock puppets
    • Help:User contributions
    • Wikipedia:Single-purpose account (essay)
    • User registration date/time finder
    • WikiStalk - finds pages that have been edited by two or more specific users
• User interface: (see also Customization, Usability)
  • Wikipedia:User page (WP:USER) (guideline)
  • Special:AllMessages – system messages available in the MediaWiki: namespace

Shortcut: WP:EIW#UserPage

• User pages: (see also Archiving, Galleries, User account and username, Userboxes, Warnings)
  • Wikipedia:User page (WP:USER) (guideline)
  • Wikipedia:Subpages (guideline)
  • Wikipedia:WikiProject Keep It Simple – for Wikipedians who like a simple layout in their user page
  • Wikipedia:User page design center
  • Wikipedia:Userfication – moving an article from Wikipedia mainspace to a user subpage, usually because of failure to establish notability of the subject of the article
  • Current status of an editor:

    Shortcut: WP:EIW#Status

    • Wikipedia:Editor activity indicator – in, around, somewhere, out
    • User:Misza13/Scripts#Status switcher – adds "in", "busy" and "out" links next to the "log out" link
    • User:Xenocidic/statusChanger2.js
    • Template:Statustop
    • User:Hersfold/StatusTemplate – "one-click way to update your status yourself"
    • User:TheDJ/Qui – script and system to track the online/offline status of specified other editors
    • User:Chris G Bot 3 – IRC users can message the bot when they want the bot to set their status to online or offline
    • bugzilla:14384 – Bug #14384 – New #lastedit parserfunction (accepts a username as input and return a standard timestamp of the last edit by that username)
    • mw:Extension:OnlineStatus
  • Categories:
    • Wikipedia:User categories
    • Wikipedia:Categories for discussion
    • Category:Wikipedians – collects subcategories that editors use to label themselves, many generated by userboxes
  • Information about editors:
    • Wikipedia:WikiProject User scripts/Scripts/User tabs – adds tabs for counts (of edits), page moves, contributions, and block logs when viewing user or user talk pages.
    • Wikipedia:WikiProject User scripts/Scripts/User Contribs Tabs – shows contributions, counts (of edits), and edit summary usage when viewing user or user talk pages
  • Secret pages:
    • User:Bahamut0013/Secret pages
    • Proposal to ban, April 2008 (no consensus)
  • Other:
    • Wikipedia:Editnotice#Editnotices for user space
    • Wikipedia:Template messages/User namespace
    • Wikipedia:Template messages/User talk namespace
    • Template:User committed identity - a way to prove that you are the owner of an account, should your password become compromised
    • Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Autograph books (also known as "guestbooks" or "signature books") – may be allowed for active editors (case-by-case)

Shortcut: WP:EIW#UserRights

• User rights (also known as "user privileges", "user groups", and "usergroups"):
  • Special:ListGroupRights
  • Wikipedia:User access levels
  • Wikipedia:Global rights policy
  • {{NUMBERINGROUP}} – magic word that counts the number of users in a particular group; for instance: {{NUMBERINGROUP:rollbacker}}
  • API query that returns a listing showing the rights assigned to each usergroup
  • Autoconfirm:
    • mw:Extension:Automatic Groups
    • mw:Manual:$wgAutopromote
      • mw:Extension:TorBlock (editing through tor requires 100 edits and a 90 days to become autoconfirmed, as of June 2008)
    • Changes:
      • Wikipedia:Autoconfirmed Proposal/Poll – proposal, May 2008, to increase the requirements for autoconfirmed status by requiring new editors to have a specific number of edits, and possibly increasing the four-day waiting period
      • Bugzilla #14191 – Autoconfirmed settings on enwiki changed to 4 days and 10 edits as of May 2008
      • Wikipedia talk:Autoconfirmed Proposal/Poll2 – proposal, June 2008, to increase requirements to 7 days, 20 edits (about 65% supported)

Shortcut: WP:EIW#Userbox

• Userboxes (see also User pages)
  • Wikipedia:Userboxes (WP:UBX)
  • Wikipedia:Userbox migration – userification of userboxes
  • Wikipedia:Userbox Maker
  • Wikipedia:WikiProject Userboxes
  • Category:Userboxes
  • Wikipedia:Jimbo on Userboxes (WP:JOU)

Shortcuts: WP:EIW#Script WP:EIW#UserScript

• User scripts: (JavaScript) (.js pages) (see also Bots, Gadgets, Tools):
  • Wikipedia:WikiProject User scripts
  • Wikipedia:WikiProject User scripts/Tutorial
  • Wikibits – "MediaWiki JavaScript support functions" (good source of code)
  • Wikipedia:Tools
  • Wikipedia:Tools/Navigation popups
  • Help:User style#JavaScript
  • User:Voice of All/UsefulJS
  • User:GeorgeMoney/UserScripts
  • Category:Wikipedia scripts
  • mw:Extension:Gadgets – a way for editors to pick JavaScript or CSS based "gadgets" that other Wikipedia editors have created, via the "my preferences" page
  • Wikipedia:WikiProject User scripts/Scripts/Autolink – makes plaintext wikilinks and templates clickable, for example on monobook.js pages
• Userification: Wikipedia:Userfication – moving a non-notable or very problematical article to user space as an alternative to deletion

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Shortcut: WP:EIW#Valued

• Valued content:
  • Wikipedia:Valued pictures
  • Category: Wikipedia valued pictures
  • Dispatches: Valued pictures (Signpost article, April 2009)

Shortcut: WP:EIW#Vandal

• Vandalism (see also Sock puppets, Spam, Stable versions, Warnings)
  • In general:
    • Wikipedia:Vandalism (WP:VAN) (policy)
    • Wikipedia:Cleaning up vandalism
    • Tutorial: Reporting and dealing with vandals – Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/2008-01-28/Tutorial
    • Wikipedia:Vandalism in progress – a quick directory
    • Wikipedia:Revert, block, ignore (essay)
    • Wikipedia:Do not insult the vandals (essay)
    • Wikipedia:Deny recognition (essay)
    • Wikipedia:The motivation of a vandal (essay)
    • Category:Wikipedia vandalism
    • Wikipedia:WikiProject Vandalism studies
  • Abuse filter:
    • Wikipedia:Abuse filter – extension implemented in March 2009 that analyzes (filter) edits and automatically takes rules-based action (let edit happen, prevent edit, issue warning, etc.)
    • mw:Extension:AbuseFilter
    • Log: Special:AbuseLog
    • Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/2009-03-23/Abuse Filter "Abuse Filter is enabled" (Signpost article, March 2009)
  • Getting assistance:
    • Wikipedia:Guide to administrator intervention against vandalism
    • Wikipedia:Administrator intervention against vandalism – page to report vandalism incidents to administrators (WP:AIV)
    • Wikipedia:Abuse reports – reporting abuse of an IP address to a school, university, or internet provider (must have been at least five blocks on the IP address)(WP:ABUSE)
    • Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents – for complex cases where WP:AIV is inadequate (WP:AN/I)
  • Coordinated efforts:
    • Wikipedia:Counter-Vandalism Unit
    • Wikipedia:Recent changes patrol
    • Wikipedia:Most vandalized pages
    • Template:Vandalism information
    • Freenode IRC network – #vandalism-en-wp channel
    • Patrolled edits:
      • Help:Patrolled edit (not currently implemented on English Wikipedia)
      • Wikipedia talk:Checked edits brainstorming – January 2005 failed implementation (little participation)
  • Tools: (see also Recent changes)

    Shortcut: WP:EIW#VandalTools

    • Category:Wikipedia counter-vandalism tools
    • Wikipedia:Cleaning up vandalism
    • Wikipedia:AutoWikiBrowser
    • User:AmiDaniel/VandalProof – more than 1400 users
    • Wikipedia:Twinkle (also available as a gadget, under "my preferences")
    • Wikipedia:Huggle – in development as of January 2008
    • Wikipedia:MWT – Mike's Wiki Tool, for Windows and Linux users
    • User:Lupin/Filter recent changes – uses realtime feed to identify edits containing badwords; requires User:Lupin/Anti-vandal tool (user script)
    • User:Henna/VF – Vandal-fighter – software that watches Wikipedia edits in real-time (announced May 2005)
    • User:Garethfoot/Wiki-Aid – Windows program that adds a sidebar interface
    • User:Shadow1/ShadowTool – anti-vandalism tool for Linux OS
    • User:Lloydpick/Wikipedia Vandalism Watch – Windows program that monitors specified editors' contributions pages for "top" edits
    • WikipediaVision (beta) – shows anonymous edits to Wikipedia (almost) in real-time, on a Google map
    • IP lookup
    • godmode-light – JavaScript that adds rollback buttons to user contribution and article diff pages
    • Schools: post {{schoolblock}} on talk pages
    • Warning vandals:
      • User:Kbh3rd/Vandal warning toolbox
      • User:Adam1213/warn – enter the username and click a button to post a warning (note: still should read the user talk page first)
    • Reporting of vandals at WP:AIV:
      • User:Digitalme/aiv.js – adds "ipvandal" and "vandal" buttons when editing WP:AIV
      • User:Royalguard11/AIV'er – Mac OS X program
  • Bots:
    • Identifying and fixing vandalism:
      • User:MartinBot
      • User:AntiVandalBot
      • User:ClueBot
      • User:CounterVandalismBot
      • User:AntiAbuseBot - Watches the Recent Changes (RC) feed for actions that match known vandals; then sends off an alert on irc, reverts the edit, reverts the edit and blocks the user, or just blocks the user
    • Assisting at WP:AIV:
      • User:HBC AIV helperbot3
      • User:HBC AIV helperbot5
      • User:HBC AIV helperbot7
      • User:HBC AIV helperbot 8
  • Other:
    • tools:~cbm/cgi-bin/queries/TemplateRevs – shows last edit for all templates transcluded on a page (default is WP:AN/I) (for suspected template vandalism)
    • User:The Rambling Man/The Rambling Man, on vandalism
    • Wikipedia:Long term abuse – vandals who have repeatedly returned with different user accounts
    • Wikipedia:Perennial proposals#Prohibit anonymous users from editing
    • m:Friends of gays should not be allowed to edit articles
• Vanity articles: see Conflicts of interest and Wikipedia:Criteria for speedy deletion
• Variables: see Magic words
• Verifiability: see Sources
• Version tagging: see Stable versions
• Video: see Media

Shortcut: WP:EIW#Vid

• Video games: Wikipedia:WikiProject Video games (includes two guidelines)
• Village pump: Wikipedia:Village pump – discussion of technical issues, policies, and operations of Wikipedia

Shortcut: WP:EIW#Vital

• Vital articles:
  • Wikipedia:Vital articles (WP:VITAL) – most important 1000 (or so) articles and their status (featured, good, templated as needing work, etc.)
  • Wikipedia:Vital articles/Expanded
  • m:List of articles every Wikipedia should have
  • Wikipedia:Version 1.0 Editorial Team/Core topics
  • Wikipedia:List of 2007 Macropædia articles – analysis of Wikipedia's coverage of these 699 articles in the Encyclopædia Britannica.
• Voting: see Consensus and voting

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Shortcut: WP:EIW#Warn

• Warnings:
  • Wikipedia:Template messages/User talk namespace – discussion and grid of warnings
  • Wikipedia:Template messages/User talk namespace#Warnings and notices
  • Wikipedia:Don't template the regulars (essay)
  • Wikipedia:WikiProject user warnings
  • Template:WarningsSmall (for one's user page)
  • Category:User warning templates
  • Removal is acceptable:
    • Wikipedia:User page#Removal of comments, warnings
    • Wikipedia:Removing warnings – failed proposal to prevent removal of warnings
    • Wikipedia:Perennial proposals#Prohibit removal of warnings
• Watchlist: see Monitoring changes
• Web content as the subject of an article: Wikipedia:Notability (web) (guideline) – includes webcomics, podcasts, blogs, Internet forums, online magazines and other media, web portals and web hosts
• Weight (undue): see Wikipedia:Neutral point of view
• Welcome: see New editors
• What: Wikipedia:What Wikipedia is not – articles and content that are NOT appropriate for Wikipedia
• Wiki markup: see Formatting of text

Shortcuts: WP:EIW#Break WP:EIW#Wikibreak

• Wikibreaks:
  • Wikipedia:Wikibreak
  • Self-specified (enforced) breaks:
    • Wikipedia:WikiProject User scripts/Scripts/WikiBreak Enforcer – user script
    • LeachBlock – Firefox add-on (for any website)
• Wikilawyering: see Policies and guidelines (misuses of)

Shortcut: WP:EIW#Wikilink

• Wikilinks: (see also Piped links, Red links)
  • Wikipedia:Linking
  • Wikipedia:How to edit a page#Links and URLs
  • Wikipedia:Tutorial (Wikipedia links)
  • Help:Contents/Links
  • Help:Link
  • Help:Self link
  • Help:What links here – identifying wikilinks that point to an existing page
  • User:JL-Bot – corrects links that are in the format of external links but should be wikilinks
  • Technical:
    • Wikipedia:Link color
    • Wikipedia:Canonicalization – how wikilinks work (technical)
    • Wikipedia:Template messages/Links
    • Template:Querylink – to make URL for a Wikipedia page, where the URL has a query string, look like a wikilink
  • Pages where lack of wikilinks indicates a problem:
    • Special:DeadendPages – pages with no outgoing wikilinks
    • Wikipedia:Dead-end pages (no longer run; excess load on server)
    • Special:Lonelypages – pages with no incoming wikilinks ("orphan" pages)
    • User:SoxBot – adds {{orphan}} template to Lonelypages lacking such
    • Wikipedia:WikiProject Orphanage
    • Category:All orphaned articles
    • User:JL-Bot – checks articles tagged as orphans, and removes the tag if it is no longer applicable
    • Fixing:
      • User:Nickj/Can We Link It – tool that is included in the {{deadend}} template
  • Other:
    • Special:Mostlinked – pages with the most links pointing to them
    • Wikipedia:Link intersection (feature request) – using wikilinks in searches
    • User:Zocky/Link Complete -JavaScript tool which adds autocomplete functionality for links in the edit box
    • Six degrees of Wikipedia – shortest path query solver
    • Wikipedia:WikiProject User scripts/Scripts/Autolink – makes plaintext wikilinks and templates clickable, for example on monobook.js pages

Shortcut: WP:EIW#WMF WP:EIW#Foundation

• Wikimedia Foundation – the parent organization of Wikipedia and numerous other collaborative projects such as Wiktionary and Wikibooks
  • foundation:Home
  • m:Metapub – central place for questions and discussions about the Foundation and its projects
  • m:Wikimedia Embassy – central place for resources to help with cross-language issues that affect everyone
  • Wikimedia Foundation – Wikipedia article
  • Foundation blog
  • Wikipedia:Elections#Wikimedia Board
  • Wikimedia Information Kit, September 2006 (pdf)
  • Inside Wikimedia (video, 2009)
  • Projects:
    • Wikipedia:Projects of Wikimedia
    • Wikipedia:Wikimedia sister projects (Manual of Style)
    • mw:Special:SiteMatrix – list of two-digit abbreviations for all Wikimedia Foundation wikis
  • Wikipedia:Office actions (WP:OFFICE) (policy) – immediate editing actions to deal with potential legal issues
  • Open ticket request system (OTRS):
    • Wikipedia:OTRS
    • m:Info-en mission – incoming emails in English
    • m:OTRS
    • m:OTRS/Info-en recruiting – information on volunteering ("experienced admins" only, in theory)
    • m:OTRS/volunteering – page for volunteers to list their names

Shortcuts: WP:EIW#WP1.0 WP:EIW#Version1.0

• Wikipedia 1.0: (see also Stable versions)
  • Wikipedia:Pushing to 1.0
  • Wikipedia:Version 1.0 Editorial Team
  • Presentation, June 2006 (pdf)

Shortcut: WP:EIW#Community

• Wikipedia as a community (see also Criticism (of Wikipedia), Experts, News (about Wikipedia), WikiProjects)
  • m:Wikicommunity
  • Participants:
    • Wikipedia:Who writes Wikipedia
    • m:Why Wikimedians edit
    • m:New contributor objections (barriers/problems)
    • m:Edits by project and country of origin
    • Wikipedia:Why on Earth would I want to contribute to a wiki
    • Wikipedia:Wikipedians
    • Category:Wikipedians – collects subcategories that editors use to label themselves, many generated by userboxes
    • Wikipedia:Wikipedians with articles – Wikipedia editors notable enough (almost always for other reasons) to have a mainspace article about them
    • Wikipedia:Facebook
    • Wikipedia:Missing Wikipedians
    • Wikipedia:Editors matter (essay)
    • Wikipedia:Patrols
    • Template:Wikipediholism
    • Books:
      • How Wikipedia Works – published September 2008. ISBN 978-1593271763 (online, complete version)
      • The Wikipedia Revolution - scheduled publication March 2009. ISBN 978-1401303716 (website)
  • Philosophies:
    • m:Conflicting Wikipedia philosophies
    • Wikipedia:Laissez-faire (essay) – also known as "wikilibertarianism"
    • Wikipedia:Why do you care? (essay)
    • User:Raul654/Raul's laws
  • Forums:
    • Wikipedia:Community portal – "the central place to find out what's happening on Wikipedia"
    • Wikipedia:Village pump – discussion of technical issues, policies, and operations of Wikipedia
    • The WikBack – for those who prefer a web-based forum (December 2007 announcement)
  • Research and studies:

    Shortcut: WP:EIW#Research

    • Wikipedia:Wikipedia in academic studies
    • Wikipedia:Researching Wikipedia
    • Wikipedia:WikiProject Wikidemia
    • meta:Wikimedia Research Network
    • Wikipedia:Ethically researching Wikipedia – proposal (as of November 2008)
    • Mailing lists:
      • Wiki-research:
        • General info
        • Archives
      • Wiki-research-l:
        • General info
        • Archive
    • "Talk Before You Type: Coordination in Wikipedia", 2007 research paper based on October 2005 database
  • Organizations: (see also WikiProjects)
    • Category:Wikipedian organizations
    • Wikipedia:Concordia – inactive as of December 2006; efforts to revive in early 2007
    • Wikipedia:Esperanza – defunct as of January 2007
  • Other:
    • Divisiveness: Wikipedia:Divisiveness
    • Wikipedia:Meetup – face-to-face meetings of Wikipedians in cities around the world
    • Wikipedia:Geonotice – a notice displayed only on watchlists of editors who are calculated (based on their IP address) to be in a specific geographical area, such as a metropolitan area.
    • Wikipedia:Wikipediology – a WikiProject for "a serious study of the dynamics and problems of the Wikipedia community and providing resources about the Wikipedia community that currently do not exist" (inactive)
    • Wikipedia:Wikistress Reduction Initiative
    • Category:Wikipedia culture
    • Wikipedia:WikiProject Wikipedia

Shortcuts: WP:EIW#WP WP:EIW#Basic_Info

• Wikipedia basic information:
  • Wikipedia – what it is, history, hardware and software, funding, authorship and management, and much more
  • Wikipedia:About
  • What is Wikipedia? (pdf) – two page flyer
  • Wikipedia:History of Wikipedian processes and people
  • Wikipedia:Historic debates
  • Wikipedia:Role of Jimmy Wales
  • Wikipedia:Ten things you may not know about Wikipedia
  • Late 2001 version of Wikipedia (nostalgia.wikipedia.org)
  • Wikipedia:Why Wikipedia is so great (essay)
  • Wikipedia:Wikipediology/library/essays/Merovingian-1 (essay) – "The Fluid Encyclopedia" – 2001 to 2005
  • Wikipedia Fundraising Central Online Reporting Engine
  • Category:Wikipedia history
  • Wikipedia:General reading list

Shortcuts: WP:EIW#WikiProject WP:EIW#Project

• WikiProjects: (for a WikiProject related to a topic within this index, see that topic) (see also Collaborations)
  • In general:
    • Wikipedia:WikiProject – projects within the English Wikimedia (community) project
    • Wikipedia:WikiProject Council – unofficial group to encourage/assist with wikiprojects
    • Wikipedia:WikiProject Turnkey Project
    • Wikipedia:WikiProject Council/Guide (guideline) – best practices
    • Wikipedia:WikiProject Council/Directory – main directory of WikiProjects
    • Wikipedia:WikiProject reform (inactive proposal)
  • Bots:
    • User:SatyrBot/WikiProject Services
    • User:MelonBot/Member lists – identifies active and inactive participants
    • User:PaievBot – adds specified text (including a parameterized template) to talk pages of articles in a given category and sub-categories
    • User:MonoBot – Adds WikiProject templates to article talk pages, including an assessment for the article based on previous ratings
    • User:FlagBot – automate the assessment of articles within a WikiProject
    • User:WatchlistBot – tags pages to create project watchlists
    • User:AlexNewArtBot – identifies new articles related to a WikiProject
    • User:PsychAWB – tags articles with WikiProject banners and adds "stub" assessment to the talk page template if an article has a stub template
    • User:BHGbot – puts a template on the talk pages of categories and articles to identify them as being within the scope of a particular WikiProject
    • User:SMS Bot – adds WikiProject banners to talk pages of articles
    • User:LivingBot/ProjectSignup – posts milestones for a WikiProject (for example, reaching 10 Featured articles) to the Wikipedia:Announcements page
    • User:NeraBot – WikiProject tagging
    • User:Giggabot – WikiProject tagging and newspaper delivery
    • User:DyceBot – WikiProject tagging
    • User:SQLBot – tags article talk pages with wikiproject templates
    • User:SoxBot – tags article talk pages with WikiProject templates
    • User:John Bot – tags article talk pages
    • User:Anibot – delivers newsletters
    • User:ENewsBot – delivers newsletters
    • User:Newsletterbot – delivers newsletters
    • User:StormBot – delivers newsletters
  • Other:
    • User:ClockworkSoul/Igor – a standalone multi-functional management tool for maintaining and managing a medium-to-large WikiProject
    • Wikipedia:Awards by WikiProject
    • Template:WikiProject
    • Category:WikiProjects – pages categorized as WikiProjects
• Wisdom: Wikipedia:Words of wisdom

Shortcuts: WP:EIW#Words WP:EIW#Wording

• Words and wording: (see also Formatting of text, Spelling)
  • Wikipedia:Manual of Style
  • Wikipedia:Manual of Style (abbreviations)
  • Peacock terms:
    • Wikipedia:Avoid peacock terms (Manual of Style) – show, don't tell
    • {{Peacock}}
    • Category:Articles with peacock terms
  • Wikipedia:Explain jargon (Manual of Style)
  • Wikipedia:Avoid neologisms (Manual of Style)
  • Wikipedia:Rhetoric (Manual of Style)
  • Wikipedia:Self-references to avoid (Manual of Style) – "this website", "this Wikipedia article" (okay on talk pages, but not articles)
  • Wikipedia:Technical terms and definitions (Manual of Style)
  • Wikipedia:Manual of Style (trademarks)
  • Wikipedia:Avoid weasel words (WP:AWW) (Manual of Style) – "critics/some (many) people/research says/feel/believe ..."
  • Wikipedia:Words to avoid (Manual of Style) – "claim", "however", "extremist", "linked", "cult", and so on.
  • Wikipedia:Manual of Style (dates and numbers)#Precise language (WP:DATED)
  • Wikipedia:Make technical articles accessible (Manual of Style)
  • Wikipedia:WikiProject Grammar

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Shortcut: WP:EIW#XML

• XML: see Formatting of text, Queries (database)