WikiPedia:Utilities
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.
This page is a repository for pages that are useful to "doing things" in Wikipedia. In contrast to the Main Page its focus is more for the benefit of regular editors and contributors, rather than the general public. See also Wikipedia:Guide to improving articles for a guide on how to improve articles in various stages of completeness. "Utilities" is not to be confused with software utilities, which are collected in Wikipedia:Tools.
See also Category:Wikipedia
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Communication
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Short-term requests
- Selected Articles on the Main Page
- How the Current events page works
- Changing username
- Changing attribution for an edit
- Votes for deletion
- Speedy deletions
- Votes for undeletion
- Undelete
- Copyright problems (copyvio)
- WikiMoney
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Vandalism and conflict
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Rejoicing
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Other forums
- Instant Messaging Wikipedians
- IRC channels
- Mailing lists
- Recent Changes header
- Wikipedia:Recentchanges summary
- Wikipedia:RC patrol
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Policy, advice, and help
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Key policies
- Be bold in updating pages
- Wikiquette
- Neutral point of view (NPOV)
- Manual of Style
- Policy on permanent deletion of pages
- What Wikipedia is not
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Information
- Algorithms on Wikipedia
- Browser notes
- Bots
- Canonicalization
- Contributing FAQ
- Copyrights
- De-adminship
- Disambiguation
- Edit conflicts
- Guide to writing better articles
- How does one edit a page
- How to add content to Wikipedia with minimal effort
- How to edit an article so long that you can't edit
- How to reduce colors for saving a JPEG as PNG
- How to rename a page
- How to revert a page to an earlier version
- How to start a page
- How to archive a talk page
- How to archive Current Events
- How to use tables
- How to log in
- Image use policy
- Including corporate logos
- Interlanguage links
- ISBN
- Lists in general
- List pages - How to create them
- Lists in articles - How to create them
- List of common misspellings
- MediaWiki namespace
- Multimedia
- Searching
- Go button
- Special characters
- Tables
- TeX markup
- Troubleshooting
- How to use redirect pages
- How to set preferences
- What is an article
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General guidelines
- Policies and guidelines
- Alternate text for images
- Always fill summary field
- Avoid statements that will date quickly
- Avoid weasel terms
- Build the web
- Check your facts
- Cite your sources
- Contribute what you know or are willing to learn about
- Contributing to Wikipedia
- Don't include copies of primary sources
- Editing policy -- Perfection not required; or, the joy of editing
- Explain jargon
- Follow highlighting conventions
- Footnotes
- Foul language
- Guide to Layout
- Headlines
- How-to
- How to write a great article
- Ignore all rules
- Image markup
- Make articles useful for readers
- Make omissions explicit
- Make only links relevant to the context
- Make smart use of soft line breaks
- Measurements Debate
- News style
- Page size
- Talk page
- The perfect article
- The perfect stub article
- Pronunciation guide
- Sign your posts on talk pages
- Summarize discussion
- Timeline standards
- User page guidelines
- Use short sentences and lists
- Use subheads sparingly
- Warn readers about spoilers
- Why aren't these pages copyedited
- Wikipedia is not a dictionary
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Specific subject guides
- Biography standards
- Manual of Style (biographies)
- History standards
- Medicine standards
- Filmographies and Discographies
- Manual of Style for China-related articles
- Manual of Style for Japan-related articles
See also WikiProjects
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Naming conventions
See Category:Wikipedia naming conventions.
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Boilerplate text
- Boilerplate text (various texts)
- Spoiler warning
- Boilerplate request for permission
- Standard user greeting
- Standard GFDL violation letter
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Conflict and debate
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Organisation
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Indexes
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Things to watch
- List of controversial issues - a simple list of pages on controversial subjects, not a place to argue about them
- Current polls
- New pages
- Dispute resolution
- As of
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Problems in need of fixing
- See Wikipedia:Wikipedia maintenance for advice on dealing with some of the items listed below.
| Special pages (edit (http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Template:Specialpageslist&action=edit)) | |
|---|---|
| SpecialPage | Editable version |
| Shortpages | Shortpages (1) (2) Blank pages |
| n/a | Empty images |
| Uncategorizedpages | n/a |
| Longpages | Longpages |
| Wantedpages | Most wanted articles |
| Lonelypages | Orphaned Articles |
| n/a | Most wanted stubs |
| n/a | Most Referenced Articles |
| Deadendpages | Deadend pages |
| n/a | New disambig. pages |
| Oldest articles | n/a |
| Newpages | n/a |
| Special:Categories | Categories-Alpha (all in one very large page) |
| n/a | Orphaned categories |
| See also: Offline Reports, Collaboration | |
- Links to disambiguating pages
- Requests for summaries of online reports, studies etc.
- Subpages to be moved
- Orphan talk pages
- Spellchecking project
- Special:Maintenance (currently disabled)
- Template talk:Resources for collaboration
- Non-local images (Currently blank)
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Open tasks
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Good articles
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Logs
- Upload log
- Deletion log
- Protection log
- Block log
- List of currently blocked IP addresses and usernames
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Resources
| Wikipedia Research Resources. (http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Template:article_resources&action=edit) | |
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About Wikipedia
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History
Historical pages gradually being moved to meta:Historical Wikipedia pages:
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Wikipedians
- Instant Messaging Wikipedians
- List of Wikipedians in order of arrival
- List users
- Wikipedians by number of edits
- Wikipedians by most recent edit
- User contributions
- User page
- Wikipediholic
- Wikipedia:Missing Wikipedians
- Wikipedians
- Wikipedians by fields of interest
- Wikipedians categorized by sub-cultural affiliation
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Software and hardware
- Troubleshooting
- Browser notes
- Bug reports and feature requests
- Ignored feature requests (don't request new features here)
- MediaWiki
- Contingency Page For When The Main Wikipedia Server Is Down
- Tools and Helpers
- Magic Button
- Text editor support for Wikipedia syntax (Emacs and Vim)
- Translator from HTML to Wikipedia (http://www.dwheeler.com/html2wikipedia)
- User:hfastedge offering free off-server custom coding (1 request per person) as part of an research project.
- Unicode numeric conversion
- Database download
- Database queries
- New server madness
- Lag
- Servers
- Software Phase III
- User interface ideas
- Wikipedia3 documentation
- Wikipedia IRC channel scripts
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Statistics
- Most popular pages <- This page is dead
- Referrers
- Size of Wikipedia
- Statistics
- Traffic
- What Google likes
- Browsers
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Publicity
- Building Wikipedia membership
- Friends of Wikipedia
- Publicity
- Press coverage
- Projects using Wikipedia software
- 2003 Press Release
- Referrers
- School and university projects
- Wikipedia:Mirrors and forks
- TourBusStop
- Banners and buttons
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Proposals and essays
Most proposals and essays should go to Meta Wikipedia (http://meta.wikipedia.com/).
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Fun
- Are You a Wikipediholic Test
- Bad jokes and other deleted nonsense
- Wikipedia:Confessed wikipediholics
- Wikipedia:List of articles frequently visited through Google
- Unusual articles
- Wikipedia:Wikipedia Holidays
- Wikipedians
- m:Wikipedians categorized by sub-cultural affiliation
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International Wikipedia
- Multilingual coordination
- Embassy
- Translation into English (request a translation, sign up to announce yourself as a translator)
- Meta Wikipedia (http://meta.wikipedia.com/)
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