Wikipedia:Editor's index to Wikipedia

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This index for editors is intended to help find anything not in the encyclopedia itself, including administration pages such as guidelines, policies, essays, informative, discussion and process pages. See about this index for tips on how to use this, and for instructions on maintaining consistency when editing it. See also Reader's index to Wikipedia and Editor's index to Commons.

For a smaller listing of "help" and "how to" pages, see the Help directory. For other useful directories and indexes, see Wikipedia:Directories and indexes. See also Wikipedia:The Wikipedia Library/A–Z.

A

 Shortcut:   WP:EIW#Access 
 Shortcut:   WP:EIW#Ability 
 Shortcut:   WP:EIW#Admin 
 Shortcut:   WP:EIW#Advert 
 Shortcut:   WP:EIW#Arb 
 Shortcut:   WP:EIW#Archive 
 Shortcut:   WP:EIW#Ambox 
 Shortcut:   WP:EIW#Article 
 Shortcut:   WP:EIW#Assist 
 Shortcut:   WP:EIW#Audio 
  • Audio: (see also Accessibility)
  • Autobiographies: see Biographies
  • Autoconfirm: (a type of User right)
    • Wikipedia:Requests for permissions/Confirmed
    • 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:
  • Autograph books: see User pages
  • Automation: see Bots, Tools, User scripts
 Shortcut:   WP:EIW#Award 

B

 Shortcut:   WP:EIW#Backlog 
 Shortcut:   WP:EIW#Behave 
 Shortcut:   WP:EIW#Bias 
 Shortcut:   WP:EIW#Bio 
 Shortcut:   WP:EIW#Books 
 Shortcut:   WP:EIW#Bot 
 Shortcut:   WP:EIW#Browser 
 Shortcut:   WP:EIW#Bugs 
 Shortcut:   WP:EIW#Bureau 

C

 Shortcut:   WP:EIW#CAPTCHA 
 Shortcut:   WP:EIW#Cat 
 Shortcuts:   WP:EIW#Cen   WP:EIW#Censor 
 Shortcut:   WP:EIW#Chapters 
  • Chapters:
    • wmf: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 
 Shortcut:   WP:EIW#Cite 
  • Citations:
  • Civility: see Personal attacks
  • Clarity:
  • 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 
 Shortcut:   WP:EIW#Collapsing 
  • Collapsing:
    • m:Help:Collapsing
 Shortcut:   WP:EIW#Collect 
 Shortcut:   WP:EIW#Comic 
 Shortcut:   WP:EIW#Comments 
 Shortcut:   WP:EIW#Common 
 Shortcut:   WP:EIW#Commons 
  • Commons (Wikimedia Commons):
    • Wikipedia:Wikimedia Commons – as of September 2013, has over 18 million media files (photographs, diagrams, animations, music, spoken text, video clips, etc.) available for use in any Wikimedia (community) project, as well as for free downloading by anyone. Anything other than non-free content should be uploaded to the Commons, not to the English Wikipedia.
    • Commons:Welcome
    • A guide to getting started on Wikimedia Commons
    • Wikimedia Commons – manual that provides the essential information for people interested in contributing their own work to Wikimedia Commons
    • Mayflower – searching the Commons (at the toolserver)
    • Commons:Commons:Tools
    • Manual for new Commons users (at en.flossmanuals.net)
    • Uploading:
      • Default/standard process: Commons:Commons:Upload Wizard
      • Commons:Commons:GLAMToolset project – a set of tools to make easier the batch uploads of GLAM (Galleries, Libraries, Archives, and Museums) material
      • Other processes: see Commons:Commons:Upload tools (includes tools for Flickr, Android, and iPhone)
    • Moving images to Commons (from Wikipedia):
       Shortcut:   WP:EIW#MoveToCommons 
      • Wikipedia:Moving files 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") (at the toolserver)
      • User:Fran Rogers/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 (at the toolserver)
      • 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 (at the toolserver)
    • RSS feeds:
      • Category-based feed (for newly added images) (at the toolserver)
      • Media file of the Day (at the toolserver)
    • 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 (at the toolserver)
      • Flickr-like interface to Commons (no logins or uploads) (at the toolserver)
      • Commons sum-it-up – tool to generate a summary text for pages on Commons, using Wikipedia articles in different languages (at the toolserver)
      • Flickr:
        • "The Commons" at Flickr – "Help us catalog the world's public photo archives."
        • Browse Flickr images (at the toolserver)
  • Communications (communicating with other editors): see Messages
  • Community: see Wikipedia as community
  • Community portal: Wikipedia:Community portal – a place to find collaborations, tasks, and news about English Wikipedia (see also Wikipedia as a community)
 Shortcut:   WP:EIW#Company 
 Shortcut:   WP:EIW#Compete 
  • Competitors, forks, and mirrors:
 Shortcut:   WP:EIW#COI 
 Shortcut:   WP:EIW#Congress 
 Shortcut:   WP:EIW#Consensus 
 Shortcut:   WP:EIW#Dispute 
 Shortcut:   WP:EIW#Contests 
 Shortcut:   WP:EIW#Contro 
 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
    • Converting wikitext table data to and from other formats: see Tables
 Shortcut:   WP:EIW#Copy 
 Shortcut:   WP:EIW#Count 
 Shortcut:   WP:EIW#Cred 
  • Credentials:
  • Criticism of Wikipedia: see Encyclopedia, Criticism (of)
 Shortcut:   WP:EIW#Current 
 Shortcut:   WP:EIW#Custom 

D

  • Data download: see Downloading all of Wikipedia, Queries (database) (for individual pages, see Exporting (a page))
  • Database lag (message displayed on watch list):
  • Database query: see Queries (database)
 Shortcut:   WP:EIW#Dates 
 Shortcuts:   WP:EIW#Delete   WP:EIW#Del 
 Shortcut:   WP:EIW#AfD-etc 
 Shortcut:   WP:EIW#Dict 
  • Dictionary:
  • Diff: see History (of a page)
  • Dimensions: see Units of measurement
 Shortcut:   WP:EIW#Directory 
 Shortcut:   WP:EIW#Disambig 
 Shortcut:   WP:EIW#Disclaim 
 Shortcut:   WP:EIW#Disrup 
 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 (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
      • Screencast: "How to install Wikipedia on your iPod Touch or iPhone!", YouTube, February 8, 2008

E

 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:In use/doc
      • Bug# 1510 – provide "edit warning" for pages when someone else has just started editing (software change proposal)
    • 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 
 Shortcuts:   WP:EIW#EditSoft   WP:EIW#Interface 
  • Editing interface (see also Browsers, Preview, Usability, User interface)
  • Editor review: Wikipedia:Editor review – to request a review of one's editing
  • Editors: see Wikipedia as a community
 Shortcut:   WP:EIW#Edits 
 Shortcut:   WP:EIW#Elect 
 Shortcut:   WP:EIW#Email 
 Shortcut:   WP:EIW#Enc 
 Shortcut:   WP:EIW#Enforce 
 Shortcut:   WP:EIW#Essay 
 Shortcut:   WP:EIW#Ethiopia 
 Shortcut:   WP:EIW#Expert 
 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:Books#Resources
      • Mediawiki2pdf (shows sample Wikibooks url, but reportedly works for Wikipedia articles as well)
    • 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

F

  • FAQs – see Help pages, or specific topics in this index
 Shortcut:   WP:EIW#Feature 
 Shortcut:   WP:EIW#Fiction 
 Shortcut:   WP:EIW#Film 
 Shortcut:   WP:EIW#Flag 
 Shortcut:   WP:EIW#Format 
 Shortcut:   WP:EIW#Fun 
 Shortcut:   WP:EIW#Function 

G

 Shortcut:   WP:EIW#Gadget 
  • Gadgets: (new tab, as of December 2007, on the "Preferences" page) (see also User scripts)
    • mw:Extension:Gadgets- a way for editors to pick JavaScript or CSS based "gadgets" that other Wikipedia editors have created, via "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
    • mw:Gadget kitchen
 Shortcut:   WP:EIW#Gallery 
 Shortcut:   WP:EIW#Geo 
  • Geocoding (graphic coordinates and mapping): (see also Maps)
 Shortcut:   WP:EIW#Gloss 
 Shortcut:   WP:EIW#GLAM 
  • GLAM: (Galleries, Libraries, Archives, and Museums)
    • Outreach:GLAM
    • Outreach:GLAM/Newsletter
    • Wikipedia:GLAM
    • Commons:Commons:GLAMToolset project – a set of tools to make easier the batch uploads of GLAM material
  • Glossaries:
 Shortcut:   WP:EIW#Good 
 Shortcut:   WP:EIW#Google 
 Shortcut:   WP:EIW#Gothic 
 Shortcut:   WP:EIW#Graphic 

H

 Shortcut:   WP:EIW#Help 
 Shortcut:   WP:EIW#HelpPage 
 Shortcut:   WP:EIW#History 
 Shortcut:   WP:EIW#Hoax 

I

 Shortcut:   WP:EIW#Image 
 Shortcut:   WP:EIW#Import 
 Shortcut:   WP:EIW#Index 
 Shortcut:   WP:EIW#Indian 
 Shortcut:   WP:EIW#Infobox 
 Shortcut:   WP:EIW#Interlanguage 
  • Interlanguage links: (see also Interwiki links, Translations)
    • Help:Interlanguage links
    • User:Equazcion/SidebarTranslate – translates interlanguage links into English
    • Wikidata: (sister project)
      • Wikipedia:Wikidata
      • meta:Wikidata
      • d:Wikidata:Main Page
      • d:Help:FAQ
      • d:Wikidata:Introduction
      • Help:
        • d:Wikidata:Project chat
        • #wikimedia-wikidata connect – IRC chat room
      • Tools:
        • d:Wikidata:Tools
        • Autolist – query tool
        • meta:Grants:IEG/Wikidata Toolkit – project to create a modular toolkit for loading, querying, and analysing Wikidata data will make it easy for developers to use Wikidata in their applications (funded late 2013)
      • Category:Wikidata
      • m:A newer look at the interlanguage link – essay about establishing a wiki as a hub for interwiki links
    • Other:
 Shortcut:   WP:EIW#IRC 
 Shortcut:   WP:EIW#Interwiki 
 Shortcut:   WP:EIW#Ireland 

J

 Shortcut:   WP:EIW#Japan 

K

 Shortcut:   WP:EIW#Keyword 
 Shortcut:   WP:EIW#Korea 

L

 Shortcut:   WP:EIW#Languages 
  • Languages: see also Wikipedia:Naming conventions (languages), individual countries/languages, Translations
    • mw:Universal Language Selector – MediaWiki extension that allows users to change (display) language settings and configurations, including fonts
    • mw:Universal Language Selector/FAQ
 Shortcut:   WP:EIW#LDS 
 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 
 Shortcut:   WP:EIW#Lead 
  • Lead section: see Layout and sections
 Shortcut:   WP:EIW#Learning 
  • Learning: (see also Help, New editors, Questions)
    • Wikipedia:Learning the ropes
    • Wikipedia:Plain and simple
    • Help:Getting started
    • Category:Wikipedia quick introductions
    • Category:Wikipedia editor help
    • Training
    • Tutorials:
    • Coaching:
    • Classes:
    • Other:
      • Wikipedia:Instructional material
      • Wikipedia:Lectures
      • Wikipedia:The newcomer's manual (very incomplete)
      • Books:
        • Formally published:
          • Wikipedia: The Missing Manual (January 2008) ISBN 978-0596515164 (online: WP:TMM)
          • How Wikipedia Works (September 2008) ISBN 978-1593271763 (online pdf)
          • MediaWiki Administrators' Tutorial Guide: Install, manage, and customize your MediaWiki installation (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 
 Shortcut:   WP:EIW#Lists 
 Shortcut:   WP:EIW#Lithuania 
 Shortcut:   WP:EIW#Login 
  • Logging in: (see also User account and username)
    • Help:Logging in
    • Security:
    • Using a non-Wikipedia account and password:
      • In general: mw:Auth systems
      • mw:Extension:Facebook – not actively maintained
      • OAuth 1.0a:
        • mw:Auth systems/OAuth – work in 2013
        • mw:Extension:OAuth – beta
        • mw:Auth systems/OAuth/Design – "abandoned in favor of a different permissions model"
      • OpenID:
        • mw:Extension:OpenID
        • mw:Extension:GoogleLogin (OpenID 2.0, which is no longer supported by Google)
      • mw:Extension:Persona – Mozilla Persona (status of extension: "Experimental")
 Shortcut:   WP:EIW#Logo 

M

 Shortcut:   WP:EIW#Magic 
 Shortcut:   WP:EIW#Main 
 Shortcut:   WP:EIW#Maintain 
 Shortcut:   WP:EIW#MOS 
 Shortcut:   WP:EIW#Map 
 Shortcut:   WP:EIW#Math 
 Shortcut:   WP:EIW#Media 
 Shortcut:   WP:EIW#Mediation 
 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:How to become a MediaWiki hacker/Extension Writing Tutorial
      • mw:Extension Matrix
      • mw:Category:Extensions
      • mw:Manual:Extensions
      • Special:Version – lists which extensions are installed
    • Handbook:
    • Searching for information on MediaWiki:
      • Search MediaWiki.org with Google
      • Search Meta-Wiki with Google
    • Other:
 Shortcut:   WP:EIW#Medical 
 Shortcut:   WP:EIW#Merge 
 Shortcut:   WP:EIW#Messages 
 Shortcut:   WP:EIW#Messageboxes 
  • Messageboxes:
    • Via MediaWiki:
      • Wikipedia:Editnotice (how-to guide) – an editnotice appears above the edit window, in edit mode. Anyone can create editnotices for their user and talk pages; elsewhere, only administrators and template editors can do this.
    • 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 
 Shortcut:   WP:EIW#Mirror 
 Shortcut:   WP:EIW#Missing 
 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:
      • Help:Mobile access
      • mw:Mobile Beta – experimental staging area for new features that may eventually be added to the official mobile site
      • "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 
 Shortcuts:   WP:EIW#Monitor   WP:EIW#Watch 
 Shortcut:   WP:EIW#Moving 
 Shortcut:   WP:EIW#Music 

N

  • Name (of a user): see User account and username
 Shortcut:   WP:EIW#Namespace 
 Shortcut:   WP:EIW#Naming 
 Shortcut:   WP:EIW#Naviga 
 Shortcut:   WP:EIW#NPOV 
 Shortcut:   WP:EIW#NewA 
 Shortcut:   WP:EIW#NewE 
 Shortcut:   WP:EIW#New_page 
 Shortcut:   WP:EIW#News 
 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:
 Shortcut:   WP:EIW#Notable 
 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}} 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 

O

  • 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
 Shortcut:   WP:EIW#Outlines 
 Shortcut:   WP:EIW#Oversight 
 Shortcut:   WP:EIW#Own 

P

 Shortcut:   WP:EIW#Page revision 
 Shortcut:   WP:EIW#Page_v 
  • Page views: (see also Counts)
    • Most viewed (English Wikipedia):
    • 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) ("Hendrik's tool")
      • tools:~emw/wikistats/ – Wikipedia article traffic statistics (alpha, as of November 2013)
      • 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 
 Shortcut:   WP:EIW#Person 
 Shortcut:   WP:EIW#Piped 
 Shortcut:   WP:EIW#Poker 
 Shortcut:   WP:EIW#Policy 
 Shortcut:   WP:EIW#Portal 
 Shortcut:   WP:EIW#Preview 
 Shortcut:   WP:EIW#Privacy 
 Shortcut:   WP:EIW#Process 
 Shortcut:   WP:EIW#Promotional 
 Shortcut:   WP:EIW#Pronounce 
 Shortcut:   WP:EIW#Proposal 
 Shortcut:   WP:EIW#Protec 
 Shortcut:   WP:EIW#Punctuate 

Q

 Shortcut:   WP:EIW#Quality 
 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
    • User talk:TonyBot – bot that can do database queries upon request (requires registration)
      • 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)
    • Queries of database dumps (downloaded databases):
    • Wikidata queries:
      • Wikipedia:Wikidata
      • meta:Wikidata
      • d:Wikidata:Main Page
      • d:Wikidata:Introduction
      • d:Help:FAQ
      • Wikidata Query: (Wikimedia Labs)
        • Description
        • API documentation
    • Other structured data that can be queried:
      • DBpedia
      • 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
 Shortcut:   WP:EIW#Question 
 Shortcut:   WP:EIW#Quickbar 
 Shortcut:   WP:EIW#Quote 

R

 Shortcut:   WP:EIW#Random 
  • Random article:
    • Reading:
      • Any page within a specified namespace:
        • 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
      • Any article within a category:
      • Random Featured article (at the toolserver)
      • Random Good article (at the toolserver)
      • User talk:GregU/randomlink.js – Adds a "Random link" option to the sidebar menu; can be used to go to a random page in a category or a list
      • Portal:Virginia/Random – example of how to generate a random article from a specified set of articles
    • Editing random pages:
    • Other:
 Shortcut:   WP:EIW#Recent 
 Shortcuts:   WP:EIW#Red   WP:EIW#Red_links 
 Shortcut:   WP:EIW#Redirect 
 Shortcut:   WP:EIW#Redistribution 
 Shortcut:   WP:EIW#Region 
 Shortcuts:   WP:EIW#Resource   WP:EIW-Resource 
 Shortcut:   WP:EIW#Revert 
 Shortcut:   WP:EIW#Roads 

S

 Shortcut:   WP:EIW#Sandbox 
 Shortcut:   WP:EIW#School 
 Shortcut:   WP:EIW#Search 
  • Searching Wikipedia: (see also Index of pages, Queries (database))
    • In general: Help:Searching
    • Across language Wikipedias: Global Wikipedia Article Search
    • From within Wikipedia:
    • 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:
    • Tools:
    • Semantic MediaWiki:
      • Semantic MediaWiki (supplanted by Wikidata)
      • 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:Manual of Style/Layout#See also section
  • Self-interest: see Conflicts of interest
  • Semi-protection of pages: see Protection of pages
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  • XML: see Formatting of text, Queries (database)
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