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 - 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: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
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
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.
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)
Personal CSS:
mw:Gallery of user styles (a mix of MediaWiki-compatible skins, not selectable by editors, and personal css)
WikiLook – Firefox add-on that provides Wiktionary information about any word on a screen, when specially selected (shift or highlight plus mouse move)
Downloading all of Wikipedia: (see also Mobile access; for downloading individual pages, see Exporting (a page))
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
GeoPedia – provides iPhone owners with a Wikipedia feed customized to their current location
mw:Beta Features/Nearby Pages - Adds a button to the top right corner of pages that contain geographical information, to get the reader to "nearby" pages
Showing existing Wikipedia articles on a map:
Wikimapia
Google:
Google Maps has an option, under "More", to place markers showing Wikipedia articles
WikiBlame – searches for given text in versions of article
tools:~tparis/blame/ - Similar
User:AmiDaniel/WhodunitQuery – Windows application that identifies the edit and user who added a specific word or phrase
"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[dead link] – counts revisions (edits) (at the toolserver)
WikiSense - Contributors – lists edits, similar to page history, but can be sorted by contributor; easy to exclude different groups (at the toolserver)
Wikipedia Page History Statistics – builds an edit history overview page
WikiChecker
Article Contribution Counter (beta) – tool that identifies major contributors to an article (at the toolserver) (a similar feature request is at Bug# 7988)
Articleinfo - Article revision statistics
Other:
History Flow Visualization Application
Wikipedia Animate – user script; shows the evolution of a page, like a webcast
Wikipedia article traffic statistics – the 1000 pages with the most views (for April 2013) [last checked: November 2013]
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)
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)
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)
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
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
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
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
For a listing of current collaborations, tasks, and news, see the Community portal. For a listing of ongoing discussions and current requests, see the Dashboard.
