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This index is to help people who edit pages on Wikimedia Commons, or upload files here. If you just want to read the English Wikipedia, try w:Portal:Contents, w:Wikipedia:About or w:Wikipedia:FAQ/Readers.
- About this index – Tips on how to use this index, and instructions on maintaining consistency when making (or considering) changes to this index. Most important tip: try searching the index with Ctrl+F or ⌘+F in your Web browser.
- Some of the links in this index point to pages on the English Wikipedia and elsewhere. English Wikipedia pages are not treated as formal policy on Commons, but may nevertheless serve as a helpful guide.
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- Abuse: copyright infringement, vandalism, or sock puppetry
- Access (limiting): (see also Enforcement)
- Tor:
- mw:Extension:TorBlock (editing through tor requires 100 edits and 90 days to become autoconfirmed, as of June 2008)
- w:Wikipedia:Advice to users using Tor to bypass the Great Firewall
- Preventing abuses via open proxies:
- Tor:
- Account: see User account and username
- Administrators: (see also Access (limiting), Deletion, Enforcement)
- General information:
- Contacting an administrator: (see also specific topics such as Vandalism)
- Commons:Administrators' noticeboard/Attention – a directory of places to request administrator help (page is inactive for discussion)
- Commons:Administrators' noticeboard/Vandalism
- Commons:Administrators' noticeboard/User problems
- Commons:Administrators' noticeboard/Blocks and protections
- Commons:Administrators' noticeboard (COM:AN) - none of the above; for coordinating and discussing administrative tasks on Commons
- Current administrators:
- Archiving pages:
- User:MiszaBot - automatically archives a page, such as a talk page
- ARR: "All rights reserved".
- Assessment: see Quality of articles
- Assistance (disputes): (see also Content disputes, Help, Personal attacks, Questions)
- Audio clips: see Media
- Awards:
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- Backlogs:
- Commons:CommonTasks (inactive project)
- Banners:
- 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
- Behavior (see also Disruptive editing, Enforcement, Personal attacks, Spam, Vandalism)
- Blocks: see Access (limiting), Enforcement
- Blur. See Commons:Blur. A blur may be applied to a portion of an image to make that portion of the image less distinct, typically to obscure a copyrighted object within the image or to hide identifying information (e.g. a face, a license plate, etc.).
- Boldness: Commons:Don't be bold (essay)
- Bots: (see also Tools, User scripts)
- Commons:Bots - computer programs which automate repetitive editing tasks on Commons
- Commons:Bots/Requests
- Commons:Bots/Work requests
- Commons:Bots/Bots List
- Commons:Rename a category#Bots
- Commons:AutoWikiBrowser
- Commons:MediaMoveBot
- w:WP#EIW#Bots - information about bots on the English Wikipedia
- Browsers (for Wikipedia editing): (see also Editing software)
- Bundesarchiv: see German Federal Archives
- Bugs:
- Commons:Bugs (COM:BUG)
- mediazilla: – Wikimedia's old Bugzilla (now redirected to phabricator:)
- mw:How to report a bug
- Bureaucrats – folks who handle special, higher-level administrative tasks
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- CAPTCHA:
- Captions: see Images
- Categories:
- General information:
- Commons:Categories – (COM:Cat) (guideline)
- m:Help:Category - general help on categories from the MediaWiki Handbook
- Commons:First steps/Sorting - how to sort and categorize images and other media files
- Commons:Naming categories
- Commons:Rename a category
- Commons:Guide to layout/Category pages
- Cat – abbreviation for category (see also #HotCat and #Cat-a-lot)
- Listings of categories:
- Special:Categories – alphabetical category listing
- Category:Fundamental – fundamental categories
- Special:CategoryTree – can generate a tree of categories, or categories and articles
- CatScan
- Commons:Tag categories - for organizing messagebox templates (incorrectly called "tags")
- Category:Commons category schemes - manually-edited pages that display subject-specific portions of the category scheme on Commons
- Possible problems with categories:
- Commons:Categories for discussion – page to discuss (and nominate) the deletion, merging, and renaming of categories (COM:CFD)
- 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
- Files without categories:
- Intersection of two categories:
- 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
- m:Help:DPL – a MediaWiki extension supporting intersections and other set operations of pages belonging to several categories
- Keeping templates from creating categories when they shouldn't:
- Bots:
- General information:
- COM:EIC#Catbot
- Tools:
- Commons:AutoWikiBrowser
- Help:Gadget-HotCat - In "Gadgets" tab of Special:Preferences, augments category bar with quick links to remove, change, or add categories
- MediaWiki talk:Gadget-Cat-a-lot.js
- tools:~agony/incatsince/ - In category since – tool to list all articles in a category that have been so since a specified date
- User talk:CommonsDelinker/commands
- Hidden categories:
- Other:
- bugzilla:6943 – Bug # 6943 – Magic word for number of items in a category
- Wikipedia:Template messages/Category namespace
- 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.)
- Censorship:
- CFD (or CfD): "Categories for discussion"
- COI: "conflict of interest"
- Common sense: (see also Process)
- Commons:Use common sense (COM:SENSE) (proposed guideline)
- Commons:Tools#CommonSense - web based tool for finding appropriate categories for images on Commons
- m:Don't be a dick
- w:Wikipedia:There is no common sense (essay) – Base your argument on existing agreements, foundation issues and the interests of the project, not your own common sense.
- Category:Commons proposed policies and guidelines
- Commons (Wikimedia Commons):
- w:Wikipedia:Wikimedia Commons – has over 13 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
- Commons:Categories (COM:Cat) (guideline)
- Mayflower – searching the Commons
- Commons:Tools
- Manual for new Commons users (at en.flossmanuals.net)
- Uploading: (see also Uploading)
- Commons:Tools#Upload media
- Commons:Tools/Commonplace – Windows/Linux program for drag-and-drop uploading (dysfunctional now)
- Upload image – tool to upload images from Flickr (not working, 2023)
- Moving images to (from Wikipedia):
- COM:EIC#MoveToCommons
- w:Wikipedia:Moving images to the Commons
- w:Wikipedia:WikiProject Moving free images to Wikimedia Commons
- w:Wikipedia:Criteria for speedy deletion#F8 (w:WP:CSD#F8) - final step in the move-to-Commons procedure: speedy deletion criteria for files on Wikipedia after someone copies them to Commons
- CommonsHelper – tool to generate an image description to copy-and-paste for the commons upload form (formerly called "Move-to-commons assistant")
- User:Magnus Manske/Commonshelper interface/Help en - documentation for CommonsHelper
- User:Fran Rogers/CommonsHelper Helper – user script that adds a button to easily bring up CommonsHelper
- w: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:
- w: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
- Communications (communicating with other editors): see Messages
- Community: see Wikipedia as community
- Community portal: Commons:Community portal (see also Wikipedia as a community)
- Consensus and voting:
- w:Wikipedia:Consensus (w:WP:CON) (policy on Wikipedia; Commons appears to have no separate policy on consensus)
- m:Power structure
- m:Polling is evil
- Conservation: Commons:Taxobox (COM:TX) (inactive)
- Content (how-to): see Content disputes, Edits (in general), New articles, Style (articles)
- Content disclaimer: Commons:General disclaimer
- Content disputes: (see also Consensus, Controversial articles, Disruptive editing, Neutral point of view, Personal attacks)
- General policies and guidelines: (in addition to w:WP:NOR, w:WP:V, w:WP:NPOV, etc.)
- Commons:Disputes noticeboard (COM:DN)
- Commons:Project scope/Neutral point of view - It is not the role of Commons to adjudicate on subject-matter disputes nor to force local projects to use one version of a file
- General policies and guidelines: (in addition to w:WP:NOR, w:WP:V, w:WP:NPOV, etc.)
- Content notes: see Notes
- Controversial images: (see also Content disputes)
- 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 media file formats:
- copyfraud: usually, making a false claim of owning a copyright one does not own, especially on material that is actually in the public domain. Can also sometimes refer to claiming material is in the public domain when it is not.
- Copyright: (see also Legal, Uploading) - how to determine what is acceptable to upload to Commons
- In general:
- Commons:Project scope/Precautionary principle (COM:PRP) - in general, assume a media file is not free content unless we can prove it is free
- Commons:Licensing (COM:L) - gives non-lawyers an overview of complicated copyright laws through an example-based tutorial
- Commons:Project scope#Must be freely licensed or public domain
- Commons:Copyright rules (guideline)
- Commons:Non-copyright restrictions
- Commons:FAQ#Copyright questions
- Commons:Image casebook (COM:CB) - discusses copyright issues with many types of images
- Commons:Choosing a license - how to donate your own work under a free license
- Commons:Derivative works (COM:DW) - usually you should not upload works derived from other copyrighted works onto Commons
- w:Idea-expression divide - a concept which explains the appropriate function of copyright laws
- Specific cases:
- Commons:Currency - copyright rules for currencies of various nations
- Commons:Fan art (COM:FAN) - artistic re-creations not licensed by the copyright holder of the original work are generally not suitable for Commons
- Commons:Screenshots - A screenshot may be published under a free license only if all the graphics shown have a free license, or the copyright holder agrees to license the screenshot freely via #VRTVRT
- Public domain:
- w:Wikipedia:Public domain (w:WP:PD) - extensive discussion of what "public domain" means
- Help:Public domain - helps determine whether a given work is in the public domain (especially older works), and which template (i.e. license tag) to use
- Commons:Donate to the public domain - how to donate your work to the public domain
- Commons:Reuse of PD-Art photographs
- Commons:When to use the PD-Art tag (COM:PDART) - {{PD-Art}} asserts that a photograph of an old, public domain, two-dimensional work of art can have no independent copyright
- Commons:Stamps - a list of postage stamps by country that are in the public domain
- Commons:Hirtle chart - a best effort guide to determine when images enter the public domain in the United States
- Fair use, non-free use: (see also Fair use)
- Commons:Fair use (COM:FAIRUSE)
- m:Avoid Copyright Paranoia – discussion
- Commons:Freedom of panorama (COM:FOP)
- Commons:De minimis (COM:DM) - copying of such trivial nature it can be ignored
- Requesting permission from copyright holders (see also VRT):
- In general:
- COM:EIC#Permreq
- Commons:Permission - as of July, 2009, a proposed guideline explaining what to do about images having the {{Npd}} (no permission) template
- w:Wikipedia:Requesting copyright permission (w:WP:COPYREQ)
- w:Wikipedia:Example requests for permission (w:WP:ERFP)
- Commons:Email templates (not actually templates in the MediaWiki technical sense, but rather boilerplate letters one can customize)
- Copyright tags (i.e. templates, incorrectly called "tags") (see also Uploading):
- COM:EIC#Ctags
- Commons:Copyright tags
- Commons:Image copyright tags visual
- Commons:Creative Commons copyright tags
- Category:PD-USGov license tags – copyright tags for U.S. government images
- Problems:
- Commons:Deletion policy (COM:DP)
- Commons:How to detect copyright violations
- foundation:Designated agent – for notification of claimed infringement
- Categories for problem images:
- Bots to find problems:
- Images:
- User:BetacommandBot
- User:STBotI – tags images for relatively speedy deletion
- User:John Bot II – tags images that lack adequate copyright information
- Images:
- w:Wikipedia:Media copyright questions - a page for asking questions on the w:English Wikipedia
- Using Commons content:
- COM:EIC#Reusing
- Commons:Reusing content outside Wikimedia (COM:REUSE)
- Commons:Enforcing license terms (COM:ENFORCE)
- Commons:GNU Free Documentation License
- Text at Commons:GNU Free Documentation License)
- "GFDL 1.3 released, will allow Wikimedia migration to Creative Commons license" (Signpost article, November 2008)
- m:Licensing update/Questions and Answers
- Copyvio: "copyright violation"
- 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)
- w:Wikipedia:Tools#Edit counters
- Milestone – finds the nth edit of an editor
- Creative Commons: (see also Copyright, Flickr, Free media resources)
- Information about the Creative Commons licenses that Wikimedia Commons allows:
- Templates for identifying the Creative Commons licenses of media files:
- Finding media under Creative Contents licenses:
- Commons:Free media resources/Free content search engines - lists some ways to search the Web for content under Creative Commons licenses
- Media on Commons under Creative Commons licenses:
- Other:
- Category:Creative Commons Newsletter
- w:Wikipedia:Transition to CC-BY-SA - (proposal) - Wikipedia may change its licensing from the GFDL to CC-BY-SA
- w:Wikipedia:Comparison of GFDL and CC-BY-SA
- Credentials:
- w:Wikipedia:There is no credential policy – Wikipedia has no policy on whether credentials should either be disregarded or verified, Commons probably follows this
- CSD: Commons:Criteria for speedy deletion, a.k.a. COM:CSD; sometimes used as a verb (e.g. "CSDed") meaning either speedy-deleted or nominated for speedy deletion
- Current events: (see also News about Commons)
- Wikinews (sister project)
- Commons:Deletion requests/Current events - Commons no longer has a Current events page
- Customization: (see also Quickbar, Signatures)
- Via "my preferences":
- Via the Gadgets tab in "my preferences" – see Gadgets
- Via JavaScript: see User scripts
- Via w:Cascading Style Sheets (CSS):
- w:Help:Cascading style sheets
- Skins:
- 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)
- Personal CSS:
- m:Gallery of user styles (a mix of MediaWiki-compatible skins, not selectable by editors, and personal css)
- Technical:
- w:Help:User style
- m:Help:Cascading style sheets
- MediaWiki:Common.css
- m:Customize page layout – should be at Mediawiki; how to rework standard page seen by all non-logged in readers
- Editors who know CSS: w:Category:User css
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- Data download: see Downloading all of Commons, Queries (database) (for individual pages, see Exporting (a page))
- Database query: see Queries (database)
- Decision-making: see Consensus and voting, Functionaries, Wikimedia Foundation
- Deletion: (see also Categories for deletion of categories, Copyright for reasons to delete some media files, Redirect for deletion of redirects, etc.)
- Commons:Deletion policy (COM:DP)
- Commons:Deletion requests (COM:RFD)
- {{Deletion menu}}
- Commons:How to detect copyright violations
- Commons:Project scope
- Commons:Licensing
- Special:Log/delete
- Commons:Superseded images policy (COM:SUP) - deletion of superseded images has been suspended indefinitely
- Deletionist: see m:Deletionism
- Diagrams: see Graphics
- Dictionary:
- For Wiktionary, see also wikt:Main Page
- Another alternative: w: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)
- Directories: (see also Indexes)
- Commons:Picture requests
- Special:Specialpages – a list of special pages that are automatically generated and cannot be edited
- Disambiguation (see also Moving a page, Naming an article)
- w:Wikipedia:Disambiguation (w:WP:DAB) (guideline on Wikipedia - I don't see a separate guideline for Commons)
- Commons:Language policy (COM:LP)
- Bots:
- User:Polbot – removes piped linking on disambiguation pages (function #5)
- User:RussBot – automated bot for disambiguation
- Templates:
- Other:
- Disclaimers:
- Commons:General disclaimer
- On the English Wikipedia:
- Discussion pages: (see also Help, Questions, Talk pages)
- Commons:Discussion index (COM:DI)
- {{Discussion menu}} - navigation template with links to major discussion pages on Commons
- Category:Image detail for discussion - images uploaded specifically for discussing improvements
- Disputes: see: Content disputes, Personal attacks
- Disruptive editing (see also Content disputes, Enforcement, Personal attacks)
- Downloading all of Commons: (see also Mobile access, Queries (database); for downloading individual pages, see Exporting (a page))
- Wikimedia Downloads of text content from Commons – unfortunately, no bulk download of images is available yet
- Picture of the year archives for 2006 and 2007
- DR: Deletion request
- DW: Commons:Derivative works
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- Edit conflicts:
- w:Help:Edit conflict – when two editors simultaneously edit the same page or section
- 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
- Edit notices: see COM:EIC#Messageboxes
- Edit summary:
- Help:Edit summary
- w:Wikipedia:Edit summary legend – commonly used abbreviations
- w:Wikipedia:Edit summary legend/Quick reference
- Commons:Automatic edit summary (COM:AES)
- Special:Preferences, Editing tab – has option for a prompt (message) when you click "save" but edit summary is blank
- w: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
- w:Wikipedia:Perennial proposals#Automatically prompt for missing edit summary
- m:Help:Dummy edit – generally for the purpose of posting an edit summary
- Edit wars: see Content disputes
- Editing: see Edits (in general)
- Editing interface (for text; user interface): (see also Browsers)
- Modifying the standard Wikipedia text editing window: see Edits (in general)
- mw:Markup spec/ANTLR – general specifications for existing markup syntax
- Wikimedia Foundation initiative (2009-2010):
- 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:
- w:Wikipedia:Text editor support
- Help:External editors
- w:Wikipedia:WikiProject User scripts/Scripts/External editor – adds a tab to easily invoke an external editor
- w:Wikipedia:MozEx tutorial – how to use the MozEx extension of Mozilla and Mozilla Firefox to select a page editor
- w:Wikipedia:Wikipedia-mode.el – Emacs
- Eclipse Wikipedia Editor at SourceForge.net
- w:WYSIWYG:
- COM:EIC#WYSIWYG
- Edits (of text; in general) (see also Edit summary, Editing software, Formatting of text, Help, New articles, New editors, Page revisions, Preview, Quality of articles, Sources)
- Help:Contents
- Standard editing screen:
- w:Help:Edit toolbar
- MediaWiki talk:Edittools
- Modifying:
- w:Wikipedia:Tools/Editing tools
- w: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 w:Wikia, which uses the MediaWiki software that Wikipedia also uses)
- w:Help:Editing FAQ
- m:Help:Dummy edit – generally for the purpose of posting an edit summary
- Enhancements for edit mode:
- w:User:Zocky/Search Box – search and replace
- Elections:
- Email:
- w:Help:Email confirmation
- w:Wikipedia:E-mailing users
- Commons:Email templates (COM:ET)
- Commons:VRT (COM:VRT) - email-based procedure to provide permission to use a photo freely
- Commons:Privacy policy#E-mail, mailing lists and IRC
- Embedded citations: see Sources
- Endnotes: see Sources
- Enforcement of Commons policies: (see also Administrators, Arbitration, Functionaries, Protection of pages)
- General:
- Blocks: (see also Access (limiting))
- Commons:Blocking policy (COM:BP)
- Commons:Administrators' noticeboard/Blocks and protections (COM:AN/B)
- Category:User block templates
- Special:Log/block – log of blocks
- Blocking IP addresses:
- w:Wikipedia:Blocking IP addresses
- Commons:IP block exemption (COM:IPE, a.k.a. IPBE) (policy)
- mw:Help:Range blocks
- {{Blocked school}}
- Special:Ipblocklist – List of currently blocked IP addresses and usernames (searchable)
- m:Global blocking – new extension; implemented August 2008
- Actions by blocked editors:
- Enforcement of licenses of Commons content: Commons:Enforcing license terms
- Essays:
- Etiquette: see Behavior
- Exporting (a page): (see also Downloading all of Wikipedia)
- w:Help:Export
- Special:Export
- mw:Manual:Parameters to Special:Export
- mw:Extension:Collection – organizing a personal selections of pages into a collection
- PDF:
- WikiPDF
- w: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
- w: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
- Fair use: (see also Copyright)
- Featured content: (see also Quality images, Valued images)
- Commons:Featured pictures (COM:FP)
- Commons:Featured sounds (COM:FS)
- Special:Prefixindex/Commons:Featured
- Category:Featured pictures
- Category:Formerly featured pictures
- Category:Featured pictures on Wikimedia Commons
- Category:Featured sounds
- Category:Featured picture templates
- Commons:Quality images
- Special:Prefixindex/Commons:Quality
- Commons:Valued images
- Special:Prefixindex/Commons:Valued
- Files: (see also Copyrights, Images)
- Commons:File types
- w:Wikipedia:Graphic Lab/Resources/SVG
- Category:Commons resources - resources, help, tools, links, FAQs, labs, software, etc..
- Commons:Map resources
- Commons:Chart and graph resources
- en:Wikipedia:Graphic Lab/Image workshop
- meta:Philip Greenspun illustration project/Requests - request creation/improvement of illustrations
- Wikipedia:WikiProject Illustration - Ask project members for help
- Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Illustration - Ask at this talk page
- Category:Wikipedia image help
- Commons:Guide to layout/File description pages
- Names:
- MediaWiki:Titleblacklist - contains rules for filenames that Commons does not allow, when evaluating the "Destination filename" field on the upload form
- mw:Extension:Title Blacklist - documents the syntax for the filename rules
- Moving/renaming:
- Bug #709 – code has been written (not implemented as of mid-May 2008) to allow editors to rename/move images and other media files
- Commons:FAQ#How can I rename/move an image or other media file?
- Commons:File renaming
- File-related tutorials:
- Commons:First steps/Quality and description
- Commons:Media help: Help for how to play and create media files
- Help:Converting video: Help for converting video format
- Help:Creating a DjVu file
- Help:Scanning - how to create a scan, once you have determined that scanning is permissible
- Commons:Software: If you need help with viewing or creating these formats, please see the useful software
- Flags:
- Of nations:
- Bot-related: (see Bots)
- Flickr (photo-sharing site). (See also Free media resources)
- Category:Commons Flickr resources
- Commons:Flickr files (COM:FLICKR)
- Commons:Flickr files/Guide
- Special:Prefixindex/Commons:Flickr files - subpages
- Commons:WikiProject Flickr (COM:WPF)
- Reviewing images uploaded from Flickr:
- Tools:
- Flinfo - fills out an {{Information}} template for a Flickr photo
- User:Flominator/Flinfo - instructions for using Flinfo
- User:Teratornis/Flickr examples - worked out examples of uploading photos using Flinfo
- Simple Commons upload form to paste the {{Information}} template from Flinfo into
- {{Flickr free}} - search for photos with licenses suitable for Commons
- Magnus' Flickr2Commons upload tool page (instant copying)
- Flickrripper - for batch uploading large numbers of images
- Flinfo - fills out an {{Information}} template for a Flickr photo
- Problems:
- Commons:Flickr washing (COM:FLICKRW) - an unacceptable tactic for making unfree images appear to be free
- FOP: Commons:Freedom of panorama
- Form (as input): w:Help:Inputbox (a MediaWiki extension to add predefined HTML forms to wiki pages)
- Formatting of text: (see also Exporting (a page))
- How to: (most text formatting instructions are on Wikipedia rather than Commons)
- w:Wikipedia:Manual of Style (text formatting) – bold, italics, underlines, etc.
- w:Wikipedia:How to edit a page#Wiki markup
- w:Help:Wikitext examples
- m:Help:Reference card – one page summary of important MediaWiki editing commands, intended to be printed out
- Help:HTML in wikitext
- w:Wikipedia:Tutorial (Formatting)
- Quick reference guides:
- w:Wikipedia:Cheatsheet (w:WP:CHEAT)
- Short, printable "cheatsheet" on Wikimedia Commons
- w:Wikipedia:Manual of Style (command-line examples) – for articles on w:computer science, how to format words that an editor would type, useful for documenting tools
- Colors:
- How to: (most text formatting instructions are on Wikipedia rather than Commons)
- COM:EIC#Color
- w:Wikipedia:Colours (Manual of Style)
- w:Wikipedia:WikiProject Color
- Discussion of MediaWiki's syntax:
- Formulas: see Graphics
- Forum shopping: see w:Wikipedia:Spam#Forum shopping
- Foundation: see Wikimedia Foundation
- Free license: on Commons, this nearly always means a [[Commons:Licensing#Acceptable licenses license acceptable for Commons]. There are licenses that others might consider "free" but which don't meet Commons' requirements.
- Free media resources (see also Flickr and German Federal Archives (Bundesarchiv))
- Commons:Free media resources
- Special:Prefixindex/Commons:Free media
- Commons:Free media resources/Drawing
- Commons:Free media resources/General Public Domain sources
- Commons:Free media resources/Music
- Commons:Free media resources/Painting
- Commons:Free media resources/Photography
- Commons:Free media resources/Sound
- Commons:Free media resources/Video
- Commons:Free media resources/Photography
- w:Wikipedia:Public domain image resources
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- Gadgets: (new tab, since December 2007, on the "My preferences" page)
- Commons:Gadget - overview of what gadgets are, with useful links
- 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)
- MediaWiki:Gadgets-definition
- Special:Gadgets – shows underlying scripts and CSS code used for each gadget
- w:Wikipedia:Gadget (w:WP:GADGET) – lists the available gadgets on Wikipedia
- Galleries (see also Images)
- Commons:Guide to layout/Gallery pages
- Commons:Galleries
- Commons:Featured galleries - still under development as of July, 2009
- Related information from the English Wikipedia:
- Other:
- Commons:Collages - combination of multiple images arranged in a single image
- Games: see Fun (for games within Wikipedia), Video games
- Gaussian blur - see Blur
- General disclaimer: Commons:General disclaimer
- Geocoding (graphic coordinates and mapping): (see also Maps)
- Commons:Geocoding (COM:GEO)
- Commons:GeoCommons
- Commons:Map resources
- Commons:Geocode Users
- Commons:Microformats Project - geo microformat
- w:Wikipedia:Obtaining geographic coordinates
- w:Wikipedia:WikiProject Geographical coordinates
- {{Location}} template for adding coordinates to media files
- 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
- German Federal Archives (see also Free content resources)
- w:German Federal Archives or Bundesarchiv (BArch) (German: Bundesarchiv) are the w:National Archives of Germany
- Commons:Bundesarchiv
- Commons:Bundesarchiv/Gallery
- Special:Prefixindex/Commons:Bundesarchiv - subpages
- Category:Bundesarchiv
- Glossaries:
- For terms used by Wikipedia editors, see Terms and terminology
- For glossaries that are articles (content), see w:Portal:Contents/List of glossaries
- w:Wikipedia:Glossary (w:WP:G) - list of terms used on Wikipedia (many also used on Commons)
- w:Wikipedia:Alphabet soup - list of abbreviations used on Wikipedia for various pages, processes, policies, and proposals
- Commons:Language policy#Titles of articles - contains a short glossary of terms
- Commons:Photography terms
- Good faith: see Personal attacks
- Google:
- w:Google Earth: see Maps
- Google test: see Search engine test
- w: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
- w:Template:Google templates - a list of templates that generate links to various Google services (e.g. search, custom search, image search, language translation)
- Graphics (see also Galleries, Images, Inkscape, Maps)
- w:Wikipedia:Graphics tutorials
- w:Help:Displaying a formula – markup
- w:Wikipedia:ASCII art conversion tool
- w:Wikipedia:Chemical ASCII-art
- w:Wikipedia:How to create graphs for Wikipedia articles
- Commons:Graphic Lab (aka "Graphics Lab")
- Commons:Graphics village pump (COM:GVP) - where to get help with graphics
- Special:Prefixindex/Graphic
- Diagrams:
- Other:
- Commons:Collages - combination of multiple images arranged in a single image
- mw:Extension:GraphViz
- Category:Graphics abilities - categorizes users by their graphics skills
- 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
- Help (directly requesting): (see also Discussions, Questions)
- Commons:Help desk (COM:HD) - general help questions
- Commons:Village pump (COM:VP) - technical questions
- Commons:Graphics village pump (COM:GVP) - questions about graphics
- Special:PrefixIndex/Commons:Graphics village pump - to list the archive pages
- Commons:Village pump/Copyright COM:VPC questions about copyright
- Commons talk:Licensing - licensing/copyright questions
- Special:PrefixIndex/Commons talk:Licensing/Archive - to list the archive pages
- To-do: list the other places to request various kinds of assistance
- 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
- Frequently asked questions:
- Categorized pages:
- Categorized images:
- Category:Help for Wikipedia newbies - screenshots to illustrate tutorials
- History (of a page):
- w:Wikipedia:How to read an article history
- w:Help:Page history
- w:WP:EIW#History - more entries on the Editor's index to Wikipedia
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- Images: (see also Censorship, Commons, Copyrights, Files, Galleries, Graphics, Inkscape, Navigation)
- General information:
- Needed pictures:
- Resources (where to get images) (see also Commons, Flickr, Free media resources):
- COM:EIC#ImgResources
- Before uploading:
- Commons:Preparing images for upload
- Commons:Media restoration
- Dispatches: Vintage image restoration, w:Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/2008-03-13/Dispatches
- Uploading: (see also Commons)
- Commons:First steps - overviews the process
- Commons:Upload – wizard
- MediaWiki:Uploadtext – warns about the need to specify the source of an upload, and copyright information
- Commons:Upload
- Commons:Copyright tags
- Special:Upload
- Choosing a License – explanations of what the various Creative Commons options are
- Displaying on a page: (see also Gallery)
- Featured and valued: (see also Featured content)
- Improving images:
- Commons:Media for cleanup
- Commons:Graphic Lab
- Commons:Graphic Lab School/Images to improve (place to request assistance)
- Cropping images:
- bugzilla:7757 – Bug #7757 – allow cropping images when rendered – proposal to enable display of only part of an image
- User:Cropbot - a bot which crops an image without requiring the user to download a copy
- Metadata: (see also Geocoding)
- Commons:EXIF - how to edit the EXIF data of a JPEG image
- Annotating:
- Help:Gadget-ImageAnnotator - Javascript extension allowing users to place comments onto images shown on file description pages
- Collages:
- Commons:Collages - combination of multiple images arranged in a single image
- Problem images on Wikipedia: (other than Copyrights)
- Deletion: (see Deletion)
- Orphans:
- Commons:Tools#OrphanImages
- 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:STBotI – tags images for relatively speedy deletion
- User:John Bot II – tags images that lack adequate copyright information
- Other:
- 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
- Bots:
- Other: (see also Commons regarding moving images from Wikipedia to Commons)
- Special:Newimages ("Gallery of new files") – images that have just been added to Wikipedia
- Special:ListFiles – most recently uploaded files
- Special:Filepath – provides a URL to link directly to the current version of an image
- Image review, image reviewer: see license review
- Importing: (see also Tables)
- Commons:OpenOffice.org SVG Import
- Porting PDF files to MediaWiki (from Appropedia.org)
- w: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")
- Indexes: (see also Directories)
- Of any namespace on Commons:
- Special:Allpages – select a starting point for browsing
- Other:
- Of any namespace on Commons:
- Infoboxes: (templates):
- Inserting text from one page into another page – see Transclusion
- Instructional material: see Learning
- Inkscape: (See also Graphics, Images, Maps, Tools)
- Help:Inkscape - Inkscape is a vector graphics editor application for graphically editing SVG files
- Help:Text and Inkscape - how to create SVG representations of text using Inkscape
- Help:Vector graphics tutorial - how to create SVG files with Inkscape
- Help:SVG
- Commons:Transition to SVG - how to replace existing bitmap (raster) files with vector files
- Commons:Media for cleanup#PNG or JPEG images that should be SVG
- Inkscape: Guide to a Vector Drawing Program
- Templates:
- {{Bitmap from Inkscape}} - to mark images that someone created by downsampling from an SVG file originally created in Inkscape
- {{Convert to SVG}} - to mark raster images that someone should vectorize
- {{Created with Inkscape}} - to mark images someone created with Inkscape
- {{Inkscape-hand}} - to mark images someone created with Inkscape, and then edited the SVG code in a text editor program
- {{User Inkscape}} - a user box for Inkscape users
- {{Vector version available}} - to mark bitmap images for which a corresponding SVG file exists
- Category:SVG marker templates
- Commons:SVG marker templates - visual guide to SVG-related templates
- Related media:
- Category:Created with Inkscape - if you use Inkscape to make a file, then mark it with {{Created with Inkscape}} when you upload it
- Category:Inkscape - general category for other pertinent documents and images to the software itself
- Category:Inkscape instruction - a category for SVG images to use in Inkscape tutorials
- Commons:Meet our illustrators - some are highly skilled Inkscape users
- Librsvg bugs - examples of SVG images that do not (or did not) render correctly on Commons
- Resources on the English Wikipedia:
- w:Inkscape - general information about the program
- w:Wikipedia:Graphic Lab/Resources/SVG
- w:Wikipedia:How to draw a diagram with Inkscape
- w:Wikipedia:SVG Help
- w:Wikipedia:SVG image support
- w:Wikipedia:WikiProject Electronics/Programs - has some tips on drawing electronic schematics with Inkscape
- Interlanguage links: (see also Interwiki links, Translations)
- w:Help:Interlanguage links
- m:A newer look at the interlanguage link – essay about establishing a wiki as a hub for interwiki links
- Internet Relay Chat (IRC):
- Commons:Internet Relay Chat
- w:Wikipedia:IRC channels
- w: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
- Commons:Community portal
- m:IRC channel cloaks
- Wikipedia IRC help channel – a login page
- Interwiki links: (see also Interlanguage links, Transwiki)
- w:Help:Interwiki linking
- Template:W - a template for creating interwiki links to the various language Wikipedias
- IP lookup: see Vandalism
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- Keyboard shortcuts: w:Wikipedia:Keyboard shortcuts
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- Languages: see w:Wikipedia:Naming conventions (languages), individual countries/languages, Translations
- Layout and sections: (see also Table of contents) (for layout of the standard Wikipedia page, see Customization)
- Commons:Guide to layout (COM:LAYOUT) - outlines some of the basics for laying out gallery pages, file description pages, and category pages
- Special:Prefixindex/Commons:Guide to layout - a list of all the Guide to layout subpages
- w:Help:Section
- Commons:Guide to layout/Category pages
- Commons:Guide to layout/File description pages
- Commons:Guide to layout/Gallery pages
- Commons:Guide to layout (COM:LAYOUT) - outlines some of the basics for laying out gallery pages, file description pages, and category pages
- Learning: (see also Help, Questions)
- Help:Vector graphics tutorial
- Commons:Tutorial for Bitmap graphism
- Commons:Tutorial for Audio file editors
- Commons:Ancient Chinese characters:Tutorial
- Commons:How to take pictures for Wikimedia Commons
- Commons:Cleaning up interference with Fourier analysis
- Commons:Preparing images for upload
- User:Al2/Tutorial about Illustrations
- Commons:Meet our illustrators (COM:MOI)
- Commons:Map resources#Tutorials
- Legal: (see also Copyrights, Disclaimers, Privacy)
- Commons:Photographs of identifiable people (COM:IDENT) - guidelines for pictures of identifiable people on Commons
- Commons:Help page maintenance/Legal pages
- Commons:Reusing content outside Wikimedia
- Commons:Credit line - holds information that an author of a work requests all users to include with the work, as a condition of use enforced by the license
- Commons:Freedom of panorama
- Commons:Deletion policy
- Commons:Coats of Arms#Legal restrictions on usage (COM:COA)
- Commons:Non-copyright restrictions
- Commons:Ownership of pages and files
- Commons:Licensing
- Licensing: see Copyright
- Links: see Sources (for external links), Wikilinks (for links between wiki articles)
- Location: see Geocoding
- Logging in: (see also User account and username)
- Commons:First steps/Account
- mw:Extension:OpenID – lets users log in with an OpenID
- Security:
- w:Wikipedia:Security (essay)
- w: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)
- Logos: (see also Copyright, Trademarks)
- Fair use claimed:
- Commons's logo:
- Wikipedia's logo:
- Logos by others, as media:
- Category:Logos
- Commons:Image casebook#Trademarks - discussion of copyright as it applies to corporate logos and trademarked images
- On the English Wikipedia:
- LTA: Long-term abuse, Long-term abuser
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- Magic:
- w:Help:Magic
- Magic words:
- Help:Magic words
- Help:Variable
- w:Help:Parser function
- m:Help:ParserFunctions – a collection of parser functions
- mw:Markup spec/BNF/Magic links
- Mailing lists: (see also News (about Wikipedia))
- Commons:Mailing lists
- Wikimedia Mail Stats: Index] – statistics on all Wikimedia Foundation mailing lists
- Main page: (see also Protection of pages)
- Maintenance: (see also Quality of articles, Spelling, Things to do)
- Commons:Help page maintenance (COM:HPM)
- Special:Prefixindex/Commons:Help page maintenance
- Commons:Media for cleanup
- Commons:Category scheme Commons maintenance/en
- Special:Prefixindex/Commons:Category scheme Commons maintenance
- Category:Commons maintenance content
- {{Maintenance announcements}}
- Other:
- Special:AncientPages – 1 September 2007 listing of the 5000 pages with the longest elapsed time since the last edit
- Manual of Style:
- w:Wikipedia:Manual of Style (Commons needs no Manual of Style)
- Maps: (see also Geocoding)
- m:Maps
- m:Wikimaps
- w:Wikipedia:Blank maps – maps that can be colored and labeled in different languages
- w:Wikipedia:WikiProject Maps
- w:Wikipedia:WikiProject Maps/Source materials
- w:Wikipedia:Graphic Lab/Map workshop
- Commons:Project Mapmaking Wiki Standards
- w:Wikipedia:Producing maps with xplanet
- w:Wikipedia:WikiProject OpenStreetMap
- w::Category:Wikipedia requested maps
- {{Location}} – 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
- Commons:Featured pictures/Non-photographic media/Maps
- Commons:Categories/Maps
- Commons:United States county locator maps
- Commons:Map resources
- Special:Prefixindex/Commons:Map resources
- Commons:WikiProject Atlas
- Commons:Geocoding
- Mapmaking tools:
- Cartographic tutorials:
- fr:Wikipédia:Atelier graphique/Didacticiels cartographiques - mapmaking tutorials in French
- w:Wikipedia:Graphic Lab/Resources/Tutorials - some of the French mapmaking tutorials translated to English
- Markup: see Formatting of text
- Mathematics: (see also Numbers)
- Meat puppets: see policy on Sock puppets
- Media: (see also Copyright, Images, Music)
- Commons:Media help
- Special:Prefixindex/Commons:Media help
- mw:Extension:OggHandler
- Ogg search – search of the Commons for specific audio and video streams
- Commons:Picture requests
- Commons:Video
- Commons:Audio and video requests
- Mediation:
- w:Wikipedia:Mediation (policy on Wikipedia - Commons has no separate policy)
- 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)
- w:Help:Testing
- 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:
- Messages: (see also Internet Relay Chat (IRC), Messageboxes, Talk pages)
- w:Wikipedia:Canvassing – votestacking, campaigning, friendly notice, and forum shopping
- w:Wikipedia:E-mailing users
- Commons:Templates
- Messageboxes:
- Via MediaWiki:
- Via templates:
- Commons:Templates (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
- Meta: - a wiki-based web site that is auxiliary for coordinating all the Wikimedia Foundation projects
- w:Wikipedia:Meta
- m:Meta:Babel – general and policy discussion page
- Metacategory (also metacat, MetaCat, etc.): Categories about categories (e.g. Category:Buildings by function). See Commons:Meta category.
- Microformats
- Minor edit: w:Help:Minor edit
- Mirrors:
- In the computer science sense:
- w:Wikipedia:Mirrors and forks – sites that use Wikipedia content
- w:Wikipedia:Standard GFDL violation letter
- Classifying images of actual mirrors:
- In the computer science sense:
- Missing media:
- Mobile access:
- To-do: determine whether there is any information about mobile access to Commons; the links in this entry pertain to mobile access to Wikipedia
- "iPhone Gems: Wikipedia Apps" – review of 16 apps for the iPhone or iPod touch (November 2008)
- Real-time version of Wikipedia:
- w:Wikipedia:Mobile access
- 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
- Other:
- GeoPedia – provides iPhone owners with a Wikipedia feed customized to their current location
- "Kiwi" client – for iPhone and iPod
- Moderator: see Administrator
- Monitoring changes: (see also Recent changes)
- Commons:Administrators' Category watch
- Watchlist
- w:Help:Watching pages – about watchlists
- w:Wikipedia:Copying watchlist to new username
- 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
- w:Wikipedia:Perennial proposals#Create a counter of people watching a page
- Real-time feeds:
- API with feedwatchlist option (must be logged in or have "remember me" checked as login option)
- Alternatives to the standard watchlist (other than real-time feeds):
- Special:Recentchangeslinked/User:Example lists changes to all Wikipedia pages on the User:Example page
- gWatch (Global Watchlist) – Watchlist for all Wikimedia wikis
- RSS (page-by-page specification):
- Other:
- Special:Unwatchedpages – pages not on anyone's watchlist [this special page is viewable only by admins]
- Movies: see Films To-do: determine how best to deal with this entry; maybe link it to media or video instead
- Moving a page: (see also Disambiguation, Naming an article, Redirects)
- Commons:First steps/Upload form
- w:Help:Moving a page (w:WP:MOVE)
- w:Help:Merging and moving pages (w:WP:MM)
- Commons:Rename a category
- w:Wikipedia:Moving guidelines for administrators
- w:Wikipedia:How to fix cut-and-paste moves
- MediaWiki:Movenotallowed
- MediaWiki:Movepage-moved – page that an editor sees after a successful move
- Moving a file:
- Bug #709 – code has been written (not implemented as of mid-May 2008) to allow editors to rename/move images and other media files
- Commons:FAQ#How can I rename/move an image or other media file?
- Commons:File renaming
- Multi-licensing: Commons:Multi-licensing
- Music: (see also Media)
- Commons:Free media resources/Music
- Commons:Valued images by topic/Works of art/Music
- w:Wikipedia:Music samples (guideline)
- w:Wikipedia:WikiProject Music
- w:Wikipedia:WikiProject Free music
- mw:Extension:AbcMusic – for typesetting music using the ABC notation
- w:Portal:Music
- Wikifm – a mashup of Last.fm and Wikipedia
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- Name (of a user): see User account and username
- Namespaces:
- Help:Namespaces
- Commons:Project namespace (copied from Wikipedia; needs editing for Commons)
- Query results – existing namespaces – also indicates which are allowed to have subpages
- m:Help:Namespace manager – for a future version of MediaWiki
- Prefix namespaces (for redirects):
- w:Help:Custom namespaces – prefixes (like :m) that (normally) resolve into an interwiki but can resolve into external source
- Special:Prefixindex/COM – finds shortcut (redirect) pages in mainspace that link to pages in the Commons: (Project:) namespace
- Special:Prefixindex/CAT – finds shortcut (redirect) pages in mainspace that link to pages in the Category: namespace
- Commons:COM – redirect pages in the COM: pseudo-namespace
- Naming: (see also Disambiguation, Moving a page, New pages)
- Commons:Language policy (COM:LP)
- Special:ProtectedTitles – page titles that are protected to prevent them from being created
- 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)
- w:Help:Anchors
- Template:Anchor
- Help:HTML in wikitext#Span – using "span id=" for hidden anchors
- Between pages:
- w:Wikipedia:Basic navigation
- Navigational templates: see Series boxes
- Keyboard shortcuts:
- Clicking on an image:
- Anchors: (between pages or within a page)
- COM:EIC#Clickable
- Commons:Image map resources
- mw:Extension:ImageMap – "imagemap" tags for linking via clickable images (new as of January 2007)
- Tutorial in the Signpost
- Image map editor
- Category:Clickable maps
- Neutral point of view (NPOV):
- New pages: (see also Conflicts of interest, Deletion, Edits (in general),
- New contributors: see New editors
- New editors: (see also Edits (in general), Learning, Questions, User rights)
- Welcoming:
- {{Welcome}} - a template for welcoming new users
- Commons:Welcome log (COM:W) - a list of users welcomed automatically by a bot program
- Commons:First steps (COM:FS)
- Special:Log/newusers – new accounts
- Special:Contributions/newbies – edits by new editors
- Welcoming:
- New pages: (see also New pages)
- Commons:First steps/Upload form
- Help:Starting a new page (merely redirects to Help:Contents - try to find something on Commons which actually applies to this topic)
- 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"
- Commons:Patrol (COM:PATROL) - explains the patrol user right
- Restrictions on names of new pages:
- MediaWiki:Titleblacklist - page title restrictions currently in force on Commons
- mw:Extension:Title Blacklist - documentation about the MediaWiki extension which allows system administrators to implement page title restrictions
- mw:MediaWiki:Titleblacklist
- Special:ProtectedTitles
- New users: see New editors
- News (about Commons): (for news not about Wikipedia, see Current events)
- Commons:Community portal – has a short entry for a new item
- Commons:Community news - archived news items
- Mailing lists:
- Commons: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)
- Not:
- Commons:What Commons is not (still under development)
- Wikis and similar sites which do allow various types of content that Wikipedia does not:
- Notability: (see also specific subject areas)
- w:Wikipedia:Notability (guideline) – Commons has no separate notability guideline
- Commons:Project scope
- Noticeboards:
- Commons:Administrators' noticeboard
- Special:Prefixindex/Commons:Administrators' noticeboard
- English wiki Noticeboard Archive Search Tool – searches various noticeboards, and all their archives
- {{Npd}}: tag that says an image lacks appropriate permission, usually subst'd
- NPOV: see Neutral point of view
- NSFW: "Not safe for work", typically a warning that you might want to be careful about where you are if you want to open up a link, typically because of nudity or sexual content. - Jmabel ! talk 16:59, 12 April 2024 (UTC)
- Numbers: (see also Mathematics, Units of measurement)
- w:Wikipedia:Manual of Style (dates and numbers)
- w:Wikipedia:Naming conventions (numbers and dates)
- m:Help:Modulo and round
- w: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
- Open-source Ticket Request System (OTRS), now supplanted by Volunteer Response Team (VRT)
- Organizations:
- As subjects of articles: see Companies and organizations
- Within Wikipedia: (see Wikipedia as community)
- Original research: see Sources
- OTRS: "Open-source Ticket Request System", now supplanted by Volunteer Response Team (VRT)
- Output: see Exporting (a page)
- Overcategorization: Commons:Categories#Over-categorization (COM:OVERCAT) (see also Categories)
- Ownership: (for ownership of Commons itself, see Wikimedia Foundation)
- Commons:Ownership of pages and files (COM:OWN) – about editors who don't like to have their words edited by others
- Commons:Image casebook
- Commons:Patient images
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- Page protection: see Protection of pages
- Page size: see Article size
- 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
- Page views: (see also Counts)
- Most viewed (English Wikipedia):
- 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
- Most viewed (English Wikipedia):
- Paper: see w:Wikipedia:What Wikipedia is not#Wikipedia is not a paper encyclopedia
- Parser function: see Magic words
- Password: see Logging in
- PD: Help:Public domain
- People (as subjects of photographs):
- Per: w:Wikipedia:Per – how to interpret "per COM:OWN" and similar comments by other editors
- {{PermissionTicket}} ({{VRT}}) - a message template VRT members place on file pages for which permission is on file in the VRT system
- Personal attacks: (see also: Content disputes, Disruptive editing)
- Core policies and guidelines
- w:Wikipedia:Assume good faith (w:WP:AGF) (COM:AGF)(guideline)
- w:Wikipedia:Civility (w:WP:CIVIL) (policy)
- w:Wikipedia:No personal attacks (w:WP:NPA) (policy)
- w:Wikipedia:Harassment (guideline)
- w:Wikipedia:No legal threats (policy)
- w:Wikipedia:Attack page (policy)
- w:Wikipedia:Linking to external harassment (guideline)
- Avoiding problems:
- w:Wikipedia:Avoid personal remarks
- w:Wikipedia:Etiquette (w:WP:EQ) (guideline) – how to work with others on Wikipedia
- m:Don't be a dick
- w:Wikipedia:Don't call the kettle black (essay)
- w:Wikipedia:How to be civil (essay)
- Remedies (see also Arbitration, Mediation)
- Core policies and guidelines
- Personal information: see Privacy
- Phabricator: Commons' (and other WMF projects') means of reporting and tracking bug reports, since 2014.
- Photography (see also Images)
- Commons:Meet our photographers
- Commons:Macro - advice on how to photograph small objects
- Commons:Photography terms - a glossary
- User:Yug/Camera - advice on cameras
- Commons:Photography critiques
- Wikipedia:Wikipedians/Photographers - English Wikipedia users who will take photographs of various locations
- Pictures: see Images
- Ping: notification to inform users about new activity, see also {{Ping}}
- Piped links (changing the visible text for a wikilink):
- w:Wikipedia:Piped link
- w:Help:Piped link
- w:Wikipedia:Manual of Style (disambiguation pages)#Piping – generally, don't use piped links on disambiguation pages
- w: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:
- w:Wikipedia:Lyrics and poetry (guideline)
- mw:Extension:Poem – for formatting
- Point: w:Wikipedia:Do not disrupt Wikipedia to illustrate a point (w:WP:POINT)
- Point of view (POV): see Neutral point of view (NPOV)
- Policies and guidelines (see also Process)
- Existing:
- Commons:Policies and guidelines (COM:POL) - a list of policies and guidelines on Commons
- m:Foundation issues – five policies ("issues") that are "essentially beyond debate"
- Wikimedia Foundation policies
- w:Wikipedia:Trifecta – an unofficial summary of the rules – three guiding principles for editors, with their corollaries.
- Category:Commons policies
- Misuses:
- Changing (in general):
- Templates:
- {{Commons policies and guidelines}} - a navigation template linking to some policy and guideline pages
- Existing:
- Polls: see Consensus and voting
- Portals: (Commons has no Portal: namespace)
- Preferences: see Customization
- Prefixes: w:Wikipedia:Shortcut#List of prefixes – (pseudo-namespaces on Wikipedia; Commons uses COM: and CT:, possibly others)
- Preview:
- w:Help:Show preview
- w:Help:Editing shortcuts (poor page name; it's about previews)
- 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
- Printing: w:Help:Printable
- Privacy:
- For subjects of photographs: see People
- For editors and readers:
- Commons:Privacy policy
- m:Privacy policy
- m:Draft Privacy Policy June 2008
- w:Wikipedia:How to not get outed on Wikipedia (essay)
- w:Wikipedia:Privacy (inactive/historical)
- w:Wikipedia:Respect privacy (inactive/historical)
- Secure access:
- foundation: Access to nonpublic data policy
- m:Ombudsman commission – processes complaints about violations of the privacy policy
- w:Wikipedia:Harassment#Types of harassment
- w:Wikipedia:Protecting children's privacy (essay)
- Removal (from view) of selected versions of pages:
- w:Wikipedia:Selective deletion – by administrators
- Commons:Oversight and Wikipedia:Requests for oversight – by editors given "oversight" authority
- m:Right to vanish
- w:Wikipedia:Right to vanish (guideline)
- Process: (see also Common sense, Policies and guidelines)
- w:Wikipedia:What Wikipedia is not (policy) – Wikipedia is not a bureaucracy, and not an anarchy
- w:Wikipedia:Snowball clause – more than an essay, less than a policy
- w:Wikipedia:Process is important (essay)
- w:Wikipedia:Practical process (essay)
- w:Wikipedia:Product, process, policy (essay)
- w:Category:Wikipedia processes
- Profanity: see Censorship
- Projects: see Wikiprojects
- "Project" pages: Commons:Project namespace
- Pronunciation:
- Protection of pages:
- Commons:Protection policy (COM:PROTECT)
- Commons:Administrators' noticeboard/Blocks and protections – page to request that a page be protected (WP:RPP)
- w:Wikipedia:New admin school/Protecting
- w:Wikipedia:Rough guide to semi-protection (essay)
- w:Wikipedia:New admin school/Protecting deleted pages
- MediaWiki:Semiprotectedpagewarning
- w:Wikipedia:High-risk templates (guideline)
- 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
- Commons:Protection policy – example
- Bots that change protection notification templates on pages that are or are not protected:
- 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)
- Punctuation:
- w:Wikipedia:Manual of Style
- w:Wikipedia:WikiProject Punctuation
- Dumb quotes – user script that converts "fancy" punctuation to their 7-bit ASCII equivalent
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- 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
- w:Wikipedia:Tools/Navigation shortcuts – add one or more personal sidebars, with links, on 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
- Quality of images: (see also Featured content, Maintenance)
- Quality of editing, improving: see Learning
- Queries (database) (see also Downloading all of Wikipedia, Statistics and reports, Technical (hardware and software))
- w: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)
- Analysis:
- w:Wikipedia:WikiProject Database analysis – collaboration of editors who use XML database dumps
- w:Wikipedia:Computer help desk/ParseMediaWikiDump
- Questions: (see also Assistance, Help, Learning)
- Commons:Help desk (COM:HD)
- Commons:Village pump (COM:VP)
- On a user talk page, via {{Tl:Help}}
- IRC: Wikipedia IRC help channel (irc://irc.freenode.net/wikipedia-en-help)
- Quotations:
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- 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)
- w:Portal:Middle-earth/Random-article – example on Wikipedia of how to generate a random article from a specified set of articles
- w: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
- Recent changes: (see also Monitoring changes, Related changes, Vandalism)
- Special:Recentchanges
- w:Help:Recent changes
- w:Help:Enhanced recent changes
- w:Wikipedia:Scripts#Recent changes scripts
- w:Wikipedia:IRCMonitor – Windows application, primarily for vandal-fighting
- m:IRC/Channels#Recent changes
- Recognition: see Awards
- Red links:
- w:Wikipedia:Red link (w:WP:RED)
- MediaWiki:Red-link-title – standard tool-tip message
- Redirects:
- w:Wikipedia:Redirect
- w:Help:Redirect
- Commons:Category redirects suck
- Category:Disambiguation and redirection templates
- Category:Redirects
- Problematical:
- Broken redirects (point to non-existent page)
- Special:BrokenRedirects – list
- Double redirects:
- w: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"
- Broken redirects (point to non-existent page)
- Redistribution: (see also Competitors, forks, and mirrors, Schools)
- Refactoring: see Talk pages
- References: see Sources
- Registration: see User account and username
- Related changes: (see also Recent changes)
- w:Help:Related changes
- Recent changes to all articles in a category:
- Commons:Categories#Applying "Related Changes" to a category
- By directly editing a URL: http://commons.wikimedia/w/index.php?title=Special:Recentchangeslinked&target=Category%3ACategory_name (must use underscores)
- Using a magic word in wikitext:
{{fullurl:Special:Recentchangeslinked|target=Category name}}(underscores are not necessary in the category name by this method) - or browse to the category page and click "Related changes" in the toolbox
- Reliable sources: see Sources
- Renaming (pages): see Moving a page
- Reports: see Statistics and reports
- Requested articles: see New articles
- Resources (see also Free media resources)
- Revdel: deleting a particular version of a page or image. This is an admin action.
- Reverts:
- Commons:Vandalism (COM:V) - instructions for reverting a file after someone uploads a malicious revision
- w:Help:Reverting
- w:Wikipedia:Revert only when necessary (w:WP:ROWN) (essay)
- w:Wikipedia:Three-revert rule – Commons has no formal three-revert rule; this doesn't mean that edit warring or upload warring is acceptable (COM:GTA#Un/blocking)
- Revision (prior version) of a page: see History
- RFC automatic links: mw:Manual:RFC
- Roads:
- Category:Roads
- w:Wikipedia:Manual of Style (U.S. state and territory highways)
- w:Wikipedia:WikiProject U.S. Roads (includes three guidelines)
- RSS and similar feeds: see Monitoring changes
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- Sandbox: a place to practice without hurting anything
- Schools:
- w:Wikipedia:FAQ/Schools
- w:Wikipedia:School and university projects (w:WP:SUP)
- 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:Blocked school (analogous to w:Template:Schoolblock on Wikipedia)
- Tagging by bots:
- User:SelketBot
- w:User:MadmanBot – adds {{SharedIPEDU}} and name of college/university/school to IP user talk pages
- Scripts: see User scripts
- SDC: Structured Data for Commons
- Searching Commons
- Mayflower – searching the Commons
- Special:Search
- Searching Wikipedia (some functional overlap with searching Commons): (see also Index of pages, Queries (database))
- In general:
- From within Wikipedia:
- Search engine:
- "MediaWiki search engine improved" (Signpost article, November 2008)
- Special:Search – regular search with a wider box to enter text
- w:Help:Short words in searches
- w:Wikipedia:Perennial proposals#Search should detect spelling errors
- Test web interface for lucene-search 2.1
- Invoking search:
- w:Help:Go button
- w: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
- Search engine:
- 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]
- w:Wikipedia:Talk pages not indexed by Google (feature request)
- Firefox:
- Tools:
- w:Wikipedia:Tools#Searching (may eventually merge into Wikipedia:Searching)
- w:Wikipedia:WikiProject User scripts/Scripts#Searching
- Semantic MediaWiki:
- w:Semantic MediaWiki – version 0.7 was released April 2007
- m:Semantic MediaWiki
- Semantic MediaWiki at Sourceforge.net
- Wikipedia Concept Extractor at Sourceforge.net
- Commons:Microformats Project – metadata
- Sections (of articles): see Layout and sections
- "See also" section: w:Wikipedia:Layout#See also
- Self-interest: see Conflicts of interest
- Semi-protection of pages: see Protection of pages
- Series boxes:
- w:Wikipedia:Navigation templates
- Category:Navigational templates - templates for navigating galleries and/or images
- Category:Category navigational templates - templates for navigating categories
- Category:Commons navigational templates - templates for navigating pages in project namespace
- w:Template:NavFrame – dynamic navigation (series) boxes (collapsible – hide/show)
- w:Wikipedia:Categories, lists, and navigation templates – compares alternative approaches
- Servers: see Statistics, Technical (hardware and software)
- Shortcuts (abbreviated redirects):
- Commons:COM
- Special:Prefixindex/CAT: - find all shortcuts beginning with CAT:
- Special:Prefixindex/COM: - find all shortcuts beginning with COM:
- Special:Prefixindex/CT: - find all shortcuts beginning with CT:
- w:Wikipedia:Full meta links – failed proposal to implement templates to replace shortcuts
- Signatures: (see also Customization, Talk pages)
- As a feature of MediaWiki:
- w:Wikipedia:Signatures (w:WP:SIG) (guideline)
- Commons:Changing username - Instead of changing your name, you can change your signature at User Preferences
- bugzilla:8458 – Bug #8458 – proposed restriction for length of signatures
- Individual changes to the default signature:
- Automatic signing (automated signing):
- w:User:SineBot – signs talk pages for editors who forgot, where an editor started a new section or an indented his/her comment (replacement for w:User:HagermanBot)
- w:Category:Wikipedians who have opted out of automatic signing
- Pages where default signatures can be customized: (implemented November 2007
- Other:
- MediaWiki:Signature – format of default signature for editors who haven't changed the default in their preferences
- Hand-written signatures as media:
- Commons:When to use the PD-signature tag (COM:SIG)
- {{PD-signature}} - template for marking images of hand-written signatures that are free from copyright
- Category:Signatures
- Category:PD signature
- As a feature of MediaWiki:
- Signon – see Logging in, User account and username
- Single purpose account: w:Wikipedia:Single-purpose account (essay)
- Signpost – see News (about Wikipedia)
- Sister projects: see Transwiki
- Sock puppets (multiple accounts by one person):
- w:Wikipedia:Sock puppetry (w:WP:SOCK) (policy on Wikipedia)
- 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)
- COM:EIC#Checkuser
- w:Wikipedia:CheckUser (policy on Wikipedia)
- Commons:Requests for checkuser – requests for review of addresses
- Software:
- As the subject of a screenshot image:
- Commons:Screenshots - A screenshot may be published under a free license only if all the graphics shown have a free license, or the copyright holder agrees to license the screenshot freely via VRT
- Commons:Upload/screenshot - start of upload form
- Used for the Wikipedia project: see MediaWiki, Technical (hardware and software)
- Used for editing: see Browsers, Editing software
- As the subject of a screenshot image:
- Sound (files): see Media
- Sources (see also Resources, Spam, URLs)
- w:WP:EIW#Source - extensive information about sources of articles on Wikipedia
- Category:Citation templates
- Source information in media files:
- {{No source since}} - template message to place on media files lacking source information
- Commons:Essential information
- Sources of media files: (see also Free media resources)
- Commons:Bad sources
- Commons:Problematic sources
- {{Information}} has a
Sourcefield which should document the source of every media file
- Bad external links: (link rot)
- COM:EIC#LinkRot
- Finding bad links:
- Checklinks (generates a report for links on any requested page):
- Checklinks
- w:User:Dispenser/Checklinks – documentation
- m:Weblinkchecker.py -script to find and report external links that are no longer available
- Checklinks (generates a report for links on any requested page):
- Identified bad links:
- Fixing bad external links:
- w:Wikipedia:Citing sources#What to do when a reference link "goes dead"
- Archive.org:
- w: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
- Finding bad links:
- 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
- w:Wikipedia:Canonicalization – how links work (technical)
- w:Help:Custom namespaces – prefixes (like :m) that (normally) resolve into an interwiki but can resolve into external source
- w:WebCite – a way to archive a copy of a page that is an external link
- Spam: (see also Sources, Vandalism)
- w:Wikipedia:Spam (w:WP:SPAM) (guideline on Wikipedia)
- m:Spam blacklist – blocked domains
- MediaWiki:Spam-blacklist
- Commons:Watermarks (proposed guideline)
- Special:Linksearch – tool for finding all articles with similar spam (spam domain)
- {{Spam}} – a template to use for warning spammers
- m:Anti-spam features – some built in, some optional
- Commons:Project scope/Pages, galleries and categories – guideline against advertising
- Span tags: w:Wikipedia:Span tags – common ones are
div(small font in References/Notes section),strikethrough, andblockquote
- Special characters:
- Special pages:
- Help:Special page
- m:Help:Special page
- Special:Specialpages – list/links
- speedied: speedy-deleted, that is deleted without need for a full deletion request
- Spelling: (see also Formatting of text, Maintenance)
- w:Wikipedia:Proper names
- U.S. and Commonwealth differences:
- w:Wikipedia:Manual of Style (spelling)
- w:Wikipedia:Manual of Style (capital letters)
- w:Wikipedia:List of spelling variants
- w:Wikipedia:Articles using British English titles
- w:Wikipedia:Articles using American English titles
- w:Wikipedia:Manual of Style (national varieties of English) (failed proposal)
- w:Wikipedia:Perennial proposals#Enforce American or British spelling
- Errors in articles:
- w:Wikipedia:Spellchecking
- w:Wikipedia:Lists of common misspellings
- w:Wikipedia:Redirects from misspellings
- w:Wikipedia:AutoWikiBrowser/Typos
- w:Wikipedia:Typo Team
- w:User:TypoBot
- w:User:SpellCheckerBot – will generate lists of suspected spelling errors which individual editors can then review and correct
- w:Wikipedia:AutoWikiBrowser/Typos – set of regular expressions used to automatically fix common typos and misspellings
- Other:
- Spell checkers for various browsers: see w:Wikipedia:Tip of the day/September 2
- Errors when doing a search: see w:Wikipedia:Perennial proposals#Search should detect spelling errors
- Spoiler:
- Not giving away plot details of a book or film:
- w:Wikipedia:Spoiler (w:WP:SPOIL) (guideline)
- The aerodynamic device:
- Not giving away plot details of a book or film:
- SQL query: see Queries (database)
- Statistics and reports: (see also separate topics, Page views (of articles), Queries (database))
- w:Wikipedia:Statistics
- Special:Statistics
- Commons:MIME type statistics - bot-compiled counts of files on Commons by MIME type
- 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:
- Editing by time of day
- m:List of Wikipedias
- Commons:Administrator permission for statistics – which administrators give permission for statistics to be published about their administrator activities
- nedworks.org Statistics (charts)
- Commons:CommonTasks/Statistics
- Formatting:
- {{0}} - template for padding statistics and other numeric data in tables so they align
- Media relating to statistics: (only a partial list)
- Stewards: see Functionaries
- Structured data
- Style (articles) (see also Accessibility, Dates, Formatting of text, Layout and sections, Punctuation, Quality of articles, Words and wording)
- Style guidelines on Wikipedia:
- Subpages:
- w:Wikipedia:Subpages (w:WP:SP) (guideline)
- w:Wikipedia:User page#How do I create a user subpage? (w:WP:USER) (guideline)
- w:User:UberScienceNerd/Tutorials/Using subpages
- Query results – existing namespaces – lists which namespaces are allowed to have subpages
- Subsections (of articles): see Layout and sections
- subst: shorthand for "Substitution"
- Substitution: see Templates
- SVG: see Inkscape
- Synonyms: Synarcher at SourceForge.net – search and visual display
- Sysop: see Administrator
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- T & S: abbreviation for Trust & Safety
- Table of contents: (see also Layout and sections)
- Category:TOC templates
- w:Wikipedia:Template messages/Compact tables of contents - displays compact tables of contents on Wikipedia
- w:Help:Section – covers several aspects of TOCs
- Tables:
- w:Wikipedia:How to use tables ("disambiguation" page)
- w:Wikipedia:When to use tables (Manual of Style)
- w:Help:Table
- w:Help:Sorting
- m:Help:Collapsing
- w:User:Smurrayinchester/Tutorial/Tables
- w:User:Dcljr/Tables – another user page about tables
- Exporting a table from a page:
- 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: w:Template:PageTabs
- Tags: see w:Wikipedia:Span tags, Messageboxes (using the term “tags” to refer to messageboxes is common but technically incorrect; messageboxes are templates)
- Talk pages (see also Archiving, Signature, User pages, Warnings)
- Commons:Talk page guidelines (COM:TALK)
- w:Wikipedia:Talk page (w:WP:TP)
- Help:Talk page
- m:Help:Talk page
- w:Wikipedia:Tutorial (Talk pages)
- w:Wikipedia:BOLD, revert, discuss cycle – an exception to discussing content changes on article talk pages
- w:Wikipedia:Refactoring talk pages
- Templates for avoiding having user talk page discussions on two different pages: {{Usertalkback}} and {{Talkback}}
- Liquid Threads: planned new system for talk pages
- COM:EIC#LT
- 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
- 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
- Technical (hardware and software) (see also Bugs, MediaWiki, Queries (database))
- General:
- w:Wikipedia:FAQ/Technical
- m:System administrators (formerly "Developers")
- Special:Version – lists extensions and hooks
- w:Wikipedia:Don't worry about performance (w:WP:PERF) (guideline)
- Wikimedia Technical Blog - real-time postings from Wikimedia system administrators about server status, software updates, etc.
- Wikitech mailing list
- Operational status
- Wikipedia: Site internals, configuration, code examples and management issues (pdf), presentation at MySQL Users Conference 2007
- Troubleshooting:
- w:Wikipedia:FAQ/Problems
- w:Wikipedia:Troubleshooting
- w:Wikipedia:Village pump (technical)
- w:Wikipedia:Bypass your cache
- w:Wikipedia:Purge – clear a page's server cache
- Other:
- General:
- Templates: (see also Article message boxes, Infoboxes, Messageboxes, Series boxes, Transclusion, Userboxes)
- General information:
- w:Help:A quick guide to templates
- w:Wikipedia:Anatomy of a template (tutorial)
- w:Wikipedia:FAQ/Template
- Help:Template
- Commons:Template standardization
- Commons:Template i18n - template translation
- Commons:User-specific galleries, templates and categories policy (COM:USER)
- Category:Commons templates (CAT:T)
- Pages which demonstrate templates:
- More information:
- Substitution:
- Help:Substitution
- w:Wikipedia:Template substitution (guideline) (w:WP:SUB)
- User:MBisanzBot – does substitution when an editor forgets to do so
- Technical:
- w:Wikipedia:Template test cases
- w:Wikipedia:Template limits
- w:Help:Advanced templates
- w:Help:Parameter default – expands templates recursively
- w:Help:Editing sections of included templates
- Special:ExpandTemplates – takes some text and expands all templates in it recursively.
- w:Wikipedia:Changing templates
- w:User:Willscrlt/commons/Category suppression in templates (en) – keeping templates from creating categories when they shouldn't
- Problems:
- Commons:Administrators' noticeboard/Blocks and protections (COM:AN/B) - a place to request protection for a high-risk template
- Category:Protection templates
- Commons:Deletion requests (merely a redirect to Commons:Deletion requests; there is no separate page on Commons for template deletion requests)
- Category:Pages where template include size is exceeded
- w:Help:Job queue – why changing a category in a template doesn't instantly change all articles with that template
- Other:
- tools:~cbm/cgi-bin/queries/TemplateRevs – shows last edit for all templates transcluded on a page (default is w:WP:AN/I)
- General information:
- Terms and terminology: (see also Glossaries)
- w:Wikipedia:Glossary
- w:Wikipedia:Tutorial/Glossary – ten terms not covered in the main part of the tutorial that may be useful for beginners
- w:Wikipedia:Edit summary legend – commonly used abbreviations in edit summaries
- w:Wikipedia:WikiSpeak – alternative definitions
- Things to do: (see also Maintenance)
- Commons:Bundesarchiv/Todo
- Wiki ToDo – Randomly selects an article, provides a statistical analysis, and suggests ways to improve it
- Threats: (see also Personal attacks)
- Legal threats: see Legal
- Violence:
- Three reverts: w:Wikipedia:Three-revert rule (w:WP:3RR)
- Threshold of originality: the required amount of creativity required for copyright, varies in different countries
- 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
- Timelines:
- Category:Timelines - media relating to timelines
- Timelines on Wikipedia:
- w:Wikipedia:Timeline
- w:Wikipedia:Timeline standards (Manual of Style)
- w:Wikipedia:Timeline syntax
- w:Wikipedia:EasyTimeline
- w:Help:EasyTimeline syntax
- mw:Extension:WikiTimeLine (version 1.0 as of July 2008)
- Tips:
- Commons:Categories#Categorization tips
- Tips on Wikipedia:
- Template for one's user page: w:Template:totd
- w:Category:Wikipedia Tip of the day
- w:Wikipedia:Wikipedia tipster
- TOO: see Threshold of originality
- Tools: (see also Bots, Extensions, Upload tools, User scripts)
- Top of article: see Layout and sections
- Trademarks: (see also Copyrights, Logos)
- w:Trademark - general information
- Commons:Image casebook#Tradmarks (COM:CB#Trademarks) - many trademarks are copyrighted, but trademarked images too simple to be copyrighted may be acceptable for uploading to Commons
- Commons:Non-copyright restrictions - further discussion on trademark restrictions
- Commons:Trademarks proposal - a proposal to delete any image that depicts a registered trademark (inactive)
- Media:
- Category:Trademark symbols - symbols for indicating trademarks
- Category:With trademark - images containing trademarks
- Category:Wikimedia Community Logos - images to use freely to avoid infringing on the Wikimedia Foundation's logo copyright and trademark
- Templates:
- {{Trademarked}} - to place on trademarked media files
- Transclusion: (see also Templates)
- w:Wikipedia:Transclusion
- w:Help:Embed page
- 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
- Translations: (see also Interwiki links)
- {{Translation possible}}
- Commons:Translation possible/Learn more
- Wikipedia in different languages – overview:
- Commons:Multilinguality
- m:Meta:Babylon – Meta translations portal and noticeboard
- m:Wikimedia Embassy – central place for resources to help with cross-language issues that affect everyone
- incubator:Main Page – Wikimedia Incubator, for developing potential Wikimedia project wikis in new language versions
- Information about languages, and translation aids:
- Editors who can help with translations:
- Transwiki: (see also Interwiki links)
- w: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:Help Transwiki - for pictures about how to transwiki import a page from another wiki
- Information on specific sister projects:
- Trolls and trolling: w:Wikipedia:What is a troll? (w:WP:TROLL) (essay)
- Tutorials: see Help pages
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- U4C: meta:Universal Code of Conduct
- Unicode:
- Universities: see Schools
- Uploading files: (see also Copyright, Copyright tags)
- Commons:First steps/Account
- Upload (operational) - top-level page with links to specialized upload forms. (Upload help)
- Upload tools: (see also Tools)
- COM:EIC#Uploadtools
- COM:EIC#Uptools
- Commons:Upload_tools (Commonist, VicuñaUploader, …)
- Command-line upload (Perl, Python, …)
- URLs: (see also Sources, Wikilinks)
- w:Wikipedia:URLs- URLs of pages within Wikipedia: articles, redirects, watchlists, etc.
- Help:URL
- w:Wikipedia:External links
- mw:Help:Magic words#URL data - useful for wrapping URLs containing wikitext characters
- User account and username: (see also Logging in, Privacy, Signature, User pages, User rights)
- Registered accounts versus anonymous IP editing:
- w:Wikipedia:Why create an account? – benefits to a person who decides to register
- w:Wikipedia:The benefits of requiring account creation on Wikipedia (essay) – arguments against allowing IP editors
- w:Wikipedia:The benefits of not requiring account creation on Wikipedia (essay) – arguments in favor of IP editors
- Starting out:
- Commons:Username policy (proposed)
- Commons:First steps/Account
- Special:Userlogin – to request an account
- w:Wikipedia:Request an account – for those who wish to create an account but cannot read the w:CAPTCHA image that is part of the standard registration process as of February 2007.
- w:Help:Email confirmation
- Inappropriate usernames
- {{Inappropriate username}}
- On Wikipedia):
- w:Wikipedia:Usernames for administrator attention – blatantly inappropriate usernames
- w:Wikipedia:Requests for comment/User names – discussions
- w:Template:Uw-ublock
- Monitoring bots:
- Changing usernames:
- Special:Listusers – check if a username exists
- Commons:Changing username
- Single signon (single login):
- Registered accounts versus anonymous IP editing:
- COM:EIC#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
- Other:
- User interface: (see also Customization)
- Special:AllMessages – system messages available in the MediaWiki: namespace
- User pages: (see also Archiving, Galleries, User account and username, Userboxes, Warnings)
- Commons:User-specific galleries, templates and categories policy (COM:USER)
- On Wikipedia:
- w:Wikipedia:User page (w:WP:USER) (guideline)
- w:Wikipedia:Subpages (guideline)
- w:Wikipedia:User Page Design Center
- Current status of an editor:
- COM:EIC#Status
- 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:
- Category:User - sorts users by languages spoken, interests, activities
- Category:Wikipedians – images of Wikipedia users
- Other:
- Template:User committed identity - a way to prove that you are the owner of an account, should your password become compromised
- User rights (also known as "user privileges", "user groups", and "usergroups"):
- Special:ListGroupRights
- Commons:User access levels
- w:Wikipedia:Global rights usage (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:
- COM:EIC#Autoconfirm
- Commons:Autoconfirmed users - lists the specific rights that autoconfirmed users have on Commons
- 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:
- w: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
- w:Wikipedia talk:Autoconfirmed Proposal/Poll2 – proposal, June 2008, to increase requirements to 7 days, 20 edits (about 65% supported)
- Userboxes (see also User pages)
- Commons:Userboxes (COM:UBX)
- w:Wikipedia:Userboxes – describes standard format and links to thousands of userboxes
- w:Wikipedia:Userbox Maker
- Category:Userbox templates
- w:Wikipedia:Jimbo on Userboxes (w:WP:JOU)
- User scripts: (JavaScript) (.js pages) (see also Bots, Gadgets, Tools):
- w:Wikipedia:WikiProject User scripts
- w:Wikipedia:WikiProject User scripts/Tutorial
- Wikibits – "MediaWiki JavaScript support functions" (good source of code)
- Commons:Tools
- Commons:Tool integration
- Category:User 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
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- Valued images: (see also Featured content)
- Vandalism (see also Sock puppets, Spam, Stable versions, Warnings)
- In general:
- On Wikipedia:
- Tutorial: Reporting and dealing with vandals – w:Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/2008-01-28/Tutorial
- w:Wikipedia:Vandalism in progress – a quick directory
- w:Wikipedia:Revert, block, ignore (essay)
- w:Wikipedia:Do not insult the vandals (essay)
- w:Wikipedia:Deny recognition (essay)
- w:Wikipedia:The motivation of a vandal (essay)
- w:Category:Wikipedia vandalism
- w:Wikipedia:WikiProject Vandalism studies
- Getting assistance:
- Tools: (see also Recent changes)
- COM:EIC#VandalTools
- Commons:AutoWikiBrowser
- Commons:Twinkle (also available as a gadget, under "my preferences")
- Commons:Huggle – in development as of January 2008
- 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
- Category:User block templates
- Bots:
- Identifying and fixing vandalism:
- Other:
- tools:~cbm/cgi-bin/queries/TemplateRevs – shows last edit for all templates transcluded on a page (default is w:WP:AN/I) (for suspected template vandalism)
- WikiTrust Blog – color-coding text in articles based on the calculated level of trust for each contributor
- m:Friends of gays should not be allowed to edit articles
- Category:Vandalism - images of vandalism in the real world
- Variables: see Magic words
- Vector graphics: see Inkscape
- Verifiability: see Sources
- Version tagging: see Stable versions
- Video: see also Media
- Video games:
- Village pump: Commons:Village pump – discussion of technical issues, policies, and operations of Commons
- VOA: "Vandalism-only account"
- Voting: see Consensus and voting
- VRT: Volunteer Response Team, the team that handles confidential correspondence to allow verification of identities, confirmation of permissions, etc. Formerly known as OTRS.
- Commons:Volunteer Response Team (COM:VRT) - start here for information about validating permission to use a photo, obtained through e-mail from the copyright holder
- Category:Commons Volunteer Response Team volunteers - list of team members for VRT
- {{PermissionTicket}} ({{VRT}}) - a message template VRT members place on file pages for which permission is on file in the VRT system
- Special:WhatLinksHere/Template:PermissionTicket - file pages displaying the {{PermissionTicket}} message template
- Special:PrefixIndex/Template:PermissionTicket - message templates relating to VRT and the various stages of validating permission
- m:Info-en mission – incoming emails in English
- m:Volunteer Response Team
- m:Volunteer Response Team/Recruiting – information on volunteering ("experienced admins" only, in theory)
- m:Volunteer_Response_Team/Personnel – page for volunteers to list their names
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- Warnings:
- Watchlist: see Monitoring changes
- Weight (undue): see Neutral point of view
- Welcome: see New editors
- What: Commons:Project scope – what media are suitable for Commons
- Wiki markup: see Formatting of text
- Wikibreaks:
- w:Wikipedia:Wikibreak
- Self-specified (enforced) breaks:
- LeachBlock – Firefox add-on (for any website)
- Wikilawyering: see Policies and guidelines (misuses of)
- Wikilinks: (see also Piped links, Red links)
- w:Wikipedia:How to edit a page#Links and URLs
- w:Wikipedia:Tutorial (Wikipedia links)
- w:Wikipedia:Manual of Style (links)
- w:Help:Contents/Links
- Commons:First steps/Reuse
- w:Help:Self link
- w:Help:What links here – identifying wikilinks that point to an existing page
- Technical:
- w:Wikipedia:Link color
- w:Wikipedia:Canonicalization – how wikilinks work (technical)
- w:Wikipedia:Template messages/Links
- Pages where lack of wikilinks indicates a problem:
- Special:DeadendPages – pages with no outgoing wikilinks
- Special:Lonelypages – pages with no incoming wikilinks ("orphan" pages)
- Other:
- Special:Mostlinked – pages with the most links pointing to them
- Six degrees of Wikipedia – shortest path query solver
- 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
- w:Wikipedia:Elections#Wikimedia Board
- Wikimedia Information Kit, September 2006 (pdf)
- Projects:
- w:Wikipedia:Projects of Wikimedia
- w:Wikipedia:Wikimedia sister projects (Manual of Style)
- mw:Special:SiteMatrix – list of two-digit abbreviations for all Wikimedia Foundation wikis
- w:Wikipedia:Office actions (w:WP:OFFICE) (policy) – immediate editing actions to deal with potential legal issues
- OTRS, "Open-source Ticket Request System", now replaced by Volunteer Response Team (VRT).
- Volunteer Response Team (VRT), handles confidential correspondence related to granting permissions and confirming identities.
- Wikipedia 1.0: (see also Stable versions)
- Wikipedia basic information:
- w:Wikipedia – what it is, history, hardware and software, funding, authorship and management, and much more
- w:Wikipedia:About
- What is Wikipedia? (pdf) – two page flyer
- w:Wikipedia:History of Wikipedian processes and people
- w:Wikipedia:Historic debates
- w:Wikipedia:Role of Jimmy Wales
- w:Wikipedia:Ten things you may not know about Wikipedia
- Late 2001 version of Wikipedia (nostalgia.wikipedia.org)
- w:Wikipedia:Why Wikipedia is so great (essay)
- w:Wikipedia:Wikipediology/library/essays/Merovingian-1 (essay) – "The Fluid Encyclopedia" – 2001 to 2005
- Wikipedia Fundraising Central Online Reporting Engine
- w::Category:Wikipedia history
- WikiProjects: (for a WikiProject related to a topic within this index, see that topic) (see also Collaborations)
- Words and wording: (see also Formatting of text, Spelling)
- w:Wikipedia:Manual of Style
- w:Wikipedia:Manual of Style (abbreviations)
- w:Wikipedia:Avoid peacock terms (Manual of Style) – show, don't tell
- w:Wikipedia:Explain jargon (Manual of Style)
- w:Wikipedia:Avoid neologisms (Manual of Style)
- w:Wikipedia:Rhetoric (Manual of Style)
- w:Wikipedia:Self-references to avoid (Manual of Style) – "this website", "this Wikipedia article" (okay on talk pages, but not articles)
- w:Wikipedia:Technical terms and definitions (Manual of Style)
- w:Wikipedia:Manual of Style (trademarks)
- w:Wikipedia:Avoid weasel words (w:WP:AWW) (Manual of Style) – "critics/some (many) people/research says/feel/believe ..."
- w:Wikipedia:Words to avoid (Manual of Style) – "claim", "however", "extremist", "linked", "cult", and so on.
- w:Wikipedia:Manual of Style (dates and numbers)#Precise language (WP:DATED)
- w:Wikipedia:Make technical articles accessible (Manual of Style)
- w:Wikipedia:WikiProject Grammar
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- XML: see Formatting of text, Queries (database)