User:dsprc
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Getting Help
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- Suicide.org - List of international suicide hotlines.
- The Teahouse: helpful and friendly environment to ask your first basic questions about contributing to Wikipedia.
- Help:Cheatsheet: examples of basic formatting that are used most often when editing.
- Help: Wikipedia: The Missing Manual
- Expectations and norms of the Wikipedia community
- wmf:Policy:Universal Code of Conduct
- "Encyclopedia Frown". Auerbach, David (11 Dec. 2014). Slate.
- "Wikipedia Editors Call Out the Site's Abuse Problems". Reader, Ruth (18 May 2016). Mic.
- "Wikipedia Editor Says Site’s Toxic Community Has Him Contemplating Suicide". Koebler, Jason (17 May 2016). Vice.
- "Handful of 'highly toxic' Wikipedia editors cause 9% of abuse on the site". Annalee Newitz (10 February 2017). Ars Technica.
- "Wikipedia Isn’t Officially a Social Network. But the Harassment Can Get Ugly.". Julia Jacobs (8 April 2019). The New York Times.
- "Wikimedia is writing new policies to fight Wikipedia harassment". Adi Robertson (25 May 2020). The Verge.
- "I quit Twitter and discovered Wikipedia’s righteous, opinionated, utterly absorbing battles over The Truth". Shaun Cammack (8 July, 2022). The Boston Globe.
- "The Wikipedia elite who control the world's knowledge". Harry de Quetteville (28 April 2023). The Daily Telegraph.
- Wikipedia:Simplified ruleset
- Wikipedia:Help desk: for technical questions about using Wikipedia (how to edit, images, categories etc.)
- WP:Village pump: for questions about Wikipedia policies, guidelines or operations
- WP:Reference desk: for questions about subjects other than Wikipedia (including topics covered in the articles contained therein)
- WP:Administrators' noticeboard: to report a problem (vandalism, etc.)
- Question help: to find out more about where to ask questions or make comments on Wikipedia
- Help:Contents/Directory: all of the help pages. Everything.
- (except the Wikipedia:List of cabals because They™ don't want you to know! Bwahaha!) ;-D
- Or if you are looking for a department, but don't know what it is called, try the Wikipedia:Department directory.
- WP:Dispute resolution: resolve disputes or potential conflicts
- Wikipedia:Starting an article: guide and tips for creating new articles
- Sixty ways to help new editors - Wikimedia Blog (from discussion @ Wikimania 2014)
- Help:Using the Wayback Machine: to recover some lost, moved or deleted pages on the Web (helpful for dead links).
- Wikipedia:User page design center
Spam
[edit]- Opinion: Crawlers, hogs and gorillas
- Debriefing: Giraffer's RfA debriefing
- Obituary: RHaworth, TomCat4680 and PawełMM
- Traffic report: Heigh-Ho, Heigh-Ho, off to report we go...
- News from Diff: Strengthening Wikipedia’s neutral point of view
- Comix: Thirteen
This week's article for improvement is: Wikipedia:Today's articles for improvement/2025/17/1
Motto of the day :
→ From each according to the rules, to each according to consensus.
Featured article candidates
While a good article is a satisfactory article, a featured article exemplifies our very best work and has the following attributes:
- 1. High and reliable quality. It has: (a) engaging prose of a professional standard; (b) comprehensive coverage of major facts, details and context; (c) factual accuracy, with citations for verification against reliable sources; (d) neutral presentation of viewpoints; (e) stable content.
- 2. Detailed style standards. It complies with the entire Manual of Style and has: (a) a concise summarizing lead; (b) a substantial table of contents; (c) consistently formatted inline citations.
- 3. Images. It has images in accordance with image use policies; in particular, they have acceptable copyright status and fair use rationales where necessary.
- 4. Length. It stays focused on the main topic without going into unnecessary detail.
Articles achieving GA status are candidates for FA-Class (Featured Article) status. Examples of featured articles are viewable daily at Wikipedia's Main Page.
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Read more:
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Watchlist insufficient?:
- Wikipedia:Syndication
- MediaWiki API
- Above have hard limit on number of entries provided & thus may require frequent polling
- m:User:Hedonil/XTools
Other stuff
[edit]- User:Zhaofeng Li/reFill — incredibly helpful tool which automates the task of filling-out text for bare URLs used as references
This bucket of bolts
[edit]$ telnet telnet.wmflabs.org- Server Admin Log (wikitech.wikimedia.org)
- Current status Wikimedia Foundation - Core services (status.wikimedia.org)
- WMF Status Dashboards - perf mon (gdash.wikimedia.org)
- Wikitech (wikitech.wikimedia.org)
- Special:Version: shows the version of the software the site is currently running, and a listing of extensions installed
- Wikimedia Code Review (gerrit.wikimedia.org)
- Wikimedia Phabricator (phabricator.wikimedia.org)
Propaganda
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Quotations related to J. R. "Bob" Dobbs at Wikiquote
Works related to Anarchism at Wikisource
Media related to Mass Surveillance at Wikimedia Commons
- Internet censorship and surveillance by country
- 2013 mass surveillance disclosures
- Aftermath of the global surveillance disclosure
- Electronic Frontier Foundation
Wikimedia Commons has media related to Indigenous peoples of the Americas.
Vidya
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