usability:Accessibility Initiative – information about the Wikipedia Usability Initiative and the Multimedia Usability Project, both grant-funded and discontinued as of January 2011
Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard – message board for coordinating and discussing administrative tasks on Wikipedia (not supposed to be for incidents; see that page or elsewhere in this index for other pages on which to report incidents) (WP:AN)
mw:Extension:TorBlock (editing through tor requires 100 edits and a 90 days to become autoconfirmed, as of June 2008)
Changes:
Wikipedia:Autoconfirmed Proposal/Poll – proposal, May 2008, to increase the requirements forautoconfirmed status by requiring new editors to have a specific number of edits, and possibly increasing the four-day waiting period
Bug# 14191 – Autoconfirmed settings on enwiki changed to 4 days and 10 edits as of May 2008
Wikipedia:Contact us - Subjects – what to do when an individual has a problem with an article about that person or about someone that person represents
Wikipedia:Bot requests (WP:BOTREQ) – requests to existing bot owners; questions about possible new bots, requests for assistance in creating or improving a bot, etc.
Special:CategoryTree – can generate a tree of categories, or categories and articles
User:Chris G Bot 2 – produces, for a given category, a table listing all articles within that category (and all subcategories of that category), and the status of those articles (a clone ofUser:PockBot, which is disabled)
User:AKA MBG/Cycles – Where category A is a subcategory of B, and B is a subcategory of A (or more complicated than that)
User:TheDJ/Gadget-HotCat.js – user script that provides an easy way to add, modify and remove categories (also available as a gadget, under "Preferences")
CatScan – a tool that can do various types of category scans, including intersection (may or may not be using up-to-date version of database); can search subcategories
m:Help:DPL – a MediaWiki extension supporting intersections and other set operations of pages belonging to several categories
How articles are listed:
Template:DEFAULTSORT – specifies how an article will be listed on category pages (for example, an article on "F.M. Smith" could be listed as "Smith, F.M." on all category pages)
In category since – tool to list all articles in a category that have been so since a specified date (at the toolserver)
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 pageSpecial:Categorytree is faster, unless the tags are permanent.)
Help:Job queue – why changing a category in a template doesn't instantly change all articles with that template
Wikipedia:Wikimedia Commons – as of September 2013, has over 18 million media files (photographs, diagrams, animations, music, spoken text, video clips, etc.) available for use in any Wikimedia (community) project, as well as for free downloading by anyone. Anything other than non-free content should be uploaded to the Commons, not to the English Wikipedia.
CommonsHelper – tool to generate an image description to copy-and-paste for the commons upload form (formerly called "Move-to-commons assistant") (at the toolserver)
User:MonoBot – fixes (some) problems when an editor doesn't do a move to Commons totally correctly
Duplicate images – tool to show duplicate files between Wikipedia and Commons (at the toolserver)
Push-for-commons – tool to show a set of images from a wikipedia, helping to find license problems,{{NowCommons}} candidates, and images that should be copied/moved to the commons (at the toolserver)
Wikipedia:Contact us - Subjects – what to do when an individual who owns or represents a business or other organization has a problem with an article about that organization
Wikipedia:Ownership of articles (WP:OWN) (policy) – no editor "owns" the content of an article; the only way that an editor can properly prevent their words from being edited is to not put them into a Wikipedia article in the first place
User:718 Bot – creates lists of images tagged with disputed fair use rationales, sorted by date and type
User:AWeenieBot – creates lists of images tagged with disputed fair use rationales, sorted by type and number of times used
User:ImageTaggingBot – inspects newly uploaded images for ones lacking source information, a license tag, or a fair-use rationale if one is needed; tags as necessary
User:STBotI – tags images for relatively speedy deletion
User:BJBot – tags orphaned images as such; notifies originator of problem
Deletion: (see alsoCategories for deletion of categories,Redirect for deletion of redirects, etc.) (for articles,seeDeletion of articles, immediately below)
Special:Log/delete – deletion log, searchable by article name or user who created the article (alternatively, type the article name (exactly), click "Create the page" when the search fails, and then look for deletion log information)
Wikipedia undelete (user script) – lists versions of a deleted article that are available at archive.org, plus information on why an article was deleted
WikiLook – Firefox add-on that provides Wiktionary information about any word on a screen, when specially selected (shift or highlight plus mouse move)
Hatnotes (a short note placed at the top of an article before the primary topic, generally to provide disambiguation of closely related terms or to summarize a topic, and explain its boundaries)
User:Anomie/linkclassifier.js – User script that changes the color of the wikilink to an article when that article is a redirect or disambiguation page or has been proposed for deletion at AfD
Bug# 1510 – provide "edit warning" for pages when someone else has just started editing (software change proposal)
Bug# 4745 – section edit conflict expands edit box to entire article – proposal to change MediaWiki software behavior when edit conflict involves only a section of a page
mw:Extension:Drafts – adds the ability to save a draft of the edit of a page, on the server, while editing; also automatically saves edits in progress every 120 seconds
Wikipedia:External peer review – information on formal and informal reviews of the overall quality of Wikipedia articles, done by outside experts, not initiated within Wikipedia
Wikipedia:Review Board (inactive/historical) – proposal for a panel of editors for independent review and monitoring of checkuser and oversight access and use, and to oversee the actions of the Arbitration Committee
mw:Extension:Gadgets- a way for editors to pick JavaScript or CSS based "gadgets" that other Wikipedia editors have created, via "Preferences" (implemented December 2007)
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
mw:Beta Features/Nearby Pages – Adds a button to the top right corner of pages that contain geographical information, to get the reader to "nearby" pages
WikiSense – Contributors – lists edits, similar to page history, but can be sorted by contributor; easy to exclude different groups (at the toolserver)
Wikipedia:Tools#Importing – (converting) content from other formats to Wikipedia (MediaWiki) format – includes tools for converting HTML to the Wikipedia (wikitext) format
User:ImageTaggingBot – inspects newly uploaded images for ones lacking source information, a license tag, or a fair-use rationale if one is needed; tags as necessary
User:STBotI – tags images for relatively speedy deletion
User:BJBot – tags orphaned images as such; notifies originator of problem
User:ImageRemovalBot – removes images links from articles after an image has been deleted
User:OrphanBot – removes links to problematical images, from articles, so administrators can delete the images
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
Help:Options to hide an image (how-to guide) – includes CSS modification to prevent display of images on specified pages
Template:External media – If an image or other media is available online, but cannot be uploaded to Wikipedia or the Commons, this template provides a referenced direct link
Special:Filepath – provides a URL to link directly to the current version of an image
Bug# 7757 – allow cropping images when rendered – proposal to enable display of only part of an image
meta:Grants:IEG/Wikidata Toolkit – project to create a modular toolkit for loading, querying, and analysing Wikidata data will make it easy for developers to use Wikidata in their applications (funded late 2013)
Wikipedia:Contact us - Subjects – contacting Wikipedia when someone has a problem about an article about them, their company, or somebody they represent.
Wikipedia:Office actions (WP:OFFICE) (policy) – sometimes Wikimedia Foundation representatives bypass normal procedures because of legal issues
{{Cleanup}} – template (at top of article) for listing details of what needs to be cleaned up. (It's better to just fix problems, but if you lack the time or knowledge, use this template.) [Note that{{Wikify}} has beendeprecated and should no longer be used.]
Template:Coord – 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
meta:Grants:IEG/Wikimaps Atlas – project to automate the creation of SVG base maps in a well researched cartographic style using the latest and most accurate open geographic data (funded late 2013)
Wikipedia:Notifications – notifies an editor of new talk page messages, edit reverts, mentions (User:Whatever), links to a page that they created, thanks, and changes in user rights, page reviews
Wikipedia:Editnotice (how-to guide) – an editnotice appears above the edit window, in edit mode. Anyone can create editnotices for their user and talk pages; elsewhere, only administrators and template editors can do this.
Miscellany for deletion:Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion – for deleting any page which is not covered by another deletion process (AfD, CfD, TfD, etc.)
User:Crazycomputers/WatchlistBot – editors using anXMPP service (such asGoogle talk), can have a separate watchlist that is updated in real time via IM, by subscribing to the service of this bot
API (must be logged in or have "remember me" checked as login option)
Alternatives to the standard watchlist (other than real-time feeds):
User:Ais523/topcontrib.js – Color-codes your contributions page based on whether you have the top (most recent) contribution or not for each page edited
User:Blinklmc (historical: predates implementation of integrated RSS for Wikipedia)
Other:
User:Anomie/linkclassifier.js – User script that changes the color of the wikilink to an article when that article is a redirect or disambiguation page or has been proposed for deletion at AfD
Navigation: (see alsoLists) (for changing navigation by changing the location of links on the standard Wikipedia page, seeCustomization,Quickbar [left sidebar])
Wikipedia:What Wikipedia is not (WP:NOT) (policy) – it's not a paper encyclopedia, a dictionary, a publisher of original thought, a soapbox, a mirror or a repository of links, images, or media, a blog, webspace provider, or social networking site, a directory, an indiscriminate collection of information, a crystal ball, censored, a battleground, an anarchy, a democracy, a bureaucracy
WikiShark – Wikipedia article traffic and trends since 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) ("Hendrik's tool")
tools:~emw/wikistats/ – Wikipedia article traffic statistics (alpha, as of November 2013)
Wikipedia:Update – A quarterly history of changes to policy pages. (As of 2012, limited to content policies; deletion and enforcement policy pages were also covered before 2012)
User talk:TonyBot – bot that can do database queries upon request (requires registration)
m:WikiXRay – a robust and extensible software tool for an in-depth quantitative analysis of the whole Wikipedia project (under development as of October 2007)
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
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)
Recent changes to all articles in a category: http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Recentchangeslinked&target=Category%3ACategory_name (must use underscores)
What redirects here – finds the redirects that point to a specified page (uses a version of Wikipedia that lags the current version slightly) (at the toolserver)
User:Anomie/linkclassifier.js – User script that changes the color of the wikilink to an article when that article is a redirect or disambiguation page or has been proposed for deletion at AfD
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[2])
User:Zocky/Auto Complete – auto-completes the titles of articles in the search box (JavaScript) (no longer required as of May 2008; this is built into the search function now)
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
Template:Rp – for appending page numbers to Cite.php-generated footnote superscripts (can also be used to add a link, to mimic the embedded citations method)
w:fr:Aide:Espace référence – Information about the "Reference" namespace of the French Wikipedia; each source has its own page (with multiple editions of a source – say, of a book -– on a single page)
Special:Linksearch – identifying all external links from a given domain that are in Wikipedia articles (useful for spam searches, for example)
User:COIBot – reports linkadditions where the editor's name has a significant overlap with the domain of the link added, or (for IP/unregistered editors) the IP of the link is close to the IP of the editor
User:Dragons flight/Log analysis – analysis of both log entries (100%) and a sampling (6%) of article histories (edits), some data back to 2001 (analysis reported October 2007)
Wikipedia:Table: namespace and editor – proposal that a new table editor should be written and that tables should be moved to a namespace similar toImage namespace
Template:Expand language – a header banner with the text "This article may be expanded with text translated from the corresponding article in the [other language] Wikipedia."
Wikipedia:Wikimedia sister projects (Manual of Style) – info on moving articles between other projects such as Wikiquote, Wikisource, Wiktionary, Wikinews, and Wikibooks
Wikipedia:Request an account – for those who wish to create an account but cannot read theCAPTCHA image that is part of the standard registration process as of February 2007
Wikipedia:Userfication – moving an article from Wikipedia mainspace to a user subpage, usually because of failure to establish notability of the subject of the article
mw:Extension:Gadgets – a way for editors to pick JavaScript or CSS based "gadgets" that other Wikipedia editors have created, via the "Preferences" page
Wikipedia:Abuse response – reporting abuse of an IP address to a school, university, or internet provider (must have been at least five blocks on the IP address) (WP:ABUSE)
User:AntiAbuseBot – Watches the Recent Changes (RC) feed for actions that match known vandals; then sends off an alert on irc, reverts the edit, reverts the edit and blocks the user, or just blocks the user
Web content as the subject of an article:Wikipedia:Notability (web) (guideline) – includes webcomics, podcasts, blogs, Internet forums, online magazines and other media, web portals and web hosts
Wikipedia:Meetup – face-to-face meetings of Wikipedians in cities around the world
Wikipedia:Geonotice – a notice displayed to editors who are calculated (based on their IP address) to be in a specific geographical area, such as a metropolitan area. Currently only shown to editors looking at their watchlists.
Wikipedia:Wikipediology – a WikiProject for "a serious study of the dynamics and problems of the Wikipedia community and providing resources about the Wikipedia community that currently do not exist" (inactive)
For a listing of current collaborations, tasks, and news, see theCommunity portal. For a listing of ongoing discussions and current requests, see theDashboard.
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