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(Note: This index is for readers of Wikipedia. For editors, see the Editor's index to Wikipedia. For other useful directories and indexes, see Wikipedia:Directory.)

• Accessibility: (see also Audio)
  • Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Accessibility
  • Wikipedia:WikiProject Accessibility
  • JAWS:
    • JAWS (screen reader)
    • Wikipedia:Using JAWS
    • Wikipedia Guide for JAWS Readers
  • User:Wolfgangbeyer/monobook.css – monobook.css optimized for color blindness
  • Category:Wikipedia accessibility
• Article message boxes (amboxes): (sometimes called "tags"; these are templates)
  • Wikipedia:Template messages#Article-related namespace
• Audio: (see also Accessibility)
  • Spoken versions of Wikipedia articles:
    • Wikipedia:WikiProject Spoken Wikipedia
    • Wikipedia:Spoken articles – articles with audio versions
    • Category:Spoken Wikipedia requests – articles for which spoken versions have been requested
    • Pediaphone – automated creation of spoken versions (MP3 file or read on-screen)

• Banners:
  • For the Wikipedia project itself: Wikipedia:Banners and buttons
  • At the top of articles: see Article message boxes
• Books
  • ISBN
    • Wikipedia:ISBN
    • Wikipedia:Book sources
    • Special:Booksources
  • Finding a book mentioned in a Wikipedia article:
    • At a local library:
      • Forward to Libraries (Signpost article, March 2013)
      • Wikipedia:Forward to Libraries (information page) - uses templates to allow readers to go to a landing page for their specific information
    • User:Lunchboxhero/monobook.js – when clicking on an ISBN link, go directly to your preferred book-related website
• Browser (specialized for Wikipedia): see Mobile access

• Categories
  • General:
    • Wikipedia:Categorization – (WP:CAT) (guideline)
    • Help:Category
    • Wikipedia:FAQ/Categorization
    • Wikipedia:Categories, lists, and navigation templates (guideline) – comparing alternative approaches
  • Listings of categories:
    • Special:Categories – alphabetical category listing
    • MediaWiki:Categoriespagetext - scrollable access to the list of all categories
    • Category:Main topic classifications – categories for articles
    • Special:CategoryTree – can generate a tree of categories, or categories and articles
    • User:Chris G Bot 2 – produces, for a given category, a table listing all articles within that category (and all subcategories of that category), and the status of those articles (a clone of User:PockBot, which is disabled)
    • CatScan (at the toolserver)
  • Intersection of two categories:
    • Wikipedia:Categorization#Searching for articles in categories – via the standard search box (doesn't search subcategories)
    • 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:User:Duesentrieb/CatScan
      • CatScan (at the toolserver)
    • Wikipedia:Category intersection – a feature request
    • m:Help:DPL – a MediaWiki extension supporting intersections and other set operations of pages belonging to several categories
  • Other:
    • User:Erwin/CatCount – provides a count of pages in any given category
    • In category since – tool to list all articles in a category that have been so since a specified date (at the toolserver)
    • User talk:GregU/randomlink.js – this tool can go to a random page in a category
• Censorship:
  • Wikipedia is not censored
  • Wikipedia:No disclaimers in articles
  • Wikipedia:Offensive material (Manual of Style)
  • m:Should Wikipedia Use Profanity
  • Wikipedia:Pornography (essay)
  • Wikipedia:Advice for parents (essay)
  • Wikipedia:WikiProject Wikipedians against censorship
  • Wikipedia:WikiProject Sexology and sexuality
  • MediaWiki:Bad image list
  • Wikipedia:Perennial proposals#Content warnings
  • Ways to set personal preferences so as to not see some or all images:
    • Help:Options to hide an image (alternative to censorship)
    • User:Mr.Z-man/badimages
• Commons (Wikimedia Commons):
  • Wikipedia:Wikimedia Commons – has over three million media files (photographs, diagrams, animations, music, spoken text, video clips, etc.) available for use in any Wikimedia (community) project, to which anyone can contribute; recommended place to upload free images to, rather than to Wikipedia
  • Commons:Welcome
  • Wikimedia Commons - manual that provides the essential information for people interested in contributing their own work to Wikimedia Commons
  • Mayflower – searching the Commons
  • Commons:Commons:Tools
  • Manual for new Commons users (at en.flossmanuals.net)
  • Uploading:
    • Commons:Commons:Tools#Upload media
    • Commons:Commons:Tools/Commonplace – Windows/Linux program for drag-and-drop uploading
    • Upload image – tool to upload images from Flickr
  • Moving images to (from Wikipedia):
    • Wikipedia:Moving files to the Commons
    • Wikipedia:WikiProject Images and Media/Commons
    • CommonsHelper – tool to generate an image description to copy-and-paste for the commons upload form (formerly called "Move-to-commons assistant")
    • User:Fran Rogers/CommonsHelper Helper – user script that adds a button to easily bring up CommonsHelper
    • User:MonoBot – fixes (some) problems when an editor doesn't do a move to Commons totally correctly
    • Duplicate images – tool to show duplicate files between Wikipedia and Commons
    • 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:
    • 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
    • Browse Flickr images
• Controversial articles:
  • Wikipedia:Controversial articles (Manual of Style)
  • Wikipedia:List of controversial issues
• Copyright:
  • In general:
    • Wikipedia:FAQ/Copyright
    • Wikipedia:Copyrights (policy)
    • Wikipedia:Image use policy
    • Wikipedia:Non-U.S. copyrights (guideline)
  • Using Wikipedia content outside of Wikipedia:
    • Wikipedia:Reusing Wikipedia content (policy)
    • Commons:Commons:Reusing content outside Wikimedia
    • Wikipedia:Buying Wikipedia articles in print or another form (commercial use)
• Customization: (see also Quickbar)
  • Wikipedia:Customisation
  • Via "my preferences":
    • Special:Preferences
    • Help:Preferences
  • Via the Gadgets tab in "my preferences" – see Gadgets
  • Via JavaScript: see User scripts
  • Via Cascading Style Sheets (CSS):
    • Help:Cascading Style Sheets
    • Skins:
      • Wikipedia:Skin (trivial; probably should be a redirect)
      • m:Customization:Explaining skins
      • MediaWiki talk:Vector.css – place to discuss changes to the Vector skin (standard skin that editors get by default)
      • MediaWiki talk:Monobook.css – place to discuss changes to the Monobook skin (older standard skin)
      • MediaWiki talk:Modern.css – bug reports and other comments for new (January 2008) Modern skin
      • Different customizations of the way Wikipedia pages appear, downloadable from userstyles.org/styles/ (primarily for readers) (Firefox, Thunderbird, Flock, Mozilla Suite, SeaMonkey, and Songbird browsers only)
    • Personal CSS:
      • mw:Gallery of user styles (a mix of MediaWiki-compatible skins, not selectable by editors, and personal css)
      • User:GeorgeMoney/UsefulCSS
      • User:Wolfgangbeyer/monobook.css – monobook.css optimized for color blindness
      • User:Trilobite/Tools – combination of CSS and JavaScript, with a note that "much of this is outdated"
    • Technical:
      • Help:User style
      • m:Help:Cascading style sheets
      • Wikipedia:Catalogue of CSS classes
      • Wikipedia:Useful styles
      • m:Customize page layout – should be at Mediawiki; how to rework standard page seen by all non-logged in readers

• Dictionary:
  • Wikipedia:Wikipedia is not a dictionary (policy)
  • For Wiktionary, see also wikt:Main Page
  • Another alternative: 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)
• Downloading all of Wikipedia: (see also Mobile access; for downloading individual pages, see Exporting (a page))
  • Pre-packaged:
    • June 2006 ("official" version)
    • Wikipedia:TomeRaider database
      • Most recent version – £3.00 requested payment; includes £1 donation to the Wikipedia Foundation [sic]
      • Slightly older English version (free)
    • Wikipedia-iphone – complete download for iPhone or iPod Touch
    • Infodisiac downloads (for Windows Mobile/Pocket PC, regular Windows O/S, and Palm)
    • Webaroo – download of all Wikipedia articles as a set of web pages, for off-line reading (horribly out-of-date)

• Email:
  • Help:Email confirmation
  • Wikipedia:Emailing users
• Encyclopedia:
  • Wikipedia:Wikipedia is an encyclopedia (WP:ENC)
  • Wikipedia:What Wikipedia is not#Wikipedia is not a paper encyclopedia (WP:NOT#PAPER)
  • 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:Size comparisons
  • Wikipedia:Wikipedia is a work in progress (WP:WIP) (essay)
  • Wikipedia:There is a deadline (essay) - Why it's important to contribute now
  • Wikipedia:Fancruft (essay)
  • Criticism:
    • Criticism of Wikipedia
    • Wikipedia:Replies to common objections
    • Wikipedia:Why Wikipedia is not so great
    • User:Ta bu shi da yu/Global Politician – "six sins" of Wikipedia – a rebuttal
    • Wikipedia:Evaluating Wikipedia as an encyclopedia (essay)
    • Wikipedia:Wikipedia is succeeding (essay)
  • Alternatives to the English Wikipedia, within the Wikimedia Foundation:
    • Simple English Wikipedia
    • meta:Concise Wikipedia (proposal as of September 2013)
• Exporting (a page): (see also Downloading all of Wikipedia, Collections (books))
  • Help:Export
  • Special:Export
  • mw:Manual:Parameters to Special:Export
  • PDF:
    • mw:Extension:PDF Writer
    • WikiPDF
    • Wikipedia:Books#Resources
    • Mediawiki2pdf (shows sample Wikibooks url, but reportedly works for Wikipedia articles as well)
  • m:Alternative parsers – programs and projects to translate MediaWiki's text markup syntax into something else, such as HTML
  • Wikipedia:Wiki Markup Language (WKML) (historical)

• Featured content:
  • Wikipedia:New featured content
  • Portal:Featured content
  • Articles: (see also Good articles, Main Page)
    • Wikipedia:Featured articles (WP:FA)
    • Random Featured article (at the toolserver)
    • Lists:
      • Wikipedia:Featured lists
      • Wikipedia:List of Wikipedians by featured list nominations
    • Pictures:
      • Wikipedia:Featured pictures
    • Sounds:
      • Portal:Featured sounds
• Fun:
  • Wikipedia:Department of Fun
  • Wikipedia:List of shortcuts/Project shortcuts#Department of fun
  • Wikipedia:April Fool's Main Page
  • Games:
    • Category:Wikipedia games
    • Wikigames at Wikia
  • Wikipedia:Wikipedia holidays

• Geocoding:
  • GeoPedia – provides iPhone owners with a Wikipedia feed customized to their current location
  • mw:Beta Features/Nearby Pages - Adds a button to the top right corner of pages that contain geographical information, to get the reader to "nearby" pages
  • Showing existing Wikipedia articles on a map:
    • Wikimapia
    • Google:
      • Google Maps has an option, under "More", to place markers showing Wikipedia articles
      • About the Google Earth Geographic Web Layer
• Good articles: (see also Featured articles)
  • Wikipedia:Good articles – the list
• Google:
  • Googlepedia
  • Wikipedia:Purging Google search results (WP:GOOGLEPURGE) - how to remove vandalism, etc., from cached copies of Wikipedia articles in Google search results
• Guestbooks: see User pages

• History (of a page):
  • Wikipedia:How to read an article history
  • Help:Page history
  • Wikipedia:Copyright violations on history pages
  • Diffs:
    • Help:Diff
    • How-to guides:
      • Wikipedia:Simplest diff guide
      • Wikipedia:Simple diff and link guide
      • Wikipedia:Complete diff and link guide
    • Enhancing the differences in diffs:
      • MediaWiki talk:Monobook.css/Archive 4#Better rendering for .diffchange in diff's...
      • User:Cacycle/wikEdDiff – user script – additions and deletions are highlighted by color in one continuous text
      • User:Js/diffs – another, different user script
  • Tools:
    • For content:
      • Who did what:
        • WikiBlame – searches for given text in versions of article
        • tools:~tparis/blame/ - Similar
        • User:AmiDaniel/WhodunitQuery – Windows application that identifies the edit and user who added a specific word or phrase
          • "wikipedia blame": October 2008 blog posting and 1450 articles processed using the code
    • For counts and major contributors:
      • WikiDashboard – when going to a new page, puts a count of top editors, and a histogram of edit activity, at the top of the page (Quick Guide)
      • Revision counter^{[dead link]} – counts revisions (edits) (at the toolserver)
      • WikiSense - Contributors – lists edits, similar to page history, but can be sorted by contributor; easy to exclude different groups (at the toolserver)
      • Wikipedia Page History Statistics – builds an edit history overview page
      • WikiChecker
      • Article Contribution Counter (beta) – tool that identifies major contributors to an article (at the toolserver) (a similar feature request is at Bug# 7988)
      • Articleinfo - Article revision statistics
    • Other:
      • History Flow Visualization Application
      • Wikipedia Animate – user script; shows the evolution of a page, like a webcast

• Images:
  • General:
    • Wikipedia:Ten things you may not know about images on Wikipedia
  • Ways to set personal preferences so as to not see some or all images:
    • Help:Options to hide an image (alternative to censorship)
    • User:Mr.Z-man/badimages

• Journals:
  • Wikipedia:Journal sources

• Library books
  • Wikipedia:Forward to Libraries - to find books on an article's subject at a reader's local library
• Logging in: (see also User account and username)
  • Help:Logging in
  • mw:Extension:OpenID – lets users log in with an OpenID
  • Security:
    • HTTPS:
      • m:HTTPS
      • Native HTTPS support enabled for all Wikimedia Foundation wikis - October 2011
      • The future of HTTPS on Wikimedia projects - August 2013
    • Wikipedia:User account security (essay)
    • 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)

• Merchandise:
  • The Wikimedia Shop
  • Wikipedia:Merchandise giveaways (WP:GIVEAWAY)
• Missing articles:
  • Wikipedia:Requested articles (WP:RA)
  • Wikipedia:Red link
• Mirrors:
  • Wikipedia:Mirrors and forks
• Mobile access:
  • Wikipanion - for iPad and iPhone
  • "iPhone Gems: Wikipedia Apps" – review of 16 apps for the iPhone or iPod touch (November 2008)
  • Real-time version of Wikipedia:
    • Help:Mobile access
    • mw:Mobile Beta - experimental staging area for new features that may eventually be added to the official mobile site
    • "Accessing Wikipedia via mobile devices", Signpost article, January 2009
    • Semi-experimental mobile portal (as of February 2008)
    • Wapedia
    • m:Mobile subdomain
    • Wikipanion – Free iPhone/iPod app; searches using a fast, native interface; includes autosuggest, landscape mode, and large, readable text.
  • Downloaded version of Wikipedia:
    • Pocket Wikipedia – 24,000 images and 14 million words (for PocketPC, Windows and Linux machines)
    • Encyclopodia – complete download, for Apple iPod
    • Wikipedia-iphone – complete download for iPhone or iPod Touch
    • WikiPock
    • Screencast: "How to install Wikipedia on your iPod Touch or iPhone!", February 8, 2008
  • Other:
    • GeoPedia – provides iPhone owners with a Wikipedia feed customized to their current location
    • "Kiwi" client – for iPhone and iPod

• Navigation:
  • Wikipedia:Back to top - adding a "Back to top" link to every section
• New editors: (see also Questions, User account and username)
  • Welcoming:
    • Wikipedia:Welcoming committee
    • MediaWiki:Welcomecreation – page for automatic welcome message for all new accounts (transitory; is not posted to user talk pages)

• Obscenity: see Censorship
• Outlines of content (Articles):
  • Portal:Contents/Outlines

• Page views: (see also Counts)
  • Most viewed (English Wikipedia):
    • Wikipedia:Popular pages
    • Most accessed pages per day (Wikistics)
    • Wikipedia article traffic statistics – the 1000 pages with the most views (for April 2013) [last checked: November 2013]
  • For any specific article or other page:
    • Monthly chart for any specified page ("Wikipedia article traffic statistics") (for pages that are not articles, include the namespace as a prefix) ("Hendrik's tool")
    • tools:~emw/wikistats/ - Wikipedia article traffic statistics (alpha, as of November 2013)
    • Raw counts – beginning (24 hourly snapshots per day) December 10, 2007 (announcement)
• Password: see Logging in
• Portals:
  • Wikipedia:Portal (WP:P)
  • Wikipedia:Portal/Directory
  • Portal:Contents/Portals – introductory page that organizes and lists all portals
  • Featured:
    • Portal:Featured portals
• Preview of a link: Navigation popups [NEED LINK]
• Printing: Help:Printable
• Privacy:
  • Wikipedia:Privacy policy
  • m:Privacy policy

• Quality of articles
  • Assessments
    • By editors (from "stub" (worst) to "featured article" (best)):
      • Wikipedia:WikiProject Council/Assessment FAQ
      • Wikipedia:Version 1.0 Editorial Team/Assessment (guideline) – an assessment scale in use to give "grades" to articles
      • Category:WikiProject assessments – separate pages within WikiProjects that show assessments done and still needed for pages within that WikiProject
    • By readers (viewers)
      • m:Article validation feature (was supposed to begin in late 2005)
      • Wikipedia:Article feedback
      • Wikipedia:Feedback walkthrough
      • Wikipedia:Feedback guidelines
      • Wikipedia:Article Feedback/Noticeboard
      • mw:Article feedback/Version 5
      • m:R:Article Feedback - research
• Queries (of article content)
  • Wikidata queries:
    • Wikipedia:Wikidata
    • meta:Wikidata
    • d:Wikidata:Main Page
    • d:Wikidata:Introduction
    • d:Help:FAQ
    • Wikidata Query: (Wikimedia Labs)
      • Description
      • API documentation
• Questions:
  • Wikipedia:Help desk
  • Wikipedia:Contact us
• Quickbar: (the set of links on the left side of the page, often called the "left sidebar")
  • User:Equazcion/SidebarTranslate - translates inter-language links into English

• Random article:
  • Reading:
    • Any page within a specified namespace:
      • Special:Random (in the standard navigation box on the left) (adding a suffix – /Category, /Help, /Image, /Portal, /Template, /User, or /Wikipedia) will take you to a random page in those namespaces)
      • Wikipedia:Random
    • Any article within a category:
      • Special:RandomInCategory
      • Random article in a category (at the toolserver)
    • Random Featured article (at the toolserver)
    • Random Good article (at the toolserver)
    • User talk:GregU/randomlink.js – Adds a "Random link" option to the sidebar menu; can be used to go to a random page in a category or a list
    • Portal:Middle-earth/Random-article – example of how to generate a random article from a specified set of articles
• Recent changes (recent edits): (see also Vandalism)
  • Special:Recentchanges
  • Help:Recent changes

• Screen (options):
  • Wide screen (minimum of 1400 pixels)
  • Special:Preferences:
    • "Appearance" tab:
      • Skin
      • Images (files): maximum size, default size for "thumbnail" images
    • "Gadgets" tab:
      • "Browsing" section
      • "Appearance" section
      • "Compatibility" section
• Searching Wikipedia: (see also
  • In general: Help:Searching
  • Across language Wikipedias: Global Wikipedia Article Search
  • From within Wikipedia:
    • Search engine:
      • "MediaWiki search engine improved" (Signpost article, November 2008)
      • Special:Search – regular search with a wider box to enter text
      • Test web interface for lucene-search 2.1
      • User:Zocky/Auto Complete – auto-completes the titles of articles in the search box (JavaScript) (no longer required as of May 2008; this is built into the search function now)
      • Invoking search:
        • 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
  • From outside Wikipedia:
    • Firefox:
      • Using Wikipedia for the search box provides an autocomplete feature
      • Creating a smart keyword – can replace "site:en.wikipedia.org" in searches
    • Similpedia – uses a URL or a chunk of text to find similar articles in Wikipedia
    • AskWiki – semantic search engine developed in partnership between AskMeNow and the Wikimedia Foundation (beta)
    • Powerset – natural language search of Wikipedia
    • Yahoo's Wikipedia SearchMonkey App
    • Seariki – search engine specifically designed for Wikipedia [(http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikien-l/2007-December/088027.html December 2007 announcement])
    • Powerset – semantic search (May 2008)
    • Googlepedia – Firefox add-on; shows a relevant Wikipedia article along with Google search results
    • Preventing search engines from searching pages:
      • Wikipedia:Controlling search engine indexing (WP:NOINDEX)
      • 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
      • Wikipedia:Talk pages not indexed by Google (feature request)
      • Wikipedia:Requests for comment/NOINDEX
  • Tools:
    • Wikipedia:Tools#Searching (may eventually merge into Help:Searching)
    • Wikipedia:User scripts#Searching
• Social networking:
  • Wikipedia:What Wikipedia is not#Wikipedia is not a blog, Web hosting service, social networking service, or memorial site (WP:NOT)
  • Wikipedia:User pages (WP:USER)
  • Sharing pages:
    • Wikipedia:Perennial proposals#Share pages on Facebook, Twitter etc. - add "Like" buttons and "Share" widgets
    • User:TheDJ/Sharebox - script that adds new buttons that make it easier to mail, print or share an article on Facebook or another linksharing service
• Spelling:
  • Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Proper names
  • U.S. and Commonwealth differences:
    • Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Spelling
    • Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Capital letters
    • Wikipedia:List of spelling variants
    • Wikipedia:Articles using British English titles
    • Wikipedia:Articles using American English titles
    • Wikipedia:Manual of Style/National varieties of English (failed proposal)
    • Wikipedia:Perennial proposals#Enforce American or British spelling
• Spoiler: Wikipedia:Spoiler (WP:SPOIL) (guideline)

• Table of contents:
  • Help:Section – covers several aspects of TOCs
• Tables:
  • Help:Sorting
• Translations:
  • Wikipedia in different languages – overview:
    • Wikipedia:Multilingual coordination
  • Information about languages, and translation aids:
    • mw:Extension:Live Translate
    • m:List of Wikipedias
    • Help:Multilingual support (guide to fonts)
  • Moving information from other language Wikipedias to the English Wikipedia
    • Wikipedia:Translation
    • Wikipedia Bilingual – side-by-side display of an article in any two languages in which it is available (Firefox browser extension)

• User account and username (also called "useraccount", "login", and "user login") (see also Logging in, Privacy, User pages)
  • Registered versus unregistered editing:
    • Wikipedia:Why create an account? – benefits to a person who decides to register
    • Wikipedia:The benefits of requiring account creation on Wikipedia (essay) – arguments against allowing IP editors
    • Wikipedia:The benefits of not requiring account creation on Wikipedia (essay) – arguments in favor of IP editors
    • Wikipedia:IPs are human too (essay) - arguments on not assuming IP editors do not make positive contributions
  • Starting out:
    • Wikipedia:Username policy (WP:U)
    • Wikipedia:Tutorial/Registration
    • Special:Userlogin – to request an account
    • Wikipedia:Request an account – for those who wish to create an account but cannot read the CAPTCHA image that is part of the standard registration process as of February 2007
    • mw:Extension:SignupAPI
    • mw:API:Account creation
    • Help:Email confirmation
  • Inappropriate usernames:
    • Wikipedia:Usernames for administrator attention – blatantly inappropriate usernames
  • Removing accounts without any edits:
    • wmf:Privacy policy#User accounts and authorship
  • Single signon ("single login", "single user login", "SUL"):
    • Bug# 57 – request for this feature
    • 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"
• User pages: (see also User account and username)
  • Wikipedia:User pages (WP:USER) (guideline)
  • Wikipedia:Subpages (guideline)
• User scripts
  • Wikipedia:User scripts

• Vandalism
  • Wikipedia:Vandalism (WP:VAN) (policy)
  • Wikipedia:Cleaning up vandalism
  • Tutorial: Reporting and dealing with vandals – Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/2008-01-28/Tutorial
• Video:
  • Wikitube - Videos are automatically added when viewing a Wikipedia article pages
    • http://www.ghacks.net/2013/09/01/wikitube-adds-youtube-videos-wikipedia-articles/
    • https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/wikitube/aneddidibfifdpbeppmpoackniodpekj - Chrome extension

• Wikipedia basic information:
  • Wikipedia – what it is, history, hardware and software, funding, authorship and management, and much more
  • Wikipedia:About
  • What is Wikipedia? (pdf) – two page flyer
  • Wikipedia:History of Wikipedian processes and people
  • Wikipedia:Historic debates
  • Wikipedia:Role of Jimmy Wales
  • Wikipedia:Ten things you may not know about Wikipedia (essay)
  • Late 2001 version of Wikipedia (nostalgia.wikipedia.org)
  • Wikipedia:Why Wikipedia is so great (essay)
  • Wikipedia:Wikipediology/library/essays/Merovingian-1 (essay) – "The Fluid Encyclopedia" – 2001 to 2005
  • Wikipedia Fundraising Central Online Reporting Engine
  • Category:Wikipedia history
  • Wikipedia:General reading list
  • Wikipedia:Instructional material
  • Wikipedia:Learning the ropes
• WordPress: mw:PhotoCommons - a plug-in that provides easy searching, inserting, and maintaining of files from Wikimedia Commons into a blog [alpha]