This index for editors is intended to help find anything not in the encyclopedia itself, including administration pages such as guidelines, policies, essays, informative, discussion and process pages. See about this index for tips on how to use this, and for instructions on maintaining consistency when editing it. See also Reader's index to Wikipedia and Editor's index to Commons.

For a smaller listing of "help" and "how to" pages, see the Help directory. For other useful directories and indexes, see Wikipedia:Directories and indexes. See also Wikipedia:The Wikipedia Library/A–Z.

• Abbreviations: see also Shortcuts, Terms and terminology
  • Abbreviations in articles
    • Template:Abbr
    • Problematic abbreviations in articles
      • Template:Abbreviations
      • Template:Expand acronym
• Abuse: see Vandalism

• Access (limiting): (see also Enforcement)
  • Blocks by governments:
    • Censorship of Wikipedia
    • Wikipedia:Advice to users using Tor
    • Wikipedia:WikiProject on closed proxies
  • Tor:
    • mw:Extension:TorBlock (editing through tor requires 100 edits and 90 days to become autoconfirmed, as of June 2008)
    • Wikipedia:Advice to users using Tor
  • Preventing abuses via open proxies:
    • Wikipedia:Open proxies (WP:NOP) (policy)
    • Wikipedia:WikiProject on open proxies
    • m:WikiProject on open proxies
    • Wikipedia:Open proxy detection
    • Bots:
      • User:RonaldBot – reports edits done by open proxies
      • User:ClueBot – identifies suspected vandalism using open proxies
      • User:KrimpBot – identifies active Tor exits and IPs that are no longer Tor but still blocked

• Accessibility: (see also Audio, Usability)
  • Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Accessibility (WP:ACCESS)
  • Wikipedia:WikiProject Accessibility (Signpost article, November 2013)
  • Wikipedia:Accessibility advocates
  • Wikipedia:Accessibility dos and don'ts
  • usability:Accessibility Initiative – information about the Wikipedia Usability Initiative and the Multimedia Usability Project, both grant-funded and discontinued as of January 2011
  • JAWS:
    • JAWS (screen reader)
    • Wikipedia:Using JAWS
    • Wikipedia Guide for JAWS Readers
  • User:Wolfgangbeyer/monobook.css – monobook.css optimized for color blindness
  • Wikipedia:HiddenStructure – CSS feature that was disabled in December 2006 because of accessibility issues
  • Category:Wikipedia accessibility
  • Wikipedia:Dyslexic readers
  • American Sign Language (ASL):
    • ASL Wikipedia on Incubator
    • SignWriting Tech for written sign language on Incubator
• Account: see User account and username
• Admin coaching: Wikipedia:Admin coaching – a now inactive coaching program for admin hopefuls
• Administration:
  • Wikipedia:Administration see also Enforcement, Functionaries

• Administrators: (see also Enforcement)
  • Category:Wikipedia adminship
  • General information:
    • Wikipedia:Administrators (policy)
    • Wikipedia:FAQ/Administration
    • Wikipedia:What adminship is not
  • Contacting an administrator: (see also specific topics such as Vandalism)
    • Wikipedia:Requests for administrator attention – a directory of places to request administrator help
    • 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)
  • Current administrators:
    • Wikipedia:List of administrators
    • Special:Listusers/sysop
    • Category:Wikipedia administrators
    • Active/inactive/activity:
      • Wikipedia:List of administrators/Active
      • Wikipedia:List of administrators/Inactive – those who haven't edited in the past three months
      • User:JamesR/AdminStats – lists of admins, sorted by the number of deletions, restorations, etc.
      • tools:~thebainer/admin-activity – statistics relating to administrator activity on any Wikimedia project (on the toolserver)
      • Wikipedia:Perennial proposals#Demote inactive admins
  • Reallocating adminship duties:
    • Wikipedia:Perennial proposals#Hierarchical structures – there should be some kind of "partial admin"
    • Wikipedia:Perennial proposals#Grant non-admins admin functions within their user space
  • Becoming an administrator:
    • Wikipedia:WikiProject Admin Nominators (inactive)
    • Wikipedia:Miniguide to requests for adminship (unofficial)
    • Wikipedia:Guide to requests for adminship
    • Category:Wikipedia administrator hopefuls
    • Wikipedia:Requests for adminship – nominations of individuals seeking/willing to become an administrator (WP:RFA)
    • Wikipedia:Arguments to avoid in adminship discussions (essay)
    • User:Dragons flight/RFA summary – bot-generated summary of the current RfAs
    • Requirements:
      • Wikipedia:Perennial proposals#Prerequisites for adminship
      • Wikipedia:Perennial proposals#Administrators should be of the age of majority
    • Changing the RfA process:
      • Wikipedia:Perennial proposals#Requests for Adminship is broken
      • RfA Review:
        • Wikipedia:RfA Review (essay) (begun June 2008) – "Once all phases are complete, a report will be presented to the community"
        • User:Durova/RFA Review boycott
  • Non-bureaucrat closing of an RfA: User:Enigmaman/SNOW (but first ask the candidate to withdraw)
  • Results of RfAs:
    • Wikipedia:Successful requests for adminship
    • Wikipedia:Unsuccessful adminship candidacies
    • User:NoSeptember/Admin stats
  • After becoming an administrator:
    • Wikipedia:New admin
    • Wikipedia:Administrators' reading list
    • b:MediaWiki Administrator's Handbook
    • Help:Reverting#Admin features
    • Wikipedia:Advice for new administrators (essay)
    • User:NoSeptember/Subpages about adminship
    • Wikipedia:IRC/Personal views regarding IRC – regarding proper use of the admin IRC channel
    • Tools:
      • mw:Admin tools development
      • Ubergodmode.js Compilation of user scripts for administrators
      • User:Animum/EasyBlock
    • Problems with admins:
      • Wikipedia:Requests for comment/User conduct#Use of administrator privileges
      • Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard
      • Reconfirmation and/or recall:
        • Wikipedia:Requests for de-adminship
        • Category:Wikipedia administrators open to recall
        • Wikipedia:Admin Accountability Alliance (essay?)
        • Wikipedia:Community enforced administrator recall (failed proposal)
        • Wikipedia:Perennial proposals#Reconfirm administrators
        • Wikipedia:Perennial proposals#It should be easier to remove adminship
  • Other:
    • "Jimmy Wales denies Wikipedia admin recruitment crisis" (July 2012)
    • Category:Wikimedia Commons administrators – English Wikipedia editors who are admins at the Commons
    • Wikipedia:Adminship in other languages – French, German, Dutch, Japanese (etc.) versions of Wikipedia
    • mw:Admin tools development
    • Template:Admin help
    • Category:Wikipedians looking for help from administrators
    • User:NoSeptember/The NoSeptember Admin Project
    • Wikipedia:Adminitis (essay)
    • Wikipedia:Requests for comment/Adminbots
    • Statistical analysis of candidates; proposes "AdminFinderBot" for candidates (April 2008)
    • Wikipedia:WikiProject on Adminship – discussion of new approaches for granting adminship (inactive as of October 2006)
• Adoption: Wikipedia:Adopt-a-user
• Adr (address) microformat
  • Wikipedia:WikiProject Microformats

• Advertisements:
  • Internal advertising for other Wikipedia pages (see also Wikipedia:Motto of the day)
    • Template:Wikipedia ads/doc – process
    • Template:Wikipedia ads
    • Template:Wikipedia-adnavbox – list of current ads
  • On Wikipedia, revenue-raising for the Wikimedia Foundation [currently not done]
    • Wikipedia:Funding Wikipedia through advertisements (essay)
    • Wikipedia:Perennial proposals#Advertising
  • Off Wikipedia, on behalf of Wikipedia:
    • m:Wikimedia urban postering campaign
  • On Wikipedia pages, by outside groups and individuals, not for the benefit of the Wikimedia Foundation and its projects:
    • Within articles: see Spam
    • On non-article (user) pages: see WP:UP#PROMO
• Advice: see Help, Learning, New editors, Questions
• Advocacy: (see also Conflict of interest)
  • Wikipedia:What Wikipedia is not#Wikipedia is not a soapbox or means of promotion (policy)
  • Wikipedia:Advocacy (essay)
  • Wikipedia:Activist (essay)
  • Wikipedia:Advocacy articles (essay)
  • Wikipedia:Avoid academic boosterism (essay)
  • Wikipedia:Civil POV pushing (essay)
• AfD (Articles for Deletion): see Deletion of articles
• Algorithms: Wikipedia:WikiProject Computer science/Manual of style#Algorithms
• Alphabetical order: Help:Alphabetical order
• Anchors: see Navigation
• Anonymous users (anonymous editors): see Unregistered users
• API:
  • mw:API:Query
  • mw:API:Tutorial
  • API to query data directly from the MediaWiki servers
• Arabic:
  • Help:Arabic
  • Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Arabic (inactive/historical)

• Arbitration:
  • Wikipedia:Arbitration
  • Wikipedia:Arbitration/Policy (WP:AP)
  • Wikipedia:Arbitration/Requests
  • Wikipedia:Arbitration/Requests/Enforcement (WP:AE)
  • Wikipedia:General sanctions – active sanctions
  • Wikipedia:Arbitration rationale (unofficial)
  • Wikipedia:Requests for comment/Arbitration enforcement (early 2009 discussion)
  • Arbitration Committee:
    • Wikipedia:Arbitration Committee
    • Wikipedia:Arbitration Committee/Noticeboard
    • Wikipedia:Arbitration Committee/June 2008 announcements/Clarifying the role of the Committee
    • Wikipedia:Arbitration/Index/Cases
    • Wikipedia:Elections#Arbitration Committee
    • Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/2005-09-19/ArbCom election – first in a weekly series of 17 articles on the Arbitration Committee and the January 2006 election
    • Wikipedia:Arbitration Committee/June 2008 announcements – a number of proposals by the committee, plus notice of trial changes being undertaken
    • Wikipedia:Requests for comment/Arbitration Committee – June 2008 RfC
    • m:Arbitration committee/EnglishArbComInterviews – email interviews with four committee members (June 2013)
    • {{ArbComOpenTasks}} – template for active ArbCom cases
    • m:Wikimedia Arbitration Committee election processes – describes how the Arbitration Committee is selected on various language Wikipedias
  • Appeals: Wikipedia:Arbitration Committee/June 2008 announcements/Appeals Review List – new (sub)committee or "list" or "panel", subordinate to and supervised by the Arbitration Committee
    • Wikipedia:Devolution – failed proposal to establish a mechanism for the committee to devolve selected powers to a designated body

• Archiving Wikipedia talk pages:
  • Help:Archiving a talk page
  • User:The Halo/How to Archive (tutorial)
  • User:5Q5#How to Archive a Talk Page by 5Q5 (tutorial)
  • Template:Google custom/doc#How to search subpage trees within Wikipedia – easilys make an archive searchable
  • Template:Archives
  • Using a bot:
    • User:lowercase sigmabot III/Archive HowTo
    • User:ClueBot III
    • User:MercuryBot
    • User:Werdnabot
    • User:HBC Archive Indexerbot (replaced by Legobot)
    • User:Legobot

• Article message boxes (amboxes): (sometimes called "tags"; these are templates)
  • Wikipedia:Template messages#Article-related namespace
  • Wikipedia:Template standardisation – for articles
  • Wikipedia:Ambox classes – creating article message boxes
  • Wikipedia:Classes in Ambox/Skins – changing the way that standardized article "tags" are displayed
  • Wikipedia:Perennial proposals#Move maintenance tags to talk pages
  • User:Shanes/Why tags are evil – essay about templates placed at the top of articles

• Articles: see also Content disputes, Edits (in general), History, Importing, Layout and sections, New articles, Page views, Quality of articles, Statistics, Style (articles)
  • Wikipedia:What is an article?
  • Wikipedia:Article development – stages in the life of an article
  • Wikipedia:Editorial oversight and control
  • Wikipedia:Content forks (guideline) – pieces of content on the same subject (some types are good, some types are bad)
  • Analysis of:
    • User:R. fiend/How many articles does Wikipedia really have? – categorization by size/source/quality of 500 randomly selected articles, October 2005
    • User:Knulclunk/Random – categorization by topic/type of 200 randomly selected articles, September 2008
  • Wikipedia:Unusual articles
  • Article size (particularly long articles):
    • Wikipedia:Article size (Manual of Style)
    • Wikipedia:Summary style (guideline) – when articles get too long
    • Special:Longpages – top 1000 articles, sizewise
    • {{PAGESIZE:page name}} – magic word that gives the size of the given page name
    • User talk:Dr pda/prosesize.js – user script that adds link to the toolbox, for displaying some statistics about the size of a page and its components (alternative: User:Dr pda/prosesize)
    • Splitting:
      • Wikipedia:Splitting
      • Wikipedia:Template messages/Splitting
      • Category:Articles to be split
    • Implementing summary style:
      • Wikipedia:Summary style
      • Template:Main
      • (Template:Sync)
• As of: see Current events
• Assessment: see Quality of articles

• Assistance (disputes): (see also Content disputes, Help, Personal attacks, Questions)
  • Wikipedia:Editor assistance
  • Wikipedia:Highly Active Users (WP:HAU) – request assistance from users who are currently online
  • Wikipedia:Wikiquette assistance
  • Wikipedia:Requests for comment/User conduct
  • Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents (urgent/severe cases only)
• Association of Members' Advocates (AMA): inactive as of May 2007
• Assuming good faith:
  • Wikipedia:Assume good faith (WP:AGF) (guideline)
  • User:Filll/AGF Challenge – a set of exercises based on typical Wikipedia editing situations in controversial areas
• Attacks: see: Content disputes, Personal attacks
• Attribution: see Sources

• 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)
  • Spoken voice introductions:
    • Recording the voices of Wikipedia (blog post)
    • Commons:Category:Voice intro project
  • Audio clips: see Media
• Autobiographies: see Biographies
• Autoconfirm: (a type of User right)
  • Wikipedia:Requests for permissions/Confirmed
  • 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:
    • 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
    • Bug# 14191 – Autoconfirmed settings on enwiki changed to 4 days and 10 edits as of May 2008
    • Wikipedia talk:Autoconfirmed Proposal/Poll2 – proposal, June 2008, to increase requirements to 7 days, 20 edits (about 65% supported)
• Autograph books: see User pages
• Automation: see Bots, Tools, User scripts

• Awards: (see also Contests)
  • Wikipedia:Awards
  • Wikipedia:Personal user awards
  • Wikipedia:Awards by WikiProject
  • Wikipedia:Service awards – self-awarded, based on length of time as an editor and number of edits
  • Wikipedia:Other awards
  • Wikipedia:Barnstars (WP:BARNSTAR)
  • Wikipedia:Barnstar and award proposals (WP:BAP)
  • Template:Barnstar pages
  • Wikipedia:Kindness Campaign
  • Wikipedia:Four Award – for starting an article, having that article get a Did You Know? item on the Main Page, and getting the article to Featured status
  • Wikipedia:Award templates
  • Category:Wikipedia awards
  • Wikipedia:Ribbons (for organizing multiple awards)
  • Wikipedia:Great editing in progress
  • Image:Barn star free zone.png
  • Wikipedia:Triple Crown

• Back to top: Wikipedia:Back to top (javascript to add a button to every section header)

• Backlogs:
  • Category:Wikipedia backlog
  • Category:Administrative backlog
  • Wikipedia:Admin backlog contest
• Balance and space: see Neutral point of view
• Banners:
  • For the Wikipedia project itself: Wikipedia:Banners and buttons
  • 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)
  • Wikipedia:List of policies#Behavioral: standards for behavior of Wikipedia editors
  • Wikipedia:Simplified ruleset#Safe behaviours – twelve guidelines for "safe behaviours"
  • Wikipedia:Etiquette (WP:EQ) (guideline) – how to work with others on Wikipedia
  • User:Antandrus/observations on Wikipedia behavior (essay)
  • m:Don't be a dick
  • Wikipedia:Wikiquette assistance
  • Wikipedia:Avoid personal remarks
  • Wikipedia:Don't call the kettle black – an essay
  • Wikipedia:Harmonious editing club
  • Category:Wikipedia user conduct
• Being bold: Wikipedia:Be bold (WP:BOLD or WP:BB) (guideline)

• Bias:
  • Wikipedia:WikiProject Countering systemic bias
  • "Missing from Wikipedia" – a tool to identify people who should have a biography but do not
  • Wikipedia:Recentism – an essay on the tendency to overweight recent events when adding information or creating new articles
  • Wikipedia:WikiProject Historical information
• Bible reference template: {{bibleref}} – can give the reader a wide variety of choices in choosing a translation

• Biographies:
  • In general:
    • Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Biographies
    • Wikipedia:Biographies of living persons (WP:BLP) (policy)
    • Wikipedia:Arbitration Committee/June 2008 announcements/BLP enforcement guidance
    • User:Doc glasgow/The BLP problem
  • Article names:
    • Wikipedia:Naming conventions (people) (guideline)
    • Wikipedia:Naming conventions (royalty and nobility)
    • User:Eubot – creates redirects to prevent multiple articles being created for the same person
  • Notability:
    • Wikipedia:Notability (people)
    • Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Common outcomes#People
    • Wikipedia:Notability (academics) (guideline)
    • Wikipedia:Biographical optout (failed proposal) – individuals who are not "public figures" can have their biography removed upon request
    • Wikipedia:Borderline biographies (essay)
    • Wikipedia:Perennial proposals#Delete no-consensus AfDs for biographies of living persons
  • Formatted data (see also Series boxes)
    • Wikipedia:WikiProject Microformats/hcard
  • Categorization:
    • Wikipedia:Categorization of people (guideline)
    • Wikipedia:Categorization/Ethnicity, gender, religion and sexuality
    • Wikipedia:Do not write articles using categories – do not add a category for every attribute of a person
    • Wikipedia:Naming conventions (identity) (ethnic, national, sexual, etc.)
    • User:Helpful Pixie Bot (formerly SmackBot) – adds the DEFAULTSORT template to stubs that are biographical articles
  • Problems: (see also Conflicts of interest):
    • Wikipedia:Biographies of living persons/Noticeboard (WP:BLP/N)
    • Wikipedia:Biographies of living persons/BLPWatch
    • Wikipedia:Living People Patrol
    • Categories of problems:
      • Category:Biography articles needing attention
      • Category:All unreferenced BLPs
      • Category:BLP articles lacking sources
    • Wikipedia:Database reports/Untagged biographies of living people (biographical articles without a {{bio}} template on the article talk page)
    • 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
    • Libel: Wikipedia:Libel (policy)
    • Privacy:
      • Wikipedia:Biographies of living persons#Presumption in favor of privacy
      • Wikipedia:Oversight (policy) and Wikipedia:Requests for oversight – removal of personal or libelous information on older revisions of an article (see also Oversight)
      • Wikipedia:Deletion policy#Courtesy blanking (WP:CBLANK) (guideline) – removal of personal info within a deletion discussion
    • Articles about Wikipedians:
      • Wikipedia:Autobiography (WP:AUTO) (guideline)
      • Wikipedia:Wikipedians with articles
    • Identified problems:
      • Wikipedia:Database reports: Unbelievable life spans, biographies of dead people (entire section), biographies of living people (entire section)
  • Other:
    • Wikipedia:Contact us - Licensing – for problems with copyright, or to put content on Wikipedia
    • Wikipedia:Family trees
    • Wikipedia:WikiProject Biography
    • "Missing from Wikipedia" – a tool to identify people who should have a biography but do not
    • Alternatives (outside of Wikipedia):
      • Biographicon
      • Wikipopuli
      • WikiBiography Wiki
    • Wikipedia:Living People Patrol (inactive)
• Birthdays: see Biographies
• Biting: Wikipedia:Please do not bite the newcomers
• Blocks: see Access (limiting), Enforcement

• Books: (see also Collections (books), Resources)
  • Articles about a book:
    • Wikipedia:Notability (books) (guideline)
    • Wikipedia:Naming conventions (books) (guideline)
  • ISBN
    • Wikipedia:ISBN
    • Wikipedia:Book sources
    • Special:Booksources
    • User:Lunchboxhero/monobook.js – when clicking on an ISBN link, go directly to your preferred book-related website
    • Ottobib – Web page that generates citation if ISBN is known
    • Problems:
      • Category:Articles with invalid ISBNs – usually very few articles listed
      • Wikipedia:List of pages with Invalid ISBNs – stubborn cases
  • 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
  • Other:
    • Template:Gutenberg – for creating a link to a book source available at Project Gutenberg

• Bots: (see also Tools, User scripts)
  • Wikipedia:Bot policy
  • Wikipedia:Bots/Frequently denied bots
  • m:Bot policy
  • Wikipedia:Types of bots (not maintained)
  • Wikipedia:History of Wikipedia bots (very sketchy/dated)
  • Creating:
    • Wikipedia:Creating a bot
    • m:Using the python wikipediabot
    • Creating MediaWiki bots in PHP – includes BasicBot
  • 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.
  • Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval
  • Special:Log/makebot
  • Wikipedia:Bots/Status – list of all bots
  • Category:Wikipedia bots
  • Special:Listusers – set to "Bots"; user accounts listed have been flagged as doing very low-risk edits
  • Wikipedia:Bot owners' noticeboard
  • Wikipedia:Bot Approvals Group
  • Template:Bots – template for user pages, to encourage or block (compliant) bots
  • Wikipedia:Requests for comment/Adminbots
  • Cumulative editing statistics for bots

• Browsers (for Wikipedia editing): (see also Editing software)
  • Wikipedia:Browser notes
  • m:Browser issues with MediaWiki
  • Wikipedia:Tools/Browser tools
  • Wikipedia:Interfaces/External interfaces
  • AutoWikiBrowser: (WP:AWB) (a semi-automated Wikipedia editor, Windows only, typically used for vandal patrol or mass edits)

    Shortcuts:   WP:EIW#AutoWi   WP:EIW#AutoWikiBrowser

    • Wikipedia:AutoWikiBrowser
    • Category:AutoWikiBrowser
    • User:Kingbotk/Plugin – a set of AWB plugins (included with AWB version 4.1.0.0 on onwards)
  • Wikibrowser: part of the Wikipedia:WikiBrowse package
  • User:Cacycle/wikEd – wikEd, adds enhanced text processing functions to Wikipedia (also available as a gadget, under "Preferences")
  • m:WikiMonitor – fully functional web browser (beta, November 2007)
  • Wikipedia Explorer (beta in March 2007; still beta as of February 2008; requires .NET 3.0)
  • Wikipedia:Wikipedia Widget – for Mac OS X v10.4 or later
  • IndyWiki
  • Wikibench (pre-beta as of February 2008)
  • Extensions (add-ons) to standard browsers (other than for citations):
    • Wikipedia Toolbar – Firefox add-on:
      • Wikipedia:Wikipedia Toolbar
      • Source

• Bugs:
  • Wikipedia:Bug reports and feature requests
  • Phabricator: - Wikimedia Phabricator
  • How to Report Bugs Effectively – general advice on reporting bugs, recommended, not specific to any particular system

• Bureaucrats – folks who handle special, higher-level administrative tasks
  • Wikipedia:Bureaucrats
  • Wikipedia:Bureaucrats' noticeboard

• Canonicalization: Help:Link#Conversion to canonical form (converting links to URLs)
• Canvassing: see Messages

• CAPTCHA:
  • Special:Captcha
  • MediaWiki:Captchahelp-text
  • reCAPTCHA:
    • reCAPTCHA MediaWiki Extension
    • WP:Perennial proposals#Use reCAPTCHA
    • Wikipedia:Village pump (proposals)/Archive 8#reCAPTCHA: adding titles to the Gutemberg Project (November 2007)
• Captions: see Images

• Categories:
  • General information:
    • Wikipedia:Categorization – (WP:CAT) (guideline)
    • Help:Category
    • Wikipedia:FAQ/Categorization
    • Wikipedia:Category names (guideline)
    • Wikipedia:WikiProject Categories
    • Portal:Contents/Categories
    • Wikipedia:Categories, lists, and navigation templates (guideline) – comparing alternative approaches
    • Wikipedia:Overcategorization (guideline) – what types of categories are not good ones to create
    • Wikipedia:Classification – putting a set of links on category pages so readers can see the levels above the category
    • Wikipedia:Categories are different from articles (essay)
    • Wikipedia:Do not write articles using categories – do not add a category for every attribute of the subject of an article
    • Special:MostLinkedCategories – the categories that have the highest number of pages belonging to them
  • Listings of categories:
    • Special:Categories – alphabetical category listing
    • MediaWiki:Categoriespagetext – scrollable access to the list of all categories
    • 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)
    • Wikipedia:Category types (failed proposal)
  • Possible problems with categories:
    • Wikipedia:Categories for discussion – page to discuss (and nominate) the deletion, merging, and renaming of categories (WP:CFD)
    • Wikipedia:Categorizing redirects – most redirects should not have a category on the redirect page
    • Category:Overpopulated categories
    • 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
    • Wikipedia:Database reports/Polluted categories – Categories that contain pages in both the (Main) namespace and user namespaces
    • 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")
  • Articles without categories:
    • Special:UncategorizedPages
    • User:Addbot – adds categories to uncategorized articles, using AWB
  • 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
  • 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)
    • User:Helpful Pixie Bot (formerly SmackBot) – adds DEFAULTSORT to people-related article stubs
  • Wikipedia:Category suppression – keeping templates from creating categories when they shouldn't:
  • Bots:
    • Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Working#Bots – bots working on CFD results
    • User:Kbdankbot – CFD tasks such as emptying categories of articles and moving articles from one category to another
    • User:O bot – adds, removes, and moves/renames categories by request (approval)
    • User:Alaibot – cleans up redundant double-categorisation (where an article is in both a category and a parent of that category)
    • User:Yetanotherbot – works on WP:CFD/W
    • User:RockfangBot – does speedy renames; empties or moves categories at WP:CFD/WU; processes categories with "and" results at WP:CFDWM
  • Hidden categories:
    • March 2008 Signpost article
    • Category:Hidden categories
  • Other:
    • Bug# 6943 – Magic word for number of items in a category
    • User:TheDJ/Gadget-HotCat.js – user script that makes it easy to add, modify and remove categories
    • User:Erwin/CatCount – provides a count of pages in any given category
    • User:Ais523/catwatch.js – for monitoring changes to the pages that are in a specified category
    • Category:Wikipedia categorization
    • Wikipedia:Template messages/Category namespace
    • 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 page Special: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
    • User talk:GregU/randomlink.js – this tool can go to a random page in a category
    • User:Dr. Submillimeter/Humorous categories – unusual (and no longer existing) categories
    • random article – redirects to a random article in a given category's tree (at the toolserver)

• 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
  • Wikipedia:Perennial proposals#Censor offensive images
  • 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
  • Failed proposals:
    • Wikipedia:Offensive
    • Wikipedia:Graphic and potentially disturbing images
    • Wikipedia:Image censorship
    • Wikipedia:Sexual content

• Chapters:
  • wmf:Local chapters
  • Sub-national chapters Q&A (October 20, 2008)
• Characters (special): Help:Special characters
• Checkuser: see Sock puppets
• Children: see Privacy

• China:
  • Wikipedia:Manual of Style/China-related articles
  • Wikipedia:History standards for China-related articles
  • Portal:China
  • Wikipedia:Advice to users using Tor
  • Help:Multilingual support (East Asian)

• Citations:
  • Within articles: see Sources
  • If others want to cite Wikipedia: Wikipedia:Citing Wikipedia
• Civility: see Personal attacks
• Clarity:
  • Wikipedia:Please clarify (information page)
    • Template:Clarify – to mark individual phrases or sentences
    • Template:Elucidate – to mark individual phrases or sections which require further explanation for general (i.e., non-expert) readers
    • Template:Confusing – to mark sections (or entire articles, though this is undesirable)
    • Template:Examples – to mark individual phrases or sentences which require examples for clarification
• Classes: see Learning (for classes of editors, see User rights)
• Cleanup: see Maintenance, Quality of articles
• Clerks: see Functionaries
• Coaching: see Learning

• Collaborations: (see also Maintenance, WikiProjects)
  • Wikipedia:Collaborations
  • Template:COTWs – collaborations of the week
  • Category:Wikipedia collaborations
  • Wikipedia:WikiProject Reference Desk Article Collaboration
  • Wikipedia:Today's articles for improvement
  • Wikipedia:Spotlight
  • Etherpad Lite at wikimedia.org – for real-time, simultaneous editing

• Collapsing:
  • m:Help:Collapsing

• Collections (books)
  • Wikipedia:Books
  • m:Book tool
    • m:Book tool/Help/Books
    • m:Book tool/Help/Books/for experts
    • m:Book tool/Help/Books/Frequently Asked Questions
    • m:Book tool/Help/Books/Feedback
  • Wikipedia:Bookshelf – pages that organize the list of community books
  • Help:Books
  • Help:Books/PediaPress PDF rendering
  • Special:PrefixIndex/Book:
  • "Books extension enabled" (Signpost article, March 2009)
  • mw:Extension:Collection – organizing a personal selections of pages into a collection
• Colon trick: Help:Colon trick

• Comics and comic books:
  • Wikipedia:WikiProject Comics/copyright (guideline)
  • Wikipedia:Naming conventions (comics) (guideline)
  • Wikipedia:Notability (web) (guideline) (includes webcomics)

• Comments, invisible: (also called "invisible text", "hidden comments", "hidden text")
  • Wikipedia:Manual of Style#Invisible comments
  • Help:Hidden text
  • Help:Wiki markup#Invisible text (comments)
  • Wikipedia:Writing better articles#Make omissions explicit for other editors

• Common sense: (see also Process)
  • Wikipedia:Ignore all rules (WP:IAR) (policy)
  • Wikipedia:What "Ignore all rules" means (essay)
  • Wikipedia:Suggestions on how to ignore all rules (essay)
  • Wikipedia:Ignoring all rules – a beginner's guide (essay)
  • Wikipedia:Interpret all rules (essay)

• Commons (Wikimedia Commons):
  • 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.
  • Commons:Welcome
  • A guide to getting started on Wikimedia Commons
  • Wikimedia Commons – manual that provides the essential information for people interested in contributing their own work to Wikimedia Commons
  • Mayflower – searching the Commons (at the toolserver)
  • Commons:Commons:Tools
  • Manual for new Commons users (at en.flossmanuals.net)
  • Uploading:
    • Default/standard process: Commons:Commons:Upload Wizard
    • Commons:Commons:GLAMToolset project – a set of tools to make easier the batch uploads of GLAM (Galleries, Libraries, Archives, and Museums) material
    • Other processes: see Commons:Commons:Upload tools (includes tools for Flickr, Android, and iPhone)
  • Moving images to Commons (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") (at the toolserver)
    • 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 (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)
  • RSS feeds:
    • Category-based feed (for newly added images) (at the toolserver)
    • Media file of the Day (at the toolserver)
  • 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 (at the toolserver)
    • Flickr-like interface to Commons (no logins or uploads) (at the toolserver)
    • Commons sum-it-up – tool to generate a summary text for pages on Commons, using Wikipedia articles in different languages (at the toolserver)
    • Flickr:
      • "The Commons" at Flickr – "Help us catalog the world's public photo archives."
      • Browse Flickr images (at the toolserver)
• Communications (communicating with other editors): see Messages
• Community: see Wikipedia as community
• Community portal: Wikipedia:Community portal – a place to find collaborations, tasks, and news about English Wikipedia (see also Wikipedia as a community)

• Companies and organizations:
  • Wikipedia:FAQ/Article subjects
  • Wikipedia:Companies, corporations and economic information
  • Wikipedia:Notability (organizations and companies) (guideline)
  • Wikipedia:Naming conventions (companies) (guideline)
  • Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Common outcomes#Companies
  • Infoboxes:
    • Template:Infobox organization
    • Template:Organization infoboxes
    • Category:Organization infobox templates
  • 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
  • Portal:Business and economics

• Competitors, forks, and mirrors:
  • Wikipedia:Mirrors and forks
  • m:Mirror filter – Firefox extension which removes sites which mirror Wikimedia content from Google search results
  • Potential resources:
    • Category:Online encyclopedias
    • Citizendium – vetted volunteers (articles that originated in part at Wikipedia are GFDL) (July 2007 analysis in the Signpost)
    • New World Encyclopedia – paid editors (funded by Unification Church through February 2008) (all GFDL)
    • Medpedia (GFDL) (in preview mode as of July 2008)

• Conflict of interest: (see also Advocacy, Biographies, Promotional content)
  • Wikipedia:Conflict of interest (WP:COI) (guideline)
  • Wikipedia:Plain and simple conflict of interest guide (essay) (WP:PSCOI)
  • Wikipedia:Conflict of interest/Noticeboard – reporting cases of conflict of interest policy not being followed
  • {{edit COI}} – for talk page postings; related: Category:Wikipedia conflict of interest edit requests
  • Wikipedia:COI declaration (essay)
  • Paid editors:
    • Wikipedia:Conflict of interest#Paid editing (WP:PAY)
    • Wikipedia:WikiProject Cooperation/Paid editor help
    • Wikipedia:WikiProject Integrity
    • Wikipedia:Paid editing (essay)
    • Wikipedia:Paid editor's bill of rights (essay)
    • Wikipedia:Reward board
    • Proposals:
      • Wikipedia:Perennial proposals#Paid editing
      • Wikipedia:No paid advocacy (open as of August 2013)
      • Wikipedia:Paid editing (guideline) (failed proposal) (December 2010)
      • Wikipedia:Paid editing (policy) (failed proposal) (2009/2010)
      • Wikipedia:Requests for comment/Paid editing (June 2009) (inactive)
  • Automation:
    • User:COIBot
    • User:AlexNewArtBot/COISearchResult – new articles that appear likely to be conflict of interest cases
    • Wikipedia Scanner – identifies unregistered edits from user-specified organizations (Wired magazine story, August 2007)
  • Other:
    • Conflict-of-interest editing on Wikipedia – controversies that have been reported in the media
    • Wikipedia:Suggestions for COI compliance (essay)
    • Wikipedia:Best practices for editors with close associations (essay)
    • User:Charles Matthews/Conflict of interest (essay)
    • "The Right Way To Fix Inaccurate Wikipedia Articles", searchengineland.com, August 7, 2007 (article by a Wikipedia editor)
    • Wikipedia:Bounty board (marked "Historical" in November 2013)

• Congress: edits by Congressional staffers:
  • Wikipedia:Congressional staffer edits
  • U.S. House of Representatives rule against use of government equipment for political purposes

• Consensus and voting:
  • Wikipedia:Consensus (WP:CON) (policy)
  • Wikipedia:Rough consensus (failed proposal, November 2013)
  • Wikipedia:Consensus#Consensus can change (WP:CCC)
  • Wikipedia:Arbitration Committee/June 2008 announcements/Consensus seeking processes
  • m:Wikipedia power structure
  • m:Democracy
  • Wikipedia:Elections
  • Wikipedia:Requests for comment
  • Wikipedia is not an experiment in democracy – historical statement by Jimmy Wales (2005)
  • Wikipedia:WikiProject Democracy – information on current elections, voting and centralized discussions
  • Wikipedia:Polling is not a substitute for discussion (guideline)
  • Wikipedia:Of course it's voting
  • Wikipedia:Canvassing (WP:CANVAS) (guideline)
  • m:Polls are evil
  • Wikipedia:Voting is not evil (essay)
  • Wikipedia:Times that 1000 or more Wikipedians supported something
  • Wikipedia:Delegable proxy (failed proposal)
  • Wikipedia:Straw polls (failed proposal)
• Conservapedia: Wikipedia vs. Conservapedia Bookmarklet
• Conservation: Wikipedia:Conservation status (categories) (Manual of Style)
• Content of articles: (see also Content disputes, Edits (in general), New articles, Style (articles), and specific topics throughout this index)
  • Category:Wikipedia content policies
  • Category:Wikipedia content guidelines
• Content disclaimer: Wikipedia:Content disclaimer

• Content disputes: (see also Consensus, Controversial articles, Disruptive editing, Neutral point of view, Personal attacks)
  • General policies and guidelines: (in addition to WP:NOR, WP:V, WP:NPOV, etc.)
    • Wikipedia:Dispute resolution (WP:DR) (policy) – overview of the process
    • 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
    • Wikipedia:Controversial articles (Manual of Style)
    • Wikipedia:Etiquette (WP:EQ) (guideline) – how to work with others on Wikipedia
    • Wikipedia:Editing policy#Preserve information (WP:PRESERVE) (policy) endeavour to preserve content
    • Wikipedia:Arbitration Committee/June 2008 announcements/Skilled content warriors
    • Wikipedia:Scientific standards (inactive proposal)
  • Reverts and other disagreements:
    • Wikipedia:BOLD, revert, discuss cycle – Boldly edit, revert once, discuss – an essay on reaching consensus
    • Wikipedia:Accuracy dispute (guideline)
    • Wikipedia:NPOV dispute – how-to guidance
    • Wikipedia:Edit warring (policy)
    • Wikipedia:Edit warring#The Three revert rule (WP:3RR) – repeated edits can get a user account blocked (typically, for 24 hours)
    • Wikipedia:Verifiability#Burden of evidence
    • Wikipedia:Accuracy dispute
    • Wikipedia:Uphill Battles (essay)
    • Wikipedia:Disruptive editing (guideline)
    • Wikipedia:Lamest edit wars
    • Wikipedia:Other stuff exists#Precedent in usage (essay)
    • Wikipedia:Don't overuse shortcuts to policy and guidelines to win your argument (essay)
  • Possible solutions:
    • Wikipedia:Staying cool when the editing gets hot (essay)
    • Wikipedia:Forgive and forget (essay)
    • Wikipedia:No angry mastodons (essay)
    • Wikipedia:Don't be a fanatic (essay)
    • Wikipedia:Truce (essay)
    • Wikipedia:Harmonious editing club
    • m:How to win an argument
    • Wikipedia:A nice cup of tea and a sit down
    • Wikipedia:Drop the stick and back slowly away from the horse carcass (essay)
  • Processes for resolving (when informal discussions fail)
    • Wikipedia:Dispute resolution – official policy (overview)
    • Wikipedia:New admin/Dealing with disputes
    • Category:Wikipedia dispute resolution
    • Wikipedia:Editorial Council (failed proposal)
    • Post at Wikipedia:Wikiquette assistance
    • Ask for a third opinion: Wikipedia:Third opinion – (rule: only two parties involved).
    • Obtain dispute resolution: Wikipedia:Dispute resolution noticeboard
    • Requests for comment:
      • Wikipedia:Requests for comment
      • Wikipedia:RFC/How to present a case (essay)
    • Mediation:
      • Wikipedia:Mediation (policy)
      • Wikipedia:Requests for mediation – formal mediation
      • Wikipedia:Community enforceable mediation – experimental alternative (began March 2007, marked historical/inactive December 2007)
      • Wikipedia:Mediation Cabal – informal mediation (marked inactive July 2012 But is it really?)
  • Other:
    • Wikipedia:No climbing the Reichstag dressed as Spider-Man (essay) (WP:SPIDER)
    • Wikipedia:Working group on ethnic and cultural edit wars (final report was August 2008)
    • Wikipedia:Requests for remedies (failed proposal)
• Content notes: see Notes

• Contests
  • Wikipedia:Contests
  • Wikipedia:The Core Contest
  • Wikipedia:WikiCup

• Controversial articles: (see also Content disputes)
  • Wikipedia:Controversial articles (Manual of Style)
  • Wikipedia:List of controversial issues

• 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 wikitext table data to and from other formats: see Tables

• Copyright: (see also Legal)
  • In general:
    • Wikipedia:FAQ/Copyright
    • Wikipedia:Copyrights (policy)
    • Wikipedia:Image use policy
    • Wikipedia:Non-U.S. copyrights (guideline)
    • Wikipedia:Media copyright questions – a place to get help and answers
  • Fair use, non-free use, and public domain:
    • wmf:Resolution:Licensing policy – requires all Foundation projects to create a "Exemption Doctrine Policy (EDP)" for fair use media.
    • Wikipedia:Non-free content criteria (WP:FUC) (policy)
    • Wikipedia:Non-free content (guideline)
    • Wikipedia:Plain and simple non-free content guide
    • Wikipedia:Non-free content criteria compliance (proposal as of August 2011)
    • Wikipedia:Non-free use rationale guideline (guideline)
    • Wikipedia:Public domain (guideline)
    • Dispatches: Reviewing non-free images – Signpost article, September 2008
    • m:Avoid Copyright Paranoia – discussion
    • Wikipedia:WikiProject Images and Media/Non-free
    • Wikipedia:History of non-free content policies – Survey of the development of the present NFC policy
    • Wikipedia:Deletion of all fair use images of living people (historical page)
  • Avoiding problems:
    • Wikipedia:File copyright tags
    • Template:USAtags – copyright tags for U.S. images (mostly for U.S. government images)
    • Wikipedia:Requesting copyright permission
    • Wikipedia:Example requests for permission
    • Wikipedia:Donating copyrighted materials
  • Problems:
    • Wikipedia:Contact us - Licensing – if an article is using copyrighted content without permission
    • Wikipedia:Copyright violations (WP:COPYVIO) (policy)
    • Wikipedia:Plagiarism (guideline)
    • Wikipedia:Close paraphrasing (essay)
    • Wikipedia:Spotting possible copyright violations
    • Wikipedia:Copyright problems
    • Duplication Detector (at the toolserver) – compare any two web pages to identify text which has been copied from one to the other
    • Category:Wikipedian copyright problem patrollers
    • Wikipedia:Copyright violations on history pages – dealing with prior versions of an article that have copyright violations and are accessible via history pages
    • wmf:Designated agent – for notification of claimed infringement
    • Wikipedia:Files for discussion
    • Categories for problem images:
      • Category:Wikipedia files with unknown copyright status
      • Category:Wikipedia files with unknown source
      • Category:Wikipedia files with no non-free use rationale
    • Bots to find problems:
      • Text:
        • User:Non-Free Content Compliance Bot
        • User:CopyvioHelperBot
      • Images:
        • User:BetacommandBot
        • 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
        • User:Erwin85Bot – removes Template:Di-orphaned fair use from pages that are not orphans
        • User:SoxBot VIII – removes fair use images from outside of article space, removes tags from non-orphaned images (replaced User:ImageBacklogBot)
        • User:John Bot II – tags images that lack adequate copyright information
        • User:FairuseBot – does tagging of problematic fairuse images
  • 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)
    • GFDL (former licensing):
      • GNU Free Documentation License
      • Wikipedia:Text of the GNU Free Documentation License
      • Wikipedia:Verbatim copying under the GFDL (essay)
      • Migration from:
        • "GFDL 1.3 released, will allow Wikimedia migration to Creative Commons license" (Signpost article, November 2008)
        • Proposal to license Wikimedia material so it is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike license (CC-BY-SA)
        • m:Licensing update/Questions and Answers
        • m:Licensing update(voting to start April 2009)

• 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)
  • Wikipedia:Edit count
  • Wikipedia:Tools#Edit counters
  • Wikipedia:WikiProject edit counters
  • Wikicheck
  • Milestone – finds the nth edit of an editor (at the toolserver)
  • User:Henrik/live-edit-counter – continuously updated edit counter (userbox)
  • User:Interiot/EditCountOptIn
  • Wikipedia:List of Wikipedians by number of edits
  • Wikipedia:Editcountitis – an essay
• Creating articles: see New articles

• Credentials:
  • Wikipedia:There is no credential policy – Wikipedia has no policy on whether credentials should either be disregarded or verified
• Criticism of Wikipedia: see Encyclopedia, Criticism (of)

• Current events: (see also News about Wikipedia)
  • Wikinews (sister project)
  • Portal:Current events
  • Wikipedia:How the Current events page works
  • As of:
    • Wikipedia:As of
    • Template:As of
    • Template:Category as of
  • Template:Update after
  • Category:Wikipedia articles in need of updating
  • Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Dates and numbers#Precise language
  • Wikipedia:WikiProject Update Watch
  • Wikipedia:Current event templates
  • Wikipedia:Notability (events) (guideline)

• Customization: (see also Quickbar, Signatures)
  • Wikipedia:Customisation
  • Via "Preferences":
    • Special:Preferences
    • Help:Preferences
  • Via the Gadgets tab in "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
    • 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
    • Editors who know CSS: Category:User css
• Cyrillic: Wikipedia:Naming conventions (Cyrillic)

• Data download: see Downloading all of Wikipedia, Queries (database) (for individual pages, see Exporting (a page))
• Database lag (message displayed on watch list):
  • User:Equazcion/LagToMinutes – adds minutes/seconds version of the lag (which is normally shown only as number of seconds)
• Database query: see Queries (database)

• Dates: (see also Current events)
  • Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Dates and numbers
  • Wikipedia:Naming conventions (numbers and dates)
  • Wikipedia:Manual of Style#Chronological items
  • Wikipedia:Date formattings
  • m:Dynamic dates
  • Help:Calendar – code to include the image of a small '"calendar page", including a time display, on a Wikipedia page
  • Wikilinking of dates:
    • Wikipedia:Manual of Style#Dates
    • Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Dates and numbers#Linking and autoformatting of dates
    • Wikipedia talk:Manual of Style (dates and numbers)/RFC: Unresolved date delinking and autoformatting issues (closed February 2009)
    • Wikipedia talk:Manual of Style (dates and numbers)/Archive D1#A new parallel syntax for autoformatting dates
    • Wikipedia:Date formatting and linking poll (March 2009)
    • Wikipedia:Requests for arbitration/Date delinking (closed June 2009)
    • Bug# 4582 – provide preference-based autoformatting for unlinked dates
  • Other:
    • Wikipedia:Neutral point of view/BCE-CE Debate (failed proposal)
    • Category:Use dmy dates
    • Category:Use mdy dates
    • Template:Start date
    • Template:Start date and age
    • Template:End date
• "Daughter" articles: see Article size
• Decision-making: see Consensus and voting, Functionaries, Wikimedia Foundation

• Deletion: (see also Categories for deletion of categories, Redirect for deletion of redirects, etc.) (for articles, see Deletion of articles, immediately below)
  • Wikipedia:Deletion process (WP:DP) (guideline)
  • Template:Deletion tools (for one's user page)
  • Wikipedia:Introduction to deletion process (essay)
  • Wikipedia:Deletion process
  • Wikipedia:Deletion guidelines for administrators (WP:DGFA) (guideline)
  • Wikipedia:WikiProject Deletion
  • Category:Wikipedia deletion

• Deletion of articles: (see also Deletion)
  • Policies, general criteria, and examples: (see also Notability)
    • Wikipedia:List of policies#Deletion: policies about deletion
    • Wikipedia:Deletion policy
    • Wikipedia:Search engine test (how-to)
    • Wikipedia:New admin/Deleting
    • Commons:File:Deletion process on English Wikipedia (flowchart).jpg
    • Wikipedia:Perennial proposals#Delete unreferenced articles
    • Essays:
      • Wikipedia:Give an article a chance
      • Wikipedia:List of bad article ideas
      • Wikipedia:I wouldn't know him from a hole in the ground
      • Wikipedia:Deletion and deletionism
      • Others: see "Essays on building, editing, and deleting content" at Template:Wikipedia essays
  • Alternatives to deletion:
    • Move to a sister project such as Wiktionary or Wikisource – see Transwiki
    • Wikipedia:Userfication – if article has potential for Wikipedia (move to userspace)
    • Help:Merging
    • Wikipedia:Redirect (guideline)
    • Wikipedia:Article Incubator ("soft delete")
  • Types of deletion:
    • Wikipedia:Page blanking (guideline) (do not blank article pages)
    • Speedy deletion:
      • Wikipedia:Criteria for speedy deletion (WP:CSD) (policy)
      • Tagging articles and notifying editors:
        • User:CSDWarnBot – finds the creator of a tagged article and posts a warning on the user's talk page
      • Pending deletion: Category:Candidates for speedy deletion
      • Deletion:
        • User:Chairboy/csdhelper.greasemonkey.js – similar to AutoReason
    • Prod:
      • Wikipedia:Proposed deletion (WP:PROD) (policy) – five-day (countdown) process (no polling of opinions)
      • User:DumbBOT/ProdSummary – articles currently with "prod" templates
      • Wikipedia:WikiProject proposed deletion patrolling
      • User talk:Dycedarg/easyprod.js – user script to propose a page for deletion in one click, and (optionally) notify the author of the page as well
      • User:BJBot – informs major/recent editors of an article that a {{prod}} template has been posted to that article
      • Wikipedia:Database reports/PRODed articles with deletion logs (not necessarily current)
      • Category:Proposed deletion
    • Formal deletion process (AfD discussions) (Articles for deletion):
      • Wikipedia:Guide to deletion – information on the process
      • Wikipedia:Repeated AfD nomination limitation (failed proposal) – to limit the number of times an article can go through the AfD process
      • Wikipedia:Afd categories
      • Deletion sorting – AfDs organized into topical lists
        • Wikipedia:WikiProject Deletion sorting
        • User:John Vandenberg/Deletion sorting tool
      • User:Jayden54Bot – bot that notifies creator of article that it has been submitted to AfD process (approved January 2007) (inactive as of May 2009)
      • User:BJBot – informs major/recent editors of an article that it has been submitted to AfD process
      • Wikipedia:Perennial proposals#Numerical rules for WP:AFD
      • Wikipedia:Perennial proposals#All authors must be notified of deletion
      • Wikipedia:Perennial proposals#Rename AFD – rename to "Articles for Discussion"
      • Current AfDs:
        • Wikipedia:Articles for deletion (AfD) – shows how to create a new AfD, links to current AfDs
        • Wikipedia:Articles for deletion#Current discussions – articles proposed for deletion in the past five or so days via the AfD process
      • Tools for participation:
        • User:Jnothman/afd helper – makes voting on an AFD a one-click process (user script)
        • User:Nixeagle/WikiDiscussion Manager – Windows-based application that assists editors with participation in AfD discussions
        • User:Jayden54/AFD Organizer – Windows-based application that provides a set of tools for participating in AfD discussions
      • Arguments and expectations (see also next subsection, "Closing"):
        • Wikipedia:Help, my article got nominated for deletion! (essay)
        • Wikipedia:Arguments to avoid in deletion discussions (essay)
        • Wikipedia:Other stuff exists (essay)
        • Wikipedia:Pokémon test (essay) (marked as "historical")
      • Closing:
        • Wikipedia:Non-admin closure (essay)
        • Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Common outcomes
        • Wikipedia:Speedy keep – closing a discussion early and keeping the article
        • Wikipedia:WikiProject User scripts/Scripts/CloseAFD.js
        • What an administrator won't do upon closing and AfD:
        • User:Mangojuice/Administrators are not slaves (essay) – don't ask administrators to do large amounts of work under the guise of a deletion debate
          • Wikipedia:Closing Administrator is not an Edit on Demand Service (essay)
  • After an article is deleted:
    • Deletionpedia – An automated bot uploads pages to this website as they are deleted from Wikipedia.
    • Wikipedia:Viewing and restoring deleted pages
    • Wikipedia:Arbitration Committee/June 2008 announcements/Activation of view-deleted-pages – request that the community consider giving selected regular editors the ability to view deleted pages
    • Wikipedia:Deletion policy#Courtesy blanking (WP:CBLANK) (guideline) (blanking of the AfD discussion due to privacy issues)
    • Wikipedia:Protection policy#Creation protection (WP:SALT) – "padlocking" or "salting the earth" to protect against further re-creation of deleted pages without prior admin approval
    • Wikipedia:Why was the page I created deleted? (essay)
    • Wikipedia:Deletion review – appeals to restore pages that have been deleted or delete pages which were closed as "keep" in an AfD discussion (WP:DRV)
    • Getting a copy of a deleted article put into one's user space, where it can be improved before going into the article namespace again:
      • Wikipedia:Requests for undeletion
      • Wikipedia:Deletion review#Content review
      • Category:Wikipedia administrators who will provide copies of deleted articles
      • Wikipedia:New admin/Protecting deleted pages
      • Wikipedia:New admin/Viewing deleted pages
    • Finding why an article was deleted:
      • 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)
      • Discussions (if deletion was by AfD) can be found at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Name of Article, etc. (alternatively, use Special:Prefixindex, in the Wikipedia space, searching on "Articles for deletion/Firstlettersofarticlename")
  • Proposals that the contents of deleted articles should still be accessible:
    • Wikipedia:Perennial proposals#Deleted pages should be visible
    • Wikipedia:Village pump (proposals)/Persistent proposals/Straw poll for view-deleted – proposal, September 2008, that at least some editors should be able to view some types of deleted pages, other than admins
    • Wikipedia:Viewing of deleted articles by non-administrators (historical)
    • Wikipedia:Experimental Deletion (inactive)
    • Wikipedia:Pure wiki deletion system (dormant)
  • Other:
    • Wikipedia:Article Rescue Squadron
    • Wikipedia undelete (user script) – lists versions of a deleted article that are available at archive.org, plus information on why an article was deleted
    • User:Lenticel/Deletion isn't Evil (essay)
    • User:Mailer diablo/The Mailer Diablo Deletion Project
    • Wikipedia:Transparent deletion (essay)
    • Wikipedia:AFD 100 days – June–September 2005 computer-assisted evaluation
    • Age of Wikipedia articles at the time of deletion – data for November 2005, February 2006, and September 2007
    • User:Emijrp/Statistics#Most deleted ever
    • User:Emijrp/Deleting – statistics, January 2005 to September 2007
• Deletionist: see m:Deletionism
• Diagrams: see Graphics

• 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)
• Diff: see History (of a page)
• Dimensions: see Units of measurement

• Directories: (see also Indexes)
  • Wikipedia:Department directory
  • Wikipedia:Quick directory
  • Wikipedia:Requests
  • Special:Specialpages – a list of special pages that are automatically generated and cannot be edited
  • User:Thunderhead~enwiki/Bookmarks
  • Wikipedia:TourBusStop
  • "Toolsets":
    • Wikipedia:Starter toolset
    • Category:Wikipedia users' toolsets
    • Template:UsefulLinks
  • For readers more than for editors, but still useful:
    • Portal:Contents

• Disambiguation (see also Moving a page, Naming an article)
  • Information about:
    • Wikipedia:Disambiguation (guideline) (WP:DAB)
    • Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Disambiguation pages
    • Wikipedia:Disambiguation and abbreviations (guideline)
    • Special:DisambiguationPageLinks – pages that link to a disambiguation page and (probably) should link to an article instead
    • 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)
      • Wikipedia:Hatnote
      • Template:Other uses
      • Wikipedia:HATTEST
  • List of pages:
    • Special:DisambiguationPages
    • Wikipedia:Links to (disambiguation) pages – list of page with "(disambiguation)" in title
    • Wikipedia:Links to disambiguating pages – list of pages marked as disambiguation pages
    • Wikipedia:Multiple-place names – index of disambiguation pages involving places
    • Wikipedia:Non-unique personal name – where Wikipedia has references to two or more persons with the same name
  • Possible problems:
    • Category:Disambiguation pages to be converted to broad concept articles
    • Special:DisambiguationPageLinks – Pages linking to disambiguation pages
    • Wikipedia:Disambiguation pages with links
    • Wikipedia:Disambiguation pages with links/Maintenance
    • Template:Incoming links (placed on disambiguation pages)
    • Template:Dablinks
    • Template:Dablinks/FAQ
    • Tools:
      • Dab solver (at the toolserver)
      • Dablinks (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
      • Wikipedia:WikiProject Disambiguation/fixer – CorHomo, downloadable program (pseudo-browser) (Linux only)
      • Wikipedia:WPCleaner – requires Java 5 or later
    • Bots:
      • User:DPL bot
      • User:Polbot – removes piped linking on disambiguation pages (function #5)
      • User:Commander Keane bot – automated bot for disambiguation
      • User:RussBot – automated bot for disambiguation
  • Templates:
    • mw:MediaWiki:Disambiguationspage – list of templates that categorize disambiguation pages as such (e.g., {{Geodis}})
    • Category:Disambiguation and redirection templates
  • Other:
    • mw:Extension:Disambiguator – allows all disambiguation pages to be designated with the __DISAMBIG__ magic word (or an equivalent)
    • Wikipedia:WikiProject Disambiguation
    • Wikipedia:Disambiguation pages aren't articles (essay) – that they are, in most cases, treated like article pages is a posted bug – see Bug# 6754, not a feature
    • Category:Wikipedia disambiguation

• Disclaimers:
  • Wikipedia:General disclaimer
  • Wikipedia:Legal disclaimer
  • Wikipedia:Content disclaimer
  • Wikipedia:Medical disclaimer
  • Wikipedia:Risk disclaimer
  • Wikipedia:No disclaimers in articles (WP:NDT)
  • Wikipedia:Non-Wikipedia disclaimers – examples from other information providers
  • Category:Wikipedia disclaimers
• Discussion pages: see Talk pages
• Disputes: see: Content disputes, Personal attacks

• Disruptive editing (see also Content disputes, Enforcement, Personal attacks)
  • Wikipedia:Disruptive editing (guideline) (WP:DIS)
  • Wikipedia:Gaming the system (guideline) WP:GAME
  • Wikipedia:Do not disrupt Wikipedia to illustrate a point (WP:POINT)(guideline)
  • Wikipedia:Harassment (WP:HAR) (guideline)
  • Wikipedia:Tendentious editing (essay)
  • Wikipedia:Requests for comment/User conduct – requires two or more editors to have posted warnings about another editor
  • Wikipedia:User RFC reform (inactive/historical)

• Downloading all of Wikipedia: (see also Mobile access, Queries (database); 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)
  • Do-it-yourself:
    • Wikipedia:Database download
    • Wikimedia Downloads – four types of downloads (was known as "Wikimedia dump service")
    • Wikipedia Static HTML Dumps
    • Wikipedia:FAQ/Forking – downloading all of Wikipedia plus the WikimMedia software to run it
    • Freebase Wikipedia Extraction (WEX) – processed dump of Wikipedia, with machine-readable XML and tabular extracts of relational features
    • Building a (fast) Wikipedia offline reader
    • Screencast: "How to install Wikipedia on your iPod Touch or iPhone!", YouTube, February 8, 2008

• Edit conflicts:
  • Help:Edit conflict – when two editors simultaneously edit the same page or section
  • Using an edit lock to prevent edit conflict:
    • Wikipedia:Edit lock (guideline) – asking other editors to let you do major edits undisturbed
    • Template:In use/doc
    • 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

• Edit summary:
  • Help:Edit summary
  • Wikipedia:Edit summary legend – commonly used abbreviations
  • Wikipedia:Edit summary legend/Quick reference
  • Wikipedia:Automatic edit summaries
  • Help:Dummy edit – to post a "follow-up" edit summary when the first is missing, incomplete, or incorrect
  • Special:Preferences#prefsection-5 – has option for a prompt (message) when "save" is clicked but edit summary is blank
  • Wikipedia:WikiProject User scripts/Scripts/Force edit summary alternative – flashes a summary box rather than displaying a message that no edit summary was entered
  • Bug# 10105 – Allow editing of edit summaries after the fact
  • Wikipedia:Perennial proposals#Automatically prompt for missing edit summary
• Edit wars: see Content disputes
• Editing: see Edits (in general)

• Editing interface (see also Browsers, Preview, Usability, User interface)
  • mw:Markup spec/ANTLR – general specifications for existing markup syntax
  • WikiEditor:
    • mw:Extension:WikiEditor
    • Tweaking the standard Wikipedia text editing window: see Edits (in general)
    • Enhancements:
      • CodeEditor – adds syntax highlighting, easier insertion of tab characters, etc.
        • mw:Extension:CodeEditor
        • meta:CodeEditor
      • Wikipedia:RefToolbar/2.0
      • mw:Manual:Custom edit buttons
      • mw:Extension:WikiEditor/Toolbar customization
  • VisualEditor: (sometimes "Visual Editor")
    • foundation:2011-2012 Annual Plan Questions and Answers#What are the 2011-12 plan targets? – Initial goal of opt-in production-ready version by December 2011
    • Wikipedia:VisualEditor
    • mw:VisualEditor
    • Wikipedia:VisualEditor/Feedback
    • User:John Vandenberg/switch editor – can begin editing in VE, and then switch – mid-edit – to WikiEditor without losing any editing work
    • Documentation:
      • mw:Help:VisualEditor/User guide
      • mw:Help:VisualEditor/FAQ
    • mw:VisualEditor:TestingRefs
  • Pages marked as not to be edited using VE:
    • Category:Pages with content uneditable in VisualEditor
    • Templates:
      • Template:Disable VE top
      • Template:Disable VE bottom
  • Alternatives:
    • User:Magnus Manske/less edit clutter.js – interface change, via javascript, that puts references in a separate edit box (screenshot, mailing list discusion)
    • mw:Extension:Uniwiki Generic Edit Page – extension that replaces the default editing page of Mediawiki with a section-based editor (unimplemented)
    • WYSIWYG:
    • mw:WYSIWYG editor
    • mw:Extension:InlineEditor/Proposal – WYSIWYG editing, but limited to sentences without complications [archived proposal]
    • Other WYSIWYG alternatives:
      • CKEditor (formerly "FCKeditor"):
        • FCKeditor integration guide
        • mw:Extension:FCKeditor (Official)
        • Demo site of the MediaWiki+FCKeditor project
      • Wikiwyg:
        • Demo of Wikiwyg for Wikipedia
        • mw:Extension:Wikiwyg
  • Using an external editor:
    • Wikipedia:Text editor support
    • Wikipedia:External editors
    • Wikipedia:WikiProject User scripts/Scripts/External editor – adds a tab to easily invoke an external editor
    • Wikipedia:MozEx tutorial – how to use the MozEx extension of Mozilla and Mozilla Firefox to select a page editor
    • Wikipedia:Wikipedia-mode.el – Emacs
    • Eclipse Wikipedia Editor at SourceForge.net
• Editor review: Wikipedia:Editor review – to request a review of one's editing
• Editors: see Wikipedia as a community

• Edits (in general) (see also Edit summary, Editing interface, Formatting of text, Help, History (of a page), New articles, New editors, Page revisions, Preview, Quality of articles, Sources)
  • Wikipedia:Wikipedia in brief
  • Wikipedia:Editing policy – official policy
  • Wikipedia:Introduction 2
  • Wikipedia:Tutorial/Editing
  • Help:Editing
  • mw:Help:Editing pages
  • Tags (brief messages that the software automatically places next to certain edit):
    • Wikipedia:Tags
    • Special:Tags
  • Standard editing screen:
    • Help:Edit toolbar
    • MediaWiki talk:Edittools
    • Modifying:
      • Wikipedia:Tools/Editing tools
      • Wikipedia:User scripts#Editing – user scripts that add search and replace, quick preview, and modifications to the edit toolbar
      • mw:User:Remember the dot/Syntax highlighter – a script that makes syntax stand out colorfully in the edit box
      • Custom edit buttons (information at Wikia, which uses the MediaWiki software that Wikipedia also uses)
  • Help:Editing FAQ
  • User:Uncle G/Wikipedia triage – a guide to "What to do" with problematical articles (nice categorization)
  • Wikipedia:Basic copyediting
  • Wikipedia:FAQ/Contributing
  • Wikipedia:FAQ/Editing
  • Wikipedia:Be bold
  • Wikipedia:Annotated article – an annotated article that explains various editing decisions, using a sample article
  • Wikipedia:Patent nonsense (guideline) – what to do with not-understandable content in an article
  • m:Help:Dummy edit – generally for the purpose of posting an edit summary
  • Category:Wikipedia editing
  • Enhancements for edit mode:
    • User:Zocky/Search Box – search and replace
    • 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

• Elections (articles on):
  • Wikipedia:Articles on elections
  • Wikipedia:Candidates and elections (inactive)
• Elections within Wikipedia and Wikimedia:
  • Wikipedia:WikiProject Democracy
  • meta:Democracy

• Email:
  • Help:Email confirmation
  • Wikipedia:Emailing users
• Embedded citations: see Sources

• 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)
• Endnotes: see Sources

• Enforcement: (see also Administrators, Arbitration, Functionaries, Protection of pages)
  • General:
    • Wikipedia:List of policies#Enforcing policies: what action authorized editors can take to enforce other policies
    • Wikipedia:General sanctions
    • Wikipedia:Requests for administrator attention – a directory of places to request administrator help
    • Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard (WP:AN)
    • Wikipedia:Confidential evidence (inactive proposal)
  • Blocks: (see also Access (limiting))
    • Wikipedia:Blocking policy (WP:BLOCK)
    • Help:I have been blocked
    • Wikipedia:New admin/Blocking
    • Wikipedia:Admins willing to make difficult blocks
    • Category:Wikipedia blocking
    • Category:User block templates
    • Special:Log/block – log of blocks
    • Wikipedia:Autoblock
    • Wikipedia talk:Per-article blocking – 2005 proposal; generally supported by community, not considered critical by developers
    • User:Emijrp/Blocking – statistics, December 2004 to September 2007
    • Blocking IP addresses:
      • Wikipedia:Blocking IP addresses
      • Wikipedia:IP block exemption (policy)
      • mw:Help:Range blocks
      • Template:School block
      • Special:Ipblocklist – List of currently blocked IP addresses and usernames (searchable)
      • m:Global blocking – new extension; implemented August 2008
    • Actions by blocked editors:
      • Wikipedia:Appealing a block (policy)
      • Wikipedia:Blocked users can edit their own talk page
      • Template:Unblock
      • Wikipedia:Unblock Ticket Request System
      • Requesting unblocking via the Unblock-en-l mailing list
  • Bans:
    • Wikipedia:Banning policy
    • Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/Community sanction – forum to discuss community bans (began January 2007, ended October 2007)
    • Wikipedia:List of banned users
  • Other:
    • Wikipedia:Editing restrictions
• Esperanza: Wikipedia:Esperanza – a group of Wikipedia editors "dedicated to strengthening Wikipedia's sense of community"; created in September 2005, disbanded in January 2007

• Essays:
  • Wikipedia:Policies and guidelines#Non-official essays or proposals
  • Wikipedia:The difference between policies, guidelines and essays (WP:PGE)
  • Wikipedia:Wikipedia essays ("guidance essay") (WP:WES)
  • Wikipedia:The value of essays (information page)
  • Wikipedia:WikiProject Essays
  • Finding essays (in Wikipedia: namespace)
    • Wikipedia:About essay searching (includes list of more than 800 essays)
    • Category:Wikipedia essays
    • Category:Wikipedia essays by impact
    • Template:Wikipedia essays
  • Other essays about essays:
    • Wikipedia:Essays are not policy
    • Wikipedia:Essays in a nutshell
    • Wikipedia:Don't cite essays or proposals as if they were policy
    • User:Montchav/Don't worry about writing essays
  • Category:User essays –
    • Also see the "About essays" section of Template:Wikipedia essays

• Ethiopia:
  • Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Ethiopia-related articles
  • Help:Multilingual support (Ethiopic)
• Etiquette: see Behavior

• Experts: (see also Criticism (of Wikipedia))
  • Category:Articles needing expert attention
  • Wikipedia:WikiProject Expert Request Sorting – changes the general "expert-needed" category in articles to more specific subcategories
  • Essays:
    • Wikipedia:Anti-elitism
    • Wikipedia:Expert editors
    • Wikipedia:Expert rebellion
    • User:LinaMishima/Experts Problem
    • Wikipedia:Expert retention
    • Why Wikipedia Must Jettison Its Anti-Elitism by Larry Sanger

• 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)
• Extensions: see MediaWiki
• External links: see Sources, URLs

• FAQs – see Help pages, or specific topics in this index

• Featured content: (see also Valued content)
  • Wikipedia:New featured content
  • Portal:Featured content
  • Category: Wikipedia featured content
  • User:Rick Bot – bot that maintains various lists of featured content and featured content nominators
  • Articles: (see also Good articles, Main Page)
    • Wikipedia:Featured articles (WP:FA)
    • Wikipedia:Featured article criteria
    • Wikipedia:Featured article candidates
    • Wikipedia:Featured article review
    • Wikipedia:Today's featured article – history of what have been Main Page articles
    • Wikipedia:Today's featured article/requests – requests that a particular featured article appear on the Main Page
    • Wikipedia:Featured article statistics
    • Process (roles):
      • Dispatches: History of the featured article process (Signpost article, July 2008)
      • Wikipedia:Featured articles/2012 RfC on FA leadership
      • Wikipedia:Compare Criteria Good v. Featured
    • User:Feature Historian – sortable table of articles that are or were FAs
    • Advice on writing a FA:
      • User:Yannismarou/Ten rules to make an article FA (related Signpost tutorial)
      • User:Giano/A fool's guide to writing a featured article
      • User:Dweller/Dweller, on Featured Article Candidates
      • User:Tony1/How to improve your writing
      • Wikipedia:Featured Article Help Desk (inactive)
    • Increasing the number of FAs:
      • Wikipedia:One featured article per quarter – an informal project
      • Wikipedia:100,000 feature-quality articles (essay)
      • Wikipedia:Article Collaboration and Improvement Drive
      • Wikipedia:Stabilizing featured articles (inactive/historical)
    • Featured articles in other language versions of Wikipedia:
      • Wikipedia:Featured articles in other languages
    • Topics:
      • Wikipedia:Featured topics – a collection of inter-related articles that are of a good quality
      • Dispatches: Featured topics – Signpost article, September 2008
    • Other:
      • Random Featured article (at the toolserver)
        • Wikipedia:List of Wikipedians by featured article nominations
      • Protection:
        • Wikipedia:Perennial proposals#Protect featured articles
        • Wikipedia:Perennial proposals#Protecting Today's Featured Article on the main page
  • Featured content other than articles:
    • Lists:
      • Wikipedia:Featured lists
      • Wikipedia:List of Wikipedians by featured list nominations
    • Pictures:
      • Wikipedia:Featured pictures
      • Dispatches: Reviewing featured picture candidates (Signpost article, January 2009)
    • Portals:
      • Portal:Featured portals
    • Sounds:
      • Dispatches: "Featured sounds" (Signpost article, May 2008)
      • Dispatches: "Hundredth Featured sound approaches" (Signpost article, February 2009)

• Fiction: (see also Films)
  • Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Writing about fiction
  • Wikipedia:Notability (fiction) (guideline)
  • Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Anime- and manga-related articles
  • Wikipedia:WikiProject Video games
• Files: see Media

• Films:
  • Wikipedia:Notability (films) (guideline)
  • Wikipedia:Naming conventions (films)
  • Wikipedia:WikiProject Film
  • Wikipedia:WikiProject Film/Style guidelines/Copy-editing essentials
  • Plot summaries:
    • Wikipedia:How to write a plot summary (essay)
    • Wikipedia:Plot-only description of fictional works (essay)
    • Category:Wikipedia articles with plot summary needing attention
  • Wikipedia:WikiProject Deletion sorting/Film
  • Wikipedia:IMDb (Internet Movie Database) – templates
  • The Movie Dude – user script that cross-links various movie related sites with Wikipedia
  • Portal:Film
• Five pillars:
  • Wikipedia:Five pillars
  • Help:Five pillars

• Flags: (as content, not database fields)
  • Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Icons
  • Wikipedia:WikiProject Flag Template
• Fonts: (see also Languages)
  • Planned update:
    • mw:Wikimedia Foundation Design/Typography
    • mw:Typography Update
  • Wikipedia:Typography (essay)
• Footnotes: see Sources
• Foreign language, words in: (or "words in other languages")
  • For words that should be changed to English, see Translation
  • For words that should remain in another language:
    • Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Text formatting#Foreign terms
    • Category:Wikipedia multilingual support templates
    • Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Accessibility#Other languages
    • Template:Lang
• Form (as input): mw:Extension:InputBox (a MediaWiki extension to add predefined HTML forms to wiki pages)

• Formatting of text: (see also Exporting (a page))
  • How to (wikitext):
    • Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Text formatting – bold, italics, underlines, etc.
    • Help:Editing#Wiki markup
    • Help:Wiki markup
    • m:Help:Reference card – one page summary of important MediaWiki editing commands, intended to be printed out
    • Help:HTML in wikitext
    • Wikipedia:Tutorial/Formatting
    • Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Accessibility#Text
    • Quick reference guides:
      • Help:Cheatsheet
      • Short, printable "cheatsheet" on Wikimedia Commons
    • Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Computing#Command-line examples – for articles on computer science, how to format words that an editor would type
    • Colors:
      • Help:Using colours (Manual of Style)
      • User:Trödel/Color chart (8-bit)
      • Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Accessibility#Color
      • Wikipedia:WikiProject Color
  • Line breaks and word wrapping:
    • Wikipedia:Don't use line breaks (Manual of Style)
    • Wikipedia:Line-break handling (How-to guide)
    • Help:Newlines and spaces
    • Template:Nowrap
  • Discussion of MediaWiki's syntax:
    • Wikitext-l mailing list
    • Wikitext-l Archives
  • Other:
    • Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Titles – scientific names, titles of books, etc.
    • Wikipedia:Naming conventions (books)#Subtitles
    • mw:Manual:Extending wiki markup
• Formulas: see Graphics
• Forum shopping: see Wikipedia:Spam#Forum shopping
• Foundation: see Wikimedia Foundation
• Frequently asked questions (FAQ): in general, see Help (general); also see specific topics

• 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

• Functionaries: (see also Enforcement)
  • User:NoSeptember/Functionaries
  • Category:Wikipedia functionaries
  • Wikipedia:User access levels
  • Special:Listusers – page where one can specify a type of functionary to get a list all editors in that group
  • Wikipedia:Global rights policy
  • mw:Legal and Community Advocacy/Legal Fees Assistance Program
  • Types:
    • Administrators: q.v.
    • Bureaucrats: q.v.
    • Checkusers: q.v.
    • Clerks:
      • Wikipedia:Arbitration Committee/Clerks
      • For usurpations: March 1, 2007 description
    • Oversight: q.v.
    • Stewards – the top-level administrative folks (note: stewards are selected via Meta rather than individual projects such as the English Wikipedia)
      • m:Stewards
      • m:Steward handbook
    • 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

• Gadgets: (new tab, as of December 2007, on the "Preferences" page) (see also User scripts)
  • 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)
  • mw:Gadgets-definition
  • Special:Gadgets – shows underlying scripts and CSS code used for each gadget
  • Wikipedia:Gadget (WP:GADGET) – lists the available gadgets on Wikipedia
  • mw:Gadget kitchen

• Galleries (see also Images)
  • Wikipedia:What Wikipedia is not#Wikipedia is not a free web host
  • Wikipedia:Image use policy#Image galleries
  • Wikipedia:Picture tutorial#Galleries
  • Help:Gallery tag
  • mw:Help:Images#Rendering a gallery of images
  • Template:Gallery
  • Wikipedia:Gallery pages (failed proposal)
• Games: see Fun (for games within Wikipedia), Video games
• General disclaimer: Wikipedia:General disclaimer

• Geocoding (graphic coordinates and mapping): (see also Maps)
  • Wikipedia:Obtaining geographic coordinates
  • Wikipedia:WikiProject Geographical coordinates
  • Wikipedia:Database reports/Articles containing overlapping coordinates
  • mw:Extension:GeoData (blog posting)
  • Template:Coord
  • commons:Commons:Geocoding
  • GeoLocator – "Interactive tool ... to ease georeferencing and geotagging"
  • Geo microformat
  • 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
  • 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

• Gifs:
  • Wikipedia:Image use policy#Animated images
  • Bug# 16451 – GIF scaling limit should be applied to animated GIFs only

• GLAM: (Galleries, Libraries, Archives, and Museums)
  • Outreach:GLAM
  • Outreach:GLAM/Newsletter
  • Wikipedia:GLAM
  • Commons:Commons:GLAMToolset project – a set of tools to make easier the batch uploads of GLAM material
• Glossaries:
  • For terms used by Wikipedia editors, see Terms and terminology
  • For glossaries that are articles (content), see Portal:Contents/List of glossaries
  • Wikipedia:WikiProject Glossaries

• Good articles: (see also Featured articles)
  • Wikipedia:Good articles – the list
  • Wikipedia:Good article criteria
  • Wikipedia:Good article nominations
  • Wikipedia:Good article reassessment
  • Wikipedia:Good article statistics
  • Wikipedia:WikiProject Good articles
  • Wikipedia:Good Article Collaboration of the week
  • Random Good article (at the toolserver)
• Good faith: see Personal attacks

• Google:
  • Google Earth: see Maps
  • Google test: see Search engine test
  • 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
  • {{Google templates}} – a list of templates that generate links to various Google services (e.g. search, custom search, image search, language translation)
  • Wikipedia:Purging Google search results (WP:GOOGLEPURGE) – how to remove vandalism, etc., from cached copies of Wikipedia articles in Google search results

• Gothic:
  • Wikipedia:Gothic Keyboarding
  • Help:Fonts#Gothic Unicode Fonts

• Graphics (see also Images)
  • Wikipedia:Graphics tutorials
  • Help:Displaying a formula – markup
  • Charts:
    • Commons:Commons:Create charts and graphs online
    • Wikipedia:How to create charts for Wikipedia articles
    • Wikipedia:Graphs and charts
    • Category:Bar chart templates
    • Category:Chart formatting templates
    • Create a Graph (U.S. government website)
  • Wikipedia:Graphics Lab (formerly "Graphic Lab")
  • Diagrams:
    • Greenspun Illustration Project:
      • Grant proposal (pdf)
      • m:Philip Greenspun illustration project
      • August 2008 announcement that Round 1 of the PGIP is open
      • Reflections on PGIP phase 1 (June 2009)
    • Wikipedia:How to draw a diagram with Dia
    • Wikipedia:How to draw a diagram with Inkscape
    • Wikipedia:Historical archive/How to draw a diagram with Microsoft Word
  • Other:
    • mw:Extension:GraphViz
• Greek: Wikipedia:Naming conventions (Greek) (guideline)
• Guestbooks: see User pages
• Guidelines: see Policies and guidelines

• Hardware: see Technical (hardware and software)
• Harassment (aka "Harassment"): see Personal attacks
• Harmony: Wikipedia:Harmonious editing club
• hCalendar microformat
  • Wikipedia:WikiProject Microformats
• hCard microformat
  • Wikipedia:WikiProject Microformats
• Headings (headers): see Article message boxes, Layout and sections
• Hebrew:
  • Help:Hebrew
  • Wikipedia:Naming conventions (Hebrew) (guideline)

• Help (directly requesting): (see also Questions)
  • Template:Help me – {{Help me}}
  • Category:Wikipedians looking for help
  • Template:Admin help
  • Category:Wikipedians looking for help from administrators
  • Wikipedia:Help desk (WP:HD)
  • Wikipedia:Highly Active Users (WP:HAU) – request editing help from users who are currently online

• Help pages: (for pages that are help-oriented for a specific topic, see that topic); see also Assistance (disputes), Learning, Questions
  • Help:Contents – top-level help page in the English Wikipedia
  • mw:Help:Contents – top-level help page at mediawiki.org (intended for use by anyone installing the MediaWiki software)
  • Help:Contents/Directory – help directory
  • Wikipedia:Help desk patrol
  • Wikipedia:Help Project
  • Template:Help navigation
  • Category:Wikipedia help projects
  • Frequently asked questions:
    • Wikipedia:FAQ – includes 13 "general" FAQs
    • Nubio – "a repository of Frequently Asked Questions about Wikipedia" (at the toolserver)
    • Wikipedia:Village pump (technical)/FAQ
  • Pages categorized as help-related:
    • Category:Wikipedia help
    • Category:Wikipedia basic information
    • Category:Wikipedia editor help
    • Category:Wikipedia FAQs
    • Category:Wikipedia how-to
    • Category:Wikipedia help forums
    • Category:Wikipedia help templates‎
  • Other:
    • Helpwiki – planned merger back into Wikipedia (February 2008)
• Hieroglyphs: Help:WikiHiero syntax

• History (of a page): (see also Page revisions)
  • Wikipedia:How to read an article history
  • Help:Page history
  • Wikipedia:Copyright violations on history pages
  • Wikipedia:WikiProject User scripts/Scripts/Six tabs – adds a history tab (and an edit tab) for the page that is paired with the page that is visible
  • Diffs:
    • Help:Diff
    • How-to guides:
      • Wikipedia:Simplest diff guide
      • Wikipedia:Simple diff and link guide
      • Wikipedia:Complete diff and link guide
    • Wikipedia:WikiProject User scripts/Scripts/Compare link – makes the "compare selected versions" button into a link (diffs can be in new windows, tabs, etc.)
    • Wikipedia:WikiProject User scripts/Scripts/Changes since I last edited – adds a tab that does a diff between the editor's last edit and the current version of a page
    • 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
  • Exporting: Special:Export
  • Deletions (hiding) of prior versions:
    • Wikipedia:Selective deletion – deletion by an admin; still visible to other admins
    • Oversight – hidden from admins as well
  • Tools:
    • For content:
      • User:Stevage/EnhanceHistory.user.js – Greasemonkey script. Collapses consecutive edits from the same person into one, integrates (shows) diffs on the history page
      • 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
        • Tools that use the database (not real time):
          • m:User:Jah/histfilter – Filters out reverted vandal edits, versions that don't affect a specific section, etc.
          • "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:
      • User:AmiDaniel/SHM – Simple History Merge – Windows application (requires administrator privileges)
      • History Flow Visualization Application
      • Wikipedia Animate – user script; shows the evolution of a page, like a webcast
      • MediaWiki:Histlegend – text that appears at the top of a history page

• Hoaxes:
  • Wikipedia:Do not create hoaxes (guideline)
  • Category:Suspected hoax articles
  • Wikipedia:List of hoaxes on Wikipedia – hoaxes that have been discovered and removed
• House of Representatives (edits by staffers): see Congressional staffer edits
• How-to: Category:Wikipedia how-to (see also Help pages)
• HTML:
  • Help:HTML in wikitext
  • Wikipedia:Tools#Importing – (converting) content from other formats to Wikipedia (MediaWiki) format – includes tools for converting HTML to the Wikipedia (wikitext) format
  • Help:Markup validation
• Humor:
  • Category:Wikipedia humor
  • "Humorous essays" are listed at Template:Wikipedia essays

• Images: (see also Censorship, Commons, Copyrights, Galleries, Graphics, Navigation)
  • General information:
    • Help:File page
    • Help:Files
    • Wikipedia:Contact us - Licensing – using, donating, or reporting copyright problems with images
    • Wikipedia:Image use policy
    • Wikipedia:Media
    • Wikipedia:No 3D illustrations (Manual of Style)
    • Wikipedia:Picture tutorial
    • Wikipedia:Ten things you may not know about images on Wikipedia
    • Wikipedia:WikiProject Images and Media
    • Category:Wikipedia image help
    • User:Smurrayinchester/Tutorial/Images
  • Needed pictures:
    • Wikipedia:Image placeholders – inserting a request for an image into an article
    • Wikipedia:Requested pictures
    • Wikipedia:Photo Matching Service
    • Category:Wikipedia requested photographs
      • Template:Image requested
      • User:PhotoCatBot does some subcategorization
  • Resources (where to get images) (see also Commons)
    • Wikipedia:Finding images tutorial
    • Wikipedia:Public domain image resources
    • Wikipedia:Free image resources
    • Wikipedia:Wikipedians/Photographers
    • Wikipedia:Photo Matching Service
    • Free Image Search Tool (at the toolserver)
  • Before uploading:
    • Wikipedia:Preparing images for upload
    • Wikipedia:How to improve image quality
    • Wikipedia:How to reduce colors for saving a JPEG as PNG
    • Wikipedia:Basic bitmap image editing
  • Uploading: (see also Commons, which is the preferred place to upload images to)
    • Wikipedia:File Upload Wizard
    • Wikipedia:Uploading images
    • MediaWiki:Uploadtext – warns about the need to specify the source of an upload, and copyright information
    • Wikipedia:Upload/Replace this image/People – uploading an image you created or own (not restricted to people)
    • Wikipedia:File names (naming convention)
    • Wikipedia:File copyright tags
    • Special:Upload
    • Wikipedia:Files for upload – allows unregistered editors to add images to Wikipedia with the assistance of experienced editors
    • Choosing a License – explanations of what the various Creative Commons options are
  • Displaying on a page:
    • Wikipedia:Manual of Style#Images
    • Wikipedia:Extended image syntax – options for displaying an image (size, right/left, etc.)
    • Template:Clear – Often used to stop text from flowing next to unrelated images
    • mw:Multimedia/About Media Viewer – displays images in larger size and with less clutter; in beta as of November 2013
    • Cropping:
      • Template:CSS image crop – previewing (but not actually cropping)
      • Commons:User:Cropbot – creating a cropped image
      • Template:Annotated image 1 and Annotated image 4 – cropping an image for display purposes (file at Commons is not affected)
    • Accessibility issues:
      • Wikipedia:Alternative text for images (Manual of Style)
      • Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Accessibility#Images
    • Captions:
      • Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Captions
      • Template:Plain image with caption – adding a caption to an image without also adding a border to that image
      • Wikipedia:WikiProject Writing Captions (inactive)
    • Wikipedia:How to fix bunched-up edit links – if section edit links are being pushed down by floated images
    • Help:File page
    • Wikipedia:Perennial proposals#Add in-article credit for images
  • Featured and valued:
    • Wikipedia:Featured pictures
    • Wikipedia:Featured picture criteria
    • Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates
    • Wikipedia:Valued pictures
  • Improving images:
    • Wikipedia:Graphics Lab (to request assistance)
    • commons:Commons:Media restoration
    • "Dispatches: Vintage image restoration" (Signpost, March 2008)
    • commons:User:Durova/Encyclopedic image restoration
  • Problem images on Wikipedia: (other than Copyrights)
    • Deletion:
      • Wikipedia:Image use policy#Deleting images
      • Wikipedia:Guide to image deletion
      • Wikipedia:Arguments to avoid in image deletion discussions
      • Wikipedia:Files for discussion
    • Orphans:
      • Category:Orphaned non-free use Wikipedia files
      • Special:Unusedimages
      • Young Orphans – tool to find newly uploaded orphaned images (at the toolserver) (not functioning as of mid-October 2007)
    • Special:FileDuplicateSearch – search function for duplicate files in imagespace (duplicate images) (uses hash values)
    • Wikipedia:File namespace noticeboard – requests for assistance involving the File namespace, for multiple files or other larger issues
    • Automation:
      • Bots:
        • 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
        • User:Erwin85Bot – removes Template:Di-orphaned fair use from pages that are not orphans
        • User:ImageBacklogBot – removes fair use images from outside of article space, removes tags from non-orphaned images
        • User:John Bot II – tags images that lack adequate copyright information
        • User:FairuseBot – does tagging of problematic fairuse images
      • Other:
        • Annotations:
          • Template:Annotated image and Template:Annotated image 4 – allows users to add annotated wikitext on any image used in wikipedia articles or project namespaces.
          • commons:Commons:Image annotations (Commons guideline)
          • commons:Help:Gadget-ImageAnnotator – allows users to place comments onto images shown on file description pages at Commons
        • User:Howcheng/quickimgdelete.js – makes it easier to tag images and nominate images for deletion
        • 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
  • WikiProjects:
    • Wikipedia:WikiProject Photography
    • Wikipedia:WikiProject Images and Media
  • Other: (see also Commons regarding moving images from Wikipedia to Commons)
    • Wikipedia:Template messages/File namespace
    • Special:Newimages ("Gallery of new files") – images that have just been added to Wikipedia
    • Special:ListFiles – most recently uploaded files
    • 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
    • TranslateSvg

• Importing: (see also Tables)
  • Wikipedia:How to import articles
  • Microsoft Word documents:
    • Help:WordToWiki
    • m:Word Macros
  • Porting PDF files to MediaWiki (from Appropedia.org)
  • 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")
• Inclusion: Wikipedia:Inclusion is not an indicator of notability (essay)

• Indexes: (see also Directories)
  • Of any namespace in Wikipedia:
    • Special:Allpages – select a starting point for browsing
  • Of articles only:
    • Portal:Contents/A–Z index – click on a one-or-two character starting point to browse articles (formerly called "Quick index")
    • Portal:Contents/Categories
  • Other:
    • m:Help-style indexing – uses keywords (historical)
    • Wikipedia:Index (disambiguation)
    • Wikipedia:WikiProject Indexes

• Indian subcontinent:
  • Wikipedia:Naming conventions (Indic) (proposal as of August 2011)
  • Help:Multilingual support (Indic)
  • Wikipedia:Bangla script display help
  • Wikipedia:Kannada support
  • Portal:Bangladesh
  • Portal:India
  • Portal:Pakistan
  • Portal:Sri Lanka
• Indymedia: Wikipedia:Guide for Indymedia authors

• Infoboxes: (templates):
  • Help:Infobox
  • Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Infoboxes
  • Help:Infobox picture
  • Help:Designing infoboxes
  • Wikipedia:Disinfoboxes – the case for *not* including an infobox in an article
  • Category:Infobox templates
  • Wikipedia:How to read a color infobox
  • Wikipedia:WikiProject Infoboxes
  • Wikipedia:Thinking outside the infobox (essay)
  • Specialized:
    • Wikipedia:Chemical infobox
    • Taxonomy:
      • Template:Taxobox/doc
      • Wikipedia:How to read a taxobox
  • Problems:
    • Category:Biography articles without infoboxes
    • Category:Wikipedia articles with an infobox request
    • Category:Wikipedia infobox cleanup
  • Other:
    • Wikipedia:WikiProject Accessibility/Infoboxes
    • User:Helpful Pixie Bot – puts birth dates and death dates into standard formats inside infoboxes
    • Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/2013-07-10/Dispatches – Signpost opinion piece that infoboxes often have excessive detail
• Inserting text from one page into another page – see Transclusion
• Instruction creep: see Policies and guidelines
• Instructional material: see Learning

• Interlanguage links: (see also Interwiki links, Translations)
  • Help:Interlanguage links
  • User:Equazcion/SidebarTranslate – translates interlanguage links into English
  • Wikidata: (sister project)
    • Wikipedia:Wikidata
    • meta:Wikidata
    • d:Wikidata:Main Page
    • d:Help:FAQ
    • d:Wikidata:Introduction
    • Help:
      • d:Wikidata:Project chat
      • #wikimedia-wikidata ^connect – IRC chat room
    • Tools:
      • d:Wikidata:Tools
      • Autolist – query tool
      • 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)
    • Category:Wikidata
    • m:A newer look at the interlanguage link – essay about establishing a wiki as a hub for interwiki links
  • Other:
    • Wikipedia:WikiProject Interlanguage Links (defunct)

• Internet Relay Chat (IRC):
  • Wikipedia:IRC
  • Wikipedia:IRC/Tutorial
  • m:IRC/Channels
  • m:IRC Group Contacts – liaisons between Wikimedia and the staff of the Libera Chat IRC network
  • m:IRC guidelines/wikipedia
  • Wikipedia:Scripts#IRC channel scripts
  • m:IRC channel cloaks
  • Wikipedia IRC help channel – a login page (at the toolserver)
  • Wikipedia:List of administrators/IRC nicknames
  • Wikipedia:IRC/Personal views regarding IRC – regarding use of the admin IRC channel
  • Essays:
    • User:Geogre/IRC considered (essay)
    • Category:User essays on IRC

• Interwiki links: (see also Interlanguage links, Transwiki)
  • Wikipedia:Wikimedia sister projects (Manual of Style) – templates for links
  • Help:Interwiki linking
  • Help:Interwikimedia links
  • m:Interwiki map (links to non-WMF wikis)
  • Wikipedia:Linking to other wikis (proposal, February 2008)
  • Help:Custom namespaces – prefixes (like m:) that normally resolve into an interwiki
  • Bots to fix problems:
    • User:COBot
    • User:JL-Bot
• IP lookup: see Vandalism

• Ireland:
  • Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Ireland-related articles
  • Help:IPA/Irish
  • Portal:Ireland
• ISBN see Books
• Islam: Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Islam-related articles

• Japan/Japanese:
  • Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Japan-related articles
  • Help:Japanese
  • Help:Japanese/Editing
  • Portal:Japan
  • Help:Multilingual support (East Asian)

• Keyboard shortcuts: Wikipedia:Keyboard shortcuts

• Keywords:
  • m:Help-style indexing
  • Wikipedia:WikiProject Keywords
  • Wikipedia:Link intersection

• Korea:
  • Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Korea-related articles
  • Wikipedia:Naming conventions (Korean)
  • Portal:Korea
  • Help:Multilingual support (East Asian)

• Languages: see also Wikipedia:Naming conventions (languages), individual countries/languages, Translations
  • mw:Universal Language Selector – MediaWiki extension that allows users to change (display) language settings and configurations, including fonts
  • mw:Universal Language Selector/FAQ

• Latter Day Saints (Mormons):
  • Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Latter Day Saints
  • Wikipedia:Naming conventions (Latter Day Saints)

• LaTex:
  • mw:Extension:WikiTeX (WikiTeX is a modular system for incorporating LaTeX objects with MediaWiki output)
  • m:Wikitex usability review

• Layout and sections: (see also Table of contents) (for changing the layout of elements common to all Wikipedia pages, see Customization)
  • Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Layout
  • Help:Section
  • Wikipedia:Manual of Style#Article titles, headings, and sections
  • Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Accessibility
  • Wikipedia:How to fix bunched-up edit links
  • Wikipedia:Perennial proposals#Changes to standard appendices – Varying the names and sequence of sections at the end of articles
  • Lead section (aka "Top section", "First section", "Lead paragraph")
    • Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Lead section
    • Wikipedia:Writing better articles#Lead section
    • Wikipedia:WikiProject Introductions
    • Wikipedia:WikiProject Lead section cleanup
    • Wikipedia:WikiProject User scripts/Scripts#Navigating to Edit page – several user scripts which make it possible to edit the lead section (section "0") without editing the entire article
  • Summary style (when articles or sections get too long) – see Article size
  • Wikipedia:Be bold#Graphical layout changes (guideline) – does not apply to articles, portals, or most other pages
  • User:Anchor Link Bot – automatically adds a comment to section headers that are linked to from other articles

• Lead section: see Layout and sections

• Learning: (see also Help, New editors, Questions)
  • Wikipedia:Learning the ropes
  • Wikipedia:Plain and simple
  • Help:Getting started
  • Category:Wikipedia quick introductions
  • Category:Wikipedia editor help
  • Training
    • Wikipedia:Training/For students
    • Wikipedia:Training/For educators
    • Wikipedia:Training/For Ambassadors
  • Tutorials:
    • Wikipedia:Tutorial
    • mw:Extension:GuidedTour – provides a framework for creating "guided tours" (interactive tutorials)
    • Wikipedia:Tutorial Drive
    • Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/Series/Tutorial (2008)
  • Coaching:
    • Wikipedia:Coaching
    • Wikipedia:Adopt-a-user (WP:ADOPT)
    • Wikipedia:Editor review (WP:ER)
    • Wikipedia:Admin coaching (WP:ADCO)
  • Classes:
    • User:Foxj/Virtual classroom
    • User:Brusselsshrek/Wiki School – dormant
  • Other:
    • Wikipedia:Instructional material
    • Wikipedia:Lectures
    • Wikipedia:The newcomer's manual (very incomplete)
    • Books:
      • Formally published:
        • Wikipedia: The Missing Manual (January 2008) ISBN 978-0596515164 (online: WP:TMM)
        • How Wikipedia Works (September 2008) ISBN 978-1593271763 (online pdf)
        • MediaWiki Administrators' Tutorial Guide: Install, manage, and customize your MediaWiki installation (March 2007) ISBN 978-1904811596
      • Wikibooks:
        • b:MediaWiki User Guide
        • b:MediaWiki Administrator's Handbook
    • m:Wikipedia Trainers – program started in June 2008 by the Wikimedia Foundation

• Legal: (see also Copyrights, Disclaimers, Privacy)
  • Threats:
    • Wikipedia:No legal threats (WP:NLT) (policy) – among other things, an editor who makes a legal threat is to refrain from further editing
    • Wikipedia:Don't overlook legal threats (essay)
  • Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Legal
  • Wikipedia:Perennial proposals#Legal issues
  • Wikipedia:List of policies#Legal and copyright: law-based rules about what material may be used in Wikipedia, and remedies for misuse
  • 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
  • Wikipedia:Logos (guideline)
  • Wikipedia:Image use policy
  • Wikipedia:Libel (WP:LIBEL) (policy)
  • meta:Wikilegal
• Links: see Sources (for external links), Wikilinks (for links between wiki articles)

• Lists:
  • Wikipedia:WikiProject Lists
  • Wikipedia:Template messages/Lists
  • Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Accessibility#Lists
  • Wikipedia:WikiProject Lists of topics (inactive)
  • Lists as part of an article:
    • Help:List
    • Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Embedded lists
    • Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Lists of works
    • Wikipedia:Pro and con lists (guideline)
    • Wikipedia:Language order poll
  • Lists that are the sole content of article:
    • Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Lists
    • Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Stand-alone lists
    • Wikipedia:Naming conventions (long lists) (guideline)
    • Wikipedia:Categories, lists, and navigation templates (WP:CLN) (guideline) – comparing alternative approaches
    • Featured lists:
      • Wikipedia:Featured lists
      • Wikipedia:List of Wikipedians by featured list nominations
      • User:Rick Bot – bot that maintains the list of nominators
    • Wikipedia:Requested lists
    • Wikipedia:Move navigational lists to portal namespace (failed proposal)
    • Wikipedia:Lists in Wikipedia (essay)
    • Special:Prefixindex/List of – reportedly about 50,000 articles (lists)
    • Scrolling lists (not allowed in the body of articles):
      • Wikipedia:Manual of Style#Scrolling lists and collapsible content
      • Help:Scrolling list
      • Template:Scroll box
    • Problems:
      • Wikipedia:WikiProject Lists#Incomplete lists
      • Wikipedia:Listcruft (essay)
      • Wikipedia:Victim lists (essay)
  • Putting a list into columns (*not* using a table)
    • Help:Columns
    • Template:Columns-list
  • Other:
    • Template:Plainlist – Used to create a plain (unbulleted) list
    • Wikipedia:WikiProject Laundromat – to reduce the number of "laundry lists" in articles
    • Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Common outcomes#Lists

• Lithuania:
  • Wikipedia:Simplified phonetic transcription for Lithuanian
  • Wikipedia:Translations of Lithuanian administrative divisions
  • Portal:Lithuania
• Living people: see Biographies

• Logging in: (see also User account and username)
  • Help:Logging in
  • 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)
  • Using a non-Wikipedia account and password:
    • In general: mw:Auth systems
    • mw:Extension:Facebook – not actively maintained
    • OAuth 1.0a:
      • mw:Auth systems/OAuth – work in 2013
      • mw:Extension:OAuth – beta
      • mw:Auth systems/OAuth/Design – "abandoned in favor of a different permissions model"
    • OpenID:
      • mw:Extension:OpenID
      • mw:Extension:GoogleLogin (OpenID 2.0, which is no longer supported by Google)
    • mw:Extension:Persona – Mozilla Persona (status of extension: "Experimental")

• Logos:
  • Within articles:
    • Wikipedia:Logos (guideline)
    • Template:Non-free use rationale logo – a template to help editors write fair use rationales ("furs") for non-free logos
  • Wikipedia's logo:
    • Wikipedia:Wikipedia logos
    • Wikipedia:FAQ/Miscellaneous#Can you tell me anything about the Wikipedia logo?
    • m:Errors in the Wikipedia logo
• Lyrics: Wikipedia:Lyrics and poetry (guideline)

• Magic:
  • Magic words: (parser functions, variables, and behavior switches)
    • mw:Help:Extension:ParserFunctions
    • mw:Markup spec/BNF/Magic links
    • Help:Expansion
    • QIF: Wikipedia:Conditional tables
      • Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Template:Qif (May 2006)
• Mailing lists: (see also News (about Wikipedia))
  • Wikimedia Mail Stats: Index – statistics on all Wikimedia Foundation mailing lists

• Main page: (see also Protection of pages)
  • Main Page
  • Wikipedia:Editing the main page (only admins can edit)
  • Wikipedia:Main Page/Errors
  • Wikipedia:Main Page history
  • Wikipedia:Main Page alternatives – customizing how the main page appears to you
  • Category:Main Page alternatives
  • Wikipedia:FAQ/Main Page
  • Sections:
    • Featured Article:
      • Wikipedia:Today's featured article
      • Dispatches: Main page day – Signpost article about when what editors should expect when/if their Featured Article is on the Main Page
      • Daily-article-l mailing list subscription page – get an extract of the Main Page article via email
      • Wikipedia:Featured articles that haven't been on the Main Page
      • "Dispatches: Choosing Today's Featured Article", Signpost, August 2008
      • Wikipedia:Perennial proposals#Protecting Today's Featured Article on the main page
      • Wikipedia:Main page featured article stability (inactive/historical)
    • News:
      • Wikipedia:In the news (ITN) (section on the Main Page)
      • Wikipedia:In the news/Candidates
      • Wikipedia:In the news/Recurring items (guideline)
      • Template:In the news
      • "Dispatches: In the news" (Signpost article, January 2009)
    • "Did you know" (DYK):
      • Wikipedia:Did you know
      • User talk:Dark jedi requiem/DYK tutorial
      • RSS feed
      • Category:Wikipedia Did you know
      • Wikipedia:Recent additions – old postings to the section
      • Category:Wikipedia Did you know contributors
  • Other:
    • Wikipedia:2008 main page redesign proposal
    • Wikipedia:Requests for comment/Main Page features

• Maintenance: (see also Article message boxes, Collaborations, Quality of articles, Spelling)
  • General:
    • Wikipedia:Maintenance
    • Wikipedia:WikiProject Check Wikipedia
    • Wikipedia:Cleanup
    • Wikipedia:Cleanup resources (WP:CR)
    • Wikipedia:WikiGnome
  • Specific articles with problems:
    • Category:Wikipedia maintenance
    • Category:Wikipedia backlog
    • Wikipedia:Pages needing attention – sorted by topic
    • Category:Cleanup by month
    • Wikipedia:Community portal/Opentask – pages that need wikification, cleanup, expansion (of stubs), verification, updates, etc.
    • Template:Multiple issues – includes a listing of all types of templates that can be used to note issues with articles
    • User:Topbanana/Reports – old reports; useful for ideas
  • Projects:
    • In general:
      • Wikipedia:WikiProject Council/Directory/Wikipedia (page showing active and inactive projects involving maintenance)
      • Template:Active Wiki Fixup Projects
      • Wikipedia:Patrols
    • Cross-cutting maintenance projects not listed elsewhere in this index:
      • Wikipedia:Cleanup Taskforce
      • Wikipedia:WikiProject Guild of Copy Editors
      • Wikipedia:WikiProject Wiki Syntax
      • Wikipedia:WikiProject Wikify
      • Wikipedia:Elements of Style improvement project
      • Wikipedia:WikiProject Fix common mistakes
  • Other:
    • {{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 been deprecated and should no longer be used.]
    • Articles that may need updating:
      • Wikipedia:Dusty articles – 100 articles with the longest elapsed time since the last edit
      • Wikipedia:Database reports/Forgotten articles – up to 1000 articles that have not been edited in the past three years
      • Special:AncientPages – automated report on "dormant pages"; currently disabled
      • Wikipedia:WikiProject Abandoned Articles (semi-active)
      • Wikipedia:Neglected articles (inactive/historical)

• Manual of Style:
  • Wikipedia:Manual of Style
  • Special:Prefixindex/MOS: – lists all redirects in the pseudo-namespace "MOS:"
  • Wikipedia:WikiProject Manual of Style
  • Wikipedia:Styletips – advice to editors on writing style and formatting, in bite-size chunks

• Maps: (see also Geocoding)
  • m:Maps
  • m:Wikimaps
  • Wikipedia:Blank maps – maps that can be colored and labeled in different languages
  • Wikipedia:WikiProject Maps
  • Wikipedia:WikiProject Maps/Source materials
  • Wikipedia:Graphics Lab/Map workshop
  • Commons:Commons:Project Mapmaking Wiki Standards
  • Commons:Commons:Map resources
  • mw:Extension:Maps
  • Wikipedia:Producing maps with xplanet
  • OpenStreetMap:
    • Wikipedia:WikiProject OpenStreetMap
    • "Collaboration with Wikipedia" at openstreetmap.org
    • "Key:wikipedia" at openstreetmap.org
    • [tools:~kolossos/openlayers/kml-on-ol.php?lat=51.52214&lon=-0.06012&zoom=10&lang=en Wikipedia on OpenStreetMap] (at the toolserver)
  • Templates for maps:
    • Category:Graphic templates (most individual pages in this category are map-related)
    • Category:Dynamic map templates
    • Category:Mapping templates
    • Category:Geography templates
  • Category:Wikipedia requested maps
  • 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)
• Markup: see Formatting of text

• Mathematics: (see also Numbers)
  • Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Mathematics
  • Wikipedia:WikiProject Mathematics
  • Help:Calculation – simple mathematical calculations
  • Wikipedia:Make technical articles understandable (guideline)
  • mw:Extension:ASCIIMath4Wiki – tag that outputs math expressions written in ASCIIMath as MathML
  • mw:Extension:Blahtex – a LaTeX to MathML converter
  • Blahtex – a free software tool/library that translates TeX markup into MathML markup
  • Template:Frac (for fractions)
  • Wikipedia:Evaluating how interesting an integer's mathematical property is (essay)
  • Portal:Mathematics
  • Displaying math formulas:
    • Help:Displaying a formula
    • Wikipedia:«math»
    • mw:VisualEditor/Beta Features/Formulae
• Measurements: see Units of measurement
• Meatpuppetry (meat puppets): (see also Sock puppets)
  • Sockpuppet (Internet)#Meatpuppetry (WP:MEAT)
  • Wikipedia:Tag team (essay)