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or use Ctrl+F to search the page - Access (limiting): (see also Enforcement)
- Blocks by governments:
- Tor:
- Preventing abuses via open proxies:
- Administrators: (see also Enforcement)
- General information:
- Contacting an administrator: (see also specific topics such as Vandalism)
- Current administrators:
- Becoming an administrator:
- Non-bureaucrat closing of an RfA: User:Enigmaman/SNOW (but first ask the candidate to withdraw)
- Results of RfAs:
- After becoming an administrator:
- Other:
- Adoption: Wikipedia:Adopt-a-User
- Article message boxes (amboxes):
- Bias:
- Bible reference template: {{bibleref}} – can give the reader a wide variety of choices in choosing a translation
- Bureaucrats – folks who handle special, higher-level administrative tasks
- Categories:
- General information:
- Listings of categories:
- Possible problems with categories:
- Articles without categories:
- Intersection of two 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:SmackBot – adds DEFAULTSORT to people-related article stubs
- Keeping templates from creating categories when they shouldn't:
- Bots:
- Hidden categories:
- Other:
- Companies and organizations:
- Competitors, forks, and mirrors:
- Conflicts of interest: (see also Biographies)
- Congress: edits by Congressional staffers:
- Copyright: (see also Legal)
- In general:
- Fair use, non-free use, and public domain:
- Avoiding problems:
- Problems:
- Using Wikipedia content:
- Deletion of articles: (see also Deletion)
- Policies, general criteria, and examples: (see also Notability)
- Alternatives to deletion:
- Types of deletion:
- Blanking a page: see Wikipedia:No page blanks (guideline) (for articles)
- Speedy deletion:
- Prod:
- Formal deletion process (AfD discussions):
- After an article is deleted:
- Proposals that the contents of deleted articles should still be accessible:
- Other:
- Deletionist: see m:Deletionism
- Diagrams: see Graphics
- Edit conflicts:
- Help:Edit conflict – when two editors simultaneously edit the same page or section
- Using an edit lock to prevent edit conflict:
- bugzilla:4745 – Bug #4745 – section edit conflict expands edit box to entire article – proposal to change MediaWiki software behavior when edit conflict involves only a section of a page
- Email:
- Embedded citations: see Sources
- FAQs – see Help pages, or specific topics in this index
- Fiction: (see also Films)
- Flags: (as content, not database fields)
- Footnotes: see Sources
- Form (as input): Help:Inputbox (a MediaWiki extension to add predefined HTML forms to wiki pages)
- Geocoding (graphic coordinates and mapping): (see also Maps)
- Help (directly requesting): (see also Questions)
- Images: (see also Censorship, Commons, Copyrights, Galleries, Graphics, Navigation)
- General information:
- Needed pictures:
- Resources (where to get images) (see also Commons):
- Before uploading:
- Uploading: (see also Commons)
- Displaying on a page:
- Featured and valued:
- Improving images:
- Problem images on Wikipedia: (other than Copyrights)
- Deletion:
- Orphans:
- Special:FileDuplicateSearch – search function for duplicate files in imagespace (duplicate images) (uses hash values)
- Automation:
- WikiProjects:
- Other: (see also Commons regarding moving images from Wikipedia to Commons)
- Indexes: (see also Directories)
- Of any namespace in Wikipedia:
- Of articles only:
- Of project (information/instructional) pages (other than this index itself):
- Other:
- Internet Relay Chat (IRC):
- Latter Day Saints (Mormons):
- Maintenance: (see also Quality of articles, Spelling)
- General:
- Problems:
- Projects:
- In general:
- Cross-cutting maintenance projects not listed elsewhere in this index:
- Other:
- MediaWiki: (see also specific topics pertaining to the software)
- Messageboxes:
- Via MediaWiki:
- Via templates:
- Miscellany for deletion: Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion – for deleting any page which is not covered by another deletion process (AfD, CfD, TfD, etc.)
- Missing articles:
- Mobile access:
- "iPhone Gems: Wikipedia Apps" – review of 16 apps for the iPhone or iPod touch (November 2008)
- Real-time version of Wikipedia:
- Downloaded version of Wikipedia:
- Other:
- GeoPedia – provides iPhone owners with a Wikipedia feed customized to their current location
- "Kiwi" client – for iPhone and iPod
- Moderator: see Administrator
- Monitoring changes: (see also Recent changes)
- Watchlist
- RSS (page-by-page specification):
- Other:
- Motto:
- Movies: see Films
- Navigation: (see also Lists) (for changing navigation by changing the location of links on the standard Wikipedia page, see Customization)
- Anchors: (between pages or within a page)
- Between pages:
- Personalized navigation:
- Needed articles: see Missing articles, Translations
- News (about Wikipedia): (for news not about Wikipedia, see Current events)
- Not:
- Wikipedia:What Wikipedia is not (WP:NOT) (policy) – it's not a paper encyclopedia, a dictionary, a publisher of original thought, a soapbox, a mirror or a repository of links, images, or media, a blog, webspace provider, or social networking site, a directory, an indiscriminate collection of information, a crystal ball, censored, a battleground, an anarchy, a democracy, a bureaucracy
- Wikipedia:Victim Lists (essay)
- Wikis and similar sites which do allow various types of content that Wikipedia does not:
- Notability: (see also specific subject areas)
- Notes (in articles):
- For footnotes in a "Notes" section, see Sources
- Content notes (a separate section with notes about contents of an article):
- Noticeboards:
- NPOV: see Neutral point of view
- Page revisions: (see also Counts)
- Policies and guidelines (see also Process)
- Existing:
- Misuses:
- Changing (in general):
- Discussions on proposed or changed or questioned policies and guidelines:
- Old discussions:
- Other:
- Polls: see Consensus and voting
- Privacy:
- For subjects of articles: see Biographies
- For editors and readers:
- Quickbar: (the set of links on the left side of the page, often called "sidebar")
- Red links: (aka "redlinks")
- Resources (except image-specific or sound-specific resources, for which see Images, Media): (for how to do a citation, see Sources)
- Sandbox: a place to practice without hurting anything
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