Welcome to the Village Pump. This set of pages is used to discuss the technical issues, policies, and operations of Wikipedia, and is divided into four village pump sections. Please use the table below to find the most appropriate section to post in, or post in the miscellaneous section. You can view all village pump sections at once here. Please sign and date your post (by typing ~~~~ or clicking the signature icon in the edit toolbar).	Shortcuts: WP:VP WP:PUMP WP:VILLAGE WP:VILLAGEPUMP	It can only be speculated that, like the modern office water cooler, the village pump must have been a gathering place to discuss ideas for the improvement of the locale in which its members dwelled.
Village pump sections Policy post | watch | search To discuss existing and proposed policies Technical post | watch | search To discuss technical issues. For wiki software bug reports, use MediaZilla Proposals [persistent] post | watch | search To discuss new proposals that are not policy related. See also: perennial proposals, issues, areas for reform. Miscellaneous post | watch | search To post messages that do not fit into any other category I want... Where to go To browse all village pump topics at once Village pump (all) To search all village pump section archives, Oct 2007 - present Search Help using Wikipedia Help desk To find my way around Wikipedia Department directory Specific facts (e.g. Who was the first pope?) Reference desk Constructive criticisms from others for a specific article Peer review Help resolving a specific article edit dispute or making a user conduct dispute complaint  Requests for comment To comment on a specific article Article's talk page To view other Wikimedia projects Wikimedia Meta-wiki To learn about citing Wikipedia in a bibliography Citing Wikipedia To report sites that copy Wikipedia content Mirrors and forks To ask questions or make comments Questions To discuss MediaWiki interface messages MediaWiki messages

Archiving

Discussions older than seven days (the date of last made comment) are moved to a subpage of each section (called section name/Archive n). These discussions can then be moved to a relevant talk page if appropriate. To view these archives and the history before September 26, 2004, see Wikipedia:Village pump archive.

See also

• Community bulletin board