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This is a subpage of user Al83tito. Here I am drafting a personal summary of different aspects of Wikipedia. This is not an official policy page, but rather a user essay. Furthermore I am working on it slowly, so it will be incomplete (and possibly inaccurate) for a long time.
Wikipedia is an encyclopedia created in 2001. It nested in a parent organization called the Wikimedia Foundation. Wikipedia's existence can be explained by the existence of four main components: the encyclopedic articles (the visible output and its raison d'etre); the technological and legal "infrastructure" that makes it possible; the set of policies that govern it; and the user community that contributes to it.
Normative structure. Project structure.
Wikipedia is a multilingual, web-based, free encyclopedia that is based on a model of openly editable content. It is owned and supported by the Wikimedia Foundation, a US-based non-profit organization. Wikipedia was launched on January 15, 2001 by Jimmy Wales and Larry Sanger, as an off-shoot of Nupedia. As of 2018, Wikipedia is composed of 290 Wikipedia encyclopedias, and it comprises more than 40 million articles in 301 different languages. That means that an article on the same subject (e.g: World War II) may be found in multiple languages. Each
Creative Commons license; Wikipedia:Text of Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License Each language wikipedia is its own Wiki (?)... Wiki software
Differences between Wikipedia, Wikimedia, MediaWiki, and wiki wikipedia vs wikia
User:JimmyBlackwing magazine archive
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Wikipedia:Counter-Vandalism Unit Wikipedia:Cleaning up vandalism
https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-sf
Wikipedia:Meetup
User:Guy Macon/One against many
Wikipedia:Perennial proposals
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Deletion (XfD) |
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Wikipedia:Wikimedia sister project
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History of Wikipedia
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Guidelines |
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Wikipedia:Teahouse/About Wikipedia:Core content policies
Policies have wide acceptance among editors and describe standards that all users should normally follow. All policy pages are in Wikipedia:List of policies and guidelines and Category:Wikipedia policies. For summaries of key policies, see also List of policies.
Wikipedia:List of policies Wikipedia:List of guidelines Wikipedia:Essays in a nutshell Wikipedia:Simplified ruleset
Help: Wikipedia: The Missing Manual
Wikipedia:Template messages/Cleanup
Deletionism and inclusionism in Wikipedia
Deletionpedia Wikipedia:Noticeboards
This is a good article. Follow the link for more information. Mzoli's
Wikipedia:Policies and guidelines
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Principles |
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In such situations editors may propose that a policy be demoted to a guideline, or that a policy or guideline be demoted to a supplement, informational page, essay or historical page. In certain cases, a policy or guideline may be superseded, in which case the old page is marked and retained for historical interest.
Wikipedia:Building Wikipedia membership/Sample solicitation
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Template:Wikipedia technical help
Wikipedia:Help desk, Wikipedia:Teahouse, Wikipedia:Reference desk
Wikipedia:Paid-contribution disclosure Wikipedia:Five pillars
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For a listing of current collaborations, tasks, and news, see the Community portal. For a listing of ongoing discussions and current requests, see the Dashboard. | |
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Wikipedia:The difference between policies, guidelines and essays
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About Wikipedia (?) | |
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Getting started (?) | |
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Get personal technical help at the Teahouse, help desk, village pump (technical), talk pages or IRC. | |
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Wikitext | |
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Media files: images, videos and sounds | |
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HTML and CSS | |
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For navboxes that link mostly to templates see the template navbox. See also WikiProject navigation and meetup categories. |
Wikipedia:Contact us Wikipedia:Requests for comment
WIKIMEDIA META https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/OTRS
Values Resolution:Wikimedia Foundation Guiding Principles
Template:WP:UBS Template:Orders, decorations, and medals of Wikipedia
Wikipedia:Notifications/Thanks Template:Wikipedia positive feed {{emplate:Noticeboard links}}
https://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Policies Strategy/Wikimedia movement/2017 WM FAQs Founding principles
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Templates and modules |
Files |
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Speedy deletion |
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https://www.tools.wmflabs.org/citationhunt/en?id=d44f15d9
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:Committed_identity
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:To-do_list
https://journalistsresource.org/media/website-linking-best-practices-media-online-publishers/
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Editor_Survey_2011/Profiles
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:The_Wikipedia_Adventure
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Community_Wishlist_Survey_2021
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_projects
Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:Getting_started
Review governance
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_movement_affiliates#chapters
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Community_Resources#Grantmaking_and_Evaluation
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:PrefixIndex?prefix=Guy+Macon&namespace=2
(some interesting perspectives in essays there)
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Top_25_Report
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:The_difference_between_policies,_guidelines_and_essays
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Association_of_Inclusionist_Wikipedians
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Project_namespace#How-to_and_information_pages
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:A_primer_for_newcomers
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Contents/Portals
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:List_of_Wikipedians_by_featured_article_nominations
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Personal_user_awards
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Flaming-wiki.jpg
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:List_of_Wikipedians_by_featured_article_nominations
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Mav https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Wehwalt
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Flaming-wiki.jpg
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Strategy/Wikimedia_movement/2018-20/Recommendations
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2022-06-26/News_from_the_WMF
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Dispute_resolution_requests
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Community_Insights
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:Interwiki_linking
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedians
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Notability_(local_interests)/failed
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Deletion_reform
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:The_perfect_article
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:PageTriage
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Reward_board
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:CheckUser
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2022-09-30/In_focus
Wikipedia:Reliable sources/Perennial sources
Wikipedia:Reliable_sources/Noticeboard
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deletion_of_articles_on_Wikipedia