User:SP-KP/Wikipedia Topics

For beginners

• "Welcome newcomers"
  page
• Finding your way around - the
  What links here
  facility
• Pictures
  )
• User accounts:
  logging in
• Some basic info about some other Wikipedia features:
  categories
• The
  glossary for beginners
• Wikipedia's basic information category page
• The Wikipedia
  simplified ruleset
• First steps and second steps
• A page about the Wikipedia
  sandbox, and the sandbox
  itself

• A Wikipedia article about
  Encyclopaedias (and one about Almanacs), one about Collaborative writing, one about Wikis and one specifically about Wikipedia
  .
• Who writes Wikipedia and a discussion of Wikipedian psychology
• GNU Free Documentation Licence (the text of which is here
  )
• The Wikipedia General disclaimer
• What is an article?
• Why Wikipedia is so great, Why Wikipedia is not so great, a Wikipedia article about Criticism of Wikipedia and replies to common objections
• How to write a great article and The perfect article
• Uncyclopedia

Policies and Guidelines

An introduction is at this page: policies and guidelines and all relevant material is in the category Wikipedia policies and guidelines

Policies:

• What Wikipedia is not and Wikipedia is not a dictionary
• Neutral Point of View (see also the NPOV tutorial)
• Civility, and policies on personal attacks and legal threats
• Editing policy
• Wikipedia's "No original research" policy, and policy on verifiability
• three-revert rule
• Naming conventions (see also Naming conventions for animals and Tree of Life project page
  )
• Image use and logos
• Undeletion
• Arbitration policy
• sock puppets
• Account deletion
• Wikipedia's Privacy policy

Guidelines on

wikiquette

The Wikipedia

controversial articles

Or you could Ignore all rules

Comprehensive Reference Resources

• the full set of Frequently Asked Questions pages
• the full Wikipedia glossary
• the help directory and help category
• the contacts us listings
• the Style and How-to Directory
• the
  Topical index
• the Help desk

Categorisation, lists and series

• A proposal regarding
  Categories, lists, and series boxes
• Categories: the
  FAQ, alphabetical category listing and the fundamental categories
  page
• An article on
  incomplete lists
• Articles on article series and incumbent series
• The Lists that should be categories category

How to...

• Cleanup templates
• Wikipedia:How to log in
• Wikipedia:How to rename (move) a page
• Navigational templates
• Reverting a page to an earlier version
• Tables
• Wikipedia:Template messages
• Upload files

Graphical content

• Wikipedia:Picture tutorial
• Wikipedia:Extended image syntax
• Wikipedia:Uploading images
• Wikipedia:Image use policy
• Wikipedia:Image description page
• Wikipedia:Image copyright tags
• m:Help:Images and other uploaded files
• Wikipedia:Graphics tutorials
• Wikipedia:How to create graphs for Wikipedia articles

Miscellaneous A-Z

• Admin
• Avoiding common mistakes
• Barnstars
• Categories
• Deletion:
  Votes for undeletion
• Wikipedia:Edit war
• Headings
• New pages
• List of protected pages
• Requested articles
• Wikipedia skins
• Spoken Wikipedia
• Staying cool when the editing gets hot
• Titles
• Vandalism in progress and administrator intervention against vandalism
• Writers' rules of engagement

• Wikipedia:Bootcamp, Wikipedia:Wikipedians, and stuff about Wikiportals

• Wikipedia:Cite sources, Wikipedia:WikiProject

• Wikipedia:User page, Wikipedia:Project namespace

• Wikipedia:How to use tables is a tutorial on the use of tables
  .
• Help:Formula
  is a list of the markup symbols we use.

• Wikipedia:How to edit a page
  gives lots of information on things like formatting, character sets, and variables.
• Wikipedia:How to start a page
• Wikipedia:Manual of Style
• Wikipedia:Annotated article

• Wikipedia:Community Portal
  provides links to community resources—this page is always available in the navigation sidebar.

• Wikipedia:Utilities
  — a bigger directory of project pages than the community portal.
• Wikipedia:Topical index
  — if you want a really complete index.

• MediaWiki User's Guide — a user's guide for the MediaWiki software that Wikipedia runs on.
• Wikipedia:Article size

Pronunciation, Peer review

• Wikipedia:How to archive a talk page, Wikipedia:Refactoring talk pages, Wikipedia:Wikipedians, Wikipedia:What Wikipedia is not, Wikipedia:Emailing users, Wikipedia:Maintenance
  ,

encouraging others to get involved

m:Don't be a dick m:Polls are evil m:Instruction creep

Wikipedia:Wikipedia as an academic source Wikipedia:Citing Wikipedia Wikipedia:WikiProject Wikipedians against censorship User:R. fiend/How many articles does Wikipedia really have? Wikipedia:Unusual articles

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