User:dsprc
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Getting Help
[edit]- Meta:Support and Safety
- Suicide.org - List of international suicide hotlines.
- The Teahouse: helpful and friendly environment to ask your first basic questions about contributing to Wikipedia.
- Help:Cheatsheet: examples of basic formatting that are used most often when editing.
- Help: Wikipedia: The Missing Manual
- Expectations and norms of the Wikipedia community
- wmf:Policy:Universal Code of Conduct
- "Encyclopedia Frown". Auerbach, David (11 Dec. 2014). Slate.
- "Wikipedia Editors Call Out the Site's Abuse Problems". Reader, Ruth (18 May 2016). Mic.
- "Wikipedia Editor Says Site’s Toxic Community Has Him Contemplating Suicide". Koebler, Jason (17 May 2016). Vice.
- "Handful of 'highly toxic' Wikipedia editors cause 9% of abuse on the site". Annalee Newitz (10 February 2017). Ars Technica.
- "Wikipedia Isn’t Officially a Social Network. But the Harassment Can Get Ugly.". Julia Jacobs (8 April 2019). The New York Times.
- "Wikimedia is writing new policies to fight Wikipedia harassment". Adi Robertson (25 May 2020). The Verge.
- "I quit Twitter and discovered Wikipedia’s righteous, opinionated, utterly absorbing battles over The Truth". Shaun Cammack (8 July, 2022). The Boston Globe.
- "The Wikipedia elite who control the world's knowledge". Harry de Quetteville (28 April 2023). The Daily Telegraph.
- Wikipedia:Simplified ruleset
- Wikipedia:Help desk: for technical questions about using Wikipedia (how to edit, images, categories etc.)
- WP:Village pump: for questions about Wikipedia policies, guidelines or operations
- WP:Reference desk: for questions about subjects other than Wikipedia (including topics covered in the articles contained therein)
- WP:Administrators' noticeboard: to report a problem (vandalism, etc.)
- Question help: to find out more about where to ask questions or make comments on Wikipedia
- Help:Contents/Directory: all of the help pages. Everything.
- (except the Wikipedia:List of cabals because They™ don't want you to know! Bwahaha!) ;-D
- Or if you are looking for a department, but don't know what it is called, try the Wikipedia:Department directory.
- WP:Dispute resolution: resolve disputes or potential conflicts
- Wikipedia:Starting an article: guide and tips for creating new articles
- Sixty ways to help new editors - Wikimedia Blog (from discussion @ Wikimania 2014)
- Help:Using the Wayback Machine: to recover some lost, moved or deleted pages on the Web (helpful for dead links).
- Wikipedia:User page design center
Spam
[edit]- News and notes: Union process progresses, unanswered questions about Littler Mendelson remain
And Raju Narisetti leaves WMF board after nine years.
- In the media: Wikipedia editors save Sam Altman's life
Can AI do that? Meanwhile, Ruwiki gives porn the shaft, and has Grokipedia ghosted?
- Recent research: Women in blue? Wikipedia's gender gap reverses in some areas
And other new research findings.
- Discussion report: Again and Again
The community comes to consensus.
- Traffic report: Look out, here comes the Spider-Man!
Plus The Odyssey and varied topics caught in his web.
- Humour: Her tastes, her Wikimania, her upcoming tour... Baby Globe reveals everything
A short (parody) interview with Baby Globe via the French wikipress outlet, Regards sur l’Actualité du mouvement Wikimédia (RAW).
- On the bright side: The great outdoors
Blue Angels, Indigenous Peoples' Day, and the Perseids meteor shower.
- Opinion: Are we embarrassed yet?
One editor wants to find out more about a Department of Justice investigation of Wikipedia and its editors.
- Special report: Paris Syndrome: Labor Strife, AI Anxiety, and a Leadership Test at Wikimania 2026
Notes from a delightful Wikimania and the ugly week that followed.
- Comix: WP:FAOWN
"Explaining civilly" probably should go both ways...
This week's article for improvement is: Wikipedia:Today's articles for improvement/2026/36/1
Motto of the day :
→ Nomen amicitiae sic, quatenus expedit, haeret.
The name of friendship lasts just so long as it is profitable.
Category links work in a special way; they determine which categories an article shall belong to. The categories are displayed at the very bottom of the page, no matter where the link is inserted on the page.
Sometimes you may want to create a link to a category page without putting the current page in that category. This may arise on discussion pages or draft articles. To create such a link, place a colon (:) at the beginning of the link, like this: [[:Category:Physical exercise]], which shows up like this: Category:Physical exercise.
So if your link does not appear where you expected, it just means that you forgot the leading colon.
The same trick applies to links to Wikipedia in other languages. To create a visible link to the Indonesian Wikipedia article "Teknologi," use the id prefix for Indonesian, with a colon before it to keep it visible: [[:id:Teknologi]], which creates id:Teknologi.
Untitled
[edit]Watchlist insufficient?:
- Wikipedia:Syndication
- MediaWiki API
- Above have hard limit on number of entries provided & thus may require frequent polling
- m:User:Hedonil/XTools
Other stuff
[edit]- User:Zhaofeng Li/reFill — incredibly helpful tool which automates the task of filling-out text for bare URLs used as references
This bucket of bolts
[edit]$ telnet telnet.wmflabs.org- Server Admin Log (wikitech.wikimedia.org)
- Current status Wikimedia Foundation - Core services (status.wikimedia.org)
- WMF Status Dashboards - perf mon (gdash.wikimedia.org)
- Wikitech (wikitech.wikimedia.org)
- Special:Version: shows the version of the software the site is currently running, and a listing of extensions installed
- Wikimedia Code Review (gerrit.wikimedia.org)
- Wikimedia Phabricator (phabricator.wikimedia.org)
Propaganda
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Quotations related to J. R. "Bob" Dobbs at Wikiquote
Works related to Anarchism at Wikisource
Media related to Mass Surveillance at Wikimedia Commons
- Internet censorship and surveillance by country
- 2013 mass surveillance disclosures
- Aftermath of the global surveillance disclosure
- Electronic Frontier Foundation
Vidya
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