The encyclopedia | The project |
- Community portal – The central hub for editors, with resources, links, tasks, and announcements.
- Village pump – Forum for discussions about Wikipedia itself, including policies and technical issues.
- Site news – Sources of news about Wikipedia and the broader Wikimedia movement.
- Teahouse – Ask basic questions about using or editing Wikipedia.
- Help desk – Ask questions about using or editing Wikipedia.
- Reference desk – Ask research questions about encyclopedic topics.
- Content portals – A unique way to navigate the encyclopedia.
Proposal note: This page could be located at Wikipedia:Main Page...or somewhere else in project namespace. It would be a combination of topics covered by key project navigational tools, such as {{WP help pages (header bar)}} (This navigation bar provides easier access to Wikipedia's help pages and help resources.), {{WP nav pages (header bar)}} (This navigation bar was designed to provide easier access to the Wikipedia community's various directories and main resource lists.), the Village pump and key project-oriented navigation boxes. Maybe it's a summary of each of the links on these navigation tools. It would be analogous to the main encyclopedia contents page, Portal:Contents. A working organizational table and selected project navigational tools follow.
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Page | WP help pages | WP nav pages | Village pump I want... |
Main Page Other areas |
Community portal |
RichardF Com page |
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On WP help pages | |||||||
Welcome | ? | ||||||
Tutorial | ? | ||||||
Cheatsheet | ? | ||||||
FAQ | ? | ||||||
Glossary | ? | ||||||
Help | ? | ||||||
Help desk | ? | ||||||
Media copyright questions | ? | ||||||
Reference desk | ? | ||||||
On WP nav pages | |||||||
Quick directory | ? | ||||||
Directory | ? | ||||||
Community | ? | ||||||
Maintenance | ? | ||||||
Requests | ? | ||||||
Shortcuts | ? | ||||||
Tips | ? | ||||||
Tools | ? | ||||||
Index | ? | ||||||
Other pages | |||||||
Village pump | ? | ||||||
Peer review | ? | ||||||
Requests for comment | ? | ||||||
talk page | ? | ||||||
Wikimedia Meta-wiki | ? | ||||||
Citing Wikipedia | ? | ||||||
Mirrors and forks | ? | ||||||
Questions | ? | ||||||
Site news | ? | ||||||
Local embassy | ? | ||||||
Page | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? |
Wikipedia's sister projects
Wikipedia is written by volunteer editors and hosted by the Wikimedia Foundation, a non-profit organization that also hosts a range of other volunteer projects:
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Commons
Free media repository -
MediaWiki
Wiki software development -
Meta-Wiki
Wikimedia project coordination -
Wikibooks
Free textbooks and manuals -
Wikidata
Free knowledge base -
Wikinews
Free-content news -
Wikiquote
Collection of quotations -
Wikisource
Free-content library -
Wikispecies
Directory of species -
Wikiversity
Free learning tools -
Wikivoyage
Free travel guide -
Wiktionary
Dictionary and thesaurus