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This page is a handy directory to various locations of interest in Wikipedia. Only dynamic pages should be listed here, no policy pages etc. For other useful directories, see the navigation bar above.

== Learning the wikiway ==

<h3>[[Wikipedia:Sandbox|Sandbox]]
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This is the page where you can experiment with [[wiki]] without risking the wrath of the regulars.

<h3>[[Wikipedia:New contributors' help page|New contributors' help page]]
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Think of it as "Wikipedia for dummies" except we're too [[Wikipedia:Don't bite the newbies|nice]] to call you that.

<h3>[[Wikipedia:Help desk|Help desk]]
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Wikipedia's help brigade. Ask any question about how to use Wikipedia. Volunteers are standing by.

<h3>[[User:The Transhumanist/Virtual classroom|Virtual classroom]]
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Wikischool of higher wikification. Share and compare your advanced wikiskills and wiki-knowhow. Anything goes.

==Bureaucracy==
These are the pages where people talk about the running of Wikipedia.

<h3>[[Wikipedia:Village pump|Village pump]]
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Don't like how Wikipedia works? Feel overburdened by instruction creep? Thought up a brilliant new policy which will make all Wikipedians happy forever? Visit the village pump to discuss the technical issues, policies, and operations of Wikipedia.

<h3>[[Wikipedia:Requests for adminship|Requests for adminship]]
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Have you ever wanted to be a <s>costumed superhero</s> janitor? Well, through this page, you (or a nominee of your choice) can be the next best thing! [[Wikipedia:Administrators|Administrators]] are Wikipedians with a few extra powers. This is the page where admin candidates are nominated and voted on. (If you're considering becoming one, you should read [[Wikipedia:What adminship is not]] first.)

==Dispute resolution==
Ideally, Wikipedians get along with each other in the spirit of [[Wikipedia:WikiLove|wikilove]]. But these are the places of interest to resolve conflicts when they happen.

<h3>[[Wikipedia:Requests for comment|Requests for comment]]
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Visit this page to let other level-headed Wikipedians give their [[United States Dollar|$]]0.02 worth of the situation.

<h3>[[Wikipedia:Requests for mediation|Requests for mediation]]
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A slightly more formal, and serious avenue for dispute resolution, visit this page if you feel the need to ask help from Wikipedia's mediators.

<h3>[[Wikipedia:Requests for arbitration|Requests for arbitration]]
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This is the "highest court of the land". All disputes go here as a last resort, to be overseen by a carefully chosen select group of arbitrators.

==The best of Wikipedia==
Here are pages designed to recognize Wikipedia's best work.

<h3>[[Wikipedia:Peer review|Peer review]]
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Feel that an article might be good enough for featured status? This is the first step, where Wikipedians with too much time on their hands come and nitpick flaws in your prized work.

<h3>[[Wikipedia:Featured content|Featured content]]
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A showcase of the best that Wikipedia has to offer. A random selection of previously featured content, and a list of recent additions.

<h3>[[Wikipedia:Featured article candidates|Featured article candidates]]
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All potential featured articles must be nominated and reviewed, before they gain the distinction of being "featured" and get that nice little star on the top of the page.

<h3>[[Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates|Featured picture candidates]]
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Found yourself an awesome picture? This is where Wikipedians vote on and recognize Wikipedia's best images.

<h3>[[Wikipedia:Featured list candidates|Featured list candidates]]
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As Featured Article Candidates is to articles, this is to lists.

<h3>[[Wikipedia:Featured portal candidates|Featured portal candidates]]
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Do you know of a particularly useful, attractive, and well-maintained portal? This is where to nominate it for featured recognition.

<h3>[[Wikipedia:Featured article review|Featured article review]]
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Here is where it all goes belly-up. Wikipedians nominate and vote on articles which may have to be stripped of their featured status.

==The worst of Wikipedia==
Here is where we handle bad articles and other rubbish.

<h3>[[Wikipedia:Cleanup|Cleanup]]
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Ask for help to improve a bad article to encyclopedia quality

<h3>[[Wikipedia:Articles for deletion|Articles for deletion]]
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When all else fails, delete the article from Wikipedia.

<h3>[[Wikipedia:Vandalism|Vandalism]]
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What to do when you see vandals do damage to Wikipedia

== For power users ==

Places where Wikipedia's technophiles and computer geeks can find toys and techniques.

<h3>[[Wikipedia:Tips|Tips]]
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Tricks and techniques — fine tune your wikiskills.

<h3>[[Wikipedia:Tools|Tools]]
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Programs and components to turbo-charge your wiki-workstation.

<h3>[[Wikipedia:Scripts|Scripts]]
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Javascripts for doing just about everything.

<h3>[[Wikipedia:Bots|Bots]]
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Need another pair of hands? Automate your edits.

==Wikilove and appreciation==
<h3>[[Wikipedia:Kindness Campaign|Kindness campaign]]
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This page is for encouraging niceness among Wikipedians.

<h3>[[Wikipedia:Barnstars|Barnstars]]
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Award these unique prizes to Wikipedians whom you feel have made great contributions.

==Wikipedia laughs==
Funny pages
<h3>[[Wikipedia:Unusual articles|Unusual articles]]
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A list of bizarre Wikipedia pages. Check out the entries on [[Brfxxccxxmnpcccclllmmnprxvclmnckssqlbb11116]] and [[male pregnancy]].

<h3>[[Wikipedia:Silly Things|Silly things]]
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In the past, Wikipedia has been a victim of hilarious vandalism; the funniest was preserved here.

<h3>[[Wikipedia:Lamest edit wars|Lamest edit wars]]
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Documents the most ridiculous edit disputes in Wikipedia.

<h3>[[Wikipedia:Department of Fun|Department of Fun]]
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Various games, contests, and projects for our own amusement, not related to Wikipedia.

==See also==
<h3>[[Wikipedia:Department directory|Department directory]]
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An even more extensive directory than this one.
<h3>[[Wikipedia:List of shortcuts|List of shortcuts]]
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A directory of pages and their "abbreviated redirects".

<h3>[[Wikipedia:Editor's index to Wikipedia|Editor's index to WIkipedia]]
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A very useful index of the Wikipedia community, intended to help find anything not in the encyclopedia itself.
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