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Quick directory

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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

Sandbox

This is the page where you can experiment with wiki without risking the wrath of the regulars.

New contributors' help page

Think of it as "Wikipedia for dummies" except we're too nice to call you that.

Help desk

Wikipedia's help brigade. Ask any question about how to use Wikipedia. Volunteers are standing by.

Virtual classroom

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.

Village pump

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.

Requests for adminship

Have you ever wanted to be a costumed superhero janitor? Well, through this page, you (or a nominee of your choice) can be the next best thing! 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 wikilove. But these are the places of interest to resolve conflicts when they happen.

Requests for comment

Visit this page to let other level-headed Wikipedians give their $0.02 worth of the situation.

Requests for mediation

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.

Requests for arbitration

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.

Peer review

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.

Featured content

A showcase of the best that Wikipedia has to offer. A random selection of previously featured content, and a list of recent additions.

Featured article candidates

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.

Featured picture candidates

Found yourself an awesome picture? This is where Wikipedians vote on and recognize Wikipedia's best images.

Featured list candidates

As Featured Article Candidates is to articles, this is to lists.

Featured portal candidates

Do you know of a particularly useful, attractive, and well-maintained portal? This is where to nominate it for featured recognition.

Featured article review

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.

Cleanup

Ask for help to improve a bad article to encyclopedia quality

Articles for deletion

When all else fails, delete the article from Wikipedia.

Vandalism

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.

Tips

Tricks and techniques — fine tune your wikiskills.

Tools

Programs and components to turbo-charge your wiki-workstation.

Scripts

Javascripts for doing just about everything.

Bots

Need another pair of hands? Automate your edits.

Wikilove and appreciation

Kindness campaign

This page is for encouraging niceness among Wikipedians.

Barnstars

Award these unique prizes to Wikipedians whom you feel have made great contributions.

Wikipedia laughs

Funny pages

Unusual articles

A list of bizarre Wikipedia pages. Check out the entries on Brfxxccxxmnpcccclllmmnprxvclmnckssqlbb11116 and male pregnancy.

Silly things

In the past, Wikipedia has been a victim of hilarious vandalism; the funniest was preserved here.

Lamest edit wars

Documents the most ridiculous edit disputes in Wikipedia.

Department of Fun

Various games, contests, and projects for our own amusement, not related to Wikipedia.

See also

Department directory

An even more extensive directory than this one.

List of shortcuts

A directory of pages and their "abbreviated redirects".

Editor's index to WIkipedia

A very useful index of the Wikipedia community, intended to help find anything not in the encyclopedia itself.

nl:Wikipedia:Snelle inhoudsopgave

DirectoryTemplate loop detected: Template:WP nav pages (header bar)

Quick directory

Template:TOCright Template:Shortcut

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

Sandbox

This is the page where you can experiment with wiki without risking the wrath of the regulars.

New contributors' help page

Think of it as "Wikipedia for dummies" except we're too nice to call you that.

Help desk

Wikipedia's help brigade. Ask any question about how to use Wikipedia. Volunteers are standing by.

Virtual classroom

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.

Village pump

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.

Requests for adminship

Have you ever wanted to be a costumed superhero janitor? Well, through this page, you (or a nominee of your choice) can be the next best thing! 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 wikilove. But these are the places of interest to resolve conflicts when they happen.

Requests for comment

Visit this page to let other level-headed Wikipedians give their $0.02 worth of the situation.

Requests for mediation

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.

Requests for arbitration

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.

Peer review

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.

Featured content

A showcase of the best that Wikipedia has to offer. A random selection of previously featured content, and a list of recent additions.

Featured article candidates

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.

Featured picture candidates

Found yourself an awesome picture? This is where Wikipedians vote on and recognize Wikipedia's best images.

Featured list candidates

As Featured Article Candidates is to articles, this is to lists.

Featured portal candidates

Do you know of a particularly useful, attractive, and well-maintained portal? This is where to nominate it for featured recognition.

Featured article review

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.

Cleanup

Ask for help to improve a bad article to encyclopedia quality

Articles for deletion

When all else fails, delete the article from Wikipedia.

Vandalism

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.

Tips

Tricks and techniques — fine tune your wikiskills.

Tools

Programs and components to turbo-charge your wiki-workstation.

Scripts

Javascripts for doing just about everything.

Bots

Need another pair of hands? Automate your edits.

Wikilove and appreciation

Kindness campaign

This page is for encouraging niceness among Wikipedians.

Barnstars

Award these unique prizes to Wikipedians whom you feel have made great contributions.

Wikipedia laughs

Funny pages

Unusual articles

A list of bizarre Wikipedia pages. Check out the entries on Brfxxccxxmnpcccclllmmnprxvclmnckssqlbb11116 and male pregnancy.

Silly things

In the past, Wikipedia has been a victim of hilarious vandalism; the funniest was preserved here.

Lamest edit wars

Documents the most ridiculous edit disputes in Wikipedia.

Department of Fun

Various games, contests, and projects for our own amusement, not related to Wikipedia.

See also

Department directory

An even more extensive directory than this one.

List of shortcuts

A directory of pages and their "abbreviated redirects".

Editor's index to WIkipedia

A very useful index of the Wikipedia community, intended to help find anything not in the encyclopedia itself.

nl:Wikipedia:Snelle inhoudsopgave

CommunityTemplate loop detected: Template:WP nav pages (header bar)

Quick directory

Template:TOCright Template:Shortcut

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

Sandbox

This is the page where you can experiment with wiki without risking the wrath of the regulars.

New contributors' help page

Think of it as "Wikipedia for dummies" except we're too nice to call you that.

Help desk

Wikipedia's help brigade. Ask any question about how to use Wikipedia. Volunteers are standing by.

Virtual classroom

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.

Village pump

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.

Requests for adminship

Have you ever wanted to be a costumed superhero janitor? Well, through this page, you (or a nominee of your choice) can be the next best thing! 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 wikilove. But these are the places of interest to resolve conflicts when they happen.

Requests for comment

Visit this page to let other level-headed Wikipedians give their $0.02 worth of the situation.

Requests for mediation

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.

Requests for arbitration

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.

Peer review

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.

Featured content

A showcase of the best that Wikipedia has to offer. A random selection of previously featured content, and a list of recent additions.

Featured article candidates

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.

Featured picture candidates

Found yourself an awesome picture? This is where Wikipedians vote on and recognize Wikipedia's best images.

Featured list candidates

As Featured Article Candidates is to articles, this is to lists.

Featured portal candidates

Do you know of a particularly useful, attractive, and well-maintained portal? This is where to nominate it for featured recognition.

Featured article review

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.

Cleanup

Ask for help to improve a bad article to encyclopedia quality

Articles for deletion

When all else fails, delete the article from Wikipedia.

Vandalism

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.

Tips

Tricks and techniques — fine tune your wikiskills.

Tools

Programs and components to turbo-charge your wiki-workstation.

Scripts

Javascripts for doing just about everything.

Bots

Need another pair of hands? Automate your edits.

Wikilove and appreciation

Kindness campaign

This page is for encouraging niceness among Wikipedians.

Barnstars

Award these unique prizes to Wikipedians whom you feel have made great contributions.

Wikipedia laughs

Funny pages

Unusual articles

A list of bizarre Wikipedia pages. Check out the entries on Brfxxccxxmnpcccclllmmnprxvclmnckssqlbb11116 and male pregnancy.

Silly things

In the past, Wikipedia has been a victim of hilarious vandalism; the funniest was preserved here.

Lamest edit wars

Documents the most ridiculous edit disputes in Wikipedia.

Department of Fun

Various games, contests, and projects for our own amusement, not related to Wikipedia.

See also

Department directory

An even more extensive directory than this one.

List of shortcuts

A directory of pages and their "abbreviated redirects".

Editor's index to WIkipedia

A very useful index of the Wikipedia community, intended to help find anything not in the encyclopedia itself.

nl:Wikipedia:Snelle inhoudsopgave

MaintenanceTemplate loop detected: Template:WP nav pages (header bar)

Quick directory

Template:TOCright Template:Shortcut

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

Sandbox

This is the page where you can experiment with wiki without risking the wrath of the regulars.

New contributors' help page

Think of it as "Wikipedia for dummies" except we're too nice to call you that.

Help desk

Wikipedia's help brigade. Ask any question about how to use Wikipedia. Volunteers are standing by.

Virtual classroom

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.

Village pump

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.

Requests for adminship

Have you ever wanted to be a costumed superhero janitor? Well, through this page, you (or a nominee of your choice) can be the next best thing! 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 wikilove. But these are the places of interest to resolve conflicts when they happen.

Requests for comment

Visit this page to let other level-headed Wikipedians give their $0.02 worth of the situation.

Requests for mediation

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.

Requests for arbitration

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.

Peer review

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.

Featured content

A showcase of the best that Wikipedia has to offer. A random selection of previously featured content, and a list of recent additions.

Featured article candidates

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.

Featured picture candidates

Found yourself an awesome picture? This is where Wikipedians vote on and recognize Wikipedia's best images.

Featured list candidates

As Featured Article Candidates is to articles, this is to lists.

Featured portal candidates

Do you know of a particularly useful, attractive, and well-maintained portal? This is where to nominate it for featured recognition.

Featured article review

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.

Cleanup

Ask for help to improve a bad article to encyclopedia quality

Articles for deletion

When all else fails, delete the article from Wikipedia.

Vandalism

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.

Tips

Tricks and techniques — fine tune your wikiskills.

Tools

Programs and components to turbo-charge your wiki-workstation.

Scripts

Javascripts for doing just about everything.

Bots

Need another pair of hands? Automate your edits.

Wikilove and appreciation

Kindness campaign

This page is for encouraging niceness among Wikipedians.

Barnstars

Award these unique prizes to Wikipedians whom you feel have made great contributions.

Wikipedia laughs

Funny pages

Unusual articles

A list of bizarre Wikipedia pages. Check out the entries on Brfxxccxxmnpcccclllmmnprxvclmnckssqlbb11116 and male pregnancy.

Silly things

In the past, Wikipedia has been a victim of hilarious vandalism; the funniest was preserved here.

Lamest edit wars

Documents the most ridiculous edit disputes in Wikipedia.

Department of Fun

Various games, contests, and projects for our own amusement, not related to Wikipedia.

See also

Department directory

An even more extensive directory than this one.

List of shortcuts

A directory of pages and their "abbreviated redirects".

Editor's index to WIkipedia

A very useful index of the Wikipedia community, intended to help find anything not in the encyclopedia itself.

nl:Wikipedia:Snelle inhoudsopgave

RequestsTemplate loop detected: Template:WP nav pages (header bar)

Quick directory

Template:TOCright Template:Shortcut

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

Sandbox

This is the page where you can experiment with wiki without risking the wrath of the regulars.

New contributors' help page

Think of it as "Wikipedia for dummies" except we're too nice to call you that.

Help desk

Wikipedia's help brigade. Ask any question about how to use Wikipedia. Volunteers are standing by.

Virtual classroom

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.

Village pump

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.

Requests for adminship

Have you ever wanted to be a costumed superhero janitor? Well, through this page, you (or a nominee of your choice) can be the next best thing! 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 wikilove. But these are the places of interest to resolve conflicts when they happen.

Requests for comment

Visit this page to let other level-headed Wikipedians give their $0.02 worth of the situation.

Requests for mediation

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.

Requests for arbitration

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.

Peer review

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.

Featured content

A showcase of the best that Wikipedia has to offer. A random selection of previously featured content, and a list of recent additions.

Featured article candidates

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.

Featured picture candidates

Found yourself an awesome picture? This is where Wikipedians vote on and recognize Wikipedia's best images.

Featured list candidates

As Featured Article Candidates is to articles, this is to lists.

Featured portal candidates

Do you know of a particularly useful, attractive, and well-maintained portal? This is where to nominate it for featured recognition.

Featured article review

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.

Cleanup

Ask for help to improve a bad article to encyclopedia quality

Articles for deletion

When all else fails, delete the article from Wikipedia.

Vandalism

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.

Tips

Tricks and techniques — fine tune your wikiskills.

Tools

Programs and components to turbo-charge your wiki-workstation.

Scripts

Javascripts for doing just about everything.

Bots

Need another pair of hands? Automate your edits.

Wikilove and appreciation

Kindness campaign

This page is for encouraging niceness among Wikipedians.

Barnstars

Award these unique prizes to Wikipedians whom you feel have made great contributions.

Wikipedia laughs

Funny pages

Unusual articles

A list of bizarre Wikipedia pages. Check out the entries on Brfxxccxxmnpcccclllmmnprxvclmnckssqlbb11116 and male pregnancy.

Silly things

In the past, Wikipedia has been a victim of hilarious vandalism; the funniest was preserved here.

Lamest edit wars

Documents the most ridiculous edit disputes in Wikipedia.

Department of Fun

Various games, contests, and projects for our own amusement, not related to Wikipedia.

See also

Department directory

An even more extensive directory than this one.

List of shortcuts

A directory of pages and their "abbreviated redirects".

Editor's index to WIkipedia

A very useful index of the Wikipedia community, intended to help find anything not in the encyclopedia itself.

nl:Wikipedia:Snelle inhoudsopgave

ShortcutsTemplate loop detected: Template:WP nav pages (header bar)

Quick directory

Template:TOCright Template:Shortcut

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

Sandbox

This is the page where you can experiment with wiki without risking the wrath of the regulars.

New contributors' help page

Think of it as "Wikipedia for dummies" except we're too nice to call you that.

Help desk

Wikipedia's help brigade. Ask any question about how to use Wikipedia. Volunteers are standing by.

Virtual classroom

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.

Village pump

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.

Requests for adminship

Have you ever wanted to be a costumed superhero janitor? Well, through this page, you (or a nominee of your choice) can be the next best thing! 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 wikilove. But these are the places of interest to resolve conflicts when they happen.

Requests for comment

Visit this page to let other level-headed Wikipedians give their $0.02 worth of the situation.

Requests for mediation

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.

Requests for arbitration

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.

Peer review

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.

Featured content

A showcase of the best that Wikipedia has to offer. A random selection of previously featured content, and a list of recent additions.

Featured article candidates

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.

Featured picture candidates

Found yourself an awesome picture? This is where Wikipedians vote on and recognize Wikipedia's best images.

Featured list candidates

As Featured Article Candidates is to articles, this is to lists.

Featured portal candidates

Do you know of a particularly useful, attractive, and well-maintained portal? This is where to nominate it for featured recognition.

Featured article review

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.

Cleanup

Ask for help to improve a bad article to encyclopedia quality

Articles for deletion

When all else fails, delete the article from Wikipedia.

Vandalism

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.

Tips

Tricks and techniques — fine tune your wikiskills.

Tools

Programs and components to turbo-charge your wiki-workstation.

Scripts

Javascripts for doing just about everything.

Bots

Need another pair of hands? Automate your edits.

Wikilove and appreciation

Kindness campaign

This page is for encouraging niceness among Wikipedians.

Barnstars

Award these unique prizes to Wikipedians whom you feel have made great contributions.

Wikipedia laughs

Funny pages

Unusual articles

A list of bizarre Wikipedia pages. Check out the entries on Brfxxccxxmnpcccclllmmnprxvclmnckssqlbb11116 and male pregnancy.

Silly things

In the past, Wikipedia has been a victim of hilarious vandalism; the funniest was preserved here.

Lamest edit wars

Documents the most ridiculous edit disputes in Wikipedia.

Department of Fun

Various games, contests, and projects for our own amusement, not related to Wikipedia.

See also

Department directory

An even more extensive directory than this one.

List of shortcuts

A directory of pages and their "abbreviated redirects".

Editor's index to WIkipedia

A very useful index of the Wikipedia community, intended to help find anything not in the encyclopedia itself.

nl:Wikipedia:Snelle inhoudsopgave

TipsTemplate loop detected: Template:WP nav pages (header bar)

Quick directory

Template:TOCright Template:Shortcut

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

Sandbox

This is the page where you can experiment with wiki without risking the wrath of the regulars.

New contributors' help page

Think of it as "Wikipedia for dummies" except we're too nice to call you that.

Help desk

Wikipedia's help brigade. Ask any question about how to use Wikipedia. Volunteers are standing by.

Virtual classroom

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.

Village pump

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.

Requests for adminship

Have you ever wanted to be a costumed superhero janitor? Well, through this page, you (or a nominee of your choice) can be the next best thing! 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 wikilove. But these are the places of interest to resolve conflicts when they happen.

Requests for comment

Visit this page to let other level-headed Wikipedians give their $0.02 worth of the situation.

Requests for mediation

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.

Requests for arbitration

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.

Peer review

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.

Featured content

A showcase of the best that Wikipedia has to offer. A random selection of previously featured content, and a list of recent additions.

Featured article candidates

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.

Featured picture candidates

Found yourself an awesome picture? This is where Wikipedians vote on and recognize Wikipedia's best images.

Featured list candidates

As Featured Article Candidates is to articles, this is to lists.

Featured portal candidates

Do you know of a particularly useful, attractive, and well-maintained portal? This is where to nominate it for featured recognition.

Featured article review

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.

Cleanup

Ask for help to improve a bad article to encyclopedia quality

Articles for deletion

When all else fails, delete the article from Wikipedia.

Vandalism

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.

Tips

Tricks and techniques — fine tune your wikiskills.

Tools

Programs and components to turbo-charge your wiki-workstation.

Scripts

Javascripts for doing just about everything.

Bots

Need another pair of hands? Automate your edits.

Wikilove and appreciation

Kindness campaign

This page is for encouraging niceness among Wikipedians.

Barnstars

Award these unique prizes to Wikipedians whom you feel have made great contributions.

Wikipedia laughs

Funny pages

Unusual articles

A list of bizarre Wikipedia pages. Check out the entries on Brfxxccxxmnpcccclllmmnprxvclmnckssqlbb11116 and male pregnancy.

Silly things

In the past, Wikipedia has been a victim of hilarious vandalism; the funniest was preserved here.

Lamest edit wars

Documents the most ridiculous edit disputes in Wikipedia.

Department of Fun

Various games, contests, and projects for our own amusement, not related to Wikipedia.

See also

Department directory

An even more extensive directory than this one.

List of shortcuts

A directory of pages and their "abbreviated redirects".

Editor's index to WIkipedia

A very useful index of the Wikipedia community, intended to help find anything not in the encyclopedia itself.

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Quick directory

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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

Sandbox

This is the page where you can experiment with wiki without risking the wrath of the regulars.

New contributors' help page

Think of it as "Wikipedia for dummies" except we're too nice to call you that.

Help desk

Wikipedia's help brigade. Ask any question about how to use Wikipedia. Volunteers are standing by.

Virtual classroom

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.

Village pump

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.

Requests for adminship

Have you ever wanted to be a costumed superhero janitor? Well, through this page, you (or a nominee of your choice) can be the next best thing! 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 wikilove. But these are the places of interest to resolve conflicts when they happen.

Requests for comment

Visit this page to let other level-headed Wikipedians give their $0.02 worth of the situation.

Requests for mediation

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.

Requests for arbitration

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.

Peer review

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.

Featured content

A showcase of the best that Wikipedia has to offer. A random selection of previously featured content, and a list of recent additions.

Featured article candidates

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.

Featured picture candidates

Found yourself an awesome picture? This is where Wikipedians vote on and recognize Wikipedia's best images.

Featured list candidates

As Featured Article Candidates is to articles, this is to lists.

Featured portal candidates

Do you know of a particularly useful, attractive, and well-maintained portal? This is where to nominate it for featured recognition.

Featured article review

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.

Cleanup

Ask for help to improve a bad article to encyclopedia quality

Articles for deletion

When all else fails, delete the article from Wikipedia.

Vandalism

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.

Tips

Tricks and techniques — fine tune your wikiskills.

Tools

Programs and components to turbo-charge your wiki-workstation.

Scripts

Javascripts for doing just about everything.

Bots

Need another pair of hands? Automate your edits.

Wikilove and appreciation

Kindness campaign

This page is for encouraging niceness among Wikipedians.

Barnstars

Award these unique prizes to Wikipedians whom you feel have made great contributions.

Wikipedia laughs

Funny pages

Unusual articles

A list of bizarre Wikipedia pages. Check out the entries on Brfxxccxxmnpcccclllmmnprxvclmnckssqlbb11116 and male pregnancy.

Silly things

In the past, Wikipedia has been a victim of hilarious vandalism; the funniest was preserved here.

Lamest edit wars

Documents the most ridiculous edit disputes in Wikipedia.

Department of Fun

Various games, contests, and projects for our own amusement, not related to Wikipedia.

See also

Department directory

An even more extensive directory than this one.

List of shortcuts

A directory of pages and their "abbreviated redirects".

Editor's index to WIkipedia

A very useful index of the Wikipedia community, intended to help find anything not in the encyclopedia itself.

nl:Wikipedia:Snelle inhoudsopgave

Index

Community portal

Welcome to the community portal. This is the place to find out what is happening on Wikipedia. Learn what tasks need to be done, what groups there are to join, and share news about recent events or current activities taking place on Wikipedia.
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WikiProjects and Task Forces

Portals and Collaborations


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Help out

Wikipedia is, by number of articles, the largest encyclopedia ever to exist. However, many articles are stubs, or otherwise need attention. If you like, go ahead, be bold, and jump right in. If you are not ready to fly solo, you can participate in a Collaboration.

Things to do

Fix-up projects

Open tasks

{{Wikipedia:Community portal/Opentask}} Not sure where to report a certain type of problem with article content? If it exists, it is probably listed at Wikipedia:Maintenance.

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Collaborations

To improve the quality of articles that are short or lacking in detail, Wikipedia's community organizes collaborations to expand articles.

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Other collaborations

Active improvement teams

WikiProjects

WikiProjects are ongoing team efforts to improve articles having to do with a particular subject, and to manage the logistics of that topic. Hundreds exist—examine the master list to find one that interests you.

Language translation

Wikipedia is not just in English. Versions exist in many different languages. To fill in some of the English Wikipedia's gaps, we translate articles from other languages into English. You can view a list of articles that need translation from any language, or, in a few cases, by only one language (this is only available for the more popular languages).

Gift shop

Share ideas of logos or other Wikipedia motifs to be used on clothing or for other purposes in Wikipedia merchandise.

Guidelines, help & resources

Wikipedia has many help pages, policies, and departments. Here are some of the most general. For a comprehensive list of Wikipedia's departments, see the Wikipedia department directory.

Help

Editing

Policies and guidelines

Wikipedia has many established policies, guidelines, conventions, and traditions. This is a very brief sampling of some of the most important; for more information, see the main policies and guidelines page. Policies and guidelines apply to both articles and how to work with fellow editors. For easy access, the shortcuts to the pages are also listed.

Article standards

Be bold! WP:BB • WP:BOLD
Citing sources WP:CITE • WP:REF
Copyrights WP:C
Editing WP:EP
External links WP:EL
Image use WP:IUP
Include only verifiable information WP:V
Manual of Style WP:MOS • WP:STYLE
Neutral point of view WP:NPOV  • WP:NEU
What Wikipedia is not WP:WWIN • WP:NOT

Working with others

Assume good faith WP:AGF • WP:FAITH
Avoid instruction creep WP:CREEP
Civility and etiquette WP:CIV • WP:EQ
Consensus WP:CON
Do not bite the newcomers WP:BITE
Do not disrupt Wikipedia to illustrate a point WP:POINT
No personal attacks WP:NPA • WP:ATTACK
Resolving disputes WP:DR
Vandalism WP:VAND

Resources

New user information

Introduction · Sandbox · Help · Adoption · What Wikipedia is not · Glossary · Account benefits · Planning school assignments

Ways to communicate

Contact (overview) · Discussion pages · Mailing lists · IRC chat · Meetups · User pages · Requests for comment · Public watchlists · Regional notice boards · Administrators' noticeboard · Requests for article feedback · Local Embassy

Community support groups and programs

Welcoming committee · Editor assistance · Wiki-adoption · Birthday Committee · Harmonious editing club · Kindness Campaign · Reach out · Wikipedia awards program · Dept. of Fun · One featured article per quarter · Missing encyclopedic articles

Common procedures

Featured content · Good articles · Requests for feedback · Deleting a page (full policy) · Moving a page (naming policies) · Protecting a page (full policy) · Reverting a page · Administrator nominations (summaries) · Category-based access

How to resolve conflicts

Stay cool! · Be nice to newcomers · Alert others · Dispute resolution · Arbitration policy

Community information

About Wikipedia · Goings-on · About Wikimedia · Wikipedians · Wiki-adoption · Donations · Administrators · Babel · Culture · Games · Humor · Mottoes

Related communities

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