Wikipedia:Topical index

This page used to be a list of all pages in the Wikipedia namespace, but it is now obsolete. Please visit Category:Wikipedia instead.

For a list of useful links for Wikipedia editors, see Wikipedia:Community portal.

A full alphabetical index is at Wikipedia:Project namespace/Alphabetical index.

If you are looking for a topical index of Wikipedia articles, try Wikipedia:Category schemes.

This page will be deleted piece by piece as a parallel category structure is created to replace it.

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Mostly merged

• Category:Wikipedia help forums
• Category:Wikipedia community forums
• Category:Wikipedia vandalism
• Category:Wikipedia awards
• Category:Wikipedia deletion
• Indexes: Wikipedia:Category schemes
• Problems in need of fixing, things to watch: Wikipedia:Maintenance.
• Category:Wikipedia featured content
  • Wikipedia:Featured articles
• Category:Wikipedia resources for researchers
• Privacy policy
• Category:Wikipedia statistics
• Category:Wikipedia publicity
• Category:Wikipedia essays
• Category:Wikipedia proposals
• Category:Wikipedia culture
• Category:Wikipedians
• Category:Wikipedia history
• Category:Wikipedia multilingual coordination

Policies and guidelines

About Us

• Wikipedia:Designated agent
• Wikipedia:Text of the GNU Free Documentation License
• Wikipedia:Verbatim copying

Guidelines and information

• Wikipedia:Spotting possible copyright violations
• Wikipedia:Libel

Boilerplate

• Wikipedia:Boilerplate request for permission
• Wikipedia:Confirmation of permission
• Boilerplate text (various texts)
• Spoiler warning
• Boilerplate request for permission
• Standard user greeting
• Standard GFDL violation letter

Policy, advice, and help

• Category:Wikipedia help
• Category:Wikipedia policies and guidelines
• Category:Wikipedia how-to
• Category:Wikipedia style guidelines
• Category:Wikipedia naming conventions
• Category:Wikipedia dispute resolution
• Wikipedia:Guide to improving articles

Key policies

• Be bold in updating pages
• Wikiquette
• Neutral point of view (NPOV)
• Manual of Style
• Policy on permanent deletion of pages
• What Wikipedia is not

How-to

• How does one edit a page
• How to add content to Wikipedia with minimal effort
• How to edit an article so long that you can't edit
• How to reduce colors for saving a JPEG as PNG
• How to rename a page
• How to revert a page to an earlier version
• How to start a page
• How to archive a talk page
• How to archive Current Events
• How to use tables
• How to log in

Information

• Algorithms on Wikipedia
• Browser notes
  • Browser page size limits
• Bots
• Canonicalization
• Contributing FAQ
• Copyrights
• De-adminship
• Disambiguation
• Edit conflicts
• Guide to writing better articles
• Image use policy
• Including corporate logos
• Interlanguage links
• ISBN
• Lists in general
• List pages - How to create them
• Lists in articles - How to create them
• List of common misspellings
• MediaWiki namespace
• Multimedia
• Searching
  • Common words, searching for which is not possible
• Go button
• Special characters
  • Turkish characters
  • Unicode
• Tables
• TeX markup
• Troubleshooting
• How to use redirect pages
• How to set preferences
• What is an article

Policies and guidelines

• Policies and guidelines
• Alternate text for images
• Always fill summary field
• Avoid statements that will date quickly
• Avoid weasel terms
• Build the web
• Check your facts
• Cite your sources
• Contribute what you know or are willing to learn about
• Contributing to Wikipedia
• Don't include copies of primary sources
• Editing policy -- Perfection not required; or, the joy of editing
• Explain jargon
• Follow highlighting conventions
• Footnotes
• Foul language
• Guide to Layout
• Headlines
• Ignore all rules
• Image markup
• Make articles useful for readers
• Make omissions explicit
• Make only links relevant to the context
• Make smart use of soft line breaks
• Measurements Debate
• News style
• Page size
• Talk page
• The perfect article
• The perfect stub article
• Pronunciation guide
• Sign your posts on talk pages
• Summarize discussion
• Timeline standards
• User page guidelines
• Use short sentences and lists
• Use subheads sparingly
• Warn readers about spoilers
• Why aren't these pages copyedited
• Wikipedia is not a dictionary

Editing

Advice and information

• Wikipedia:Guide to improving articles
• Wikipedia:How to write a great article
• Wikipedia:Avoiding common mistakes
• Wikipedia:Perfect stub article
• Wikipedia:The perfect article

Rule stubs

• Wikipedia:Ignore all rules
• Wikipedia:Reaching consensus
• Wikipedia:Responsibility

Rules to consider

What to write on

• Wikipedia:Contribute what you know or are willing to learn more about

Things to do

• Wikipedia:Use subheads sparingly

Things not to do

• Wikipedia:Don't use line breaks

Deprecated in favor of MediaWiki pages at Meta (or Wikimedia Foundation)

• Wikipedia:Special characters
• Wikipedia:TeX markup
• Wikipedia:Turkish characters
• Wikipedia:Donation addresses
• Wikipedia:Donations

Misc

• Wikipedia:Annotated edit page announcement (proposal) rev. 1.1
• Wikipedia:Article size
• Wikipedia:POV
• Wikipedia:NPOV tutorial
• Wikipedia:Text editor support
• Wikipedia:URLs
• Wikipedia:How to use tables
• Wikipedia:How to break up a page
• Wikipedia:How to import articles
• Wikipedia:Improving WikiWeb
• Wikipedia:Long article layout
• Wikipedia:Proper names
• Wikipedia:Committee of Wikipedians

Style and How to series

• Wikipedia:How to edit a page
• Wikipedia:How-to
• Wikipedia:Avoid statements that will date quickly
• Wikipedia:Guide to layout
• Wikipedia:Make articles useful for readers
• Wikipedia:Make only links relevant to the context
• Wikipedia:Words to avoid
• Wikipedia:Bypass your cache
• Wikipedia:Researching with Wikipedia

Wikipedia Manual of Style

• Wikipedia:Style and How-to Directory
• Wikipedia:How to link to sister projects
• Wikipedia:Footnotes
• Wikipedia:Manual of Style (legal)
• Wikipedia:Manual of Style (titles)
• Wikipedia:History standards for China-related articles
• Wikipedia:Wikipedia medicine standards

Wikipedia Dictionaries

• Wikipedia:Free On-line Dictionary of Computing/symbols - B
• Wikipedia:Free On-line Dictionary of Computing/C - D
• Wikipedia:Free On-line Dictionary of Computing/E - H
• Wikipedia:Free On-line Dictionary of Computing/I - K
• Wikipedia:Free On-line Dictionary of Computing/L - N
• Wikipedia:Free On-line Dictionary of Computing/O - Q
• Wikipedia:Free On-line Dictionary of Computing/R - S
• Wikipedia:Free On-line Dictionary of Computing/T - W
• Wikipedia:Free On-line Dictionary of Computing/X - Z

Wikipedia features/techniques

• Wikipedia:As of
• Wikipedia:Spoiler warning

Protection

• Wikipedia:Protected page
• Wikipedia:Requests for page protection

Disambiguation

• Wikipedia:Disambiguation and abbreviations

Lists

• Wikipedia:Links to (disambiguation) pages
• Wikipedia:Links to disambiguating pages
• Wikipedia:Non-unique personal name
• Wikipedia:Undisambiguated abbreviations/CIA World Factbook
• Wikipedia:Undisambiguated abbreviations/Country codes
• Wikipedia:Undisambiguated abbreviations/Currency codes
• Wikipedia:Undisambiguated abbreviations/Elements
• Wikipedia:Undisambiguated abbreviations/file extensions
• Wikipedia:Undisambiguated abbreviations/State codes
• Wikipedia:Undisambiguated abbreviations/units of measurement

Using links

• Wikipedia:Links
• Wikipedia:Build the web
• Wikipedia:External links
• Wikipedia:Piped link
• Wikipedia:Self link

Administrator information

• Wikipedia:How to fix cut and paste moves

Lists of Wikipedia namespace pages

• Wikipedia:Links

American - British Pages

• Wikipedia:Articles using American English titles
• Wikipedia:Articles using British English titles
• Wikipedia:List of spelling variants

Naming conventions

• Wikipedia:Naming conventions

Non-text content

Images

• Wikipedia:Images
• Wikipedia:Picture tutorial

• Wikipedia:Fulfilled picture requests

Image inclusion guidelines

• Wikipedia:Extended image syntax
• Wikipedia:Alternative text for images
• Wikipedia:Image copyright tags
• Wikipedia:Image description page

Image creation resources

• Wikipedia:Basic bitmap image editing
• Wikipedia:ASCII art conversion tool
• Wikipedia:Blank maps
• Wikipedia:Chemical ASCII-art
• Wikipedia:Graphics tutorials
• Wikipedia:How to draw a diagram with Dia
• Wikipedia:How to draw a diagram with Microsoft Word
• Wikipedia:How to draw a diagram with OpenOffice.org Writer
• Wikipedia:How to keep image file sizes as small as possible
• Wikipedia:How to reduce colors for saving a JPEG as PNG
• Wikipedia:How to use the GIMP

Image finding

• Wikipedia:Choosing appropriate illustrations
• Wikipedia:Finding images tutorial (Part of Style and How to series)
• Wikipedia:Maps

Lists

• Wikipedia:Images with missing articles
• Wikipedia:Images from Amazon.com
• Wikipedia:Imported pictures (includes links to pages arranged by source)
• Wikipedia:Plant photo collection I
• Wikipedia:Unidentified flowers
• Wikipedia:Wing Commander (computer game) images
• Wikipedia:List of images

Blank

• Wikipedia:Non-local images

Other

• Wikipedia:Multimedia
• Wikipedia:Sound

Bibliographies/Works cited

• Wikipedia:Cite sources
• Wikipedia:Citing Wikipedia
• Wikipedia:Citing Wikipedia Turabian-style
• Wikipedia:Fair use
• Wikipedia:Foldoc license
• Wikipedia:GFDL History (unofficial)
• Wikipedia:GFDL upgrade
• Wikipedia:List of bibliographies
• Wikipedia:References
• Wikipedia:Standard GFDL violation letter

Proposals

General proposals

• Wikipedia:Trolling considered harmful

Legal proposals

• Wikipedia:Copyrights and Warranty Disclaimers (proposal)
• Wikipedia:Submission Standards
• Wikipedia:Terms of use
• Wikipedia:Terms of use (proposal)

Editing proposals

• Wikipedia:Neutral point of view/Examples
• Wikipedia:Neutral point of view/Examples Debate
• Wikipedia:Web comics
• Wikipedia:Technical terms and definitions
• Wikipedia:English phonetic spelling
• Wikipedia:Geographical names naming policy (proposed)
• Wikipedia:Algorithms on Wikipedia

Dispute resolution proposals

• Wikipedia:Harmonious editing club
• Wikipedia:Trust network

WikiMoney

• Wikipedia:WikiMoney accounts

Discussion

• Wikipedia:Copyright issues
• Wikipedia:Copyright violations on history pages
• Wikipedia:When people complain rather than edit
• Wikipedia:Pronunciation guide
• Wikipedia:Manual of Style (pronunciation)
• Wikipedia:Designation of capitals
• Wikipedia:Guidelines for the spelling of names of Polish rulers
• Wikipedia:Measurements Debate
• Wikipedia:Language-independent images
• Wikipedia:Offensive image
• Wikipedia:Approval mechanism

Active(requesting, voting, discussing) pages

Work requested

• Wikipedia:Pages needing translation into English
• Wikipedia:Vandalism in progress
• Wikipedia:TeX requests
• Wikipedia:Find or fix a stub

Discussion requested

• Wikipedia:Requests for comment (includes archives)

Voting requested

• Wikipedia:Requests for adminship
• Wikipedia:Current surveys
  • Wikipedia:Survey guidelines

Congratulations requested

• Wikipedia:Great editing in progress

Lists of articles to be fixed

• Wikipedia:Disambiguation pages with links
• Wikipedia:Offline reports

Tag pages (describing article tags)

• Wikipedia:NPOV dispute
• Wikipedia:Accuracy dispute
• Wikipedia:This page is protected

Behavior

Advice

• Wikipedia:Writers rules of engagement
• Wikipedia:Assume good faith

Jargon

• Wikipedia:Wikiholiday
• Wikipedia:Deletion war
• Wikipedia:Edit war

Dealing with problems

Advice

• Wikipedia:Possible misuses of sysop rights
• Wikipedia:Truce

Mediation and arbitration

• Wikipedia:Arbitration Committee
• Wikipedia:Arbitration rationale
• Wikipedia:Mediation
• Wikipedia:Mediation Committee
• Wikipedia:Requests for arbitration (includes links to specific cases)
• Wikipedia:Requests for mediation (includes links to specific cases)

Deletion related

• Wikipedia:Speedy deletions
• Wikipedia:Votes for deletion
• Wikipedia:Votes for undeletion
• Wikipedia:Images for deletion
• Wikipedia:Viewing and restoring deleted pages by sysops

Misuse of the system

• Wikipedia:Dealing with vandalism
• Wikipedia:Favorite pages of banned users

The Wikipedia community

Communication

• Wikipedia:Emailing users
• Wikipedia:Instant Messaging Wikipedians
• Wikipedia:IRC channel cloaks
• Wikipedia:IRC channels
• Wikipedia:Mailing lists
• Wikipedia:Meetup
• Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost (Wikipedia's internal newspaper)

News

• Wikipedia:Announcements (includes links to pages with archived announcements)
• Wikipedia:Goings-on

People

• Wikipedia:Wikipedians (includes subpages for groupings by continent, country, region, state, etc.)
• Wikipedia:Alphabetical list of Wikipedians
• Wikipedia:Facebook
• Wikipedia:Missing Wikipedians
• Wikipedia:Long usernames

Wikipedia and other Wikimedia projects

• Wikipedia:Project namespace

• Wikipedia:Itself

Proposals

• Wikipedia:Deletion requests
• Wikipedia:Deletion requests/mock-up
• Wikipedia:Deletion requests/mock-up2

Community groups

• Wikipedia:Welcoming committee

Administration

• Wikipedia:List of administrators
• Wikipedia:Administration FAQ
• Wikipedia:Administrators
• Wikipedia:Administrators' reading list
• Wikipedia:Bureaucrats
• Wikipedia:Elections
• Wikipedia:Meta

Activity logs

• Wikipedia:Log (see also Special:Log)
• Wikipedia:New user log
• Wikipedia:Recently created admins
• Wikipedia:Recently created bureaucrats
• Wikipedia:Upload log archive
• Upload log
• Deletion log
• Old deletion log
• Protection log
• Block log
• List of currently blocked IP addresses and usernames

International

• Category:Wikipedia multilingual coordination

Wikimedia related

• Wikipedia:Projects of Wikimedia
• Wikipedia:Elections for the Board of Trustees of the Wikimedia Foundation
• Wikipedia:List of interwiki redirects
• Wikipedia:Nupedia and Wikipedia
• Wikipedia:Other projects similar to Wikipedia
• Wikipedia:Simple English Wikipedia
• Wikipedia:Things to be moved to Wiktionary
• Wikipedia:TourBusStop
• Wikipedia:Transwiki log

Publicity

• Category:Wikipedia publicity
• Category:Wikipedia in the media

Statistics

• Category:Wikipedia statistics

Technical issues

• Wikipedia:Technical FAQ
• Wikipedia:Troubleshooting
• Wikipedia:Database download
• Contingency Page For When The Main Wikipedia Server Is Down
• Tools and Helpers
  • Magic Button
  • Text editor support for Wikipedia syntax (Emacs and Vim)
  • Translator from HTML to Wikipedia
• User:hfastedge offering free off-server custom coding (1 request per person) as part of an research project.

Technical request pages

• Wikipedia:Changing attribution for an edit (includes links to subpages with old logs)
• Wikipedia:Changing username
• Wikipedia:SQL query requests

Specific problems

• Wikipedia:List of pages whose correct title is not allowed by MediaWiki
• Wikipedia:Browser notes
• Wikipedia:Browser page size limits
• Clear your cache
• Wikipedia:Scripts
• Wikipedia:Technical assistance for katakana

Technical details

• Wikipedia:Canonicalization
• Wikipedia:Common words, searching for which is not possible
• Wikipedia:Database queries
• Wikipedia:History of Wikipedia bots
• Wikipedia:Types of bots
• Wikipedia:TomeRaider database
• Wikipedia:TomeRaider database - download instructions
• Unicode numeric conversion
• Database download
• Database queries

Wikipedia hardware

• Servers
• New server madness

Wikipedia software

• Ignored feature requests (don't request new features here)
• Wikipedia:PHP script new features
• Wikipedia:PHP script tech talk
• Lag
• Wikipedia:Bug reports (includes links to archived bug reports and feature requests)
• Wikipedia:Ignored feature requests
• Wikipedia:IRC channel scripts
• Wikipedia:MediaWiki
• Wikipedia:MediaWiki FAQ
• Wikipedia:MediaWiki future directions
• Wikipedia:MediaWiki namespace
• Wikipedia:Navigational templates
• Wikipedia:PHP script automatic wikification
• Wikipedia:Software screenshots
• Wikipedia:Software Phase III
• Wikipedia:Software status
• Wikipedia:Software updates
• Wikipedia:Template messages
• Wikipedia:Template messages:Quick reference
• Wikipedia:Unprotected MediaWiki messages
• Wikipedia:User interface ideas
• Wikipedia:Wikipedia3 documentation

Tasks and resources for Wikipedia

Ideas for contributing

• Wikipedia:Collaboration of the week
• Wikipedia:Most wanted articles
• Wikipedia:Most wanted stubs
• Wikipedia:Peer review
• Wikipedia:Requested articles
• Wikipedia:Requested pictures
• Wikipedia:Requests for summaries
• Wikipedia:Translation into English

Cleanup

• Category:Wikipedia maintenance

Main Page and current events

• Wikipedia:Editing the main page
• Wikipedia:How the Current events page works
• Wikipedia:How to archive Current Events
• Wikipedia:In the news section on the Main Page
• Wikipedia:Recent additions

Coordinating related subjects

• Wikipedia:Article series
• Wikipedia:Classbox
• Wikipedia:Companies, Corporations and Economic Information
• Wikipedia:Incumbent series
• Wikipedia:Infobox
• Wikipedia:Page footers
• Wikipedia:Manual of Style (mathematics)
• Wikipedia:WikiProject (includes links to separate WikiProjects)
• Wikipedia:Year in Review guidelines

Indexes

• Wikipedia:Category schemes
• Category:Wikipedia missing topics

Project Lists

• Wikipedia:Incomplete lists
• Wikipedia:List of common misspellings
• Wikipedia:List of controversial issues
• Wikipedia:List of lists
• Wikipedia:List of pages in the Wikipedia namespace
• Wikipedia:List of screenshots
• Wikipedia:Status of FOLDOC import
• Wikipedia:Status of the porting of the CIA World Factbook
• Wikipedia:Status of the porting of U.S. Dept of State info

List info pages

• Wikipedia:Lists (embedded lists)
• Wikipedia:Lists (stand-alone lists)

Not Sorted Yet

• Wikipedia:Eurovision
• Wikipedia:History of computing/Permission
• Wikipedia:Mirroring content
• Wikipedia:Organizations with .INT domain names
• Wikipedia:Status of FOLDOC import

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The below is from Wikipedia:Recentchanges.

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"WP:RC" redirects here and is not to be confused with Help:Related changes, the recent changes page itself, Wikipedia:Requests for closure, or Wikipedia:WikiProject Roman Catholicism.

The recent changes page is accessed from the Interaction Menu on Wikipedia's sidebar (displayed on the left side of the screen). It lists the most recent edits made to pages on Wikipedia. Using this page, you can monitor and review the latest contributions, to discover and correct mistakes and to spot and revert vandalism.

Options can be set to filter and display recent changes according to the preferred criteria (present at the top of the recent changes page, containing three sections: "This page", "Utilities" and "About us"). The available filters are featured articles, good articles, living people, new editors' contribs, IPs' contribs, mobile contribs and by namespace. It can also be filtered according to tags by typing in the specific one, such as "Visual edit", "large plot addition" or "blanking", etc.

The 'Recent changes' page is a vital tool for monitoring the latest edits on Wikipedia. It allows editors to identify and correct mistakes, spot potential vandalism, and engage with new contributors, ensuring the encyclopedia's content remains accurate and reliable.

Most (although not all) bot edits should be marked with the bot flag and be hidden by default (if enabled, they will be marked with a b in the recent changes logs and in watchlists). If you see a bot edit that shouldn't appear in the recent change logs or your watchlist, please report it to the bot operator per WP:BOTISSUE.

For a more detailed description, see the recent changes help page on MediaWiki.

See also

• Wikipedia:Recent changes patrol
• Wikipedia:Counter Vandalism Unit
• Special:AbuseLog