For other basic information for readers of Wikipedia, see Wikipedia:About, Wikipedia:FAQ/Readers, and the Reader's guide to Wikipedia. For a topic-based index to Wikipedia articles, see Portal:Contents.
(Note: This index is for readers of Wikipedia. For editors, see the Editor's index to Wikipedia. For other useful directories and indexes, see Wikipedia:Directory.)
Category:Main topic classifications – categories for articles
Special:CategoryTree – can generate a tree of categories, or categories and articles
User:Chris G Bot 2 – produces, for a given category, a table listing all articles within that category (and all subcategories of that category), and the status of those articles (a clone of User:PockBot, which is disabled)
Wikipedia:Categorization#Searching for articles in categories – via the standard search box (doesn't search subcategories)
CatScan - a tool that can do various types of category scans, including intersection (may or may not be using up-to-date version of database); can search subcategories
Ways to set personal preferences so as to not see some or all images:
Help:Options to hide an image (alternative to censorship)
User:Mr.Z-man/badimages
Commons (Wikimedia Commons):
Wikipedia:Wikimedia Commons – has over three million media files (photographs, diagrams, animations, music, spoken text, video clips, etc.) available for use in any Wikimedia (community) project, to which anyone can contribute; recommended place to upload free images to, rather than to Wikipedia
Commons:Welcome
Wikimedia Commons - manual that provides the essential information for people interested in contributing their own work to Wikimedia Commons
CommonsHelper – tool to generate an image description to copy-and-paste for the commons upload form (formerly called "Move-to-commons assistant")
User:Fran Rogers/CommonsHelper Helper – user script that adds a button to easily bring up CommonsHelper
User:MonoBot – fixes (some) problems when an editor doesn't do a move to Commons totally correctly
Duplicate images – tool to show duplicate files between Wikipedia and Commons
Push-for-commons – tool to show a set of images from a wikipedia, helping to find license problems, {{NowCommons}} candidates, and images that should be copied/moved to the commons.
Different customizations of the way Wikipedia pages appear, downloadable from userstyles.org/styles/ (primarily for readers) (Firefox, Thunderbird, Flock, Mozilla Suite, SeaMonkey, and Songbird browsers only)
Personal CSS:
mw:Gallery of user styles (a mix of MediaWiki-compatible skins, not selectable by editors, and personal css)
User:GeorgeMoney/UsefulCSS
User:Wolfgangbeyer/monobook.css – monobook.css optimized for color blindness
User:Trilobite/Tools – combination of CSS and JavaScript, with a note that "much of this is outdated"
Technical:
Help:User style
m:Help:Cascading style sheets
Wikipedia:Catalogue of CSS classes
Wikipedia:Useful styles
m:Customize page layout – should be at Mediawiki; how to rework standard page seen by all non-logged in readers
WikiLook – Firefox add-on that provides Wiktionary information about any word on a screen, when specially selected (shift or highlight plus mouse move)
Most recent version – £3.00 requested payment; includes £1 donation to the Wikipedia Foundation [sic]
Slightly older English version (free)
Wikipedia-iphone – complete download for iPhone or iPod Touch
Infodisiac downloads (for Windows Mobile/Pocket PC, regular Windows O/S, and Palm)
Webaroo – download of all Wikipedia articles as a set of web pages, for off-line reading (horribly out-of-date)
Eedit
Email:
Help:Email confirmation
Wikipedia:Emailing users
Encyclopedia:
Wikipedia:Wikipedia is an encyclopedia (WP:ENC)
Wikipedia:What Wikipedia is not#Wikipedia is not a paper encyclopedia (WP:NOT#PAPER)
Wikipedia:External peer review – information on formal and informal reviews of the overall quality of Wikipedia articles, done by outside experts, not initiated within Wikipedia
Wikipedia:Size comparisons
Wikipedia:Wikipedia is a work in progress (WP:WIP) (essay)
Wikipedia:There is a deadline (essay) - Why it's important to contribute now
Wikipedia:List of Wikipedians by featured list nominations
Pictures:
Wikipedia:Featured pictures
Sounds:
Portal:Featured sounds
Fun:
Wikipedia:Department of Fun
Wikipedia:List of shortcuts/Project shortcuts#Department of fun
Wikipedia:April Fool's Main Page
Games:
Category:Wikipedia games
Wikigames at Wikia
Wikipedia:Wikipedia holidays
Gedit
Geocoding:
GeoPedia – provides iPhone owners with a Wikipedia feed customized to their current location
mw:Beta Features/Nearby Pages - Adds a button to the top right corner of pages that contain geographical information, to get the reader to "nearby" pages
Showing existing Wikipedia articles on a map:
Wikimapia
Google:
Google Maps has an option, under "More", to place markers showing Wikipedia articles
Wikipedia:Purging Google search results (WP:GOOGLEPURGE) - how to remove vandalism, etc., from cached copies of Wikipedia articles in Google search results
User:AmiDaniel/WhodunitQuery – Windows application that identifies the edit and user who added a specific word or phrase
"wikipedia blame": October 2008 blog posting and 1450 articles processed using the code
For counts and major contributors:
WikiDashboard – when going to a new page, puts a count of top editors, and a histogram of edit activity, at the top of the page (Quick Guide)
Revision counter[dead link] – counts revisions (edits) (at the toolserver)
WikiSense - Contributors – lists edits, similar to page history, but can be sorted by contributor; easy to exclude different groups (at the toolserver)
Wikipedia Page History Statistics – builds an edit history overview page
WikiChecker
Article Contribution Counter (beta) – tool that identifies major contributors to an article (at the toolserver) (a similar feature request is at Bug# 7988)
Articleinfo - Article revision statistics
Other:
History Flow Visualization Application
Wikipedia Animate – user script; shows the evolution of a page, like a webcast
Iedit
Images:
General:
Wikipedia:Ten things you may not know about images on Wikipedia
Ways to set personal preferences so as to not see some or all images:
Help:Options to hide an image (alternative to censorship)
User:Mr.Z-man/badimages
Jedit
Journals:
Wikipedia:Journal sources
Ledit
Library books
Wikipedia:Forward to Libraries - to find books on an article's subject at a reader's local library
Wikipedia article traffic statistics – the 1000 pages with the most views (for April 2013) [last checked: November 2013]
For any specific article or other page:
Monthly chart for any specified page ("Wikipedia article traffic statistics") (for pages that are not articles, include the namespace as a prefix) ("Hendrik's tool")
tools:~emw/wikistats/ - Wikipedia article traffic statistics (alpha, as of November 2013)
Raw counts – beginning (24 hourly snapshots per day) December 10, 2007 (announcement)
Quickbar: (the set of links on the left side of the page, often called the "left sidebar")
User:Equazcion/SidebarTranslate - translates inter-language links into English
Redit
Random article:
Reading:
Any page within a specified namespace:
Special:Random (in the standard navigation box on the left) (adding a suffix – /Category, /Help, /Image, /Portal, /Template, /User, or /Wikipedia) will take you to a random page in those namespaces)
Images (files): maximum size, default size for "thumbnail" images
"Gadgets" tab:
"Browsing" section
"Appearance" section
"Compatibility" section
Searching Wikipedia: (see also
In general: Help:Searching
Across language Wikipedias: Global Wikipedia Article Search
From within Wikipedia:
Search engine:
"MediaWiki search engine improved" (Signpost article, November 2008)
Special:Search – regular search with a wider box to enter text
Test web interface for lucene-search 2.1
User:Zocky/Auto Complete – auto-completes the titles of articles in the search box (JavaScript) (no longer required as of May 2008; this is built into the search function now)
Invoking search:
Wikipedia:FAQ/Main Page#Why doesn't the cursor appear in the search box, like with Google? – provides JavaScript so that the page focus is automatically in the search box
Other:
Special:Prefixindex – lists articles that begin with any chosen initial character string
From outside Wikipedia:
Firefox:
Using Wikipedia for the search box provides an autocomplete feature
Creating a smart keyword – can replace "site:en.wikipedia.org" in searches
Similpedia – uses a URL or a chunk of text to find similar articles in Wikipedia
AskWiki – semantic search engine developed in partnership between AskMeNow and the Wikimedia Foundation (beta)
Powerset – natural language search of Wikipedia
Yahoo's Wikipedia SearchMonkey App
Seariki – search engine specifically designed for Wikipedia [(http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikien-l/2007-December/088027.html December 2007 announcement])
Powerset – semantic search (May 2008)
Googlepedia – Firefox add-on; shows a relevant Wikipedia article along with Google search results
Robots.txt file – specifies search engines that are not allowed to crawl all or part of Wikipedia, as well as pages/namespaces that are not to be indexed by any search engine
Wikipedia:Talk pages not indexed by Google (feature request)
Wikipedia:Requests for comment/NOINDEX
Tools:
Wikipedia:Tools#Searching (may eventually merge into Help:Searching)
Wikipedia:User scripts#Searching
Social networking:
Wikipedia:What Wikipedia is not#Wikipedia is not a blog, Web hosting service, social networking service, or memorial site (WP:NOT)
Wikipedia:User pages (WP:USER)
Sharing pages:
Wikipedia:Perennial proposals#Share pages on Facebook, Twitter etc. - add "Like" buttons and "Share" widgets
User:TheDJ/Sharebox - script that adds new buttons that make it easier to mail, print or share an article on Facebook or another linksharing service
Spelling:
Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Proper names
U.S. and Commonwealth differences:
Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Spelling
Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Capital letters
Wikipedia:List of spelling variants
Wikipedia:Articles using British English titles
Wikipedia:Articles using American English titles
Wikipedia:Manual of Style/National varieties of English (failed proposal)
Wikipedia:Perennial proposals#Enforce American or British spelling
Spoiler: Wikipedia:Spoiler (WP:SPOIL) (guideline)
Tedit
Table of contents:
Help:Section – covers several aspects of TOCs
Tables:
Help:Sorting
Translations:
Wikipedia in different languages – overview:
Wikipedia:Multilingual coordination
Information about languages, and translation aids:
mw:Extension:Live Translate
m:List of Wikipedias
Help:Multilingual support (guide to fonts)
Moving information from other language Wikipedias to the English Wikipedia
Wikipedia:Translation
Wikipedia Bilingual – side-by-side display of an article in any two languages in which it is available (Firefox browser extension)
Uedit
User account and username (also called "useraccount", "login", and "user login") (see alsoLogging in, Privacy, User pages)
Registered versus unregistered editing:
Wikipedia:Why create an account? – benefits to a person who decides to register
Wikipedia:The benefits of requiring account creation on Wikipedia (essay) – arguments against allowing IP editors
Wikipedia:The benefits of not requiring account creation on Wikipedia (essay) – arguments in favor of IP editors
Wikipedia:IPs are human too (essay) - arguments on not assuming IP editors do not make positive contributions
Starting out:
Wikipedia:Username policy (WP:U)
Wikipedia:Tutorial/Registration
Special:Userlogin – to request an account
Wikipedia:Request an account – for those who wish to create an account but cannot read the CAPTCHA image that is part of the standard registration process as of February 2007
mw:Extension:SignupAPI
mw:API:Account creation
Help:Email confirmation
Inappropriate usernames:
Wikipedia:Usernames for administrator attention – blatantly inappropriate usernames
Removing accounts without any edits:
wmf:Privacy policy#User accounts and authorship
Single signon ("single login", "single user login", "SUL"):
Bug# 57 – request for this feature
Signpost articles: August 2006, August 2007
m:Help:Unified login and m:Single signon transition – moving to a single username (signon) across all Wikipedia domains
mw:Extension:CentralAuth – "allows global/shared accounts between projects"
For a listing of current collaborations, tasks, and news, see the Community portal. For a listing of ongoing discussions and current requests, see the Dashboard.
