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Symbols & Numbers anniversaries. See date-related articles authority, arguing from, 54–55, 57 anonymous editors, 302, 304–305, 325 authors, of articles. See editors , in hidden comments, 158 April Fools’ Day main page, 353 autobiography, 207. See also Conflict of Interest ' (apostrophe), in bold and italic text, 145 Arbitration, policy on (ARB), 375 guideline, 378 * (asterisk), in bulleted lists, 147 , 398–400 autoconfirm, 303 : (colon), indented lines with, 146 cases, 399–400, 400 AutoWiki Browser (AWB), 210 {{ }} (curly brackets), templates and, 145, 270 arguments. See disputes awards, for editors, 333–334 == (equal signs), in sections, 155–156 article history. See page history AWB (AutoWiki Browser), 210 | (pipe character) article message boxes. See templates, image parameters, 267 uses of, warning B internal links, 149 article namespace, 27–28 table syntax, 279–280 backlinks. See What Links Here article titles, 168–169 template parameters and, 271 Bad Jokes and Other Deleted Nonsense changing. See moving pages [[ ]] (square brackets), internal links and, 149–150 (BJAODN), 351 forbidden characters in, 169 ~ (tilde), in signatures, 115, 341 bans, 403. See also blocks lowercase in, 169 1.0. See 1.0 WikiProject barnstars, 333–334 articles 3RR. See Three-Revert Rule (3RR) Be Bold, 138, 365–366 creating, 162–170, 167 5P. See Five Pillars guideline, 378 definition of, 5 1911 Encyclopaedia Britannica, 163 BEANS, 366 editing. See editing Bibliography section, 103 missing, 163 A biographies, 7 number of, 3–5, 4. See also milestones article titles and, 168–169 academic qualifications, of editors, 53–57, 316 policies for. See policies, content of living persons, 23, 52, 207 accounts. See also usernames removing. See deletion noticeboard, 344 autoconfirm, 303 structure of, 100–104, 173–175 policy on, 373 creating, 303, 305–308, 309. See also unified stubs. See stub articles sources for, 187 login topics, 7–11, 9, 20 searching for, 62 acronyms finding new, 162–163 Biography WikiProject, 7 in articles, 177 articles, scholarly published, 184 BITE (Please Don’t Bite the Newcomers), in Wikipedia, 172 Articles for creation (AfC), 163 332, 379 administrators, 327–330 Articles for Deletion (AfD). See deletion BJAODN (Bad Jokes and Other Deleted becoming, 329–330 processes, Articles for Deletion Nonsense), 351 list of, 308 assignments, using Wikipedia for, 465–466 blocks, 329, 401–403 Adopt-a-User, 333 Assume Good Faith (AGF), 332, 366–367 appealing, 344 advertisements guideline, 378 policy on, 375 and NPOV, 17 atlas, on Commons, 423 log of, 402 on Wikipedia, 451 Atom feeds, 322 policy on, 375 AfC (Articles for creation), 163 attack pages, policy, 373 warning templates for, 401 AfD (Articles for Deletion). See deletion attack sites, 155. See also harassment, processes, Articles for Deletion guideline on about Wikipedia, 358 AGF. See Assume Good Faith (AGF) Attribution, guideline, 378 as sources, 15, 187 Akçam, Taner, 119 audience, of articles, 7, 174, 176. See also writing BLP. See biographies, of living persons amateur editors, 57 style bold text, formatting, 145 ANI (Administrators’ noticeboard), 329 audio files. See media files boldness, in editing. See Be Bold

How Wikipedia Works (C) 2008 by Phoebe Ayers, Ben Yates, and Charles Matthews books messages, 102, 201–202, 201 copyvio. See copyright violations finding, 185 tasks, 202–203 corrections ISBNs of, linking, 186 fact-checking, 205–206 in articles about yourself, 207–208, 343–344 bots, 8, 326 formatting, 204–205 making. See editing contacting owner of, 291 rewriting, 203–204 Counter-Vandalism Unit (CVU), 210, 210 new article logs and, 292 stub expansion, 204 courtesy blanking, 224 policy on, 375 COI (Conflict of Interest). See Conflict of creating an account. See accounts, creating brilliant prose, 175. See also featured articles Interest (COI) creating an article. See articles, creating bullet points, 147, 147 Colbert, Stephen, 352 Criteria for Speedy Deletion (CSD). See deletion bureaucrats, 326 collaborations, article improvement, 215–216 processes, speedy deletion businesses, articles about. See companies, collaborative writing, techniques for, 138–140, criticism, of Wikipedia, 51–58 articles about 194–198 CSS. See Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) columns, formatting, 281 Cunningham, Ward, 42 C combining articles. See merging articles current events, 9, 70–71. See also comments, hidden, 158 portal, 71 cabals, 351 Commons. See reporting on, 21 cache, clearing, 133 community bans, 403 CamelCase, 453 community portal, 75, 216, 343 D Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) companies, articles about, 8, 165 in articles, 282 DAB. See disambiguation pages Compare Selected Versions link, 109. See also customizing user, 313–314 date of last page edit. See page history diff; page history categories, 88–92, 90, 104, 246–252. See also date-related articles, 87–88 conferences. See events, in-person categorizing articles defamation, reporting, 344 Conflict of Interest (COI) browsing, 91–92 DEFAULTSORT key, 255–256. See also categories, disclosures and, 316 creating, 250–251 sorting guideline on, 378, 380–381 deleting, 257 deleted articles writing about yourself and, 207 on a page, 88–89, 88 log, 219, 225 consensus, 385–386, 386 policy on, 376 recreating, 166, 226 policy on, 377 sorting, 254–256, 255 deletion, 218–227 contacting an editor through email, 303. See structure of, 89–90 case studies, 226–227, 294–295 also user talk pages subcategories of, 91–92, 250–251 contesting, 224 contacting Wikipedia, 75–76. See also OTRS categorizing articles, 93, 246–249, 248 messages, 121 with corrections, 343–344 tag, 251 of non-article pages, 224 contents page, 85 CD/DVD versions, 461 policy on, 376 contests, article writing, 334 censorship, 23–24 processes contributors. See editors chapters, Wikimedia. See Wikimedia chapters Articles for Deletion, 222–223, 223, 342 controversial topics, 195, 393–394 checkuser, 304, 326–327 proposed deletion, 221, 222, 376 controversies. See disputes requests for, 307, 327 speedy deletion, 220, 221, 376 Copyeditors, WikiProject League of, 200 Chemistry WikiProject, 214 reasons for, 219, 225 copyleft, 40 citation templates, 192–193 review, 226 copyright law, 39. See also fair use criteria citations. See references deletionism, 349 copyright violations, 208–209 Cite This Page link, 79, 464–465 developers, 327. See also MediaWiki policy on, 373 civility, 364 Dewey Decimal Classification, 86 reporting, 343–344 policy on, 374 dictionary definitions, 21. See also copyrighted materials, use on Wikipedia, 21. on talk pages, 339–340 Did you know... section, 71 See also fair use criteria cleanup, of articles, 200–211 Diderot, Denis, 36 copyrights, policy on, 373 categories, 202

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How Wikipedia Works (C) 2008 by Phoebe Ayers, Ben Yates, and Charles Matthews diffs, 108–110, 109, 321 help page, 136 FAQ page, Wikipedia’s, 343 used as evidence, 398 policy on, 373 Fashion WikiProject, 355 disambiguation pages, 10, 10, 236–239 sections, 137 featured articles, 120, 227–228 about people, 237–238 syntax. See wikisyntax candidates (FAC), 228 avoiding, 253–254 tabs. See tabs review (FAR), 228 creating, 165, 236–237 toolbar, 134–135, 135 Featured Pictures, 268 templates, 239 editors, 132 fictional characters, articles about, 8 disclaimer contribution history. See Firefox web browser in articles, guideline on, 379 demographics of, 353–354 Chatzilla IRC extension, 346 Wikipedia’s, 72 essays by, 356–359 searching Wikipedia with, 66 discussion, resolving disputes with, 387–388 experience, 119 Five Pillars (5P), 364 discussion page. See talk page privacy of, 304 footnotes, 103, 189 Discussion tab, 100. See also talk page types, 325–327 formatting, 190–191 disputes values of, 359–360 forks, of articles, POV, 391 between editors, 397–400 elections, for the Board of Trustees, 450 formatting articles, 204–205, 172–180. See also over article content, 384–390, 391–394. See participating in, 323 wikisyntax also edit wars Email This User feature, 303, 311 formatting templates, 275, 281 and polling, 395–396 emailing Wikipedia. See contacting Wikipedia Foundation. See resolving, 387–391, 397–400 embassies, 412 free licenses, 39–40. See also GNU Free policy on, 375 , 33–37, 34, 35 Documentation License (GFDL) resolving with policies, 371–372 definition, 33 free software, 38–39. See also open source disrupting Wikipedia, guideline on, 378 history, 34–36 front page, Wikipedia’s. See main page donations, 76, 451 encyclopedic dictionaries, 34 fundraisers, 451. See also donations drafting articles, 169–170 English, varieties of, 177 Further reading section, 103 drawings. See images essays, about Wikipedia, 356–359, 370 future events, articles about, 23, 164 duplicate articles. See merging articles Essjay controversy, 56–57 DYK. See Did you know... section etiquette, guideline on, 378 G events GA. See good articles E in the news. See current events gadgets, 314 in-person, 78, 347–348, 452 Eco, Umberto, 31–32 tag, 268, 425–426, 426 eventualism, 349 edit conflicts, 139 Gdan´ sk/Danzig dispute, 394–396 expertise, of editors, 54–57 edit count, 322–324 geographic topics, 8, 417. See also maps extensions, installing, 313–314 edit history. See page history historical names and, 394–395 external links. See links, external edit summaries, 108, 111, 196–197 GFDL. See GNU Free Documentation External links section, 103 jargon for, 467–470 License (GFDL) Edit This Page tab, 101 global account. See unified login F edit wars, 142–143 GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL), 21, lamest, 350 FA. See featured articles 40–41, 72–73. See also free licenses policy on, 374 Fact and Reference Check WikiProject, 200 policy, 377 resolving, 388–389 {{fact}} template, 206, 206 text of the, 491–497 edit window, 133–136, 134 fair use criteria, 263–264. See also copyright GNU General Public License (GPL), 40. See also customizing, 136, 311 violations free licenses for new article, 167, 167 on Commons, 424 GNU Project, 38–39, 39 editing and media files, 268 Go button, 60–61. See also searching collaboratively, techniques for, 138–140, policy on, 374 Godwin, Mike, 354 169–170, 194–198 family history, in articles, 22

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How Wikipedia Works (C) 2008 by Phoebe Ayers, Ben Yates, and Charles Matthews good articles, 120, 227–228 In the news section, 70–71. See also current preservation of, 410–411 candidates, 228 events script support for, 412–414, 413 Google. See search engines inclusionism, 349 sidebar section, 79–80, 79 GPL (GNU General Public License), 40. See also incubator , 411, 444 starting a new project, 411 free licenses indented lines, 146, 146. See also threaded templates, 154 Graphics Lab WikiProject, 268 discussion translations between, 417 graphs. See images infobox templates, 103, 178, 178, 273–274, 274 lead section, of articles, 173 Greek letters, displaying, 283 internal links. See links, internal legal threats, policy on, 374 groupthink, 393 International Standard Book Number (ISBN) libel, in articles guidelines, 13. See also policies; individual linking, 186 policy on, 373 guideline names , history of, 37–38 reporting, 344 development, 369 Internet Protocol (IP) addresses. See IP (Internet Library of Congress Classification, 86 list of, 378–379 Protocol) addresses library research. See research, techniques Internet Relay Chat (IRC), 346–347, 455 licensing. See GNU Free Documentation H interwiki links License (GFDL) between language editions, 414–416 links harassment, guideline on, 304, 379 between sister projects, 103, 439–442 between projects. See interwiki links hatnotes, 102, 236–238, 237 templates for, 441–442, 441 to category pages, 151 Heavy Metal Umlaut article, 352 {{inuse}} template, 139 external, 83 help, getting, 343–344 IP (Internet Protocol) addresses, 107, 304–305. attack site, 155 Help desk, 343 See also anonymous users dead, 193 help namespace, 29 blocked, 305 formatting, 152–153 {{helpme}} template, 318 IRC (Internet Relay Chat), 346–347, 455 guidelines on, 153 hieroglyphics, displaying, 414 ISBN (International Standard Book Number) in other languages, 154 history linking, 186 searching for, 64 article. See page history italic text, formatting, 145 spam, 153–154 of Wikipedia, 46–47, 47, 456–457 to image description pages, 266 History tab, 101 J internal, 82 HTML (HyperText Markup Language), 281–282 between namespaces, 150 humor, 351–352 janitors. See administrators formatting, 149–150 hypertext, 36, 157 JavaScript, customizing, 313–314 guidelines on, 151–152 HyperText Markup Language (HTML), 281–282 jokes, 352 redlinks. See redlinks I K self-link, 152 to sections, 156–157 (IAR), 364–365, 377 keyboard shortcuts, 136–137 Linux, 39 image description pages, 266 Klingon Wikipedia, 411 lists, 9–10, 83–86, 84 images. See also Wikimedia Commons bulleted, 147, 147 categories, 263 L vs. categories, 86, 247 featured, 286 languages numbered, 148, 148 gallery of, 268, 425–426, 426 constructed, 410 logging in, 308. See also accounts, creating licensing, 263–264. See also fair use criteria dead, 410 logos, history of, 47, 47, 448 on Commons, 424 editing in other, 411–412 policy, 268, 376 links between. See interwiki links M searching for, 262–263, 422–423 number of, with Wikimedia projects, m. See minor edits syntax for, 267–268 408, 411 magic words (MediaWiki variables), 284–285 uploading, 264–266, 265 portal to other, 409 immediatism, 349

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How Wikipedia Works (C) 2008 by Phoebe Ayers, Ben Yates, and Charles Matthews mailing lists, 346 mission NOR. See No Original Research (NOR) Wikimedia Foundation, 455 Wikimedia Foundation’s, 449 NOT (What Wikipedia is Not), 22–24, 377 main page, 68–72, 69 Wikipedia’s, 32–33 not notable (nn). See notability construction of, 71–72 mistakes, 119 notability, 18–20, 165–166 maintenance, of articles. See cleanup, of articles fixing, 140–142. See also editing global topics, 417 major editing tasks, 138–139 mobile device access, iii guideline on, 379 Manual of Style (MoS), 172–173 monobook. See skins, monobook noticeboards, 343 comments, hidden, 158 Moréri, Louis, 35, 35 tag, 157 disambiguation pages, 239 MoS. See Manual of Style (MoS) NPOV. See Neutral Point of View (NPOV) English, varieties of, 177 Move tab, 101 numbered lists, 148, 148 formatting guidelines in, 123 moves of content, between . See transwiki guideline, 379 moving articles, 244–246 O linking to sections, 235 blocked, 252–253 office actions, policy on, 376 self-references, 177–178 contested, 258 offline editing, 138, 170 size of articles, 243 cut and paste moves, fixing, 258 .ogg files. See media files tables, 278 discussing, 257 old versions of page, 140, 141. See also page maps, 433 music files. See media files history markup. See wikisyntax Mzoli’s Meats, 294–295 On this day... section, 71. See date-related mascot, 302 articles tag, 283 N open source, 42–44 mathematical symbols, 282–284, 284 names Open-source Ticket Request System (OTRS), formatting in TeX, 283–284 of articles. See article titles 75–76, 208 MeatballWiki, 45, 336 for biographies, 168–169 policy, 376 meatpuppets, 307, 393 of editors. See usernames original reporting. See current events MED. See mediation namespaces, 26–29 original research. See No Original media files, 94–95, 268–269 listing all pages in, 27 Research (NOR) file types, 94, 265 searching, 63 orphan article, 81, 104, 165 listening, 94–95 naming conventions, policy on, 169, 373. See OTRS. See Open-source Ticket Request templates for, 269 also article titles System (OTRS) mediation, 389, 397 Neutral Point of View (NPOV), 16–18, 18 oversight, 304, 326–327 MediaWiki, 73, 452–453 and advertisements, 17 policy on, 376 bug reporting, 452–453 and controversial topics, 394 Ownership of Articles, 170, 197–198 downloading, 452–453 and language, 179–180 policy on, 374 namespace, 29 policy, 374 meetups, 347–348. See also events, in-person and scientific research, 55–56, 185 P merging articles, 240–242 violations of, 17, 305 page history, 105–110, 106, 141 templates, 241–242, 241 New Section tab, 113 analysis, 121–122 without consensus, 257 news reading, 106–110, 140 MetaWiki, 453–5 about Wikipedia, 345 page protection. See protection milestones, 4, 6, 454, 457 articles about. See current events page title, location, 102. See also article titles news about, 345 nn (not notable). See notability page types. See namespaces minor edits, 112, 122, 138 No Original Research (NOR), 14–16, 15 paragraph breaks, 146 edit summaries for, 197 policy on, 374 parameters mirrors, of Wikipedia, 461 nofollow, 154 in image syntax, 267 misinformation and errors, 51–53, 118–119 Non-Free Content Criteria, policy on, 374. See in templates, 271–272 missing articles WikiProject, 163 also fair use criteria

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How Wikipedia Works (C) 2008 by Phoebe Ayers, Ben Yates, and Charles Matthews passwords printed version of Wikipedia, 461 Raymond, Eric, 42–44 and accounts, 309 privacy, 303–304 Recent Changes, 76–77, 77, 132 lost, 308 policy on, 73, 304 Camp, 78 resetting, 311 processes, 216–218, 360 patrolling, 209–210 peacock terms, 177 deletion. See deletion processes redirects, 10, 60, 232–236, 234 peer review, 180 dispute resolution. See disputes, resolving across namespaces, 236 people featured article. See featured articles creating, 164, 233–234 articles about. See biographies nominating administrators, 329–330 deleting (Redirects for Discussion), 257 who edit Wikipedia. See editors and policy, 360 double, 236, 245 Permanent link, 78 PROD (proposed deletion). See deletion to sections, 235 personal attacks, policy on, 375 processes, proposed deletion templates, 257 philosophies, of Wikipedians, 349–350 projects redlinks, 82 pictures. See images linking between. See interwiki links avoiding disambiguation pages with, 254 pipe code. See tables, syntax new, 455. See also incubator wiki category, 250 Planet Wikimedia ( aggregator), 358 Wikimedia. See individual project names deleted article, 225 Please Don’t Bite the Newcomers (BITE), (collaborations). See formatting, 149–150, 153 332, 379 WikiProjects lists of, 163 podcasts, about Wikipedia, 345 proposed deletion. See deletion processes, Recovery WikiProject, 202–203 POINT. See disrupting Wikipedia, guideline on proposed deletion starting new page with, 165–166 policies. See also guidelines; individual policy prose style. See writing style username displaying as, 107, 307, 315 names protection, of pages, 143–144 What Links Here and, 166 content, 11–18 because of edit wars, 143, 389 tag, 190–191 definition, 367–368 because of vandalism, 143 Reference desk, 343 development, 369–371 full protection, 143 reference works history of, 372, 377 policy on, 376 finding, 186 list of, 373–377 requests for, 144 in the public domain, 163, 186 and processes, 360 semi-protection, 143–144 references rejected, 370 proxies, open, policy, 376 in articles, 188–193, 189. See also Reliable and resolving disputes, 371–372 pseudonyms Sources; Verifiability polling in biographies, 82, 168–169 finding, 183–187 and discussion, 341–342 of editors. See usernames formatting, 188–193 guideline on, 379 public domain materials, 103–104, 163. See also inline. See footnotes and resolving disputes, 395–396 in other languages, 418 popups, 313 section, 103, 189 portals, 68–70, 70, 215, Q formatting in columns, 281 constructing, 215 templates Questions page, 343 list of, 69 for formatting references, 192–193 quotation marks, in searching, 63 namespace, 29 marking unreferenced articles, 206, 206 quotations, displaying, 147. See also Portland Pattern Repository wiki, 42–43, 43 Related Changes link, 322 Post a Comment tab, 113–114, 114 R Reliable Sources (RS), 15, 184, 186–188. See also 

 tag, 158 Verifiability RA (Requested Articles), 162 preferences, setting, 308–314, 310 guideline on, 379, 381 rambot, 8 edit window, 136, 311 renaming articles. See moving articles Random Article link, 75 signatures, 312–313 Requested Articles page, 162 ratings, of articles, 120–121 timestamps, 311 Requests for Adminship (RFA), 329–330 Raul’s Laws, 359 printable version of an article, 78 Requests for Comment (RFC), 342, 397 
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How Wikipedia Works (C) 2008 by Phoebe Ayers, Ben Yates, and Charles Matthews research sections Special:Contributions, 307, 322. See also doing, with Wikipedia, 103 editing, 37, 137 edit count original. See No Original Research (NOR) formatting, 155–156 Special:Linksearch, 64. See also links, techniques, 182–186 linking to, 156–157 external Researching Wikipedia, 360 security. See soft security Special:Listusers, 307–308 resolving disputes. See disputes, resolving See also section, 103 Special:Log, 219, 326, 402 reusing Wikipedia content, 459–462 Seigenthaler, John, Sr., 51–53 Special:MergeAccount, 420. See also guidelines self-promotion, in articles, 165 unified login policy on, 374 self-references, in articles, 177–178 Special:Mostcategories, 249 revert parole, 55 servers, Wikimedia’s, 49 Special:Newpages, 77, 288 reverting edits 140–142, 141 shortcuts Special:Preferences, 310 in disputes. See Three-Revert Rule (3RR) keyboard, 136–137 Special:Prefixindex, 172 undoing vandalism by, 110, 209 in Wikipedia namespace, 28 Special:Random, 80. See also Random reviews, of articles, 180 Show Changes button, 136 Article link revision history. See page history Show Preview button, 135–136 Special:Recentchanges, 80. See also Recent RFA (Requests for Adminship), 329–330 sidebar, left-hand, 73–80, 74 Changes RFC (Requests for Comment), 342, 397 signatures Special:Search, 60. See also search RFCU (Requests for Checkuser). See checkuser in articles, 103 Special:Statistics, 11. See also milestones Ringelbergh, Joachim, 34, 34 customizing, 306, 312–313 Special:Upload, 265. See also images, RS. See Reliable Sources (RS) on talk pages, 115–116, 341 uploading RSS feeds, 322, 323, 323 Signpost, Wikipedia, 345, 346, 346 speedy deletion. See deletion processes, Simple , 417 speedy deletion S single-user login. See unified login splitting articles, 243 {{sisterlinks}} template, 441, 441. See also spoilers, in articles, 371 sandbox, 137 interwiki links spoken articles, 95 creating your own, 170 size of Wikipedia, 3–5, 22. See also milestones Stallman, Richard, 38–39 Sanger, Larry, 46 skins stewards, 327, 454 Save Page button, 132, 135 customizing, 247, 313–314 strikethrough text, formatting, 146 schools, Wikipedia use in, 53–54, 463–466 monobook, 313 stub articles, 7 “Wikipedia Selection for Schools” DVD, 461 sockpuppets, 307, 393 messages, 104, 204 scientific research policy on, 375 quality, 181 and NPOV, 55–56, 185 potential, 307 sorting, 204 and , 55 sofixit, 365 studies, of Wikipedia, 360 and sources for, 185 soft security, 209, 335–336 subcategories. See categories, subcategories of scripts, writing. See languages, script sound files. See media files subpages, 170 support for sources in articles, 124–126. See also Reliable substitution, of templates, 272 search, 60–67, 61 Sources {{succession}} templates, 274–275 Search button, 60 spam summary style, 173 search engines, 65–67 blacklist, 154 syntax. See wikisyntax excluding Wikipedia results from, 67 guideline on, 379 sysops. See administrators search operators, 63 Special pages, 26, 29 systemic bias, 355–356 searching Special:BookSources, 186 case-sensitivity, 64 Special:Categories, 92. See also categories, T external links, 64 browsing for images, 262–263, 422–423 table of contents (TOC), 156 Special:CategoryTree, 251 non-article namespaces, 63 formatting, 285 problems, 64–65 removing, 285 
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How Wikipedia Works (C) 2008 by Phoebe Ayers, Ben Yates, and Charles Matthews tables, 278–280 unreferenced articles, 206, 206 user pages, 25–26 sortable, 280 user warning, 401 braglist, 166 syntax, 279–280 userbox, 315, 317 content of, 315–317 tabs, 100–101, 101 warning, 14, 15, 18, 102, 121 guidelines, 23 Discussion, 101. See also talk page welcome, 275, 333 user scripts, 313–314 Edit This Page, 101, 132. See also editing TeX markup, 283–284, 284 user talk pages, 25, 116–117, 318–319 History, 101. See also page history There Is No Cabal (TINC), 351 evaluating editor contributions and, 110 Move, 101. See also moving articles thesaurus new messages alert, 116, 116 Watch, 101, 319, 321. See also watchlists Roget’s, 86 replying to messages on, 117 talk pages, 113–117, 337–339, 338. See also user Wiktionary, 428 userboxes, 317 talk pages threaded discussion. See talk page, threaded for languages spoken, 315 archiving, 113, 318 discussion usernames, 305–308. See also accounts guidelines for, 116, 337–341 Three-Revert Rule (3RR), 142, 385. See also edit changing, 306–307 namespace, 29 wars finding, 307–308 signing, 115–116, 341. See also signatures policy on, 375 global. See unified login threaded discussion on, 113–115, 115 time-sensitive topics, templates, 164 guidelines, 305–306 taxobox templates, 273 TINC (There Is No Cabal), 351 policy on, 377 teachers, Wikipedia and, 464–466 titles, of articles. See article titles and real names, 315–316 Telugu Wikipedia, 410 to-do lists, article, 203 usurping, 306 templates, 145, 270–277 TOC. See table of contents (TOC) color coding of, 102 tone. See writing style, tone V creating, 275–277 toolbar. See editing toolbar vandalism, 209–210 hidden, 274 toolbox, 78–79, 78 patrolling for, 210 inline, 206, 273 tools, for editing, 210 policy on, 375 namespace, 29 transclusion, of templates, 272 undoing, 142, 209–210. See also reverting parameters, 271–272 translations. See languages, translations edits placing, 270–272 between variables substitution, 272 transportation, articles about, 9 MediaWiki, 284–285 syntax, 270–271, 276–277 transwiki, 442 in templates. See templates, parameters transclusion, 272 trivia sections, 125 Verifiability, 13–14, 14, 206 used on a page, 134, 136, 271 trolls, 341 policy on, 374 uses of Troubleshooting page, 343 version history. See page history citation, 192–193 Truth in Numbers (film), 347 video. See media files cleanup, 102, 201–202, 201 Village Pump, 342–343, 344 disambiguation, 239 U voting. See also polling formatting pages, 275, 281 Uncyclopedia, 351 in deletion debates, 342 helpme, 318 underlined text, formatting, 146 and discussion, 341–342 infobox, 103, 178, 273–274, 274 undo edit link, 142. See also reverting edits guideline on. See polling, guideline on interwiki, 441–442, 441 unicode. See languages, script support inuse (for drafting), 139 unified login, 412, 420. See also accounts, W language icons, 154 creating Wales, Jimmy, 46, 347 merging articles, 241–242, 241 universities. See schools, Wikipedia use in arbitration and, 399 navigation, 274 Unix, 37, 39 statement of principles, 334–335 stubs, 204 unusual articles, 352–353 Wikia and, 443 succession boxes, 274–275, 275 urban myths, 183 Wikimedia Foundation and, 448, 450 taxobox, 273 user namespace, 25–26
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How Wikipedia Works (C) 2008 by Phoebe Ayers, Ben Yates, and Charles Matthews WAP (mobile) access, iii policies, 450–451 warning messages. See also templates, uses of, projects. See individual project names warning links between. See interwiki links page history, 141 Wikinews, 21, 430–432, 431 user block, 401 Wikinfo, 391 Watch tab, 319–321, 321 Wikipede (mascot), 302, 302 watchlists, 101, 319–320, 320 Wikipedia 1.0 WikiProject, 121 creating on subpages, 322 Wikipedia namespace, 29 weasel words, 180 “Wikipedia Selection for Schools” DVD, 461 websites Wikipedians. See editors finding, 185 wikipedia.org portal, 409 linking to. See links, external WikipediaWeekly podcast, 345 wiki. See wiki Wikipediholism test, 325 welcome templates, 275, 333 WikiProjects, 213–215, 214. See also individual Welcoming Committee, 333 WikiProject names What Links Here, 78, 104 geographical topics, 417 and new articles, 167 list of, 215 What Wikipedia is Not, 22–24, 377 and portals, 215 Wheel War, policy on, 375 Wikiquote, 434, 434 wiki, 41–43, 443–444 WikiScanner, 305 culture, 44–46 Wikisource, 21, 434, 435–436 history, 42 , 436–437, 437 list of sites, 443 wikisyntax, 133, 144–158 software, 444. See also MediaWiki basic, 145–158 starting your own, 444 ignoring, 157–158 Wikia, 443 images, 267–268 , 21, 432–433, 432 references, 190–192 development stages, 433, 433 table, 278–280 WikiJunior, 433 template, 270–271 WikiChix group, 356 wikitext, reading, 133, 134, 248 wikification, 204–205 , 438–439, 438 wikilawyering, 371 WikiWikiWeb, 42–43, 43 wikilinks. See links, internal Wikizine, 345 wikilove, 389 Wiktionary, 21, 427–430, 428, 429 , 347, 348. See also events, in-person women, and Wikimedia, 356 Wikimedia Academies, 452 WP (shortcut), iv, 29 Wikimedia chapters, 451–452 writing style, 123, 175–177 Wikimedia Commons, 421–427, 421 tone, 124 inclusion guidelines, 424 use of language, 176–177 linking from Wikipedia, 423 writing techniques searching, 422–423 for article drafting, 169–170 uploading files to, 424–425 collaborative, 138–140, 169–170, 194–198 Wikimedia Foundation, 47–49, 448–452, 448 Board of Trustees of, 449–450 Y chapters, 451–452 years, list of, 87–88 mission, 449 
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