ଉଇକିପିଡ଼ିଆ:Quick directory

Quick directory

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

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

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

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

Wikischool of higher wikification. Share and compare your advanced wikiskills and wiki-knowhow. Anything goes.

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

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.

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 tools. 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

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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.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

Candidates for the best audio on Wikipedia.

Candidates for the best collection of inter-related articles.

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

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Here is where we handle bad articles and other rubbish.

When all else fails, delete the page from Wikipedia.

Blocking policy

For what happens to editors who engage in vandalism

Ask for help to improve a bad article to encyclopedia quality

What to do when you see vandals do damage to Wikipedia

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

Need another pair of hands? Automate your edits.

Javascripts for doing just about everything.

Tricks and techniques — fine tune your wikiskills.

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

Wikilove and appreciation

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

This page is for encouraging niceness among Wikipedians.

Funny pages

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

Documents the most ridiculous edit disputes in Wikipedia.

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

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

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

An even more extensive directory than this one.

A directory of pages and their "abbreviated redirects".