Here are some useful things:
New to Wikipedia?
Wikipedia goings-on
Wikipedia Policy
Frequently refered to policies/guidelines
Editing
How to edit
- Wikipedia:How to edit a page
- Wikipedia:Guide to layout
- Guide to writing better articles
- Wikipedia:Avoiding common mistakes
- Wikipedia:Make only links relevant to the context
Article standards
Working with others
Good articles/featured articles
Tools
- Wikipedia:Glossary
- Edit count (Kate's tool)
- [1] (Interiot's wannabe_kate)
- Edit count Soxred New and improved edit counter
- Geoff's Google Duel Takes two search terms and shows which is the more popular according to Google.
- ( Personal attack removed)
- ( Personal comment removed per agreement on this talk page)
- ( Derogatory comments removed per WP:RUC)
- ( Comments removed per WP:M (privileged))
Templates
- Wikipedia:Template messages
- Wikipedia:WikiProject Stub sorting/Stub types
- {{ inuse}} For articles undergoing a major edit
- {{ deletebecause}} speedy delete
- {{ afd-newbies}} who gets to vote
- {{ Fact}} citation needed
- {{ Unreferencedsect}} citations needed for section
- {{ talkheader}} basic talk page guidelines
- {{ unsigned}} note for unsigned comments (adjust date for UTC)
- Wikipedia:Cleanup resources
- {{ editprotected}}
Reading
- The Book Stops Here Wired 13.03 (March 2005)
- Special Report "Internet encyclopaedias go head to head" by Jim Giles Nature, December 14, 2005. Jimmy Wales' Wikipedia comes close to Britannica in terms of the accuracy of its science entries, a Nature investigation finds.
- " Encyclopedia Wars Heat Up", CBS News, March 28, 2006
- "Working through Wikipedia's vanity fair" Globe and Mail, May 6, 2006.
- Motivations for contributing to virtual communities
- Wikipedia:Administrators' reading list
- "Why the Internet is good"
- "The Charms of Wikipedia." Nicholson Baker. New York Review of Books, March 20, 2008.
- Fallis, D. (2009). Introduction: The Epistemology of Mass Collaboration. Episteme. The reliability of' Wikipedia.
- Cohen, N. (June 7, 2009). "The Wars of Words on Wikipedia’s Outskirts." New York Times. ArbCom.
- Civility essay by Geogre
- Beware of the tigers essay by William Pietri
Last word
-- Please don't feed the trolls!
Here are some useful things:
New to Wikipedia?
Wikipedia goings-on
Wikipedia Policy
Frequently refered to policies/guidelines
Editing
How to edit
- Wikipedia:How to edit a page
- Wikipedia:Guide to layout
- Guide to writing better articles
- Wikipedia:Avoiding common mistakes
- Wikipedia:Make only links relevant to the context
Article standards
Working with others
Good articles/featured articles
Tools
- Wikipedia:Glossary
- Edit count (Kate's tool)
- [1] (Interiot's wannabe_kate)
- Edit count Soxred New and improved edit counter
- Geoff's Google Duel Takes two search terms and shows which is the more popular according to Google.
- ( Personal attack removed)
- ( Personal comment removed per agreement on this talk page)
- ( Derogatory comments removed per WP:RUC)
- ( Comments removed per WP:M (privileged))
Templates
- Wikipedia:Template messages
- Wikipedia:WikiProject Stub sorting/Stub types
- {{ inuse}} For articles undergoing a major edit
- {{ deletebecause}} speedy delete
- {{ afd-newbies}} who gets to vote
- {{ Fact}} citation needed
- {{ Unreferencedsect}} citations needed for section
- {{ talkheader}} basic talk page guidelines
- {{ unsigned}} note for unsigned comments (adjust date for UTC)
- Wikipedia:Cleanup resources
- {{ editprotected}}
Reading
- The Book Stops Here Wired 13.03 (March 2005)
- Special Report "Internet encyclopaedias go head to head" by Jim Giles Nature, December 14, 2005. Jimmy Wales' Wikipedia comes close to Britannica in terms of the accuracy of its science entries, a Nature investigation finds.
- " Encyclopedia Wars Heat Up", CBS News, March 28, 2006
- "Working through Wikipedia's vanity fair" Globe and Mail, May 6, 2006.
- Motivations for contributing to virtual communities
- Wikipedia:Administrators' reading list
- "Why the Internet is good"
- "The Charms of Wikipedia." Nicholson Baker. New York Review of Books, March 20, 2008.
- Fallis, D. (2009). Introduction: The Epistemology of Mass Collaboration. Episteme. The reliability of' Wikipedia.
- Cohen, N. (June 7, 2009). "The Wars of Words on Wikipedia’s Outskirts." New York Times. ArbCom.
- Civility essay by Geogre
- Beware of the tigers essay by William Pietri
Last word
-- Please don't feed the trolls!