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This index is to help people who edit pages on Wikimedia Commons, or upload files here. If you just want to read the English ''Wikipedia'', try [[w:Portal:Contents]], [[w:Wikipedia:About]] or [[w:Wikipedia:FAQ/Readers]].
*[[Commons:Editor's index to Commons/About|About this index]] – Tips on how to use this index, and instructions on maintaining consistency when making (or considering) changes to this index. Most important tip: try searching the index with {{keypress|[[w:Ctrl|Ctrl]]|F}} or {{keypress|[[w:Command key|{{unicode|&#x2318;}}]]|F}} in your Web browser.
*Some of the links in this index point to pages on the English Wikipedia and elsewhere. English Wikipedia pages are not treated as formal policy on Commons, but may nevertheless serve as a helpful guide.
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== A ==

* Abuse: [[#Copy|copyright]] infringement, [[#Vandal|vandalism]], or [[#Sock|sock puppetry]]
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* Access (limiting): (''see also'' [[#Enforce|Enforcement]])<span id="Acc"></span><span id="Access"></span> 
** Tor:
***[[mw:Extension:TorBlock]] (editing through tor requires 100 edits and 90 days to become autoconfirmed, as of June 2008)
***[[w:Wikipedia:Advice to users using Tor to bypass the Great Firewall]]
** Preventing abuses via open proxies:
***[[w:Wikipedia:Open proxies]] ([[w:WP:NOP]]) (policy)
***[[Commons:WikiProject on open proxies]]
***[[m:WikiProject on open proxies]]
***[[Commons:Open proxy detection]]
* Account: ''see'' [[#User a|User account and username]]
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* Administrators: (''see also'' [[#Access|Access (limiting)]], [[#Delete|Deletion]], [[#Enforc|Enforcement]])<span id="Adm"></span><span id="Admini"></span><span id="Admin"></span>
** General information:
***[[Commons:Administrators]]
***[[Commons:Guide to adminship]] ([[COM:GTA]])
** Contacting an administrator: (see also specific topics such as [[#Vandal|Vandalism]])
***[[Commons:Administrators' noticeboard/Attention]] – a directory of places to request administrator help (page is inactive for discussion)
***[[Commons:Administrators' noticeboard/Vandalism]]
***[[Commons:Administrators' noticeboard/User problems]]
***[[Commons:Administrators' noticeboard/Blocks and protections]]
***[[Commons:Administrators' noticeboard]] ([[COM:AN]]) - none of the above; for coordinating and discussing administrative tasks on Commons
** Current administrators:
***[[Commons:List of administrators]]
***[[Special:Listusers/sysop]]
***[[:Category:Commons administrators]]
* AGF: "assume good faith"
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* Archiving pages: <span id="Arc"></span><span id="Archiv"></span><span id="Archive"></span>
**[[User:MiszaBot]] - automatically archives a page, such as a talk page
* ARR: "All rights reserved".
* Assessment: ''see'' [[#Qualit|Quality of articles]] <span id="Ass"></span><span id="Assess"></span>
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* Assistance (disputes): (''see also'' [[#Conten|Content disputes]], [[#Help|Help]], [[#Person|Personal attacks]], [[#Question|Questions]]) <span id="Assist"></span>
* Audio clips: ''see'' [[#Media|Media]] 
* Awards: <span id="Awa"></span><span id="Awards"></span><span id="Award"></span>
**[[Commons:Barnstars]]
**[[Commons:Media competitions and awards]]

== B ==
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* Backlogs: <span id="Backlog"></span><span id="Backlogs"></span>
**[[Commons:CommonTasks]] (inactive project)
* Banners: 
**At the top of pages and sections: ''see'' [[#Template|Templates]] (in general) and specific topics as well (articles, talk pages, maintenance, etc.)
* Banning: ''see '' [[#Enforc|Enforcement]]
* Barnstars: ''see'' [[#Awards|Awards]]
* Behavior (''see also'' [[#Disrup|Disruptive editing]], [[#Enforc|Enforcement]], [[#Person|Personal attacks]], [[#Spam|Spam]], [[#Vandal|Vandalism]]) <span id="Beh"></span><span id="Behavi"></span><span id="Behave"></span>
**[[Commons:Language policy]] <small>(proposed)</small>
**[[Commons:Blocking policy]]
**[[Commons:Protection policy]]
**[[Commons:Administrators/De-adminship]]
**[[Commons:Ownership of pages and files]]
**[[Commons:Talk page guidelines]]
**[[Commons:User-specific galleries, templates and categories policy]]
**[[Commons:Vandalism]]
**[[m:Don't be a dick]] 
* Blocks: ''see '' [[#Access|Access (limiting)]], [[#Enforc|Enforcement]]
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* {{anchor|blur}}Blur. See [[Commons:Blur]]. A blur may be applied to a portion of an image to make that portion of the image less distinct, typically to obscure a copyrighted object within the image or to hide identifying information (e.g. a face, a license plate, etc.).
* Boldness: [[Commons:Don't be bold]] (essay)
* Bots: (''see also'' [[#Tools|Tools]], [[#User s|User scripts]]) <span id="Bots"></span><span id="Bot"></span>
**[[Commons:Bots]] - computer programs which automate repetitive editing tasks on Commons
**[[Commons:Bots/Requests]]
**[[Commons:Bots/Work requests]]
**[[Commons:Bots/Bots List]]
**[[Commons:Rename a category#Bots]]
**[[Commons:AutoWikiBrowser]]
**[[Commons:MediaMoveBot]] 
**[[w:WP#EIW#Bots]] - information about bots on the English Wikipedia
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* Browsers (for Wikipedia editing): (''see also'' [[#Editin|Editing software]]) <span id="Bro"></span><span id="Browse"></span><span id="Browser"></span>
**[[w:WP:EIW#Browser]]
**[[Commons:Screenshots#Browsers]]
* Bundesarchiv: ''see'' [[#GFA|German Federal Archives]]
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* Bugs: <span id="Bugs"></span><span id="Bugs  "></span><span id="Bug"></span>
**[[Commons:Bugs]] ([[COM:BUG]])
**[[mediazilla:]] – Wikimedia's old Bugzilla (now redirected to [[phabricator:]])
**[[mw:How to report a bug]]
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* Bureaucrats – folks who handle special, higher-level administrative tasks <span id="Bur"></span><span id="Bureau"></span><span id="Crat"></span>
**[[Commons:Bureaucrats]]
**[[Commons:List of bureaucrats]]

== C ==
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* CAPTCHA: <span id="CAPTCHA"></span>
**[[Special:Captcha]]
**[[MediaWiki:Captchahelp-text]]
* Captions: ''see'' [[#Images|Images]] <span id="Captio"></span>
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* Categories: <span id="Catego"></span><span id="Cat"></span><span id="Category"></span>
** General information:
***[[Commons:Categories]] – ([[COM:Cat]]) (guideline)
***[[m:Help:Category]] - general help on categories from the MediaWiki Handbook
***[[Commons:First steps/Sorting]] - how to sort and categorize images and other media files
***[[Commons:Naming categories]]
***[[Commons:Rename a category]]
***[[Commons:Guide to layout/Category pages]]
*** Cat – abbreviation for category (see also [[#HotCat]] and [[#Cat-a-lot]])
** Listings of categories:
***[[Special:Categories]] – alphabetical category listing
***[[:Category:Fundamental]] – fundamental categories
***[[Special:CategoryTree]] – can generate a tree of categories, or categories and articles
***[[tools:~daniel/WikiSense/CategoryIntersect.php|CatScan]]
***[[Commons:Tag categories]] - for organizing messagebox templates (incorrectly called "tags")
***[[:Category:Commons category schemes]] - manually-edited pages that display subject-specific portions of the category scheme on Commons
** Possible problems with categories:
***[[Commons:Categories for discussion]] – page to discuss (and nominate) the deletion, merging, and renaming of categories ([[COM:CFD]])
***[[Special:Wantedcategories]] – red link categories on pages
***[[Special:Uncategorizedcategories]] – category pages without at least one parent category
***[[Special:Unusedcategories]] – categories not used for any page
** Files without categories:
***[[Special:UncategorizedPages]]
** Intersection of two categories:
***[[m:User:Duesentrieb/CatScan]] – [[tools:~daniel/WikiSense/CategoryIntersect.php|CatScan]] 0 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
***[[m:Help:DPL]] – a MediaWiki extension supporting intersections and other set operations of pages belonging to several categories
** Keeping templates from creating categories when they shouldn't:
***[[User:Willscrlt/commons/Category suppression in templates (en)|Category suppression in templates]]
** Bots: <span id="Catbot"></span>{{Shortcut2|COM:EIC#Catbot}}
***[[Commons:Bots/Requests]] 
** Tools:
***[[Commons:AutoWikiBrowser]]
***{{anchor|HotCat}}[[Help:Gadget-HotCat]] - In "Gadgets" tab of [[Special:Preferences]], augments category bar with quick links to remove, change, or add categories
***{{anchor|Cat-a-lot}}[[MediaWiki talk:Gadget-Cat-a-lot.js]]
***[[tools:~agony/incatsince/]] - In category since – tool to list all articles in a category that have been so since a specified date
***[[User talk:CommonsDelinker/commands]]
** Types of categories:
***Hidden categories:
****[[w:Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/2008-03-03/Hidden Categories|March 2008 ''Signpost'' article]]
****[[:Category:Hidden categories]]
***Maintenance categories: a hidden category intended to be seen by other Commons editors, but not by the general public. [[:Category:Commons maintenance]] and its direct or indirect descendants.
***Topical categories: these are the categories most people are aware of, the ones that you can see without being logged in (at least in the PC interfaces; as of 2024-09, categories have not been implemented in some mobile interfaces).
***[[Commons:User-specific_galleries,_templates_and_categories#Categories|User categories]]: a type of hidden category, marked with <kbd>{{tlp|user category|''username''}}</kbd>. We allow a lot of latitude for these, but they should not be used to express opinion (e.g. no "Jimmy's favorites" or "photos I like").
** Other:
***[[bugzilla:6943]] – Bug # 6943 – Magic word for number of items in a category
***[[Wikipedia:Template messages/Category namespace]]
***[[mw:Extension:CategoryTree]] – describes <nowiki><categorytree> tags</nowiki> that can be added to articles so that a category for that article can be viewed as a dynamic tree on that page. (Using the page [[Special:Categorytree]] is faster, unless the tags are permanent.)
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* Censorship: <span id="Cen"></span><span id="Censor"></span>
**[[Commons:Project scope#Censorship]]
**[[w:Wikipedia:What Wikipedia is not#Wikipedia is not censored]]
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* CFD (or CfD): "[[Commons:Categories for discussion|Categories for discussion]]"
* CIR: "competence is required"
* COI: "conflict of interest"
* Common sense: (''see also'' [[#Proces|Process]]) <span id="Com"></span><span id="Common"></span><span id="Sense"></span>
**[[Commons:Use common sense]] ([[COM:SENSE]]) (proposed guideline)
**[[Commons:Tools#CommonSense]] - web based tool for finding appropriate categories for images on Commons
**[[m:Don't be a dick]]
**[[w:Wikipedia:There is no common sense]] (essay) – ''Base your argument on existing agreements, foundation issues and the interests of the project, not your own common sense.''
**[[:Category:Commons proposed policies and guidelines]]
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* Commons (Wikimedia Commons): <span id="Commons"></span>
**[[w:Wikipedia:Wikimedia Commons]] – has over 13 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]] 
**[http://floss.booktype.pro/wikimedia-commons/introduction/ Wikimedia Commons] - manual that provides the essential information for people interested in contributing their own work to Wikimedia Commons, but needs an update
**[[Commons:Categories]] ([[COM:Cat]]) (guideline)
**[[Commons:Tools]]
** Uploading: (''see also'' [[#Upload|Uploading]])
***[[Commons:Tools#Upload media]]
***[[Commons:Tools/Commonplace]] – Windows/Linux program for drag-and-drop uploading (dysfunctional now)
***[[tools:~bryan/flickr/upload|Upload image]] – tool to upload images from [[Flickr]] (not working, 2023)
** Moving images to (from Wikipedia):{{Shortcut2|COM:EIC#MoveToCommons}}<span id="MoveToCommons"></span>
***[[w:Wikipedia:Moving images to the Commons]]
***[[w:Wikipedia:WikiProject Moving free images to Wikimedia Commons]]
***[[w:Wikipedia:Criteria for speedy deletion#F8]] ([[w:WP:CSD#F8]]) - final step in the move-to-Commons procedure: speedy deletion criteria for files on Wikipedia after someone copies them to Commons
***[[tools:~magnus/commonshelper.php|CommonsHelper]] – tool to generate an image description to copy-and-paste for the commons upload form (formerly called "Move-to-commons assistant")
****[[User:Magnus Manske/Commonshelper interface/Help en]] - documentation for CommonsHelper
***[[User:Fran Rogers/CommonsHelper Helper]] – user script that adds a button to easily bring up CommonsHelper
***[[w:User:MonoBot]] – fixes (some) problems when an editor doesn't do a move to Commons totally correctly 
***[[tools:~magnus/cgi-bin/duplicate_images_across.pl?lang=en&max=10|Duplicate images]] – tool to show duplicate files between Wikipedia and Commons
***[[tools:~magnus/pushforcommons.php|Push-for-commons]]  – tool to show a set of images from a wikipedia, helping to find license problems, [[w:Template:NowCommons|NowCommons]] candidates, and images that should be copied/moved to the commons.
** Other:
***[[w:Category:Wikimedia Commons administrators]] – English Wikipedia editors who are admins at the Commons
***[[m:User:CommonsDelinker]] – bot that removes links from Wikipedias (all languages) when an image is deleted at Commons
***[[tools:~magnus/iCommons.php|Commons interface for the iPhone]]
***[[tools:~magnus/cgi-bin/flommons.pl|Flickr-like interface to Commons]] (no logins or uploads)
***[[tools:~magnus/commons_sumitup.php|Commons sum-it-up]]  – tool to generate a summary text for pages on Commons, using Wikipedia articles in different languages
* Communications (communicating with other editors): ''see'' [[#Messag|Messages]]
**[[Commons:Discussion index]] ([[COM:DI]])
* Community: ''see'' [[#Community|Wikipedia as community]]
* Community portal: [[Commons:Community portal]] (''see also'' [[#Community|Wikipedia as a community]])
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* Consensus and voting: <span id="Consen"></span><span id="Consensus"></span>
**[[w:Wikipedia:Consensus]] ([[w:WP:CON]]) (policy on Wikipedia; Commons appears to have no separate policy on consensus)
**[[m:Power structure]]
**[[m:Polling is evil]]
* Conservation: [[Commons:Taxobox]] (COM:TX) (inactive)
* Content (how-to): ''see'' [[#Dispute|Content disputes]], [[#Edits |Edits (in general)]], [[#New ar|New articles]], [[#Style |Style (articles)]]
* Content disclaimer: [[Commons:General disclaimer]]
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* Content disputes: (''see also'' [[#Consensus|Consensus]], [[#Contro|Controversial articles]], [[#Disrup|Disruptive editing]], [[#Neutra|Neutral point of view]], [[#Person|Personal attacks]]) <span id="Conten"></span><span id="Dispute"></span>
** General policies and guidelines: (in addition to [[w:WP:NOR]], [[w:WP:V]], [[w:WP:NPOV]], etc.)
***[[Commons:Disputes noticeboard]] ([[COM:DN]]) 
***[[Commons:Project scope/Neutral point of view]] - ''It is not the role of Commons to adjudicate on subject-matter disputes nor to force local projects to use one version of a file''
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* Content notes: ''see'' [[#Notes|Notes]]
* Controversial images: (''see also'' [[#Conten|Content disputes]]) <span id="Contro"></span><span id="Controvert"></span>
**[[Commons:Deletion requests/Inappropriate cartoons]]
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* Conversion: <span id="Conver"></span>
** Converting page content from one format to another: ''see'' [[#Export|Exporting (a page)]], [[#Imp|Importing]]
** Converting one unit of measurement into another: ''see'' [[#Units |Units of measurement]]
** Converting media file formats:
***[[Commons:Software]]
* copyfraud: {{anchor|copyfraud}} usually, making a false claim of owning a copyright one does not own, especially on material that is actually in the public domain. Can also sometimes refer to claiming material is in the public domain when it is not.
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* "{{w|Copyleft}}". Properly speaking, copyleft refers to the legal technique of granting certain freedoms over copies of copyrighted works with the requirement that the same rights be preserved in derivative works, a.k.a. "viral licensing". Loosely, the term is sometimes used to refer to free licensing in general.
** "Copyleft trolling" (a term that uses "copyleft" loosely) occurs when somoene publishes an image with a free license, but then threatens a lawsuit with substantial damages for  violations of copyright, for relatively innocuous failures to comply with the terms of the license (e.g. the license might require reusers to link to the terms of the license, and someone sues when they were properly named as author, but the license link was missing; someone sues for a substantial sum over a Facebook post with almost no reach; etc.). Typically the intent is not so much to win in court as to have someone pay to avoid the legal hassle.
* Copyright: (''see also'' [[#Legal|Legal]], [[#Upload|Uploading]]) - how to determine what is acceptable to upload to Commons<span id="Copyright"></span><span id="Copyri"></span><span id="Copy"></span><span id="Cop"></span>
** In general:
***[[Commons:Project scope/Precautionary principle]] ([[COM:PRP]]) - in general, assume a media file is not {{w|free content}} unless we can prove it is free
***[[Commons:Licensing]] ([[COM:L]]) - gives non-lawyers an overview of complicated copyright laws through an example-based tutorial
***[[Commons:Project scope#Must be freely licensed or public domain]]
***[[Commons:Copyright rules]] (guideline)
***[[Commons:Non-copyright restrictions]]
***[[Commons:FAQ#Copyright questions]]
***[[Commons:Image casebook]] ([[COM:CB]]) - discusses copyright issues with many types of images
***[[Commons:Choosing a license]] - how to donate your own work under a free license
***[[Commons:Derivative works]] ([[COM:DW]]) - usually you should not upload works derived from other copyrighted works onto Commons
***[[w:Idea-expression divide]] - a concept which explains the appropriate function of copyright laws
** Specific cases:
***[[Commons:Currency]] - copyright rules for currencies of various nations
***[[Commons:Fan art]] ([[COM:FAN]]) - artistic re-creations not licensed by the copyright holder of the original work are generally not suitable for Commons
***[[Commons:Screenshots]] - A screenshot may be published under a free license only if ''all'' the graphics shown have a free license, or the copyright holder agrees to license the screenshot freely via [[#VRTVRT]]
** Public domain:
***[[w:Wikipedia:Public domain]] ([[w:WP:PD]]) - extensive discussion of what "public domain" means
***[[Help:Public domain]] - helps determine whether a given work is in the public domain (especially older works), and which [[:Category:License tags|template (i.e. ''license tag'')]] to use
***[[Commons:Donate to the public domain]] - how to donate your work to the public domain
***[[Commons:Reuse of PD-Art photographs]]
***[[Commons:When to use the PD-Art tag]] ([[COM:PDART]]) - {{t|PD-Art}} asserts that a photograph of an old, public domain, two-dimensional work of art can have no independent copyright
***[[Commons:Stamps]] - a list of postage stamps by country that are in the public domain
***[[Commons:Hirtle chart]] - a best effort guide to determine when images enter the public domain in the United States
** Fair use, non-free use: (''see also'' [[#FairUse|Fair use]])
***[[Commons:Fair use]] ([[COM:FAIRUSE]])
**** See also [[#EDP|Exemption Doctrine Policy]]
***[[m:Avoid Copyright Paranoia]] – discussion
***[[Commons:Freedom of panorama]] ([[COM:FOP]])
***[[Commons:De minimis]] ([[COM:DM]]) - copying of such trivial nature it can be ignored
** Requesting permission from copyright holders (''see also'' [[#VRT|VRT]]):<span id="Permreq"></span>{{Shortcut2|COM:EIC#Permreq}}
***[[Commons:Permission]] - as of July, 2009, a proposed guideline explaining what to do about images having the {{Tl|Npd}} (no permission) template
***[[w:Wikipedia:Requesting copyright permission]] ([[w:WP:COPYREQ]])
***[[w:Wikipedia:Example requests for permission]] ([[w:WP:ERFP]])
***[[Commons:Email templates]] (not actually [[#Template|templates]] in the [[#MediaWiki|MediaWiki]] technical sense, but rather boilerplate letters one can customize)
** Copyright tags (i.e. templates, incorrectly called "tags") (''see also'' [[#Upload|Uploading]]):<span id="Ctags"></span>{{Shortcut2|COM:EIC#Ctags}}
***[[Commons:Copyright tags]]
***[[Commons:Image copyright tags visual]]
***[[Commons:Creative Commons copyright tags]]
***[[:Category:PD-USGov license tags]] – copyright tags for U.S. government images
** Problems:
***[[Commons:Deletion policy]] ([[COM:DP]])
***[[Commons:How to detect copyright violations]]
***[[foundation:Designated agent]] – for notification of claimed infringement
*** Categories for problem images:
****[[:Category:Copyright violations]] ([[:CAT:CV]])
****[[:Category:Copyright statuses]]
****[[:Category:Items with disputed copyright information]]
****[[:Category:Images with disputed copyright status]]
****[[:Category:Public domain due to copyright expiration]]
*** Bots to find problems:
**** Images:
*****[[User:BetacommandBot]]
*****[[User:STBotI]] – tags images for relatively speedy deletion
*****[[User:John Bot II]] – tags images that lack adequate copyright information
***[[w:Wikipedia:Media copyright questions]] - a page for asking questions on the [[w:English Wikipedia]]
** Using Commons content: <span id="Reusing"></span>{{Shortcut2|COM:EIC#Reusing}}
***[[Commons:Reusing content outside Wikimedia]] ([[COM:REUSE]])
***[[Commons:Enforcing license terms]] ([[COM:ENFORCE]])
***[[Commons:GNU Free Documentation License]]
**** Text at [[Commons:GNU Free Documentation License]])
****[[w:Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/2008-11-17/GFDL 1.3|"GFDL 1.3 released, will allow Wikimedia migration to Creative Commons license"]] (''Signpost'' article, November 2008)
****[[m:Licensing update/Questions and Answers]]
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* Copyvio: "copyright violation"
* Counts (of edits, for an editor): (for counts of edits for a page, see [[#History|History (of a page)]]; for counts of views, see [[#Page_v|Page views]]) <span id="Counts"></span><span id="Count"></span>
**[[w:Wikipedia:Tools#Edit counters]]
**[[tools:~tangotango/milestone.php|Milestone]] – finds the ''nth'' edit of an editor
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* [[w:Creative Commons|Creative Commons]]: (''see also'' [[#Copy|Copyright]], [[#Flickr|Flickr]], [[#Free|Free media resources]])<span id="CC"></span><span id="Creative"></span>
** Information about the Creative Commons licenses that Wikimedia Commons allows:
***[[Commons:Licensing#Well-known licenses]]
***[[Commons:First steps/License selection#Better practices]]
** Templates for identifying the Creative Commons licenses of media files:
***[[Commons:Creative Commons copyright tags]]
***[[:Category:CC license tags]]
** Finding media under Creative Contents licenses:
***[[Commons:Free media resources/Free content search engines]] - lists some ways to search the Web for content under Creative Commons licenses
*** Media on Commons under Creative Commons licenses:
****[[:Category:Creative Commons licenses]]
** Other:
***[[:Category:Creative Commons Newsletter]]
***[[w:Wikipedia:Transition to CC-BY-SA]] - (proposal) - Wikipedia may change its licensing from the [[w:GFDL|GFDL]] to CC-BY-SA
***[[w:Wikipedia:Comparison of GFDL and CC-BY-SA]]
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* Credentials: <span id="Cre"></span><span id="Creden"></span><span id="Cred"></span>
**[[w:Wikipedia:There is no credential policy]] – Wikipedia has no policy on whether credentials should either be disregarded or verified, Commons probably follows this
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* CSD: [[Commons:Criteria for speedy deletion]], a.k.a. [[COM:CSD]]; sometimes used as a verb (e.g. "CSDed") meaning either speedy-deleted or nominated for speedy deletion
* Current events: (''see also'' [[#News|News about Commons]])<span id="Cur"></span><span id="Curren"></span><span id="Current"></span> 
**[[Wikinews]] (sister project)
**[[Commons:Deletion requests/Current events]] - Commons no longer has a Current events page
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* Customization: (''see also'' [[#Quickbar|Quickbar]], [[#Signat|Signatures]]) <span id="Cus"></span><span id="Custom"></span>
** Via "my preferences":
***[[Special:Preferences]]
***[[w:Help:Preferences]]
** Via the Gadgets tab in "my preferences" – see [[#Gadget|Gadgets]]
** Via JavaScript: ''see'' [[#User s|User scripts]]
** Via [[w:Cascading Style Sheets]] (CSS):
***[[w:Help:Cascading style sheets]]
*** Skins:
****[[m:Customization:Explaining skins]]
****[[MediaWiki talk:Monobook.css]] – place to discuss changes to the Monobook skin (standard skin that editors get by default)
****[http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=site%3Auserstyles.org%2Fstyles%2F+Wikipedia&btnG=Google+Search 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:
****[[m:Gallery of user styles]] (a mix of MediaWiki-compatible skins, not selectable by editors, and personal css)
*** Technical:
****[[w:Help:User style]]
****[[m:Help:Cascading style sheets]]
****[[MediaWiki:Common.css]]
****[[m:Customize page layout]] – should be at Mediawiki; how to rework standard page seen by all non-logged in readers
*** Editors who know CSS: [[w:Category:User css]]

== D ==
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* Data download: ''see'' [[#Download|Downloading all of Commons]], [[#Querie|Queries (database)]] (for individual pages, ''see'' [[#Export|Exporting (a page)]])
* Database query: ''see'' [[#Querie|Queries (database)]]
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* Dates: (''see also'' [[#Current|Current events]]) <span id="Dat"></span><span id="Dates"></span><span id="Dates "></span>
**[[Commons:Manual of Style (dates and numbers)]]
**[[Commons:Naming conventions (numbers and dates)]]
**[[Commons:Manual of Style#Chronological items]]
**[[m:Dynamic dates]]
**[[Help:Calendar]] – code to include the image of a small '"calendar page", including a time display, on a Wikipedia page
** Wikilinking of dates:
***[[Commons:Manual of Style#Dates]]
***[[Commons:Manual of Style (dates and numbers)#Date autoformatting]]
***[[Commons:Manual of Style (dates and numbers)/Date autoformatting]] (essay)
***[[Wikipedia talk:Manual of Style (dates and numbers)/Archive D1#A new parallel syntax for autoformatting dates]]
***[[bugzilla:4582]] – Bug #4582 – provide preference-based autoformatting for unlinked dates
**[[Commons:Neutral point of view/BCE-CE Debate]] (failed proposal) -->
* Decision-making: ''see'' [[#Consen|Consensus and voting]], [[#Functi|Functionaries]], [[#Wikime|Wikimedia Foundation]]
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* Deletion: (''see also'' [[#Catego|Categories]] for deletion of categories, [[#Copyright|Copyright]] for reasons to delete some media files, [[#Red|Redirect]] for deletion of redirects, etc.)<span id="Del"></span><span id="Deleti"></span><span id="Delete"></span>
**[[Commons:Deletion policy]] ([[COM:DP]])
**[[Commons:Deletion requests]] ([[COM:RFD]])
**{{Tl|Deletion menu}}
**[[Commons:How to detect copyright violations]]
**[[Commons:Project scope]]
**[[Commons:Licensing]]
**[[Special:Log/delete]]
**[[Commons:Superseded images policy]] ([[COM:SUP]]) - deletion of superseded images has been suspended indefinitely
* Deletionist: ''see'' [[m:Deletionism]]
* Diagrams: ''see'' [[#Graphi|Graphics]]
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* Dictionary: <span id="Dic"></span><span id="Dictio"></span><span id="Dict"></span>
**For [[Wiktionary]], ''see also'' [[wikt:Main Page]]
**Another alternative: [[w:Urban Dictionary]]
**[https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/7675 WikiLook] – Firefox add-on that provides Wiktionary information about any word on a screen, when specially selected (shift or highlight plus mouse move)
* Diff: ''see'' [[#Histor|History (of a page)]]
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* Directories: (''see also'' [[#Index|Indexes]]) <span id="Dir"></span><span id="Direct"></span><span id="Directory"></span>
**[[Commons:Picture requests]]
**[[Special:Specialpages]] – a list of special pages that are automatically generated and cannot be edited
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* Disambiguation (''see also'' [[#Moving|Moving a page]], [[#Naming|Naming an article]]) <span id="Dis"></span><span id="Disamb"></span><span id="Disambig"></span>
**[[w:Wikipedia:Disambiguation]] ([[w:WP:DAB]]) (guideline on Wikipedia - I don't see a separate guideline for Commons)
**[[Commons:Language policy]] ([[COM:LP]])
** Bots:
***[[User:Polbot]] – removes piped linking on disambiguation pages (function #5)
***[[User:RussBot]] – automated bot for disambiguation
** Templates:
***[[:Category:Disambiguation and redirection templates]]
***[[Template:Otheruses]]
** Other:
***[[:Category:Disambiguation]]
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* Disclaimers: <span id="Discla"></span><span id="Disclaim"></span>
**[[Commons:General disclaimer]]
** On the English Wikipedia:
***[[w:Wikipedia:General disclaimer]]
{{Shortcut2|COM:EIC#Discuss}}
* Discussion pages: (''see also'' [[#Help|Help]], [[#Questi|Questions]], [[#Talk p|Talk pages]]) <span id="Discuss"></span>
**[[Commons:Discussion index]] ([[COM:DI]])
**{{Tl|Discussion menu}} - navigation template with links to major discussion pages on Commons
**[[:Category:Image detail for discussion]] - images uploaded specifically for discussing improvements
* Disputes: ''see:'' [[#Conten|Content disputes]], [[#Person|Personal attacks]]
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* Disruptive editing (''see also'' [[#Conten|Content disputes]], [[#Enforce|Enforcement]], [[#Person|Personal attacks]]) <span id="Disrup"></span>
**[[Commons:Blocking policy]]
**[[Commons:Username policy]]
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* Downloading all of Commons: (''see also'' [[#Mobile|Mobile access]], [[#Querie|Queries (database)]]; for downloading individual pages, ''see'' [[#Export|Exporting (a page)]]) <span id="Download"></span>
**[http://download.wikimedia.org/commonswiki Wikimedia Downloads of text content from Commons] – unfortunately, no bulk download of images is available yet
**[http://stable.toolserver.org/poty/static/ Picture of the year archives for 2006 and 2007]
* DR: [[Commons:Deletion requests|Deletion request]]
* DW: [[Commons:Derivative works]]

== E ==
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* Edit conflicts: <span id="Edi"></span><span id="Edit c"></span><span id="EditCon"></span>
**[[w:Help:Edit conflict]] – when two editors simultaneously edit the same page or section
**[[bugzilla:1510]] – Bug #1510 – provide "edit warning" for pages when someone else has just started editing – software change proposal
**[[bugzilla:4745]] – Bug #4745 – section edit conflict expands edit box to entire article – proposal to change MediaWiki software behavior when edit conflict involves only a section of a page
* Edit notices: ''see'' [[COM:EIC#Messageboxes]]
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* Edit summary: <span id="Edit s"></span><span id="EditSumm"></span>
**[[Help:Edit summary]]
**[[w:Wikipedia:Edit summary legend]] – commonly used abbreviations
**[[w:Wikipedia:Edit summary legend/Quick reference]]
**[[Commons:Automatic edit summary]] ([[COM:AES]])
**[[Special:Preferences]], Editing tab – has option for a prompt (message) when you click "save" but edit summary is blank
**[[w:Wikipedia:WikiProject User scripts/Scripts/Force edit summary alternative]] – flashes a summary box rather than displaying a message that no edit summary was entered
**[[bugzilla:10105]] – Bug #10105 – Allow editing of edit summaries after the fact
**[[w:Wikipedia:Perennial proposals#Automatically prompt for missing edit summary]]
**[[m:Help:Dummy edit]] – generally for the purpose of posting an edit summary
* Edit wars: ''see'' [[#Conten|Content disputes]]
* Editing: ''see'' [[#Edits|Edits (in general)]]
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* Editing interface (for text; user interface): (''see also'' [[#Browse|Browsers]]) <span id="EdiS"></span><span id="Editin"></span><span id="EditSoft"></span><span id="Interface"></span>
** Modifying the standard Wikipedia text editing window: ''see'' [[#Edits|Edits (in general)]]
**[[mw:Markup spec/ANTLR]] – general specifications for existing markup syntax
** Wikimedia Foundation initiative (2009-2010):
***[[foundation:Press releases/Wikipedia to become more user-friendly for new volunteer writers|Press release: Wikipedia to become more user-friendly for new volunteer writers]] (December 3, 2008)
***[[foundation:Stanton Grant Q&A|Stanton Grant Q&A]]
**[[mw:Extension:Uniwiki Generic Edit Page]] - extension that replaces the default editing page of Mediawiki with a section-based editor (unimplemented)
** Using an external editor:
***[[w:Wikipedia:Text editor support]]
***[[Help:External editors]]
***[[w:Wikipedia:WikiProject User scripts/Scripts/External editor]] – adds a tab to easily invoke an external editor
***[[w:Wikipedia:MozEx tutorial]] – how to use the MozEx extension of Mozilla and Mozilla Firefox to select a page editor
***[[w:Wikipedia:Wikipedia-mode.el]] – [[Emacs]]
***[http://sourceforge.net/projects/plog4u/ Eclipse Wikipedia Editor at SourceForge.net]
** [[w:WYSIWYG]]: <span id="WYSIWYG"></span>{{Shortcut2|COM:EIC#WYSIWYG}}
***[[mw:WYSIWYG editor]]
*** Possible candidates:
**** [[w:FCKeditor]]:
*****[http://mediawiki.fckeditor.net/index.php/FCKeditor_integration_guide FCKeditor integration guide]
*****[[mw:Extension:FCKeditor (by FCKeditor and Wikia)]]
*****[http://mediawiki.fckeditor.net/index.php/Main_Page Demo site of the MediaWiki+FCKeditor project]
**** Wikiwyg:
*****[http://demo.wikiwyg.net/wikiwyg/demo/wikipedia/ Demo of Wikiwyg for Wikipedia]
*****[[mw:Extension:Wikiwyg]]
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* Edits (of text; in general) (''see also'' [[#Edit s|Edit summary]], [[#Editing software|Editing software]], [[#Format|Formatting of text]], [[#Help|Help]], [[#New ar|New articles]], [[#New ed|New editors]], [[#Page revision|Page revisions]], [[#Pre|Preview]], [[#Qua|Quality of articles]], [[#Source|Sources]]) <span id="Edits"></span><span id="Edits "></span><span id="Edit"></span>
**[[Help:Contents]]
** Standard editing screen:
***[[w:Help:Edit toolbar]]
***[[MediaWiki talk:Edittools]]
*** Modifying:
****[[w:Wikipedia:Tools/Editing tools]]
****[[w:Wikipedia:WikiProject User scripts/Scripts#Editing]] – user scripts that add search and replace, quick preview, and modifications to the edit toolbar
****[http://help.wikia.com/wiki/Custom_edit_buttons Custom edit buttons] (information at [[w:Wikia]], which uses the [[#MediaWiki|MediaWiki]] software that Wikipedia also uses)
**[[w:Help:Editing FAQ]]
**[[m:Help:Dummy edit]] – generally for the purpose of posting an edit summary
** Enhancements for edit mode:
***[[w:User:Zocky/Search Box]] – search and replace
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* Elections: <span id="Elect"></span>
**[[Commons:2008 Election suffrage poll]]
**[[Commons:Picture of the Year]] ([[COM:POTY]]) - decided by vote
**[[:Category:Commons votes archives]]
* EDP: see [[#EDP|Exemption Doctrine Policy]]
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* Email: <span id="Ema"></span><span id="Email "></span><span id="Email"></span><span id="E-mail"></span>
**[[w:Help:Email confirmation]]
**[[w:Wikipedia:E-mailing users]]
**[[Commons:Email templates]] ([[COM:ET]])
**[[Commons:VRT]] ([[COM:VRT]]) - email-based procedure to provide permission to use a photo freely
**[[Commons:Privacy policy#E-mail, mailing lists and IRC]]
* Embedded citations: ''see'' [[#Source|Sources]]
* Endnotes: ''see'' [[#Source|Sources]]
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* Enforcement of Commons policies: (''see also'' [[#Admini|Administrators]], [[#Arbitr|Arbitration]], [[#Functi|Functionaries]], [[#Protec|Protection of pages]]) <span id="Enf"></span><span id="Enforc"></span><span id="Enforce"></span>
** General:
***[[Commons:Administrators' noticeboard]] ([[COM:AN]])
***[[:Category:Commons maintenance]]
** Blocks: (''see also'' [[#Access|Access (limiting)]])
***[[Commons:Blocking policy]] ([[COM:BP]])
***[[Commons:Administrators' noticeboard/Blocks and protections]] ([[COM:AN/B]])
***[[:Category:User block templates]]
***[[Special:Log/block]] – log of blocks
*** Blocking IP addresses:
****[[w:Wikipedia:Blocking IP addresses]]
****[[Commons:IP block exemption]] ([[COM:IPE]], a.k.a. IPBE) (policy)
****[[mw:Help:Range blocks]]
****{{tl|Blocked school}}
****[[Special:Ipblocklist]] – List of currently blocked IP addresses and usernames (searchable)
****[[m:Global blocking]] – new extension; implemented August 2008 
*** Actions by blocked editors:
****[http://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/unblock-en-l Requesting unblocking via the Unblock-en-l mailing list]
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* Enforcement of licenses of Commons content: [[Commons:Enforcing license terms]]
* Essays: <span id="Ess"></span><span id="Essays"></span><span id="Essay"></span>
**[[:Category:Commons essays]]
* Etiquette: see [[#Behave|Behavior]]
* {{anchor|EDP}} Exemption Doctrine Policy (EDP): a policy for a Wikimedia "sister project" spelling out under what circumstances they allow the use of non-free media. Under [[:foundation:Resolution:Licensing_policy|Wikimedia Licensing Policy]], unlike the other sister projects, Commons is ''specifically'' a repository of free media and is not allowed to adopt an EDP.
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* Exporting (a page): (''see also'' [[#Download|Downloading all of Wikipedia]])<span id="Export"></span>
**[[w:Help:Export]]
**[[Special:Export]]
**[[mw:Manual:Parameters to Special:Export]]
**[[mw:Extension:Collection]] – organizing a personal selections of pages into a collection
** PDF:
***[http://sourceforge.net/projects/wikipdf/ WikiPDF]
***[[w:Wikipedia:WikiReader#Resources]]
***[http://blogpaper.com/mediawiki2pdf Mediawiki2pdf] (shows sample Wikibooks url, but reportedly works for Wikipedia articles as well]
***[http://leuksman.com/log/2008/03/27/html-to-pdf-why-so-hard/ March 2008 analysis of options for Wikipedia's servers] – by [[User:Brion VIBBER|Brion Vibber]], Wikipedia's chief developer
**[[m:Alternative parsers]] – programs and projects to translate MediaWiki's text markup syntax into something else, such as HTML
**[[w:Wikipedia:Wiki Markup Language]] (WKML) (historical)
* Extensions: ''see'' [[#MediaW|MediaWiki]]
* External links: ''see'' [[#Source|Sources]], [[#Urls|URLs]]

== F ==
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* FAQs – ''see'' [[#Help p|Help pages]], or specific topics in this index
**[[Commons:FAQ]] ([[COM:FAQ]])
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* Fair use: (''see also'' [[#Copy|Copyright]])
**[[Commons:Fair use]] ([[COM:FU]])
* Featured content: (''see also'' [[#Quality|Quality images]], [[#Valued|Valued images]])<span id="Fea"></span><span id="Featur"></span><span id="Feature"></span>
{{Shortcut2|COM:EIC#Feature}}
**[[Commons:Featured pictures]] ([[COM:FP]])
**[[Commons:Featured sounds]] ([[COM:FS]])
**[[Special:Prefixindex/Commons:Featured]]
**[[:Category:Featured pictures]]
**[[:Category:Formerly featured pictures]]
**[[:Category:Featured pictures on Wikimedia Commons]]
**[[:Category:Featured sounds]]
**[[:Category:Featured picture templates]]
**[[Commons:Quality images]]
**[[Special:Prefixindex/Commons:Quality]]
**[[Commons:Valued images]]
**[[Special:Prefixindex/Commons:Valued]]
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* Files: (''see also'' [[#Copyright|Copyrights]], [[#Image|Images]])<span id="File"></span><span id="Files"></span>  
**[[Commons:File types]]
**[[w:Wikipedia:Graphic Lab/Resources/SVG]]
**[[:Category:Commons resources]] - resources, help, tools, links, FAQs, labs, software, etc..
**[[Commons:Map resources]]
**[[Commons:Chart and graph resources]]
**[[:en:Wikipedia:Graphic Lab/Image workshop]] 
**[[meta:Philip Greenspun illustration project/Requests]] - request creation/improvement of illustrations
**[[w:Wikipedia:WikiProject Illustration|Wikipedia:WikiProject Illustration]] - Ask project members for help
**[[w:Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Illustration|Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Illustration]] - Ask at this talk page
**[[w:Category:Wikipedia image help|Category:Wikipedia image help]]
**[[Commons:Guide to layout/File description pages]]
** Names:
***[[MediaWiki:Titleblacklist]] - contains rules for filenames that Commons does not allow, when evaluating the "Destination filename" field on the [[Special:Upload|upload form]]
***[[mw:Extension:Title Blacklist]] - documents the syntax for the filename rules
** Moving/renaming:
***[[bugzilla:709|Bug #709]] – code has been written (not implemented as of mid-May 2008) to allow editors to rename/move images and other media files
***[[Commons:FAQ#How can I rename/move an image or other media file?]]
***[[Commons:File renaming]]
** File-related tutorials:
***[[Commons:First steps/Quality and description]]
***[[Commons:Media help]]: Help for how to play and create media files
***[[Help:Converting video]]: Help for converting video format
***[[Help:Creating a DjVu file]]
***[[Help:Scanning]] - how to create a scan, once you have determined that scanning is permissible
***[[Commons:Software]]: If you need help with viewing or creating these formats, please see the useful software
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* Flags: <span id="Fla"></span><span id="Flags"></span><span id="Flags "></span><span id="Flag"></span>
** Of nations:
***[[Commons:WikiProject Flags]]
** Bot-related: (''see'' [[#Bot|Bots]])
***[[Commons:Bots/Requests]]
{{Shortcut2|COM:EIC#Flickr}} <span id="Flickr"></span>{{anchor|FLICKR}}
* {{w|Flickr}} (photo-sharing site). (''See also'' [[#Free|Free media resources]])
**[[:Category:Commons Flickr resources]]
**[[Commons:Flickr files]] ([[COM:FLICKR]])
**[[Commons:Flickr files/Guide]]
**[[Special:Prefixindex/Commons:Flickr files]] - subpages
**[[Commons:WikiProject Flickr]] ([[COM:WPF]])
** Reviewing images uploaded from Flickr:
***[[:Category:Flickr images needing human review]]
***[[Commons:Flickr files/reviewers]] 
***{{Tl|Flickrreview}}
** Tools:
***'''[http://wikipedia.ramselehof.de/flinfo.php Flinfo]''' - fills out an {{Tl|Information}} template for a Flickr photo
****[[User:Flominator/Flinfo]] - instructions for using Flinfo
****[[User:Teratornis/Flickr examples]] - worked out examples of uploading photos using Flinfo
***[http://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Upload&uselang=fromflickr&uploadformstyle=basic Simple Commons upload form] to paste the {{Tl|Information}} template from Flinfo into
***{{Tl|Flickr free}} - search for photos with licenses suitable for Commons
***Magnus' [http://tools.wikimedia.de/~magnus/flickr2commons.php Flickr2Commons upload tool page] (instant copying)
***[[:mw:Manual:Pywikipediabot/flickrripper.py|Flickrripper]] - for batch uploading large numbers of images
** Problems:
***[[Commons:Flickr washing]] ([[COM:FLICKRW]]) - an unacceptable tactic for making unfree images appear to be free
* FOP: [[Commons:Freedom of panorama]]
* Form (as input): [[w:Help:Inputbox]] (a MediaWiki extension to add predefined HTML forms to wiki pages)
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* Formatting of text: (''see also'' [[#Export|Exporting (a page)]]) <span id="For"></span><span id="Format"></span>
** How to: (most text formatting instructions are on Wikipedia rather than Commons)
***[[w:Wikipedia:Manual of Style (text formatting)]] – bold, italics, underlines, etc.
***[[w:Wikipedia:How to edit a page#Wiki markup]]
***[[w:Help:Wikitext examples]]
***[[m:Help:Reference card]] – one page summary of important MediaWiki editing commands, intended to be printed out
***[[Help:HTML in wikitext]] 
***[[w:Wikipedia:Tutorial (Formatting)]]
*** Quick reference guides:
****[[w:Wikipedia:Cheatsheet]] ([[w:WP:CHEAT]])
****[http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/05/Cheatsheet-en.pdf Short, printable "cheatsheet"] on Wikimedia Commons
<!--- ***[[User:DarknessLord/EA TUT Thing]] – guide to basic markup (brief tutorial) page blanked; still available in page history --->
***[[w:Wikipedia:Manual of Style (command-line examples)]] – for articles on [[w:computer science]], how to format words that an editor would type, useful for documenting [[#Tools|tools]]
*** Colors: <span id="Color"></span>{{Shortcut2|COM:EIC#Color}}
****[[w:Wikipedia:Colours]] (Manual of Style)
****[[w:Wikipedia:WikiProject Color]]
** Discussion of MediaWiki's syntax:
***[http://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitext-l Wikitext-l mailing list]
***[http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikitext-l/ Wikitext-l Archives]
* Formulas: ''see'' [[#Graphi|Graphics]]
* Forum shopping: see [[w:Wikipedia:Spam#Forum shopping]]
* Foundation: ''see'' [[#Wikime|Wikimedia Foundation]]
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* Free license: on Commons, this nearly always means a [[Commons:Licensing#Acceptable licenses license acceptable for Commons]. There are licenses that others might consider "free" but which don't meet Commons' requirements.
* Free media resources (''see also'' [[#Flickr|Flickr]] and [[#GFA|German Federal Archives (Bundesarchiv)]])<span id="Free"></span> 
**[[Commons:Free media resources]]
**[[Special:Prefixindex/Commons:Free media]]
**[[Commons:Free media resources/Drawing]]
**[[Commons:Free media resources/General Public Domain sources]]
**[[Commons:Free media resources/Music]]
**[[Commons:Free media resources/Painting]]
**[[Commons:Free media resources/Photography]]
**[[Commons:Free media resources/Sound]]
**[[Commons:Free media resources/Video]]
**[[Commons:Free media resources/Photography]]
**[[w:Wikipedia:Public domain image resources]]

== G ==
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* Gadgets: (new tab, since December 2007, on the "[[Special:Preferences|My preferences]]" page) <span id="Gadgets"></span><span id="Gadget"></span>
**[[Commons:Gadget]] - overview of what gadgets are, with useful links
**[[mw:Extension:Gadgets]]- a way for editors to pick JavaScript or CSS based "gadgets" that other Wikipedia editors have created, via "my preferences" (implemented December 2007)
**[[MediaWiki:Gadgets-definition]]
**[[Special:Gadgets]] – shows underlying scripts and CSS code used for each gadget
**[[w:Wikipedia:Gadget]] ([[w:WP:GADGET]]) – lists the available gadgets on Wikipedia
{{Shortcut2|COM:EIC#Gallery}}
* Galleries (''see also'' [[#Images|Images]]) <span id="Gal"></span><span id="Galler"></span><span id="Gallery"></span>
**[[Commons:Guide to layout/Gallery pages]]
**[[Commons:Galleries]] 
**[[Commons:Featured galleries]] - still under development as of July, 2009
** For maintenance:
***[[Special:UncategorizedPages]] - galleries (and other pages) without any category 
***[https://petscan.wmcloud.org/?psid=29114368 Gallery pages without Gallery categories] for gallery page with a gallery tag but without a gallery category
***[https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?search=-pages+-taxon+-incategory%3A%22Disambiguation_of_galleries%22&title=Special%3ASearch&profile=advanced&fulltext=1&ns0=1 Gallery pages with no Gallery category and no gallery tag]
***[[:Category:Commons gallery maintenance]]
** Related information from the English Wikipedia:
***[[w:Help:Images and other uploaded files#Gallery tag, category, table of images]]
***[[w:Wikipedia:What Wikipedia is not#Wikipedia is not a free web host]]
***[[w:Wikipedia:Gallery tag]]
** Other:
***[[Commons:Collages]] - combination of multiple images arranged in a single image
* Games: ''see'' [[#Fun|Fun]] (for games ''within'' Wikipedia), [[#Video |Video games]]
* {{w|Gaussian blur}} - see [[#blur|Blur]]
* General disclaimer: [[Commons:General disclaimer]]
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* Geocoding (graphic coordinates and mapping): (''see also'' [[#Maps|Maps]]) <span id="Geo"></span>
**[[Commons:Geocoding]] ([[COM:GEO]])
**[[Commons:GeoCommons]]
**[[Commons:Map resources]]
**[[Commons:Geocode Users]]
**[[Commons:Microformats Project]] - geo microformat
**[[w:Wikipedia:Obtaining geographic coordinates]]
**[[w:Wikipedia:WikiProject Geographical coordinates]]
**{{Tl|Location}} template for adding coordinates to media files
**[http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProjekt_Georeferenzierung/Wikipedia-World/en Wikipedia-World] – international co-ordination page for the multilingual usage and analysis of the geographical data collected in various projects
**[http://www.iphonefaq.org/archives/97405 GeoPedia] – provides iPhone owners with a Wikipedia feed customized to their current location
** Mapping articles:
***[http://www.placeopedia.com/ Placeopedia] – connects Wikipedia articles with places
*** Google:
****Google Maps has an option, under "More", to place markers showing Wikipedia articles
****[http://earth.google.com/userguide/v4/geoweb_faq.html About the Google Earth Geographic Web Layer]
{{Shortcut2|COM:EIC#GFA|COM:EIC#Bundesarchiv}}
* German Federal Archives (''see also'' [[#Free|Free content resources]])<span id="Bundesarchiv"></span><span id="GFA"></span>
** [[w:German Federal Archives]] or '''Bundesarchiv''' ('''BArch''') (German: ''Bundesarchiv'') are the [[w:National Archives]] of [[Germany]]
**[[Commons:Bundesarchiv]]
**[[Commons:Bundesarchiv/Gallery]]
**[[Special:Prefixindex/Commons:Bundesarchiv]] - subpages
**[[:Category:Bundesarchiv]]
{{Shortcut2|COM:EIC#Gloss}}
* Glossaries: <span id="Glo"></span><span id="Glossa"></span><span id="Gloss"></span>
**For terms used by Wikipedia editors, ''see'' [[#Terms|Terms and terminology]]
**For glossaries that are articles (content), ''see'' [[w:Portal:Contents/List of glossaries]]
**[[w:Wikipedia:Glossary]] ([[w:WP:G]]) - list of terms used on Wikipedia (many also used on Commons)
**[[w:Wikipedia:Alphabet soup]] - list of abbreviations used on Wikipedia for various pages, processes, policies, and proposals
**[[Commons:Language policy#Titles of articles]] - contains a short glossary of terms
**[[Commons:Photography terms]]
* Good faith: ''see'' [[#Person|Personal attacks]]
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* Google:<span id="Google"></span>
**[[w:Google Earth]]: ''see'' [[#Maps|Maps]]
**Google test: ''see'' [[#Search|Search engine test]]
**[[w:Wikipedia:Google Web Accelerator]] – the accelerator should be disabled for the wikipedia.org domain
**[[m:Mirror filter]] – Firefox extension which removes sites which mirror Wikimedia content from Google search results
**[http://www.dmoz.org/Computers/Software/Groupware/Wiki/Topics/ The page where Google gets its description of Wikipedia] – at dmoz.org
**[[w:Template:Google templates]] - a list of templates that generate links to various Google services (e.g. [[w:Template:Google|search]], [[w:Template:Google custom|custom search]], [[w:Template:Google images|image search]], [[w:Template:Google translation|language translation]])
{{Shortcut2|COM:EIC#Graphic}}
* Graphics (''see also'' [[#Gallery|Galleries]], [[#Images|Images]], [[#Inkscape|Inkscape]], [[#Map|Maps]]) <span id="Gra"></span><span id="Graphi"></span><span id="Graphic"></span>
**[[w:Wikipedia:Graphics tutorials]]
**[[w:Help:Displaying a formula]] – markup
**[[w:Wikipedia:ASCII art conversion tool]]
**[[w:Wikipedia:Chemical ASCII-art]]
**[[w:Wikipedia:How to create graphs for Wikipedia articles]]
**[[Commons:Graphic Lab]] (aka "Graphics Lab")
**[[Commons:Graphics village pump]] ([[COM:GVP]]) - where to get help with graphics
**[[Special:Prefixindex/Graphic]]
** Diagrams:
*** Greenspun Illustration Project:
****[http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/foundation/5/51/WMF_Greenspun_Illustration_Project_Proposal.pdf Grant proposal (pdf)] 
****[[m:Philip Greenspun illustration project]]
****[http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.org.wikimedia.foundation/32238 August 2008 announcement that Round 1 of the PGIP is open]
***[[Special:Prefixindex/Diagram]]
***[[w:Wikipedia:How to draw a diagram with Dia]]
***[[w:Wikipedia:How to draw a diagram with Microsoft Word]]
***[[User:Al2/Tutorial about Illustrations]]
***[[Commons:Meet our illustrators]]
** Other:
***[[Commons:Collages]] - combination of multiple images arranged in a single image
***[[mw:Extension:GraphViz]]
***[[:Category:Graphics abilities]] - categorizes users by their graphics skills
* Guestbooks: ''see'' [[#User p|User pages]]
* Guidelines: ''see'' [[#Polici|Policies and guidelines]]

== H ==
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* Hardware: ''see'' [[#Techni|Technical (hardware and software)]]
* Harassment (aka "Harassment"): ''see'' [[#Person|Personal attacks]]
{{Shortcut2|COM:EIC#Help}}
* Help (directly requesting): (''see also'' [[#Discuss|Discussions]], [[#Questi|Questions]]) <span id="Hel"></span><span id="Help ("></span><span id="Help"></span>
**[[Commons:Help desk]] ([[COM:HD]]) - general help questions
***[[Commons:Help desk/Archives]]
**[[Commons:Village pump]] ([[COM:VP]]) - technical questions
***[[Commons:Village pump/Archive]]
**[[Commons:Graphics village pump]] ([[COM:GVP]]) - questions about graphics
***[[Special:PrefixIndex/Commons:Graphics village pump]] - to list the archive pages
**[[Commons:Village pump/Copyright]]  [[COM:VPC]] questions about copyright
**[[Commons talk:Licensing]] - licensing/copyright questions
***[[Special:PrefixIndex/Commons talk:Licensing/Archive]] - to list the archive pages
**<small>''To-do'': list the other places to request various kinds of assistance</small>
{{Shortcut2|COM:EIC#HelpPage}}
* Help pages: (for pages that are help-oriented for a specific topic, ''see that topic''); ''see also'' [[#Assist|Assistance (disputes)]], [[#Learni|Learning]], [[#Questi|Questions]] <span id="Help p"></span><span id="HelpPage"></span><span id="HelpPages"></span>
**[[Help:Contents]] – help directory
** Frequently asked questions:
***[[Commons:FAQ]] 
** Categorized pages:
***[[:Category:Help]]
***[[:Category:Commons help]]
** Categorized images:
***[[:Category:Help for Wikipedia newbies]] - screenshots to illustrate tutorials
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* History (of a page): <span id="His"></span><span id="Histor"></span><span id="History"></span>
**[[w:Wikipedia:How to read an article history]]
**[[w:Help:Page history]]
**[[w:WP:EIW#History]] - more entries on the Editor's index to Wikipedia

== I ==
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* Images: (''see also'' [[#Censor|Censorship]], [[#Commons|Commons]], [[#Copyri|Copyrights]], [[#File|Files]], [[#Galler|Galleries]], [[#Graphi|Graphics]], [[#Inkscape|Inkscape]], [[#Naviga|Navigation]]) <span id="Ima"></span><span id="Images"></span><span id="Image"></span>
** General information:
***[[Commons:Valued images]]
***[[Commons:Image casebook]] ([[COM:CB]]) 
***[[Commons:First steps/Upload form]]
***[[Commons:First steps/Quality and description]]
***[[Commons:Licensing]]
** Needed pictures:
***[[Commons:Picture requests]]
** Resources (where to get images) (''see also'' [[#Common|Commons]], [[#Flickr|Flickr]], [[#Free|Free media resources]]):<span id="ImgResources"></span>{{Shortcut2|COM:EIC#ImgResources}}
***[[Commons:Free media resources/Photography]]
***[[tools:~magnus/fist.php|Free Image Search Tool]]
***[[Commons:Photography event calendar]]
** Before uploading:
***[[Commons:Preparing images for upload]]
***[[Commons:Media restoration]]
***''Dispatches: Vintage image restoration'', [[w:Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/2008-03-13/Dispatches]]
** Uploading: (''see also'' [[#Commons|Commons]])
***[[Commons:First steps]] - overviews the process
***[[Commons:Upload]] – wizard
***[[MediaWiki:Uploadtext]] – warns about the need to specify the source of an upload, and copyright information
***[[Commons:Upload]]
***[[Commons:Copyright tags]]
***[[Special:Upload]]
***[http://creativecommons.org/about/licenses Choosing a License] – explanations of what the various Creative Commons options are
** Displaying on a page: (''see also'' [[#Gallery|Gallery]])
***[[Commons:First steps/Quality and description]]
** Featured and valued: (''see also'' [[#Feature|Featured content]])
***[[Commons:Featured pictures]]
***[[Commons:Featured picture candidates]]
***[[Commons:Valued images]]
** Improving images:
***[[Commons:Media for cleanup]]
***[[Commons:Graphic Lab]]
***[[Commons:Graphic Lab School/Images to improve]] (place to request assistance)
** Cropping images:
***[[bugzilla:7757]] – Bug #7757 – allow cropping images when rendered – proposal to enable display of only part of an image
***[[User:Cropbot]] - a bot which crops an image without requiring the user to download a copy
** Metadata: (''see also'' [[#Geo|Geocoding]])
***[[Commons:EXIF]] - how to edit the [[w:EXIF|EXIF]] data of a [[w:JPEG|JPEG]] image
** Annotating:
*** [[Help:Gadget-ImageAnnotator]] - Javascript extension allowing users to place comments onto images shown on file description pages
** Collages:
***[[Commons:Collages]] - combination of multiple images arranged in a single image
** Problem images on Wikipedia: (other than [[#Copyri|Copyrights]])
*** Deletion: (''see'' [[#Delete|Deletion]])
*** Orphans:
****[[Commons:Tools#OrphanImages]]
****[[Special:Unusedimages]]
****[[tools:~interiot/cgi-bin/queries/young_orphans|Young Orphans]] – tool to find newly uploaded orphaned images (not functioning as of mid-October 2007)
***[[Special:FileDuplicateSearch]] – search function for duplicate files in imagespace (duplicate images) (uses hash values)
*** Automation:
**** Bots:
*****[[User:STBotI]] – tags images for relatively speedy deletion
*****[[User:John Bot II]] – tags images that lack adequate copyright information
**** Other:
*****[http://sourceforge.net/projects/licensetokill/ LicenseToKill at SourceForge.net] – Windows application that helps with image deletion tasks, including easy deletion of multiple files within a category or from a list
** Other: (''see also'' [[#Common|Commons]] regarding moving images from Wikipedia to Commons)
***[[Special:Newimages]] ("Gallery of new files") – images that have just been added to Wikipedia 
***[[Special:ListFiles]] – most recently uploaded files 
***[[Special:Filepath]] – provides a URL to link directly to the current version of an image
***Image review, image reviewer: ''see'' [[#L|license review]]
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* Importing: (''see also'' [[#Table|Tables]])<span id="Imp"></span> <span id="Import"></span>
**[[Commons:OpenOffice.org SVG Import]]
**[http://www.appropedia.org/Help:Porting_PDF_files_to_MediaWiki Porting PDF files to MediaWiki] (from Appropedia.org)
**[[w:Wikipedia:Tools#Importing (converting) content from other formats to Wikipedia (MediaWiki) format]] – includes tools for converting Microsoft Word, Microsoft Excel, OpenOffice, HTML, LaTeX, and BibTeX information to the Wikipedia format
**[[m:Help:Import]] – sysop-only import; disabled on the English Wikipedia project (related: user group "import")
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* Indexes: (''see also'' [[#Directory|Directories]]) <span id="Ind"></span><span id="Index "></span><span id="Index"></span>
** Of any namespace on Commons:
***[[Special:Allpages]] – select a starting point for browsing
** Other:
***[[Commons:Discussion index]]
***[[Commons:Image classification system/index]]
***[[m:Help-style indexing]] – uses keywords
***[[w:Wikipedia:Editor's index to Wikipedia]]
{{Shortcut2|COM:EIC#Infobox}}
* Infoboxes: (templates): <span id="Inf"></span><span id="Infobo"></span><span id="Infobox"></span>
**[[Commons:Template i18n/Infobox templates]]
**[[:Category:Infobox templates]]
* Inserting text from one page into another page – ''see'' [[#Transc|Transclusion]]
* Instructional material: ''see'' [[#Learning|Learning]]
{{Shortcut2|COM:EIC#Ink|COM:EIC#Inkscape}}
* Inkscape: (''See also'' [[#Graphic|Graphics]], [[#Image|Images]], [[#Map|Maps]], [[#Tools|Tools]])<span id="Inkscape"></span><span id="Ink"></span>
**[[Help:Inkscape]] - Inkscape is a [[w:vector graphics|vector graphics]] editor application for graphically editing [[Help:SVG|SVG files]]
**[[Help:Text and Inkscape]] - how to create SVG representations of text using Inkscape
**[[Help:Vector graphics tutorial]] - how to create SVG files with Inkscape
**[[Help:SVG]]
**[[Commons:Transition to SVG]] - how to replace existing bitmap (raster) files with vector files
**[[Commons:Media for cleanup#PNG or JPEG  images that should be SVG]]
**''[http://tavmjong.free.fr/INKSCAPE/MANUAL/html/index.php Inkscape: Guide to a Vector Drawing Program]''
** Templates:
***{{Tl|Bitmap from Inkscape}} - to mark images that someone created by downsampling from an SVG file originally created in Inkscape
***{{Tl|Convert to SVG}} - to mark raster images that someone should vectorize
***{{Tl|Created with Inkscape}} - to mark images someone created with Inkscape
***{{Tl|Inkscape-hand}} - to mark images someone created with Inkscape, and then edited the SVG code in a text editor program
***{{Tl|User Inkscape}} - a [[Commons:Userboxes|user box]] for Inkscape users
***{{Tl|Vector version available}} - to mark bitmap images for which a corresponding SVG file exists
***[[:Category:SVG marker templates]]
***[[Commons:SVG marker templates]] - visual guide to SVG-related templates
** Related media:
***[[:Category:Created with Inkscape]] - if you use Inkscape to make a file, then mark it with {{tl|Created with Inkscape}} when you upload it
***[[:Category:Inkscape]] - general category for other pertinent documents and images to the software itself
***[[:Category:Inkscape instruction]] - a category for SVG images to use in Inkscape tutorials
***[[Commons:Meet our illustrators]] - some are highly skilled Inkscape users
***[[Librsvg bugs]] - examples of SVG images that do not (or did not) render correctly on Commons
** Resources on the English Wikipedia:
***[[w:Inkscape]] - general information about the program
***[[w:Wikipedia:Graphic Lab/Resources/SVG]]
***[[w:Wikipedia:How to draw a diagram with Inkscape]]
***[[w:Wikipedia:SVG Help]]
***[[w:Wikipedia:SVG image support]]
***[[w:Wikipedia:WikiProject Electronics/Programs]] - has some tips on drawing electronic schematics with Inkscape
{{Shortcut2|COM:EIC#Interlanguage}}
* Interlanguage links: (''see also'' [[#Interwiki|Interwiki links]], [[#Transl|Translations]])<span id="Interlanguage"></span>
**[[w:Help:Interlanguage links]]
**[[m:A newer look at the interlanguage link]] – essay about establishing a wiki as a hub for interwiki links
{{Shortcut2|COM:EIC#IRC}}
* Internet Relay Chat (IRC): <span id="Ins"></span><span id="Instan"></span><span id="IRC"></span>
**[[Commons:Internet Relay Chat]]
**[[w:Wikipedia:IRC channels]]
**[[w:Wikipedia:IRC tutorial]]
**[[m:IRC/Channels]]
**[[m:IRC Group Contacts]] – liaisons between Wikimedia and the staff of the freenode IRC network
**[[m:IRC guidelines/wikipedia]]
**[[Commons:Community portal]]
**[[m:IRC channel cloaks]]
**[[tools:~bjelleklang/pjirc/index.php|Wikipedia IRC help channel]] – a login page
{{Shortcut2|COM:EIC#Interwiki}}
* Interwiki links: (''see also'' [[#Interlanguage|Interlanguage links]], [[#Transw|Transwiki]]) <span id="Int"></span><span id="InterW"></span><span id="Interw"></span><span id="Interwiki"></span>
**[[w:Help:Interwiki linking]]
**[[Template:W]] - a template for creating interwiki links to the various language Wikipedias
* IP lookup: see [[#Vandal|Vandalism]]

== J ==
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== K ==
{{TOC}}
* Keyboard shortcuts: [[w:Wikipedia:Keyboard shortcuts]]
{{Shortcut2|COM:EIC#Keyword}}
* Keywords: <span id="Keyword"></span>
**[[m:Help-style indexing]]
**[[w:Wikipedia:WikiProject Keywords]]
**[[w:Wikipedia:Link intersection]]

== L ==

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* Languages: ''see'' [[w:Wikipedia:Naming conventions (languages)]], individual countries/languages, [[#Transl|Translations]]
{{Shortcut2|COM:EIC#Layout}}
* Layout and sections: (''see also'' [[#TOC|Table of contents]]) (for layout of the standard Wikipedia page, see [[#Custom|Customization]]) <span id="Lay"></span><span id="Layout"></span>
**[[Commons:Guide to layout]] ([[COM:LAYOUT]]) - outlines some of the basics for laying out [[COM:EIC#Gallery|gallery]] pages, [[COM:EIC#File|file]] description pages, and [[COM:EIC#Category|category]] pages
***[[Special:Prefixindex/Commons:Guide to layout]] - a list of all the Guide to layout subpages
**[[w:Help:Section]]
**[[Commons:Guide to layout/Category pages]]
**[[Commons:Guide to layout/File description pages]]
**[[Commons:Guide to layout/Gallery pages]]
{{Shortcut2|COM:EIC#Learning}}
* Learning: (''see also'' [[#Help|Help]], [[#Questi|Questions]]) <span id="Learning"></span> <span id="Learni"></span> <span id="Learn"></span> 
**[[Help:Vector graphics tutorial]]
**[[Commons:Tutorial for Bitmap graphism]]
**[[Commons:Tutorial for Audio file editors]]
**[[Commons:Ancient Chinese characters:Tutorial]]
**[[Commons:How to take pictures for Wikimedia Commons]]
**[[Commons:Cleaning up interference with Fourier analysis]]
**[[Commons:Preparing images for upload]]
**[[User:Al2/Tutorial about Illustrations]]
**[[Commons:Meet our illustrators]] ([[COM:MOI]])
**[[Commons:Map resources#Tutorials]]
{{Shortcut2|COM:EIC#Legal}}
* Legal: (''see also'' [[#Copyri|Copyrights]], [[#Discla|Disclaimers]], [[#Privac|Privacy]]) <span id="Leg"></span><span id="Legal "></span><span id="Legal"></span>
**[[Commons:Photographs of identifiable people]] ([[COM:IDENT]]) - guidelines for pictures of identifiable people on Commons
**[[Commons:Help page maintenance/Legal pages]]
**[[Commons:Reusing content outside Wikimedia]]
**[[Commons:Credit line]] - holds information that an author of a work requests all users to include with the work, as a condition of use enforced by the license
**[[Commons:Freedom of panorama]]
**[[Commons:Deletion policy]]
**[[Commons:Coats of Arms#Legal restrictions on usage]] ([[COM:COA]])
**[[Commons:Non-copyright restrictions]]
**[[Commons:Ownership of pages and files]]
**[[Commons:Licensing]]
* Licensing: ''see'' [[#Copy|Copyright]]
** [[Commons:License review|License review]]
** License tag: a template indicating the license of a file; also used loosely to include a template indicating a rationale as to why a file is in the public domain.
* Links: ''see'' [[#Source|Sources]] (for external links), [[#Wikili|Wikilinks]] (for links between wiki articles)
{{Shortcut2|COM:EIC#Login}}
* Location: ''see'' [[#Geo|Geocoding]]
* Logging in: (see also [[#Username|User account and username]]) <span id="Log"></span><span id="Loggin"></span><span id="Login"></span>
**[[Commons:First steps/Account]]
**[[mw:Extension:OpenID]] – lets users log in with an [[w:OpenID|OpenID]]
** Security:
***[[w:Wikipedia:Security]] (essay)
***[[w:Wikipedia:Personal security practices]] (essay)
***[https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/w/index.php?title=Special:Userlogin Secure login]
***[[m:Don't leave your fly open]] (essay)
***[[Template:User committed identity]] – preventive action to enable regaining control of a hijacked account ([[:en:Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/2007-05-14/Committed identity|story]])
{{Shortcut2|COM:EIC#Logo}}
* Logos: (''see also'' [[#Copy|Copyright]], [[#Trademark|Trademarks]])<span id="Logo"></span>
**Fair use claimed: 
***{{Tl|Fair use}} is a [[#Redirect|redirect]] to {{Tl|Fair use}} because [[Commons:Licensing#Material under the fair use clause is not allowed on Commons|files with fair use claims are not permitted on Commons]]
** Commons's logo:
***[[Commons:Logo]]
** Wikipedia's logo:
***[[w:Wikipedia:Wikipedia logos]]
***[[w:Wikipedia:FAQ/Miscellaneous#Can you tell me anything about the Wikipedia logo?]]
***[[m:Errors in the Wikipedia logo]]
** Logos by others, as media:
***[[:Category:Logos]]
***[[Commons:Image casebook#Trademarks]] - discussion of copyright as it applies to corporate logos and trademarked images
*** On the English Wikipedia:
****[[w:Wikipedia:Logos]]
* LTA: Long-term [[Commons:Editor's_index_to_Commons#A|abuse]], Long-term abuser

== M ==

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* Magic: <span id="Mag"></span><span id="Magic "></span><span id="Magic"></span>
**[[w:Help:Magic]]
** Magic words: 
***[[Help:Magic words]]
***[[Help:Variable]]
***[[w:Help:Parser function]]
***[[m:Help:ParserFunctions]] – a collection of parser functions
***[[mw:Markup spec/BNF/Magic links]]
* Mailing lists: (''see also'' [[#News (|News (about Wikipedia)]])
**[[Commons:Mailing lists]]
**[http://www.infodisiac.com/Wikipedia/ScanMail/Index.html Wikimedia Mail Stats: Index]] – statistics on all Wikimedia Foundation mailing lists
{{Shortcut2|COM:EIC#Main}}
* Main page: (''see also'' [[#Protec|Protection of pages]]) <span id="Mai"></span><span id="Main_p"></span><span id="Main"></span>
**[[Main Page]]
**[[Commons:Main page templates]]
{{Shortcut2|COM:EIC#Maintain}}
* Maintenance: (''see also'' [[#Qualit|Quality of articles]], [[#Spell|Spelling]], [[#ToDo|Things to do]]) <span id="Mainte"></span><span id="Maintain"></span>
**[[Commons:Help page maintenance]] ([[COM:HPM]])
**[[Special:Prefixindex/Commons:Help page maintenance]]
**[[Commons:Media for cleanup]]
**[[Commons:Category scheme Commons maintenance/en]]
**[[Special:Prefixindex/Commons:Category scheme Commons maintenance]]
**[[:Category:Commons maintenance content]]
**{{Tl|Maintenance announcements}}
** Other:
***[[Special:AncientPages]] – 1 September 2007 listing of the 5000 pages with the longest elapsed time since the last edit
* Manual of Style: <span id="Manual"></span><span id="MOS"></span>
**[[w:Wikipedia:Manual of Style]] (Commons needs no Manual of Style)
{{Shortcut2|COM:EIC#Map}}
* Maps: (''see also'' [[#Geo|Geocoding]]) <span id="Maps  "></span><span id="Maps"></span><span id="Map"></span>
**[[m:Maps]]
**[[m:Wikimaps]]
**[[w:Wikipedia:Blank maps]] – maps that can be colored and labeled in different languages
**[[w:Wikipedia:WikiProject Maps]]
**[[w:Wikipedia:WikiProject Maps/Source materials]]
**[[w:Wikipedia:Graphic Lab/Map workshop]]
**[[Commons:Project Mapmaking Wiki Standards]]
**[[w:Wikipedia:Producing maps with xplanet]]
**[[w:Wikipedia:WikiProject OpenStreetMap]]
**[[w::Category:Wikipedia requested maps]]
**{{Tl|Location}} – produces a link to a list of map sources, based on the geographical coordinates and other parameters
**[[m:WikiMiniAtlas]] – JavaScript plugin to display a GoogleMaps-like draggable, zoomable, and clickable worldmap in geocoded Wikipedia articles
**[[Commons:Featured pictures/Non-photographic media/Maps]]
**[[Commons:Categories/Maps]]
**[[Commons:United States county locator maps]]
**[[Commons:Map resources]]
**[[Special:Prefixindex/Commons:Map resources]]
**[[Commons:WikiProject Atlas]]
**[[Commons:Geocoding]]
** Mapmaking tools:
***[[:Category:GIS]]
***[[:Category:Created with Quantum GIS]]
** Cartographic tutorials:
***''[[:fr:Wikipédia:Atelier graphique/Didacticiels cartographiques]]'' - mapmaking tutorials in French
***[[w:Wikipedia:Graphic Lab/Resources/Tutorials]] - some of the French mapmaking tutorials translated to English
* Markup: ''see'' [[#Format|Formatting of text]]
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* Mathematics: (''see also'' [[#Number|Numbers]]) <span id="Mat"></span><span id="Mathem"></span><span id="Math"></span>
**[[w:Commons:Manual of Style (mathematics)]]
**[[Commons:Valued images by topic/Science/Mathematics]]
* Meat puppets: ''see policy on'' [[#Sock p|Sock puppets]]
{{Shortcut2|COM:EIC#Media}}
* Media: (''see also'' [[#Copyri|Copyright]], [[#Images|Images]], [[#Music|Music]]) <span id="Med"></span><span id="Media "></span><span id="Media"></span>
**[[Commons:Media help]]
**[[Special:Prefixindex/Commons:Media help]]
**[[mw:Extension:OggHandler]] 
**[[tools:~bryan/ogg/search|Ogg search]] – search of the Commons for specific audio and video streams 
**[[Commons:Picture requests]]
**[[Commons:Video]]
**[[Commons:Audio and video requests]]
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* Mediation:<span id="Mediation"></span>
**[[w:Wikipedia:Mediation]] (policy on Wikipedia - Commons has no separate policy)
{{Shortcut2|COM:EIC#MediaWiki}}
* MediaWiki: (''see also'' specific topics pertaining to the software) <span id="MediaW" ></span><span id="MediaWiki"></span>
**[[MediaWiki]] – a web-based wiki software application used by all projects of the Wikimedia Foundation 
**[[mw:Manual:FAQ]]
**[[mw:MediaWiki roadmap]] – features planned for future releases
**[[mw:Project:Support desk]] – place to ask questions (particularly for non-Wikipedia users of Mediawiki)
**[[w:Help:Testing]]
** Books:
***[http://oreilly.com/catalog/9780596519797/ ''MediaWiki''], October 2008
***[http://www.packtpub.com/Mediawiki/book ''MediaWiki Administrators’ Tutorial Guide''] (March 2007)
** Extensions: 
***[[m:Extending wiki markup]]
***[[m:MediaWiki extensions]]
***[[mw:Extension Matrix]]
***[[mw:Category:Extensions]]
***[[mw:Manual:Extensions]]
***[[Special:Version]] – lists which extensions are installed 
** Handbook:
***[[m:Help:Contents#For readers|For readers]]
***[[m:Help:Contents#For editors|For editors]]
***[[m:Help:Contents#For moderators|For moderators]]
***[[m:Help:Contents#For administrators|For administrators]]
*** Mediawiki namespace within Wikipedia projects:
****[[w:Wikipedia:MediaWiki namespace]]
****[[w:Help:MediaWiki namespace]]
****[[Commons:Help page maintenance/Wikimedia Commons interface]]
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* Medical: <span id="Medical"></span>
**[[w:Wikipedia:Medical disclaimer]]
**[[Commons:Image classification 10]]
**[[Commons:Patient images]]
{{Shortcut2|COM:EIC#Merge}}
* Merging: <span id="Mer"></span><span id="Mergin"></span><span id="Merge"></span>
**[[w:Help:Merging and moving pages]] ([[w:WP:MM]])
**[[Commons:Templates#Moving and merging]]
{{Shortcut2|COM:EIC#Messages}}
* Messages: (''see'' also [[#IRC|Internet Relay Chat (IRC)]], [[#Messageboxes|Messageboxes]], [[#Talk p|Talk pages]]) <span id="Mes"></span><span id="Messag"></span><span id="Messages"></span>
**[[w:Wikipedia:Canvassing]] – votestacking, campaigning, friendly notice, and forum shopping
**[[w:Wikipedia:E-mailing users]]
**[[Commons:Templates]]
{{Shortcut2|COM:EIC#Messageboxes}}
* Messageboxes: <span id="Messageboxes"></span><span id="Mbox"></span>
** Via MediaWiki:
***[[w:Wikipedia:Editnotice]]
** Via templates:
***[[Commons:Templates]] (all messageboxes are templates; not all templates are messageboxes)
***For template messageboxes at the top of articles, ''see'' [[#Ambox|Article message boxes (amboxes)]]
***For template messageboxes at the top of article talk pages, ''see'' [[#Talk p|Talk pages]]
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{{Shortcut2|COM:EIC#Meta}}
* Meta: <span id="Meta"></span> - a [[w:wiki|wiki]]-based [[w:web site|web site]] that is auxiliary for coordinating all the [[w:Wikimedia Foundation|Wikimedia Foundation]] projects
**[[w:Wikipedia:Meta]]
**[[m:Meta:Babel]] – general and policy discussion page
* Metacategory (also metacat, MetaCat, etc.): Categories about categories (e.g. [[:Category:Buildings by function]]). See [[Commons:Meta category]].
* Microformats
**[[Commons:Microformats Project]]
**[[w:Wikipedia:WikiProject Microformats]]
* Minor edit: [[w:Help:Minor edit]]
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* Mirrors: <span id="Mirror"></span>
** In the computer science sense:
***[[w:Wikipedia:Mirrors and forks]] – sites that use Wikipedia content
***[[w:Wikipedia:Standard GFDL violation letter]]
** Classifying images of actual mirrors:
***[[Commons:Image classification 10/05]]
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* Missing media: <span id="Missin"></span><span id="Missing"></span>
**[[Commons:File requests]] ([[COM:PR]])
**[[:Category:Requested files]]
**[[Commons:Audio and video requests]]
{{Shortcut2|COM:EIC#Mobile}}
* Mobile access: <span id="Mobile"></span>
**''To-do'': determine whether there is any information about mobile access to Commons; the links in this entry pertain to mobile access to Wikipedia
**[http://www.ilounge.com/index.php/articles/comments/15802/ "iPhone Gems: Wikipedia Apps"] – review of 16 apps for the iPhone or iPod touch (November 2008) 
** Real-time version of Wikipedia: 
***[[w:Wikipedia:Mobile access]]
***[http://en.wap.wikipedia.org/ Semi-experimental mobile portal] (as of February 2008)
***[http://wapedia.mobi/en/?setfavlang=en Wapedia]
***[[m:Mobile subdomain]]
***[http://lifehacker.com/400664/wikipanion-brings-wikipedia-to-your-iphone-or-ipod-touch Wikipanion] – Free iPhone/iPod app; searches using a fast, native interface; includes autosuggest, landscape mode, and large, readable text.
** Downloaded version of Wikipedia:
***[http://www.free-soft.ro/pocket-wikipedia/pocket-wikipedia.html Pocket Wikipedia] – 24,000 images and 14 million words (for PocketPC, Windows and Linux machines)
***[http://encyclopodia.sourceforge.net/en/index.html Encyclopodia] – complete download, for Apple iPod
***[http://code.google.com/p/wikipedia-iphone/ Wikipedia-iphone] – complete download for iPhone or iPod Touch
** Other:
***[http://www.iphonefaq.org/archives/97405 GeoPedia] – provides iPhone owners with a Wikipedia feed customized to their current location
***[http://redromelogic.com/kiwi "Kiwi" client] – for iPhone and iPod
* Moderator: ''see'' [[#Admini|Administrator]]
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* Money: <span id="Money"></span>
**[[Commons:Currency]]
**[[Commons:Image classification system/index/M]]
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* Monitoring changes: (''see also'' [[#Recent|Recent changes]]) <span id="Monitor"></span>
**[[Commons:Administrators' Category watch]]
** Watchlist <span id="Wat"></span><span id="Watchl"></span><span id="Watch"></span>
***[[w:Help:Watching pages]] – about watchlists
***[[w:Wikipedia:Copying watchlist to new username]]
***[http://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Watchlist&action=raw Import, export, and edit watchlists as text using the "View raw watchlist" option]
***[[MediaWiki:Watchlist-details]] and [[MediaWiki talk:Watchlist-details]] – a notice displayed at the top of the [[Special:Watchlist]] page for all editors who view that page
***[[w:Wikipedia:Perennial proposals#Create a counter of people watching a page]]
*** Real-time feeds:
****[http://commons.wikimedia.org/w/api.php?action=feedwatchlist API with feedwatchlist option] (must be logged in or have "remember me" checked as login option)
*** Alternatives to the standard watchlist (other than real-time feeds):
****[[Special:Recentchangeslinked/User:Example]] lists changes to all Wikipedia pages on the [[User:Example]] page
*** [[tools:~luxo/gwatch/|gWatch (Global Watchlist)]] – Watchlist for all Wikimedia wikis
** RSS (page-by-page specification):
*** [[Commons:Feeds]], [[Help:RSS]]
*** [[m:Syndication feeds]]
** Other:
***[[Special:Unwatchedpages]] – pages not on anyone's watchlist [this special page is viewable only by admins]
* Movies: ''see'' [[#Films|Films]] ''To-do'': determine how best to deal with this entry; maybe link it to media or video instead
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* Moving a page: (''see also'' [[#Disamb|Disambiguation]], [[#Naming|Naming an article]], [[#Redire|Redirects]]) <span id="Mov"></span><span id="Moving"></span><span id="Move"></span>
**[[Commons:First steps/Upload form]]
**[[w:Help:Moving a page]] ([[w:WP:MOVE]])
**[[w:Help:Merging and moving pages]] ([[w:WP:MM]]) 
**[[Commons:Rename a category]]
**[[w:Wikipedia:Moving guidelines for administrators]]
**[[w:Wikipedia:How to fix cut-and-paste moves]]
**[[MediaWiki:Movenotallowed]]
**[[MediaWiki:Movepage-moved]] – page that an editor sees after a successful move
** Moving a file:
***[[bugzilla:709|Bug #709]] – code has been written (not implemented as of mid-May 2008) to allow editors to rename/move images and other media files
***[[Commons:FAQ#How can I rename/move an image or other media file?]]
***[[Commons:File renaming]]
*Multi-licensing: [[Commons:Multi-licensing]]
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* Music: (''see also'' [[#Media|Media]]) <span id="Mus"></span><span id="Music "></span><span id="Music"></span>
**[[Commons:Free media resources/Music]]
**[[Commons:Valued images by topic/Works of art/Music]]
**[[w:Wikipedia:Music samples]] (guideline)
**[[w:Wikipedia:WikiProject Music]]
**[[w:Wikipedia:WikiProject Free music]]
**[[mw:Extension:AbcMusic]] – for typesetting music using the ABC notation
**[[w:Portal:Music]]
**[http://james.nerdiphythesoul.com/wikifm/ Wikifm] – a [[w:mashup|mashup]] of Last.fm and Wikipedia

== N ==

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* Name (of a user): see [[#User a|User account and username]]
* Namespaces:
**[[Help:Namespaces]]
**[[Commons:Project namespace]] (copied from Wikipedia; needs editing for Commons)
**[http://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?action=query&meta=siteinfo&siprop=namespaces Query results – existing namespaces] – also indicates which are allowed to have subpages
**[[m:Help:Namespace manager]] – for a future version of MediaWiki
** Prefix namespaces (for redirects):
***[[w:Help:Custom namespaces]] – prefixes (like :m) that (normally) resolve into an interwiki but can resolve into external source
***[[Special:Prefixindex/COM]] – finds shortcut (redirect) pages in mainspace that link to pages in the Commons: (Project:) namespace
***[[Special:Prefixindex/CAT]] – finds shortcut (redirect) pages in mainspace that link to pages in the Category: namespace
***[[Commons:COM]] – redirect pages in the COM: pseudo-namespace
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* Naming: (''see also'' [[#Disamb|Disambiguation]], [[#Moving|Moving a page]], [[#New_pa|New pages]])<span id="Naming"></span>
**[[Commons:Language policy]] ([[COM:LP]])
**[[Special:ProtectedTitles]] – page titles that are protected to prevent them from being created
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* Navigation: (''see also'' [[#Lists|Lists]]) (for changing navigation by changing the location of links on the standard Wikipedia page, see [[#Custom|Customization]])<span id="Anc"></span><span id="Anchor"></span><span id="Nav"></span><span id="Naviga"></span>
** Anchors: (between pages or within a page)
***[[w:Help:Anchors]]
***[[Template:Anchor]]
***[[Help:HTML in wikitext#Span]] – using "span id=" for hidden anchors
** Between pages:
***[[w:Wikipedia:Basic navigation]]
***Navigational templates: ''see'' [[#Series|Series boxes]]
*** Keyboard shortcuts:
****[[w:Wikipedia:Keyboard shortcuts]]
****[[w:Help:Keyboard shortcuts]]
*** Clicking on an image:<span id="Clickable"></span>{{Shortcut2|COM:EIC#Clickable}}
****[[Commons:First steps/Upload form#Navigational maps]]
****[[w:Wikipedia:WikiProject Usability/Clickable images]]
****[[mw:Help:Linked images]]
**** ImageMaps: <span id="ImageMap"></span>{{Shortcut2|COM:EIC#ImageMap}}
*****[[Commons:Image map resources]]
*****[[mw:Extension:ImageMap]] – "imagemap" tags for linking via clickable images (new as of January 2007)
*****[[w:Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/2008-03-03/Tutorial|Tutorial in the ''Signpost'']]
*****[http://tools.wikimedia.de/~dapete/ImageMapEdit/ImageMapEdit.html?en Image map editor]
*****[[:Category:Clickable maps]]
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* Neutral point of view (NPOV): <span id="Neu"></span><span id="Neutra"></span><span id="NPOV"></span>
**[[Commons:Project scope/Neutral point of view]] ([[COM:NPOV]]) (policy)
* New pages: (''see also'' [[#COI|Conflicts of interest]], [[#Deleti|Deletion]], [[#Edits|Edits (in general)]], 
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**[[#Missin|File requests]], [[#Naming|Naming]], [[#New pa|New pages]], [[#Qua|Quality of files]]) <span id="New"></span><span id="New ar"></span><span id="NewA"></span>
**[https://xtools.wmcloud.org/pages/commons.wikimedia.org New pages created by any specific user]
**[[MediaWiki talk:Newarticletext]]
* New contributors: ''see'' [[#New ed|New editors]]
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* New editors: (''see also'' [[#Edits |Edits (in general)]], [[#Learni|Learning]], [[#Q|Questions]], [[#UserRights|User rights]]) <span id="New ed"></span><span id="NewE"></span>
** Welcoming:
***{{Tl|Welcome}} - a template for welcoming new users
***[[Commons:Welcome log]] ([[COM:W]]) - a list of users welcomed automatically by a bot program
***[[Commons:First steps]] ([[COM:FS]])
***[[Special:Log/newusers]] – new accounts
***[[Special:Contributions/newbies]] – edits by new editors
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* New pages: (''see also'' [[#New ar|New pages]]) <span id="New_pa"></span><span id="New_page"></span>
**[[Commons:First steps/Upload form]]
**[[Help:Starting a new page]] (merely redirects to [[Help:Contents]] - try to find something on Commons which actually applies to this topic)
**[[w:Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/2005-12-05/Page creation restrictions|Non-talk pages can only be created by registered editors – December 2005]]
**[[Special:Newpages]] – Lists new pages just created; shows which pages have been marked as "patrolled"
***[[Commons:Patrol]] ([[COM:PATROL]]) - explains the patrol user right
** Restrictions on names of new pages:
***[[MediaWiki:Titleblacklist]] - page title restrictions currently in force on Commons
***[[mw:Extension:Title Blacklist]] - documentation about the [[MediaWiki]] extension which allows system administrators to implement page title restrictions
***[[mw:MediaWiki:Titleblacklist]] 
***[[Special:ProtectedTitles]]
* New users: ''see'' [[#NewE|New editors]]
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* News (about Commons): (for news ''not'' about Wikipedia, ''see'' [[#Curren|Current events]]) <span id="News ("></span><span id="News"></span>
**[[Commons:Community portal]] – has a short entry for a new item
**[[Commons:Community news]] - archived news items
** Mailing lists:
***[[Commons:Mailing lists]]
***[[m:List Summary Service]] – summarizes of what has been discussed on various mailing lists, with links
***[http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikien-l/ Wikien-l mailng list] – threaded version (also citable)
***[http://www.nabble.com/English-Wikipedia-f14021.html Wikiien-l mailing list] – forum format
***[http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/foundation-l/ Foundation-l mailing list] – threaded version (also citable)
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* Not: <span id="Not   "></span><span id="Not"></span>
**[[Commons:What Commons is not]] (still under development)
** Wikis and similar sites which do allow various types of content that Wikipedia does not:
***[[w:Wikipedia:Alternative outlets]]
***[http://wikiindex.org/Welcome WikiIndex]
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* Notability: (''see also'' specific subject areas) <span id="Notabi"></span><span id="Notability"></span><span id="Notable"></span>
**[[w:Wikipedia:Notability]] (guideline) – Commons has no separate notability guideline
**[[Commons:Project scope]]
* Noticeboards: 
**[[Commons:Administrators' noticeboard]]
**[[Special:Prefixindex/Commons:Administrators' noticeboard]]
**[[tools:~eagle/enwikiboardsearch.php|English wiki Noticeboard Archive Search Tool]] – searches various noticeboards, and all their archives
* {{tl|npd}}: tag that says an image lacks appropriate permission, usually subst'd
* NPOV: ''see'' [[#Neutra|Neutral point of view]]
* NSFW: "Not safe for work", typically a warning that you might want to be careful about where you are if you want to open up a link, typically because of nudity or sexual content. - [[User:Jmabel|Jmabel]] ! [[User talk:Jmabel|talk]] 16:59, 12 April 2024 (UTC)
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* Numbers: (''see also'' [[#Mathem|Mathematics]], [[#Units|Units of measurement]]) <span id="Num"></span><span id="Number"></span>
**[[w:Wikipedia:Manual of Style (dates and numbers)]]
**[[w:Wikipedia:Naming conventions (numbers and dates)]]
**[[m:Help:Modulo and round]]
**[[w:Wikipedia:WikiProject Numbers]]
**[[Template:Nowrap]] – to ensure that a number and its unit of measurement appear on the same line of text

== O ==

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* Obscenity: ''see'' [[#Censor|Censorship]]
* "Office" actions – ''see'' [[#Wikime|Wikimedia Foundation]]
* Open-source Ticket Request System (OTRS), now supplanted by [[#VRT|Volunteer Response Team (VRT)]]
* Organizations:
** As subjects of articles: ''see'' [[#Compan|Companies and organizations]]
** Within Wikipedia: (''see'' [[#Community|Wikipedia as community]]) 
* Original research: ''see'' [[#Source|Sources]] 
* OTRS: "Open-source Ticket Request System", now supplanted by [[#VRT|Volunteer Response Team (VRT)]]
* Output: ''see'' [[#Export|Exporting (a page)]]
* Overcategorization: [[Commons:Categories#Over-categorization]] ([[COM:OVERCAT]]) (''see also'' [[#Catego|Categories]])
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* Ownership: (for ownership of Commons itself, see [[#Wikime|Wikimedia Foundation]]) <span id="Own"></span>
**[[Commons:Ownership of pages and files]] ([[COM:OWN]]) – about editors who don't like to have their words edited by others 
**[[Commons:Image casebook]]
**[[Commons:Patient images]]

== P ==

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* Page protection: ''see'' [[#Protec|Protection of pages]]
* Page size: ''see'' [[#Long|Article size]]
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* Page revisions: (''see also'' [[#Counts|Counts]]) <span id="Page revision"></span>
** [http://www.wikirage.com/ Wikirage] – list of pages with high levels of edits (most edits per unique editor) – recently
** [[Special:MostRevisions]] – "Pages with the most revisions" (top 1000) – cumulative
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* Page views: (''see also'' [[#Counts|Counts]]) <span id="Page_v"></span> <span id="Page view"></span>
** Most viewed (English Wikipedia):
***[http://wikistics.falsikon.de/latest/wikipedia/en/ Most accessed pages per day] (Wikistics)
***[http://stats.grok.se/en/top Wikipedia article traffic statistics] – pages with the most views (February 2008)
<!--***[http://toolserver.org/%7Eleon/stats/wikicharts/index.php?lang=en&wiki=enwiki&ns=alle&limit=100 WikiCharts] – top 100 (or 1000) most-viewed article in a specified month (not functioning as of early 2008) -->
** For any specific article or other page:
***[http://stats.grok.se/ Monthly chart for any specified page] ("Wikipedia article traffic statistics") (for pages that are not articles, include the namespace as a prefix)
***[http://dammit.lt/wikistats/ Raw counts] – beginning (24 hourly snapshots per day) December 10, 2007 ([http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-l/2007-December/035435.html announcement])
** Different language Wikipedias:
***[http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.org.wikimedia.foundation/27602 Comparison of page views for the various language Wikipedias] (March 2008)
***[http://stats.wikimedia.org/EN/TablesPageViewsMonthly.htm Wikipedia Page Views]  – page views per language per month
* Paper: ''see'' [[w:Wikipedia:What Wikipedia is not#Wikipedia is not a paper encyclopedia]]
* Parser function: ''see'' [[#Magic|Magic words]]
* Password: ''see'' [[#Loggin|Logging in]]
* PD: [[Help:Public domain]]
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* People (as subjects of photographs): <span id="People"></span>
**[[Commons:Photographs of identifiable people]]
**[[Commons:Patient images]]
**[[Commons:Nudity]]
**[[Commons:Sexual content]] (failed proposal)
**[[:Category:People]]
* Per: [[w:Wikipedia:Per]] – how to interpret "per [[COM:OWN]]" and similar comments by other editors
*{{Tl|PermissionTicket}} ({{tl|VRT}}) - a message template VRT members place on file pages for which permission is on file in the VRT system
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* Personal attacks: (''see also:'' [[#Conten|Content disputes]], [[#Disrup|Disruptive editing]])<span id="Person"></span><span id="NPA"></span>
** Core policies and guidelines
***[[w:Wikipedia:Assume good faith]] ([[w:WP:AGF]]) ([[COM:AGF]])(guideline)
***[[w:Wikipedia:Civility]] ([[w:WP:CIVIL]]) (policy)
***[[w:Wikipedia:No personal attacks]] ([[w:WP:NPA]]) (policy)
***[[w:Wikipedia:Harassment]] (guideline)
***[[w:Wikipedia:No legal threats]] (policy)
***[[w:Wikipedia:Attack page]] (policy)
***[[w:Wikipedia:Linking to external harassment]] (guideline)
** Avoiding problems: 
***[[w:Wikipedia:Avoid personal remarks]]
***[[w:Wikipedia:Etiquette]] ([[w:WP:EQ]]) (guideline) – how to work with others on Wikipedia 
***[[m:Don't be a dick]]
***[[w:Wikipedia:Don't call the kettle black]] (essay)
***[[w:Wikipedia:How to be civil]] (essay)
** Remedies (''see also'' [[#Arb|Arbitration]], [[#Mediation|Mediation]])
***[[Commons:Administrators' noticeboard/User problems]]
* Personal information: ''see'' [[#Privac|Privacy]]
* [[:mediawiki:Phabricator/Help|Phabricator]]: Commons' (and other WMF projects') means of reporting and tracking bug reports, since 2014.
* {{w|Personality rights}} are a distinct form of rights independent of intellectual property rights, which may limit the use of certain images.
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* Photography (''see also'' [[#Images|Images]]) <span id="Photography"></span><span id="Photo"></span>
**[[Commons:Meet our photographers]] 
**[[Commons:Macro]] - advice on how to photograph small objects
**[[Commons:Photography terms]] - a glossary
**[[User:Yug/Camera]] - advice on cameras
**[[Commons:Photography critiques]] 
**{{w|Wikipedia:Wikipedians/Photographers}} - English Wikipedia users who will take photographs of various locations
* Pictures: ''see'' [[#Images|Images]]
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* Ping: [[Wikipedia:Notifications|notification to inform users about new activity]], see also {{tl|Ping}}
* Piped links (changing the visible text for a wikilink): <span id="Pip"></span><span id="Piped "></span><span id="Piped"></span>
**[[w:Wikipedia:Piped link]] 
**[[w:Help:Piped link]]
**[[w:Wikipedia:Manual of Style (disambiguation pages)#Piping]] – generally, don't use piped links on disambiguation pages
**[[w:Help:Pipe trick]] – avoiding some typing when shortening a page title that has a colon or parentheses in it
* Plagiarism: ''see'' [[#Copyri|Copyright]] (particularly "Problems") 
* Poems:
**[[w:Wikipedia:Lyrics and poetry]] (guideline)
**[[mw:Extension:Poem]] – for formatting
* Point: [[w:Wikipedia:Do not disrupt Wikipedia to illustrate a point]] ([[w:WP:POINT]])
* Point of view (POV): ''see'' [[#Neutra|Neutral point of view (NPOV)]]
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* Poker: <span id="Poker"></span>
**[[:Category:Poker]]
**[[w:Wikipedia:WikiProject Poker]]
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* Policies and guidelines (''see also'' [[#Proces|Process]]) <span id="Pol"></span><span id="Polici"></span><span id="Policy"></span>
** Existing:
***[[Commons:Policies and guidelines]] ([[COM:POL]]) - a list of policies and guidelines on Commons
***[[m:Foundation issues]] – five policies ("issues") that are "essentially beyond debate"
***[[Foundation:Template:Policy|Wikimedia Foundation policies]]
***[[w:Wikipedia:Trifecta]] – an unofficial summary of the rules – three guiding principles for editors, with their corollaries.
***[[:Category:Commons policies]]
** Misuses:
***[[w:Wikipedia:Gaming the system]] (guideline)
***[[w:Wikipedia:Wikilawyering]] (essay)
***[[w:Wikipedia:Don't overuse shortcuts to policy and guidelines to win your argument]] (essay)
***[[w:Wikipedia:Don't cite essays or proposals as if they were policy]] (essay)
** Changing (in general):
***[[m:Instruction creep]]
***[[w:Wikipedia:Avoid instruction creep]] (guideline)
***[[w:Wikipedia:How to contribute to Wikipedia guidance]] (essay)
** Templates:
***{{Tl|Commons policies and guidelines}} - a navigation template linking to some policy and guideline pages
* Polls: ''see'' [[#Consen|Consensus and voting]]
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* Portals: <span id="Por"></span><span id="Portal"></span> (Commons has no Portal: namespace)
**[[Commons:Portal]] 
**[[Commons:Community portal]]
* Preferences: ''see'' [[#Custom|Customization]]
* Prefixes: [[w:Wikipedia:Shortcut#List of prefixes]] – (pseudo-namespaces on Wikipedia; Commons uses [[WP:COM|COM:]] and [[WP:CT|CT:]], possibly others)
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* Preview: <span id="Pre"></span><span id="Previe"></span><span id="Preview"></span>
**[[w:Help:Show preview]]
**[[w:Help:Editing shortcuts]] (poor page name; it's about previews)
**[[Bugzilla:2679]] – Bug # 2679 – show category links above the edit box rather than at the bottom of the screen, on preview
** Showing footnotes automatically when previewing:
***[[Bugzilla:5492]] – Bug # 5492 – add <nowiki><references/></nowiki> text to the preview when editing a section
* Printing: [[w:Help:Printable]]
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* Privacy: <span id="Pri"></span><span id="Privac"></span><span id="Privacy"></span>
** For subjects of photographs: ''see'' [[#People|People]] 
** For editors and readers:
***[[Commons:Privacy policy]]
***[[m:Privacy policy]]
***[[m:Draft Privacy Policy June 2008]]
***[[w:Wikipedia:How to not get outed on Wikipedia]] (essay)
***[[w:Wikipedia:Privacy]] (inactive/historical)
***[[w:Wikipedia:Respect privacy]] (inactive/historical)
*** Secure access:
****[https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Main_Page Secure (SSL) access for reading and editing]
***[[foundation: Access to nonpublic data policy]]
***[[m:Ombudsman commission]] – processes complaints about violations of the privacy policy
***[[w:Wikipedia:Harassment#Types of harassment]]
***[[w:Wikipedia:Protecting children's privacy]] (essay)
*** Removal (from view) of selected versions of pages:
****[[w:Wikipedia:Selective deletion]] – by administrators
****[[Commons:Oversight]] and [[Wikipedia:Requests for oversight]] – by editors given "oversight" authority
***[[m:Right to vanish]]
***[[w:Wikipedia:Right to vanish]] (guideline)
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* Process: (''see also'' [[#Common|Common sense]], [[#Polici|Policies and guidelines]]) <span id="Pro"></span><span id="Proces"></span><span id="Process"></span>
**[[w:Wikipedia:What Wikipedia is not]] (policy) – Wikipedia is not a bureaucracy, and not an anarchy
**[[w:Wikipedia:Snowball clause]] – more than an essay, less than a policy
**[[w:Wikipedia:Process is important]] (essay)
**[[w:Wikipedia:Practical process]] (essay)
**[[w:Wikipedia:Product, process, policy]] (essay)
**[[w:Category:Wikipedia processes]]
* Profanity: ''see'' [[#Censor|Censorship]]
* Projects: ''see'' [[#Wikipr|Wikiprojects]]
* "Project" pages: [[Commons:Project namespace]]
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* Pronunciation: <span id="Pronun"></span><span id="Pronounce"></span>
**[[w:Wikipedia:Manual of Style (pronunciation)]]
**[[w:Help:Pronunciation respelling key]]
**[[w:Wikipedia:International Phonetic Alphabet]]
**[[w:Wikipedia:IPA for Irish]]
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* Protection of pages: <span id="Protec"></span>
**[[Commons:Protection policy]] ([[COM:PROTECT]])
**[[Commons:Administrators' noticeboard/Blocks and protections]] – page to request that a page be protected ([[WP:RPP]])
**[[w:Wikipedia:New admin school/Protecting]]
**[[w:Wikipedia:Rough guide to semi-protection]] (essay)
**[[w:Wikipedia:New admin school/Protecting deleted pages]]
**[[MediaWiki:Semiprotectedpagewarning]]
**[[w:Wikipedia:High-risk templates]] (guideline)
**[[m:Protected pages considered harmful]]
**[[Special:Protectedpages]] – list of protected pages
**Requesting administrator editing of a protected page: use the {{tl|editprotected}} template.
**[[m:The Wrong Version]] – why a version of an article that is protected is always the wrong version
**[[Commons:Protection policy]] – example
** Bots that change protection notification templates on pages that are or are not protected:
***[[User:DumbBOT]]
***[[User:Maelgwnbot]]
** Unimplemented:
***[[mw:Extension:ProtectSection]] – blocks editing of ''part'' of a page by a regular editors
***[[mw:Extension:PageSecurity]] – allows specified pages to be edited only by editors who are part of (a) specified group(s)
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* Punctuation: <span id="Pun"></span> <span id="Punctu"></span><span id="Punctuate"></span>
**[[w:Wikipedia:Manual of Style]] 
**[[w:Wikipedia:WikiProject Punctuation]]
**[http://diveintogreasemonkey.org/casestudy/dumbquotes.html Dumb quotes] – user script that converts "fancy" punctuation to their 7-bit ASCII equivalent

== Q ==

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* Quickbar: (the set of links on the left side of the page, often called "sidebar")<span id="Quickbar"></span>
**[[mw:Sidebar]] – standard links for the top two boxes of the quickbar
**[[w:Wikipedia:Tools/Navigation shortcuts]] – add one or more personal sidebars, with links, on the left side of the screen
**Floating the quickbar:
***[[m:Help:User style/floating quickbar]] 
***[[bugzilla:287]] – Bug #287 – floating quickbar support for the Monobook skin
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* Quality of images: (''see also'' [[#Featur|Featured content]], [[#Mai|Maintenance]]) <span id="Qua"></span> <span id="Qualit"></span><span id="Quality"></span>
**[[Commons:Quality images]]
**[[:Category:Quality images]]
**[[:Category:Images of low quality]]
* Quality of editing, improving: see [[#Learni|Learning]]
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* Queries (database) (''see also'' [[#Download|Downloading all of Wikipedia]], [[#Stat|Statistics and reports]], [[#Techni|Technical (hardware and software)]]) <span id="Que"></span><span id="Querie"></span><span id="Query"></span>
**[[w:Wikipedia:Database queries]]
**[[mw:API:Query]]
**[[m:Requests for queries]] – SQL queries against wiki projects, including Wikipedia
**[http://en.wikipedia.org/w/query.php API to query data directly from the MediaWiki servers]
**[http://wikixmldb.dyndns.org/ WikiXMLDB] – Wikipedia content has been parsed into well-structured XML representation and loaded into a Sedna XML database, and an XQuery Web interface has been set up
**[http://wiki.dbpedia.org/OnlineAccess?v=8hr Online version of dbpedia.org] – structured information extracted from Wikipedia
**[http://wikipedia.3ba.se/ Query Wikipedia] – semantic database extracted from Wikipedia that can be queried
**[[m:WikiXRay]] – a robust and extensible software tool for an in-depth quantitative analysis of the whole Wikipedia project (under development as of October 2007)
** Analysis:
***[[w:Wikipedia:WikiProject Database analysis]] – collaboration of editors who use XML database dumps
***[[w:Wikipedia:Computer help desk/ParseMediaWikiDump]]
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* Questions: (''see also'' [[#Assist|Assistance]], [[#Help|Help]], [[#Learni|Learning]]) <span id="Questi"></span><span id="Question"></span>
**[[Commons:Help desk]] ([[COM:HD]])
**[[Commons:Village pump]] ([[COM:VP]])
***On a user talk page, via {{Tl:Help}}
***IRC: [[tools:~bjelleklang/pjirc/|Wikipedia IRC help channel]] (irc://irc.freenode.net/wikipedia-en-help)
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* Quotations: <span id="Quote"></span>
**[[w:Wikipedia:Manual of Style#Quotations]]
**[[w:Wikipedia:Manual of Style#Quotation marks]]
**[[w:Wikipedia:Manual of Style#Italics]]
**[[Template:Quote]]

== R ==

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* Random article: <span id="Random"></span>
**[[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)
**[[w:Portal:Middle-earth/Random-article]] – example on Wikipedia of how to generate a random article from a specified set of articles
**[[w:User:Misza13/Random]] – Random number generator (via a template)
**[[bugzilla:2170|Bug #2170]] – choosing a random article from a category ''is'' available in MediaWiki software; [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Village_pump_%28proposals%29&diff=177730918&oldid=177722298 disabled on Wikipedia for performance reasons]
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* Recent changes: (''see also'' [[#Monitor|Monitoring changes]], [[#Related|Related changes]], [[#Vandal|Vandalism]]) <span id="Rec"></span><span id="Recent"></span>
**[[Special:Recentchanges]]
**[[w:Help:Recent changes]]
**[[w:Help:Enhanced recent changes]]
**[[w:Wikipedia:Scripts#Recent changes scripts]]
**[[w:Wikipedia:IRCMonitor]] – Windows application, primarily for vandal-fighting
**[[m:IRC/Channels#Recent changes]]
* Recognition: ''see'' [[#Awards|Awards]]
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* Red links: <span id="Red"></span><span id="Red_li"></span><span id="Red_links"></span>
**[[w:Wikipedia:Red link]] ([[w:WP:RED]])
**[[MediaWiki:Red-link-title]] – standard tool-tip message
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* Redirects: <span id="Redirec"></span><span id="Redirect"></span>
**[[w:Wikipedia:Redirect]]
**[[w:Help:Redirect]]
**[[Commons:Category redirects suck]]
**[[:Category:Disambiguation and redirection templates]]
**[[:Category:Redirects]]
** Problematical:
*** Broken redirects (point to non-existent page)
****[[Special:BrokenRedirects]] – list 
*** Double redirects:
****[[w:Wikipedia:Double redirects]]
****[[Special:DoubleRedirects]] – list produced every three days or so
**** Automated correction by MediaWiki software (as of July 2008)
*****[[w:Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/2008-07-28/Technology report#New features|''Signpost'' note about software change]]
*****[http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-l/2008-July/038751.html Wikitech-l posting, "Double redirect fixer"], July 2008
*****[[bugzilla:4578|Bug #4578]] – "Page moves should not create double redirects"
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* Redistribution: (''see also'' [[#Compete|Competitors, forks, and mirrors]], [[#School|Schools]]) <span id="Redist"></span><span id="Redistribution"></span>
**[[Commons:Reusing content outside Wikimedia]]
** Wikipedia-specific links:
***[[w:Wikipedia:DVD]]
***[[w:Wikipedia:Wikipedia-CD/Download]]
***[[w:Wikipedia:Version 0.5]]
***[[w:Wikipedia:Snapshots]]
***[[w:Category:Wikipedia redistribution]]
* Refactoring: ''see'' [[#Talk p|Talk pages]]
* References: ''see'' [[#Source|Sources]]
* Registration: ''see'' [[#User a|User account and username]]
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* Related changes: (''see also'' [[#Recent|Recent changes]])<span id="Related"></span>
**[[w:Help:Related changes]]
** Recent changes to all articles in a category: 
***[[Commons:Categories#Applying "Related Changes" to a category]]
***By directly editing a URL: <nowiki> http://commons.wikimedia/w/index.php?title=Special:Recentchangeslinked&target=Category%3A</nowiki>''Category_name'' (must use underscores)
***Using a [[Help:Magic words|magic word]] in [[w:wikitext|wikitext]]: <code><nowiki> {{fullurl:Special:Recentchangeslinked|target=</nowiki>''Category name''<nowiki>}}</nowiki></code> (underscores are not necessary in the category name by this method)
***or browse to the category page and click "Related changes" in the toolbox
* Reliable sources: ''see'' [[#Source|Sources]]
* Renaming (pages): ''see'' [[#Moving|Moving a page]]
* Reports: ''see'' [[#Statis|Statistics and reports]]
* Requested articles: ''see'' [[#New ar|New articles]]
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* Resources (''see also'' [[#Free|Free media resources]])<span id="Res"></span><span id="Resour"></span><span id="Resource"></span> 
**[[:Category:Commons resources]]
**[[Commons:Map resources]]
**[[Commons:Free media resources]]
**[[Commons:Image map resources]]
**[[Commons:Chart and graph resources]]
**[[Commons:Diagram resources]]
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* Revdel: deleting a particular version of a page or image. This is an admin action.
* Reverts: <span id="Rev"></span><span id="Revert"></span>
**[[Commons:Vandalism]] ([[COM:V]]) - instructions for reverting a file after someone uploads a malicious revision
**[[w:Help:Reverting]]
**[[w:Wikipedia:Revert only when necessary]] ([[w:WP:ROWN]]) (essay)
**[[w:Wikipedia:Three-revert rule]] – Commons has no formal three-revert rule; this doesn't mean that edit warring or upload warring is acceptable ([[COM:GTA#Un/blocking]])
* Revision (prior version) of a page: ''see'' [[#Histor|History]]
* RFC automatic links: [[mw:Manual:RFC]]
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* Roads: <span id="Roads"></span><span id="Roads "></span><span id="Road"></span>
**[[:Category:Roads]]
**[[w:Wikipedia:Manual of Style (U.S. state and territory highways)]]
**[[w:Wikipedia:WikiProject U.S. Roads]] (includes three guidelines)
* RSS and similar feeds: ''see'' [[#Monitor|Monitoring changes]]

== S ==

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* Sandbox: a place to practice without hurting anything <span id="San"></span><span id="Sandbo"></span><span id="Sandbox"></span>
**[[w:Wikipedia:About the Sandbox]]
**[[Commons:Sandbox]]
** Cleaning: [[User:SieBot]]
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* Schools: <span id="Sch"></span><span id="Schoo"></span><span id="School"></span>
**[[w:Wikipedia:FAQ/Schools]]
**[[w:Wikipedia:School and university projects]] ([[w:WP:SUP]])
**[http://schools-wikipedia.org/ 2008/2009 Wikipedia Selection for schools] – 5,500 "good" and above articles, cleaned up and checked for suitability for children, on a single DVD (background and downloadable version of the earlier, 2007 selection [http://www.soschildrensvillages.org.uk/charity-news/wikipedia-for-schools.htm here])
**[[Template:Blocked school]] (analogous to [[w:Template:Schoolblock]] on Wikipedia)
** Tagging by bots:
***[[User:SelketBot]]
***[[w:User:MadmanBot]] – adds {{tl|SharedIPEDU}} and name of college/university/school to IP user talk pages
* Scripts: ''see'' [[#User s|User scripts]]
* SDC: [[Commons:Structured Data|Structured Data for Commons]]
* Searching Commons
**[[tools:~tangotango/mayflower/|Mayflower]] – searching the Commons
**[[Special:Search]]
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* Searching Wikipedia (some functional overlap with searching Commons): (''see also'' [[#Index |Index of pages]], [[#Querie|Queries (database)]]) <span id="Sea"></span><span id="Search"></span> 
** In general:
***[[w:Help:Searching]]
***[[w:Wikipedia:Look it up]]
** From within Wikipedia:
*** Search engine:
****[[w:Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/2008-11-10/Search engine|"MediaWiki search engine improved"]] (''Signpost'' article, November 2008)
****[[Special:Search]] – regular search with a wider box to enter text
****[[w:Help:Short words in searches]]
****[[w:Wikipedia:Perennial proposals#Search should detect spelling errors]]
****[http://ls2.wikimedia.org/ Test web interface for lucene-search 2.1]
**** Invoking search:
*****[[w:Help:Go button]]
*****[[w: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
****[http://support.mozilla.com/en-US/kb/Smart+keywords Creating a smart keyword] – can replace "site:en.wikipedia.org" in searches
*** Wikiseek:
****[http://www.wikiseek.com/ Wikiseek] – ''A better way to search Wikipedia'' – beta, January 2007; includes [http://www.wikiseek.com/tools/FF_extension/ Firefox extension]
****[http://wikiseek.wikia.com/wiki/Main_Page Wikiseek Community Wiki]e
****[http://www4.wiwiss.fu-berlin.de:8800/search/search.aspx DBpedia.org]
***[http://similpedia.org/engine Similpedia] – uses a URL or a chunk of text to find similar articles in Wikipedia
***[http://askwiki.com/AskWiki/index.php/Main_Page AskWiki] – semantic search engine developed in partnership between AskMeNow and the Wikimedia Foundation (beta)
***[http://www.powerset.com/ Powerset] – natural language search of Wikipedia
***[http://ysearchblog.com/2009/01/15/wikipedia-searchmonkey-app-now-default-on/ Yahoo's Wikipedia SearchMonkey App]
***[http://www.seariki.com/ Seariki] – search engine specifically designed for Wikipedia [(http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikien-l/2007-December/088027.html December 2007 announcement])
***[http://www.powerset.com/ Powerset] – semantic search (May 2008)
***[https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/2517 Googlepedia] – Firefox add-on; shows a relevant Wikipedia article along with Google search results
*** Preventing search engines from searching pages:
****[http://en.wikipedia.org/robots.txt 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
****[[MediaWiki:Robots.txt]] – direct editing of robots.txt
****[[mw:Extension:NoRobots]] allows editors to mark specific pages as not to be included by ''all'' outside search engines [not implemented as of April 2008]
****[[w:Wikipedia:Talk pages not indexed by Google]] (feature request)
** Tools:
***[[w:Wikipedia:Tools#Searching]] (may eventually merge into [[Wikipedia:Searching]])
***[[w:Wikipedia:WikiProject User scripts/Scripts#Searching]]
** Semantic MediaWiki:
***[[w:Semantic MediaWiki]] – version 0.7 was released April 2007
***[[m:Semantic MediaWiki]]
***[http://sourceforge.net/projects/semediawiki Semantic MediaWiki at Sourceforge.net]
***[http://sourceforge.net/projects/conceptextract/ Wikipedia Concept Extractor at Sourceforge.net]
**[[Commons:Microformats Project]] – metadata
* Sections (of articles): ''see'' [[#Layout|Layout and sections]]
* "See also" section: [[w:Wikipedia:Layout#See also]]
* Self-interest: ''see'' [[#Confli|Conflicts of interest]]
* Semi-protection of pages: ''see'' [[#Protec|Protection of pages]]
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* Series boxes: <span id="Ser"></span><span id="Series"></span>
**[[w:Wikipedia:Navigation templates]]
**[[:Category:Navigational templates]] - templates for navigating galleries and/or images
**[[:Category:Category navigational templates]] - templates for navigating categories
**[[:Category:Commons navigational templates]] - templates for navigating pages in project namespace
**[[w:Template:NavFrame]] – dynamic navigation (series) boxes (collapsible – hide/show)
**[[w:Wikipedia:Categories, lists, and navigation templates]] – compares alternative approaches
* Servers: ''see'' [[#Statis|Statistics]], [[#Techni|Technical (hardware and software)]]
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* Shortcuts (abbreviated redirects): <span id="Sho"></span><span id="Shortc"></span><span id="Short"></span><span id="Shortcuts"></span>
**[[Commons:COM]]
**[[Special:Prefixindex/CAT:]] - find all shortcuts beginning with CAT:
**[[Special:Prefixindex/COM:]] - find all shortcuts beginning with COM:
**[[Special:Prefixindex/CT:]] - find all shortcuts beginning with CT:
**[[w:Wikipedia:Full meta links]] – failed proposal to implement templates to replace shortcuts
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* Signatures: (''see also'' [[#Custom|Customization]], [[#Talk p|Talk pages]]) <span id="Sig"></span><span id="Signat"></span><span id="Sign"></span>
** As a feature of [[#MediaWiki|MediaWiki]]:
***[[w:Wikipedia:Signatures]] ([[w:WP:SIG]]) (guideline)
***[[Commons:Changing username]] - Instead of changing your name, you can change your signature at User Preferences
***[[bugzilla:8458]] – Bug #8458 – proposed restriction for length of signatures
*** Individual changes to the default signature:
****[[w:Wikipedia:How to fix your signature]]
****[[w:User:Athaenara/Gallery]]
****[[w:User:Smurrayinchester/Tutorial/Signature]]
****[[w:User:NikoSilver/Signature shop]]
*** Automatic signing (automated signing):
****[[w:User:SineBot]] – signs talk pages for editors who forgot, where an editor started a new section or an indented his/her comment (replacement for [[w:User:HagermanBot]])
****[[w:Category:Wikipedians who have opted out of automatic signing]]
*** Pages where default signatures can be customized: (implemented [[w:Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/2007-11-19/Technology report|November 2007]]
****[[Mediawiki:Signature]]
****[[Mediawiki:Signature-anon]]
*** Other:
****[[MediaWiki:Signature]] – format of default signature for editors who haven't changed the default in their preferences
** Hand-written signatures as media:
***[[Commons:When to use the PD-signature tag]] ([[COM:SIG]])
***{{Tl|PD-signature}} - template for marking images of hand-written signatures that are free from copyright
***[[:Category:Signatures]]
***[[:Category:PD signature]]
* Signon – ''see'' [[#Loggin|Logging in]], [[#User a|User account and username]]
* Single purpose account: [[w:Wikipedia:Single-purpose account]] (essay)
* ''Signpost'' – ''see'' [[#News (|News (about Wikipedia)]]
* Sister projects: ''see'' [[#Transwiki|Transwiki]]
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* Sock puppets (multiple accounts by one person): <span id="Soc"></span><span id="Sock p"></span><span id="Sock"></span>
**[[w:Wikipedia:Sock puppetry]] ([[w:WP:SOCK]]) (policy on Wikipedia)
**[[tools:~pietrodn/intersectContribs.php Intersection contribs]] – lists all pages edited by both of two specified editors
**[[tools:~erwin85/contribs.php Muliple contributors]] – A "recent edits" listing for a group of (specified) editors
** Checkuser (identifying sock puppets by checking IP addresses)<span id="Checkuser"></span>{{Shortcut2|COM:EIC#Checkuser}}
***[[w:Wikipedia:CheckUser]] (policy on Wikipedia)
***[[Commons:Requests for checkuser]] – requests for review of addresses
* Software:
** As the subject of a screenshot image:
***[[Commons:Screenshots]] - A screenshot may be published under a free license only if ''all'' the graphics shown have a free license, or the copyright holder agrees to license the screenshot freely via [[#VRT|VRT]]
***[[Commons:Upload/screenshot]] - start of upload form 
** Used for the Wikipedia project: ''see'' [[#MediaWiki|MediaWiki]], [[#Techni|Technical (hardware and software)]]
** Used for editing: ''see'' [[#Browser|Browsers]], [[#EditSoft|Editing software]]
* Sound (files): ''see'' [[#Media|Media]]
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* Sources (''see also'' [[#Resour|Resources]], [[#Spam|Spam]], [[#Urls|URLs]]) <span id="Sou"></span> <span id="Source"></span>
**[[w:WP:EIW#Source]] - extensive information about sources of articles on Wikipedia
**[[:Category:Citation templates]]
** Source information ''in'' media files:
***{{Tl|No source since}} - template message to place on media files lacking source information
***[[Commons:Essential information]]
** Sources ''of'' media files: (''see also'' [[#Free|Free media resources]])
***[[Commons:Bad sources]]
***[[Commons:Problematic sources]]
***{{Tl|information}} has a <code>Source</code> field which should document the source of every media file
** Bad external links: ([[w:link rot|link rot]]) <span id="LinkRot"></span>{{Shortcut2|COM:EIC#LinkRot}}
*** Finding bad links:
**** Checklinks (generates a report for links on any requested page):
*****[[tools:~dispenser/view/Checklinks|Checklinks]] 
*****[[w:User:Dispenser/Checklinks]] – documentation
*****[[m:Weblinkchecker.py]] -script to find and report external links that are no longer available
*** Identified bad links:
****[[Template:dead link]]
*** Fixing bad external links:
****[[w:Wikipedia:Citing sources#What to do when a reference link "goes dead"]]
**** Archive.org:
*****[[w:Wikipedia:Using the Wayback Machine]]
*****[https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/3336 ErrorZilla] – Firefox add-on; when a link is not found, the error screen offers (among other things) a search of archive.org
** Other:
***[[Special:Linksearch]] – identifying all external links from a given domain that are in Wikipedia articles (useful for spam searches, for example)
***[[:Category:External link templates]]
***[[w:Wikipedia:Canonicalization]] – how links work (technical)
***[[w:Help:Custom namespaces]] – prefixes (like :m) that (normally) resolve into an interwiki but can resolve into external source
***[[w:WebCite]] – a way to archive a copy of a page that is an external link
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* Spam: (''see also'' [[#Source|Sources]], [[#Vandal|Vandalism]]) <span id="Spa"></span><span id="Spam  "></span><span id="Spam"></span>
**[[w:Wikipedia:Spam]] ([[w:WP:SPAM]]) (guideline on Wikipedia) 
**[[m:Spam blacklist]] – blocked domains
**[[MediaWiki:Spam-blacklist]]
**[[Commons:Watermarks]] (proposed guideline)
**[[Special:Linksearch]] – tool for finding all articles with similar spam (spam domain)
**{{Tl|Spam}} – a template to use for warning spammers
**[[m:Anti-spam features]] – some built in, some optional
**[[Commons:Project scope/Pages, galleries and categories]] – guideline against advertising
* Span tags: [[w:Wikipedia:Span tags]] – common ones are <code>div</code> (small font in References/Notes section), <code>strikethrough</code>, and <code>blockquote</code>
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* Special characters: <span id="Spe"></span><span id="Specia"></span><span id="SpecialC"></span><span id="SpecialChar"></span>
**[[w:Help:Special characters]] 
**[[w:Help:Macrons]] 
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* Special pages: <span id="SpecialP"></span><span id="Special"></span>
**[[Help:Special page]]
**[[m:Help:Special page]]
**[[Special:Specialpages]] – list/links <!-- has been incorporated into this index -->
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* speedied: [[COM:CSD|speedy-deleted]], that is deleted without need for a full [[COM:DR|deletion request]]
* Spelling: (''see also'' [[#Format|Formatting of text]], [[#Maintain|Maintenance]])<span id="Spelli"></span><span id="Spell"></span>
**[[w:Wikipedia:Proper names]]
** U.S. and Commonwealth differences:
***[[w:Wikipedia:Manual of Style (spelling)]]
***[[w:Wikipedia:Manual of Style (capital letters)]]
***[[w:Wikipedia:List of spelling variants]]
***[[w:Wikipedia:Articles using British English titles]]
***[[w:Wikipedia:Articles using American English titles]]
***[[w:Wikipedia:Manual of Style (national varieties of English)]] (failed proposal)
***[[w:Wikipedia:Perennial proposals#Enforce American or British spelling]]
** Errors in articles:
***[[w:Wikipedia:Spellchecking]]
***[[w:Wikipedia:Lists of common misspellings]]
***[[w:Wikipedia:Redirects from misspellings]]
***[[w:Wikipedia:AutoWikiBrowser/Typos]]
***[[w:Wikipedia:Typo Team]]
***[[w:User:TypoBot]]
***[[w:User:SpellCheckerBot]] – will generate lists of suspected spelling errors which individual editors can then review and correct
***[[w:Wikipedia:AutoWikiBrowser/Typos]] – set of regular expressions used to automatically fix common typos and misspellings
*** Other:
****Spell checkers for various browsers: ''see'' [[w:Wikipedia:Tip of the day/September 2]]
** Errors when doing a search: ''see'' [[w:Wikipedia:Perennial proposals#Search should detect spelling errors]]
* Spoiler: 
** Not giving away plot details of a book or film:
***[[w:Wikipedia:Spoiler]] ([[w:WP:SPOIL]]) (guideline) 
** The aerodynamic device:
***[[:Category:Automobile spoilers]]
* SQL query: ''see'' [[#Query|Queries (database)]]
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* Statistics and reports: (see also separate topics, [[#Page v|Page views (of articles)]], [[#Query|Queries (database)]]) <span id="Stat"></span><span id="Statis"></span><span id="Statistic"></span>
**[[w:Wikipedia:Statistics]]
**[[Special:Statistics]]
**[[Commons:MIME type statistics]] - bot-compiled counts of files on Commons by MIME type
**[http://infodisiac.com/blog/ Infodisiac blog] – postings by Eric Zachte, [http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/foundation-l/2008-July/044515.html hired September 1, 2008 to maintain and develop code for metrics for Wikimedia Foundation projects]
**[[Help:Magic words#Statistics]] – [[#Magic|magic words]] that provide statistical information
** Information kept on wikimedia.org (Foundation) pages:
***[http://stats.wikimedia.org/EN/Sitemap.htm Erik Zachte's Wikipedia Statistics Sitemap]
***[http://toolserver.org/~leon/stats/ Server statistics]
**[http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/a4/Wikimania_2005_Presentation_Statistics_Annotated.pdf Editing by time of day]
**[[m:List of Wikipedias]]
**[[Commons:Administrator permission for statistics]] – which administrators give permission for statistics to be published about their administrator activities
**[http://www.nedworks.org/~mark/reqstats/ nedworks.org Statistics (charts)]
**[[Commons:CommonTasks/Statistics]]
** Formatting:
***{{Tl|0}} - template for padding statistics and other numeric data in tables so they align
** Media relating to statistics: (only a partial list)
***[[:Category:Statistics]]
***[[:Category:Wikimedia statistics]]
***[[:Category:Wikipedia statistics]]
* Stewards: ''see'' [[#Function|Functionaries]]
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* [[Commons:Structured data|Structured data]]
* Style (articles) (''see also'' [[#Accessl|Accessibility]], [[#Dates|Dates]], [[#Format|Formatting of text]], [[#Lay|Layout and sections]], [[#Punctu|Punctuation]], [[#Qua|Quality of articles]], [[#Wor|Words and wording]]) <span id="Sty"></span><span id="Style "></span><span id="Style"></span>
** Style guidelines on Wikipedia:
***[[w:Wikipedia:Manual of Style]]
***[[w:Wikipedia:Guidance on applying the Manual of Style]]
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* Subpages: <span id="Subpage"></span>
**[[w:Wikipedia:Subpages]] ([[w:WP:SP]]) (guideline) 
**[[w:Wikipedia:User page#How do I create a user subpage?]] ([[w:WP:USER]]) (guideline)
**[[w:User:UberScienceNerd/Tutorials/Using subpages]]
**[http://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?action=query&meta=siteinfo&siprop=namespaces Query results – existing namespaces] – lists which namespaces are allowed to have subpages
* Subsections (of articles): ''see'' [[#Layout|Layout and sections]]
* subst: shorthand for "Substitution"
* Substitution: ''see'' [[#Templa|Templates]]
* SVG: ''see'' [[#Inkscape|Inkscape]]
* Synonyms: [http://sourceforge.net/projects/synarcher/ Synarcher at SourceForge.net] – search and visual display
* Sysop: ''see'' [[#Admini|Administrator]]

== T ==

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* T & S: abbreviation for [[m:Trust and Safety|Trust & Safety]]
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* Table of contents: (''see also'' [[#Layout|Layout and sections]]) <span id="Tab"></span><span id="TOC"></span>
**[[:Category:TOC templates]]
**[[w:Wikipedia:Template messages/Compact tables of contents]] - displays compact tables of contents on Wikipedia
**[[w:Help:Section]] – covers several aspects of TOCs
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* Tables: <span id="Table"></span>
**[[w:Wikipedia:How to use tables]] ("disambiguation" page)
**[[w:Wikipedia:When to use tables]] (Manual of Style)
**[[w:Help:Table]]
**[[w:Help:Sorting]]
**[[m:Help:Collapsing]]
**[[w:User:Smurrayinchester/Tutorial/Tables]]
**[[w:User:Dcljr/Tables]] – another user page about tables
** Exporting a table from a page:
***[http://ouseful.wordpress.com/2008/10/14/data-scraping-wikipedia-with-google-spreadsheets/ Data Scraping Wikipedia with Google Spreadsheets]
** Importing data from existing spreadsheets:
***[[mw:Extension:SimpleTable]] – allows tabular data to be easily cut-and-pasted (proposal)
***[[mw:Extension:Word2MediaWikiPlus]] – convert Microsoft Word tables to wikitables
***[http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Helferlein/VBA-Macro_for_EXCEL_tableconversion Convert Excel tables to wikitables] – saves most formatting like background – and fontcolor, fontstyle(bold/italic), column height and width
* Tabs: [[w:Template:PageTabs]]
* Tags: ''see'' [[w:Wikipedia:Span tags]], [[#Messageboxes | Messageboxes]] (using the term “tags” to refer to messageboxes is common but technically incorrect; messageboxes are templates)
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* Talk pages (''see also'' [[#Archiv|Archiving]], [[#Signat|Signature]], [[#User p|User pages]], [[#War|Warnings]]) <span id="Tal"></span><span id="Talk p"></span><span id="Talk"></span>
**[[Commons:Talk page guidelines]] ([[COM:TALK]])
**[[w:Wikipedia:Talk page]] ([[w:WP:TP]])
**[[Help:Talk page]] 
**[[m:Help:Talk page]]
**[[w:Wikipedia:Tutorial (Talk pages)]]
**[[w:Wikipedia:BOLD, revert, discuss cycle]] – an exception to discussing content changes on article talk pages
**[[w:Wikipedia:Refactoring talk pages]]
**Templates for avoiding having user talk page discussions on two different pages: {{tl|usertalkback}} and {{tl|talkback}}  
** Liquid Threads: planned new system for talk pages <span id="LT"></span>{{Shortcut2|COM:EIC#LT}}
***[[mw:Extension:LiquidThreads]] – proposal
***[http://wikixp.org/lqt/index.php/Main_Page Demonstration site]
***[http://wikieducator.org/Talk:LiquidThreads In use on a site using MediaWiki software]
** Templates for ''article'' talk pages: (''see also'' [[#WikiPr|WikiProjects]])
***[[MediaWiki:Talkpagetext]] – standard message that appears at top of all (new?) mainspace talk pages – implemented late 2006
***[[:Category:Talk header templates]]
***[[Template:Skip to talk]] – template for top of article talk pages, to allow readers to bypass other templates at top of article talk page
{{Shortcut2|COM:EIC#Technical}}
* Technical (hardware and software) (''see also'' [[#Bugs|Bugs]], [[#MediaW|MediaWiki]], [[#Querie|Queries (database)]]) <span id="Tec"></span><span id="Techni"></span><span id="Technical"></span>
** General:
***[[w:Wikipedia:FAQ/Technical]]
***[[m:System administrators]] (formerly "Developers")
***[[Special:Version]] – lists extensions and hooks
***[[w:Wikipedia:Don't worry about performance]] ([[w:WP:PERF]]) (guideline)
***[http://techblog.wikimedia.org/ Wikimedia Technical Blog] - real-time postings from Wikimedia system administrators about server status, software updates, etc.
***[http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-l/ Wikitech mailing list]
***[http://www.thewritingpot.com/wikistatus/ Operational status]
***[http://dammit.lt/uc/workbook2007.pdf Wikipedia: Site internals, configuration, code examples and management issues (pdf)], presentation at MySQL Users Conference 2007
** Troubleshooting:
***[[w:Wikipedia:FAQ/Problems]]
***[[w:Wikipedia:Troubleshooting]]
***[[w:Wikipedia:Village pump (technical)]]
***[[w:Wikipedia:Bypass your cache]]
***[[w:Wikipedia:Purge]] – clear a page's server cache
** Other:
***[[m:Wikimedia servers]]
***[https://wikitech.leuksman.com/view/Server_admin_log Server admin log]
***[http://uptime.pingdom.com/site/month_summary/site_name/en.wikipedia.org Uptime statistics] – at pingdom.com
***[[m:Summer of Code 2006]]
***[[m:Summer of Code 2006/ideas]]
{{Shortcut2|COM:EIC#Template}}
* Templates: (''see also'' [[#Ambox|Article message boxes]], [[#Infobox|Infoboxes]], [[#Messageboxes|Messageboxes]], [[#Series|Series boxes]], [[#Transc|Transclusion]], [[#User b|Userboxes]]) <span id="Tem"></span><span id="Templa"></span><span id="Template"></span>
** General information:
***[[w:Help:A quick guide to templates]]
***[[w:Wikipedia:Anatomy of a template]] (tutorial)
***[[w:Wikipedia:FAQ/Template]]
***[[Help:Template]]
***[[Commons:Template standardization]]
***[[Commons:Template i18n]] - template translation
***[[Commons:User-specific galleries, templates and categories policy]] ([[COM:USER]])
***[[:Category:Commons templates]] ([[:CAT:T]])
** Pages which demonstrate templates:
***[[Commons:Babel]]
***[[Commons:Barnstars]]
***[[Commons:Language templates]]
***[[Commons:Link templates]]
***[[Commons:Image copyright tags visual]]
***[[Commons:Message templates]]
***[[Template:Polling template]]
***[[Commons:SVG marker templates]]
***[[Commons:Templates]] ([[COM:T]])
***[[Commons:Userboxes]]
** More information:
***[[Commons:Template documentation]]
***[[Commons:Templates]]
***[http://brianna.modernthings.org/article/83/templatology-an-essay Templatology, an essay]
** Substitution:
***[[Help:Substitution]]
***[[w:Wikipedia:Template substitution]] (guideline) ([[w:WP:SUB]])
***[[User:MBisanzBot]] – does substitution when an editor forgets to do so
** Technical:
***[[w:Wikipedia:Template test cases]]
***[[w:Wikipedia:Template limits]]
***[[w:Help:Advanced templates]]
***[[w:Help:Parameter default]] – expands templates recursively
***[[w:Help:Editing sections of included templates]]
***[[Special:ExpandTemplates]] – takes some text and expands all templates in it recursively.
***[[w:Wikipedia:Changing templates]]
***[[w:User:Willscrlt/commons/Category suppression in templates (en)]] – keeping templates from creating categories when they shouldn't
** Problems:
***[[Commons:Administrators' noticeboard/Blocks and protections]] ([[COM:AN/B]]) - a place to request protection for a high-risk template
***[[:Category:Protection templates]]
***[[Commons:Deletion requests]] (merely a redirect to [[Commons:Deletion requests]]; there is no separate page on Commons for template deletion requests)
***[[:Category:Pages where template include size is exceeded]]
***[[w:Help:Job queue]] – why changing a category in a template doesn't instantly change all articles with that template
** Other:
***[[tools:~cbm/cgi-bin/queries/TemplateRevs]] – shows last edit for all templates transcluded on a page (default is [[w:WP:AN/I]])
{{Shortcut2|COM:EIC#Terms}}
* Terms and terminology: (''see also'' [[#Gloss|Glossaries]]) <span id="Ter"></span><span id="Termin"></span><span id="Terms"></span><span id="Terms "></span><span id="Terms"></span><span id="Term"></span>
**[[w:Wikipedia:Glossary]]
**[[w:Wikipedia:Tutorial/Glossary]] – ten terms not covered in the main part of the tutorial that may be useful for beginners
**[[w:Wikipedia:Edit summary legend]] – commonly used abbreviations in edit summaries
**[[w:Wikipedia:WikiSpeak]] – alternative definitions
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{{Shortcut2|COM:EIC#ToDo}}
* Things to do: (''see also'' [[#Maintain|Maintenance]]) <span id="ToDo"></span>
**[[Commons:Bundesarchiv/Todo]]
**[[tools:~magnus/wikitodo.php|Wiki ToDo]] – Randomly selects an article, provides a statistical analysis, and suggests ways to improve it
* Threats: (''see also'' [[#Person|Personal attacks]]) <span id="Threat"></span>	
** Legal threats: ''see'' [[#Legal|Legal]]	
** Violence:	
***[[w:Wikipedia:Threats of violence]]	
***[[w:User:Mendaliv/TOV letter]]
* Three reverts: [[w:Wikipedia:Three-revert rule]] ([[w:WP:3RR]])
* {{anchor|TOO}} [[COM:TOO|Threshold of originality]]: the required amount of creativity required for copyright, varies in different countries
* Time:<span id="Time"></span>
** Adjusting date/time shown on watchlists and other special pages:  see "[[Special:Preferences|my preferences]]", "date and time" tab
** [[User:Gary King/localize comments.js]] – converts all timestamps on a displayed Wikipedia page to the user's local time
{{Shortcut2|COM:EIC#Timeline}}
* Timelines: <span id="Tim"></span><span id="Timeli"></span><span id="Timeline"></span>
**[[:Category:Timelines]] - media relating to timelines
** Timelines on Wikipedia:
***[[w:Wikipedia:Timeline]]
***[[w:Wikipedia:Timeline standards]] (Manual of Style)
***[[w:Wikipedia:Timeline syntax]]
***[[w:Wikipedia:EasyTimeline]]
***[[w:Help:EasyTimeline syntax]]
***[[mw:Extension:WikiTimeLine]] (version 1.0 as of July 2008)
{{Shortcut2|COM:EIC#Tip}}
* Tips: <span id="Tips"></span><span id="Tip"></span>
**[[Commons:Categories#Categorization tips]]
** Tips on Wikipedia:
***[[w:Wikipedia:Tips]]
***[[w:Wikipedia:Tip of the day]]
**Template for one's user page: [[w:Template:totd]]
**[[w:Category:Wikipedia Tip of the day]]
**[[w:Wikipedia:Wikipedia tipster]]
* TOO: see [[#TOO|Threshold of originality]]
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* Tools: (''see also'' [[#Bots|Bots]], [[#Extens|Extensions]], [[#Uptools|Upload tools]], [[#User s|User scripts]]) <span id="Too"></span><span id="Tools"></span><span id="Tool"></span>
**[[Commons:Tools]]
**[[:Category:Commons tools]]
**[[m:Open Source Toolset]]
**[[m:User:Duesentrieb/Tools]]
**[[m:Open Source Toolset]]
**[[m:Toolserver]]
**[[Commons:Toolserver]]
**[http://www.blinkbits.com/bookmarklets/wikr.php "Wikr" bookmarklet]
**[[w:Wikipedia:Tools/Optimum tool set]]
* Top of article: ''see'' [[#Layout|Layout and sections]]
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* Trademarks: (''see also'' [[#Copy|Copyrights]], [[#Logo|Logos]])<span id="Trademark"></span>
**[[w:Trademark]] - general information
**[[Commons:Image casebook#Tradmarks]] ([[COM:CB#Trademarks]]) - many trademarks are copyrighted, but trademarked images too simple to be copyrighted may be acceptable for uploading to Commons
**[[Commons:Non-copyright restrictions]] - further discussion on trademark restrictions
**[[Commons:Trademarks proposal]] - a proposal to delete any image that depicts a registered trademark (inactive)
** Media:
***[[:Category:Trademark symbols]] - symbols for indicating trademarks
***[[:Category:With trademark]] - images containing trademarks
***[[:Category:Wikimedia Community Logos]] - images to use freely to avoid infringing on the Wikimedia Foundation's logo copyright and trademark
** Templates:
***{{Tl|Trademarked}} - to place on trademarked media files
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* Transclusion: (''see also'' [[#Templa|Templates]]) <span id="Tra"></span><span id="Transc"></span><span id="Transclude"></span>
**[[w:Wikipedia:Transclusion]]
**[[w:Help:Embed page]]
**[[m:Help:A simple composite example]]
**[[mw:Extension:Labeled Section Transclusion]] (not yet enabled)
**[[mw:Extension:DynamicPageList]] – creating a composite article from a collection of sections "chapters" of similar articles
{{Shortcut2|COM:EIC#Translate}}
* Translations: (''see also'' [[#InterW|Interwiki links]]) <span id="Transl"></span><span id="Translate"></span>
**{{Tl|Translation possible}}
**[[Commons:Translation possible/Learn more]]
** Wikipedia in different languages – overview:
***[[Commons:Multilinguality]]
***[[m:Meta:Babylon]] – Meta translations portal and noticeboard
***[[m:Wikimedia Embassy]] – central place for resources to help with cross-language issues that affect everyone
***[[incubator:Main Page]] – Wikimedia Incubator, for developing potential Wikimedia project wikis in new language versions
** Information about languages, and translation aids:
***[[w:Wikipedia:Local Embassy]]
***[[m:List of Wikipedias]]
***[[w:Wikipedia:Language recognition chart]]
***[[w:Help:Special characters]]
***[[w:Help:Multilingual support]] (guide to fonts)
** Editors who can help with translations:
***[[Commons:Babel]] 
***[[mw:Extension:Babel]]
{{Shortcut2|COM:EIC#Transwiki}}
* Transwiki: (''see also'' [[#Interw|Interwiki links]])<span id="Transw"></span><span id="Transwiki"></span>
**[[w:Wikipedia:Wikimedia sister projects]] (Manual of Style) – info on moving articles between other projects such as Wikiquote, Wikisource, Wiktionary, Wikinews, and Wikibooks
**[[m:Help:Transwiki]]
**[[:Category:Help Transwiki]] - for pictures about how to transwiki import a page from another wiki
** Information on specific sister projects:
***Wikiversity: [[w:Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/2008-05-09/Wikiversity interview]]
* Trolls and trolling: [[w:Wikipedia:What is a troll?]] ([[w:WP:TROLL]]) (essay)
* Tutorials: ''see'' [[#Help p|Help pages]]

== U ==

{{TOC}}
* U4C: [[meta:Universal Code of Conduct]]
* Unicode: 
**[[Commons:Unicode.org CJK Strokes improvement proposal]]
* Universities: ''see'' [[#School|Schools]]
{{Shortcut2|COM:EIC#Upload}}
* Uploading files: (''see also'' [[#Copy|Copyright]], [[#Ctags|Copyright tags]])<span id="Upload"></span><span id="Uploading"></span>
**[[Commons:First steps/Account]]
**[[Commons:Upload|Upload]] (operational) - top-level page with links to specialized upload forms. ([[Commons:Upload help|Upload help]])
** Upload tools: (''see also'' [[#Tools|Tools]]) {{Shortcut2|COM:EIC#Uploadtools|COM:EIC#Uptools}}<span id="Uploadtools"></span><span id="Uptools"></span>
***[[Help:Chunked upload]] ([[Commons:Upload_Wizard|Upload Wizard]], [[Commons:GLAMwiki_Toolset|GLAMwiki_Toolset]], &hellip;)
***[[Commons:Batch uploading]] {{Shortcut2|COM:BATCH}}
***[[Commons:Upload_tools]] ([[COM:Commonist|Commonist]], [[COM:VicuñaUploader|VicuñaUploader]], &hellip;)  
***[[Commons:Command-line upload|Command-line upload]] (Perl, Python, &hellip;)
{{Shortcut2|COM:EIC#URL}}
* URLs: (see also [[#Source|Sources]], [[#Wikili|Wikilinks]]) <span id="Urls"></span> <span id="Urls  "></span><span id="Url"></span><span id="URL"></span>
**[[w:Wikipedia:URLs]]- URLs of pages within Wikipedia: articles, redirects, watchlists, etc.
**[[Help:URL]]
**[[w:Wikipedia:External links]]
**[[mw:Help:Magic words#URL data]] - useful for wrapping URLs containing wikitext characters
{{Shortcut2|COM:EIC#Username}}
* User account and username: (''see also'' [[#Loggin|Logging in]], [[#Privac|Privacy]], [[#Signat|Signature]], [[#User p|User pages]], [[#UserRights|User rights]]) <span id="Use"></span><span id="User a"></span><span id="Username"></span> 
** Registered accounts versus anonymous IP editing:
***[[w:Wikipedia:Why create an account?]] – benefits to a person who decides to register
***[[w:Wikipedia:The benefits of requiring account creation on Wikipedia]] (essay) – arguments against allowing IP editors
***[[w:Wikipedia:The benefits of not requiring account creation on Wikipedia]] (essay) – arguments in favor of IP editors
** Starting out:
***[[Commons:Username policy]] (proposed)
***[[Commons:First steps/Account]]
***[[Special:Userlogin]] – to request an account
***[[w:Wikipedia:Request an account]] – for those who wish to create an account but cannot read the [[w:CAPTCHA]] image that is part of the standard registration process as of February 2007.
**[[w:Help:Email confirmation]]
** Inappropriate usernames
***{{Tl|Inappropriate username}}
*** On Wikipedia):
****[[w:Wikipedia:Usernames for administrator attention]] – blatantly inappropriate usernames
****[[w:Wikipedia:Requests for comment/User names]] – discussions
****[[w:Template:Uw-ublock]]
**** Monitoring bots:
*****[[w:User:HBC NameWatcherBot]]
*****[[w:User:DeadBot]]
** Changing usernames:
***[[Special:Listusers]] – check if a username exists
***[[Commons:Changing username]]
** Single signon (single login):<span id="SingleSignon"></span>{{Shortcut2|COM:EIC#SingleSignon}}
***[[bugzilla:57]] – Bug #57 – feature request
***''Signpost'' articles: [[w:Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/2006-08-07/Wikimania tech|August 2006]], [[w:Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/2007-08-13/Bug review#Single user login (bug 57)|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"
*** Identifying existing accounts for a user name:
****[http://tools.wikimedia.de/~luxo/contributions/contributions.php? User contributions] – tool on the German Wikipedia
****[[tools:~interiot/cgi-bin/queries/SUL|Single-user login conflict search]] (MySQL server error since mid-2007)
*** Unification:
****[[Special:MergeAccount]] – to check one's own status, and to do login unification
****[[m:Special:GlobalUsers]] – editors who have opted into single signon
** Other:
***Multiple accounts: ''see'' [[#Sock p|Sock puppets]]
***[[Commons:Administrators' noticeboard/User problems]]
***[[w:Help:User contributions]]
***[[w:Wikipedia:Single-purpose account]] (essay)
***[[tools:~tangotango/userreg.php|User registration date/time finder]]
* User interface: (''see also'' [[#Custom|Customization]])
**[[Special:AllMessages]] – system messages available in the MediaWiki: namespace
{{Shortcut2|COM:EIC#UserPage}}
* User pages: (''see also'' [[#Archiv|Archiving]], [[#Galler|Galleries]], [[#User a|User account and username]], [[#Userbo|Userboxes]], [[#Warnin|Warnings]]) <span id="User p"></span><span id="UserPage"></span> 
**[[Commons:User-specific galleries, templates and categories policy]] ([[COM:USER]])
** On Wikipedia:
***[[w:Wikipedia:User page]] ([[w:WP:USER]]) (guideline)
***[[w:Wikipedia:Subpages]] (guideline) 
***[[w:Wikipedia:User Page Design Center]]
** Current status of an editor: <span id="Status"></span> {{Shortcut2|COM:EIC#Status}}
***[[bugzilla:14384]] – Bug #14384 – New #lastedit parserfunction (accepts a username as input and return a standard timestamp of the last edit by that username)
***[[mw:Extension:OnlineStatus]]
** Categories:
***[[:Category:User]] - sorts users by languages spoken, interests, activities
***[[:Category:Wikipedians]] – images of Wikipedia users
<!-- ***[[Commons:User categorization]] – inactive/historical -->
<!-- ***[[Commons:Guidelines for user categories]] – inactive -->
** Other:
***[[Template:User committed identity]] - a way to prove that you are the owner of an account, should your password become compromised
{{Shortcut2|COM:EIC#UserRights}}
* User rights (also known as "user privileges", "user groups", and "usergroups"):<span id="UserRights"></span>
**[[Special:ListGroupRights]]
**[[Commons:User access levels]]
**[[w:Wikipedia:Global rights usage]] (policy)
**<nowiki>{{NUMBERINGROUP}}</nowiki> – [[#Magic|magic word]] that counts the number of users in a particular group; for instance: <nowiki>{{NUMBERINGROUP:rollbacker}}</nowiki>
**[http://commons.wikimedia.org/w/api.php?action=query&meta=siteinfo&siprop=usergroups API query that returns a listing showing the rights assigned to each usergroup]
** Autoconfirm:{{Shortcut2|COM:EIC#Autoconfirm}}<span id="Autoconfirm"></span>
***[[Commons:Autoconfirmed users]] - lists the specific rights that autoconfirmed users have on Commons
***[[mw:Extension:Automatic Groups]]
***[[mw:Manual:$wgAutopromote]]
****[[mw:Extension:TorBlock]] (editing through tor requires 100 edits and a 90 days to become autoconfirmed, as of June 2008)
*** Changes:
****[[w:Wikipedia:Autoconfirmed Proposal/Poll]] – proposal, May 2008, to increase the requirements for [[Wikipedia:Glossary#A|autoconfirmed]] status by requiring new editors to have a specific number of edits, and possibly increasing the four-day waiting period
****[[bugzilla:14191|Bugzilla #14191]] – Autoconfirmed settings on enwiki changed to 4 days and 10 edits as of May 2008
****[[w:Wikipedia talk:Autoconfirmed Proposal/Poll2]] – proposal, June 2008, to increase requirements to 7 days, 20 edits (about 65% supported)
{{Shortcut2|COM:EIC#Userbox}}
* Userboxes (''see also'' [[#User p|User pages]]) <span id="Userbo"></span><span id="Userbox"></span><span id="User_bo"></span><span id="User_b"></span>
**[[Commons:Userboxes]] ([[COM:UBX]])
**[[w:Wikipedia:Userboxes]] – describes standard format and links to thousands of userboxes
**[[w:Wikipedia:Userbox Maker]]
**[[:Category:Userbox templates]]
**[[w:Wikipedia:Jimbo on Userboxes]] ([[w:WP:JOU]])
{{Shortcut2|COM:EIC#Script|COM:EIC#UserScript}}
* User scripts: (JavaScript) (.js pages) (''see also'' [[#Bots|Bots]], [[#Gadget|Gadgets]], [[#Tools|Tools]]): <span id="User_s"></span><span id="Script"></span><span id="UserScript"></span>
**[[w:Wikipedia:WikiProject User scripts]]
**[[w:Wikipedia:WikiProject User scripts/Tutorial]]
**[http://en.wikipedia.org/skins-1.5/common/wikibits.js Wikibits] – "MediaWiki JavaScript support functions" (good source of code)
**[[Commons:Tools]]
**[[Commons:Tool integration]]
**[[:Category:User scripts]]
**[[mw:Extension:Gadgets]] – a way for editors to pick JavaScript or CSS based "gadgets" that other Wikipedia editors have created, via the "my preferences" page

== V ==

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{{Shortcut2|COM:EIC#Valued}}
* Valued images: (''see also'' [[#Feature|Featured content]]) <span id="Valued"></span>
**[[Commons:Valued images]]
**[[Special:Prefixindex/Commons:Valued]]
{{Shortcut2|COM:EIC#Vandal}}
* Vandalism (''see also'' [[#Sock p|Sock puppets]], [[#Spam|Spam]], [[#Stable|Stable versions]], [[#Warnin|Warnings]]) <span id="Van"></span><span id="Vandal"></span>
** In general:
***[[Commons:Vandalism]] ([[COM:V]])
***[[Commons:Counter Vandalism Unit]] ([[COM:CVU]])
** On Wikipedia:
***Tutorial: Reporting and dealing with vandals – [[w:Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/2008-01-28/Tutorial]]
***[[w:Wikipedia:Vandalism in progress]] – a quick directory
***[[w:Wikipedia:Revert, block, ignore]] (essay)
***[[w:Wikipedia:Do not insult the vandals]] (essay)
***[[w:Wikipedia:Deny recognition]] (essay)
***[[w:Wikipedia:The motivation of a vandal]] (essay)
***[[w:Category:Wikipedia vandalism]]
***[[w:Wikipedia:WikiProject Vandalism studies]]
** Getting assistance:
***[[Commons:Administrators' noticeboard/Vandalism]] ([[COM:AN/V]])
** Tools: (''see also'' [[#Recent|Recent changes]])<span id="VandalTools"></span>{{Shortcut2|COM:EIC#VandalTools}}
***[[Commons:AutoWikiBrowser]]
***[[Commons:Twinkle]] (also available as a gadget, under "my preferences")
***[[Commons:Huggle]] – in development as of January 2008
***[http://www.lkozma.net/wpv/index.html WikipediaVision (beta)] – shows anonymous edits to Wikipedia (almost) in real-time, on a Google map
***[http://www.dnsstuff.com/tools/whois.ch?ip=IPaddressHere IP lookup]
***[http://sam.zoy.org/wikipedia/ godmode-light] – JavaScript that adds rollback buttons to user contribution and article diff pages
***Schools: post {{Tl|schoolblock}} on talk pages
***[[:Category:User block templates]]
** Bots:
*** Identifying and fixing vandalism:
****[[User:AntiVandalBot]]
** Other:
***[[tools:~cbm/cgi-bin/queries/TemplateRevs]] – shows last edit for all templates transcluded on a page (default is [[w:WP:AN/I]]) (for suspected template vandalism)
***[http://trust.cse.ucsc.edu/WikiTrust_Blog WikiTrust Blog] – color-coding text in articles based on the calculated level of trust for each contributor
***[[m:Friends of gays should not be allowed to edit articles]]
***[[:Category:Vandalism]] - images of vandalism in the real world
* Variables: ''see'' [[#Magic |Magic words]]
* Vector graphics: ''see'' [[#Inkscape|Inkscape]]
* Verifiability: ''see'' [[#Source|Sources]]
* Version tagging: ''see'' [[#Stable|Stable versions]]
* Video: ''see also'' [[#Media|Media]]
**[[Commons:Video]]
**[[Help:Converting video]]
{{Shortcut2|COM:EIC#Vid}}
* Video games: <span id="Vid"></span><span id="Video "></span>
**[[Commons:Screenshots]] ([[COM:SS]])
* Village pump: [[Commons:Village pump]] – discussion of technical issues, policies, and operations of Commons
* VOA: "Vandalism-only account"
* Voting: ''see'' [[#Consen|Consensus and voting]]
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{{Shortcut2|COM:EIC#VRT}}
* VRT: [[Commons:Volunteer Response Team|Volunteer Response Team]], the team that handles confidential correspondence to allow verification of identities, confirmation of permissions, etc.<span id="VRT"></span> Formerly known as OTRS.<span id="OTRS"></span>
**[[Commons:Volunteer Response Team]] ([[COM:VRT]]) - start here for information about validating permission to use a photo, obtained through e-mail from the copyright holder
**[[:Category:Commons Volunteer Response Team volunteers]] - list of team members for VRT
**{{Tl|PermissionTicket}} ({{tl|VRT}}) - a message template VRT members place on file pages for which permission is on file in the VRT system
***[[Special:WhatLinksHere/Template:PermissionTicket]] - file pages displaying the {{Tl|PermissionTicket}} message template
***[[Special:PrefixIndex/Template:PermissionTicket]] - message templates relating to VRT and the various stages of validating permission
**[[m:Info-en mission]] – incoming emails in English
**[[m:Volunteer Response Team]]
**[[m:Volunteer Response Team/Recruiting]] – information on volunteering ("experienced admins" only, in theory)
**[[m:Volunteer_Response_Team/Personnel]] – page for volunteers to list their names

== W ==

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{{Shortcut2|COM:EIC#Warn}}
* Warnings: <span id="War"></span><span id="Warnin"></span><span id="Warn"></span>
**[[Commons:Message templates]] ([[COM:MT]])
**[[:Category:Message templates]]
* Watchlist: ''see'' [[#Monitor|Monitoring changes]]
* Weight (undue): ''see'' [[#NPOV|Neutral point of view]]
* Welcome: ''see'' [[#New ed|New editors]]
* What: [[Commons:Project scope]] – what media are suitable for Commons
* Wiki markup: ''see'' [[#Format|Formatting of text]]
{{Shortcut2|COM:EIC#Break|COM:EIC#Wikibreak}}
* Wikibreaks: <span id="Wikibr"></span><span id="Wikibreak"></span><span id="Break"></span>
**[[w:Wikipedia:Wikibreak]]
** Self-specified (enforced) breaks:
***[https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/4476 LeachBlock] – Firefox add-on (for any website)
* Wikilawyering: ''see'' [[#Policy|Policies and guidelines]] (misuses of)
{{Shortcut2|COM:EIC#Wikilink}}
* Wikilinks: (''see also'' [[#Piped |Piped links]], [[#Red li|Red links]]) <span id="Wikili"></span><span id="Wikilink"></span>
**[[w:Wikipedia:How to edit a page#Links and URLs]]
**[[w:Wikipedia:Tutorial (Wikipedia links)]]
**[[w:Wikipedia:Manual of Style (links)]]
**[[w:Help:Contents/Links]]
**[[Commons:First steps/Reuse]]
**[[w:Help:Self link]]
**[[w:Help:What links here]] – identifying wikilinks that point to an existing page
** Technical:
***[[w:Wikipedia:Link color]]
***[[w:Wikipedia:Canonicalization]] – how wikilinks work (technical)
***[[w:Wikipedia:Template messages/Links]]
** Other:
***[[Special:Mostlinked]] – pages with the most links pointing to them
***[[tools:sixdeg/|Six degrees of Wikipedia]] – shortest path query solver
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* Wikimedia Foundation – the parent organization of Wikipedia and numerous other collaborative projects such as [[Wiktionary]] and [[Wikibooks]] <span id="Wikime"></span><span id="WMF"></span><span id="Foundation"></span>
**[[foundation:Home]]
**[[m:Metapub]] – central place for questions and discussions about the Foundation and its projects
**[[m:Wikimedia Embassy]] – central place for resources to help with cross-language issues that affect everyone
**[[Wikimedia Foundation]] – Wikipedia article
**[http://blog.wikimedia.org/ Foundation blog]
**[[w:Wikipedia:Elections#Wikimedia Board]]
**[http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/86/Dossier-en2.pdf Wikimedia Information Kit, September 2006 (pdf)]
** Projects:
***[[w:Wikipedia:Projects of Wikimedia]]
***[[w:Wikipedia:Wikimedia sister projects]] (Manual of Style)
***[[mw:Special:SiteMatrix]] – list of two-digit abbreviations for all Wikimedia Foundation wikis
**[[w:Wikipedia:Office actions]] ([[w:WP:OFFICE]]) (policy) – immediate editing actions to deal with potential legal issues
** OTRS, "Open-source Ticket Request System", now replaced by [[#VRT|Volunteer Response Team]] (VRT).
** [[#VRT|Volunteer Response Team]] (VRT), handles confidential correspondence related to granting permissions and confirming identities.
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* Wikipedia 1.0: (''see also'' [[#Stable|Stable versions]]) <span id="Wikipe"></span><span id="WP1.0"></span><span id="Version1.0"></span>
**[[w:Wikipedia:Pushing to 1.0]]
**[[w:Wikipedia:Version 1.0 Editorial Team]]
**[http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/wikimania2006/6/6f/MW1_slides.pdf Presentation, June 2006 (pdf)]
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* Wikipedia basic information:<span id="WP"></span><span id="Basic_Info"></span>
**[[w:Wikipedia]] – what it is, history, hardware and software, funding, authorship and management, and much more
**[[w:Wikipedia:About]]
**[http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/e8/Wikipedia-leaflet-en.pdf What is Wikipedia? (pdf)] – two page flyer
**[[w:Wikipedia:History of Wikipedian processes and people]]
**[[w:Wikipedia:Historic debates]]
**[[w:Wikipedia:Role of Jimmy Wales]] 
**[[w:Wikipedia:Ten things you may not know about Wikipedia]]
**[http://nostalgia.wikipedia.org/wiki/HomePage Late 2001 version of Wikipedia] (nostalgia.wikipedia.org)
**[[w:Wikipedia:Why Wikipedia is so great]] (essay)
**[[w:Wikipedia:Wikipediology/library/essays/Merovingian-1]] (essay) – "The Fluid Encyclopedia" – 2001 to 2005
**[http://fundraising.wikimedia.org/ Wikipedia Fundraising Central Online Reporting Engine]
**[[w::Category:Wikipedia history]]
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* WikiProjects: (for a WikiProject related to a topic within this index, see that topic) (''see also'' [[#Collaboration|Collaborations]]) <span id="WikiPr"></span><span id="Wikipr"></span><span id="WikiProject"></span><span id="Project"></span>
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* Words and wording: (''see also'' [[#Format|Formatting of text]], [[#Spelli|Spelling]]) <span id="Wor"></span><span id="Words"></span><span id="Words "></span><span id="Wording"></span>
**[[w:Wikipedia:Manual of Style]]
**[[w:Wikipedia:Manual of Style (abbreviations)]]
**[[w:Wikipedia:Avoid peacock terms]] (Manual of Style) – show, don't tell
**[[w:Wikipedia:Explain jargon]] (Manual of Style)
**[[w:Wikipedia:Avoid neologisms]] (Manual of Style)
**[[w:Wikipedia:Rhetoric]] (Manual of Style)
**[[w:Wikipedia:Self-references to avoid]] (Manual of Style) – "this website", "this Wikipedia article" (okay on talk pages, but not articles)
**[[w:Wikipedia:Technical terms and definitions]] (Manual of Style)
**[[w:Wikipedia:Manual of Style (trademarks)]]
**[[w:Wikipedia:Avoid weasel words]] ([[w:WP:AWW]]) (Manual of Style) – "critics/some (many) people/research says/feel/believe ..." 
**[[w:Wikipedia:Words to avoid]] (Manual of Style) – "claim", "however", "extremist", "linked", "cult", and so on.
**[[w:Wikipedia:Manual of Style (dates and numbers)#Precise language]] (WP:DATED)
**[[w:Wikipedia:Make technical articles accessible]] (Manual of Style)
**[[w:Wikipedia:WikiProject Grammar]]

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