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• Suicide.org - List of international suicide hotlines.

• The Teahouse: helpful and friendly environment to ask your first basic questions about contributing to Wikipedia.
• Help:Cheatsheet: examples of basic formatting that are used most often when editing.
• Help: Wikipedia: The Missing Manual
• Expectations and norms of the Wikipedia community
• wmf:Policy:Universal Code of Conduct
  • "Encyclopedia Frown". Auerbach, David (11 Dec. 2014). Slate.
  • "Wikipedia Editors Call Out the Site's Abuse Problems". Reader, Ruth (18 May 2016). Mic.
  • "Wikipedia Editor Says Site’s Toxic Community Has Him Contemplating Suicide". Koebler, Jason (17 May 2016). Vice.
  • "Handful of 'highly toxic' Wikipedia editors cause 9% of abuse on the site". Annalee Newitz (10 February 2017). Ars Technica.
  • "Wikipedia Isn’t Officially a Social Network. But the Harassment Can Get Ugly.". Julia Jacobs (8 April 2019). The New York Times.
  • "Wikimedia is writing new policies to fight Wikipedia harassment". Adi Robertson (25 May 2020). The Verge.
  • "I quit Twitter and discovered Wikipedia’s righteous, opinionated, utterly absorbing battles over The Truth". Shaun Cammack (8 July, 2022). The Boston Globe.
  • "The Wikipedia elite who control the world's knowledge". Harry de Quetteville (28 April 2023). The Daily Telegraph.
• Wikipedia:Simplified ruleset

• Wikipedia:Trifecta

• Ignore all rules

• Wikipedia:Help desk: for technical questions about using Wikipedia (how to edit, images, categories etc.)
• WP:Village pump: for questions about Wikipedia policies, guidelines or operations
• WP:Reference desk: for questions about subjects other than Wikipedia (including topics covered in the articles contained therein)

• WP:The Wikipedia Library

• WP:Administrators' noticeboard: to report a problem (vandalism, etc.)
• Question help: to find out more about where to ask questions or make comments on Wikipedia
• Help:Contents/Directory: all of the help pages. Everything.

• (except the Wikipedia:List of cabals because They™ don't want you to know! Bwahaha!) ;-D
• Or if you are looking for a department, but don't know what it is called, try the Wikipedia:Department directory.

• WP:Dispute resolution: resolve disputes or potential conflicts
• Wikipedia:Starting an article: guide and tips for creating new articles

• Wikipedia:List of bad article ideas

• Sixty ways to help new editors - Wikimedia Blog (from discussion @ Wikimania 2014)
• Help:Using the Wayback Machine: to recover some lost, moved or deleted pages on the Web (helpful for dead links).
• Wikipedia:User page design center

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Volume 21, Issue 3

• News and notes: Administrator elections up for reapproval and 1bil GET snagged on Commons

• Serendipity: Guinea-Bissau Heritage from Commons to the World

• Technology report: Hear that? The wikis go silent twice a year

• In the media: The end of the world

• Recent research: What's known about how readers navigate Wikipedia; Italian Wikipedia hardest to read

• Opinion: Sennecaster's RfA debriefing

• Tips and tricks: One year after this article is posted, will every single article on Wikipedia have a short description?

• Community view: Open letter from French Wikipedians says "no" to intimidation of volunteer contributors

• Traffic report: Temporary scars, February stars

• Essay: The source, the whole source, and nothing but the source

• Obituary: Ümüt Çınar (Kmoksy) and Vinícius Medina Kern (Vmkern)

• outreach:GLAM/Newsletter

• WikiProject Women in Red

This week's article for improvement is: Wikipedia:Today's articles for improvement/2025/11/1

Motto of the day :

Where are your two cents?

Tip of the day...

Have you run across a problem that requires the attention of an Administrator?

The fastest way to catch the attention of administrators in general is to post an alert to the Administrators' noticeboard (A.N.). Administrators go there all the time to see what is up with Wikipedia; one of them will see your message and will take immediate appropriate action. Experienced editors hang out there too and sometimes will answer a question before an Admin gets to it.

Another option is to paste a {{admin help}} template (with the four curly braces) along with your question on to your Talk page and an Admin will stop by shortly.

Watchlist insufficient?:

• Wikipedia:Syndication
• MediaWiki API
  • Above have hard limit on number of entries provided & thus may require frequent polling
• m:User:Hedonil/XTools

• User:Zhaofeng Li/reFill — incredibly helpful tool which automates the task of filling-out text for bare URLs used as references

• $ telnet telnet.wmflabs.org — telnet to Wikipedia. (m:telnet gateway) Telnet bridge is currently offline. :(
• Server Admin Log (wikitech.wikimedia.org)
• Current status Wikimedia Foundation - Core services (status.wikimedia.org)
• WMF Status Dashboards - perf mon (gdash.wikimedia.org)
• Wikitech (wikitech.wikimedia.org)
• Special:Version: shows the version of the software the site is currently running, and a listing of extensions installed
• Wikimedia Code Review (gerrit.wikimedia.org)
• Wikimedia Phabricator (phabricator.wikimedia.org)

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