Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard – message board for coordinating and discussing administrative tasks on Wikipedia (not supposed to be for incidents; see that page or elsewhere in this index for other pages on which to report incidents (WP:AN)
Wikipedia:Bot requests (WP:BOTREQ) – requests to existing bot owners; questions about possible new bots, requests for assistance in creating or improving a bot, etc.
User:Dinoguy1000/scripts/safeIEeditlinks.js – makes it safe to click on most links when editing a page in Internet Explorer (normally the links open in the same window, and any edits in progress are lost; this script forces a link to open in a new window)
AutoWikiBrowser: (WP:AWB) (a semi-automated Wikipedia editor, Windows only, typically used for vandal patrol or mass edits)
Special:CategoryTree – can generate a tree of categories, or categories and articles
User:Chris G Bot 2 – produces, for a given category, a table listing all articles within that category (and all subcategories of that category), and the status of those articles (a clone of User:PockBot, which is disabled)
User:AKA MBG/Cycles – Where category A is a subcategory of B, and B is a subcategory of A (or more complicated than that)
User:TheDJ/Gadget-HotCat.js – user script that provides an easy way to add, modify and remove categories (also available as a gadget, under "my preferences")
m:User:Duesentrieb/CatScan – 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
How articles are listed:
Template:DEFAULTSORT – specifies how an article will be listed on category pages (for example, an article on "F.M. Smith" could be listed as "Smith, F.M." on all category pages)
User:SmackBot – adds DEFAULTSORT to people-related article stubs
In category since – tool to list all articles in a category that have been so since a specified date
mw:Extension:CategoryTree – describes <categorytree> tags 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.)
Help:Job queue – why changing a category in a template doesn't instantly change all articles with that template
Wikipedia:Wikimedia Commons – has over three 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
User:MonoBot – fixes (some) problems when an editor doesn't do a move to Commons totally correctly
Duplicate images – tool to show duplicate files between Wikipedia and Commons
Push-for-commons – tool to show a set of images from a wikipedia, helping to find license problems, {{NowCommons}} candidates, and images that should be copied/moved to the commons.
Wikipedia:Ownership of articles (WP:OWN) (policy) – no editor "owns" the content of an article; the only way that an editor can properly prevent his/her words from being edited is to not put them into a Wikipedia article in the first place
User:718 Bot – creates lists of images tagged with disputed fair use rationales, sorted by date and type
User:AWeenieBot – creates lists of images tagged with disputed fair use rationales, sorted by type and number of times used
User:ImageTaggingBot – inspects newly-uploaded images for ones lacking source information, a license tag, or a fair-use rationale if one is needed; tags as necessary
User:STBotI – tags images for relatively speedy deletion
User:BJBot – tags orphaned images as such; notifies originator of problem
Deletion: (see alsoCategories for deletion of categories, Redirect for deletion of redirects, etc.) (for articles, seeDeletion of articles, immediately below)
Special:Log/delete – deletion log, searchable by article name or user who created the article (alternatively, type the article name (exactly), click "Create the page" when the search fails, and then look for deletion log information)
Wikipedia undelete (user script) – lists versions of a deleted article that are available at archive.org, plus information on why an article was deleted
WikiLook – Firefox add-on that provides Wiktionary information about any word on a screen, when specially selected (shift or highlight plus mouse move)
Special:Disambiguations – pages that link to a disambiguation page and (probably) should link to an article instead
Wikipedia:Hatnote – a short note placed at the top of an article before the primary topic, generally to provide disambiguation of closely related terms or to summarize a topic, and explain its boundaries
User:Anomie/linkclassifier.js – User script that changes the color of the wikilink to an article when that article is a redirect or disambiguation page or has been proposed for deletion at AfD
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
mw:Extension:Drafts – adds the ability to save a draft of the edit of a page, on the server, while editing; also automatically saves edits in progress every 120 seconds
Wikipedia:External peer review – information on formal and informal reviews of the overall quality of Wikipedia articles, done by outside experts, not initiated within Wikipedia
Wikipedia:Review Board (proposal as of December 2008) – panel of editors for independent review and monitoring of checkuser and oversight access and use, and to oversee the actions of the Arbitration Committee
Gadgets: (new tab, as of December 2007, on the "My preferences" page)
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)
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:ImageTaggingBot – inspects newly-uploaded images for ones lacking source information, a license tag, or a fair-use rationale if one is needed; tags as necessary
User:STBotI – tags images for relatively speedy deletion
User:BJBot – tags orphaned images as such; notifies originator of problem
User:ImageRemovalBot – removes images links from articles after an image has been deleted
User:OrphanBot – removes links to problematical images, from articles, so administrators can delete the images
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
Template:External media – If an image or other media is available online, but cannot be uploaded to Wikipedia or the Commons, this template provides a referenced direct link
Special:Filepath – provides a URL to link directly to the current version of an image
bugzilla:7757 – Bug #7757 – allow cropping images when rendered – proposal to enable display of only part of an image
Miscellany for deletion: Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion – for deleting any page which is not covered by another deletion process (AfD, CfD, TfD, etc.)
User:Crazycomputers/WatchlistBot – editors using an XMPP service (such as Google talk), can have a separate watchlist that is updated in real time via IM, by subscribing to the service of this bot
API (must be logged in or have "remember me" checked as login option)
Alternatives to the standard watchlist (other than real-time feeds):
User:Ais523/topcontrib.js – Color-codes your contributions page based on whether you have the top (most recent) contribution or not for each page edited
User:Blinklmc (historical: predates implementation of integrated RSS for Wikipedia)
Other:
User:Anomie/linkclassifier.js – User script that changes the color of the wikilink to an article when that article is a redirect or disambiguation page or has been proposed for deletion at AfD
Wikipedia:Tools/Navigation popups (user scripts) – enables mouseover of links; other features (as of March 2008, planned to be replaced a version using the new api.php – see User:TheDJ/apipopups.js; existing version uses query.php) (also available as a gadget, under "my preferences")
Personalized navigation:
User:Anakin101/toplinks.js – adds a "top" link next to every "edit" link, to make it easy to go to the top of a page
Wikipedia:What Wikipedia is not (WP:NOT) (policy) – it's not a paper encyclopedia, a dictionary, a publisher of original thought, a soapbox, a mirror or a repository of links, images, or media, a blog, webspace provider, or social networking site, a directory, an indiscriminate collection of information, a crystal ball, censored, a battleground, an anarchy, a democracy, a bureaucracy
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
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)
User talk:TonyBot – bot that can do database queries upon request (requires registration)
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)
Recent changes to all articles in a category: http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Recentchangeslinked&target=Category%3ACategory_name (must use underscores)
User:Anomie/linkclassifier.js – User script that changes the color of the wikilink to an article when that article is a redirect or disambiguation page or has been proposed for deletion at AfD
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 here [2])
User:Zocky/Auto Complete – auto-completes the titles of articles in the search box (JavaScript) (no longer required as of May 2008; this is built into the search function now)
Googlepedia – Firefox add-on; shows a relevant Wikipedia article along with Google search results
Preventing search engines from searching pages:
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
User:SineBot – signs talk pages for editors who forgot, where an editor started a new section or an indented his/her comment (replacement for User:HagermanBot)
Template:Rp – for appending page numbers to Cite.php-generated footnote superscripts (can also be used to add a link, to mimic the embedded citations method)
User:COIBot – reports linkadditions where the editor's name has a significant overlap with the domain of the link added, or (for IP editors) the IP of the link is close to the IP of the editor
User:Dragons flight/Log analysis – analysis of both log entries (100%) and a sampling (6%) of article histories (edits), some data back to 2001 (analysis reported October 2007)
Wikipedia:Table: namespace and editor – proposal that a new table editor should be written and that tables should be moved to a namespace similar to Image namespace
Tags: seeWikipedia:Span tags, Messageboxes (using the term “tags” to refer to messageboxes is common but technically incorrect; messageboxes are templates)
Wikipedia:Wikimedia sister projects (Manual of Style) – info on moving articles between other projects such as Wikiquote, Wikisource, Wiktionary, Wikinews, and Wikibooks
Wikipedia:Request an account – for those who wish to create an account but cannot read the CAPTCHA image that is part of the standard registration process as of February 2007.
Wikipedia:Userfication – moving an article from Wikipedia mainspace to a user subpage, usually because of failure to establish notability of the subject of the article
User:TheDJ/Qui – script and system to track the online/offline status of specified other editors
User:Chris G Bot 3 – IRC users can message the bot when they want the bot to set their status to online or offline
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:TorBlock (editing through tor requires 100 edits and a 90 days to become autoconfirmed, as of June 2008)
Changes:
Wikipedia:Autoconfirmed Proposal/Poll – proposal, May 2008, to increase the requirements for autoconfirmed status by requiring new editors to have a specific number of edits, and possibly increasing the four-day waiting period
Bugzilla #14191 – Autoconfirmed settings on enwiki changed to 4 days and 10 edits as of May 2008
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
Wikipedia:Abuse response – reporting abuse of an IP address to a school, university, or internet provider (must have been at least five blocks on the IP address)(WP:ABUSE)
User:AntiAbuseBot - Watches the Recent Changes (RC) feed for actions that match known vandals; then sends off an alert on irc, reverts the edit, reverts the edit and blocks the user, or just blocks the user
Web content as the subject of an article: Wikipedia:Notability (web) (guideline) – includes webcomics, podcasts, blogs, Internet forums, online magazines and other media, web portals and web hosts
Wikipedia:Meetup – face-to-face meetings of Wikipedians in cities around the world
Wikipedia:Geonotice – a notice displayed only on watchlists of editors who are calculated (based on their IP address) to be in a specific geographical area, such as a metropolitan area.
Wikipedia:Wikipediology – a WikiProject for "a serious study of the dynamics and problems of the Wikipedia community and providing resources about the Wikipedia community that currently do not exist" (inactive)
