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The Wikipedia Adventure

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Getting Help

  • [http://www.suicide.org/international-suicide-hotlines.html Suicide.org] - List of international suicide hotlines.

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  • 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
  • "[http://www.slate.com/articles/technology/bitwise/2014/12/wikipedia_editing_disputes_the_crowdsourced_encyclopedia_has_become_a_rancorous.single.html Encyclopedia Frown]". Auerbach, David (11 Dec. 2014). Slate.
  • "[https://mic.com/articles/143777/wikipedia-editors-call-out-the-site-s-abuse-problems Wikipedia Editors Call Out the Site's Abuse Problems]". Reader, Ruth (18 May 2016). Mic.
  • "[https://motherboard.vice.com/read/wikipedia-editor-says-sites-toxic-community-has-him-contemplating-suicide Wikipedia Editor Says Site’s Toxic Community Has Him Contemplating Suicide]". Koebler, Jason (17 May 2016). Vice.
  • "[https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2017/02/one-third-of-personal-attacks-on-wikipedia-come-from-active-editors/ Handful of 'highly toxic' Wikipedia editors cause 9% of abuse on the site]". Annalee Newitz (10 February 2017). Ars Technica.
  • "[https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/08/us/wikipedia-harassment-wikimedia-foundation.html Wikipedia Isn’t Officially a Social Network. But the Harassment Can Get Ugly.]". Julia Jacobs (8 April 2019). The New York Times.
  • "[https://www.theverge.com/2020/5/25/21269482/wikimedia-foundation-anti-harassment-code-of-conduct-vote Wikimedia is writing new policies to fight Wikipedia harassment]". Adi Robertson (25 May 2020). The Verge.
  • "[https://www.bostonglobe.com/2022/07/08/opinion/i-quit-twitter-now-i-browse-edit-wars-wikipedia/ I quit Twitter and discovered Wikipedia’s righteous, opinionated, utterly absorbing battles over The Truth]". Shaun Cammack (8 July, 2022). The Boston Globe.
  • "[https://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/2023/04/28/wikipedia-elite-control-the-worlds-knowledge/ 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

:* WP:The Wikipedia Library

:* (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.

:*Wikipedia:List of bad article ideas

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Motto of the day :

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Other stuff

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

This bucket of bolts

  • {{code|$ telnet telnet.wmflabs.org}}telnet to Wikipedia. (m:telnet gateway) Telnet bridge is currently offline. :(
  • Server Admin Log (wikitech.wikimedia.org)
  • [http://status.wikimedia.org/ Current status Wikimedia Foundation - Core services] (status.wikimedia.org)
  • [https://gdash.wikimedia.org/ WMF Status Dashboards] - perf mon (gdash.wikimedia.org)
  • [https://wikitech.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
  • [https://gerrit.wikimedia.org Wikimedia Code Review] (gerrit.wikimedia.org)
  • [https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/ Wikimedia Phabricator] (phabricator.wikimedia.org)

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| File:Eben_Moglen_-_From_the_birth_of_printing_to_industrial_culture;_the_root_of_copyright.ogv sketches the history of copyright law as a form of industrial regulation, and analyses how the changes in technology have thrown the roles created by those laws into crisis.]]

| File:Yochai Benkler - On Autonomy, Control and Cultureal Experience.ogg discusses the growth of user autonomy, the possibility to be makers of our culture rather than remain merely passive recipients, as was the norm in the industrial system of information production.]]

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|File:CITIZENFOUR (2014) trailer.webm documentary Citizenfour.
(view or download from Commons here)]]

|File:PRISM - Snowden Interview - Laura Poitras HQ.webm speaks about the NSA leaks, in Hong Kong. First published [http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/jun/09/edward-snowden-nsa-whistleblower-surveillance in The Guardian].
(view or download from Commons here)]]

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| File:Edward Snowden LibrePlanet 2016.webm & Daniel Kahn Gillmor discuss free software, surveillance, power, and control of the future. Preceded by address from John Sullivan, FSF executive director.(view or download from Commons here)]]

| File:Internet-archive-brewster-kahle-2013-0329.webm of the Internet Archive explains their operations and demonstrates Scribe Machines.]]

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