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The most important link: First and foremost WIKIPEDIA IS AN ENCYCLOPEDIA!

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=Useful or interesting links=

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==User essays==

==Featured Signpost articles==

=External/Sister=

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  • https://wikiedu.org/
  • [http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikimediaannounce-l/ The WikimediaAnnounce-l Archives]
  • [http://stats.grok.se stats.grok.se - Wikipedia article traffic statistics]
  • [http://dumps.wikimedia.org/ dumps.wikimedia.org - Data dumps]
  • [https://tools.wmflabs.org/apersonbot/recently-active/ tools.wmflabs.org - Recently Active Users]
  • [http://wikimedians.ca/wiki/Main_Page Wikimedians of Canada]

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  • [http://blog.wikimedia.org/ Wikimedia blog]
  • [http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Quarto Wikimedia Quarto] newsletter
  • [http://spring.newsvine.com/_news/2007/06/29/808872-the-college-student-who-knew-about-the-benoit-murder-suicide-before-police The consequences of vandalizing Wikipedia...]
  • [http://www.wexperts.net/ Wiki Experts] Paid editing team for hire
  • [http://www.aaronsw.com/weblog/whorunswikipedia Who runs Wikipedia?]
  • [http://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tricky_questions_to_expect Tricky questions to expect]
  • [http://nostarch.com/wikipedia.htm How Wikipedia Works] ([http://howwikipediaworks.com/ Old URL] dead) (Signpost book review)
  • [http://www.formspring.me/jwales Ask Jimmy!] (dead link)
  • http://wikiverse.io/
  • [http://www.mediabistro.com/baynewser/wikipedia/ Wikipedia news stories from BayNewser]
  • [http://en.wikizine.org/ EN Wikizine]
  • [http://www.nabble.com/English-Wikipedia-f14021.html English Wikipedia mailing list archive]
  • [http://thewikipedian.net/ The Wikipedian]
  • [http://www.wikilivres.info/wiki/Main_Page Wikilivres] The Canadian Wikisource
  • [http://wikitrust.soe.ucsc.edu/ WikiTrust]
  • [http://listen.hatnote.com/ Listen to Wikipedia]

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  • [http://www.mywikibiz.com/Directory:The_Wikipedia_Point_of_View#Criticism_of_Wikipedia Criticism of Wikipedia] Gotta maintain a neutral point of view...
  • [http://wikipediocracy.com/ Wikipediocracy]
  • [http://wikipediareview.com/index.php? Wikipedia Review]
  • [http://dan.tobias.name/controversies/cyber/wiki.html Wikipedia Controversies]
  • Zombie Drama Queens from Wikipedia
  • [http://www.conservapedia.com/Examples_of_Bias_in_Wikipedia Examples of Bias in Wikipedia] - Lol
  • [http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2006/sep/28/wikipedia.web20 I'm on Wikipedia, get me out of here]
  • [http://www.theregister.co.uk/2014/08/18/class_war_wikipedias_workers_revolt_after_bourgeois_papershufflers_suspend_democracy/ Class war! Wikipedia's workers revolt again: Bourgeois paper-shufflers have 'suspended democracy', sniff unpaid proles]

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  • [http://openfacts.berlios.de/index-en.phtml?title=This_is_not_Wikipedia This is not Wikipedia]
  • [http://www.geocities.com/commonsense666atlast/cherryintro.html A Brief History of Usenet: What went wrong?] A great essay to read and compare with Wikipedia's growth
  • [http://hblog.org/writing/the-missing-wikipedians/ The Missing Wikipedians] - On the current and future state of Wikipedia, very interesting reading
  • [http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2006/09/the-hive/5118/1/ The Hive] - On the history of Wikipedia and its processes, by Marshall Poe
  • [https://wiki.mozilla.org/Main_Page Mozilla wiki]
  • [http://schools-wikipedia.org/ 2008/9 Wikipedia Selection for schools]

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  • [http://www.cafepress.ca/wikipedia Wikipedia Merchandise]
  • [http://ten.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page Wikipedia 10th Anniversary wiki]
  • [http://www.wikipediamaze.com/ Wikipedia Maze]
  • [http://www.wikipediagame.org/ Wikipedia Game]
  • [http://www.wikipediastory.com/ Wikipedia Story]
  • [http://wikipediastudies.org/ Wikipedia Studies]
  • [http://www.wikipediaredefined.com/ Wikipedia Redefined]
  • [http://wikipedia.mozdev.org/ Wikipedia Toolbar]
  • [http://www.lkozma.net/wpv/index.html WikipediaVision]
  • [http://www.wikilove.in/ WikiLove]
  • [http://wikistics.falsikon.de/ WikiStics]
  • [http://thewikireader.com/index.html WikiReader]
  • [http://wikinstant.com/ WikiInstant]
  • [http://wikimissing.org WikiMissing]
  • [http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?WikiButcher WikiButcher]
  • [http://fixedreference.org/ Snapshots of Wikipedia]
  • [http://www.disputeindex.org/ The Wikipedia Dispute Index]
  • [http://www.thestateofwikipedia.com/ The State of Wikipedia]
  • [http://ilovewikipedia.tumblr.com/ I love Wikipedia]
  • [http://www.lkozma.net/wpv/index.html WikipediaVision]
  • [http://wiki.dbpedia.org DBpedia: Querying Wikipedia like a Database]
  • [http://twitter.com/wikisignpost Twitter WikiSignpost]
  • [http://twitter.com/WikipediaNews Twitter WikipediaNews]
  • [http://www.thefullwiki.org/ The Full Wiki]
  • [http://www.qwika.com/ Qwika]

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=Technical and Advanced=

{{Active Wiki Fixup Projects}}

  • http://status.wikimedia.org/
  • http://etherpad.wikimedia.org/

=Maintenance and tools=

;Maintenance

;Tools

  • [http://tools.wmflabs.org/xtools/adminstats/ X!'s Tools]
  • [http://tools.wmflabs.org/magnustools/ Magnus' tools on wmflabs]
  • [https://tools.wmflabs.org/?list Wikimedia Tool Labs list of tools]
  • [http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Toolserver/TStoc Toolserver table of contents]
  • [http://toolserver.org/~snottywong/index.html Snottywong's tools]
  • [http://toolserver.org/~pathoschild/stewardry/ Pathoschild's stewardry]
  • [http://toolserver.org/~magnus/ Magnus' toys'n'tools]
  • [http://tools.wikimedia.de/~dapete/random/enwiki-featured.php Random featured article]
  • [http://stats.grok.se/ Page hit counter]
  • [http://toolserver.org/%7Emagnus/wikitodo.php WikiTodo tool]
  • [http://can-we-link-it.nickj.org/ Can we link it? tool]
  • [http://edwardbetts.com/find_link Find link tool]
  • [http://toolserver.org/~daniel/WikiSense/CategoryIntersect.php CatScan]
  • [http://toolserver.org/~mzmcbride/cgi-bin/watcher.py Watcher - how many are watchlisting your page?]
  • [http://toolserver.org/~messedrocker/postingscript.php RFC posting script]
  • [http://wikipedia.ramselehof.de/wikiblame.php WikiBlame]
  • [http://www.wikiwatcher.com/pmcu/ Poor Man's Checkuser]
  • [http://toolserver.org/~aka/listusers.html Username search]
  • [http://toolserver.org/~alexz/pop/ WikiProject popular pages list]
  • [http://toolserver.org/~magnus/fist.php Free image search tool]
  • [http://countervandalism.net/ Countervandalism.net], [http://wpcvn.com/ WPCVN.com]
  • [http://toolserver.org/~overlordq/scripts/checktor.fcgi Check TOR]
  • [http://toolserver.org/~soxred93/rfap/ RfA vote count]
  • [http://toolserver.org/~tb/oddlinks/ Odd links]
  • [http://www.research.ibm.com/visual/projects/chromogram.html IBM's Chromogram] - Visualize your edit history
  • [http://code.google.com/p/jwpl/ Java-based Wikipedia Library] - An application programming interface for Wikipedia
  • [http://tools.wmflabs.org/reasonator/?date=1750 Wikidata Reasonator]
  • [http://recommend.wmflabs.org/ Wikipedia GapFinder]

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=It's all fun and games until...=

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  • [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Edline&diff=122672587&oldid=122567722], [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Salizhan_Sharipov&diff=prev&oldid=292921605], [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=The_Human_Centipede_%28First_Sequence%29&diff=325225944&oldid=325225752] - funny edit summaries
  • [https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=List_of_people_who_survived_assassination_attempts&diff=661282735&oldid=661163166 Just a bit too informal..]
  • [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Stay_Puft_Marshmallow_Man&diff=prev&oldid=295376840 the stay puft marshmellow man] apparently he's a violent racist
  • [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Canadarm&diff=prev&oldid=364676148 the Canadarm] commits Seppuku
  • [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Requests_for_administrator_attention&diff=prev&oldid=558864303 This guy seriously needs help]
  • [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Main_Page&diff=prev&oldid=118013868 Main Page vandalism]
  • [http://www.bjaodn.org/ Bad Jokes and Other Deleted Nonsense!] Dedicated site
  • [http://wikipediareview.com/index.php?showtopic=28012&pid=213782&mode=threaded&show=&st=0&#entry213782 How to be a sock-puppet]
  • [http://infoworld.com/d/adventures-in-it/faith-in-numbers-six-more-tech-cults-846?page=0,2 The High Priests of Wikipedia]
  • [http://www.wickerpedia.org/ Wickerpedia]

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==Interesting user names==

-- Some of these use extended characters; if your browser or OS isn't setup to see these I've included descriptions.

  • {{User|▄▄█▀▀ █▬█ █ ▀█▀}} -- This one spells something out that doesn't quite conform to Wikipedia:Username policy.
  • {{User|ಠ ಠ}} -- A pair of eyes with eyebrows.
  • {{User|☮}} -- A peace sign.
  • {{User|º¡º}} -- Can be either a pair of eyes with a nose, or a penis and testicles depending on your frame of mind.