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PESWiki:Utilities
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This page is a repository for pages that are useful to "doing things" in PESWiki. In contrast to the Main Page its focus is more for the benefit of regular editors and contributors, rather than the general public. See also PESWiki:Guide to improving articles for a guide on how to improve articles in various stages of completeness. "Utilities" is not to be confused with software utilities, which are collected in PESWiki:Tools.
See also Category:PESWiki
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2.1 Key policies |
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Communication
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Short-term requests
- Selected Articles on the Main Page
- How the Current events page works
- Changing username
- Changing attribution for an edit
- Votes for deletion
- Speedy deletions
- Votes for undeletion
- Undelete
- Copyright problems (copyvio)
- WikiMoney
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Vandalism and conflict
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Rejoicing
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Other forums
- Instant Messaging PESWikins
- IRC channels
- Mailing lists
- Recent Changes header
- PESWiki:Recentchanges summary
- PESWiki:RC patrol
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Policy, advice, and help
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Key policies
- Be bold in updating pages
- Wikiquette
- Point of view (POV)
- Manual of Style
- Policy on permanent deletion of pages
- What PESWiki is not
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Information
- Algorithms on PESWiki
- Browser notes
- Bots
- Canonicalization
- Contributing FAQ
- Copyrights
- De-adminship
- Disambiguation
- Edit conflicts
- Guide to writing better articles
- How does one edit a page
- How to add content to PESWiki with minimal effort
- How to edit an article so long that you can't edit
- How to reduce colors for saving a JPEG as PNG
- How to rename a page
- How to revert a page to an earlier version
- How to start a page
- How to archive a talk page
- How to archive Current Events
- How to use tables
- How to log in
- Image use policy
- Including corporate logos
- Interlanguage links
- ISBN
- Lists in general
- List pages - How to create them
- Lists in articles - How to create them
- List of common misspellings
- MediaWiki namespace
- Multimedia
- Searching
- Go button
- Special characters
- Tables
- TeX markup
- Troubleshooting
- How to use redirect pages
- How to set preferences
- What is an article
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General guidelines
- Policies and guidelines
- Alternate text for images
- Always fill summary field
- Avoid statements that will date quickly
- Avoid weasel terms
- Build the web
- Check your facts
- Cite your sources
- Contribute what you know or are willing to learn about
- Contributing to PESWiki
- Don't include copies of primary sources
- Editing policy -- Perfection not required; or, the joy of editing
- Explain jargon
- Follow highlighting conventions
- Footnotes
- Foul language
- Guide to Layout
- Headlines
- How-to
- How to write a great article
- Ignore all rules
- Image markup
- Make articles useful for readers
- Make omissions explicit
- Make only links relevant to the context
- Make smart use of soft line breaks
- Measurements Debate
- News style
- Page size
- Talk page
- The perfect article
- The perfect stub article
- Pronunciation guide
- Sign your posts on talk pages
- Summarize discussion
- Timeline standards
- User page guidelines
- Use short sentences and lists
- Use subheads sparingly
- Warn readers about spoilers
- Why aren't these pages copyedited
- PESWikiPESWiki is not a dictionaryPESWiki is not a dictionary
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Specific subject guides
- Biography standards
- Manual of Style (biographies)
- History standards
- Medicine standards
- Filmographies and Discographies
- Manual of Style for China-related articles
- Manual of Style for Japan-related articles
See also WikiProjects
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Naming conventions
See Category:PESWiki naming conventions.
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Boilerplate text
- Boilerplate text (various texts)
- Spoiler warning
- Boilerplate request for permission
- Standard user greeting
- Standard GFDL violation letter
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Conflict and debate
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Organisation
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Indexes
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Things to watch
- List of controversial issues - a simple list of pages on controversial subjects, not a place to argue about them
- Current polls
- New pages
- Dispute resolution
- As of
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Problems in need of fixing
- See PESWiki:PESWiki maintenance for advice on dealing with some of the items listed below.
Template:Resources for collaboration
- Cleaning department List of janitorial tasks we always need volunteers for
- Links to disambiguating pages
- Requests for summaries of online reports, studies etc.
- Subpages to be moved
- Orphan talk pages
- Spellchecking project
- Special:Maintenance (currently disabled)
- Template talk:Resources for collaboration
- Non-local images (Currently blank)
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Open tasks
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Good articles
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Logs
- Upload log
- Deletion log
- Protection log
- Block log
- List of currently blocked IP addresses and usernames
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Resources
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About PESWiki
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History
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PESWikins
- Instant Messaging PESWikins
- List of PESWikins in order of arrival
- List users
- WPESWikins by number of edits
- PESWikins by most recent edit
- User contributions
- User page
- PESWikiholic
- PESWiki:Missing PESWikins
- PESWikins
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Software and hardware
- Troubleshooting
- Browser notes
- Bug reports and feature requests
- Ignored feature requests (don't request new features here)
- MediaWiki
- Contingency Page For When The Main PESWiki Server Is Down
- Tools and Helpers
- Unicode numeric conversion
- Database download
- Database queries
- New server madness
- Lag
- Servers
- User interface ideas
- PESWiki documentation
- PESWiki IRC channel scripts
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Statistics
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Publicity
- Building PESWiki membership
- Friends of PESWiki
- Publicity
- Press coverage
- Projects using Wiki software
- Press Release
- Referrers
- School and university projects
- PESWiki:Mirrors and forks
- TourBusStop
- Banners and buttons
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Proposals and essays
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