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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 7

• News and notes: WMF to kick off new-CEO quest as Iskandar preps to move on — Supreme Court nixes gag of Wiki page for other India court row on ANI — code-heads give fix-up date for Charts in lieu of long-dead Graph gizmo

• In the media: Wikimedia Foundation sues over UK government decision that might require identity verification of editors worldwide

• Disinformation report: What does Jay-Z know about Wikipedia?

• In focus: On the hunt for sources: Swedish AfD discussions

• Technology report: WMF introduces unique but privacy-preserving browser cookie

• Debriefing: Goldsztajn's RfA debriefing

• Obituary: Max Lum (User:ICOHBuzz)

• Community view: A Deep Dive Into Wikimedia (part 2)

• Comix: Collection

• From the archives: Humor from the Archives

• outreach:GLAM/Newsletter

• WikiProject Women in Red

This week's article for improvement is: Wikipedia:Today's articles for improvement/2025/21/1

Motto of the day :

→ Salus Populi Suprema Lex Esto
("Let the welfare of the people be the supreme law")

Tip of the day...

Any article with more than three headings automatically gets a table of contents (TOC). The TOC is placed above the first section heading. All text above the first section heading is commonly referred to as the lead section. Depending on the overall length of the article, this introduction should not exceed one to four paragraphs in length and should summarize the article's key points.

If you do not like the TOC placement in an article, you can move it by inserting __TOC__ where you would like it placed. If you do not want a TOC on a particular page, add the text __NOTOC__ anywhere on the page; if you, personally, do not like the TOC feature, you can disable it in your user preferences.

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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