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- Accessibility: (see also Audio)
- Article message boxes (amboxes): (sometimes called "tags"; these are templates)
- Audio: (see also Accessibility)
- Spoken versions of Wikipedia articles:
- Banners:
- Books
- ISBN
- Finding a book mentioned in a Wikipedia article:
- Browser (specialized for Wikipedia): see Mobile access
- Calendar:
- Help:Calendar – code to include the image of a small '"calendar page", including a time display, on a Wikipedia page
- Categories
- General:
- Listings of categories:
- Intersection of two categories:
- Other:
- Censorship:
- Collections of articles (books)
- Commons (Wikimedia Commons):
- 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
- Commons:Welcome
- Wikimedia Commons - manual that provides the essential information for people interested in contributing their own work to Wikimedia Commons
- Mayflower – searching the Commons
- Commons:Commons:Tools
- Manual for new Commons users (at en.flossmanuals.net)
- Uploading:
- Moving images to (from Wikipedia):
- RSS feeds:
- Other:
- Controversial articles:
- Copyright:
- In general:
- Using Wikipedia content outside of Wikipedia:
- Customization: (see also Quickbar)
- Geocoding:
- GeoPedia – provides iPhone owners with a Wikipedia feed customized to their current location
- mw:Beta Features/Nearby Pages - Adds a button to the top right corner of pages that contain geographical information, to get the reader to "nearby" pages
- Showing existing Wikipedia articles on a map:
- Good articles: (see also Featured articles)
- Google:
- Guestbooks: see User pages
- Images:
- General:
- Ways to set personal preferences so as to not see some or all images:
- Merchandise:
- Missing articles:
- Mirrors:
- Mobile access:
- Wikipanion - for iPad and iPhone
- "iPhone Gems: Wikipedia Apps" – review of 16 apps for the iPhone or iPod touch (November 2008)
- Real-time version of Wikipedia:
- Downloaded version of Wikipedia:
- Other:
- GeoPedia – provides iPhone owners with a Wikipedia feed customized to their current location
- "Kiwi" client – for iPhone and iPod
- Obscenity: see Censorship
- Outlines of content (Articles):
- Page views: (see also Counts)
- Most viewed (English Wikipedia):
- For any specific article or other page:
- Password: see Logging in
- Portals:
- Preview of a link: Navigation popups [NEED LINK]
- Printing: Help:Printable
- Privacy:
- Quality of articles
- Assessments
- By editors (from "stub" (worst) to "featured article" (best)):
- By readers (viewers)
- Queries (of article content)
- Questions:
- Quickbar: (the set of links on the left side of the page, often called the "left sidebar")
- Random article:
- Recent changes (recent edits): (see also Vandalism)
- Screen (options):
- Wide screen (minimum of 1400 pixels)
- Special:Preferences:
- "Appearance" tab:
- Skin
- Images (files): maximum size, default size for "thumbnail" images
- "Gadgets" tab:
- "Browsing" section
- "Appearance" section
- "Compatibility" section
- Searching Wikipedia: (see also
- Social networking:
- Spelling:
- Spoiler: Wikipedia:Spoiler (WP:SPOIL) (guideline)
- Table of contents:
- Tables:
- Translations:
- Wikipedia in different languages – overview:
- Information about languages, and translation aids:
- Moving information from other language Wikipedias to the English Wikipedia
- User account and username (also called "useraccount", "login", and "user login") (see also Logging in, Privacy, User pages)
- Registered versus unregistered editing:
- Starting out:
- Inappropriate usernames:
- Removing accounts without any edits:
- Single signon ("single login", "single user login", "SUL"):
- User pages: (see also User account and username)
- User scripts
- Vandalism
- Video:
- Wikitube - Videos are automatically added when viewing a Wikipedia article pages
- Wikipedia basic information:
- WordPress: mw:PhotoCommons - a plug-in that provides easy searching, inserting, and maintaining of files from Wikimedia Commons into a blog [alpha]
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