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 * Wikipedia** -- [|wikipedia.org] -- is part of a growing movement for free knowledge and open source crowdsourcing. The English language Wikipedia has grown to more than three million articles.

Wikipedia now has more 20 million articles and more than 90,000 active contributors.

also see http://planeta.wikispaces.com/everipedia

New: If you think you might own all of the accounts with this name and this message is in error, please visit [|Special:MergeAccount] to check and attach all of your accounts to prevent them from being renamed. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk

Core Skills Can you login on your laptop? On your phone? On your tablet?

new http://www.wikiwand.com

===[|The wisdom of the crowd] === How has the democratisation of knowledge made Wikipedia the largest encyclopedia in history? > L It's full of stars! The 3D visualization of [|#Wikipedia]  is ready for launch. Merci [|@WikiGalaxy]http://wiki.polyfra.me
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Top 5,000 pages http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:West.andrew.g/Popular_pages

Book Creator http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Book&bookcmd=book_creator

Events
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Blog
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Tips
Here's a shortcut to log in! Control-Option-O

2015
On January 15, 2016, Wikipedia turns 15. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Day

Headlines
http://www.vice.com/read/a-wikipedian-told-us-how-wikipedia-stays-reliable-in-the-fake-news-era http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2016/04/wikipedia-open-access/479364 http://www.avclub.com/article/there-are-surprisingly-few-ads-wikipedias-look-pro-235452 http://www.avclub.com/article/wikipedia-reaches-5-million-articles-entry-about-s-227771 http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2015/sep/15/wikipedia-view-of-the-world-is-still-written-by-the-west http://www.nbcnews.com/news/asian-america/wikipedia-entries-asian-american-art-get-update-edit-thon-n419846 [|The top-viewed Wikipedia page for every day of 2014] http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2907786/How-Indigenous-Australian-one-Wikipedia-s-pages-year-Site-reveals-entry-popular-eight-days-row-knows-why.html [] [] [|Wikipedia Emerges as Trusted Internet Source for Ebola Information] [] [] [] [|The distorted mirror of Wikipedia: a quantitative analysis of Wikipedia coverage of academics] [] [] [] [] [|Mapping Wikipedia] [|You want to start your own Wikipedia page? About you? Really?] [|Data and Peer Production with Wikimedia’s Dario Taraborelli] [|Wikimedia Turns 11] [|Now Wikipedia’s Brandon Harris Can Follow You Around the Web] [|The world of Wikipedia's languages mapped]

Wikipedia and Health
[|Doctors’ #1 Source for Healthcare Information: Wikipedia] [|Engaging Patients Through Social Media]

Listen to Wikipedia http://listen.hatnote.com/#en

Wiki Travel
[|Participate in the proposal for a new Wikimedia Foundation travel guide project!] http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:Requests_for_comment/Travel_Guide#Internet_Brands_blocks_admins https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion/Tim_Leffel

Wikimania
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2013-08-14/Special_report http://wikimania2013.wikimedia.org/wiki/Main_page http://new.livestream.com/socreclive/wikimania

Pet Peeves
Wikipedia removed my 'Planeta' account and gave it to someone else Wikipedia does not accept firsthand information as a legitimate new source Members have to create separate accounts on Wikipedia and Wikimania

https://wikimania2015.wikimedia.org

RSS
rss url="http://news.google.com/news?pz=1&cf=all&ned=us&hl=en&q=Wikipedia&output=rss" link="true" number="10" date="true"

Essay
Wikipedia requires that [|verifiable sources] be [|cited] for all [|significant claims], and does not permit editors to publicize their [|personal conclusions] when writing articles. All editors must follow a [|neutral point of view]; they must only collect relevant opinions which can be traced to [|reliable sources].

You can't actually change anything in Wikipedia……you can only add to it. Wikipedia is a database with a memory designed to last as long as we can make it last. An article you read today is just the current draft; every time it is changed, we keep both the new version and a copy of the old version.

In 2005 [|Wikipedia] became the largest encyclopedia in the world. It's an amazing achievement of global collaboration.

In 2010 Clay Shirky [|calculated] the total amount of time that people have spent creating WIkipedia -- 100 million hours of human thought.

Questions and Answers (Q&A)

 * If I write a wikipedia article about you, would you write a wikipedia article about me?**

No, this would be unethical.

Quoting Wikipedia: "Wikipedia is foremost an [|encyclopedia], and not a vehicle for [|advertising or promoting] organisations, companies or individuals. You may wish to review Wikipedia's guidelines on [|conflict of interest] and [|external links], as these may help you decide whether the information you want to include is appropriate for Wikipedia.

You should not create or edit articles about yourself, your family or your close friends. If you or they are notable enough, someone else will create the article. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:COI

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:An_article_about_yourself_is_nothing_to_be_proud_of

media type="custom" key="24039134" You may also wish to check Wikipedia's [|username policy], which prohibits promotional usernames. Please feel free to ask at the [|Help Desk] if you have any questions."
 * Any tips on creating an account?**

Misc If you do not want your writing to be edited, used, and redistributed at will, then do not submit it here. All text that you did not write yourself, except brief excerpts, must be available under terms consistent with Wikipedia's Terms of Use before you submit it.

Tips http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Tutorial

Translation http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Translation

YouTube https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCyS6Ls9vVQOrWfNYYo0pgXw

Art
[|wiki collaboration leads to happiness] [|wikipedian protester]


 * How do I make a citation on wikipedia? What can be cited?**

[|inline citations] are required for material challenged or likely to be challenged, and for all quotations. more about [|citations]

Quotes
Most encyclopedias start to fossilize the moment they're printed on a page. However, add Wiki software and some helping hands and you get something self-repairing and almost alive. - Daniel Pink, cited in The Long Tail

Wikipedia is about the power of people like us to do extraordinary things. People like us write Wikipedia, one word at a time. People like us fund it, one donation at a time. It's proof of our collective potential to change the world. - [|Jimmy Wales]

Brenna Gray says students, like most of the rest of us, are more time-crunched than ever. They have to prioritize, and are therefore reluctant to spend time learning skills that aren't useful outside school. That includes online tools like Blackboard, which they perceive as having no relevance to other parts of their life. Because the Wikipedia skills are perceived as transferable, students became interested in acquiring them. And they were willing to work to Wikipedia's standards. - [|Wikipedia Improves Students' Work: Students Become Much More Concerned With Accuracy When Their Research Is Posted Online, Study Finds]

For me, Wikipedia is astounding as a reference work for where it leads you next. The availability of links to other places online is awesome and serves as a reminder that much of the best information about a subject is not on Wikipedia, but the sites that its pages send you to via those myriad of little blue letters on the pages, especially the ones at the end listed under External Links. - Philip Harvey, [|Weighing Wikipedia]

Buzzword Bingo
Accuracy - App - Barn Raising - [|Disambiguation] - Edit - Edit-a-thon - Citation - Collaboration - [|Conflict of Interest] - Contributor - [|Controversies] - Digital Literacy - [|Disambiguation] - Edit Wars - Encyclopedia - Engagement - Facts - Guidelines -[|Hoax] - Information - [|neutral point of view] - Notable - Participation - Public - Recent Additions - [|sandbox] - [|Sock-puppet] - [|Stub] - Trust - Truth - Wiki - Wikification - Wikimedia - Wikipedia - [|Wikipedia Day (January 15)] - Wikipedian - [|Wikivoyage]

sockpuppets — people submitting contributions on areas outside their personal expertise because they're paid to do so

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wikiverse
http://www.theverge.com/2016/8/17/12514506/wikiverse-wikipedia-universe-explore [|Wikiverse]

[|Style Guidelines - Wikipedia] [|Wiki - Wikipedia] [|Wiki Newsgoogled] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Recent_additions
 * Wikipedia FYI**

[|Disambiguation] pages on Wikipedia are used as a process of resolving conflicts in article titles that occur when a single term can be associated with more than one topic, making that term likely to be the natural title for more than one article. In other words, disambiguations are paths leading to different articles which could, in principle, have the same title.

Contributors
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Contributions/Planeta

Indigenous Language Wikipedia Sites
http://nah.wikipedia.org http://incubator.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wp/yua

Listening
[|Wikipedia at 10]

Wikipedia Entries
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amplituhedron [|Commons-based peer production] [|Ecotourism] [|Gift Economy] [|Generation C] [|Jimmy Wales] [|Neologism] [|Truthiness] [|Wiki]

Wiki news
[|Wikinews] [|10 things you did not know about Wikipedia] [|How to write an article - Wikinews] [|The contribution conundrum: Why did Wikipedia succeed while other encyclopedias failed?] [|Rules of BarCamp] [|Wikis Are Now Serious Business - Read, Write, Web] [|Wikiscanner] [|Seeing Corporate Fingerprints in Wikipedia Edits - NYT] [|For All Its Flaws, Wikipedia is the Way Information Works Now] (2011) [|Wikipedia, past and present - Pew] (PDF) (2011)

A few words about biographies
Before placing a request for a biography, make certain that the person meets the [|notability] requirements for inclusion in Wikipedia (see [|notability criteria]). Why do you want to know about them? Why would anyone else want to know about them? Also, if you are requesting an article on a living person, please see Wikipedia's policy on [|biographies of living people] and [|neutral point of view].

Elsewhere on the Web
http://news.google.com/news?hl=en&q=Wikipedia http://open-site.org/wikipedia

Twitter
[|@Wikipedia] [|@jimmy_wales] [|@congressedits] [|@parliamentedits] https://twitter.com/GIFsofWiki

Hashtag
[|#thankyouwikipedia]

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Spanish Language Encuentros https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Encuentros

Misc
image filter referendum http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Avoid_neologisms#Neologisms

Its purpose is to enable readers to easily hide images on the Wikimedia projects that they do not wish to view, either when first viewing the image or ahead of time through individual preference settings. The feature is intended to benefit readers by offering them more choice, and to that end it will be made as user-friendly and simple as possible. We will also make it as easy as possible for editors to support. For its development, we have created a number of guiding principles, but trade-offs will need to be made throughout the development process. In order to aid the developers in making those trade-offs, we need your help us assess the importance of each by taking part in this referendum.

For more information, please see http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Image_filter_referendum/en

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Wikistream
[|Wikistream shows you Wikipedia real-time] [|Wikistream]

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