Wikipedia is an free online encyclopedia that anyone can edit.
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Wikipedia global search (all languages), without using a third-party search engine?
Performing a search on the Japanese Wikipedia is easy:
http://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Search?search=%s
Now, I want to perform a search on all language versions of Wikipedia.
For instance ...
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Is it possible to include wiki markup in Wikipedia searches?
I tried to find improperly formatted URLs on Wikipedia by entering for a search query with wiki markup, but this doesn't return matches of this markup in Wikipedia. Does Wikipedia have any search ...
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What does Wikipedia mean when they say some accounts will be renamed due to a technical change?
Wikipedia currently has a notification at the top of every single page saying that some accounts will be renamed due to a technical change when I am logged in. Clicking on Read more doesn't really ...
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Watch for changes to a section of a Wikipedia page
On Wikipedia, is it possible to watch a specific section of an article (instead of watching the entire article)? I have contributed to some specific sections of articles, and I want to be notified ...
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Merging categories on Wikipedia
On Wikipedia, is it possible to automatically merge multiple existing categories into a new category (for example, automatically moving all items in the category [[Flying animals]] and [[Birds]] to ...
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Show files on Wikipedia that were recently added to a specific category
On Wikipedia, is it possible to view all of the files or articles that were recently added to a specific category? In this case, I want to view all files that were recently added to ...
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Find all pages on Wikipedia that redirect to a specific page
On Wikipedia, is it possible to find all pages that redirect to a given page, like a "what redirects here" page instead of a "what links here" page? For example, I'd like to find all pages on ...
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Redirect a section of a Wikipedia article to another article
On Wikipedia, is it possible to redirect a section of one article to another article? I occassionally need to move sections of Wikipedia articles to other articles, and re-target all links to that ...
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How do you end a subsection in MediaWiki?
When writing articles on the MediaWiki platform (e.g. Wikipedia), I have often found myself wanting to write content in a higher-level section after writing content in a subsection. For example, ...
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Is it possible for a normal user to flag a Wikipedia edit as potential vandalism?
I can find vague references from various sources (e.g. on Talk:Anti-vandalism ideas: Automatic vandalism identification) implying that Wikipedia edits can be flagged as potential vandalism. However, ...
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Automatically generating references in Wikipedia articles
Are there any tools that can automatically generate properly formatted citations (from bare URLs?) Bare links on Wikipedia are supposed to be replaced with properly citations. Are there any tools or ...
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Specify the starting and ending point for a Wikipedia reference
Is there anything the the "citation needed span" template for references on Wikipedia?
Here, the text being verified by the reference is ambiguous:
All trees are tall, and some are very ...
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Search within the contributions of a specific editor
On Wikipedia (and MediaWiki in general), is there any way to search for a phrase within the contributions of a specific user? As a proof-of-concept, I want to find a way to search for the word ...
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Find when a phrase was added to a Wikipedia page
Is there any way to find when a specific word or phrase was added to a Wikipedia page? I want to find a way to obtain the first page that contains a match of a specific phrase (for example, the first ...
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Get the version of a Wikipedia page from a specific date
I need to find a version of a Wikipedia page from a specific date (specifically, October 14, 2010). Is there any way to view the revision history from before a specific time/date?
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Using Wikipedia bots on other MediaWiki-based wikis
There are some Wikipedia bots that I consider to be absolutely indispensable: they perform tasks like fixing broken redirects, automatically reverting vandalism, etc. Is it possible to use these ...
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Download or reading Wikipedia as an ebook
How can I get all of Wikipedia, except the images, in a standard ebook format like ePub or mobi for putting on my e-reader?
Is there a reason this isn't more readily available? Are some ebook formats ...
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Is there any way of combining Wikipedia comparisons into a single table?
Take, for example, this page: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_file_comparison_tools
It's typical of most Wikipedia comparison pages, with the information split across multiple individual ...
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How do I report a spam content on Wikipedia?
I was reading biography of a diseased columnist. I saw that the newspaper company of his has put its logo behind his pictures, and mentioning their company name a lot of place in the page profusely.
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Prevent section links from breaking when a section name is changed
On Wikipedia, is it possible to find all links to a specific section? I've noticed that changing the name of a section on a Wikipedia article will often break a large number of links and redirect ...
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How do you reference a wiki media image if the file name is non-romantic?
I am trying to reference the wikipedia commons image in an english wikipedia info box. The image is a wikimedia commons picture with a japanese name. Somehow it does not allow it to be placed there. ...
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How can I see which of my edits on Wikipedia have been reverted?
I'd like to see a list of all of my Wikipedia edits which have been subsequently reverted (as opposed to the ones that have been retained). How is it possible to do this?
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RSS feed for Wikipedia's The Signpost?
Since June this year, the RSS feed I was using to get notified about new issues of The Signpost is not updated anymore.
I have been searching for alternative RSS feeds but can't find any.
Converting ...
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Reverting multiple edits at once on Wikipedia
If I make a series of edits on Wikipedia that I decide to revert, is it possible to revert multiple edits at once?
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Merging duplicate sections on Wikipedia
I've noticed that many paragraphs and article sections have been copied and pasted from one Wikipedia article to another, leading to excessive amounts of redundant text on Wikipedia. Do any tools, ...
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Suggest that a Wikipedia page be renamed
I've found a couple of pages and categories on Wikipedia with confusing names. Is there any template that I can use to suggest that these pages be renamed, without actually renaming them myself?
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How can I see all pages that were created by a specific Wikipedia user?
For each user on Wikipedia, I'd like to find which pages were created by those users. How can I find all of the pages that were created by a specific Wikipedia or Mediawiki user?
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See all replies to my comments on Wikipedia talk pages
I'd like to see all the replies that have been made to the comments that I've posted on Wikipedia talk pages. Is it possible to do this (without manually adding each of the pages to my watchlist?)
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Is it possible to search MediaWiki sites using regular expressions?
I'd like to search for phrases using regular expressions on sites such as Wikipedia and Wikimedia Commons. Is it possible to do this?
Example regex search query: (facebook|google) (corporate ...
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Highlight the text that precedes a “citation needed” tag
On Wikipedia (and MediaWiki in general), is it possible to highlight the text that is preceded by a "citation needed" tag, in order to clarify what the tag specifically refers to?
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See all ambiguous links on a specific Wikipedia page
Lately, I've been trying to fix ambiguous links on Wikipedia. On one specific Wikipedia page, I want to be able to see every link to a disambiguation page so that I can repair it. Is it possible to do ...
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Get notifications for pages on watchlist (MediaWiki sites)
I've noticed that MediaWiki websites such as Wikipedia display a "you have new messages" message whenever a change is made to the user's talk page. Is it possible to get the same type of notification ...
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Synchronize MediaWiki redirect pages [closed]
Is it possible to ensure that multiple redirect pages on a MediaWiki site redirect to the same page? There are some redirect pages that I want to synchronize so that they point to the same page, so ...
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Filter files by multiple categories on Wikipedia
How can I find files on Wikipedia (or the Wikimedia Commons) that are in two or more specific categories? For instance, if I was searching for files to put into the category "dogs and cats", I would ...
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Add multiple files to a category in Wikimedia Commons
There are some instances where I'd like to add multiple articles to a category on a MediaWiki site such as Wikimedia Commons (for example, adding multiple images of airplanes to the category ...
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How can I rename a category on Wikimedia Commons?
Is it possible to rename a category on Wikimedia Commons (or another Wikimedia-based wiki) so that all of the pages in that category are moved to the renamed category instead of being left in the old ...
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Finding and repairing broken section links on Wikipedia
I want to find broken section links on Wikipedia so that I can repair them. How can I find links to non-existent sections on Wikipedia (such as [[Google#fbffgfd]]) and replace them with working links ...
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Put a section of an article into a category on Wikipedia
I'd like to place sections of articles into categories on Wikipedia. (for example, placing "Pollution in India#Water pollution" into the category "Water pollution in India") Is there any way to do ...
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Search within a category on a MediaWiki site
I'm trying to search for a keyword within a specific category on Wikimedia Commons. For example, like to search for "red flowers" within "Category:Flowers" so that I can categorize the images ...
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How to get a list of All pages belonging to a Wikipedia Portal?
I was wondering, is there a way to get the entire list of articles (pages) filed under a Wikipedia Portal?
For example, I want to get a list of All the pages filed under Linguistics Portal, is there ...
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URL to get the list of Wikipedia bots
Is there an URL to retrieve the list of Wikipedia bots?
Those are users with the bot flag.
It could be HTML/XML or anything, but not the whole Wikipedia dump.
No such method in the API.
Note: not ...
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Are some parts of Wikipedia updated automatically?
What is impressive about Wikipedia is that information is updated so quickly.
Any big event, like a death of a celebrity or whatever, it'll appear on there quicker than some news sites.
I'm just ...
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Cleaned Wikipedia content used on Google Maps - dump available?
On Google, there are pages such as the following which provide a summary of the place in question taken from Wikipedia:
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Difference between Wikidata and Freebase?
What is the difference between Wikidata and Freebase?
Both seems to be gathering open data in a Wiki spirit, readable by machine and humans.
Freebase has existed for years, Wikidata is new.
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How can I add an article for a new language in Wikipedia?
I read an article on Wikipedia and want to translate and edit it into my language.
How can I do this?
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Does Wikipedia have a project to map translated entry per language?
Sometimes when viewing a Wikipedia entry I am interested on seeing the related entry for the counter part for an English entry to the counter part entry in other language.
One use example is: an ...
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Is there a way to get around Wikipedia's Anti-SOPA blackout? [closed]
I think it's great that so many companies and organizations want to make people aware of SOPA, but not having access to Wikipedia for 24 hours is really inconvenient.
I noticed that you can see the ...
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How does Wikipedia prevent spamming?
Anybody can alter wiki contents, and I am wondering "How does Wikipedia prevent spamming?", when even not registered members edit the contents. What you think about it?
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Is it allowed to show information from Wikipedia and other sites on my site? [closed]
For Example: I want to create an institute directory of my country. I want to show institute name, logo, emails, phone numbers and some other information. Now I have two resources, institute website ...
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How to make Simplified Chinese preferences on Wikipedia stick?
Chinese Wikipedia (维基百科) has the ability to convert its articles from Traditional to Simplified Chinese through a dropdown menu on its top left corner.
This is great because although I can read ...
