Wikipedia is an free online encyclopedia that anyone can edit.
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Wikipedia alternative?
I'm looking for a place like wikipedia, with something kind of like the citation templates, namely {{cite web}}. I don't like the wikipedia's editorial policies, or their administration -- I'm finding ...
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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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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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How to download all city page of my country from Wikipedia
Will it be moral to copy all city pages information for all cities in my country from Wikipedia?
I need those for my website.
How can I do it?
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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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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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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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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 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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How do I search a wikimedia web site for ALL keywords
I have a WikiMedia site that I want to search for both keywords that I type into the search box.
When I go to the wikipedia.org site and look at the help it says that I can precede words with a + ...
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How to create a page reference in Wikipedia (synonym redirection)?
I want to internally add a reference to a wiki-page. For example, say the page name is The_Page_Name. I would like to add a known term (say, The_Reference) to Wikipedia that should redirect to ...
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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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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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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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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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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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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 ...
