Wikipedia is an free online encyclopedia that anyone can edit.
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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 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 ...
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What are the pros and cons of using Wikipedia as an information source?
What are the pros and cons of using Wikipedia as an information source, particularly given that anyone can edit almost every page?
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Is it possible to search Wikipedia including deleted text?
It is possible to perform search on Wikipedia, which includes history along with current page content.
It would be especially good to search in deleted articles or deleted passages of articles.
(If ...
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How can I find out who wrote a certain section of an article in Wikipedia?
Version control systems typically call this feature "blaming someone". For each line, it shows you who modified it and when.
Update: I'm looking for a solution for articles with thousands of edits ...
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Why do articles with multiple sections not have a table of contents?
Why isn't there a table of contents (TOC) in the Wikipedia article "Scott Meyers"?
There are three sections in that article. Has it something to do with the length? The article "Web application" has ...
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Can you merge IP edits to a username in Wikipedia?
Is it possible to merge edits from an IP to a user account in Wikipedia?
I'm guessing there might be some 'owner' issues, but if one could prove no-one else used the IP apart from 'guest' posts and ...
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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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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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How do I alter an article on Wikipedia?
I would like to alter an article on Wikipedia how do I do so?
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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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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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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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How do you make a redirect page on Wikipedia? [closed]
I have found the article I was looking for on Wikipedia with the message This article is an orphan. at the top. I have also found another page with the topic of this article highlighted in red, as if ...
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How to search Wikipedia for all pages of a certain thing?
I'm trying to find a list of all Wikipedia pages for "martial artists" (persons).
One example is the Wikipedia page for Cain Velasquez.
All of these pages have an infobox template named "martial ...
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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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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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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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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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Wikipedia commons: Special/New pages. I cannot see my uploads.
I've tried to apply this recipe: Getting the RSS feed for Wikipedia articles I've created to see the files I've uploaded recently on commons (e.g: this file ). But I cannot see any log in:
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Wiki software that looks good via browser, iPhone and iPad?
I'm looking into new wiki software that looks good on browsers and kind of native on iPad and iPhone. Any suggestions?
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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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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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Getting the RSS feed for Wikipedia articles I've created
Is it possible to get a RSS feed for the new articles I've created on Wikipedia?
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Wikipedia Sitemap
I know how it generates the site map and all. What I need is a complete sitemap of all topics covered in wikipedia.org. Anyone know where I could get it? I have been crawling it but keep running out ...
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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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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 do you add images to Wikipedia?
I've created this page on wikipedia but I can't figure out how to link or upload an image in the Infobox.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mimi_Knoop
I've tried adding the image url but it doesn't work.
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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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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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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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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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Is there a way to download a list of all Wikipedia categories?
Is there a way to download a list of all Wikipedia categories?
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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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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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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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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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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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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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Is there a way to track wikipedia pages one has read already?
I read a lot of random Wikipedia articles for fun/help with schoolwork but sometimes I feel like going back to articles I had read before to get a mental refresher.
Other than just saving wiki ...
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Internal wiki setup to create a book or export-to-PDF feature [closed]
Is there any tutorial to setup an internal intranet wiki to enable creation of a book or export-to-PDF as in wikipedia.org?
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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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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 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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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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How can I get to a template's URL in Wikipedia?
For example in the Kobe Bryant article, you can see that it uses the Infobox NBA Player template when you View Source. How can I get to the page of this template?
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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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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 ...
