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From Wikipedia, Are there ways to circumvent the read blackout?
The community has asked us to preserve emergency access options. The
following methods will remain available to access content:
Disabling JavaScript in your browser. This is not emergency access - this is a trivial way to disable the blackout
Using bookmarklets (example) or other ...
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A TOC in Wikipedia is only generated if the article has more than three sections. The one you linked to only has three, and so it is not generated.
If you were to add __TOC__ or __FORCETOC__ to the document a TOC would be generated. __FORCETOC__ causes the TOC to be placed before the first section heading, which would be before "Publications", while __TOC__ ...
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You don't "flag" edits, per se. If you see an edit that is vandalism, you're expected to "rollback" or, at least, edit out the vandalism bits yourself. That's part of Wikipedia's mantra of Be Bold!
From http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:Content
You can edit almost any page on Wikipedia. Simply follow the "Edit" link at the top of that page. Be bold in ...
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Crowdsourcing
Wikipedia has many editors, each editor is usually subscribed to change notifications of the article they created/edited during their Wikipedia activity life span. When you make an edit, one of the editors reviews it and if it's spam he will revert the change to the article previous state.
Wikipedia relies on people to filter out the spam, ...
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In an infobox such as the one in that article, you can refer to a image file like this: Image:Filename.jpg, but you have to first upload the image to either English Wikipedia itself or Wikimedia Commons. (Those are direct links to upload pages).
Commons is recommended (because then the image can be easily used in Wikipedias in other languages, and in other ...
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The big pro is that there is likely to be an entry for what ever it is you're searching for.
The big con is that the information on that page might not be accurate.
Like all sources of information (and particularly those on the web) you have to treat it with a healthy dose of scepticism. A good Wikipedia entry will have links to external reference sites ...
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Set your browser to disable javascript for http://en.wikipedia.org.
For example in Chrome:
Go chrome://settings/contentExceptions#javascript and block javascript for http://en.wikipedia.org.
This override can easily be removed tomorrow.
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Check out this wiki page on redirecting wiki pages: Help:Redirect.
A redirect is a page created so that navigation to a given title will
take the reader directly to a different page. A redirect is created
using the syntax:
#REDIRECT [[target]]
where Target is the name of the target page. It is also possible to
add a section anchor to ...
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You can get the feed if you check out the New pages watch and filter for your name only.
Toolbox > Special Pages > Recent changes and logs > New pages
Enter your Wikipedia handle in the Username: field
Hit Go
You'll then get results showing all the newly created pages started by that username.
Grab the "Special:New pages" Atom feed that is created for ...
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The sheer size of the data is the biggest problem. The XML database dumpfile containing all text of the most recent revisions of the articles is approximately 9.0 GB even when compressed. I haven't seen a EPUB file that big; and in fact, some readers are unable to open a EPUB file larger than a mere 25 MB.
Of course, there are plans to create offline ...
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I don't think this can be done, and that is by design. A section is intended to end with the heading of a new section. The described situation would create some ambiguity, because there are no visual cues on the page to define where a section ends except for the header of a new section. It may also be unnecessary, because a default install of MediaWiki ...
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Wikimedia provides dumps [0], wich depending of your intention, can be helpfull. Delected revisions or articles aren't shown on those dumps nor are publicly avaiable, but depending of the objective, it's possible to request access to non-public data. [1]
[0]- https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Data_dumps
[1]- ...
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If you click the View History link for an article you can see the list of changes made to the article, on what date, and by whom. A short summary of the change description is also displayed. You can then click the Compare selected version button to compare text.
Unfortunately, I'm not aware of a Blame feature that lets you directly see who made the changes ...
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You can use the Google cache version. Paste the URL into Google, then click on the ">>" next to the first result, and then click "Cached".
Alternatively, if you are using Chrome, add "cache:" in front of the URL:
cache:en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pull-up_resistor
Also if you don't know the specific URL then search from google including "inurl:wikipedia" in the ...
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From their About page on abuse:
Handling disputes and abuse
Wikipedia has a rich set of methods to handle most abuses that commonly arise. These methods are well-tested and should be relied upon.
Intentional vandalism can be reported and corrected by anyone.
Unresolved disputes between editors, whether based upon behavior, editorial ...
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If you go to the page for the Infobox Template, the "What links here" link in the toolbox will tell you all of the pages that use that template. In this case...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:WhatLinksHere/Template:Infobox_martial_artist
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All you have to do is click the Edit button at the top of an article's page. In the page that you see afterward, you can make your changes and then save them.
You won't be able to edit some Wikipedia articles, however - instead of an Edit button, such protected articles will show a View Source button.
Also, when editing an article, it is recommended that ...
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You can download the Wikpedia categories from here. Here is the latest categories in SQL format.
This is a duplicate of this SO question.
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Simple solution way too many complicated ones here:
in the address bar type:
javascript: $("*").show();
Wikipedia have just hidden all their normal content with javascript and since they use jQuery, it's a simple solution to shed some light. Forget the complicated stuff, this is quick and easy.
EDIT: Non- Firefoxe browsers only unfortunately, FF doesn't ...
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"It looks like the main difference is two-way integration: instead of just scraping data from Wikipedia dumps to produce a structured database (like Freebase and dbpedia do), it's going to store the canonical version of some of the information there, and pull from it to populate the infoboxes. One of the motivations seems to be to keep the data in sync ...
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Some parts of the Wikipedia are edited by bots. They are special scripts that can do extensive but unintelligent editing, such as updating links to other language wiki pages automatically.
This kind of information rich updates are created by real users. There are a lot of dedicated users on Wikipedia and most of these users constantly follow certain ...
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Use the {{Reference necessary}} template.
It adds a dotted gray underline beneath the text selection of your choice.
Plus it adds a "[citation needed]" inline template at the end.
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Setup a HTML anchor manually using Template:Anchor.
Say that you want to link to a section called "Overview" in an article. Add the template before the heading to make it look like:
{{Anchor|AnyTextYouWant}}
<!-- Note to other editors: Don't change this anchor text -->
== Overview ==
(Of course, the comment line is optional.)
Then make a link to ...
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You can use the “What links here” feature to do that.
Either click on “What links here” in the Toolbox in the left menu and then click “Hide links”.
Or use URL like http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:WhatLinksHere/Person&hidelinks=1.
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Wikipedia is currently trying to rename accounts that are currently not "global". As you know, the English Wikipedia is only one of the many wikis available on the network of wikis owned by the Wikimedia Foundation. Many years ago, they decided to implement something called "Single User Login (SUL)" so that users can just log in on one wiki and be logged in ...
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Wikipedia uses the Creative Commons 3.0 Share and Share Alike license which means that you can copy the content but it requires proper attribution.
You can read more information on their Terms of Use page. (I won't quote it in detail as it could change). The key points are that:
You must have attribution of where it came from.
You must pass on the same ...
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I believe what you are looking for is a "Redirect." Information on this can be found here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Redirect
To create a basic redirect manually, set #REDIRECT [[target page name
here]] as the only body text of the page. For instance, if you were
redirecting from "UK" to "United Kingdom", this would be the entire
body ...
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There is a download available for all pages in the article namespace of the English language wikipedia which is located at:
http://dumps.wikimedia.org/enwiki/latest/enwiki-latest-all-titles-in-ns0.gz
However they do not generate this kind of list for every language, so you need to create it yourself from the all content dump. See the full list of all ...
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You may want to try out this userscript that I wrote. It makes all of the links on the page link to the simplified chinese version. Basically, the traditional links are under /wiki/, and the simplified Chinese links are under /zh-cn/. Rather simple matter to replace the /wiki/ in each link.
You can download the script by clicking on "raw". See here for ...
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