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Resources and lists

List of wiki markup

Categories

General information

Resource	Description
Wikipedia:Categorization	Introduction to categorization.
Wikipedia:Naming conventions (categories)	Discusses naming conventions for categories.
Wikipedia:Categories, lists, and navigation templates	Discusses the three different ways to group and organize articles.
WikiProject Categories-related pages
/uncategorized	Taskforce page for categorizing and patrolling for uncategorized articles.
Category:Wikipedia categorization	Category page listing our project pages.
Wikipedia:WikiProject Categories/Current subprojects	WikiProject Categories subprojects.
Category:WikiProjects	Category page containing list of WikiProjects and helpful resources.
Category:Category needed	Category containing articles that need categorization.
Category:Uncategorized pages	Category containing pages that need categorization.
Special:UncategorizedPages	Special page for uncategorized pages.
Uncategorized Categories	Special page for uncategorized categories.
Advanced resources
Wikimedia stats:Category Overview Index	Dumps of the category tree.
Wikipedia:Database_reports#Categories	Page containing generated reports about categories.
Wikipedia:Categories for discussion	Where deletion, merging, and renaming of categories is discussed.
Miscellaneous
Wikipedia:WikiProject Stub sorting	Similar WikiProject for stubs.
Wikipedia:Contents	Browse Wikipedia's contents.
Wikipedia:Contents/Overviews	Browse Wikipedia's contents overviews.

• Wikipedia:Categories are different from articles
• Wikipedia:Categories vs lists
• Wikipedia:Categorising fiction
• Wikipedia:Do not write articles using categories
• Wikipedia:Overcategorization/Intersection of location and occupation
• User:Alan Liefting/Essays/On categorisation

Lists

General

• Wikipedia:Categories, lists, and navigation templates
• Wikipedia:Lists
  • Wikipedia:Lists (stand-alone lists)
  • Wikipedia:Embedded list
• Wikipedia:Manual of Style (lists of works)
• Wikipedia:Naming conventions (long lists)
• Wikipedia:Notability (organizations and companies)
• Wikipedia:Pro and con lists

Help

• Help:List
• Help:Table. External links section has free HTML-to-wiki converters.
• Wikipedia:When to use tables
• Help:Sorting. All about automatic sorting of table rows.

Rejected proposals

• Wikipedia:Overlistification
• Wikipedia:Proposed guideline for lists of people by ethnicity, religion, and other cultural categorizations

Essays

• Wikipedia:Lists in Wikipedia
• Wikipedia:Listcruft
• Wikipedia:Write the Article First - one solution to cruft-y red links in lists
• Creating A Better List - A User Essay
• Wikipedia:Lists within articles

Stubs

• List of stub types
• How to name stubs
• Guide to stubbing

Infoboxes

• List of infoboxes
• List of templates used in infoboxes

Templates

• List of templates
• List of navigational templates
• List of citation templates

Wikiprojects & article series

• List of WikiProjects
• Creating a WikiProject
• List of article series

Shortcuts & "magic words"

• List of shortcuts
• List of "magic words" - Magic words can be used to automate text or change the display of pages.

Other resources

• Cleanup resources
• List of Resources for researchers
• Public domain resources
• Wikipedia:Free online resources
• Wikipedia:Free or semi-free non-Public-Domain information resources
• Wikipedia:Public domain image resources
• Wikipedia:Free sound resources
• WikiProject Resource Exchange
• Web Browser tools - Tools for your Web browser
• Web colors

Administration

• Mailing lists
• List of protected pages
• Links to disambiguating pages
• List of controversial issues

Administrators

• List of administrators
• Requests for administrator attention

Copyright

• Sample letters requesting content be made available to Wikipedia
• Sample letters for violations of Wikipedia's licence (GFDL)

New user greetings

• Standard user greeting
• Welcome templates

Essays