User:BlankVerse/Sandbox

A suggestion for possible expansion of wiki articles, using the English Wikipedia as an example. For many non-Wikimedia Foundation wikis, there should also be someplace to mention the parent website.

"the free encyclopedia that anyone can edit"
 * Introduction

2nd expansion paragraph covering, etc.


 * About:


 * Policies and Guidelines


 * Manual of Style


 * Governance


 * Dispute resolution
 * (for the former Requests for Mediation)
 * (Requests for Arbitration)
 * (Requests for Arbitration)

Many of the Wikipedia editors are high school and college age young males, predominantly from North America and Western Europe. This not only effects what topics get the most attention, but may also effect their behavior. Do not be surprised when some editors choose over page content instead of discussion and compromise.
 * Community


 * News and information


 * Controveries
 * editing of Wikipedia articles by congressional staffers and campaign aides
 * editing of Wikipedia articles by congressional staffers and campaign aides

See also:
 * Related wikis
 * Wikimedia Meta-Wiki: Wikimedia project coordination: parent wiki with policies and guidelines covering all Wikimedia Foundation projects
 * Wikimedia Commons: Shared media repository (mostly images)
 * Simple English Wikipedia
 * English language versions of
 * Wikiquote
 * Wikibooks
 * Wiktionary
 * Wikinews
 * at Wikimedia Meta-Wiki
 * at Wikimedia Meta-Wiki


 * Featured webpages


 * TourBusStop & WikiNode

A table with a date column, plus columns for the number of articles, users, and admins (from Special:Statistics for MediaWiki wikis). For larger wikis, maybe a column for their Alexa rating as well. [note:current stats in the table are fake.]
 * Statistics


 * Alexa rating (2007 archive)
 * Wikiside: the Wikipedia tracker (dead since late 2006)
 * Wikiside: the Wikipedia tracker (dead since late 2006)


 * Blogs and discussion groups
 * www.Wikipedia-Watch.org
 * Wikipedia Review — The Wikipedia Review


 * Additional data
 * Sponsoring organization: Wikimedia Foundation  (20 June 2003)
 * Copyright policy: GFDL (GNU Free Documentation License}
 * Contact info: Wikimedia Foundation:Contact us
 * Date founded: 15 January 2001 (see )


 * Reviews of this wiki
 * English Wikipedia/Reviews – reviews added by WikiIndex visitors added onto a subpage
 * – Wikipedia article on the website
 * Wikipedia article at Everything2
 * Amazon.com user reviews

The Wikipedia has numerous websites. Some of them have cooperative agreements with the Wikipedia, while others have only posted an old download of the database that is never updated and they have removed all reference to the Wikipedia and the GFDL licence. Many other mirrors are somewhere between those extremes. Here are two of the better-known Wikipedia mirrors: See also: : a description and links to alphabetic lists of Wikipedia mirrors
 * Mirror websites
 * Answers.com
 * Reference.com

There are several of the Wikipedia, with most of them started by individuals who have had disagreements over Wikipedia policy or editorial content as an editor on the Wikipedia.
 * Forks of the Wikipedia
 * Wikinfo http://wikinfo.org


 * Mashups
 * Placeopedia


 * Parodies and Satires
 * Uncyclopedia – Uncyclopedia


 * Other websites
 * WikiWas LookAhead™ Search engine for the Wikipedia
 * http://a9.com : former search engine supports Wikipedia searches
 * http://clusty.com : former search engine that emphasizes Wikipedia in its search results


 * Wiki zeitgeist (aka folksonomy, collaborative tagging, social bookmarking)
 * http://del.icio.us/search/?all=Wikipedia


 * InterWiki Map
 * at Wikimedia Meta-Wiki


 * For other Wikis
 * Parent websites (if they are non-Wikis)
 * Wiki farm (e.g. WikiCities)


 * Other possible sections
 * Selected webpages (either sample webpages, or examples of superior webpages)
 * Special features (e.g. the for the English Wiktionary