User:BlankVerse/Sandbox

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

Introduction

brief intro paragraph

2nd expansion paragraph covering Wikipedia:NPOV, etc.

About

Wikipedia:About

Policies and Guidelines

Wikipedia:Policies and guidelines

Manual of Style

Wikipedia:WP:MOS

Governance

Wikipedia:Administrators

Dispute resolution

Community

Wikipedia:Community Portal

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 edit wars over page content instead of discussion and compromise.

News and information

Controveries

Seigenthaler (sp?)

Related Wikis

Meta Wikimedia: Wikimedia project coordination: parent wiki with policies and guidelines covering all Wikimedia projects
Commons Wikimedia: Shared media repository (mostly images)
Simple English Wikipedia
English language versions of

See also:

TourBusStop & WikiNode

Statistics

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
date	articles	users	admins	Alexa
1/1/2006	700,000	35,000	500	40
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Blogs and discussion groups

Additional data

Sponsoring organization: Wikimedia http://wikimediafoundation.org
Copyright policy: GFDL
Contact info: ????
Date founded: ????

Reviews of this wiki

English Wikipedia/Reviews [reviews added by WikiIndex visitors added onto a subpage]
Wikipedia:Wikipedia [Wikipedia article on the Website]
Wikipedia article at Everything2
Amazon.com user reviews

Mirror websites

The Wikipedia has numerous mirror 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. Here are two of the better mirrors: