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-A possible suggestion for expanding wiki articles, using the [[English Wikipedia]] as an example. For many non-Wikimedia wikis, there should also be someplace to mention the parent website.
+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
-Intro decription paragraph
+brief intro paragraph
-nd intro paragraph covering [[Wikipedia:Wikipedia:NPOV|Wikipedia:NPOV]], etc.
+nd expansion paragraph covering [[Wikipedia:Wikipedia:NPOV|Wikipedia:NPOV]], etc.
+;About:
-==Policies and Guidelines==
+*[[Wikipedia:Wikipedia:About|Wikipedia:About]]
+;Policies and Guidelines
 *[[Wikipedia:Wikipedia:Policies and guidelines|Wikipedia:Policies and guidelines]]
-==Governance==
+;Governance
 *[[Wikipedia:Wikipedia:Administrators|Wikipedia:Administrators]]
-==Community==
+;Community
-*??
+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 [[Wikipedia:Wikipedia:edit war|edit wars]] over page content instead of discussion and compromise.
-==Controveries==
+;Controveries
 *Seigenthaler (sp?)
-==Related Wikis==
+;Related Wikis
 *[[Meta Wikipedia]]: parent wiki with policies and guidelines covering all [[Wikimedia]] projects
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 **[[Wiktionary]]
-==Statistics==
+;Statistics
-A table with a date column plus colums 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.
+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.]
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+*[http://www.alexa.com/data/details/traffic_details?url=wikipedia.org Current Alexa rating]
+;Blogs and discussion groups
+*http://www.wikipedia-watch.org
+*[http://wikipediareview.proboards78.com The Wikipedia Review]
+;Additional data
+*Sponsoring organization: [[Wikimedia]] http://wikimediafoundation.org
+*Copyright policy: [[GFDL]]
+*Contact info: ????
+;Reviews of this wiki
+*[[English Wikipedia/Reviews]] [reviews added by WikiIndex visitors added onto a subpage]
+*[[Wikipedia:Wikipedia]] [Wikipedia article on the Website]
+*[http://everything2.com/?node=Wikipedia Wikipedia article at Everything2]
+*[http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/B000083IQR/ 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:
+*[http://answers.com Answers.com]
+*[http://reference.com Reference.com]
-==Blogs and discussion groups==
+;Forks of the Wikipedia
+*[[WikInfo]] http://wikinfo.org
-*http://wikipediawatch.org
+;Other Websites
+*http://a9.com: search engine supports Wikipedia searches
+*http://clusty.com search engine that emphasizes Wikipedia in its search results