User:BlankVerse/Sandbox

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.

"the free encyclopedia that anyone can edit"
 * Introduction

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
 * Wikipedia:WP:RFC (Requests for Comments)
 * Wikipedia:WP:RFM (Requests for Mediation)
 * Wikipedia:WP:RFAR (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 edit wars over page content instead of discussion and compromise.
 * Community
 * Community Portal


 * News and information
 * Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost
 * Wikipedia:Announcements


 * Controveries
 * John Seigenthaler Sr. Wikipedia biography controversy
 * editing of Wikipedia articles by congressional staffers and campaign aides

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


 * Featured webpages
 * Wikipedia:Featured articles
 * Wikipedia:Featured pictures
 * Wikipedia:Featured lists
 * Wikipedia:Featured portals


 * TourBusStop & WikiNode
 * Wikipedia:TourBusStop
 * Wikipedia: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


 * Wikipedia:Special:Statistics
 * Current Alexa rating
 * WikiSide: The Wikipedia Tracker


 * Blogs and discussion groups
 * www.wikipedia-watch.org
 * The Wikipedia Review


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


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

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. Many other mirrors are somewhere between those extremes. Here are two of the better-known Wikipedia mirrors: See also: wp:Wikipedia:Mirrors and forks: a description and links to alphabetic lists of Wikipedia mirrors
 * Mirror websites
 * Answers.com
 * Reference.com

There are several forks 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: search engine supports Wikipedia searches
 * http://clusty.com 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
 * Interwiki map at Meta Wikimedia


 * 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 English Wiktionary Word of the Day for the Wiktionary