User:Harej/Scratchpad

Top index

This is an index of pages on the Meta-Wiki.

Arranged alphabetically

• Meta:Index/Complete

Arranged by broad category

Link	Description
Discussion	Pages for discussion on general topics.
Information and statistics	Pages providing information or statistics related to the Wikimedia Foundation or its wikis.
Policies and guidelines	Policies and guidelines.
Requests and proposals	Pages where users can make requests and proposals.

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Index of discussion pages

This is an index of pages dedicated to discussion on general topics.

On Meta-Wiki

Link	Description
Babel	For general discussion about MetaWiki, and for linking to important discussions elsewhere.
Babylon talk	For general discussion about translation on/related to the Wikimedia Foundation and its websites.
Help Forum	General questions and answers with no otherwise defined location.
Wikimedia Forum	For general discussion about the Wikimedia Foundation and its websites.

Elsewhere

Link	Description
IRC channels	List of active IRC channels for discussion of a large number of topics. Topics include the Wikimedia Foundation (general, chapters, wikis, server issues, toolserver, and countervandalism), MediaWiki (the wiki software), and various specific topics.
Mailing lists	List of various mail lists available to subscribers regarding a wide variety of topics.

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Index (informational and statistical pages)

This is an index of pages providing information and statistics.

Meta-Wiki

Link	Description
About	General information about the site.
Administrator policies	Provides information about Meta administrators, and lays out relevant policies.
Administrators' reading list	Links to pages useful to Meta administrators.
MediaWiki help policy	Explains the complex system organising help pages on the Meta-Wiki.
Transwiki	Describes the procedure for moving a page from one wiki to another.

Wikimedia

Foundation

Link	Description
Board of Trustees	See also: agendas, budget, elections, and meetings.

Other projects

Link	Description
Complete list of Wikimedia projects	self-evident title.
Wikimedia projects	Provides links to central pages on each Wikimedia project.

IRC channels

This is for pages relevant to IRC channels run by the Wikimedia Foundation only.

Link	Description
IRC channels	A list of Wikimedia Foundation IRC channels
IRC stalkwords	A standardised list of keywords that alert particular users (such as administrators or stewards).

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Index of policies and guidelines

This is an index of policies and guidelines, organised by their scope. Most pages linked below are policies. Some are explicitly marked as guidelines.

All Wikimedia projects

Link	Description	Scope
Terms of use	This describes the general conditions and mutual responsibilities that all users must agree with, before using Wikimedia projects and sites, or reusing their content.
Universal Code of Conduct	This defines a minimum set of guidelines of expected and unacceptable behaviour. It applies to everyone who interacts and contributes to online and offline Wikimedia projects and spaces.
No open proxies	This prohibits users from editing Wikimedia projects through open or anonymous proxies.
Privacy policy	The WMF privacy policy.
Steward policies	Various policies relevant to Stewards.
Office actions	This covers on-wiki actions taken by official representatives of the Foundation.
Language proposal policy	How to propose opening a new language subdomain of an existing project. Handled by the language committee.
Closing projects policy	This defines the process to close (or delete) a WMF wiki. Proposals are handled by language committee.
Special global permissions	Policy and information about permissions used by System administrators and Ombudsmen.
CheckUser policy	CheckUser access and use.
Oversight policy	Oversight access and use.
Global rollback	The approval process for global rollback access, and guidelines for its use.	see list
Abuse filter helpers	The approval process for global Abuse filter read-only access, and guidelines for its use.	see list
New wikis importers	The approval process for the new wikis importers global user group, and guidelines for its use.
Global bans	The process for the formal revocation of editing privileges across all Wikimedia wikis.
Password policy	Password requirements for users of Wikimedia wikis.

Meta-Wiki

Link	Description
Administrator policies	Information and policies related to Meta-Wiki administrators.
Bot policy	Information and policies related to Meta-Wiki bots.
Bureaucrat policies	Information and policies related to Meta-Wiki bureaucrats.
Civility policy	Information and policies related to Meta-Wiki civility and urbanity.
Deletion policy	The process and rules for page deletion.
Inclusion policy	Types of pages that are acceptable or unacceptable on this Wiki.
Interface administrators	Information and policies related to Meta-Wiki interface administrators.
Anti "snowball" policy	Prohibits speedy closure of discussions at this project.
Meta-Steward relationship	Outlines the relationship between elected staff at Meta-Wiki and the Stewards.
Flood flag	[guideline] The purpose and acceptable use of the "flood" flag.
IP block exemption	[guideline] The purpose, acceptable use and rules regarding the IP block exemption permission.

Some Wikimedia projects

Link	Description	Scope
Bot policy	Approval process for bot access, and guidelines for its use	see list
Global sysops	Information and policies related to global sysops.	see list
Neutral point of view	Information about various 'Neutral point of view' policies.	wp, wb, wn, wikt, wq, ws
Wikinews accreditation policy	The Wikinews policies for granting accreditation, used on certain languages of the Project.	wn

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Index of requests and proposals

This is an index of pages where users can make proposals or requests.
See also Meta:Policies and guidelines.

Meta pages

For pan-Wikimedia

Link	Description
Steward requests/Global	Requests for global locking/unlocking and blocking/unblocking
Steward requests/Global permissions	Requests for global permissions, such as Global rollback, Global sysop, and similar.
Requests for comment	Requests for comments or dispute resolution for Meta or cross-project issues.
Interwiki map	Proposals to add, modify, or remove Interwiki prefixes.
Spam blacklist	Propose domains to block from being added to all Wikimedia projects.
Title blacklist	Propose strings of text that may not be the titles of pages or users on a Wikimedia project.
General requests	General requests for Wikimedia improvements, contests, events, collaborations, and services. From important unresolved bugs and feature requests to major new initiatives; a unified summary with pointers to more specific discussions being held elsewhere.
Unified login (SUL) troubleshooting	Username usurpation and other troubleshooting.

For Meta

Link	Description
Proposals
Deletion	Propose that a page be removed from (or restored to) the Meta-Wiki.
Page moves	Propose that a page be renamed or moved. This is not necessary for non-controversial cases.
Requests
Access	Request access (administrator, bot, etc) on this wiki.
CheckUser information	Request a CheckUser scan on a user or IP address.
Help from an admin or bureaucrat	Administrators and bureaucrats don't watch every page at all times. Bring up matters that need their attention on this page.

For other wikis

Link	Description
Proposals
New projects	Propose a new wiki.
New languages	Propose a new language subdomain for an existing project.
Closing projects	Propose that a wiki be closed.
Requests
Other permissions	Request various permissions for a project that doesn't have a local community or bureaucrat.
Requesting an internal Wikimedia wiki	How to request an internal public, private, and fishbowl wikis for Wikimedia affiliates, planning projects, committees, and project wiki support efforts.
Requesting wiki configuration changes	How to request particular configuration changes for Wikimedia managed wikis.
Requests for CheckUser information	Request a CheckUser scan on a user or IP address.
Requests for username changes	Requests for global username changes on projects without a local request page.

On other wikis

The tables below list the primary request pages on all wikis that are relevant to Meta request pages such as Requests for permissions and Requests for CheckUser information.

See also the List of local administrator's noticeboards for pages where local administrator action against vandalism can be requested.

Wikiversity

Language	Top index	Discussion	Requests for permissions
ar/Arabic	Main Page	discussion	admin
beta/Beta	Main Page	Wikiversity:Babel	admin
cs/Czech
de/German	Hauptseite	discussion	admin
el/Greek	Κύρια Σελίδα	discussion	admin
en/English	Wikiversity:Main Page	discussion	admin
es/Spanish	Portada	discussion	admin
fi/Finnish
fr/French	Accueil	discussion	admin
id/Indonesian	Halaman Utama	discussion	admin
it/Italian	Pagina principale	discussion	admin
ja/Japanese			admin
ko/Korean		discussion	admin
pt/Portuguese			admin
ru/Russian	Заглавная страница	discussion	admin
sl/Slovenian
sv/Swedish			admin