Wikipedia:Topical index

This page is a repository for pages that are useful to "doing things" in Wikipedia. In contrast to the Main Page its focus is more for the benefit of regular editors and contributors, rather than the general public. Feel free to improve the categorization below if you believe you can, though discussing it on /Talk first would be nice.

Resources for editors

• Welcome, newcomers
• Be bold in updating pages
• Rules to consider
• Editing policy
• The perfect stub article
• The perfect article
• Most common Wikipedia faux pas
• Requested articles
• Requested articles/Deemed complete-ish
• Requested pictures
• Controversial subjects - a simple list of pages on controversial subjects, not a place to argue about them
• Bad jokes and other deleted nonsense
• Wikipedia Manual of Style
• How does one edit a page
• The art of Wikipedia weeding
• Special characters
• Wikipedia:PHP script new features
• Village pump - ask your questions here

To Do Lists

• find or fix a stub - Join the crusade to find all the stub articles...if you want to.
• Page titles to be deleted -- (Talk)
• Personal subpages to be deleted
• Pages needing attention - to list pages you think need work but are out of your area of expertise.
• Wikipedia:Duplicate articles

Lists and Collections to be Maintained

• WikiBiblion
• Disambiguation

Wikipedia Project Standards Pages (consult if you're working on an article in one of these areas)

• Wikipedia History standards
• Current events article development
• Naming conventions

Pages on Wikipedia statistics and related topics

• Wikipedia statistics
• /Size of Wikipedia
• /Referrers
• /What Google likes

Software programs that may be helpful

• Translator from HTML to Wikipedia

Organizational and other useful pages

• Navigation links
• Wikipedia policy
• Wikipedia FAQ
• Wikipedia Announcements
• Wikipedia help desk
• The Wikipedia Militia
• Wikipedia/Most popular pages

/Talk - for discussion about the utilities page.