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The Wikipedia community
The Community Portal
Wikipedia department directory
Wikipedia quick directory

Community support

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Teahouse - peer support for new editors
Harmonious editing club - keep the peace, peacefully
Kindness Campaign - spread kindness and recognition of users
Adopt-a-User - experienced editors can "adopt" newer editors, helping to mentor them along the way as they learn about Wikipedia
Welcoming committee
Editor assistance
User pages
How to report a bug
Mailing lists
In-person meetings
Wikipedians
Local Embassy – find a user that speaks your language
Babel – Another way to find multi-lingual Wikipedians
Surveys
Expressing thanks

Voting and consensus

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Feedback by editors, to editors.

Featuring an article
Featuring lists
Featuring pictures
Featuring sounds
Featuring portals
Featuring topics
Good articles
Peer review
Administrator nominations

Discussing

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Deleting pages
Deleting articles (full policy)
Deleting categories (or a stub type)
Deleting templates
Deleting files
Moving/Merging a page (and how to actually do it)
Protecting pages (full policy)
Stay cool!
Be nice to newcomers
Alert others
Dispute resolution
Arbitration policy

Keeping informed: News

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Community Portal – Bulletin board collaborations and updates – Wikipedia's hub of activity.
The Signpost – Wikipedia's newspaper
Wikipedia in the media
Wikipedia milestone announcements
Wikizine – news letter about the Wikimedia projects
Press releases
Stats
Milestones
Regional notice boards
Goings-on
Dashboard
Administrator nominations
List of administrators
Administration FAQ
Administrator's reading list
Bureaucrats
Elections
Meta
Fix cut & paste moves
Page protection
Wikipedians: the people who contribute to Wikipedia
List of Wikipedians
WikiProjects: where people interested in specific topics work together
List of WikiProjects
WikiProjects category
Collaborations: Wikipedians focusing on one article for a set amount of time
List of collaborations
Wikipedia essays
User essays
Wikipedian humor
Bad jokes and other deleted nonsense
Department of Fun
Wikipediholism
Unusual articles
Editcountitis: a condition that can be fatal
Wikipedian games
Barnstars
Awards programs

More about Wikipedia

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Overview of Wikipedia (All about Wikipedia)
Category:Wikipedia
Category-based access to pages about Wikipedia
Another way to browse help topics
Category:Wikipedia how-to (a full list of help topics)

The wider community

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Meta – The site that organizes all Wikimedia projects.