Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
Wikipedia has no central editorial board. Contributions are made by a large number of volunteers at their own discretion. Edits are neither the responsibility of the Wikimedia Foundation (the organisation that hosts the site) nor of its staff and edits will not generally be made in response to an email request.
Remove administrator status from someone. This is done by bureaucrats or stewards, and only on the request of the Arbitration Committee or by request of the administrator. Query the Wikipedia database. Ask at Wikipedia:SQL query requests, or download the database and run them yourself. Reassign edits or make name changes.
Write in English, not in any other language. Pay attention to grammar, syntax and orthography.Do not write in ALL CAPS or in all lowercase. Form full sentences and use standard punctuation.
If you are not an English Wikipedia administrator, you can ping Oshwah to have him remove the user right for you. Otherwise, if he is unavailable, you must contact an English Wikipedia administrator to have them remove the user right. First, look for a tool admin sysop on IRC and ping them in the #wikipedia-en-accounts-admins channel for help.
Join the #wikipedia-en-help IRC channel for real-time chat. Contact Wikipedia – is a page that describes how and where to contact Wikipedia directly for a variety of reasons. Community standards and advice
Try things out in Wikipedia's sandbox to learn how "Wiki-coding" works. Have fun. Do what you enjoy and what you are good at. All of us, of whatever age, work on Wikipedia because we like spending our free time doing it. So if you enjoy finding spelling mistakes and fixing them, do that; if you enjoy removing vandal edits and reporting vandals ...
If you plan to be active in open source projects like Wikipedia, you will probably run into situations when you need to ask for help. Learning how to ask for help provides a skill that will serve you as long as you use computers. An excellent introduction is: How to Ask Questions the Smart Way, [1] by Eric S. Raymond and Rick Moen. They explain ...
Do not provide your email address or any other contact information. Answers will be provided on this page only. If your question is about a Wikipedia article, draft article, or other page on Wikipedia, tell us what it is! Check back on this page to see if your question has been answered. For real-time help, use our IRC help channel, #wikipedia ...