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Welcome to WikiProject Indexes (Indices), dedicated to providing resources and guidance for improving the development, organization and maintenance of indexes on Wikipedia. This page and its subpages contain suggestions and other resources; it is hoped that this project will help to focus the efforts of other Wikipedians interested in the work.
A descriptive list of Wikipedia's interactive noticeboards. Open letters An index of open letters written by the Wikipedia community on matters pertinent to Wikipedia community or Wikimedia Foundation. WikiProjects directory An index of WikiProjects by topics. (WikiProjects are groups of contributors who want to work together as a team to ...
Wikipedia indexes (or indices) are alphabetical list articles, consisting of lists of, in turn, the encyclopedic articles available on Wikipedia for any broad, general topic. Examples include: Index of Buddhism-related articles , Index of fishing articles , and Index of physics articles .
The biennial Index Award was initiated in 2005, and originally financed by the state of Denmark with a total prize sum worth €500,000. [12] [13] In 2005, it was the world's largest monetary award in its area, [14] [15] [16] and today is widely recognised as the most influential in inspiring life-improving design, [17] [18] [19] and has often been dubbed the "Nobel Prize of design".
Site news – Sources of news about Wikipedia and the broader Wikimedia movement. Teahouse – Ask basic questions about using or editing Wikipedia. Help desk – Ask questions about using or editing Wikipedia. Reference desk – Ask research questions about encyclopedic topics. Content portals – A unique way to navigate the encyclopedia.
Wikipedia began as a complementary project for Nupedia, a free online English-language encyclopedia project whose articles were written by experts and reviewed under a formal process. [20] It was founded on March 9, 2000, under the ownership of Bomis, a web portal company.
Wikipedia (along with its sister projects) has become one of the largest websites in the world using a model of love and co-operation that is still almost completely unknown to the wider world. But it is becoming known, for both its principles and achievements – because it is the principles that make the achievements possible.
Contrary to popular belief, not all information is available for free on the Internet. Some research is only published in scientific journals and books (ask your library for remote lending services); some material is available only in commercial, password-protected electronic databases .