Questions tagged [wikipedia]
Online encyclopedia that anyone can edit run by the Wikimedia Foundation.
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Cannot upload Wikipedia images: By design?
When I try to embed an image, a convenient way to do so is via the "landscape icon" in the edit UI. For at least some Wikipedia images, for example this one, I consistently get an error that ...
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Is it appropriate to ask a Stack Exchange question to generate or locate citations for a site like Wikipedia?
First, since this is meta, I am keeping the question somewhat broad about the topics in question to be more applicable, while trying to keep the scope fairly narrow for the essence of the specific ...
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Wikipedia community
Has a Ask Wikipedia community ever been considered to discuss Wikipedia's rules and policy outside of Wikipedia? If yes where can we find the discussions? It already exists on Wikipedia, of course. It'...
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Changing http to https and mobile links for Wikipedia
Many old posts with links to Wikipedia articles contain http rather than https links. As far as I can tell, it is better to have https link rather than http. (After all, internal links have been ...
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A clear policy regarding links to Wikipedia vs. Wikiwand or m.wikipedia.org?
Most people who link to Wikipedia on Stack Exchange sites do so with the regular en.wikipedia.org links, but occasionally you also find www.wikiwand.com/en or en.m.wikipedia.org versions – which have ...
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Can I include material from Wikipedia in a Stack Exchange post?
Now that Stack is on CC BY-SA 4.0, is it possible to include material from Wikipedia, which still uses CC BY-SA 3.0? I have no desire to be a lawyer, but I'm given to understand that the two licenses ...
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Beautify Wikipedia links [duplicate]
There is some support on SE for rewriting links to a question with the question title; for instance, if I add a bare link of the form https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/49433/replace-trilogy-raw-...
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Creating Wikipedia User boxes for Stack Exchange Websites
Wikipedia has a feature called Userboxes which are used in user pages on it to provide stylized information about the user. There are many many types of userboxes, describing interests, achievements, ...
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What's the best way to quote Wikipedia in SE?
Ideally I'd like to have SE recreate the formatting in Wikipedia, with footnotes and all. Any way of doing this, either by copying the source markdown, or — even better! — the RTF directly from the ...
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How does OneBox decide which image to pull out of Wikipedia article? [duplicate]
I posted a oneboxed Wikipedia link in chat, and the image picked was seemingly a random image from the article.
It wasn't the first image in source HTML
it wasn't the first image in rendered HTML
it ...
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Stack Exchange is not in the "List of virtual communities with more than 1 million users" (Wikipedia) [closed]
Apparently, the Stack Exchange community is not cited in the Wikipedia article "List of virtual communities with more than 1 million users".
Is there a special reason for that or should it ...
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Could there be a Wikipedia Stack Exchange site?
Sometimes I'm editing on Wikipedia. Since I'm very new, I still have a lot of problems. It's hard for my to find information about editing on Wikipedia.
I would like a Wikipedia Stack Exchange site, ...
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Has any work been done, or are there plans for work, which integrates Stack Exchange with Wikipedia?
I have little in mind right now in terms of specifics, though an example might be for each to offer search results for the other in their respective local searches (perhaps in a sidebar).
I feel that ...
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How do we cite Stack Exchange on Wikipedia?
Wikipedia has a citation template for citing references. I've been using something like:
<ref name="StackOverflow">{{cite web|url=http://stackoverflow.com/q/31387778
|title=Near constant ...
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Add features to watch clips (on Wikipedia)
I read this question and in the comment there is a link to this wiki page, which has a clip on that. I cannot watch it inside the app. I use iPad2.
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