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==Follow all rules== |
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[[Image:Wikipedia-logo.png|right|150px]] |
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[[Image:Wikimedia Foundation RGB logo with text.svg|right|150px]] |
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Welcome to Wikipedia! |
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If the rules prevent you from improving or maintaining Wikipedia's quality, then for crying out loud read them again. They're rules, you know, and you have to follow them. If they seem to be steering you wrong you're just not applying enough of them. The rules are never wrong. |
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You've reached www.wikipedia.com — but our main site is at http://www.wikipedia.org . |
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If someone tells you you have done the wrong thing and you have followed all the rules, they must be wrong. Go through their recent contribs and search for a rule they've broken. There's bound to be one or two, which are surely the source of all their confusion. Pointing this out will help steer them back on the right path. If this does not help, post it to the administrators' noticeboard with a heading like "rule violation by USER:"; and don't forget to suggest a punishment, immediate desysopping, or demotion. |
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Why? |
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Nothing can be done without process. I mean, you wouldn't drink milk without having it processed, would you? Then why on earth would you run an encyclopedia without it? |
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Wikipedia is not like any other website. Our mission is to enable everyone in the world to use and develop [[en:free content|free content]] educational materials. Wikipedia is run by the [[en:501(c)(3)|501(c)(3)]] not-for-profit [[foundation:Wikimedia Foundation|Wikimedia Foundation]]. We're not out to sell products or advertisements, and almost all of our support comes from donations from readers like you. |
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'''Please support Wikipedia by [[wikimedia:Fundraising|donating]], and help us achieve our goals: the world's best quality and most comprehensive encyclopedia, available to all the world's people in all the world's languages, for free access and free re-use.''' |
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[insert here boxes from [[foundation:Fundraising]]. nobody follows links to donate...] |
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If you want to read Wikipedia content, please go to [article URL]. |
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If you'd like to learn more about who we are, what we do, why we're different, and what we use the money for, please see these links: |
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(general about page, 10 things you didn't know, personal appeal, budget/financials/future plans, press coverage/awards, board/staff, more...) |
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Latest revision as of 04:16, 23 August 2020
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Welcome to Wikipedia!
You've reached www.wikipedia.com — but our main site is at http://www.wikipedia.org .
Why?
Wikipedia is not like any other website. Our mission is to enable everyone in the world to use and develop free content educational materials. Wikipedia is run by the 501(c)(3) not-for-profit Wikimedia Foundation. We're not out to sell products or advertisements, and almost all of our support comes from donations from readers like you.
Please support Wikipedia by donating, and help us achieve our goals: the world's best quality and most comprehensive encyclopedia, available to all the world's people in all the world's languages, for free access and free re-use.
[insert here boxes from foundation:Fundraising. nobody follows links to donate...]
If you want to read Wikipedia content, please go to [article URL].
If you'd like to learn more about who we are, what we do, why we're different, and what we use the money for, please see these links:
(general about page, 10 things you didn't know, personal appeal, budget/financials/future plans, press coverage/awards, board/staff, more...)