Robert Daoust

I am interested in everything about "Suffering". I advocate the creation of algonomy, a new domain of work concerned extensively and exclusively with the knowledge and management of suffering. Hopefully, the project of algonomy will benefit from Wikipedia as a very busy knowledge place, and reciprocally Wikipedia will benefit from algonomy's encyclopedic viewpoint on suffering.

You may send me a message through email at mailto:[email protected], or by using the discussion tab here above.

Personal page : http://robert.algosphere.org

Algosphere page : http://algosphere.org

Wikipedia technical references

Search Wikipedia with Google

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Search?search=qowerioe&go=Go (Search in namespaces)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:John_Broughton/Editor%27s_Index_to_Wikipedia

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Glossary

Automatic bibliographic info filling

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Citation_bot

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Template_messages

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Edit_summary_legend

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:Archiving_a_talk_page

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_User_scripts/Scripts

Tip of the moment...

Super-customize your account with gadgets

Add abilities to your account in the form of "gadgets", programs that you can activate from the Gadgets tab in Preferences.

Gadgets range from very simple to extensive. Some of the most powerful gadgets are:

Navigation popups – preview a page by hovering mouse pointer over the link to it. It is recursive: also preview within previews.
Twinkle – multi-purpose tool to report vandalism, warn vandals, request deletion, welcome users, tag articles, and more.
wikEd – a full-featured wiki-editor that replaces Wikipedia's default editor.
Sidebar menu of custom templates and scripts.
Responsive Content – enhance browsing experience of content on narrow and wide screen formats.

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Wikipedia edition

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:Contents/Editing_Wikipedia

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:Wikitext_examples

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Cheatsheet

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Editing_FAQ

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Manual_of_Style

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:The_perfect_article

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Verifiability

Wikipedia stats (thanks to User:Sadads)

Want some statistics

Wikipedia article traffic statistics

how many people are watching

watch the people currently editing wikipedia

keeping track of project bannered pages

linking to more stuff

How bout DAB?

Want to do analysis on stats.grok.se data

category tree views

view trends:whats hot and whats not

Interested what links are coming to your pages?

non-awb list comparer

Deorphan articles

Wikipedia navigation

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Department_directory

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:Contents/Site_map

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:Contents/Editing_Wikipedia

Wikipedia in general

All you want to know on Wikipedia

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Citing_Wikipedia

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Why_Wikipedia_is_not_so_great

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Wikipedians

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedians

Wikipedia administration

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Wikipedia_administration

Where to post requests

Requests for administrator assistance: Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard
Requests for adminship
Requests for arbitration
Requested articles
Requests for bureaucratship
Requests for comment
Requests for de-adminship
Requests for feedback
Requests for expansion
Requests for help: Wikipedia:Help desk
Requests for investigation
Requests for mediation
Requested moves
Requests for page protection
Requested pictures
Requests for research assistance: Wikipedia:Reference Desk
Requested sounds

Finding relevant articles

(N.B.: for help in accessing proprietary articles, or other kinds of help in dealing with resources, see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Resource_Exchange)

There are several ways to find and retrieve articles online, without having to leave home. Google Scholar is an excellent source for finding sometimes free online peer reviewed articles; note that the free articles' entries are quickly identifiable for having a "View as HTML" link in the result page.

Many libraries have agreements with database providers under which library users with current library cards can connect for free to the databases from their home computers — that is, the users do not need to be physically present in the library. Check with your local public or academic library to find out which databases it subscribes to, and whether they have a mechanism in place for remote access. Some high-end databases (like InfoTrac and ProQuest) even carry scanned versions of articles as they were originally printed.

Examples of comprehensive general interest databases that may be available through your local library are:

EBSCO - Full academic version (Academic Search Premier) has full text of millions of articles from over 4,600 sources. Full public library version (MasterFILE Premier) has full text coverage of about 2,100 sources.
Infotrac - OneFile database has full text of about 50 million articles from 1980 to the present. Widely available at academic and public libraries throughout North America. Operated by Thomson Gale (formerly Gale Group), a subsidiary of the Thomson Corporation.
JSTOR - Has full text of articles from several hundred scholarly journals from their beginning to approximately five years ago. Operated by a consortium of universities. They include most of the "high prestige" journals in the humanities, social sciences and natural sciences.
LexisNexis - Full version (mostly accessed by lawyers and journalists) has millions of full-text articles (from magazines, journals, and newspapers), court opinions, statutes, treatises, transcripts, public records, and more. Academic version (available at many universities) offers large subsets of the legal and news databases.
ProQuest - Full version (ProQuest 5000) has full text of millions of articles from 7,400 sources as far back as 1971. The ProQuest Historical Newspapers database has images in PDF format of all issues of the New York Times published between 1851 and 2001. Most libraries offer access to only part of the huge ProQuest database, through account types like eLibrary, Platinum, Silver, Gold, or Discovery.
Questia Online Library allows full-text search and reading access to all 64,000+ books and 1,000,000+ journal, magazine, and newspaper articles in their collection. Their strength is full text of recent academic books by major publishers such as Oxford University Press, University of North Carolina Press, and Greenwood Press, along with thousands of older academic books that are available only in larger university libraries. Unlike most other online services they offer short-term individual subscriptions for students and researchers.

Academic libraries often subscribe to special interest databases with in-depth coverage, of which there are far too many to list here.