Wikipedia:Request directory

The following is a list of interactive forums and inquiry pages for English Wikipedia. Please select the noticeboard or request page most closely connected to the query you have as described below.

For a listing of ongoing discussions and current requests, see the dashboard. For other useful directories and indexes, see the directory page.

Assistance with editing

General knowledge questions

• Reference desks – provides a central compilation of the boards as listed below where you can ask questions about any topic except Wikipedia itself. The editors there will try to answer your questions, or point you in the direction of the information you need.
  • Computing – to ask about computing, information technology, electronics, software and hardware.
  • Entertainment – to ask about sports, popular culture, movies, music, video games, and TV shows.
  • Humanities – to ask about history, politics, literature, religion, philosophy, law, finance, economics, art, and society.
  • Language – to ask about spelling, grammar, word etymology, language usage, and translations.
  • Mathematics – to ask about mathematics, geometry, probability, and statistics.
  • Science – to ask about biology, chemistry, physics, medicine, geology, engineering and technology.
  • (Miscellaneous) – to ask about anything that is not listed above.

Content related

User accounts and user rights related

• Requesting an account – a place where users who cannot create an account themselves may request an account be created for them.
• Renaming your account – a place where users may request an account renaming.
  • Usurping another account – a place where users may request to take over a dormant username.
• User permissions – a page for requesting rollback, reviewer, file mover, account creator, confirmed, and autopatrolled rights.

Dispute related

• Dispute resolution – provides a central compilation of the boards as listed below to help resolve conflicts.
  • Third opinion – for disputes between two editors to receive an outside opinion.
  • Requests for comment – the place to go to get outside input on issues from a broad number of users.
  • Dispute resolution noticeboard – used as a "first step" in solving content issues.
  • Arbitration – the "last resort" for conduct issues when all other avenues are exhausted, issues binding rulings.
• Noticeboards – Wikipedia noticeboards are pages where editors can ask questions and request assistance from people who are familiar with the policies and guidelines covered by each individual board.
  • AI misuse – for reports of violations of the AI policy
  • Conflict of interest – for determining whether a specific editor has a conflict of interest.
  • External links – reporting possible breaches of the external links policy.
  • Neutrality – for reporting issues regarding whether article content is compliant with the Neutral Point of View policy.
  • Original research – for requesting input on possible problems of original research.
  • Sources – for posting questions regarding whether particular sources are reliable in context.

Disruptive editing

• Administrators – for posting information and issues that affect administrators.
  • Edit warring – for reporting active edit warriors and recent violations of the three-revert rule.
  • Incidents – for reporting and discussing incidents that require the intervention of administrators and experienced editors.
  • Vandalism – for reporting about obvious and persistent vandals and spammers.

Technical and procedural

• Village pump – main directory divided into boards by topic as seen below, to discuss the technical issues, policies, and operations of Wikipedia.
  • Policy – to discuss changes to existing and proposed policies.
  • Proposals – to discuss new proposals that are not policy-related.
  • Technical – to discuss technical issues. For bug reports and feature requests of MediaWiki, please use phabricator.wikimedia.org
  • Idea lab – to discuss ideas before proposing them to the community and attempt to find solutions to common issues.
  • Miscellaneous – to post messages that do not fit into any other categories listed above.
• Lua requests – a page to request help from Lua developers in writing a Lua module.
• Database query – a page to request database queries for certain criteria.

Administration related

• Adminship – a page that explains how to apply to become an administrator.
• Nomination – a page that explains how to get help with the administrator application process.
• Administrator attention – a listing of all the pages where administrators can be made aware of ongoing problems.
• Active sanctions – a page lists the currently active sanctions imposed through the arbitration process.
• CheckUser – a page that explains how to get help with users using multiple accounts.
• Oversight – a page for urgent, enhanced deletion process for removing edits that breach privacy or defame somebody.
• Page protection – a page for asking for article protection.
• Undeletion – a page that describes the process for restoring pages or files that were uncontroversially deleted via proposed deletion.

Special services

In addition to the pages listed above alternative interactive help services are available as described below.

• Ask for help on your talk page and a volunteer will visit you there. Or place {{Help me}} then your question on a talk page, preferably your talk page, a volunteer will assist you there! (Helpers can find you at Category:Wikipedians looking for help.)
• If your help request specifically requires administrator assistance, use the {{Admin help}} template on a talk page. (Administrators can find you at Wikipedians looking for help from administrators.)
• You can join the Wikipedia Community Discord server for live assistance.
• You can join the #wikipedia-en-help IRC chat room for live assistance.
• Adopt-a-User is where you can find experienced editors that "adopt" new users and mentor them.
• Contact Wikipedia is a page that describes how and where to contact Wikipedia directly for a variety of reasons.