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Frequently Asked Questions

From EverybodyWiki Bios & Wiki
See also our tutorials

Please read this page before sending us any message or emails





Articles

Promotional phrasing that uses the first-person plural. Customer-focused promotional style. Content saying your company is the best...

This kind of content will be removed automatically.

You can use the Contribution Center, which will accompany you step by step to create your article.

How can I create my Biography?[edit]

You can use the Contribution Center part Biography. It will accompany you step by step to create your article.

Do not create your biography in your page "User:Username".

This page is meant to quickly explain what you do, and who you are, but not to write an entire biography.

⚠ EverybodyWiki do not edit articles for you ⚠

Anyone with an Everybodywiki account can edit any article.

However,you can protect the pages you created against edition. Only the creator of the page and an admin can protect a page. Ask an admin to protect the page if needed, see list of admin here.

If a page is vandalized it may be write-protected temporarily. And the account of the person causing the vandalism can be blocked.

  1. Go on the page you want to protect
  2. Click on "Protect"
  3. By default, all users can edit the page, there is three options :
    • Protect from non-authors : If you want to be the only editor of the page
    • Allow autoconfirmed users : If you want to allow all mail confirmed users
    • Allow only administrator : If you want nobody, ⚠ including yourself ⚠, to edit the page
  4. Click on "Confirm"

If you can't protect an article, it is because you are not its author on EverybodyWiki.
If you really want to protect it, you can create a new article with a different name, copy/paste its content, and ask us to delete the old one, folowing the deletion procedure below 👇

Folow the same steps as written above 🔼, but click on "Change Protection" instead.

If you can't click on that, please contact us and prove that you are the owner of the page by folowing the same steps as written in the deletion process.

If the page is not yours, you can write the {{edit request}} on the discussion page.

List of pages with pending edit requests

⚠ EverybodyWiki do not edit articles for you ⚠

EveryBodyWiki uses the same tool as Wikipedia (Visual Editor) to easily edit pages.

  1. Log in / Create Account
  2. Go to the article you want to edit
  3. Click on "Edit"
  4. Edit what you want to
  5. Click on "Save Changes"

If you can't edit an article, it is because you are not its author on EverybodyWiki.
If you really want to edit it, you can create a new article with a different name, copy/paste its content, and ask us to delete the old one, folowing the deletion procedure below 👇

To do that you have to move the article.

Please see the question right below. 👇

Only users that belongs to Admin and Wikeeper groups can move a page to change its title.

As an EverybodyWiki user, you can create a new page and make a manual redirect to the new one.

For example if you want to redirect "Page A" to "Page B" :

  1. Create the "Page B"
  2. Delete all the content of "Page A"
  3. Write this in the "Page A" content #redirect [[Page_B]].


If you really want to rename a page, please enter the name of the page you want to rename on this page.

If you can't edit or protect an article, it is because you are not its author on EverybodyWiki.
If you really want to edit/protect it, you can create a new article with a different name, copy/paste its content, and ask us to delete the old one, folowing the deletion procedure below 👇

Unfortunately, EverybodyWiki staff don't post any content for you.

You can do it by folowing the steps listed in the "How to create an article ?" in the Articles section of the FAQ, right above. ☝.

We do not have any links with any company. But you can find writers on www.upwork.com.

Content must be Original and Licence CC-BY-SA EverybodyWiki will apply.

How many external links are allowed?

The number of external links allowed depends on the size of the page, excluding social media and official website links.

External links are allowed every 5000 letters.

Will you provide Do-Follow links ?

No, your links will be in "No follow".

Will articles be permanently published?

Yes. Except if the article infringes the copyright.

I want the post to be without a sponsored tag, is it possible ?

You can pay to show a link to your article on the main page. It will be highlighted on "Sponsored articles".

Are you interested into exchange links ?

Not for now.

Your web browser can have cached the pages.

  • To refresh the cacher, try to press :
    • Ctrl & F5 for Windows.
    • Cmd & F5 for Mac.
  • You can also try to click on "Refresh" in the page top menu.

Content deletion

Instead of deleting it, you can improve & correct an article after creating an account on Everybodywiki. Anyone present on our site can benefit from the right to be forgotten if they can prove their identity.

To get this done, please provide us link(s) to the concerned article(s), and prove that you are the concerned person (or that you're representing this person) by sending us an email / message :

From your official website (or the one of the person). Example : contact@yourofficialwebsite.com

OR

With the email adress of a known organization (like big company, university...) including your full name (or the one of the person).
(yourname@gmail.com, icloud or outlook, etc... IS NOT OK !).
Example : name-of-the-page-to-be-deleted@a-well-known-organisation.com

OR

A copy of your ID/passport (We advise you to hide unnecessary parts of the document, or to add a discreet watermark)

It is completely legal to copy the content of Wikipedia because its content is under CC BY SA license.

See this Wikipedia page for more informations.

See the licence page for more informations.

Moreover, our site has been checked by the Wikimedia foundation (owner of Wikipedia) who said that EverybodyWiki respected the CC BY SA license.

See this Wikipedia page for more informations.

Anyone present on our site can benefit from the right to be forgotten if they can prove their identity.

— WikiMaster, Online debate with EverybodyWiki hater

Estimated process duration after receiving all the needed information : ~ one week.

Google indexes pages with robots. These bots may take some time to see that a page has been deleted. If you would like to speed up the process, please contact Google Support.

The content like hoaxes, fake news... should not be deleted. But it should be clearly highlighted at the top of the article as so.

To display a message please insert the template {{Fake news}} or / and {{Db-hoax}} at the top of the article..

See the help page on how to add template

If the article is protected, please contact us and provide reliable proofs that this article is an hoaxe, fake news... Otherwise we will not be able to mark it as so.

Fake news :

This article present fake news or disinformation. Or it may be compromised by references to fake news or disinformation websites.

Please help this article by correcting his statements, or by looking for better and more reliable sources. Unreliable citations may be challenged or deleted.

See help page for inserting templates


Db-hoax :

The content of this article is totally or partially false. It could be a hoax, fake news or disinformation...

On everybodywiki these kind of pages are kept but should be highlighted as hoax article on including this template {{Db-hoax}} at the top of the article.

See help page for inserting templates


Accounts

As they are related to history, we can't delete any accounts on EverybodyWiki.

However, we can delete pages, and user pages too. Please folow the steps described in the "How to delete an article?" question, in the "Content deletion" part of the FAQ, right above. ☝

We can't send any lost paswords..

You were informed when creating an account that you had to enter a valid email address.

If you did so, you can use the password reset page to recover your password.

We will NOT send lost identifiers.

I can't access to my email account

If you want to continue using EverybodyWiki with a lost account, you can create a new one.

Then, you can copy / paste the content of your previous pages to new ones.

After that, you can ask us to delete the old ones. Please folow the steps described in the "How to delete an article?" question, in the "Content deletion" part of the FAQ, right above. ☝

We can't send any lost emails..

If you want to continue using EverybodyWiki with a lost account, you can create a new one.

Then, you can copy / paste the content of your previous pages to new ones.

After that, you can ask us to delete the old ones. Please folow the steps described in the "How to delete an article?" question, in the "Content deletion" part of the FAQ, right above. ☝

  1. Ensure you provided the right email adress while creating an account
  2. Check your SPAM folder
  3. Maybe your email adress provider is blocking @everybodywiki.com for whatever reason, try to contact it to solve the problem

You can't change your account name. If you really want to, you can still create a new one.

Search Engine Optimization

Be sure your article :

  • Folows the steps listed here
  • Is long enough (more than 100 words)
  • You can bold keyword
    • Don't stuff too many keywords, your article should remain clearly readable by visitors
    • Put this keywords in "alt" tag or pictures description.
  • Contains links from other articles (max 5) related to the same topic. The anchor of the link should contain the key words. The article could be from Everybodywiki or any other website. If the links are from outside websites they should not be in "nofollow" for a better result.
    • Don't put too many links at the same time and not from links farm.
    • Add existing relevant categories and portal on Everybodywiki and links to pages of the same categories will be displayed in the future.
  • Is updated with relevant information when needed.
  • Is unique. Don't create duplicate of your article, anyway search engine will display only one article on results page. A good position is better than 2 bad positions.

Need help from Everybodywiki team to improve the position of your article ? Add it on Search Engine Optimisation (SEO)

Add existing themes using the Portal template;

Example in wikicode : {{Portal | Theme1 | Theme2 | Theme3}} You can specify from 1 to 5 themes.

If your site or page is new, it might not be in Google's index because they haven't had a chance to crawl or index it yet. It takes some time after you post a new page before they crawl it, and more time after that to index it.

See the question "How do I know if my article has been indexed by Google?" right under to know if your article has been indexed 👇

You must write the URL of your article in the Google search bar with the mention "site:" before.

Exemple : site:en.everybodywiki.com/MY_PAGE

If it has not

Please send us the link to your page, and we will ask Google to do so.

EverybodyWiki

We do not have any other informations than what’s written on EverybodyWiki pages. Remember that everybodywiki does not write any articles unless specified.

On other applications like Microsoft Bing Rechercher, you can still find information about deleted pages.

If you want it removed, please contact the concerned application. We can't do much about it.

Go in Preferences > Gadgets > Appearance and untick the betterUX gadget.

EverybodyWiki uses a bot to correct pages.

If you don't want it to rewrite your page, insert Template:NobotCorrection in your page in WikiCode.

Maybe because WikiMasterBot2 is still reading a Wikipedia Draft.

See the question "Why did WikiMasterBot2 edit a page I already edited myself?" right under for mor informations 👇

Maybe because a page with the same name is currently in the "Articles for deletion" category or on the "Draft:" namespace on Wikipedia. In this case, the article has been automatically overwritten by WikiMasterBot2.

WikiMasterBot2 could make some minor changes periodically like replacing some text.

How can I prevent this ?[edit]

Add the template {{nobots}} at the bottom of the page. This will prevent the bot to edit your page.

See the help page on how to add a template.

See the user WikiMasterBot2 page.

See the Bugs and Features form.

It is useless to submit the same ticket multiple times.

Please check the Bugs and Features list before opening a new ticket

Here is what you can do to help the project :

  • Translate pages
  • Fix and report Technical_issues, Suggest features
  • Patrol newly created pages / uploaded files to :
    • Add Prevention Templates {{Fake news}} / {{Db-hoax}}
    • Notify (administrators) bad content so they can :
      • Add Prevention Templates {{Fake news}} / {{Db-hoax}} on protected pages
      • Delete bad content articles or Report it
    • Undo bad changes (troll, bad content, whitewashed good content pages...)
    • Giving tips to page builders in the talk page
    • Make minor changes to adjust :
      • Spelling mistakes
      • File problems
      • Infobox issues
      • Too big/small images
  • Do some search engine optimization for some articles/expression..
  • Clean new pages and improve existing ones.
  • Respond to comments on social media posts
  • Give advice / feedback on features to improve the website

Everything you do here will stay in the EverybodyWiki history. You could use that later if you want to try to join the team.

We don't look for it for now.

But if you want to help th project, you can see the question "How can I help the EverybodyWiki project?" right above ☝

Everything you do here will stay in the EverybodyWiki history. You could use that later if you want to try to join the team.

Yes, from April 24 2020, WikiMasterBot2 is removing duplicates with Wikipedia, replacing all the content by the template {{Kept in Wikipedia}} if it finds the same page on Wikipedia.

It will only delete pages that WikiMasterBot2 or WikiMasterBot has edited and that are still on Wikipedia (not as redirect or still marked for deletion).

If you don't want a page you have copied from Wikipedia to be deleted, add the template {{nobots}} at the bottom of the page. This will prevent the bot to edit your page.

If the content of a page was already replaced by {{Kept in WIkipedia}}, feel free to revert WIkiMasterBot2 edits and add the template {{nobots}} at the bottom of the page.

Your page will be deleted and your account will be parmanently banned.

I have a question missing from this FAQ, how can I ask it ?

  • Do not ask us to edit a page that you can edit yourself !
  • Do not ask us to delete content without a legal or good reason. Take care of Streisand effect.
  • Please warn us if you find any illegal / bad content on Everybodywiki. If so, please delete its content, write a reason in the summary and save.


Please double check if you are not talking with an impostor.
EverybodyWiki Team and Facilitators will NEVER ask for your password or personnal informations
(unless you want to delete a page, if so, send only through the contact means at the bottom of the FAQ).


Contact us :

Read the FAQ before sending us any message or emails
We will not reply to people who do not follow the procedures !


  • Do not use several options to contact us
  • We do not find lost identifiers (see Password Reset)


By clicking the blue square, you ensure that you have read the FAQ and that you contact the administrators for a good reason only 🟦

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