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Alsee (talk) 00:41, 12 October 2014 (UTC) Free access subscriptions to high quality paywalled journals, newspaper archives, and online reference works are presently available for Wikipedia editors. For more information, see Wikipedia:TWL/Journals. NorthAmerica1000 11:29, 20 June 2014 (UTC) Projects seeking help Also consider posting WikiProject, Task Force, and Collaboration news at the Signpost's WikiProject Report page. WikiProjects and Task Forces The African football task force of WikiProject Football has just been created. Anyone with substantial knowledge on African football-related articles or anyone interested in African football is welcome to join! The Pop music WikiProject has just been launched. Anyone interested in any kind of pop music should join! Outlines What's going on with outlines: New outlines (please copyedit and expand): Outline of metaphysics Outline of Yukon Outlines being overhauled (your help is needed): Outline of Algeria (expansion) Outline of Sweden (expansion) Portal report The following portals are in need of attention/upkeep: Portal:Kyrgyzstan - Newly created portal. Portal:Trichy – Newly created portal. Portal:Space – the selected article excerpts were copied and pasted between 2006 and 2009. The leads of the corresponding articles have greatly improved since then. Portal:Thinking – "selected" sections need new material. Been the same for years. The following portals have interesting design features that you may find useful: Portal:Philosophy – cycles through 52 "Selected philosophers", one per week, automatically year after year. Portal:Arts – uses random generators to display random featured status selections. 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