Wikipedia:Community portal

Community Portal Welcome to the Community Portal. This is the place to find out what's happening on Wikipedia. Learn what tasks need to be done, what groups there are to join, and get or post news about recent events or current activities taking place on Wikipedia. Contents: 1 Community bulletin board 2 Help out 3 Collaborations 4 Guidelines, help, and resources You might be looking for... Help with an aspect of Wikipedia: see the help page for documentation, or ask a question for assistance. Answers for questions about factual topics: please visit Wikipedia's reference desk. A place to discuss things with other users: the village pump is Wikipedia's main discussion forum, with sections covering policy, technical, proposals, assistance, and miscellaneous topics. A place to resolve disputes: for content disputes, follow the guidelines on this page.

Community bulletin board Post your Wikipedia-related news and announcements here!

How to add to the community bulletin board Welcome to the community bulletin board, which is a page used for announcements from WikiProjects and other groups. Included here are coordinated efforts, events, projects, and other general announcements. Dashboard News Task Center Goings-on Meetups In the media Mailing lists Events and projects [add] Yearly or infrequent events WikiProject Unreferenced articles is holding a month-long Unreferenced articles backlog drive beginning 1 November 2024, 00:00 (UTC). The 2024 Developing Countries WikiContest is an editing competition with a focus towards developing countries. It will begin on July 1st and signups will close on July 15th. Sign up now! Want to help good articles get better? Sign up for the October Good Article backlog drive! New and experienced reviewers welcome. Monthly or continuous events Monthly contest, WikiProject Military history. The contest department of the Military history WikiProject aims to motivate increased quality in military history articles by offering a form of friendly competition for project members making improvements to them. The primary contest available is a simple rolling competition that awards points for improving articles. The contest runs from the first to last day of each month. Guild of Copy Editors' editing drive. The November 2024 backlog drive is a one-month-long effort by the Guild of Copy Editors to reduce the backlog of articles that require copy editing: those carrying the {{copy edit}} tag (also {{awkward}}, {{copy edit section}}, {{inappropriate person}}, and {{copy edit inline}}, and their redirects) or are listed on the GOCE Requests page. It began on 1 November, 00:00 (UTC), and will end on 30 November, 23:59 (UTC). Wikipedia:WikiProject Women in Red 2024 Events: Recently completed: Women in STEM Geofocus: Islands I–P Women in archaeology New this month: Asian women Geofocus: Islands Q–Z Women in engineering Ongoing initiatives: #1day1woman Education Upcoming events: Ideas Meetups for November 2024 +/- London 210 November 10, 2024 (2024-11-10) US Mountain West online November 12, 2024 (2024-11-12) Wiki Uff da! - Event 2 November 14, 2024 (2024-11-14) Oxford 106 November 17, 2024 (2024-11-17) San Diego 116 November 18, 2024 (2024-11-18) Seattle meetup November 19, 2024 (2024-11-19) Wiki Uff da! - Event 3 November 20, 2024 (2024-11-20) WikiCon Australia 2024 November 23, 2024 (2024-11-23) BLT Office Hours November 24, 2024 (2024-11-24) Meetups for December 2024 +/- Christchurch 34 December 1, 2024 (2024-12-01) London 211 December 8, 2024 (2024-12-08) WikiProject notices [add] Also consider posting WikiProject, Task Force, and Collaboration news at The Signpost's WikiProject Report page. Please include your signature when adding a listing here. WikiProject Outlines news: New outlines: Outline of Leeds Outline of Glasgow Outline of the Kennedy family Another outline has made it to Featured List status: Outline of the Marvel Cinematic Universe The following outline covers an ongoing situation, please help keep it updated: Outline of the Russo-Ukrainian War Outline drafts recently moved to article space (thank you!): Outline of dyslexia Outline drafts nearing completion include: Draft:Outline of Delhi Draft:Outline of George Washington The Outline of the week is Outline of ancient Egypt. Please help improve them. —The Transhumanist 00:36, 5 September 2024 (UTC) We're trying to revive Wikipedia:WikiProject Geocaching! If you're a Geocacher and want to improve the quality of the Geocaching related articles, sign up now! Lordseriouspig 20:12, 1 August 2024 (UTC) We are looking to revive Task Force Philippine History and are looking for interested editors! Sign-up now! NyanThousand (talk) 15:45, 28 July 2024 (UTC) WP Unreferenced articles is trying to clear the decades-long backlog of unreferenced articles. The backlog recently reached under 90,000. Come contribute! — PerfectSoundWhatever (t; c) 17:04, 4 July 2024 (UTC) WikiProject Bendigo is currently seeking interested editors to join the project. Lotsw73 (talk) 05:03, 30 January 2024 (UTC) Technical news Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available. Updates for editors Later in November, the Charts extension will be deployed to the test wikis in order to help identify and fix any issue. A security review is underway to then enable deployment to pilot wikis for broader testing. You can read the October project update and see the latest documentation and examples on Beta Wikipedia. View all 32 community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week. For example, Pediapress.com, an external service that creates books from Wikipedia, can now use Wikimedia Maps to include existing pre-rendered infobox map images in their printed books on Wikipedia. [1] Updates for technical contributors Wikis can use the Guided Tour extension to help newcomers understand how to edit. The Guided Tours extension now works with dark mode. Guided Tour maintainers can check their tours to see that nothing looks odd. They can also set emitTransitionOnStep to true to fix an old bug. They can use the new flag allowAutomaticBack to avoid back-buttons they don't want. [2] Administrators in the Wikimedia projects who use the Nuke Extension will notice that mass deletions done with this tool have the "Nuke" tag. This change will make reviewing and analyzing deletions performed with the tool easier. [3] Tech news prepared by Tech News writers and posted by bot • Contribute • Translate • Get help • Give feedback • Subscribe or unsubscribe. Requests for comment Discussions in the following areas have requested wider attention via Requests for comment: Biographies Economy and trade History and geography Language and linguistics Media, the arts, and architecture Politics, government, and law Religion and philosophy Science and mathematics Society, sports, and culture Wikipedia policies and guidelines Wikipedia style and naming WikiProjects and collaborations Wikipedia technical issues and templates Wikipedia proposals Unsorted General notices A request for adminship is open for discussion. Eligible users are invited to submit a candidacy for the Arbitration Committee elections at the elections page. Sign up here for the month-long Guild of Copy Editors' November copy-editing drive. Have fun, improve articles, and earn barnstars! A request for adminship is open for discussion. Should recall petitions be limited to signatures only? Nominations for the Arbitration Committee elections Should the length of a recall petition be shortened? Striking others' comments from archives Amending/Abolishing the "In the news" main page column

Help out Wikipedia is, by number of articles, the largest encyclopedia ever to exist. However, many articles are stubs, or otherwise need attention. If you like, go ahead, be bold, and jump right in. If you aren't ready to fly solo, you can participate in a Collaboration.

Things to do Respond to a request for comment, Wikiquette alert or provide a third opinion. Adopt a basic topic list, to help develop and maintain a table of contents to a major subject on Wikipedia. Give a requested editor review. Can you draw or take pictures? Make a requested image. Peer review or give feedback on some articles. Make recommendations on articles listed at Good article review. Respond to the Reward board or Bounty board. Are you good at photo editing? Then try cleaning up some of these images, or helping out at the Graphics Lab. Can you use GIS tools? Help make requested maps. Can you communicate in another language? There are articles that need translation into English. You can also proofread a translation. Let SuggestBot suggest pages for you to improve. Update pages with old (ref or note template) citations to the new references format. Patrol new pages and help improving new articles. Visit the Award Center and take the challenge of improving an article. Fix-up projects Article categorization Bad category names Category needs checking Core topics needing cleanup Dead-end pages Disambig pages with links Elements of Style External links League of Copyeditors Linkrot Notability Missing articles Most wanted articles Most wanted stubs Name disambiguation Stub sorting Transwiki log cleanup Typos Unreferenced articles Untagged images Articles written by a single editor

You can help improve the articles listed below! This list updates frequently, so check back here for more tasks to try. (See Wikipedia:Maintenance or the Task Center for further information.) Fix spelling and grammar Eutiquio Boyles Super (2010 Indian film) Oleh Syzon Tenés Empanadas Graciela TrueVisions More... • Learn how Fix wikilinks Warez scene Miryang National symbols of North Korea Tyrannicide WFFF-TV More... • Learn how Update with new information Honor and Rights Convention Museum Tower (Charlotte) World Vasectomy Day Mongolians in the United Kingdom El Hedi Belameiri More... • Learn how Expand short articles Trinity (2003 film) Trooper Clerks Disparaît, v The Jedi Hunter Captain Eager and the Mark of Voth More... • Learn how Check and add references Alain Chartier Joly de Lotbiniere Definitions of abortion Bruce Springsteen List of people from Atlanta Sexual and gender-based violence in the 7 October Hamas-led attack on Israel More... • Learn how Fix original research issues Fort Jay Études Sans Frontières International Alive 1997 Public policy doctrine Kris Aquino filmography More... • Learn how Improve lead sections Samuel D. Ingham Eastern esotericism Bovid hybrid Climate of Little Rock, Arkansas Susan Werner More... • Learn how Add an image Malta Fairs & Conventions Centre Meenkara Dam Meadows Archeological District Madonna University, Nigeria Margate, Tasmania More... • Learn how Translate and clean up Gaetano Saya Ferdinando Marinelli Artistic Foundry Alsterhaus Álvaro Uribe Nicholas Rogers (actor) More... • Learn how Help counter systemic bias by creating new articles on important women. Help improve popular pages, especially those of low quality. Not sure where to report a certain type of problem with article content? If it exists, it's probably listed at Wikipedia:Maintenance.

Collaborations To improve the quality of articles that are short or lacking in detail, Wikipedia's community organizes collaborations to expand articles.

Core topics collaboration The Amazon River flowing through the rainforest The Core Topics Collaboration works to improve essential Wikipedia topics. The current collaboration is Amazon rainforest. The Amazon Rainforest (Brazilian Portuguese: Floresta Amazônica or Amazônia; Spanish: Selva Amazónica or Amazonía) is a moist broadleaf forest in the Amazon Basin of South America. The area, also known as Amazonia, the Amazon jungle or the Amazon Basin, encompasses seven million square kilometers (1.7 billion acres), though the forest itself occupies some 5.5 million square kilometers (1.4 billion acres), located within nine nations: Brazil (with 60 percent of the rainforest), Peru (with 13 percent of the rainforest, second after Brazil), Colombia, Venezuela, Ecuador, Bolivia, Guyana, Suriname, and French Guiana. States or departments in four nations bear the name Amazonas after it. The Amazon represents over half of the planet's remaining rainforests and comprises the largest and most species-rich tract of tropical rainforest in the world. You can help pick the next Core Topic collaboration article. Other collaborations Active improvement teams Countering systemic bias Encyclopedic Standards Version 1.0 Cleanup Taskforce Spam fighting team Categorization projects Maintenance Help clear up the backlog of articles to be merged! Merging is the process combining two (or sometimes more) articles into a new article, or adding the content of one article to another. You'll need to be familiar with the associated templates. Before you begin, you need to know the details of merging and moving pages. After you read that, you're ready to begin consolidating and improving articles! WikiProjects WikiProjects are ongoing team efforts to improve articles having to do with a particular subject, and to manage the logistics of that topic. Hundreds exist — examine the master list to find one that interests you. They are separate from, though may work with, Collaborations. Language translation Wikipedia is not just in English! Versions exist in many different languages. To fill in some of the English Wikipedia's gaps, we translate articles from other languages into English. You can view a list of articles that need translation from any language, or, in a few cases, by only one language (this is only available for the more popular languages).

Guidelines, help, and resources Wikipedia has many help pages, policies, and departments. Here are some of the most general. For a comprehensive list of Wikipedia's departments, see the Wikipedia department directory.

Help Wikipedia help - Browse help pages Where to ask questions Editing The Manual of Style guidelines and tutorial How to edit a page Contributing How to write a great article Where to find information for articles A list of template messages What special pages are Tools for editing Request newspapers or magazines Policies and guidelines Wikipedia has many established policies, guidelines, conventions, and traditions. This is a very brief sampling of some of the most important; for more information, see the main policies and guidelines page. Policies and guidelines apply both to articles and how to work with fellow editors. For easy access, the shortcuts to the pages are also listed. Article standards Be bold! WP:BB • WP:BOLD Citing sources WP:CITE • WP:REF Copyrights WP:C Editing WP:EP External links WP:EL Image use WP:IUP Include only verifiable information WP:V Manual of Style WP:MOS • WP:STYLE Neutral point of view WP:NPOV What Wikipedia is not WP:WWIN • WP:NOT Working with others Assume good faith WP:AGF • WP:FAITH Avoid instruction creep WP:CREEP Civility and etiquette WP:CIV • WP:EQ Consensus WP:CON Don't bite the newcomers WP:BITE Don't disrupt Wikipedia to illustrate a point WP:POINT No personal attacks WP:NPA • WP:ATTACK Resolving disputes WP:DR Vandalism WP:VAND

Resources New user information Introduction · Sandbox · Help · Adoption · What Wikipedia is not · Glossary · Account benefits · Planning school assignments Ways to communicate Contact (overview) · Discussion pages · Mailing lists · IRC chat · Meetups · User pages · Requests for comment · Public watchlists · Regional notice boards · Administrators' noticeboard · Requests for article feedback · Local Embassy Community support groups and programs Welcoming committee · Editor assistance · Wiki-adoption · Birthday Committee · Harmonious editing club · Kindness Campaign · Reach out · Stress alerts · Wikipedia awards program · Dept. of Fun · One featured article per quarter · Missing encyclopedic articles Common procedures Featured content · Good articles · Requests for feedback · Deleting a page (full policy) · Moving a page (naming policies) · Protecting a page (full policy) · Reverting a page · Administrator nominations (summaries) · Category-based access How to resolve conflicts Stay cool! · Be nice to newcomers · Alert others · Dispute resolution · Arbitration policy Community information About Wikipedia · Goings-on · About Wikimedia · Wikipedians · Wiki-adoption · Donations · Administrators · Babel · Culture · Games · Humor · Mottoes Related communities Here is a list of the main community pages of Wikipedia's sister projects. All of these projects are multilingual and open-content. Meta-Wiki – Coordination of all Wikimedia projects. Wiktionary – A collaborative multilingual dictionary. Wikinews – News stories written by readers. Wikibooks – A collection of collaborative non-fiction books. Wikiquote – A compendium of referenced quotations. Wikisource – A repository for free source texts. Wikispecies – A directory of species. Wikiversity – Where teachers learn, and learners teach. Wikivoyage – A world-wide travel guide. Wikidata – A free knowledge base that can be read and edited by humans and machines alike. Commons – Repository for free images and other media files. Tip of the day Help reduce the Wikipedia backlog There are many tasks that need to be done to maintain Wikipedia, from fixing typos, to adding citations, to finding archived versions of dead external links‍—‌and many many more. There is a tremendous backlog on all the types of improvements, which can be found on Wikipedia's backlog page. Please help! Prior tip – Tips library – Next tip Read more: Category:Wikipedia backlog   All tips   Become a Wikipedia tipster To add this auto-updating template to your user page, use {{tip of the day with h3 heading}}