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ANYONE COULD HAVE TYPED ANYTHING HERE THAT THEY WANTED. THE CHANGES SHOULD HAVE TO BE APPROVED BEFORE THEY GO UP. -a concerned visitor Wikipedia is both an encyclopedia and a wiki community. You can edit and create articles on Wikipedia right now. Learn how to contribute with the tutorial (or just play around in our sandbox). For more information, post comments at the Village Pump, read the Help directory and our policies, contact other Wikipedians, and keep track of what's going on. If you haven't already, you may want to create an account (why?). Get involved Directory FAQ
Things you can do 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 Mayra Alejandra Aljoscha Pause Business process modeling Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action Sikhism More... • Learn how Fix wikilinks WFFF-TV Max Fishman Horse tongue Geriatric horse Equestrianism in Qatar More... • Learn how Update with new information The Crown of India Digital signage Cheepurupalli Assembly constituency Education in Chad Barber Greene More... • Learn how Expand short articles McCreary station Thompson station (Manitoba) Gustave-Henri Jossot Juan Esteban Pérez Daza Lin Jue More... • Learn how Check and add references Ashley Banjo Rongpur II Raymond A. Litke Districts of Bhutan Southern Rhodesia African National Congress More... • Learn how Fix original research issues Santa Fe Railroad tugboats The Reverberator Miss Perú 2004 Justin Mortelliti The Fleshtones More... • Learn how Improve lead sections Ivanhoe Bert Freed Calvary at Tronoën John Bennett (actor) Lyman J. Gage More... • Learn how Add an image Lions Bay Linagpang Linden railway station, Wellington Lotus River Large White Italiana More... • Learn how Translate and clean up Bravery Order Power spot (spirituality) Timeline of the Front de libération du Québec Zella-Mehlis Taaghche More... • Learn how Help counter systemic bias by creating new articles on important women. Help improve popular pages, especially those of low quality.	Collaboration of the week Want to contribute? Help edit Culture of Spain, Wikipedia's current Collaboration of the week! Please help to improve it to featured article standard. Snippet from the article: Art Picasso - Guernica Goya El Greco Salvador Dalí Velásquez You can still help with last week's article African Union (see how it improved), look at previous collaborations, or help pick next week's article.
Get involved Help to add copyright tags to the list of untagged images. Upcoming Wikipedia meetups in Seattle. See the Chicago notes. Goings-on in the Wikipedia universe Hot Discussions: How can we improve the Cleanup process?, Should a third page for handling deletions be added? Wikipedia is looking for Copyeditors, Proofreaders, and Translators to help improve quality and coverage. Opinion Survey: How should a neutral presentation of Project for the New American Century be written? Nooks and corners of Wikipedia Try Wikifun for trivia and to test your Wikiskills	Tip of the day Tip of the day... Edit summaries Help others keep track of what is happening to a page by filling in the edit summary. Abbreviations may bewilder newcomers and old-timers alike. The Wikipedia system will help you make repetitive summaries: It keeps track of what you have written previously in your summaries, so you can type just a few characters, then choose from a popup menu for ease of completion. Prior tip – Tips library – Next tip Read more: Proofreading   Copy editing   Edit summary legend   Become a Wikipedia tipster To add this auto-updating template to your user page, use {{totd}}
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