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Help desk Reference desk Village pump Peer editing help WikiProjects Barnstars Dispute resolution Help out You can help improve the articles listed below! This list updates frequently, so check back here for more tasks to try. Fix spelling and grammar Khemara (NGO) Unpublished and uncollected works by Stephen King J.A.K.Q. Dengekitai Kamen Rider: Climax Heroes Sethu Parvathi Bayi More... • Learn how Fix wikilinks Ministry of Administrative and Bureaucratic Reform (Indonesia) Solid line reporting Coloured Petri net American International School of Lusaka Victorian Commission for Gambling and Liquor Regulation More... • Learn how Update with new information Changping Railway Station (Beijing) Michel Enríquez Mikko Paananen Politics of Chile 15th MMC – Pleven More... • Learn how Expand short articles The Rifles (novel) According to Mary Magdalene Preacher's Boy Byrne: A Novel The Black Flower: A Novel of the Civil War More... • Learn how Check and add references George Ludford Benevolent dictator for life Varroa destructor HMAS Adelaide (L01) Bert Colima More... • Learn how Fix original research issues Gravity drag Dadheech Brahmins EMD SD70 series California Valley, California Charles II: The Power and The Passion More... • Learn how Improve lead sections 2005–06 Gretna F.C. season The Cold (Modern Family) Danny Wilson (band) Delores S. Williams Stars! More... • Learn how Add an image Viewbank, Victoria Wild Goose Pass Tree Xuân La, Tây Hồ Yu (wind instrument) Zoé (reactor) More... • Learn how Translate and clean up Maezaeis Dietmar Feichtinger 62nd Rocket Division Pentapartito Torrinha More... • Learn how Counter systemic bias by creating new articles on these missing highly cited female scientists. Community bulletin board 6 January 2016   News and notes: The WMF's age of discontent In the media: Impenetrable science; Jimmy Wales back in the UAE Arbitration report: Catflap08 and Hijiri88 case been decided Featured content: Featured menagerie Recent research: Teaching Wikipedia, Does advertising the gender gap help or hurt Wikipedia? WikiProject report: Try-ing to become informed - WikiProject Rugby League Technology report: Tech news in brief Single page Book Front page About Subscribe Suggestions Archives Centralized discussion New autopromoted group to implement ArbCom "30-500" protection Clerking at RfA Should Jimbo Wales be able to amend or grant appeals to ArbCom remedies? Community radio stations - notability standards Redirects - should the article history be deleted when a small article is redirected to a larger article? This week's article for improvement is Deity Depictions of various deities on the entrance tower of Sri Mariamman Temple, Singapore, dedicated to the Hindu goddess of rain; Mariamman. Please be bold and help to improve this article! WikiProject Missing Encyclopedic articles (% done) Project page—The goal of this project is to ensure that Wikipedia has a corresponding article for every article in every other encyclopedia. Sign in! Monthly focus: MacTutor biographies 66 left 1911 verification: 12.2% ACF Regionals answers: 0% Hotlist of topics: 85.9% General topics: 79.6% Science topics: 92% Catholic Encyclopedia: 86.2% Easton's Bible Dictionary: 88% Encyclopaedia Biblica : 69.5% Evangelical Dictionary of Theology: 80.6% Gutenberg authors : 57.1% Jewish Encyclopedia : 39% Literary Encyclopedia: 81.9% List of Poles: 6% Find-A-Grave: 85.1% Stanford Archive answers 97.9% Missing paintings 44% Miscellaneous Many other lists of politicians, songs, TV shows and others. Overall progress: 65.2% Spread the word through {{Project missing articles}} Active Wiki Fixup Projects Article Rescue Squadron Check Wikipedia Cleanup Dead-end pages Disambig pages w/ links Free images to Commons Geo-coordinates Missing articles Most-wanted articles Requested articles Orphaned articles Red Link Recovery Fix common mistakes Single editor Stubsensor Today's articles for improvement Uncategorised articles Unreferenced articles Wikification needed Main · Inactive · Mini General notices On 1 November, the English Wikipedia reached 5,000,000 articles. Free subscriptions to high-quality paywalled journals, newspaper archives, and online reference works are available for Wikipedia editors. For more information, see Wikipedia:TWL/Journals" Projects seeking help Also consider posting WikiProject, Task Force, and Collaboration news at the Signpost's WikiProject Report page. WikiProjects and Task Forces The Tip of The Day department needs your help in maintaining tips and replacing obsolete ones. Do you have a special way of doing things that would help others? Any tricks or techniques to get things done easier or faster? All suggestions are welcome, from tips for beginners to the techniques of power users. Come share your wiki expertise. To see today's tip, go to the bottom of this page (Community Portal). The newly created WikiProject Women in Red is seeking editors to write articles about notable women. 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! Outlines See also: Wikipedia:WikiProject Outlines Being overhauled or expanded Outline of education Outline of knowledge Nearing completion (need remainder of annotations added) Outline of transhumanism Outline of Narnia Outline of canoeing and kayaking (Specific venues section) Outline of chess Outline of fishing (just a few annotations needed) Outline of forensic science Outline of motorcycles and motorcycling Outline of prehistoric technology Outline of wind energy Need link placement Outline of solar energy (place entries from See also into body of outline) Portal report The following portals are in need of attention/upkeep: Portal:Corsica Newly created Portal:Tuvalu Newly created Portal:Half-track Newly created Portal:Virginia Woolf Newly created Portal:Theosophy Newly created Portal:Machine learning Newly created Portal:Kyrgyzstan Newly created Portal:Trichy Newly created 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:South East England A "parent" portal that uses selected content from several "child" portals, chosen at random for each type of content. Portal:Philosophy Automatically cycles through 52 "Selected philosophers", one per week, year after year. Portal:Arts Uses random generators to display random featured status selections. Discussions and collaborations 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 See also Dashboard News Goings-on Milestones Meetups In the media Mailing lists Wikimedia community portals 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. Motto of the day... “ → The heart of a mother is a deep abyss at the bottom of which you will always discover forgiveness. ” Nominate one! Tip of the day... Archives for lengthy talk pages Archiving is used on talk and project pages (never on articles) to keep them from getting too long to be useful, while retaining older discussions in case somebody should need to refer to them. The preferred method for archiving a talk page is to copy the older content to a series of subpages. This can be performed either by hand or automatically by a bot. You may find these templates helpful: {{Archive banner|state=uncollapsed}} (full page width banner) {{Archives|auto=yes|search=yes}} (float right box) Prior tip – Next tip Read more: Step-by-Step Instructions for Archiving a Talk Page   Become a Wikipedia tipster – Tips library, by subject To add this auto-updating template to your user page, use {{totd}}