Wikipedia:Community portal

Community portal

Welcome to the community portal!

This page provides a listing of current collaborations, tasks, and news about English Wikipedia. New to Wikipedia? See the contributing to Wikipedia page or our tutorial for everything you need to know to get started. For a listing of internal project pages of interest, see the department directory.

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For a listing of ongoing discussions and current requests, see the Dashboard.

Help desk

Ask questions about how to use or edit Wikipedia

The Teahouse

Friendly help for newcomers

Reference desk

Ask research questions about any topic except Wikipedia itself

WikiProjects

Work with other editors on a shared area of interest

Dispute resolution

Get help resolving disputes

Village pump sections (view all)

Policy

Discuss existing and proposed policies

Technical

Discuss technical issues about Wikipedia

Proposals

Discuss new proposals that are not policy-related

Idea lab

Incubate new ideas before formally proposing them

WMF

Discuss issues involving the Wikimedia Foundation

Miscellaneous

Post messages that do not fit into any other category

Help out

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

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Fix wikilinks

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Update with new information

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Expand short articles

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Check and add references

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Fix original research issues

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Improve lead sections

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Add an image

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Translate and clean up

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Help counter systemic bias by creating new articles on important women.

Help improve popular pages, especially those of low quality.

This week's article for improvement is:

Physiology

Previous selections: Miss · Goalkeeper · Man

This week's backlog of the week is:

Category:PD-UK-unknown images with URAA-restored copyright

Community bulletin board

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.

Events and projects

Yearly or infrequent events

The Core Contest is a six-week contest focusing on improving Wikipedia's most important and most viewed articles. Cash prizes will be awarded. The next (eleventh) contest will place from April 15 to May 31 2023... Entries at Wikipedia:The Core Contest/Entries.
WikiProject Women in Green are hosting their fourth Good Article (GA) Editathon from June 1 to 30, 2023. Participants are invited to improve articles about women or women's works (e.g., books, films) and gain experience in the GA peer review process as either a nominator or reviewer. Both new and experienced editors are welcome – resources and one-on-one support will be provided. Participants are eligible for a barnstar at the end of the event.

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 blitz. The August 2023 editing blitz was a one-week-long effort of the Guild of Copy Editors to reduce its backlog. The themes were: requests from June and July 2023, and articles in the August 2022 and September 2022 backlog. It began on 13 August 2023, 00:00 (UTC), and ended on 19 August 2023, 23:59 (UTC). Stay tuned for the next event.
Wikipedia:WikiProject Women in Red 2023 Events: WP:WIR/EVENTS - updated monthly
The 100,000 Challenge. The quest to bring about 100,000 article improvements and creations globally through a series of 50,000/10,000/1000 Challenges for different regions and countries. This is a loose challenge, a list will not be maintained here, but the components will function independently on each of the subpages. Will be updated every week or two.
- The 50,000 Destubbing Challenge is a long term challenge to destub 50,000 articles on English Wikipedia for every country and topic. It may take decades to accomplish, it may take ten years, it all depends on how many people actively contribute.

WikiProject notices

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 Apple Inc.'s future is being discussed here. If you're interested in Apple, feel join and discuss!
WikiProject Skiing and Snowboarding is currently being revived from inactive status and is looking for interested participants to join. Many articles under the project scope are in need of improvement/updates, and assessment needs to be worked on. The project is also currently being restructured, so any input is welcome! VarietyEditor (talk) 01:30, 16 January 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]
Requesting new members for the Stubsensor WikiProject. It seems as nobody but me is currently on this. The list is almost done, yet more people would be very helpful. There is about 8.5 pages left, we can do this. If you are interested, then why not join? SikiWtideI (Speak to the backwards police) 02:45, 5 November 2022 (UTC)SikiWtideIReply[reply]
Unreferenced BLP rescue is working to clear the unreferenced biographies of living persons backlog. Ensuring reliable sourcing for all claims about living people is a high priority, and all help is appreciated! Thebiguglyalien (talk) 16:06, 17 April 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]

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.

Recent changes

The GDrive to Commons Uploader tool is now available. It enables securely selecting and uploading files from your Google Drive directly to Wikimedia Commons. [1]
From now on, we will announce new Wikimedia wikis in Tech News, so you can update any tools or pages.
- Since the last edition, two new wikis have been created:
  - a Wiktionary in Pa'O (wikt:blk:) [2]
  - a Wikisource in Sundanese (s:su:) [3]
- To catch up, the next most recent six wikis are:
  - Wikifunctions (f:) [4]
  - a Wiktionary in Mandailing (wikt:btm:) [5]
  - a Wikipedia in Ghanaian Pidgin (w:gpe:) [6]
  - a Wikinews in Gungbe (n:guw:) [7]
  - a Wiktionary in Kabardian (wikt:kbd:) [8]
  - a Wikipedia in Fante (w:fat:) [9]

Changes later this week

The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 22 August. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 23 August. It will be on all wikis from 24 August (calendar).

Future changes

There is an existing stable interface policy for MediaWiki backend code. There is a proposed stable interface policy for frontend code. This is relevant for anyone who works on gadgets or Wikimedia frontend code. You can read it, discuss it, and let the proposer know if there are any problems. [10]