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You can help build Wikipedia into a better encyclopedia and wiki community by editing and creating new articles. If you create an account, you can track your changes and more.

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Not sure where to report a certain type of problem with article content? If it exists, it's probably listed at Wikipedia:Maintenance.

Active collaborations

In order to improve the quality of articles which are short or lacking in detail, Wikipedia's community take part in collaborations to expand articles.

Collaboration of the week

Help edit Invasion, Wikipedia's current collaboration of the week! Please help to bring it up to featured article standard.

An invasion is a military action consisting of troops entering a foreign land (a nation or territory, or part of that), often resulting in the invading power occupying the area, whether briefly or for a long period. Euphemistically, an invasion is sometimes referred to as an intervention.

You can still help with last week's article, Humanities (see improvements), or help pick next week's article.

Article Improvement Drive

Improve History of the world, the present incumbent at the Article Improvement Drive. The Article Improvement Drive works on a non-stub article that needs a lot of help before reaching featured-article standard.

The history of the world, as it is used in popular parlance, is human history, from the first appearance of Homo sapiens to the present day. The earliest available evidence places the origin of modern Homo sapiens in Africa about 200,000 years ago during the Palaeolithic period. This occurred after a long period of evolution. Ancestors of humans, such as Homo erectus, had been using simple tools for many millennia, but as time progressed, tools became far more refined and complex....

You can still help with last week's article, Thomas Edison (see improvements), or help pick next week's article.

Other collaborations

Ongoing projects

Active Wiki Fixup Projects
Untagged Images

Neglected articles
Bad category names
Blank pages
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Most wanted articles
Wiki Syntax Project
Disambig pages w/ links
Commons:Untagged images
Shortpages
Unstubby stubs
Untagged stubs
Templates w/ red links
Linkrot
Punctuation
Orphaned categories
Elements of Style
Duplicated sections
User categorisation
Dead-end pages
Missing articles
Most wanted stubs
Transwiki log cleanup

Main - Inactive - Mini

WikiProjects are ongoing collaborations to improve articles having to do with a particular subject. Hundreds exist; find one that interests you! There are also many other fine projects listed below.

Active improvement teams:

Community support groups

Ongoing tasks:

About Wikipedia

Category-based access to pages about Wikipedia

Community information

About Wikipedia · About Wikimedia · Wikipedians · Babel · Donations · Culture · Humor · Games

News

Wikipedia Signpost
Weekly WP News

Wikipedia in the media · Goings-on · Announcements · Press releases · Stats · Milestones

Watchlists

Public watchlists · Regional notice boards

Featured content

Featured articles · Featured pictures · Featured lists · Featured portals

Related communities

Other Wikipedia languages

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 textbooks.
Wikiquote – A compendium of referenced quotations.
Wikisource – A repository for free source texts.
Wikispecies – A directory of species.
Commons – Repository for free images and other media files.


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