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The Main Page redesign team is proud to present their working draft. They've just begun an open editing session which will last until the 18th; your involvement is both welcome and crucial. There will be a pause to sort through the data, fix bugs, perform tests, et cetera before the final election commences on March 1st. It will put the new draft up against the current Main Page.

Proposals for new projects have been made. See the Community Portal Discussion page to voice your opinions on them

Welcome to the Community Portal!

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.

See Help for assistance or to ask a question. For news about the site, you can read, and write for, the Wikipedia Signpost or see what's going on. The Village pump has a variety of discussions about operations, policies, technical issues, and the concerns of other Wikipedians.

Are you a new Wikipedian looking for help? Come along to the Wikipedia Boot Camp for some friendly help.

Contents

» To do
» Active collaborations
» Ongoing projects
» About Wikipedia
» Help
» Resources

To do

Do you have a moment to respond to a request for comment?
Can you draw or take pictures? Help make requested images.
Can you use GIS tools? Help make requested maps.
Can you code? Help make a useful bot or update an offline report.
Comment on the wisdom of new bot proposals.
Peer review some articles.
Offer your thoughts and ideas on proposed Wikipedia policies.
Can you speak another language? There are articles that need translation into English.
Would you like to respond to more requests?
Proofread a finished translation.

Or...

Here are some tasks you can do:

Requests: Underinvestment employment relationship, Bochner's formula, VALP, Wavefront coding, Sœur Emmanuelle, More...
Stubs: California Democratic Party, Beijing Schmidt CCD Asteroid Program, Kazuo Watanabe, Overijssel, Rhône-Alpes, More...
Verify: Plasma window, Charles Pearce, Midwest Workers Association, List of city nicknames in the United States, BSBD, Backlog...
Update: St. Maur-Sur-Loire, Chambly—Borduas, Surrey North, Yaos, Commissionaire, Labour legislation, Possneck, More...
NPOV: Race and intelligence (Culture-only or partially-genetic explanation), Fascism, Shang Ti, Progress Party (Norway), Backlog...
Copyedit: Sponsors vs Freeloaders, Chapel-gallery at Balatonboglár, TEI Department of Information Technology, MphasiS, More...
Wikify: José María Arizmendiarrieta, Mykill, William Golden, Colin Cowherd, Film rights, Global change, LaPerm, Backlog...
Merge: Skid Kids, Smile (Queen), Lysogeny, Char Siu Bao, Isle Royale National Park, Interpreter (communication), Backlog...
Cleanup: Spanned volume, Nacht und Nebel, Local state corporatism, Hainina, Wah Fu, ErrorGuard, Pett dynasty, Backlog...
Style: Futuremark, Thunder Bay Telephone, Hristo Botev, Analytic Hierarchy Process, Sianoa Smit-McPhee, Genericon, More...
Expand: Pelle Gudmundsen-Holmgreen, Apparatus theory, Delta ray, Ethnology, Time-variant system, Title I, More...
Cleanup backlogs - Active fixup projects - Maintenance projects - Maintenance COTW: move to wikibooks
Other: Requests for rollback poll - New deletion process

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 Andes, Wikipedia's current collaborations of the week! Please help to bring them up to featured article standard.

The Andes are a vast mountain system forming a continuous chain of highland along the western coast of South America. It is roughly 7000 km (4400 mi) long, 500 km (300 mi) wide in some parts (widest between 18° to 20° S latitude), and of an average height of about 4000 m (13,000 ft).

You can still help with last week's articles, Male (see improvements) and Female (see improvements), or help pick next week's article.

Article Improvement Drive

Improve Sofia, 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.

Sofia (Bulgarian: София) is the capital and largest city of the Republic of Bulgaria, with a population of 1,208,930 (2003 census). It is located in the western part of Bulgaria, at the foot of the mountain massif Vitosha, and is the administrative, cultural and industrial centre of the country.

The history of Sofia dates to the 7th century BC, when a Thracian settlement was established on the site of the present-day city, thus making it the second oldest capital city in Europe. It has been given several names throughout the course of history, and the remnants of the old cities can still be seen today.

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

Other collaborations

Africa (Ashanti Confederacy)
Anime (List of English Dubbed Anime)
Australia (It's Time)
Biography (Henry the Navigator)
Book Club (Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray)
Canada (Coquitlam, British Columbia)
Cinema (Billy Wilder)
Comics (Alan Moore)
Cricket (Donald Bradman)
European Union (Poland and Hungary Assistance Reconstruction Economic)
French Translation (fr:Little boy to Little boy)
Football (soccer) (Bayern Munich)
Gaming (Current computer and video games events)
Hong Kong (Hongkonger)
India (Srinagar (city))

Japan (Housing in Japan)
Latter Day Saint (Helaman)
Leftist Parties and Movements (Socialist Party USA)
Macintosh (Apple Computer)
Maintenance (move to wikibooks)
Mathematics (Number)
Medicine (AIDS)
Mexico (Coat of Arms of Mexico)
Poland (Culture of Poland)
Science (Human genome)
Singapore (Sentosa)
Spanish Translation (es:Universidad Nacional de La Plata to Universidad Nacional de La Plata)
Texas (Juneteenth)
United Kingdom (Education in the United Kingdom)
United States (Transportation in New York City)

Ongoing projects

Active Wiki Fixup Projects

Article Categorization
Untagged Images
Neglected articles
Bad category names
Blank pages
Bad links
Most wanted articles
Wiki Syntax Project
Disambig pages w/ links
Commons:Untagged img
Shortpages
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

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.