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Welcome to the Community Portal!

The community portal is the central place to find out what's happening on Wikipedia. Learn what tasks need to be done, and get or post news about recent events or current activities. The community bulletin board below is provided for general announcements, while more specific sections are provided further below for collaborations updates, new featured content, etc.

For technical discussions, assistance, policy, proposals, and other news, see: Village pump - Wikipedia's discussion forums.

Contents

» Community bulletin board
» Things to do / Collaborations
» Current collaborations
» New featured content
» Ongoing projects
» About Wikipedia
» Help / Resources

Community bulletin board

Shortcut: WP:CBB

Post your Wikipedia-related news here. A significant event has taken place? You completed a new portal? A new project has been created, or an old one is undertaking a new initiative? There's a new notice board, proposal, discussion, department, article drive, etc.? Tell us about it...

New Neopaganism WikiProject is launched and is looking for more participants.

The new WikiProject Pro Golfers needs your help inserting infoboxes on as many pages as possible. The template can be found at Template:Infobox golfer. Most of the information that you will need can be found in the pages or at [1].

Article assessment begins, looking at natural disasters in its first week.

New Harry Potter Movies Portal is launched and is looking for feedback and suggestions.

New Star Wars Project is launched and is looking for more participants.

New Featured content Portal is looking for maintainers.

New South African municipalities Project is looking for more participants

The Germany Portal has undergone a major upgrade.

New weekly collaboration - The Core topics collaboration of the week - has started. We'll work on essential articles intended for a release version of Wikipedia. You're invited.

The Help Project needs your help. We are about to undertake the monumental task of cleaning up the Wikipedia namespace, including a redesign of Wikipedia's help system. What were we thinking? Helllllllp!

Please have a look at Current computer and video games events. It's been going for a couple weeks now (See January entries), and could use more contributors & feedback.

The Main Page redesign is coming along nicely. The open-editing session, during which the design can be refined, will last until February 18 inclusive. After that, testing will be done on the draft to fix bugs that occur with different computers. The final election between this draft and the current Main Page will be held starting on March first and will continue for three weeks.

The Wikipedia Signpost publishes Volume 2, Issue 6 on Monday, February 6.

An experimental lightweight deletion system has started a test run. Discussion is at Wikipedia:Proposed deletion.

Things 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: Yttrium Y 90 SMT 487, Chut-kai-pang, Joe Geia, Art Chantry, Gibson Code, Euromasters, More...
Stubs: NFPA 704, Los Angeles class submarine, Lugano, Tarn, Roberta Flack, BMG, Larrousse, Business school, More...
Verify: Battle of Friju Island, Residential Schools, History of the threepence, Altitude, Iriy, Nain Rouge, DERU, Backlog...
Update: Sherbrooke (electoral district), Zharkent, Paul Pfeifer, Tony Earley, Mildura Digital Television, Schleiz, More...
NPOV: Mikhail Khodorkovsky, Shaykh Ul Islam Sayyad Shah Muhammad Madani Miya al-Ashrafi al-Jilani, Kim Woo-jung, Dalda, Backlog...
Copyedit: The Devils River, Chandre Dharma-wardana, San Luis Obispo Mardi Gras controversy, Crimean Tatar language, NFOrce, More...
Wikify: LEAP financial instrument, Kaffe punch, Glassroth v. Moore, Asian African Association for Plasma Training, Guler, Backlog...
Merge: Bazeries cylinder, Eagle District, Republic of Rastafari O.A.N., Fascist symbolism, Regulome, Imants, Backlog...
Cleanup: The Touch, Institutionalism (international relations), RCSCC Undaunted, Peter L. Bernstein, Headkase, Sugaar, Backlog...
Style: GoldenEye Doom 2 Total Conversion, Umlalazi Nature Reserve, Manny Santos, Callaway Golf, Devoucoux, Outwars, More...
Expand: Contact lens, Shifting baseline syndrome, Boston Conservatory, Indian Independence Act 1947, Spice, 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 takes part in collaborations to expand articles.

Collaboration of the week

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

Aeronautics is the science involved with the study, design, and manufacture of apparatuses capable of flight.

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

Article Improvement Drive

Improve Frog, 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.

Frog is the common name for amphibians in the order Anura. Adult frogs are characterised by long hindlegs, a short body, webbed digits, protruding eyes and the absence of a tail. A distinction based on appearance is often made between frogs and toads, but this has no scientific basis. The only family exclusively given the common name "toad" is Bufonidae, but many species from various other families are also called "toads". "True frogs" are of the family Ranidae.

Most frogs have a semi-aquatic lifestyle, and their larvae, called tadpoles, have gills and develop in water. Some frogs are poisonous and have warning colouration; others are well camouflaged. Their distribution ranges from tropic to subarctic regions, with most of the approximately 5250 described species found in tropical rainforest.

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

Current collaborations

Africa (Ashanti Confederacy)
Anime (Fullmetal Alchemist)
Australia (It's Time)
Biography (Henry the Navigator)
Book Club (Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray)
Calendars Help with holidays for the new Year!
Canada (Coquitlam, British Columbia)
Canberra (Walter Burley Griffin)
Cinema (Billy Wilder)
Comics (Alan Moore)
Core topics (working toward release version)
Cricket (Donald Bradman)
European Union (Poland and Hungary Assistance Reconstruction Economic)
French Translation (fr:Little boy to Little boy)
Football (soccer) (FC Dynamo Kyiv)
Gaming (Digital pet)
Hong Kong (Hongkonger)
India (Maruti Udyog)

Japan (Housing in Japan)
Latter Day Saint (Helaman)
Leftist Parties and Movements (Socialist Party USA)
Macintosh (Steve Jobs)
Maintenance (move to wikibooks)
Mathematics (Number)
Medicine (Cystic fibrosis)
Mexico (Coat of Arms of Mexico)
WikiProject Novels: A fresh start?
Philosophy (Logic)
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 (Censorship in the United Kingdom)
United States (Transportation in New York City)
Interwiki checker

New featured content

Articles recently awarded "featured" status

Canadian federal election, 1993 (Feb. 10)
Scotland in the High Middle Ages (Feb. 10)
History of Portugal (1777-1834) (Feb. 10)
Detailed breakdown of the USA PATRIOT Act, Title II (Feb. 10)
The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker (Feb. 10)
Music of Minnesota (Feb. 10)

Pictures recently awarded "featured" status

Thurston Lava Tube (Feb. 5)
Cuttlefish (Feb. 8)
Lowering the flag on the Zuikaku (Feb. 10)
Connors Hill Panorama (Feb. 10)
Sea Anemones (Feb. 11)
Rainbow (Feb. 12)
Loch Lomond (Feb. 12)

Lists recently awarded "featured" status

Portals recently awarded "featured" status

Australia Portal (Feb. 5)

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:

Featured content

Featured articles · Featured pictures · Featured lists · Featured portals

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