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Community bulletin board
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...
- Tycoon Computer Games WikiProject Proposal needs users who want to help improve the Tycoon Computer Games articles (No need to have any knowledge about them, many need to be copyedited and standardized). If five or more users join, this project can get started!
- Construction is commenced on Portal:Papua New Guinea. Needs users who are willing to contribute and boldly create.
- A new WikiProject has been formed to help contributors coordinate their efforts on articles regarding Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Macedonia, Serbia and Montenegro and Slovenia, as well as former Yugoslavia.
- The Main Page Redesign Project open editing session ended on February 18th. The one outstanding issue is whether or not to include a second search box in the design. Please vote in a straw poll to help decide this remaining issue. The poll is neck and neck, and it was decided that 70% was needed to win. Be sure to vote!. After this, the design will go before the Wikipedia community for an official vote, beginning on March 1st.
- A new WikiProject has been formed to preside over Good articles.
- There is a new portal, Macedonia.
- The Wikipedia Signpost publishes Volume 2, Issue 8 on Monday, February 20.
- Portal:Oceania is created.
- The Apple Macintosh Portal needs help in maintenance and construction! If interested please see the Macintosh WikiProject.
- Please help the Computer and Video Games project to compile a working list of Essential CVG Articles for 1.0 or a WikiReader.
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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 History of art, Wikipedia's current collaboration of the week! Please help to bring it up to featured article standard.
History of art usually refers to the history of the visual arts. The term also encompasses theory of the visual arts which is not necessarily historical. Although ideas about the definition of art have changed over the years, the field of art history attempts to categorize changes in art throughout time and better understand how art shapes and is shaped by the outlooks and creative impulses of its practitioners. Although some may think of art history as purely the study of European art history, the subject encompasses all art, from the megaliths of Western Europe to the paintings of the Tang dynasty in China.
You can still help with last week's articles, Aeronautics (see improvements), or help pick next week's article.
Article Improvement Drive
Improve Cold War, 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 Cold War was the protracted geostrategic, economic and ideological struggle that emerged after World War II between the global superpowers of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics and the United States of America, supported by their respective and emerging alliance partners. The Cold War endured over four decades, from circa 1947 until the decline and eventual collapse of East European and Soviet state communism in the late 1980s. The disintegration of the Soviet Union in 1991 is generally considered to mark the absolute end of the conflict.
You can still help with last week's article, Frog (see improvements), or help pick next week's article.
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New featured content
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Current collaborations
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Things to do
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Here are some tasks you can do:
- Requests: Sahibzada Yaqub Khan, 1994 Ann Arbor City-Township Boundary Policy Statement, Amadeus William Grabau, More...
- Stubs: Seiji Ueda, Boer, Canterbury, New Zealand, Sexuality, Aveyron, Old High German, Oxford University Press, More...
- Verify: Terry "Buzzy" Johnson, Microphilia, The Internet Movie Database, 1921 in Germany, Jean-Jacques Lebel, Dogra, Backlog...
- Update: Refresher, Commers, Halliburton, Cumnock and Holmhead, Vancouver South, Consistory Courts, Unyamwezi, More...
- NPOV: Security certificate, Micropenis, Lotus-Cosworth 49, Genealogies of Genesis, Maggie Gallagher, Steve Munsey, Backlog...
- Copyedit: Radebeul-Radeburg line, Kaneko Mino, Human experimentation, Hannibal, American Orthodox Catholic Church, Jat, More...
- Wikify: Eddie Breckenridge, Von Carstein, Telegraph stamp, Angela (Inheritance), Millstone framework, Samuel Point, Backlog...
- Merge: World Trade Club, NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Championship, Genesis Planet, KRRT (TV), PSone, Kundiman, Backlog...
- Cleanup: Frith (druidry), Tenggerese, Clinical governance, Gay rights in Poland, Don January, Prittlewell, YIQ, Backlog...
- Style: Randy Rhoads, St Austell, Pro Tech, Shubhshagun, Something to Live For, YouthSPEAK International, Anonet, More...
- Expand: Nil per os, Hero, Symmetry group, Grand master (order), Iefr, Theatre of France, LIET, 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.
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