Wikipedia:Community Portal

Contents:
1 Community bulletin board
2 To do lists
3 Collaborations
4 Help and Resources

The Community Portal is the central place to find out what's happening on Wikipedia. Learn what tasks need to be done, what groups can be joined, and get or post news about recent events or current activities.

• See the help page for documentation, or ask a question for assistance.
• The Village pump is Wikipedia's main discussion forum; there are separate sections covering News, Policy, Technical, Proposals, Assistance, and Miscellaneous topics.
• For other questions about factual topics, please visit Wikipedia:Reference desk.

Community bulletin board

Post your Wikipedia related news and announcements here! New portals, collaborations, and wikiprojects seeking contributors. New initiatives, proposals, discussions, or article drives, and current maintenance backlogs.

Notices

• Wikipedia:Contents and related pages can be a set of comprehensive yet highly usable "Wikipedia's contents" with your help! Please give feedback related to these pages' content, usability, and presentation.
• A new policy to replace existing No Original Research and Verifiability policies has been proposed. Please see Wikipedia:Attribution for further information.
• Wikipedia:Spotlight is testing out a new way of editing, using an IRC channel for real-time collaboration on selected articles. Interested editors should visit #wikipedia-spotlight for more information.
• An amendment to the fair use policy has been proposed, dealing with using fair use images on portals. See Wikipedia talk:Fair use/Amendment/Fair use images in portals for more info.
• A new collaboration has been proposed: Wikipedia:Article Referencing Drive.

Maintenance

• Peer review needs reviewers: many requests sit for days with no input. Even a one line comment on an article would be appreciated.

New project pages seeking contributors

See also

Wikizine · In the media · News · Announcements · Press releases

To do lists

Wikipedia is, by number of articles, the largest encyclopedia ever to exist. However, that comes at a cost: many are stubs, or otherwise need attention. If you like, go ahead, be bold, and jump right in. If you aren't ready to fly solo, you can participate in a Collaboration.

Things to do

• Help update to the new references format.
• Respond to a request for comment.
• Can you draw or take pictures? Make a requested image.
• Peer review, assess, or give feedback on some articles.
• Respond to the Reward board or Bounty board.
• Offer your thoughts and ideas on proposed policies.
• Can you use GIS tools? Help make requested maps.
• Can you speak another language? There are articles that need translation into English.
• Would you like to respond to more requests?
• Comment on the wisdom of new bot proposals.
• Can you code? Code a useful bot or update an offline report.
• Proofread a finished translation.
• Let SuggestBot suggest pages for you to improve.

Fix-up projects

Here are some tasks you can do:

• Wikify: Belgharia, John Leyden, Star General, Colombian Military Junta, Mahbubnagar district, Culture of Belize, Backlog...
• Cleanup: Vermont Valley Railroad, Saulė, Pseudo-terrorist, Law of conservation of matter, Junji Ito, Ida Genung, Backlog...
• Stubs: Edgbaston Cricket Ground, Saône-et-Loire, Model year, Gustave Reese, Patrick Tambay, Inner Temple, Elba, More...
• Verify: Former Latter-day Saints, Sintir, Independent University of Australia, Paul Robeson, Dextromethorphan, Cuju, Backlog...
• Update: Syndicate (The X-Files), Lung cancer, Abdel-Razak al-Yehiyeh, Google Toolbar, Politics of Somalia, KTXS-TV, More...
• NPOV: Vlado Kotnik, Mountain Design, Roman Catholicism in Great Britain, Okinotorishima, Joseph Allard, Patriotism, Backlog...
• Copyedit: Philippine Science High School Central Mindanao Campus, Berot Kalan, Spencer, South Dakota tornado, LG Powercom, More...
• Merge: Neoist Alliance, Let Me Go (song), Timeline of solar cells, Bunyip, List of people from Little Rock, Kadikoi, Backlog...
• Style: Jon Gutwillig, Federation of Environmental Trade Associations, Adolf Zika, School of Accounting and Management, More...
• Expand: Albrecht Kossel, Orac, Huntsdale, Office of the Law Revision Counsel, Starbase, Cement, More...
• Requests: Trebang sunda, Consumption-based Capital Asset Pricing Model, Fama-MacBeth regression, Nangma, Eremwu eu, More...
• Mediation Cabal: Advocates for Children in Therapy, Affirmative Action in the United States, Joe Sharkey, More...
• Cleanup backlogs - Active fixup projects - Maintenance projects - Maintenance COTW: be merged

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

Collaborations

To improve the quality of articles which are short or lacking in detail, Wikipedia's community organizes collaborations to expand articles.

Article Creation and Improvement Drive

The Article Creation and Improvement Drive works on an article that needs a lot of help before reaching featured-article standard. The subjects of this week's article improvement drive is Pluto:

Pluto is the second-largest dwarf planet in the solar system. It orbits between 29 and 49 AU from the Sun, and was the first Kuiper Belt Object to be discovered. Approximately one-fifth the mass of the Earth's Moon, Pluto is primarily composed of rock and ice. It has an eccentric orbit that is highly inclined with respect to the planets and takes it closer to the Sun than Neptune during a portion of its orbit.

You can still help with last week's article, Microorganism, or help pick next week's article.

Good Article Collaboration of the week

The Good Article Collaboration of the week works to polish already good articles so they show the highest of standards.

This week's improvement drive is Britney Spears

Britney Jean Spears (born December 2, 1981) is a Grammy Award-winning music artist, an American pop singer, dancer, and occasional actress, author, and songwriter. She is best known for her studio albums, music videos, and pop songs such as "...Baby One More Time", "Oops!...I Did It Again" and "Toxic".

You can still help pick next week's article.

Core Topics Collaboration

The Core Topics Collaboration of the Fortnight works to polish essential Wikipedia topics.

Map of the Earth

Geography (from the Greek words Ge (γη) or Gaea (γαια), both meaning "Earth", and graphein (γραφειν) meaning "to describe" or "to write" or "to map") is the study of the Earth's features and of the distribution of life on the earth, including human life and the effects of human activity.

You can help pick the next Core Topic collaboration article.

Collaborations by topic

Other collaborations

Active improvement teams

Maintenance

Help clear up the backlog of articles to be wikified! Wikification is the process of making an article conform to the guide to layout and Manual of Style. This involves formatting, links, sections, and checking for other things such as copyright violations and references. If necessary, you may propose it for deletion. Wikification is an easy way to improve Wikipedia!

WikiProjects

WikiProjects are ongoing team efforts to improve articles having to do with a particular subject, and to manage the logistics of that topic. Hundreds exist — examine the master list to find one that interests you. They are separate from, though may work with, Collaborations.

Language translation

Wikipedia is not just in English! Versions exist in many different languages. To fill in some of the English Wikipedia's gaps, we translate articles from other languages into English. You can view a list of articles that need translation from any language, or, in a few cases, by only one language (this is only available for the more popular languages).

Guidelines, help, and resources

Wikipedia has hundreds of departments staffed by a small army of volunteers. Here are some of the most general; for more specific departments, check the appropriate page below. See also the Wikipedia department directory.

Help

• Wikipedia help - Browse help pages
• Where to ask questions
• New users, find out about Adoption

Editing

• The Manual of Style guidelines and tutorial
• How to edit a page
• Contributing
• How to improve articles
• How to write a great article
• Where to find information for articles
• A list of template messages
• The list of images that have been uploaded to Wikipedia
• What special pages are
• Tools for editing
• Request newspapers or magazines

Policies and guidelines

Wikipedia has many established policies, guidelines, conventions, and traditions. This is a very brief sampling of some of the most important; for more information, see the main policies and guidelines page. Policies and guidelines apply both to articles and how to work with fellow editors. For easy access, the shortcuts to the pages are also listed.

Article standards

Working with others

Resources

New user information

Introduction · Sandbox · Help · New user log · Adoption · What Wikipedia is not · Glossary · Account benefits

Ways to communicate

Contact (overview) · Discussion pages · Mailing lists · IRC chat · Instant Messaging · Meetups · User pages · Surveys · Public watchlists · Regional notice boards · Administrators' noticeboard · Requests for article feedback

Community support groups and programs

Welcoming committee · Members' Advocates · Esperanza · Concordia · Wikipedia Youth Foundation · Kindness Campaign · Wikipedia awards program · Dept. of Fun

Common Procedures

Featured content · Good articles · Requests for feedback · Deleting a page (full policy) · Moving a page (naming policies) · Protecting a page (full policy) · Reverting a page · Administrator nominations (summaries) · Category-based access

How to resolve conflicts

Stay cool! · Be nice to newcomers · Alert others · Request assistance from a members' advocate · Dispute resolution · Arbitration policy

Community information

About Wikipedia · Goings-on · About Wikimedia · Wikipedians · Donations · Administrators · Babel · Culture · Games · Humor · Mottoes

Related communities

Tip of the day

When you install this nifty wikitool, it empowers your mouse arrow.

When you hover the mouse arrow over a link, a preview of the article or image "pops up", so you don't actually have to go to that page to see it. If the article doesn't preview, you can activate it form the popups menu provided in the popup box (just hover the mouse over the the word "popups" and then select "enable previews").

Another popup menu provided is "actions". When you select one, it applies that action to the page specified in the link you are hovering over. Actions include "edit", "diff my edit", "move page", what links here", and many more.

And you can activate popups within your popups (by hovering over links in the preview)!

To install Navigation Popups, see the tip Install your first javascript. In order to install and use Navigation Popups, you must be logged on.

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