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1 Community bulletin board
2 Help out
3 Collaborations

Community portal

Welcome to the community portal. This is the place to find out what is happening on Wikipedia. Learn what tasks need to be done and what groups there are to join, and share news about recent events or current activities taking place on Wikipedia.

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• Help with an aspect of Wikipedia: see the help documentation, or ask a question for assistance.
• Answers for questions about factual topics: please visit Wikipedia's reference desk.
• A place to discuss things with other users: the village pump is Wikipedia's main discussion forum.
• A place to resolve disputes: use the dispute resolution guidelines.

Post your Wikipedia-related news or announcement here » Community bulletin board

23 July 2012   From the editor: Signpost developments Op-ed: The future of PR on Wikipedia Paid editing: Does Wikipedia pay? The skeptic: Orange Mike News and notes: Chapter head speaks about the aftermath of Russian Wikipedia shutdown WikiProject report: Summer sports series: WikiProject Olympics Featured content: When is an island not an island? Arbitration report: Fæ and Michaeldsuarez banned; Kwamikagami desysopped; Falun Gong closes with mandated external reviews and topic bans Technology report: Translating SVGs and making history bugs history   About Archives Newsroom Single-page Suggestions Centralized discussion RFC on potential changes to the Mediation Committee. RfC on whether MfD is an appropriate venue to discuss portions of pages RfC on whether {{FoP-USonly}} is a valid license for photographs of foreign architecture on the English Wikipedia RfC on developing a guideline for responding to Article Feedback Tool v5 feedback RfC about the appropriateness of "X on Twitter" (or similar) articles RfC at Meta-Wiki on the global bans policy referred to in the Terms of Use RfC on whether an editor can request a review of another editor's block, and if so, how they should do it. RfC on how to word the lede of Wikipedia:Verifiability, including discussion of the phrase "verifiability, not truth" Proposal to update the level-one user warnings based on testing results Notices Project pages seeking contributors Also consider posting WikiProject, Task Force, and Collaboration news at the Signpost's WikiProject Report page. WikiProjects and Task Forces Check out WikiProject Animals in media, a collaborative effort to improve the quality of articles relating to animals' presence in literature, film, television, and theatre. The new WikiProject Globalization, reaching across many WikiProject interest areas, seeks potential contributors interested in improving and maintaining Wikipedia articles related to Globalization. The Guild of Copy Editors is hosting its July backlog elimination drive. Sign up to correct hideous grammar, improve your editing skills, and read interesting articles across the encyclopedia. There will be fabulous prizes. WikiProject Articles for creation has a massive backlog of almost 1000 submissions. Please come and review submissions to help lower this huge backlog. WikiProject Wikify is hosting a June backlog elimination drive. Sign up, help to eliminate {{dead end}} pages, and earn eternal glory. Portals The following portals are now up and running and will need some contributors for their maintenance and steady running: Portal:British politics created 19 May 2012 Portal:Underwater diving created April 28, 2012 Portal:Mesoamerica created 30 April 2012 Portal:Forest created May 04 2012 (Still needs a lot of input) Portal:Backstreet Boys created June 30 2012 Outlines Outlines that especially need proofreaders and contributors: New outlines Outline of the history of Western civilization Outline of nuclear power Outline of books Outline of wind energy Outline of solar energy Outline of the fishing industry Drafts undergoing development Outline of black holes Outlines recently overhauled Outline of rail transport Discussions Discussions in the following areas have requested wider attention: Biographies Economy and trade History and geography Language and linguistics Art, architecture, literature, and media Politics, government and law Religion and philosophy Science and mathematics Society, sports and culture Wikipedia policies and guidelines Wikipedia style and naming See also: Dashboard News Goings-on Milestones Meetups In the media Mailing lists · Village pump Activities and initiatives

Help out

Wikipedia is, by number of articles, the largest encyclopedia ever to exist. However, many articles are stubs, or otherwise need attention. If you like, go ahead, be bold, and jump right in. If you are not ready to fly solo, you can participate in a Collaboration. Things to do General tasks If you're not sure where to start, learn how to help Patrol new pages and help improve new articles. Category:Wikipedia backlog always needs attention. Short popular vital articles may be the most time-effective to work on. Let SuggestBot suggest pages for you to improve. Commenting Respond to a request for comment or Wikiquette alert, or provide a third opinion. Give a requested editor review. Peer review high quality articles and grade good article or featured article candidates. Make recommendations on articles listed at good article reassessment or featured article review. Discuss which articles should be deleted and review proposed deletions. Special skills Can you draw or take pictures? Make a requested image. Are you good at photo editing? Then try cleaning up some of these images, or helping out at the Graphics Lab. Can you use GIS tools? Help make requested maps. Can you communicate in another language? There are articles that need translation into English. You can also proofread a translation. Fix-up projects Article categorization Articles to be split Articles written by a single editor Bad category names Category needs checking Core topics needing cleanup Dead-end pages Disambig pages with links Elements of Style External links Articles needing copy edit Wikitext syntax cleanup Linkrot Notability Missing articles Most wanted articles Name disambiguation Stub sorting Transwiki log cleanup Typos Unreferenced articles List of syntax errors

Open tasks Here are some tasks you can do: Wikify: The Unquiet Earth, Karungalakudi, The Tears of Artamon, SIV visa, Dolium, Aldo Maria Brachetti Peretti, Positive behavior support, More... Orphans: Lyceum Music Festival, Racinaea quadripinnata, Jadacaquiva, Liahona Academy, Jan Van Beekum, Liberty Humane Society, More... Copyedit: Sindhi Rajput, Richard & Judy, Javad Jalali, Shivalli Smarta Brahmins, Lowell Island House, Miraj Nameh, Pro-Vas Occlusion, More... Update: Politics of Burma, Standby High-Readiness Brigade, Massachusetts Route 128, Château d'Angers, HIV/AIDS in the United States, More... Style: Wild Cherry (band), Battle of Two Sisters, Mike Webb (pastor), Credit (casino), Blue Cross of India, Markko Rivera, Effective porosity, More... Translation: Public Defender (Brazil), Jinghai Temple, Erma EMP-35, MS Henrik Ibsen, Sinan Sofuoğlu, Battle of Phuket, Rama V Bridge, More... Cleanup: Erin Brockovich, General surgery, Rags (film), Continuous function, Demiurge, Coronation Street, Isle of Wight, Chen Shui-bian, More... Verify: Bläck Fööss, City of Sheffield Athletic Club, 2RRR, Charles Wesley Weldon McLean, Big Bug Man, Carlos'n Charlie's, Totally Games, More... Neutrality: United States–Vietnam relations, Glossolalia, Religion in Kyrgyzstan, Shaba I, NYU Langone Medical Center, Abdullah Bin Omar, More... Original research: Monkey Island (series), Singapore gay art, Library of Alexandria, Foreign relations of Iraq, Freeride mountain-biking films, More... Merge: Panos London, Nam Fung Sun Chuen, Queen Clea, Sport in Anglesey, Ruth Martin (All My Children), I-73/74 North–South Corridor, More... Split: List of North American birds, Dardani, China at the 2010 Asian Games, Solomon Burke, Presidential Office Buildings, Montevideo, More... Stubs: Moorgate, Norfolk, Neerugadde, Matnog, Daraga, Hawaii Route 72, Ravine du Chaudron, Institut d'émission d'Outre-Mer, Murtosa, More... Expand: Macaroni, Graduated cylinder, Scatology, Economy of Vatican City, Uptons, Great Plague of London, General-purpose machine gun, More... Article Incubator: Google Technology User Group, Countess of Soissons, Valery Fedorenko, Crocodillin, Zola Levitt, Wikimedia Incubator, More... Article deletion discussions: Christianity, Bangladesh, Academics and educators, United Kingdom, Ice hockey, Transportation, Philosophy, More... Article Requests: Catumbela River, Joan F. Brennecke, Geology of Saudi Arabia, Navajo poikiloderma, Poverty in Singapore, Milk Marque, More... Image Requests: Angel hair, Polynesian culture, Nubian wild ass, Qiaojia Pine, Lake Moeris, Digital television in Malaysia, Valerie Pringle, More... Mediation Cabal: or Help mediate an open case! Not sure where to report a certain type of problem with article content? If it exists, it is probably listed at Wikipedia:Maintenance.

Collaborations
To improve the quality of articles that are short or lacking in detail, Wikipedia's community organizes collaborations to expand articles.
Collaborations by topic Birds (House Sparrow) Dinosaurs (Apatosaurus) Mammals (Slow loris) Medicine (Pneumothorax) Novels (Improvement Drive) United States (United States Postal Service) Universities (Université Laval) Video games (Dungeon Master (video game))	Other collaborations Active improvement teams Countering systemic bias Version 1.0 Spam fighting team Categorization projects School and university projects Spotlight 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.

The links below lead to the main community pages of the projects. 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 non-fiction books.
Wikiquote –	A compendium of referenced quotations.
Wikisource –	A repository for free source texts.
Wikispecies –	A directory of species.
Wikiversity –	Where teachers learn, and learners teach.
Commons –	Repository for free images and other media files.