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Help desk Reference desk Village pump Peer editing help WikiProjects Barnstars Dispute resolution Community bulletin board Bulletins Quick directory Directory Maintenance Requests Shortcuts Tools Index 15 April 2013   Op-ed: How do we fix RfA inactivity? News and notes: Another admin reform attempt flops Featured content: The featured process swings into high gear WikiProject report: Unity in Diversity: WikiProject South Africa About Archives Newsroom Single-page Suggestions Centralized discussion RfC on the use of the account creator flag for purposes other than account creation. RfC on utilizing Wikidata Phase 2. RfC about the new speedy deletion criterion G13's scope. A proposal to merge WP:AFD, WP:PM, and WP:ATD-R into a single Articles for discussion process. A proposal to revert most old indefinite rangeblocks under controlled conditions. RfC about a new user right called "Protected page editor". RfC about whether the authors of copyrighted images should be credited in a footnote in the article where the image is used. A proposal to unbundle autopatrolled from the administrator tools General notices The Great American Wiknic will be held in cities across the US in June 2013, with help from the Wikimedians Active in Local Regions of the United States (WALRUS) committee. The Wikimedia Foundation is developing a new notification system for MediaWiki, code-named Echo. It is designed to augment (rather than replace) the watchlist. In the first release, it will notify you when you are mentioned on a talk page, when your edits are reverted, when a page you have created is reviewed, and when your userrights change. Deployment on Wikipedia is planned for mid-April, but it is already live on MediaWiki.org (see the testing page). For more information, see the FAQ. First round of Wikimedia Individual Engagement Grantees announced – financial support for individual contributors to Wikimedia projects, with a particular focus on making online improvements. Includes Wikipedia-oriented development projects. Eight grant proposals were approved. Round two of the Individual Engagement Grants begins August 13, 2013. The current approved projects that involve Wikipedia are: Replay Edits – led by User:Jeph paul, funded at $500. Jeph is building a MediaWiki gadget that creates a visual playback of the edit history of a Wikipedia article, allowing users to see an article changing over time. MediaWiki data browser – led by User:Yaron K, partially funded at $15,000 in order to pilot the initial concept. Yaron’s project will create a framework to allow any user to easily generate apps or websites to browse sets of structured data that exist on Wikipedia and other projects running on MediaWiki. The Wikipedia Library – funded at $7500, led by User:Ocaasi. For this project Ocaasi will be building and consolidating partnerships with reference providers donating access to reliable sources for Wikipedia editors, and improving the systems for managing these programs. The Wikipedia Adventure – funded at $10,000, led by User:Ocaasi. It will be an on-wiki game that will be piloted on English Wikipedia using the Guided Tours extension to determine whether this type of interactive learning is an effective engagement strategy for new editors. Build an effective method of publicity in PRChina – led by Chinese Wikipedian User:AddisWang, funded at $350. Addis and a small team of volunteers based in mainland China will be experimenting with social media campaigns to grow awareness of Wikipedia in China. The tip of the day is only proofread and updated through April 13th. Beyond that, most of the tips need to be checked for relevance and accuracy! The Tip of the day department needs your help to revise the scheduled tips (and replace them with new ones where needed). This must be done for each tip before it gets auto-displayed on the Community portal (as each tip does year after year). Projects seeking help Also consider posting WikiProject, Task Force, and Collaboration news at the Signpost's WikiProject Report page. WikiProjects and Task Forces A WikiProject for Nominators at RfA has been created to support editors who nominate at Requests for Adminship, as one outcome of a recent RfC trying to improve the RfA process. Please join and try to make a difference at RfA. The Christina Aguilera WikiProject has just been launched. We have a lot of work to do to get the project up and running, so interested editors are welcome to join! The Syria WikiProject needs editors to help with keeping Syria-related articles up-to-date in the wake of the Syrian civil war. The Ethiopia WikiProject has gone through a complete redesign and restart. Come check us out and please join and contribute. We need a lot of help and welcome all contributors. Outlines What's going on with outlines: New outlines Outline of fantasy Outline of Prince Edward Island Outline of Ontario Outline of Toronto Outline of South Sudan Drafts in development Outline of Narnia Outline of death Outline of Star Trek Outlines undergoing overhaul or major development Outline of South America (reformatting and expanding) Outline of Syria (updating and expanding, especially the history section) Portal report The following portals are in need of attention/upkeep: Portal:Space – the selected article excerpts were copy and pasted between 2006 and 2009. The leads of the corresponding articles have greatly improved since then. Portal:Azerbaijan – news section has reports from 2009. Portal:Language – "Language-of-the-month" hasn't changed since June 2009. Monthly picture since March 2012. Portal:Thinking – "selected" sections need new material. Been the same for years. The following portals have interesting design features that you may find useful: Portal:Philosophy – cycles through 52 "Selected philosophers", one per week, automatically year after year. Portal:Arts – uses random generators to display random featured status selections. Portal:Spaceflight – integrates with WikiProject Spaceflight, using the same formatting, and linking to it on its main menu as "Astronaut Cafe". Discussions and collaborations Today's articles for improvement are: April 22 is Earth Day. Novelty architecture Pepperoni Geography of Niger Home page Adventure Galley Cartoonist Remainder Eureka (word) Pop music Earth Day Please help to improve these articles! 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 WikiProjects and collaborations Wikipedia technical issues and templates Wikipedia proposals Unsorted See also: Dashboard News Goings-on Milestones Meetups In the media Mailing lists Help out You can help improve the articles listed below! This list updates frequently, so check back here for more tasks to try. Fix spelling and grammar • Learn how Bisha Leonora Barry Khanqah Daep Sharif April O'Neil Lulu Mall More... Fix wikilinks • Learn how Temper mill United States Army Security Agency Kerem Çatay Saskatchewan Pension Plan Unemployment benefits in Spain More... 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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. Wikivoyage – A world-wide travel guide. Wikidata – A free knowledge base that can be read and edited by humans and machines alike. Commons – Repository for free images and other media files.