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Welcome to the Community Portal You can help build Wikipedia into a better encyclopedia and wiki community by editing and creating new articles. If you create an account, you can track your changes and more. See Help for assistance or to ask a question. For news about the site, you can read, and write for, the Wikipedia Signpost or see what's going on. The Village pump has a variety of discussions about operations, policies, technical issues, and the concerns of other Wikipedians. Are you a new Wikipedian looking for help? Come along to the Wikipedia Boot Camp for some friendly help. Contents » To do » Active collaborations » Ongoing projects » About Wikipedia » Help » Resources How to add to the community bulletin board Welcome to the community bulletin board, which is a page used for announcements from WikiProjects and other groups. Included here are coordinated efforts, events, projects, and other general announcements. Dashboard News Task Center Goings-on Meetups In the media Mailing lists Events and projects [add] Yearly or infrequent events The 2024 Developing Countries WikiContest is an editing competition with a focus towards developing countries. It will begin on July 1st and signups will close on July 15th. Sign up now! Want to help good articles get better? Sign up for the October Good Article backlog drive! New and experienced reviewers welcome. Monthly or continuous events Monthly contest, WikiProject Military history. The contest department of the Military history WikiProject aims to motivate increased quality in military history articles by offering a form of friendly competition for project members making improvements to them. The primary contest available is a simple rolling competition that awards points for improving articles. The contest runs from the first to last day of each month. Guild of Copy Editors' editing drive. The November 2024 backlog drive was a one-month-long effort by the Guild of Copy Editors to reduce the backlog of articles that require copy editing: those carrying the {{copy edit}} tag (also {{awkward}}, {{copy edit section}}, {{inappropriate person}}, and {{copy edit inline}}, and their redirects) or are listed on the GOCE Requests page. It began on 1 November, 00:00 (UTC), and ended on 30 November, 23:59 (UTC). Stay tuned for the next event. Wikipedia:WikiProject Women in Red 2024 Events: Recently completed: Asian women Geofocus: Islands Q–Z Women in engineering New this month: Women who died: 2024 Religion Ongoing initiatives: #1day1woman Education Upcoming events: Ideas Meetups for December 2024 +/- Christchurch 34 December 1, 2024 (2024-12-01) BLT Antenna New Orleans December 7, 2024 (2024-12-07) London 211 December 8, 2024 (2024-12-08) Perth 85 December 15, 2024 (2024-12-15) San Diego 117 December 16, 2024 (2024-12-16) Seattle meetup December 17, 2024 (2024-12-17) Meetups for January 2025 +/- Edinburgh 19 January 25, 2025 (2025-01-25) WikiProject notices [add] Also consider posting WikiProject, Task Force, and Collaboration news at The Signpost's WikiProject Report page. Please include your signature when adding a listing here. WikiProject Outlines news: New outlines: Outline of Leeds Outline of Glasgow Outline of the Kennedy family Another outline has made it to Featured List status: Outline of the Marvel Cinematic Universe The following outline covers an ongoing situation, please help keep it updated: Outline of the Russo-Ukrainian War Outline drafts recently moved to article space (thank you!): Outline of dyslexia Outline drafts nearing completion include: Draft:Outline of Delhi Draft:Outline of George Washington The Outline of the week is Outline of music. Please help improve them. —The Transhumanist 00:36, 5 September 2024 (UTC) We're trying to revive Wikipedia:WikiProject Geocaching! If you're a Geocacher and want to improve the quality of the Geocaching related articles, sign up now! Lordseriouspig 20:12, 1 August 2024 (UTC) We are looking to revive Task Force Philippine History and are looking for interested editors! Sign-up now! NyanThousand (talk) 15:45, 28 July 2024 (UTC) WP Unreferenced articles is trying to clear the decades-long backlog of unreferenced articles. The backlog recently reached under 90,000. Come contribute! — PerfectSoundWhatever (t; c) 17:04, 4 July 2024 (UTC) WikiProject Bendigo is currently seeking interested editors to join the project. Lotsw73 (talk) 05:03, 30 January 2024 (UTC) Technical news Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available. Updates for editors Two new parser functions were added this week. The {{#interwikilink}} function adds an interwiki link and the {{#interlanguagelink}} function adds an interlanguage link. These parser functions are useful on wikis where namespaces conflict with interwiki prefixes. For example, links beginning with MOS: on English Wikipedia conflict with the mos language code prefix of Mooré Wikipedia. Starting this week, Wikimedia wikis no longer support connections using old RSA-based HTTPS certificates, specifically rsa-2048. This change is to improve security for all users. Some older, unsupported browser or smartphone devices will be unable to connect; Instead, they will display a connectivity error. See the HTTPS Browser Recommendations page for more-detailed information. All modern operating systems and browsers are always able to reach Wikimedia projects. [1] Starting December 16, Flow/Structured Discussions pages will be automatically archived and set to read-only at the following wikis: arwiki, cawiki, frwiki, mediawikiwiki, orwiki, wawiki, wawiktionary, wikidatawiki, zhwiki. This is done as part of StructuredDiscussions deprecation work. If you need any assistance to archive your page in advance, please contact Trizek (WMF). [2] This month the Chart extension was deployed to production and is now available on Commons and Testwiki. With the security review complete, pilot wiki deployment is expected to start in the first week of December. You can see a working version on Testwiki and read the November project update for more details. View all 23 community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week. For example, a bug with the "Download as PDF" system was fixed. [3] Updates for technical contributors In late February, temporary accounts will be rolled out on at least 10 large wikis. This deployment will have a significant effect on the community-maintained code. This is about Toolforge tools, bots, gadgets, and user scripts that use IP address data or that are available for logged-out users. The Trust and Safety Product team wants to identify this code, monitor it, and assist in updating it ahead of the deployment to minimize disruption to workflows. The team asks technical editors and volunteer developers to help identify such tools by adding them to this list. In addition, review the updated documentation to learn how to adjust the tools. Join the discussions on the project talk page or in the dedicated thread on the Wikimedia Community Discord server (in English) for support and to share feedback. Tech news prepared by Tech News writers and posted by bot • Contribute • Translate • Get help • Give feedback • Subscribe or unsubscribe. Requests for comment Discussions in the following areas have requested wider attention via Requests for comment: Biographies Economy and trade History and geography Language and linguistics Media, the arts, and architecture 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 General notices Should comments in discussions made using LLMs or chatbots be discounted or even removed? Open letter re Wikimedia Foundation's potential disclosure of editors' personal information Extended-confirmed pending changes and preemptive protection in contentious topics The length of recall petitions
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... You can help improve the articles listed below! This list updates frequently, so check back here for more tasks to try. (See Wikipedia:Maintenance or the Task Center for further information.) Fix spelling and grammar Sociology of food Digital on-screen graphics by country Papa Louie Child abuse in China Battle of Monastyryshche More... • Learn how Fix wikilinks Murahachibu ostracism National symbols of North Korea Blender (software) Valentino Rossi Arthur Japin More... • Learn how Update with new information Kirsten Magasdi Romanov (vodka) Mauro Rizzo Partners In Health Jumio More... • Learn how Expand short articles Mount Carmel, Washington County, Indiana Golden Triangle (Kentucky) Bill Anderson (1880s pitcher) Arville Funk Schimpff's Confectionery More... • Learn how Check and add references Michael Winterbottom Lindera Islamism and Islamic terrorism in the Balkans WQAL Hassan Saajin More... • Learn how Fix original research issues Landlord harassment Load (computing) ICAN-II Choice of law clause Butts Up More... • Learn how Improve lead sections Heather Nauert Dina Parakhina Portland Community College Colin Ridgway Infinity Girl More... • Learn how Add an image Museum for Northern Peoples Mount Read McAfrika Marwar Junction railway station Maha Ganapati Temple of Arizona More... • Learn how Translate and clean up Hassan Ali Nokhodaki Isfahani Fights Break Spheres Batu Batikam Theodor Körner (politician) Alexander Chudinov More... • Learn how Help counter systemic bias by creating new articles on important women. Help improve popular pages, especially those of low quality. 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 take part in collaborations to expand articles. Collaboration of the week Help edit Lee Smith (baseball), Wikipedia's current collaboration of the week! Please help to bring it up to featured article standard. Lee Arthur Smith (born December 4, 1957 in Shreveport, Louisiana) was a pitcher in Major Leagues. Smith played for eight teams in both the NL and AL in his 18-year career, beginning with the Cubs in 1980. Smith led the league in saves four times during his career and by the time of his retirement in 1997 (with the Expos), he was the all-time leader with 478 saves. Smith used his fastball and size (he stood 6'6") to intimidate batters during the late innings of the game and became one of the premier closers of the 1980's and early 1990's. You can still help with last week's article, Textile (see improvements), or help pick next week's article. Article Collaboration and Improvement Drive The Article Collaboration and Improvement Drive works on an article that needs a lot of help to reach featured-article standard. The subject of this week's article improvement drive is Kalinka (artist) (random unreferenced BLP of the day for 2 Dec 2024 - provided by User:AnomieBOT/RandomPage via WP:RANDUNREF): A picture of Aang and Momo Aang is a fictional character and the main protagonist for Nickelodeon's animated television series Avatar: The Last Airbender, which was created by Michael Dante DiMartino and Bryan Konietzko. He is voiced by Zach Tyler Eisen. Twelve-year-old Aang is the last surviving Airbender, a monk of the Air Nomads' Southern Air Temple, and is a supercentenarian at the incarnation age of 112. He is the current incarnation of the Avatar, the spirit of the planet manifested in human form. Aang, as the Avatar, controls the elements and is tasked with keeping the Four Nations at peace. Aang is the series' reluctant hero and comic, spending a century in suspended animation before joining new friends Katara and Sokka on a quest to master the elements and save their world from the war-hungry imperialist Fire Nation. You can still help with last week's article, World War I, or help pick next week's article.
Other collaborations Africa ({{african-cotw}}) Anime (List of English Dubbed Anime) Biography ({{bio-cotw}}) Book Club (The Razor's Edge by William Somerset Maugham) Canada (None) Cinema ( ) Comics ([[Underground comix]]) Cricket (Donald Bradman) European Union (News media in the European Union) French Translation (fr:Liberté to Freedom) Football (soccer) (Italy national football team) Gaming (Wikipedia:Gaming Collaboration of the week/current) Hong Kong (Yuen Woo-ping) India (none at the moment) Japan (Current nominations: The Tale of the Heike Abe Shinzo) Latter Day Saint (Helaman) Leftist Parties and Movements (Socialist Party USA) Macintosh (Michael Scott (Apple)) Maintenance (have bot-modified external links checked) Mathematics (Wikipedia:Mathematics Collaboration of the Week/current) Medicine (Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease) Mexico (Coat of Arms of Mexico) Poland ([[Culture of Poland]]) Science ({{Wikipedia:Science collaboration of the week/current}}) Singapore (Co-curricular activity) Spanish Translation (es:Zarzuela to Zarzuela) Texas (Lizzie Velásquez) United Kingdom (British-Spanish relations) United States (United States Postal Service)
Ongoing projects 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: Featured Article Drive Cleanup Taskforce Version 1.0 Editorial Team Forum for Encyclopedic Standards Wikipedia:WikiProject Countering systemic bias Community support groups Association of Members' Advocates Esperanza Department of Fun Welcoming committee Ongoing tasks: Maintenance Categorization Transwiki	About Wikipedia Category-based access to pages about Wikipedia Community information About Wikipedia · About Wikimedia · Wikipedians · Administrators · Babel · Donations · Culture · Humor · Games News Wikipedia Signpost Weekly WP News Wikipedia in the media · Goings-on · Announcements · Press releases · Stats · Milestones Watchlists Public watchlists · Regional notice boards Featured content Featured articles · Featured pictures · Featured lists · Featured portals Related communities Other Wikipedia languages Here is a list of the main community pages of Wikipedia's sister 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.

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