Wikipedia:Community portal/Redesign/Draft2a

Contents: 1 Community bulletin board 2 To do lists 3 Collaborations 4 Editorial departments

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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 WikiProject Unreferenced articles is holding a month-long Unreferenced articles backlog drive beginning 1 November 2024, 00:00 (UTC). 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 is 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 will end on 30 November, 23:59 (UTC). Wikipedia:WikiProject Women in Red 2024 Events: Recently completed: Women in STEM Geofocus: Islands I–P Women in archaeology New this month: Asian women Geofocus: Islands Q–Z Women in engineering Ongoing initiatives: #1day1woman Education Upcoming events: Ideas Meetups for November 2024 +/- London 210 November 10, 2024 (2024-11-10) US Mountain West online November 12, 2024 (2024-11-12) Wiki Uff da! - Event 2 November 14, 2024 (2024-11-14) San Diego 116 November 18, 2024 (2024-11-18) Seattle meetup November 19, 2024 (2024-11-19) Wiki Uff da! - Event 3 November 20, 2024 (2024-11-20) WikiCon Australia 2024 November 23, 2024 (2024-11-23) BLT Office Hours November 24, 2024 (2024-11-24) Meetups for December 2024 +/- London 211 December 8, 2024 (2024-12-08) 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 the Renaissance. 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 Later in November, the Charts extension will be deployed to the test wikis in order to help identify and fix any issue. A security review is underway to then enable deployment to pilot wikis for broader testing. You can read the October project update and see the latest documentation and examples on Beta Wikipedia. View all 32 community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week. For example, Pediapress.com, an external service that creates books from Wikipedia, can now use Wikimedia Maps to include existing pre-rendered infobox map images in their printed books on Wikipedia. [1] Updates for technical contributors Wikis can use the Guided Tour extension to help newcomers understand how to edit. The Guided Tours extension now works with dark mode. Guided Tour maintainers can check their tours to see that nothing looks odd. They can also set emitTransitionOnStep to true to fix an old bug. They can use the new flag allowAutomaticBack to avoid back-buttons they don't want. [2] Administrators in the Wikimedia projects who use the Nuke Extension will notice that mass deletions done with this tool have the "Nuke" tag. This change will make reviewing and analyzing deletions performed with the tool easier. [3] Tech news prepared by Tech News writers and posted by bot • Contribute • Translate • Get help • Give feedback • Subscribe or unsubscribe. 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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 or assess some articles, especially those recently revised. 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 edit. Fix-up projects Article Categorization Bad category names Blank pages Bad links Dead-end pages Disambig pages w/ links Duplicated sections Elements of Style Linkrot Orphaned categories Punctuation Missing articles Most wanted articles Most wanted stubs Neglected articles Shortpages Stub sorting Syntax Project Templates with red links Transwiki log cleanup Typos Untagged Images Untagged stubs User categorisation Active improvement teams Cleaning department Counter vandalism unit Categorization projects Cleanup Taskforce Version 1.0 Encyclopedic Standards Countering systemic bias

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 Estimation of signal parameters via rotational invariance techniques Indomie Lead City University Hell's Kitchen (American TV series) season 12 Super (2010 Indian film) More... • Learn how Fix wikilinks Warez scene WFFF-TV Tyrannicide 1961 Formula One season Blender (software) More... • Learn how Update with new information Cloverdale Transit Saudi Air Ambulance Fox News Road signs in Estonia Chesterfield County, Virginia More... • Learn how Expand short articles Kilgore, Idaho Zhu Guangqian Huang Ai Li Jianwu Chen Maiping More... • Learn how Check and add references The Holocaust in Ukraine WQAL Andreína Martínez Gag name Olle Nordmark More... • Learn how Fix original research issues Men in feminism List of South Australian commercial icons Pavilhão João Rocha List of Lost Tapes episodes West Downs School More... • Learn how Improve lead sections Mornington Peninsula Freeway Chris Connelly (musician) Zez Confrey Stella (solar vehicles) NA-141 Sahiwal-I More... • Learn how Add an image Malta Fairs & Conventions Centre Meenkara Dam Meadows Archeological District Madonna University, Nigeria Margate, Tasmania More... • Learn how Translate and clean up Ken Terajima Osman Batur Jānis Vagris Manuel Antonio Matta Kamen Rider Kuuga 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.

Collaborations To improve the quality of articles which are short or lacking in detail, Wikipedia's community organizes 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 Ty Miller (random unreferenced BLP of the day for 2 Nov 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. Good Article Collaboration of the week The Good Article Collaboration of the week works to polish already good articles to the highest of standards. This week's improvement drive is Elvis Presley: Elvis Aaron Presley began his career as one of the first performers of rockabilly, an uptempo fusion of country and rhythm and blues with a strong back beat. His novel versions of existing songs, mixing "black" and "white" sounds, made him popular—and controversial—as did his uninhibited stage and television performances. He recorded songs in the rock and roll genre, with tracks like "Hound Dog" and "Jailhouse Rock" later embodying the style. Presley had a versatile voice and had unusually wide success encompassing other genres, including gospel, blues, ballads and pop. To date, he is the only performer to have been inducted into four separate music halls of fame. You can still help pick next week's article.

Collaborations by topic See Template:COTWs for the most up-to-date listing. 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.

Editorial departments Wikipedia has hundreds of departments manned by a small army of volunteers. Here are some on the most general; for more specific departments, see the appropriate page.

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