Wikipedia:Community portal/Redesign/October 2005

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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 ask a question. For community news, 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.

Contents

1 To do
2 Active collaborations
3 Ongoing projects
4 About Wikipedia
5 Help
6 Resources

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 which need translation into English.

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

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Fix wikilinks

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Update with new information

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Expand short articles

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Check and add references

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Fix original research issues

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Improve lead sections

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Add an image

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Translate and clean up

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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. The two main collaborations are:

Collaboration of the week

Currently working on Lee Smith (baseball).

Article improvement drive

Currently working on NASA.

Other collaborations include:

Africa ({{Wikipedia:African Collaboration of the Week/current}})
Biography ({{Wikipedia:Biography Collaboration of the Week/current}})
Book Club (The Razor's Edge by William Somerset Maugham)
Canada (None)
Cinema ( )
Comics ([[Underground comix]])
Computer and video games (SunDog: Frozen Legacy)

Cricket (Donald Bradman)
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)
Mathematics ({{Wikipedia:Mathematics Collaboration of the Week/current}})
Medicine (Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease)
Poland ([[Culture of Poland]])
Science ({{Wikipedia:Science_collaboration_of_the_week/current}})
Spanish Translation of the Week (Capernaum, translated from Cafarnaúm Cafarnaúm)
Texas (Lizzie Velásquez)
United Kingdom (British-Spanish relations)
United States (United States Postal Service)
Unusual (Nihilartikel)

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:

Community support groups

Ongoing tasks:

About Wikipedia

Category-based access to pages about Wikipedia

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.