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This page provides a listing of current collaborations, tasks, and news about English Wikipedia. New to Wikipedia? See the contributing to Wikipedia page or our tutorial for everything you need to know to get started. For a listing of internal project pages of interest, see the department directory.
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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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Check and add references
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Help counter systemic bias by creating new articles on important women.
Help improve popular pages, especially those of low quality.
| This week's article for improvement is: Previous selections: Economy of South America · Foreign policy · Rigatoni | This week's backlog of the week is: |
Community bulletin board
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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.
Events and projects
Yearly or infrequent events
- WikiProject Women in Green is holding a month-long Good Article Edit-a-thon event in October 2023!
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 March 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 March, 00:00 (UTC), and will end on 31 March, 23:59 (UTC).
- Wikipedia:WikiProject Women in Red 2023 Events: WP:WIR/EVENTS - updated monthly
- The 100,000 Challenge. The quest to bring about 100,000 article improvements and creations globally through a series of 50,000/10,000/1000 Challenges for different regions and countries. This is a loose challenge, a list will not be maintained here, but the components will function independently on each of the subpages. Will be updated every week or two.
- The 50,000 Destubbing Challenge is a long term challenge to destub 50,000 articles on English Wikipedia for every country and topic. It may take decades to accomplish, it may take ten years, it all depends on how many people actively contribute.
| Portland Jewish Artists edit-a-thon |
March 10, 2024 |
| London 202 | March 10, 2024 |
| Seattle articles edit-a-thon | March 12, 2024 |
| NYC (Queens Name Explorer) | March 16, 2024 |
| Oxford 98 | March 17, 2024 |
| Seattle monthly meetup | March 19, 2024 |
| San Diego 109 | March 25, 2024 |
| BLT x UPenn | March 27, 2024 |
| BLT Office Hours | March 31, 2024 |
| San Diego 110 | April 22, 2024 |
| Edinburgh 15 | April 27, 2024 |
| BLT Office Hours | April 28, 2024 |
WikiProject notices
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 Vocaloid's proposal is seeking editors with interest in any Vocaloid related topic to join the project.
- WikiProject Bendigo is currently seeking interested editors to join the project. Lotsw73 (talk) 05:03, 30 January 2024 (UTC)
- WikiProject Operating systems (in proposal state) is looking for interested participants to support the creation of a regular WikiProject page.
- WikiProject Outlines news:
- The newest outlines are:
- The Outline of the week is Outline of Alabama.
- Feel free to help improve them. —The Transhumanist 15:58, 19 January 2024 (UTC)
- Revive WikiProject United States governors. This WikiProject is dedicated to the leaders of the 50 U.S. states. If you agree, post a message on the WikiProject talk page.
- WikiProject AI Cleanup has recently been started to combat the addition of problematic AI-generated content. Interested editors are encouraged to join! ARandomName123 (talk) 01:35, 5 December 2023 (UTC)
Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
Recent changes
- The
Special:Bookpage (as well as the associated "Create a book" functionality) provided by the old Collection extension has been removed from all Wikisource wikis, as it was broken. This does not affect the ability to download normal books, which is provided by the Wikisource extension. [1] - Wikitech now uses the next-generation Parsoid wikitext parser by default to generate all pages in the Talk namespace. Report any problems on the Known Issues discussion page. You can use the ParserMigration extension to control the use of Parsoid; see the ParserMigration help documentation for more details.
- Maintenance on etherpad is completed. If you encounter any issues, please indicate in this ticket.
Gadgets allow interface admins to create custom features with CSS and JavaScript. The GadgetandGadget_definitionnamespaces andgadgets-definition-edituser right were reserved for an experiment in 2015, but were never used. These were visible on Special:Search and Special:ListGroupRights. The unused namespaces and user rights are now removed. No pages are moved, and no changes need to be made. [2]- A usability improvement to the "Add a citation" in Wikipedia workflow has been made, the insert button was moved to the popup header. [3]
Changes later this week
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 5 March. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 6 March. It will be on all wikis from 7 March (calendar). [4][5]
Future changes
- All wikis will be read-only for a few minutes on March 20. This is planned at 14:00 UTC. More information will be published in Tech News and will also be posted on individual wikis in the coming weeks. [6]
- The HTML markup of headings and section edit links will be changed later this year to improve accessibility. See Heading HTML changes for details. The new markup will be the same as in the new Parsoid wikitext parser. You can test your gadget or stylesheet with the new markup if you add
?useparsoid=1to your URL (more info) or turn on Parsoid read views in your user options (more info).
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General notices
- Repealing CSD A2 (Foreign-language articles that exist on another Wikimedia project)
- Enacting CSD X3 for improperly spaced parenthetical disambiguations
- Amend ARBPOL to explicitly confirm ArbCom's jurisdiction extends to removing bureaucrat powers
- Featured article and good article topicons
- Community-based process for appointing CheckUsers and Oversighters
- RfA 2024 review
- Convert community discretionary sanctions to use contentious topics procedure
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