Wikipedia:Community portal

 

Contents

1 Help out
2 Community bulletin board
3 Collaborations

Community portal

Welcome! The Community Portal is where you can learn what's happening in the world of Wikipedia, as well as help improve the site and individual articles.

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Help out

Things to do Here are some open tasks that you can do to help improve Wikipedia. This list is updated frequently, so check back here for new tasks to try. For any users: Add wikilinks to related articles: Robert Spencer (doctor), Mankind in Transition, Halfsies, Organisation of Toilers' Fedayan of Afghanistan, Abraham Dowden, More... Expand: Post office, Bison, Emperor of India, Brenham, Texas, Vector quantization, Fee (feudal tenure), Calliotropis regalis, Sexual identity, Metro International, More... Update: Demography of Sudan, BlitzMail, BlockParty (game portal), International Civil Aviation Organization, Signature block, Pfizer, List of Interstate Highways, More... Add wikilinks: Suzuki GV1400 Cavalcade, Lucius Manlius Vulso Longus, The Litchfield Company, Uni-versal Extras, Rock Never Stops Tour, Moray Marathon, More... Copyedit: Park Sung-hwan, Mile Sur Mera Tumhara, Pierre Ceyrac (Jesuit), List of Zatch Bell! episodes (season 3), Ouakam, Paul Lir Alexander, Sussex dialect , More... For more experienced editors: Cleanup: Björn Ulvaeus, Benny Andersson, Rave, Islamic conquest of Afghanistan, Aegina, Amber Road, History of the Republic of Turkey, Winona, Mississippi, More... Improve style: Chiang Mai Province, Dar es Salaam, Newhart, McCarran International Airport, Tobin tax, The Tragically Hip, Rumiko Takahashi, Valparaiso, Indiana, More... Requested articles: Milk Marque, Poverty in Singapore, Navajo poikiloderma, Paralympic Charter, Ilin Island, Environmental issues in Spain, Marianna Biernacka, More... Verify: Ming Pao, Great Plague of London, Induced demand, 1991 Bangladesh cyclone, 1 Canadian Air Division, 100 Monkeys, 1 vs. 100 (Australian game show), More... Make more neutral: White phosphorus, Persian-Sassanid art patterns, Ishkhani, Military history of Chad, Human rights in Austria, Norullah Noori, Health in Iraq, More... Remove original research: Chesty Morgan, Exhibition designer, Zero waste agriculture, Francophobia, Eurasian (mixed ancestry), Nucleon (Transformers), More... Merge: Terminology related to Germany, Tracked vehicle, Third Summers brother, Party in Lyceum's Toilets, The Old Woman (White Wolf character), Digistar 3, More... Split: Nuclear fusion, One Direction, Minor characters of Days of our Lives, Nutation, Mapuche, New World quail, Oklahoma State Cowboys football, Night Wizard!, More... Requested images: Raymond Chan, Anatomically correct doll, Mountmellick embroidery, Pacific goliath grouper, Rhino Horn banana, Palaver sauce, Bora Laskin, More... Translate: Pedro Muñoz, People's Economic Council, Pausik, Palazzo Pretorio, Panikos sta scholeia, Panabá Municipality, Patriarchate of Moscow and all the Rus', More... Discuss deletion: 2011 Baltimore Grand Prix (IndyCar), Alpha Iota Omicron, Athletics Nation, Anti-Life Equation, Al-Qusaayr Great Mosque, Asia-related articles, More...

General tasks Clear the backlogs Patrol new pages and help improve new articles. See all articles that need improvement in the Wikipedia backlog. Improve articles we've identified as vital. Let SuggestBot suggest pages for you to improve. Weigh in Respond to a request for comment or Wikiquette alert, or provide a third opinion in a dispute. Give a requested editor review. Review high quality articles, good article nominations or featured article candidates. Comment on good article reassessments or featured article reviews. Discuss which articles should be deleted and review proposed deletions. Special skills Make a requested image. Clean up one of these images, or help out at the Graphics Lab. Help make requested maps. Translate into English or proofread a translation. Improvement projects and categories Classification Article categorization Bad category names Category needs checking Stub sorting Cleanup Articles needing copy edit Core topics needing cleanup Elements of Style List of syntax errors Typos Wikitext syntax cleanup Confirmation Articles written by a single editor Notability Transwiki log cleanup Unreferenced articles Connectivity Dead-end pages Disambig pages with links External links Linkrot Name disambiguation Creation Articles to be split Missing articles Most wanted articles

Post your Wikipedia-related news or announcement here » Community bulletin board

20 August 2012   Op-ed: Wikimedians are rightfully wary News and notes: Core content competition in full swing; Wikinews fork taken offline In the news: American judges on citing Wikipedia WikiProject report: Land of Calm and Contrast: WikiProject Korea Featured content: Enough for a week – but I'm damned if I see how the helican. Technology report: Lua onto test2wiki and news of a convention-al extension   About Archives Newsroom Single-page Suggestions Centralized discussion Proposal for box of some broad articles to fix on mainpage to encourage article editing. RfC about whether to categorize people according to genetic and cultural heritage, faith, or sexual orientation, and if so the criteria for deciding an identity Discussion on whether to include a short 1-2 line list of recent deaths in the Main page "In The News" section Discussion to resolve how to properly place images in the Main page "In The News" section. RfC on the wording of WP:TITLE: are all controversial page moves to be listed at WP:RM, or is this optional? RfC on whether to enable, and how to configure, an extension for managing Wikipedia educational assignments. Proposal to mark Wikiquette assistance historical RfC on whether to add a link to the Teahouse to the standard Welcome templates RfC (and poll) on potential changes to the Mediation Committee. RfC discussing whether or not there should be a community-driven process for the removal of administrator rights. RfC at Meta-Wiki on the global bans policy referred to in the Terms of Use Notices Project pages seeking contributors Also consider posting WikiProject, Task Force, and Collaboration news at the Signpost's WikiProject Report page. Editors at Wikipedia:Today's article for improvement are looking for some new editors to help choose the first few articles and start the process. WikiProjects and Task Forces WikiProject Kelly Clarkson has been created. This is a new WikiProject, aimed at improving and monitoring articles related to Kelly Clarkson. WikiProject Westerns has been created. This is a new WikiProject, aimed at improving and monitoring articles related to the fictional Wild West, including films, TV series', actors and directors, novels, comics and other related works. Thousands of articles await identification and dedicated attention in this previously unattended topic. The Guild of Copy Editors is hosting its September backlog elimination drive. Sign up to correct hideous grammar, improve your editing skills, and read interesting articles across the encyclopedia. There will be fabulous prizes. Portals The following portals are now up and running and will need some contributors for their maintenance and steady running: Portal:Kelly Clarkson created August 20, 2012 Portal:Mozilla created July 27, 2012 Portal:Backstreet Boys created June 30, 2012 Outlines Outlines that especially need proofreaders and contributors: New outlines Outline of the history of Western civilization Outline of nuclear power Outline of books Drafts undergoing development Outline of black holes Outlines recently overhauled Outline of rail transport Discussions 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 See also: Dashboard News Goings-on Milestones Meetups In the media Mailing lists · Village pump Activities and initiatives

Collaborations
To improve the quality of articles that are short or lacking in detail, Wikipedia's community organizes collaborations to expand articles.
Collaborations by topic Birds (House Sparrow) Dinosaurs (Apatosaurus) Mammals (Slow loris) Medicine (Pneumothorax) Novels (Improvement Drive) United States (United States Postal Service) Universities (Université Laval) Video games (Need for Speed)	Other collaborations Active improvement teams Countering systemic bias Version 1.0 Spam fighting team Categorization projects School and university projects Spotlight 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.

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.
Commons –	Repository for free images and other media files.