Wikipedia:Community portal
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The Community portal is a place to find collaborations, tasks, and news about English Wikipedia.
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Reference desk •
Peer editing help •
Village pump (discussion forum) •
Dispute resolution
News and other community areas
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- Dashboard - coordinating the various discussions taking place throughout Wikipedia
- Meetups - regional gatherings of people
- News - many sources of news about the internal workings of Wikipedia
- The Signpost, the community-written newspaper about Wikipedia, its sister projects, and the Wikimedia Foundation; you may connect with them via RSS, Twitter, and Facebook.
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. |
| 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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| Tip of the day...
Create links faster
1. Pipe trick: Synonymous article titles may be clarified with terms in parentheses, like this: [[Self (psychology)]]. But when you want to include such a link in the body of an article, this would look rather awkward. So all you have to do is use the "pipe trick", like this: [[Self (psychology)|]]. Notice the "|" character stuck in there at the end of the link? That makes the link look like this: Self, without having to type the name of the link after the pipe! This trick also works with namespaces, so that [[Wikipedia:Tip of the day|]] (again notice the pipe character) displays like this: Tip of the day.
2. Plural trick: While editing, you'll often need to make a link to a plural. For example, suppose you wanted to link "Fred Foo was famous for his study of puddles" to puddle; you could link it like so: [[puddle|puddles]]. However, you can save time by instead writing [[puddle]]s. This also works for adjectives ([[Japan]]ese), verbs ([[dance]]d), and any other suffixes or prefixes. It does not, however, work for some irregular verbs. For example, ([[try]]ied does not work; you have to do [[try|tried]]).
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