Wikipedia:Community portal

Welcome!

The Community portal is a place to find collaborations, tasks, and news about English Wikipedia.
To find other internal project pages of interest, see the department directory.
New to Wikipedia? See the Help page for everything you need to know to get started.

Interact more

Help desk Reference desk Village pump Peer editing help WikiProjects Barnstars Dispute resolution Community bulletin board Bulletins Quick directory Directory Maintenance Requests Shortcuts Tools Index 16 October 2013   News and notes: Vice on Wiki-PR's paid advocacy; Featured list elections begin WikiProject report: Heraldry and Vexillology Traffic report: Peaceful potpourri Discussion report: Ada Lovelace Day, paid advocacy on Wikipedia, sidebar update, and more Featured content: That's a lot of pictures Arbitration report: Manning naming dispute case closes About Archives Front page Subscribe Suggestions Centralized discussion An RfC to establish criteria for granting AfC Reviewer permission. A discussion as to whether Wikipedia:Paid editing policy proposal should become policy. An RfC on whether Wikipedia:No paid advocacy (WP:BRIGHTLINE) should become policy. An RfC on whether to reduce the API limit for logged out users to 1 edit per 30 seconds. A RFC on the rules for the 2013 Arbitration Committee Election An RfC on including featured portals on the Main Page. A proposal on a new design for the Main Page. An RfC on how to handle the many links to archive.is inserted into articles by the unapproved RotlinkBot. Arbitration Committee consultation on an update of discretionary sanctions. An RfC on whether organisations should be included in templates such as Template:Islamophobia, Template:Racism topics and Template:Antisemitism. An RfC on establishing standard naming conventions for tornado outbreak articles, including a possible topic-specific override to WP:COMMONNAME. General notices Want funding? Try Wikimedia Foundation's experimental decentralized flow funding process. A project that was flow funded this summer was a hot air balloon expedition over Hamburg, Germany, during which Wikipedians shot more than 2000 photographs now available for use on Wikipedia via WikiCommons. After reviewing your eligibility, you should directly contact a flow funding member in your area of interest. Flow funders make all decisions on an individual basis. Projects seeking help Also consider posting WikiProject, Task Force, and Collaboration news at the Signpost's WikiProject Report page. WikiProjects and Task Forces WikiProject Invention is in the process of recruiting membership and focusing efforts upon invention-related topics in the encyclopedia. Northamerica1000(talk) 10:47, 29 August 2013 (UTC) User:Emijrp/All human knowledge is in the process of estimating how many notable articles (by type) are needed to cover the sum of all human knowledge. In other words, "How big is Wikipedia's article count likely to grow, and what is still left to be covered?" Please help us forecast the future of this encyclopedia and chart missing coverage by expanding the tables, updating the progress bars and improving references. The most prolific editors will be awarded with the unique AHK barnstar! Everyone is welcome to join in on the fun. Outlines What's going on with outlines: New outlines Outline of Star Trek Outlines undergoing overhaul or major development Outline of Cameroon (formatting and expansion) Portal report The following portals are in need of attention/upkeep: Portal:Space – the selected article excerpts were copy and pasted between 2006 and 2009. The leads of the corresponding articles have greatly improved since then. Portal:Azerbaijan – news section has reports from 2009. Portal:Language – "Language-of-the-month" hasn't changed since June 2009. Monthly picture since March 2012. Portal:Thinking – "selected" sections need new material. Been the same for years. The following portals have interesting design features that you may find useful: Portal:Philosophy – cycles through 52 "Selected philosophers", one per week, automatically year after year. Portal:Arts – uses random generators to display random featured status selections. Discussions and collaborations Today's articles for improvement are: The Needles, situated off the Isle of Wight, are part of the extensive Southern England Chalk Formation. Music of Africa C-4 (explosive) First Sudanese Civil War Human skeleton Second language Plain dress French Revolutionary Wars Summer Palace of Peter the Great Genus Chalk Please help to improve these articles! 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 WikiProjects and collaborations Wikipedia technical issues and templates Wikipedia proposals Unsorted See also: Dashboard News Goings-on Milestones Meetups In the media Mailing lists Help out You can help improve the articles listed below! This list updates frequently, so check back here for more tasks to try. Fix spelling and grammar • Learn how Neo Geo X Editions of Dungeons & Dragons Barrackpore Ulfberht Joe Gersh More... Fix wikilinks • Learn how Johnson Street Bridge Stompers Emergency Preparedness Insider Exclusive Mortgage Forgiveness Debt Relief Act of 2007 More... Remove unsourced material • Learn how MILF (slang) Wratten number History of Thailand (1932–73) Nation state Beefcake More... Expand short articles • Learn how Samukh District Yukhary Karasakkal Ağköynək Yuxarı Əskipara Orta Salahlı, Qazakh More... Check and add references • Learn how Burning of Washington Peter Wilson Raffan War of 1812 Arhopala opalina Arab Christians More... Update with new information • Learn how Capital gains tax in the United States Prime brokerage Star Trek Online Government budget balance Barber Greene More... Improve lead sections • Learn how Chicken (food) Kelly Ayotte William Henry Vanderbilt More Grey Hairs Sunrise in the Land of Milk and Honey More... Add an image • Learn how Aoba (train) Alice Munro Auckland Snipe Anne Arundel Medical Center Air knife More... Translate and clean up • Learn how Zbrašov aragonite caves Burgas Matanza (band) FGC UES Suzuki Splash More... 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. Tip of the day... Using Special:MyPage to make private links Special:MyPage is normally just a special link that is dynamically linked to the current user's userpage. By adding subpage additions, users can create a dynamic link to any user subpage within their userspace. This makes the link "private" by only letting the correct user access a certain page. Users will be taken to their subpage with that name, which would probably be non-existent. The code [[Special:MyPage/To-do list|To-do list]] creates this: To-do list. However, keep in mind that pages can never actually be private. A user still can simply combine your username and the subpage to create a link, but it takes additional effort and investigation. Read more: Wikipedia:Special pages#Personal Prior tip - Next tip To add this auto-updating template to your user page, use {{totd}}. Become a Wikipedia tipster