Wikipedia:Community portal/Redesign/Draft2a

Contents: 1 Community bulletin board 2 To do lists 3 Collaborations 4 Editorial departments

The Community Portal is the central place to find out what's happening on Wikipedia. Learn what tasks need to be done, what groups can be joined, and get or post news about recent events or current activities. See the help page for assistance, or ask a question. The Village pumps are our discussion forums for Wikipedians about Wikipedia. (News, Policy, Technical, Proposals, Assistance, Miscellaneous)

How to add to the community bulletin board 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. Dashboard News Task Center Goings-on Meetups In the media Mailing lists Events and projects [add] Yearly or infrequent events The 2024 Developing Countries WikiContest is an editing competition with a focus towards developing countries. It will begin on July 1st and signups will close on July 15th. Sign up now! Want to help good articles get better? Sign up for the October Good Article backlog drive! New and experienced reviewers welcome. 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 January 2025 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 will begin on 1 January, 00:00 (UTC), and end on 31 January, 23:59 (UTC). Wikipedia:WikiProject Women in Red 2024 Events: Recently completed: Asian women Geofocus: Islands Q–Z Women in engineering New this month: Women who died: 2024 Religion Ongoing initiatives: #1day1woman Education Upcoming events: Music #1day1woman Alphabet run: A & B Internet personalities Ideas Meetups for December 2024 +/- Christchurch 34 December 1, 2024 (2024-12-01) BLT Antenna New Orleans December 7, 2024 (2024-12-07) Haitian Creole NYC December 8, 2024 (2024-12-08) London 211 December 8, 2024 (2024-12-08) Chicago December 2024 December 14, 2024 (2024-12-14) Perth 85 December 15, 2024 (2024-12-15) San Diego 117 December 16, 2024 (2024-12-16) Seattle meetup December 17, 2024 (2024-12-17) Meetups for January 2025 +/- Wikipedia Day Seattle January 11, 2025 (2025-01-11) London 212 January 12, 2025 (2025-01-12) Wikipedia Day Minnesota January 15, 2025 (2025-01-15) Exeter 2 January 18, 2025 (2025-01-18) Wikipedia Day Toronto January 19, 2025 (2025-01-19) Edinburgh 19 January 25, 2025 (2025-01-25) Wikipedia Day NYC January 25, 2025 (2025-01-25) Brixton 6 January 27, 2025 (2025-01-27) WikiProject notices [add] 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 Outlines news: New outlines: Outline of Leeds Outline of Glasgow Another outline has made it to Featured List status: Outline of the Marvel Cinematic Universe The following outline covers an ongoing situation, please help keep it updated: Outline of the Russo-Ukrainian War Outline drafts recently moved to article space (thank you!): Outline of George Washington Outline drafts nearing completion include: Draft:Outline of Delhi New outline drafts: Draft:Outline of the Kennedy family The Outline of the week is Outline of sociology. Please help improve them. —The Transhumanist 00:36, 5 September 2024 (UTC) We're trying to revive Wikipedia:WikiProject Geocaching! If you're a Geocacher and want to improve the quality of the Geocaching related articles, sign up now! Lordseriouspig 20:12, 1 August 2024 (UTC) We are looking to revive Task Force Philippine History and are looking for interested editors! Sign-up now! NyanThousand (talk) 15:45, 28 July 2024 (UTC) WP Unreferenced articles is trying to clear the decades-long backlog of unreferenced articles. The backlog recently reached under 90,000. Come contribute! — PerfectSoundWhatever (t; c) 17:04, 4 July 2024 (UTC) WikiProject Bendigo is currently seeking interested editors to join the project. Lotsw73 (talk) 05:03, 30 January 2024 (UTC) Technical news Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available. Weekly highlight Interested in improving event management on your home wiki? The CampaignEvents extension offers organizers features like event registration management, event/wikiproject promotion, finding potential participants, and more - all directly on-wiki. If you are an organizer or think your community would benefit from this extension, start a discussion to enable it on your wiki today. To learn more about how to enable this extension on your wiki, visit the deployment status page. Updates for editors Users of the iOS Wikipedia App in Italy and Mexico on the Italian, Spanish, and English Wikipedias, can see a personalized Year in Review with insights based on their reading and editing history. Users of the Android Wikipedia App in Sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia can see the new Rabbit Holes feature. This feature shows a suggested search term in the Search bar based on the current article being viewed, and a suggested reading list generated from the user’s last two visited articles. The global reminder bot is now active and running on nearly 800 wikis. This service reminds most users holding temporary rights when they are about to expire, so that they can renew should they want to. See the technical details page for more information. The next issue of Tech News will be sent out on 13 January 2025 because of the end of year holidays. Thank you to all of the translators, and people who submitted content or feedback, this year. View all 27 community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week. For example, a bug was fixed in the Android Wikipedia App which had caused translatable SVG images to show the wrong language when they were tapped. Updates for technical contributors There is no new MediaWiki version next week. The next deployments will start on 14 January. [1] Tech news prepared by Tech News writers and posted by bot • Contribute • Translate • Get help • Give feedback • Subscribe or unsubscribe. Requests for comment Discussions in the following areas have requested wider attention via Requests for comment: Biographies Economy and trade History and geography Language and linguistics Media, the arts, and architecture 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 General notices Sign up for the January New Pages Patrol backlog drive. Review articles or redirects and earn barnstars! Sign up for the January Good Article Nominations backlog drive. Review good article nominations and earn barnstars! Voluntary RfAs after resignation Allowing page movers to enable two-factor authentication Rewriting the guideline Wikipedia:Please do not bite the newcomers Should comments made using LLMs or chatbots be discounted or even removed?

To do lists Wikipedia is, by number of articles, the largest encyclopedia ever to exist. However, that comes at a cost: many are stubs, or otherwise need attention. If you like, go ahead, be bold, and jump right in. If you aren't ready to fly solo, you can participate in a Collaboration.

Things to do Help update to the new references format? Respond to a request for comment. Can you draw or take pictures? Make a requested image. Peer review or assess some articles, especially those recently revised. Offer your thoughts and ideas on proposed policies. Can you use GIS tools? Help make requested maps. Can you speak another language? There are articles that need translation into English. Would you like to respond to more requests? Comment on the wisdom of new bot proposals. Can you code? Code a useful bot or update an offline report. Proofread a finished translation. Let SuggestBot suggest pages for you to edit. Fix-up projects Article Categorization Bad category names Blank pages Bad links Dead-end pages Disambig pages w/ links Duplicated sections Elements of Style Linkrot Orphaned categories Punctuation Missing articles Most wanted articles Most wanted stubs Neglected articles Shortpages Stub sorting Syntax Project Templates with red links Transwiki log cleanup Typos Untagged Images Untagged stubs User categorisation Active improvement teams Cleaning department Counter vandalism unit Categorization projects Cleanup Taskforce Version 1.0 Encyclopedic Standards Countering systemic bias

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 None More... • Learn how Fix wikilinks WFFF-TV Hyun Joo-yup Spain under Joseph Bonaparte Max Fishman Valentino Rossi More... • Learn how Update with new information Munich Airport Robert Stoltz Euro gold and silver commemorative coins (Slovenia) GROW (series) Penn State University Creamery More... • Learn how Expand short articles Aloysia wrightii Verbena bracteata Verbena lilacina Rhaphithamnus Citharexylum berlandieri More... • Learn how Check and add references Ghost net Jeanne d'Ussel Barnet Kellman Effects of long-term benzodiazepine use Helms Amendment to the Foreign Assistance Act More... • Learn how Fix original research issues Backdoor (computing) Taxation in Afghanistan Dynamometer Niels Hoegh Bronnum Khadija Ismayilova More... • Learn how Improve lead sections Parkhurst Reformed Church 2012 Aberto de Florianópolis – Singles Defense against swimmer incursions Marc Battier Khaleda Zia More... • Learn how Add an image Moukoukoulou Dam Milligan Street, Perth Morning roll Mandai Road Miami University Hamilton More... • Learn how Translate and clean up Wuliang Pagoda Mahoroba (train) UPTI Affair Theodor Körner (politician) ASD Forza e Coraggio More... • Learn how 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.

Collaborations To improve the quality of articles which are short or lacking in detail, Wikipedia's community organizes collaborations to expand articles.

Collaboration of the week Help edit Lee Smith (baseball), Wikipedia's current collaboration of the week! Please help to bring it up to featured article standard. Lee Arthur Smith (born December 4, 1957 in Shreveport, Louisiana) was a pitcher in Major Leagues. Smith played for eight teams in both the NL and AL in his 18-year career, beginning with the Cubs in 1980. Smith led the league in saves four times during his career and by the time of his retirement in 1997 (with the Expos), he was the all-time leader with 478 saves. Smith used his fastball and size (he stood 6'6") to intimidate batters during the late innings of the game and became one of the premier closers of the 1980's and early 1990's. You can still help with last week's article, Textile (see improvements), or help pick next week's article. Article Collaboration and Improvement Drive The Article Collaboration and Improvement Drive works on an article that needs a lot of help to reach featured-article standard. The subject of this week's article improvement drive is Aaron Coundley (random unreferenced BLP of the day for 27 Dec 2024 - provided by User:AnomieBOT/RandomPage via WP:RANDUNREF): A picture of Aang and Momo Aang is a fictional character and the main protagonist for Nickelodeon's animated television series Avatar: The Last Airbender, which was created by Michael Dante DiMartino and Bryan Konietzko. He is voiced by Zach Tyler Eisen. Twelve-year-old Aang is the last surviving Airbender, a monk of the Air Nomads' Southern Air Temple, and is a supercentenarian at the incarnation age of 112. He is the current incarnation of the Avatar, the spirit of the planet manifested in human form. Aang, as the Avatar, controls the elements and is tasked with keeping the Four Nations at peace. Aang is the series' reluctant hero and comic, spending a century in suspended animation before joining new friends Katara and Sokka on a quest to master the elements and save their world from the war-hungry imperialist Fire Nation. You can still help with last week's article, World War I, or help pick next week's article. Good Article Collaboration of the week The Good Article Collaboration of the week works to polish already good articles to the highest of standards. This week's improvement drive is Elvis Presley: Elvis Aaron Presley began his career as one of the first performers of rockabilly, an uptempo fusion of country and rhythm and blues with a strong back beat. His novel versions of existing songs, mixing "black" and "white" sounds, made him popular—and controversial—as did his uninhibited stage and television performances. He recorded songs in the rock and roll genre, with tracks like "Hound Dog" and "Jailhouse Rock" later embodying the style. Presley had a versatile voice and had unusually wide success encompassing other genres, including gospel, blues, ballads and pop. To date, he is the only performer to have been inducted into four separate music halls of fame. You can still help pick next week's article.

Collaborations by topic See Template:COTWs for the most up-to-date listing. 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. They are separate from, though may work with, Collaborations.

Editorial departments Wikipedia has hundreds of departments manned by a small army of volunteers. Here are some on the most general; for more specific departments, see the appropriate page.

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