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Contents: 1 Community bulletin board 2 Help out 3 Collaborations 4 Guidelines, help, and resources

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Community bulletin board Post your Wikipedia-related news and announcements here!

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 blitz. The October 2024 editing blitz is a one-week-long effort by the Guild of Copy Editors to reduce its backlog. The themes are: articles on the GOCE Requests page from June to August 2024, and articles on the June 2023 and July 2023 backlog. It began on 13 October, 00:00 (UTC), and will end on 19 October, 23:59 (UTC). Wikipedia:WikiProject Women in Red 2024 Events: Recently completed: Translation Women writers & their works Geofocus: Islands A–H New this month: Women in STEM Geofocus: Islands I–P Women in archaeology Ongoing initiatives: #1day1woman Education Upcoming events: Ideas Meetups for October 2024 +/- NC Triangle Trivia October 1, 2024 (2024-10-01) London 209 October 13, 2024 (2024-10-13) Seattle meetup October 15, 2024 (2024-10-15) Oxford 105 October 20, 2024 (2024-10-20) WikiClub Toronto meetup October 20, 2024 (2024-10-20) Wiki Uff da! - Event 1 October 23, 2024 (2024-10-23) Edinburgh 18 October 26, 2024 (2024-10-26) NYC Wikidata Day October 26, 2024 (2024-10-26) Chicago Wikidata Day October 26, 2024 (2024-10-26) Seattle Wikidata Day October 26, 2024 (2024-10-26) San Diego 115 October 26, 2024 (2024-10-26) BLT Office Hours October 27, 2024 (2024-10-27) Meetups for November 2024 +/- London 210 November 10, 2024 (2024-11-10) US Mountain West online November 12, 2024 (2024-11-12) Wiki Uff da! - Event 2 November 14, 2024 (2024-11-14) Seattle meetup November 19, 2024 (2024-11-19) Wiki Uff da! - Event 3 November 20, 2024 (2024-11-20) WikiCon Australia 2024 November 23, 2024 (2024-11-23) BLT Office Hours November 24, 2024 (2024-11-24) 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 Outline of the Kennedy family 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 dyslexia Outline drafts nearing completion include: Draft:Outline of Delhi Draft:Outline of George Washington The Outline of the week is Outline of critical theory. 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. Updates for editors The Structured Discussion extension (also known as Flow) is starting to be removed. This extension is unmaintained and causes issues. It will be replaced by DiscussionTools, which is used on any regular talk page. A first set of wikis are being contacted. These wikis are invited to stop using Flow, and to move all Flow boards to sub-pages, as archives. At these wikis, a script will move all Flow pages that aren't a sub-page to a sub-page automatically, starting on 22 October 2024. On 28 October 2024, all Flow boards at these wikis will be set in read-only mode. [1][2] WMF's Search Platform team is working on making it easier for readers to perform text searches in their language. A change last week on over 30 languages makes it easier to find words with accents and other diacritics. This applies to both full-text search and to types of advanced search such as the hastemplate and incategory keywords. More technical details (including a few other minor search upgrades) are available. [3] View all 20 community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week. For example, EditCheck was installed at Russian Wikipedia, and fixes were made for some missing user interface styles. Updates for technical contributors Editors who use the Toolforge tool Earwig's Copyright Violation Detector will now be required to log in with their Wikimedia account before running checks using the "search engine" option. This change is needed to help prevent external bots from misusing the system. Thanks to Chlod for these improvements. [4] Phabricator users can create tickets and add comments on existing tickets via Email again. Sending email to Phabricator has been fixed. [5] Some HTML elements in the interface are now wrapped with a <bdi> element, to make our HTML output more aligned with Web standards. More changes like this will be coming in future weeks. This change might break some tools that rely on the previous HTML structure of the interface. Note that relying on the HTML structure of the interface is not recommended and might break at any time. [6] In depth The latest monthly MediaWiki Product Insights newsletter is available. This edition includes: updates on Wikimedia's authentication system, research to simplify feature development in the MediaWiki platform, updates on Parser Unification and MathML rollout, and more. The latest quarterly Technical Community Newsletter is now available. This edition include: research about improving topic suggestions related to countries, improvements to PHPUnit tests, and more. Tech news prepared by Tech News writers and posted by bot • Contribute • Translate • Get help • Give feedback • Subscribe or unsubscribe. 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Help out Wikipedia is, by number of articles, the largest encyclopedia ever to exist. However, many articles 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 Respond to a request for comment, Wikiquette alert or provide a third opinion. Adopt a basic topic list, to help develop and maintain a table of contents to a major subject on Wikipedia. Give a requested editor review. Can you draw or take pictures? Make a requested image. Peer review or give feedback on some articles. Make recommendations on articles listed at Good article review. Respond to the Reward board or Bounty board. Are you good at photo editing? Then try cleaning up some of these images, or helping out at the Graphics Lab. Can you use GIS tools? Help make requested maps. Can you communicate in another language? There are articles that need translation into English. You can also proofread a translation. Let SuggestBot suggest pages for you to improve. Update pages with old (ref or note template) citations to the new references format. Patrol new pages and help improving new articles. Frequent IRC user, or a wikignome? Visit WikiProject Spotlight to join in on their latest collaboration. Fix-up projects Article categorization Articles to be split Articles written by a single editor Bad category names Category needs checking Core topics needing cleanup Dead-end pages Disambig pages with links Elements of Style External links League of Copyeditors Linkrot Notability Missing articles Most wanted articles Most wanted stubs Name disambiguation Stub sorting Transwiki log cleanup Typos Unreferenced articles Untagged images

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 Apollo Creed Child abuse in China Three Discourses on Imagined Occasions Stefan George 2024 African Nations Championship More... • Learn how Fix wikilinks Arthur Japin Max Fishman National symbols of North Korea Warez scene Gaming Benni More... • Learn how Update with new information National Center for Complementary and Integrative Health Leppington railway station DARPA Moscow Exchange List of Farm to Market Roads in Texas (100–199) More... • Learn how Expand short articles Gari convexa Antalis vulgaris Laevidentaliidae Rokopella segonzaci Neopilina starobogatovi More... • Learn how Check and add references Giovanni De Micheli Single (William Wei song) Poornima Bhagyaraj Dual-route hypothesis to reading aloud Ford Explorer More... • Learn how Fix original research issues Proxmap sort Sullia Taxation in Afghanistan Holenarasipura William Scheves More... • Learn how Improve lead sections V-2 rocket facilities of World War II Mike Rimbaud Franz Borkenau IC3PEAK Vernon Berrangé More... • Learn how Add an image Migan Mount Coffee Hydropower Project Metropolitan Baptist Church (Washington, D.C.) Milthorpe, Hunters Hill M2 motorway (Northern Ireland) More... • Learn how Translate and clean up Nancy municipal archives Avtokam Susumu Kodai Knulp Taaghche 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 that are short or lacking in detail, Wikipedia's community organizes collaborations to expand articles.
Core topics collaboration The Amazon River flowing through the rainforest The Core Topics Collaboration works to improve essential Wikipedia topics. The current collaboration is Amazon rainforest. The Amazon Rainforest (Brazilian Portuguese: Floresta Amazônica or Amazônia; Spanish: Selva Amazónica or Amazonía) is a moist broadleaf forest in the Amazon Basin of South America. The area, also known as Amazonia, the Amazon jungle or the Amazon Basin, encompasses seven million square kilometers (1.7 billion acres), though the forest itself occupies some 5.5 million square kilometers (1.4 billion acres), located within nine nations: Brazil (with 60 percent of the rainforest), Peru (with 13 percent of the rainforest, second after Brazil), Colombia, Venezuela, Ecuador, Bolivia, Guyana, Suriname, and French Guiana. States or departments in four nations bear the name Amazonas after it. The Amazon represents over half of the planet's remaining rainforests and comprises the largest and most species-rich tract of tropical rainforest in the world. You can help pick the next Core Topic collaboration article.
Collaborations by topic See Template:COTWs for the most up-to-date listing.	Other collaborations Active improvement teams Countering systemic bias Encyclopedic Standards Version 1.0 Cleanup Taskforce Spam fighting team Categorization projects Maintenance Help clear up the backlog of articles to be merged! Merging is the process combining two (or sometimes more) articles into a new article, or adding the content of one article to another. You'll need to be familiar with the associated templates. Before you begin, you need to know the details of merging and moving pages. After you read that, you're ready to begin consolidating and improving articles! 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. Language translation Wikipedia is not just in English. Versions exist in many different languages. To fill in some of the English Wikipedia's gaps, we translate articles from other languages into English. You can view a list of articles that need translation from any language, or, in a few cases, by only one language (this is only available for the more popular languages).

Guidelines, help, and resources Wikipedia has many help pages, policies, and departments. Here are some of the most general. For a comprehensive list of Wikipedia's departments, see the Wikipedia department directory.

Help Wikipedia help – Browse help pages Where to ask questions Editing The Manual of Style guidelines and tutorial How to edit a page A basic editing Cheatsheet Contributing How to write a great article Where to find information for articles A list of template messages What special pages are Tools for editing Request newspapers or magazines Policies and guidelines Wikipedia has many established policies, guidelines, conventions, and traditions. This is a very brief sampling of some of the most important; for more information, see the main policies and guidelines page. Policies and guidelines apply both to articles and how to work with fellow editors. For easy access, the shortcuts to the pages are also listed. Article standards Be bold! WP:BB • WP:BOLD Citing sources WP:CITE • WP:REF Copyrights WP:C Editing WP:EP External links WP:EL Image use WP:IUP Include only verifiable information WP:V Manual of Style WP:MOS • WP:STYLE Neutral point of view WP:NPOV  • WP:NEU What Wikipedia is not WP:WWIN • WP:NOT Working with others Assume good faith WP:AGF • WP:FAITH Avoid instruction creep WP:CREEP Civility and etiquette WP:CIV • WP:EQ Consensus WP:CON Don't bite the newcomers WP:BITE Don't disrupt Wikipedia to illustrate a point WP:POINT No personal attacks WP:NPA • WP:ATTACK Resolving disputes WP:DR Vandalism WP:VAND

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