Wikipedia:Community portal
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This page provides a listing of current collaborations, tasks, and news about English Wikipedia. New to Wikipedia? See the contributing to Wikipedia page or our tutorial for everything you need to know to get started. For a listing of internal project pages of interest, see the department directory.
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The pages below can be highly useful for helping you to become more familiar and more acclimated to Wikipedia.
- Wikipedia:Who writes Wikipedia?
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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.
Yearly or aperiodic events
- WP:30 kB drive – Expand short vital articles to 30 kB, only in August 2022. Semi-automated tools (AWB) are encouraged, though adding content and references increase byte count the most.
- Wikipedia:WikiCup. The WikiCup is a championship that has taken place every year on Wikipedia since 2007. The Cup is played and won by skill of editing. The purpose of the Cup is to encourage content creation and improvement and make editing on Wikipedia more fun. There is a new round every month, until the current contest ends; below are the details.
- May 1 to June 28 – 32 contestants left.
- July 1 to August 29 – 16 contestants left.
- September 1 to October 31 – 8 finalists left, the contestant with the highest score will win!
Monthly or continuously ongoing 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 July 2022 backlog drive is a one-month-long effort of 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 listed on the GOCE Requests page. It ended 31 July 2022, 23:59 (UTC). Stay tuned for the next event.
- Wikipedia:WikiProject Women in Red July 2022 Events: Alphabet Run: A to B women's names (new); Women of the Baltic States (new); Women+Climate (year-long initiative); #1day1woman (continuing).
- The 100,000 Challenge. The quest to bring about 100,000 article improvements and creations globally through a series of 50,000/10,000/1000 Challenges for different regions and countries. This is a loose challenge, a list will not be maintained here, but the components will function independently on each of the subpages. Will be updated every week or two.
- The 50,000 Destubbing Challenge is a long term challenge to destub 50,000 articles on English Wikipedia for every country and topic. It may take decades to accomplish, it may take ten years, it all depends on how many people actively contribute.
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.
- Wikipedia:WikiProject Unreferenced articles is urgently looking for volunteers to assist in the backlog of articles with no or insufficient citations. With over 142,000 articles, there is something for everyone. If you'd like to contribute, please announce your involvement at the Volunteers page Preceding unsigned comment added by Kazamzam (talk • contribs) 8 June 2022 (UTC)
- Wikipedia:WikiProject The Beatles is trying to get all Beatles albums to at least GA status (currently we’re working on Please Please Me). If you want to chip in, please announce your involvement on the talk page. Preceding unsigned comment added by Blueskiesdry (talk • contribs) 13 April 2022 (UTC)
- Wikipedia:WikiProject Merseyside - Trying to revive this; If you would like to help make sure you check here to sign up or to get suggestions of where to help --- 𝓙𝓪𝓭𝓮 (Talk) • 𝓉𝒽𝑒𝓎/𝓉𝒽𝑒𝓂 22:22, 28 February 2022 (UTC)
Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
Recent changes
- The www.wikibooks.org and www.wikiquote.org portal pages now use an automated update system. Other project portals will be updated over the next few months. [1]
Problems
- Last week, some wikis were in read-only mode for a few minutes because of an emergency switch of their main database (targeted wikis). [2]
Changes later this week
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 26 July. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 27 July. It will be on all wikis from 28 July (calendar).- The external link icon will change slightly in the skins Vector legacy and Vector 2022. The new icon uses simpler shapes to be more recognizable on low-fidelity screens. [3]
- Administrators will now see buttons on user pages for "Change block" and "Unblock user" instead of just "Block user" if the user is already blocked. [4]
The Future meetings
- The next open meeting with the Web team about Vector (2022) will take place tomorrow (26 July).
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