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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 infrequent events
- The Core Contest is a six-week contest focusing on improving Wikipedia's most important and most viewed articles. Cash prizes will be awarded. The next (eleventh) contest will place from April 15 to May 31 2023... Entries at Wikipedia:The Core Contest/Entries.
- WikiProject Women in Green are hosting their fourth Good Article (GA) Editathon from June 1 to 30, 2023. Participants are invited to improve articles about women or women's works (e.g., books, films) and gain experience in the GA peer review process as either a nominator or reviewer. Both new and experienced editors are welcome – resources and one-on-one support will be provided. Participants are eligible for a barnstar at the end of the event.
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 May 2023 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 begins 1 May 2023, 00:00 (UTC), and ends 31 May 2023, 23:59 (UTC).
- Wikipedia:WikiProject Women in Red 2023 Events: WP:WIR/EVENTS - updated monthly
- 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.
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- WikiProject Apple Inc.'s future is being discussed here. If you're interested in Apple, feel join and discuss!
- WikiProject Skiing and Snowboarding is currently being revived from inactive status and is looking for interested participants to join. Many articles under the project scope are in need of improvement/updates, and assessment needs to be worked on. The project is also currently being restructured, so any input is welcome! VarietyEditor (talk) 01:30, 16 January 2023 (UTC)
- Requesting new members for the Stubsensor WikiProject. It seems as nobody but me is currently on this. The list is almost done, yet more people would be very helpful. There is about 8.5 pages left, we can do this. If you are interested, then why not join? SikiWtideI (Speak to the backwards police) 02:45, 5 November 2022 (UTC)SikiWtideI
- Unreferenced BLP rescue is working to clear the unreferenced biographies of living persons backlog. Ensuring reliable sourcing for all claims about living people is a high priority, and all help is appreciated! Thebiguglyalien (talk) 16:06, 17 April 2023 (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.
Problems
- Citations that are automatically generated based on ISBN are currently broken. This affects citations made with the VisualEditor Automatic tab, and the use of the citoid API in gadgets and user scripts. Work is ongoing to restore this feature. [1]
Changes later this week
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 16 May. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 17 May. It will be on all wikis from 18 May (calendar).
- Starting on Wednesday, a new set of Wikipedias will get "Add a link" (Gorontalo Wikipedia, Hausa Wikipedia, Hakka Chinese Wikipedia, Hawaiian Wikipedia, Fiji Hindi Wikipedia, Croatian Wikipedia, Upper Sorbian Wikipedia, Haitian Creole Wikipedia, Interlingua Wikipedia, Interlingue Wikipedia, Igbo Wikipedia, Iloko Wikipedia, Ingush Wikipedia, Ido Wikipedia, Icelandic Wikipedia, Inuktitut Wikipedia, Jamaican Patois Wikipedia, Javanese Wikipedia). This is part of the progressive deployment of this tool to more Wikipedias. The communities can configure how this feature works locally. [2]
Future changes
- There is a recently formed team at the Wikimedia Foundation which will be focusing on experimenting with new tools. Currently they are building a prototype ChatGPT plugin that allows information generated by ChatGPT to be properly attributed to the Wikimedia projects.
Gadget and userscript developers should replace
jquery.cookie
withmediawiki.cookie
. Thejquery.cookie
library will be removed in ~1 month, and staff developers will run a script to replace any remaining uses at that time. [3]
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