Wikipedia:Community portal

Community portal

Welcome to the community portal!

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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For a listing of ongoing discussions and current requests, see the Dashboard.

Help desk

Ask questions about how to use or edit Wikipedia

The Teahouse

Friendly help for newcomers

Reference desk

Ask research questions about any topic except Wikipedia itself

WikiProjects

Work with other editors on a shared area of interest

Dispute resolution

Get help resolving disputes

Village pump sections (view all)

Policy

Discuss existing and proposed policies

Technical

Discuss technical issues about Wikipedia

Proposals

Discuss new proposals that are not policy-related

Idea lab

Incubate new ideas before formally proposing them

WMF

Discuss issues involving the Wikimedia Foundation

Miscellaneous

Post messages that do not fit into any other category

Community bulletin board

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.

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 July 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 July 2024 backlog drive was 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 began on 1 July, 00:00 (UTC), and ended on 31 July, 23:59 (UTC). Stay tuned for the next event.
Wikipedia:WikiProject Women in Red 2024 Events:

Recently completed:	Science Fiction and Fantasy
New this month:	Indigenous women Women in film and stage
Ongoing initiatives:	#1day1woman Education Translation Women in Sports
Upcoming events:	Ideas

**Meetups for August 2024** +/-
Christchurch 30	August 4, 2024 (2024-08-04)
NC Triangle Wiknic	August 6, 2024 (2024-08-06)
Seattle Wiknic	August 11, 2024 (2024-08-11)
London 207	August 11, 2024 (2024-08-11)
San Diego 112 Wiknic	August 17, 2024 (2024-08-17)
BLT Office Hours	August 25, 2024 (2024-08-25)
San Diego 113	August 26, 2024 (2024-08-26)

**Meetups for September 2024** +/-
BLT Office Hours	September 22, 2024 (2024-09-22)
San Diego 114	September 23, 2024 (2024-09-23)

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.

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 Outlines news:
- Outline drafts nearing completion include:
- The Outline of the week is Outline of architecture.
- Please help improve them. —The Transhumanist 12:23, 9 May 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.

Feature news

Editors using the Visual Editor in languages that use non-Latin characters for numbers, such as Hindi, Manipuri and Eastern Arabic, may notice some changes in the formatting of reference numbers. This is a side effect of preparing a new sub-referencing feature, and will also allow fixing some general numbering issues in Visual Editor. If you notice any related problems on your wiki, please share details at the project talkpage.

Bugs status

Some logged-in editors were briefly unable to edit or load pages last week. These errors were mainly due to the addition of new linter rules which led to caching problems. Fixes have been applied and investigations are continuing.
Editors can use the IP Information tool to get information about IP addresses. This tool is available as a Beta Feature in your preferences. The tool was not available for a few days last week, but is now working again. Thank you to Shizhao for filing the bug report. You can read about that, and 28 other community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week.

Project updates

There are new features and improvements to Phabricator from the Release Engineering and Collaboration Services teams, and some volunteers, including: the search systems, the new task creation system, the login systems, the translation setup which has resulted in support for more languages (thanks to Pppery), and fixes for many edge-case errors. You can read details about these and other improvements in this summary.
There is an update on the Charts project. The team has decided which visualization library to use, which chart types to start focusing on, and where to store chart definitions.
One new wiki has been created: a Wikivoyage in Czech (voy:cs:) [1]

Learn more

There is a new Wikimedia Foundation data center in São Paulo, Brazil which helps to reduce load times.
There is new user research on problems with the process of uploading images.
Commons Impact Metrics are now available via data dumps and API.
The latest quarterly Technical Community Newsletter is now available.

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Requests for comment

Discussions in the following areas have requested wider attention via Requests for comment:

General notices

Help out

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.)

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