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Notices

• The Military history WikiProject is hosting a month-long backlog reduction drive to reduce the number of military history articles needing attention. All editors are encouraged to participate!

Project pages seeking contributors

Discussions

Discussions in the following areas have requested wider attention:

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 are not ready to fly solo, you can participate in a Collaboration.

Things to do

General tasks

• Patrol new pages and help improve new articles.
• Category:Wikipedia backlog always needs attention.
• Assess articles by quality or by importance—pick a topic of interest and grade according to that WikiProject's scale. (See links from article talk pages.)
• Adopt a basic topic list (Outline), to help develop and maintain a table of contents to a major subject on Wikipedia.
• Let SuggestBot suggest pages for you to improve.
• Update pages with old (ref or note template) citations to the new references format.
• Do you have a historical perspective? Articles slanted towards recent events might need to be looked at with a new eye.

Commenting

• Respond to a request for comment or Wikiquette alert, or provide a third opinion.
• Give a requested editor review.
• Peer review or give feedback on some articles.
• Comment at Featured portal candidates and Portals at peer review.
• Make recommendations on articles listed at Good article reassessment.
• Respond to the Reward board or Bounty board.

Special skills

• Can you draw or take pictures? Make a requested image.
• 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.

Fix-up projects

Open tasks

Here are some tasks you can do:

• Wikify: List of education institutes in Bareilly, Bad Faith (novel), Their Dogs Came with Them, Trouble in Paradise (Parker novel), Up from Jericho Tel, More...
• Orphans: Jean E. Fox Tree, Vinson Filyaw, Bottom Dollar (album), Hanumanthampatti, Kim Mantzouratou, More...
• Copyedit: List of Galician monarchs, Bellvitge Biomedical Research Institute, Project Runway Israel, List of fictional female robots and cyborgs, Highlands High School (Fort Thomas, Kentucky), More...
• Update: Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, Nation branding, Raydiation 2, List of bus routes in Staffordshire, High Efficiency Video Coding, More...
• Style: Sentence processing, ESR Technology, ESCM-SP, Bill Jordan (outdoorsman), Computational lithography, More...
• Translation: Higüey (city), Slave name, Economy of Turin, Santa Fe (Mexico City), Chang Hyo-hui, More...
• Cleanup: Rolland Hatfield, List of recognized higher education accreditation organizations, McKinney Falls State Park, Enaliornis, Balvenie, More...
• Verify: Canidae, Marc-André Hamelin, Saint Gabriel Possenti Society, Pawn duel, Stochastic resonance (sensory neurobiology), More...
• Neutrality: Endec, Al Mukhabarat Al A'amah, 1971 Boston Red Sox season, Cobell v. Salazar, Interactive Mathematics Program, More...
• Original research: Dinosaur Comics, Xenia (Greek), Junie B. Jones, Link flooding, Umapine, Oregon, More...
• Merge: Verification and validation, What's New, Beelzebub?, Chariots of the Dogs, Moai Better Blues, Ice Station Santa, More...
• Split: History of British nationality law, Tongyeong–Daejeon·Jungbu Expressway, Nihon Igai Zenbu Chinbotsu, Judæo-Persian, Blackness (African-American subculture), More...
• Stubs: 23rd World Science Fiction Convention, Azumah Nelson Sports Complex, St. Vincent of Paul Catholic Church, WYCB, James Trezvant, More...
• Expand: Johannes Meursius, Gharaunda, Carl Ginet, Fuel economy in automobiles, United States Army Reserve Command, More...
• Article Incubator: R. H. Sankhala, Female Servants in 18th Century England, Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy (film), Gian Carlo Guicciardi, Tim McAuliffe, More...
• Article deletion discussions: Log/Yesterday, People, Albums and songs, Sports, Actors and filmmakers, More...
• Article Requests: Tourism in Ecuador, Jan-Erik Lundquist, Flora of Hawaii, Adamantine drill, Banking in Egypt, More...
• Image Requests: Northern river shark, Hong Kong Camellia, Octofone, Munchy box, New England Boy Scouts, More...
• Mediation Cabal: History of ancient Israel and Judah, Senkaku Islands, Seven Laws of Noah, Kendrick mass, File 18, Adding Redlinks, Time capsule, Christian apologetics, Albanian nationalism, jimbrossard, Blue Water Navy Humble Indie Bundle or Help mediate an open case!

Not sure where to report a certain type of problem with article content? If it exists, it is probably listed at Wikipedia:Maintenance.

Purge the cache of the list above

Collaborations

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

Collaborations by topic

Other collaborations

Active improvement teams

• Countering systemic bias
• Version 1.0
• Spam fighting team
• Categorization projects
• Spotlight

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.

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 & 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 contents – Browse help pages
• Help desk
• Where to ask questions

Editing

• The Manual of Style guidelines and tutorial
• How to edit a page
• Contributing
• How to write a great article
• A list of free online resources for research
• 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 to both articles and how to work with fellow editors. For easy access, the shortcuts to the pages are also listed.

Article standards

Working with others

Resources

New user information

Introduction · Sandbox · Help · Adoption · What Wikipedia is not · Glossary · Account benefits · Planning school assignments · New contributors' help page · FAQ

Ways to communicate

Contact (overview) · Discussion pages · Mailing lists · IRC chat · Meetups · User pages · Requests for comment · Public watchlists · Regional notice boards · Administrators' noticeboard · Requests for article feedback · Local Embassy

Community support groups and programs

Welcoming committee · Editor assistance · Wiki-adoption · Birthday Committee · Harmonious editing club · Wikipedia awards program · Dept. of Fun · Missing encyclopedic articles

Common procedures

Featured content · Good articles · Requests for feedback · Deleting a page (full policy) · Moving a page (naming policies) · Protecting a page (full policy) · Reverting a page · Administrator nominations (summaries) · Category-based access

How to resolve conflicts

Stay cool! · Be nice to newcomers · Alert others · Dispute resolution · Arbitration policy

Community information

About Wikipedia · Goings-on · About Wikimedia · Wikipedians · Wiki-adoption · Donations · Merchandise · Administrators · Babel · Culture · Games · Humor · Mottoes

Related communities

Tip of the day

Many pages in the Wikipedia, Portal, and User namespaces, have subpages. WikiProjects and user pages for instance often have subpages, and Portals always do.

To get a list of all the subpages for a particular page, click on Special pages in the toolbox menu on the left side of your screen. Then click on All pages which is at the top of the list that appears. Then select the namespace the page is in (from the pulldown menu), and enter the pagename in the inbox that has the caption Display pages starting at, and press Go.

If the page's name you entered was "pagename", then all the subpages would start with "pagename/".

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