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This page provides a listing of current collaborations, tasks, and news about English Wikipedia.
For a listing of ongoing discussions and current requests, see the dashboard.
New to Wikipedia? See the contributing to Wikipedia page for everything you need to know to get started.
To find other internal project pages of interest, see the department directory.
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Village pump sections: Policy · Proposals · Tech · Misc
Reference desks: Computing · Entertainment · Humanities · Language · Maths · Science · Travel · Misc · Archives
Help out
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Counter systemic bias by creating new articles on missing important female scientists.
Improve popular low quality articles (top 5,000 articles by pageviews with low ORES article class predictions.)
Other helpful tasks include, fixing vandalism, welcoming newcomers, link recovery, categorization, and numerous behind the scenes tasks like moving free images to Wikimedia Commons. See Wikipedia:Maintenance for more maintenance tasks.
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General notices
- Free subscriptions to high-quality paywalled journals, newspaper archives, and online reference works are available for Wikipedia editors. For more information, see Wikipedia:TWL/Journals"
Projects seeking help
Also consider posting WikiProject, Task Force, and Collaboration news at the Signpost's WikiProject Report page.
- The Africa Destubathon is being held from October 15 - November 27 2016. Substantial prizes have been proposed, with a prize for improving the most stubs for every African country. It needs contributors to improve the diversity of content from geography and wildlife to women biographies across the African continent. Sign up if interested!
- The Tip of The Day department is looking for tricks and techniques. If you have a special way of doing things, please stop by and share.
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- Being overhauled or expanded
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- Nearing completion (need remainder of annotations added)
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- Outlines in need of attention
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- Need link placement
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The following portals are in need of attention/upkeep:
The following portals have interesting design features that you may find useful:
| Portal:South East England |
A "parent" portal that uses selected content from several "child" portals, chosen at random for each type of content. |
| Portal:Philosophy |
Automatically cycles through 52 "Selected philosophers", one per week, year after year. |
| Portal:Arts |
Uses random generators to display random featured status selections. |
Discussions and collaborations
Discussions in the following areas have requested wider attention via Requests for comment:
See also
Here is a list of the main community pages of Wikipedia's sister projects.
All of these projects are multilingual and open-content. |
| Meta-Wiki – |
Coordination of all Wikimedia projects. |
| Wiktionary – |
A collaborative multilingual dictionary. |
| Wikinews – |
News stories written by readers. |
| Wikibooks – |
A collection of collaborative non-fiction books. |
| Wikiquote – |
A compendium of referenced quotations. |
| Wikisource – |
A repository for free source texts. |
| Wikispecies – |
A directory of species. |
| Wikiversity – |
Where teachers learn, and learners teach. |
| Wikivoyage – |
A world-wide travel guide. |
| Wikidata – |
A free knowledge base that can be read and
edited by humans and machines alike. |
| Commons – |
Repository for free images and other media files. |
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Namespace entry points
The most important non-talk namespaces have one or more centralized pages (or entry points) from which a user can more easily find his way around. These pages link to the most important pages, which in turn eventually lead in an evolving organized way to the rest of the pages in the namespace. Here are the entry points for the namespaces which have them (note that a namespace's entry points can reside on other namespaces):
To add this auto-updating template to your user page, use {{totd}}
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