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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. Interact more Help desk Reference desk Village pump Peer editing help WikiProjects Barnstars Dispute resolution Village pump sections: Policy · Proposals · Tech · Misc Reference desks: Computing · Entertainment · Humanities · Language · Maths · Science · Travel · Misc · Archives Help out You can help improve the articles listed below! This list updates frequently, so check back here for more tasks to try. 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Improve popular low quality articles (top 5,000 articles by pageviews with low ORES article class predictions.) Other helpful tasks include, creating requested articles, fixing unreferenced statements, 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. Community bulletin board 22 December 2016   Year in review: Looking back on Wikimedia's 2016 Special report: German Wikipedia ArbCom implodes amid revelation of member's far-right political role In focus: Active user page filter prevents vandalism and harassment News and notes: English Wikipedia ArbCom election results; strategic planning update Op-ed: Operation successful, patient dead—outreach workshops in Namibia In the media: In brief—coverage of gender gap initiatives, banner fundraising, and more Traffic report: Post-election traffic blues Featured content: The Christmas edition Blog: Wiki Loves Monuments contest winners announced Technology report: Labs improvements impact 2016 Tool Labs survey results Recent research: One study and several abstracts Single page Book Front page About Subscribe Suggestions Archives Centralized discussion Two requests for adminship are in progress. Allow FFD discussions to be closed as delete via NAC Considering additional use cases for extended confirmed protection Hosting content from countries that do not have copyright relations with the U.S. Stand-alone lists - eligibility for nomination as Good Articles Closing deletion discussions with low participation Patrolling new pages without a user right Pending changes level 2 This week's article for improvement is Tectonics Please be bold and help to improve this article! WikiProject Missing Encyclopedic articles (% done) Project page—The goal of this project is to ensure that Wikipedia has a corresponding article for every article in every other encyclopedia. Sign in! Monthly focus: MacTutor biographies 39 left 1911 verification: 12.2% ACF Regionals answers: 64.1% Hotlist of topics: 88.7% General topics: 79.6% Science topics: 92% Catholic Encyclopedia: 86.2% Easton's Bible Dictionary: 88% Encyclopaedia Biblica : 69.5% Evangelical Dictionary of Theology: 80.6% Gutenberg authors : 57.1% Jewish Encyclopedia : 39% Literary Encyclopedia: 81.9% List of Poles: 6% Find-A-Grave: 85.1% Stanford Archive answers 97.9% Missing paintings 60.8% Miscellaneous Many other lists of politicians, songs, TV shows and others. Overall progress: 65.2% Spread the word through {{Project missing articles}} Active Wiki Fixup Projects Article Rescue Squadron Check Wikipedia Cleanup Dead-end pages Disambig pages w/ links Fix common mistakes Free images to Commons Geo-coordinates Missing articles Most-wanted articles Orphaned articles Red Link Recovery Requested articles Single editor Stubsensor Today's articles for improvement Uncategorised articles Unreferenced articles Wikification needed Main · Inactive · Mini 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! WikiProjects and Task Forces 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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Rahman Newly created Portal:Lighthouses Newly created Portal:Shreya Ghoshal Newly created Portal:Tuvalu Newly created Portal:Half-track Newly created Portal:Virginia Woolf Newly created Portal:Theosophy Newly created Portal:Machine learning Newly created Portal:Kyrgyzstan Newly created Portal:Trichy Newly created Portal:Space The selected article excerpts were copied and pasted between 2006 and 2009. The leads of the corresponding articles have greatly improved since then. Portal:Thinking "Selected" sections need new material. Been the same for years. 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: Biographies Economy and trade History and geography Language and linguistics Media, the arts, and architecture Politics, government, and law Religion and philosophy Science and mathematics Society, sports, and culture Wikipedia policies and guidelines Wikipedia style and naming WikiProjects and collaborations Wikipedia technical issues and templates Wikipedia proposals Unsorted See also Dashboard News Goings-on Milestones Meetups In the media Mailing lists Wikimedia community portals 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. Newest featured content Articles Topics Portals Operation Infinite Reach Cliff Clinkscales Belgium national football team Jochen Rindt Tidus Nominative determinism Banksia aculeata Alabama Centennial half dollar Love, Inc. (TV series) Tahiti rail Bee-eater Montreal Laboratory Dick Cresswell Gottlob Berger Seri Rambai Overview of Lady Gaga U.S. Highways in Michigan World Fantasy Award Overview of Katy Perry 2015 Vuelta a España Final Fantasy series 1961 Atlantic hurricane season Overview of Leonardo DiCaprio Liverpool F.C. 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