Wikipedia:Community portal

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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.
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Translate and clean up

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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, 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.

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WikiProject Missing Encyclopedic articles
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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%
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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!

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Portal report

The following portals are in need of attention/upkeep:

Portal:Melbourne Newly created
Portal:Perth Newly created
Portal:Fergie (singer) Newly created
Portal:Donald Trump Newly created
Portal:A. R. 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:

See also

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.

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...use the search box as a quick-and-dirty edit window.

  1. Copy/paste the title into the search box, followed by a "#"
  2. Copy/paste the section title after the "#"
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