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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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Also consider posting WikiProject, Task Force, and Collaboration news at the Signpost's WikiProject Report page.
- The Tip of The Day department needs editors for proofreading and maintaining tips for accuracy before they go live. We are also always looking for new and better tips. If you have an especially useful way of doing things on Wikipedia, feel welcome to stop by and share.
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- 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
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- 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:
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Tip of the day
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Become clairvoyant with Navigation Popups
Here's how to install a nifty little program called Navigation Popups, that lets you peer into Wikipedia articles when you hover the mouse cursor over internal links:
For this to work, make sure you have not disabled javascript in your browser. By the way, Navigation Popups is recursive: it works on links that appear in its popups.
To add this auto-updating template to your user page, use {{totd}}
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