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Fix spelling and grammar

• Artificial intelligence in heavy industry
• Self-constancy
• Vietnam v United Arab Emirates (2007 AFC Asian Cup)
• 2007 Liga Indonesia U-23
• Migettuwatte Gunananda Thera

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• Central Decatur Community School District
• Inline speed skating at the 2013 Bolivarian Games
• Ravensworth railway station
• Eno Peçi
• List of Statutory Instruments of Scotland, 2009

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• Trans-Sahelian Highway
• Protectionism in the United States
• 2008 Fluminense Football Club season
• Spain at the 2018 European Championships
• Ketura Sun

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• El Pantanillo
• Apoyaco
• Concepción, Catamarca
• El Puesto, Santa María
• Chuchucaruana

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Check and add references

• Evolution of domestic goats
• Discovery Institute intelligent design campaigns
• Spiral
• Gender roles in childhood
• Ballincollig Castle

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Fix original research issues

• Overclocking
• WGAL
• AEC Militant
• Hardball (company)
• Payment order

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Improve lead sections

• Oscar Jimenez (comics)
• List of tallest buildings in Jackson, Mississippi
• Un grand amour
• Norman Adams (American artist)
• Mbam Djerem National Park

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• Healthcare in the Netherlands
• Greenwood Mall
• Hardinera
• Geography of Togo
• Holland Park, Queensland

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• Vincenzo Aiutino
• Dorados de Sinaloa
• Battle of Kanlı Geçit
• Centrist Democrat International
• Beata Tadla

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30 September 2019   From the editors: Where do we go from here? Special report: Post-Framgate wrapup In the media: A net loss: Wikipedia attacked, closing off Russia? welcoming back Turkey? Traffic report: Varied and intriguing entries, less Luck, and some retreads News from the WMF: How the Wikimedia Foundation is making efforts to go green Recent research: Wikipedia's role in assessing credibility of news sources; using wikis against procrastination; OpenSym 2019 report Gallery: Finding freely licensed photo collections On the bright side: What's making you happy this month? In focus: Wikidata & Wikibase for national libraries: the inaugural meeting Single page Front page About Subscribe Suggestions Archives Centralized discussion A request for adminship is open for discussion. Inclusion criteria for lists of political endorsements Should there be a binding community desysop procedure? Should page movers be permitted to move pages with full move protection? Follow up: scope of application of italics in citations Stricter resysop criteria Merge AfC and NPP permissions Meta: Community consultation on Office actions Meta: Movement Strategy Recommendations (v. 2) This week's article for improvement is Medjed (god) A vignette thought to represent Medjed, Greenfield papyrus, British Museum Please be bold and help to improve this article! 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 Notability Orphaned articles Red Link Recovery Reliability Requested articles Single editor Spell check Stubsensor Today's articles for improvement Uncategorised articles Unreferenced articles Wikification needed Main · Inactive · Mini

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• Spell checkers needed - Wikipedia:Typo Team/moss got a complete update from the August 20, 2019 database dump. The project hosts lists of articles with misspelled words, words missing from Wiktionary, and unknown words that need investigation. Stop by and experience the satisfaction of fixing all the misspellings in an article!
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Tip of the day

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Wikipedia has 34 sections, called namespaces

The encyclopedia proper is the main namespace and contains all of Wikipedia's encyclopedia articles. All of the other namespaces have prefixes, which must be included (followed by a colon) at the beginning of links to pages in those namespaces in order for those links to work. Otherwise, the links will point to the main namespace, which has no prefix.

Currently, Wikipedia has 34 namespaces: 16 subject namespaces, 16 corresponding talk namespaces, and 2 virtual namespaces.

The namespaces (by prefix) are:

1. Main/Article (no prefix), Talk:
2. User:, User talk:
3. Wikipedia:, Wikipedia talk:
4. File:, File talk:
5. MediaWiki:, MediaWiki talk:
6. Template:, Template talk:
7. Help:, Help talk:
8. Category:, Category talk:
9. Portal:, Portal talk:
10. Book:, Book talk:
11. Draft:, Draft talk:
12. Education Program:, Education Program talk:
13. Timedtext:, Timedtext talk:
14. Module:, Module talk:
15. Gadget:, Gadget talk:
16. Gadget definition:, Gadget definition talk:

1. Media:
2. Special:

In any given namespace there can only be one page with a particular name.

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