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Welcome to the community bulletin board, which is a page used for announcements from WikiProjects and other groups. Included here are coordinated efforts, events, projects, and other general announcements.
Events and projects
Yearly or infrequent events
Monthly or continuous events
- Monthly contest, WikiProject Military history. The contest department of the Military history WikiProject aims to motivate increased quality in military history articles by offering a form of friendly competition for project members making improvements to them. The primary contest available is a simple rolling competition that awards points for improving articles. The contest runs from the first to last day of each month.
- Guild of Copy Editors' editing drive. The May 2024 backlog drive is a one-month-long effort by the Guild of Copy Editors to reduce the backlog of articles that require copy editing: those carrying the {{copy edit}} tag (also {{awkward}}, {{copy edit section}}, {{inappropriate person}}, and {{copy edit inline}}, and their redirects) or are listed on the GOCE Requests page. It will begin on 1 May, 00:00 (UTC), and end on 31 May, 23:59 (UTC).
- Wikipedia:WikiProject Women in Red 2024 Events: WP:WIR/EVENTS - updated monthly
- The 100,000 Challenge. The quest to bring about 100,000 article improvements and creations globally through a series of 50,000/10,000/1000 Challenges for different regions and countries. This is a loose challenge, a list will not be maintained here, but the components will function independently on each of the subpages. Will be updated every week or two.
- The 50,000 Destubbing Challenge is a long term challenge to destub 50,000 articles on English Wikipedia for every country and topic. It may take decades to accomplish, it may take ten years, it all depends on how many people actively contribute.
| Auckland 22 | May 4, 2024 |
| Leeds 6 | May 4, 2024 |
| London 204 | May 12, 2024 |
| US Mountain West online | May 14, 2024 |
| Bay Area WikiSalon | May 16, 2024 |
| Oxford 100 | May 19, 2024 |
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| Montreal: Canadian Centre for Architecture edit-a-thon |
May 22, 2024 |
| BLT Office Hours | May 26, 2024 |
| Exeter | June 8, 2024 |
| London 205 | June 9, 2024 |
| BLT Office Hours | June 23, 2024 |
| Bay Area Wikipedians | June 13, 2024 |
WikiProject notices
Also consider posting WikiProject, Task Force, and Collaboration news at The Signpost's WikiProject Report page. Please include your signature when adding a listing here.
- WikiProject Outlines news:
- Outline drafts nearing completion include:
- The Outline of the week is Outline of black holes.
- Please help improve them. —The Transhumanist 12:23, 9 May 2024 (UTC)
- WikiProject Vocaloid's proposal is seeking editors with interest in any Vocaloid related topic to join the project.
- WikiProject Bendigo is currently seeking interested editors to join the project. Lotsw73 (talk) 05:03, 30 January 2024 (UTC)
- WikiProject Operating systems (in proposal state) is looking for interested participants to support the creation of a regular WikiProject page.
- Revive WikiProject United States governors. This WikiProject is dedicated to the leaders of the 50 U.S. states. If you agree, post a message on the WikiProject talk page.
- WikiProject AI Cleanup has recently been started to combat the addition of problematic AI-generated content. Interested editors are encouraged to join! ARandomName123 (talk) 01:35, 5 December 2023 (UTC)
Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
Recent changes
- The Nuke feature, which enables administrators to mass delete pages, will now correctly delete pages which were moved to another title. [1]
- New changes have been made to the UploadWizard in Wikimedia Commons: the overall layout has been improved, by following new styling and spacing for the form and its fields; the headers and helper text for each of the fields was changed; the Caption field is now a required field, and there is an option for users to copy their caption into the media description. [2][3]
Changes later this week
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 21 May. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 22 May. It will be on all wikis from 23 May (calendar). [4][5]
The HTML used to render all headings is being changed to improve accessibility. It will change on 22 May in some skins (Timeless, Modern, CologneBlue, Nostalgia, and Monobook). Please test gadgets on your wiki on these skins and report any related problems so that they can be resolved before this change is made in all other skins. The developers are also considering the introduction of a Gadget API for adding buttons to section titles if that would be helpful to tool creators, and would appreciate any input you have on that.
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Help out
You can help improve the articles listed below! This list updates frequently, so check back here for more tasks to try. (See Wikipedia:Maintenance or the Task Center for further information.)
Fix spelling and grammar
Fix wikilinks
Update with new information
Expand short articles
Check and add references
Fix original research issues
Improve lead sections
Add an image
Translate and clean up
Help counter systemic bias by creating new articles on important women.
Help improve popular pages, especially those of low quality.
| This week's article for improvement is: Previous selections: Tax return · Ancient Egyptian architecture · Exploration | This week's backlog of the week is: |
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