Wikipedia:Community portal

Community portal

Welcome to the community portal!

This page provides a listing of current collaborations, tasks, and news about English Wikipedia. New to Wikipedia? See the contributing to Wikipedia page or our tutorial for everything you need to know to get started. For a listing of internal project pages of interest, see the department directory.

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Help desk

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The Teahouse

Friendly help for newcomers

Reference desk

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WikiProjects

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Dispute resolution

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Policy

Discuss existing and proposed policies

Technical

Discuss technical issues about Wikipedia

Proposals

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Idea lab

Incubate new ideas before formally proposing them

WMF

Discuss issues involving the Wikimedia Foundation

Miscellaneous

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Community bulletin board

How to add to the community bulletin board

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

WikiProject Women in Green is holding a month-long Good Article Edit-a-thon event in October 2023!

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 March 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 began on 1 March, 00:00 (UTC), and will end on 31 March, 23:59 (UTC).
Wikipedia:WikiProject Women in Red 2023 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.

**Meetups for March 2024** +/-
Portland Jewish Artists edit-a-thon	March 10, 2024 (2024-03-10)
London 202	March 10, 2024 (2024-03-10)
Seattle articles edit-a-thon	March 12, 2024 (2024-03-12)
NYC (Queens Name Explorer)	March 16, 2024 (2024-03-16)
Oxford 98	March 17, 2024 (2024-03-17)
Seattle monthly meetup	March 19, 2024 (2024-03-19)
San Diego 109	March 25, 2024 (2024-03-25)
BLT x UPenn	March 27, 2024 (2024-03-27)
BLT Office Hours	March 31, 2024 (2024-03-31)

**Meetups for April 2024** +/-
London 203	April 14, 2024 (2024-04-14)
San Diego 110	April 22, 2024 (2024-04-22)
Edinburgh 15	April 27, 2024 (2024-04-27)
BLT Office Hours	April 28, 2024 (2024-04-28)

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 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)[reply]
WikiProject Operating systems (in proposal state) is looking for interested participants to support the creation of a regular WikiProject page.
WikiProject Outlines news:
- The newest outlines are:
- The Outline of the week is Outline of the Solar System.
- Feel free to help improve them. —The Transhumanist 15:58, 19 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]
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)[reply]

Technical news

Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Changes later this week

The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 12 March. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 13 March. It will be on all wikis from 14 March (calendar). [1][2]
After consulting with various communities, the line height of the text on the Minerva skin will be increased to its previous value of 1.65. Different options for typography can also be set using the options in the menu, as needed. [3]
The active link color in Minerva will be changed to provide more consistency with our other platforms and best practices. [4]
Structured data on Commons will no longer ask whether you want to leave the page without saving. This will prevent the “information you’ve entered may not be saved” popups from appearing when no information have been entered. It will also make file pages on Commons load faster in certain cases. However, the popups will be hidden even if information has indeed been entered. If you accidentally close the page before saving the structured data you entered, that data will be lost. [5]

Future changes

All wikis will be read-only for a few minutes on March 20. This is planned at 14:00 UTC. More information will be published in Tech News and will also be posted on individual wikis in the coming weeks. [6][7]

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Requests for comment

Discussions in the following areas have requested wider attention via Requests for comment:

General notices

Sign up for the month-long Guild of Copy Editors' March copy-editing drive. Have fun, improve articles, and earn barnstars!

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