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Contents:
1 Community bulletin board
2 To do lists
3 Collaborations
4 Help and Resources

The Community Portal is the central place to find out what's happening on Wikipedia. Learn what tasks need to be done, what groups can be joined, and get or post news about recent events or current activities.

Community bulletin board

Post your Wikipedia related news and announcements here! New portals, collaborations, and wikiprojects seeking contributors. New initiatives, proposals, discussions, or article drives, and current maintenance backlogs.

Tuesday
23
May

Notices

Maintenance

  • There is currently a backlog of entries in the current events category. Anyone can check articles listed in the category to ensure the {{current}} tag is not now out-dated.

New pages seeking contributors

WikiProjects Collaborations Portals
  • None at this time

See also

Wikizine · In the media · News · Announcements · Press releases

Archived notices...


To do lists

Wikipedia is, by number of articles, the largest encyclopedia ever to exist. However, that comes at a cost: many are stubs, or otherwise need attention. If you like, go ahead, be bold, and jump right in. If you aren't ready to fly solo, you can participate in a Collaboration.

Things to do

Fix-up projects

Article Categorization
Bad category names
Blank pages
Bad links
Dead-end pages
Disambig pages with links
Duplicated sections
Elements of Style
Linkrot
Orphaned categories
Punctuation
Missing articles

Most wanted articles
Most wanted stubs
Neglected articles
Shortpages
Stub sorting
Syntax Project
Templates with red links
Transwiki log cleanup
Typos
Untagged Images
Untagged stubs
User categorisation

Here are some tasks you can do:

Not sure where to report a certain type of problem with article content? If it exists, it's probably listed at Wikipedia:Maintenance.


Collaborations

To improve the quality of articles which are short or lacking in detail, Wikipedia's community organizes collaborations to expand articles.

Collaboration of the week

Help edit Japanese robotics, Wikipedia's current collaboration of the week! Please help to bring it up to featured article standard.

Japan is the world leader in robotics technology and artificial intelligence (AI). Honda and Sony are developing human-like robots which will have both commercial and industrial applications. Honda is in the process of perfecting the ASIMO and Sony has a similar model called the QRIO.

You can still help with last week's article, storm (see improvements), or help pick next week's article.

Article Improvement Drive

The Article Improvement Drive works on a non-stub article that needs a lot of help before reaching featured-article standard. The subject of this week's article improvement drive is Mathematics:

Euclid, detail from "The School of Athens" by Raphael.

Mathematics can be defined as the logically rigorous study of topics such as quantity, structure, space, and change. Another view, held by many mathematicians, is that mathematics is the body of knowledge justified by deductive reasoning, starting from axioms and definitions.

You can still help with last week's article, Gagauzia, or help pick next week's article.

Good Article Collaboration of the week

The Good Article Collaboration of the week works to polish already good articles so they show the highest of standards. This week's improvement drive is Stuyvesant High SchoolStuyvesant High School is one of New York City's specialized math- and science-based public high schools, run by the New York City Department of Education. The school was founded in 1904 on Manhattan's East Side, and for 65 years Stuyvesant admitted only boys. Since 1969 it has been a coeducational environment, and after moving to its Battery Park City building the facilities for girls were put on a par with those for boys.

You can still help pick next week's article.

Core Topics Collaboration

The Core Topics Collaboration of the Fortnight, coordinated by the Wikipedia:Version 1.0 Editorial Team, works to polish essential topics that would go in a release version of Wikipedia so they show the highest of standards. The current collaboration is Business.

You can still help pick the next Core topic collaboration article.

Collaborations by topic

Other collaborations

Active improvement teams

Maintenance

Help clear up the backlog of articles to be wikified! Wikification is the process of making an article conform to the guide to layout and Manual of Style. This involves formatting, links, sections, and checking for other things such as copyright violations and references. If necessary, you may have it be proposed for deletion. Wikification is an easy way to improve Wikipedia!

WikiProjects

WikiProjects are ongoing team efforts to improve articles having to do with a particular subject, and to manage the logistics of that topic. Hundreds exist — examine the master list to find one that interests you. They are separate from, though may work with, Collaborations.

Language translation

Wikipedia is not just in English! Versions exist in many different languages. To fill in some of the English Wikipedia's gaps, we translate articles from other languages into English. You can view a list of articles that need translation from any language, or, in a few cases, by only one language (this is only available for major foreign languages).


Guidelines, Help, and Resources

Wikipedia has hundreds of departments staffed by a small army of volunteers. Here are some on the most general; for more specific departments, see the appropriate page.

Help

Editing

Policies and guidelines

Wikipedia has many established policies, guidelines, conventions, and traditions. This is a very brief sampling of some of the most important; for more information, see the main policies and guidelines page. Policies and guidelines apply both to articles and how to work with fellow editors. For easy access, the shortcuts to the pages are also listed.

Article standards

Be bold! WP:BB · WP:BOLD
Citing sources WP:CITE · WP:REF
Copyrights WP:C
Editing WP:EP
External links WP:EL
Image use WP:IUP
Include only verifiable information WP:V · WP:VERIFY
Manual of Style WP:MOS · WP:STYLE
Neutral point of view WP:NPOV
No original research WP:NOR
What Wikipedia is not WP:WWIN · WP:NOT

Working with others

Assume good faith WP:AGF · WP:FAITH
Civility and etiquette WP:CIV and WP:EQ
Consensus WP:CON
Don't bite the newcomers WP:BITE
Don't disrupt Wikipedia to illustrate a point WP:POINT
No personal attacks WP:NPA · WP:ATTACK
Resolving disputes WP:DR
Vandalism WP:VAND

Resources

New user information

Welcome! · New user tutorial · Sandbox · Help · New user log · What Wikipedia is not · Glossary · Account benefits

Ways to communicate

Contact (overview) · Discussion pages · Mailing lists · IRC chat · Instant Messaging · Meetups · User pages · Surveys · Public watchlists · Regional notice boards · Administrators' noticeboard

Community support groups and programs

Welcoming committee · Members' Advocates · Esperanza · Kindness Campaign · Wikipedia awards program · Dept. of Fun · Community Justice

Common Procedures

Featured content · Deleting a page (full policy) · Moving a page (naming policies) · Protecting a page (full policy) · Reverting a page · Administrator nominations · Category-based access

How to resolve conflicts

Stay cool! · Be nice to newcomers · Alert others · Request assistance from a members' advocate · Dispute resolution · Arbitration policy

Community information

About Wikipedia · About Wikimedia · Wikipedians · Donations · Administrators · Babel · Culture · Humor · Games

Related communities

The links below lead to the main community pages of the 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 textbooks.
Wikiquote – A compendium of referenced quotations.
Wikisource – A repository for free source texts.
Wikispecies – A directory of species.
Commons – Repository for free images and other media files.

Tip of the day

Inclusion caveat

When you include a page (that is, automate the display of a page's content on another page), all its tags (like {{TOCRight}}) go with it, which will be implemented on the host page. Just add the following code if you want to add a right-aligned TOC to a page, but don't want it to be displayed on "derivative" pages:

<noinclude> {{TOCright}} </noinclude>

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