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Contents

1 Community bulletin board
2 Help out
3 Collaborations
4 Guidelines, help & resources

Community portal

Welcome to the community portal. This is the place to find out what is happening on Wikipedia. Learn what tasks need to be done, what groups there are to join, and share news about recent events or current activities taking place on Wikipedia.

You might be looking for...

Help with an aspect of Wikipedia: see the help documentation, or ask a question for assistance.
Answers for questions about factual topics: please visit Wikipedia's reference desk.
A place to discuss things with other users: the village pump is Wikipedia's main discussion forum.
A place to resolve disputes: use the content dispute guidelines.

Post your Wikipedia-related news or announcement here »

Community bulletin board

2010-03-15

News and notes: A Wikiversity controversy, Wikimedian-in-Residence, image donation, editing contest, WMF jobs

In the news: Studies on collaboration and student usage, Main Page drives traffic to Time.com

WikiProject report: WikiProject Ireland

Features and admins: Approved this week

Arbitration report: The Report on Lengthy Litigation

About·Archives·Single-page·Newsroom·Suggestions

WikiVoices

Episode 51: WikiNews live article creation

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Notices

Please vote on the rules for the Wikipedia:Trading card game, or submit a new proposal.

Project pages seeking contributors

WikiProjects and Task Forces

Portals and Collaborations

New Design Portal

Discussions

Discussions in the following areas have requested wider attention:

See also: Centralized discussion · Coordination · Wikizine · In the media · News · Announcements · Mailing lists · Meetups

Help out

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

Things to do

Respond to a request for comment, Wikiquette alert or provide a third opinion.
Adopt a basic topic list, to help develop and maintain a table of contents to a major subject on Wikipedia.
Give a requested editor review.
Can you draw or take pictures? Make a requested image.
Peer review or give feedback on some articles.
Comment at Featured portal candidates and Portals at peer review.
Make recommendations on articles listed at Good article reassessment.
Respond to the Reward board or Bounty board.
Are you good at photo editing? Then try cleaning up some of these images, or helping out at the Graphics Lab.
Can you use GIS tools? Help make requested maps.
Can you communicate in another language? There are articles that need translation into English. You can also proofread a translation.
Let SuggestBot suggest pages for you to improve.
Update pages with old (ref or note template) citations to the new references format.
Patrol new pages and help improving new articles.
Assess articles by quality or by importance – pick a topic of interest and grade according to that WikiProject's scale. (See links from article talk pages.)
Do you have a historical perspective? Articles slanted towards recent events might need to be looked at with a new eye.
Category:Wikipedia backlog always needs attention.

Fix-up projects

Open tasks

Here are some tasks you can do:

Wikify: Sharokina Hasso, Trinity Place, Theories of interpersonal communication, Franklin and Blackstone Squares, Mike Mansfield Productions, More...
Copyedit: Gluttony (novel), Volkspolizei, List of events in Quebec City, Bram & Alice, Dhanshiri, More...
Update: Freedom of religion in Georgia, Forrest Hill (politician), STS-81, Saint-Sever, Star Ray TV, More...
Style: Carroll Christian Schools, Hussain Kuwajerwala, Shadow battlecrab, Yevgeniya Artamonova, Bionicle Legends, More...
Translation Taipei bus, Du cidre pour les étoiles, Algiers Metro, Channel 7 (Thailand), Lennox–Gastaut syndrome, More...
Cleanup: Diablintes, Cornish currency, Raireshwar, Ghatshila, The Countdown Singers, More...
Verify: List of Masdevallia species, List of world's most expensive single objects, Dendrobium, Water resources of Singapore, The Destruction of Dresden, More...
Neutrality: Black triangle (UFO), Laurence Oliphant (author), Bob Arum, Xia Meng, Conrad Egan, More...
Original research: Vril, Chōdenji Machine Voltes V, Paul Guiragossian, Profession, State Duma of the Russian Empire, More...
Merge: Elevator levitation, Continentality, MicroLeadFrame, Executive search, Electronically commutated motor, More...
Split: Proletariat, Hyanggyo, List of Proton launches, List of Ariane launches, Charlaine Harris, More...
Stubs: Ammassivik Heliport, Chalchiuhtlatonal, Abbud Pasha, Der Schuß durchs Fenster, Juno Awards of 2011, More...
Expand: Talpini, Redcar Cubs, Innsbruck Airport, Eric von Rosen, C. W. Jefferys Collegiate Institute, More...
Article deletion discussions: Libertarian Alliance, Georgie Bingham, The Incidental Economist, David C. Hëwitt, StealthNet, More...
Article Requests: Courts of Justice of Thailand, Hermes Lima, Surgical elevator, List of lakes in Portugal, More...
Image Requests: Whole stuffed camel, Hand drum, Perth Seawater Desalination Plant, Mees' lines, Horned Guan, More...
Mediation Cabal: Kid Rock, French phonology, Sopaipilla, The Professors: The 101 Most Dangerous Academics in America, British National Party, Life-death-rebirth deity, HSL and HSV, or Help mediate an open case!

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

Purge

Collaborations

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

Collaborations by topic

Alternative music (World Wide Suicide)
Anglicanism (St. Luke's Church (Smithfield, Virginia))
Australia (Wikipedia:WikiProject Football (soccer) in Australia/To-do)
Cities (Pichilemu)
Birds (Passerine)
Chicago (List of Chicago Landmarks update)
Dinosaurs (Spinosaurus)
Education in Australia (Corpus Christi College, Perth)
European History (Peloponnesian War)
History (List of history topics)
History of science (On the Origin of Species)
Homeschooling (Tim Tebow)
LGBT studies (LGBT topics and Zoroastrianism)
Lutheranism (History of Lutheranism)
Malaysia (Port Klang)
Mammals (Giraffe)
Mathematics (Polynomial identity ring)
Medicine (Abdominal aortic aneurysm)
New Zealand (Sir Howard Morrison)
Novels (The Sound and the Fury)
Opera (Ruddigore)
Oregon (Barbara Roberts & Ursula K. Le Guin)
Rugby union (None)
Science (Carbon)

Other collaborations

Active improvement teams

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.

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 the more popular languages).

Gift shop

Share ideas of logos or other Wikipedia motifs to be used on clothing or for other purposes in Wikipedia merchandise.

Guidelines, help & resources

Wikipedia has many help pages, policies, and departments. Here are some of the most general. For a comprehensive list of Wikipedia's departments, see the Wikipedia department directory.

Help

Wikipedia help – Browse help pages
Where to ask questions

Editing

The Manual of Style guidelines and tutorial
How to edit a page
Contributing
How to write a great article
Where to find information for articles
A list of template messages
What special pages are
Tools for editing
Request newspapers or magazines

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 to both 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
Manual of Style	WP:MOS • WP:STYLE
Neutral point of view	WP:NPOV • WP:NEU
What Wikipedia is not	WP:WWIN • WP:NOT

Working with others

Assume good faith	WP:AGF • WP:FAITH
Avoid instruction creep	WP:CREEP
Civility and etiquette	WP:CIV • WP:EQ
Consensus	WP:CON
Do not bite the newcomers	WP:BITE
Do not disrupt Wikipedia to illustrate a point	WP:POINT
No personal attacks	WP:NPA • WP:ATTACK
Resolving disputes	WP:DR
Vandalism	WP:VAND

Resources

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.
Wikiversity –	Where teachers learn, and learners teach.
Commons –	Repository for free images and other media files.

Tip of the day...

Test-drive your edits!

Have you ever added an example image to a page, only to have it removed and receive a warning? Here's a solution. If you want to test some unfamiliar wiki-markup, or practice image placement, head to the Sandbox, where you can test to your heart's delight (or you can create your own sandbox for more demanding tests).