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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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

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WMF

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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

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 blitz. The June 2024 editing blitz is a one-week-long effort by the Guild of Copy Editors to reduce its backlog. The themes are: all articles on the GOCE Requests page, and articles on the February 2023 and March 2023 backlog. It began on 16 June, 00:00 (UTC), and will end on 22 June, 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.

**Meetups for June 2024** +/-
Exeter	June 8, 2024 (2024-06-08)
Los Angeles Wiknic	June 8, 2024 (2024-06-08)
London 205	June 9, 2024 (2024-06-09)
Cascadia Wikimedians general meeting	June 9, 2024 (2024-06-09)
Bay Area Wikipedians	June 13, 2024 (2024-06-13)
Oxford 101	June 16, 2024 (2024-06-16)
BLT Office Hours	June 23, 2024 (2024-06-23)
Perth 81	June 23, 2024 (2024-06-23)
Edinburgh 16	June 29, 2024 (2024-06-29)

**Meetups for July 2024** +/-
London 206	July 14, 2024 (2024-07-14)
BLT Office Hours	July 28, 2024 (2024-07-28)

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 Outlines news:
- Outline drafts nearing completion include:
- The Outline of the week is Outline of Taipei.
- Please help improve them. —The Transhumanist 12:23, 9 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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.
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.

Recent changes

People who attempt to add an external link in the visual editor will now receive immediate feedback if they attempt to link to a domain that a project has decided to block. Please see Edit check for more details. [1]
The new Community Configuration extension is available on Test Wikipedia. This extension allows communities to customize specific features to meet their local needs. Currently only Growth features are configurable, but the extension will support other Community Configuration use cases in the future. [2][3]
The dark mode beta feature is now available on category and help pages, as well as more special pages. There may be contrast issues. Please report bugs on the project talk page. [4]

Problems

Cloud Services tools were not available for 25 minutes last week. This was caused by a faulty hardware cable in the data center. [5]
Last week, styling updates were made to the Vector 2022 skin. This caused unforeseen issues with templates, hatnotes, and images. Changes to templates and hatnotes were reverted. Most issues with images were fixed. If you still see any, report them here. [6]

Changes later this week

The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 18 June. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 19 June. It will be on all wikis from 20 June (calendar). [7][8]
Starting June 18, the Reference Edit Check will be deployed to a new set of Wikipedias. This feature is intended to help newcomers and to assist edit-patrollers by inviting people who are adding new content to a Wikipedia article to add a citation when they do not do so themselves. During a test at 11 wikis, the number of citations added more than doubled when Reference Check was shown to people. Reference Check is community configurable. [9]
Mailing lists will be unavailable for roughly two hours on Tuesday 10:00–12:00 UTC. This is to enable migration to a new server and upgrade its software. [10]

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