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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.
Yearly or infrequent events
- Want to help good articles get better? Sign up for the January Good Article backlog drive! New and experienced reviewers welcome.
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 January 2025 backlog drive was 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 January, 00:00 (UTC), and ended on 31 January, 23:59 (UTC). Stay tuned for the next event.
- Wikipedia:WikiProject Women in Red 2024 Events:
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Upcoming events: |
Utah Wikipedia Day at Sundance Film Festival |
February 1, 2025 |
Singapore 19 | February 1, 2025 |
Los Angeles Wildfire Edit-a-thon at the Hammer Museum |
February 2, 2025 |
CAH Black History Month online | February 4, 2025 |
London 213 | February 9, 2025 |
US Mountain West online | February 11, 2025 |
WikiCredCon - San Francisco | February 14, 2025 |
Christchurch 36 | February 16, 2025 |
Oxford 108 | February 16, 2025 |
Seattle | February 18, 2025 |
NYC (WikiWed) | February 19, 2025 |
South Africa 45 | February 22, 2025 |
Brighton 4 | March 15, 2025 |
Edinburgh 20 | March 29, 2025 |
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:
- New outlines:
- Another outline has made it to Featured List status:
- The following outline covers an ongoing situation, please help keep it updated:
- Outline drafts recently moved to article space (thank you!):
- Outline drafts nearing completion include:
- New outline drafts:
- The Outline of the week is Outline of zoology.
- Please help improve them. —The Transhumanist 00:36, 5 September 2024 (UTC)
- We're trying to revive Wikipedia:WikiProject Geocaching! If you're a Geocacher and want to improve the quality of the Geocaching related articles, sign up now! Lordseriouspig 20:12, 1 August 2024 (UTC)
- We are looking to revive Task Force Philippine History and are looking for interested editors! Sign-up now! NyanThousand (talk) 15:45, 28 July 2024 (UTC)
- WP Unreferenced articles is trying to clear the decades-long backlog of unreferenced articles. The backlog recently reached under 90,000. Come contribute! — PerfectSoundWhatever (t; c) 17:04, 4 July 2024 (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.
Updates for editors
- Editors who use the "Special characters" editing-toolbar menu can now see the 32 special characters you have used most recently, across editing sessions on that wiki. This change should help make it easier to find the characters you use most often. The feature is in both the 2010 wikitext editor and VisualEditor. [1]
- Editors using the 2010 wikitext editor can now create sublists with correct indentation by selecting the line(s) you want to indent and then clicking the toolbar buttons.[2] You can now also insert
<code>
tags using a new toolbar button.[3] Thanks to user stjn for these improvements. - Help is needed to ensure the citation generator works properly on each wiki.
- (1) Administrators should update the local versions of the page
MediaWiki:Citoid-template-type-map.json
to include entries forpreprint
,standard
, anddataset
; Here are example diffs to replicate for 'preprint' and for 'standard' and 'dataset'. - (2.1) If the citoid map in the citation template used for these types of references is missing, one will need to be added. (2.2) If the citoid map does exist, the TemplateData will need to be updated to include new field names. Here are example updates for 'preprint' and for 'standard' and 'dataset'. The new fields that may need to be supported are
archiveID
,identifier
,repository
,organization
,repositoryLocation
,committee
, andversionNumber
. [4]
- (1) Administrators should update the local versions of the page
- One new wiki has been created: a Wikipedia in Central Kanuri (
w:knc:
) [5] - View all 27 community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week. For example, the OCR (optical character recognition) tool used for Wikisource now supports a new language, Church Slavonic. [6]
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