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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 get or post news about recent events or current activities taking place on Wikipedia.
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Community bulletin board
Post your Wikipedia-related news and announcements here!
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Notices
- You may be interested in the statistics from the now-archived flagged revisions straw poll.
- Do you enjoy music? Featured sound candidates welcomes reviewers. Help select the best sound files at Wikipedia: your opinion counts.
- The 2008/9 Schools Wikipedia is now available for browsing at http://schools-wikipedia.org to allow final changes before (free) downloads are launched 15 Oct. Feedback at the project page or to BozMo. The schools wikipedia has millions of users offline and the online version is just overtaking Citizendium on Alexa so improvement is worthwhile!
- The list of basic topics Wikiproject is creating a set of country lists (one for every country of the world), and they're almost complete enough to move to article space (all 247 of them!). We could especially use your help to complete the government branches sections of these lists (many have temporary template-generated, i.e. incorrect, data in these sections which needs to be replaced). If you have any questions, please contact The Transhumanist.
Project pages seeking contributors
Discussions
Discussions in the following areas have requested wider attention:
See also
Wikizine · In the media · News · Announcements · Mailing lists · Meetups
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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.
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Things to do
Fix-up projects
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Here are some tasks you can do:
- Wikify: E-OCVM, Sunil Verma, Dennis Foon, Pipeline integrity management, Goleta Murders 1979, 1981, Voice of the customer, More..
- Cleanup: Hypnotize (System of a Down song), Genia Tou Chaous, 2003 America’s Cup, Dark Ages: Inquisitor, Jimmy Winston, Wladyslaw Kazmierczak, More...
- Stubs: Minimum weight, Shank painter, Fluid extract, Marketing exposure, Conservation refugee, Cost competitiveness of fuel sources, More...
- Verify: List of sequenced prokaryotic genomes, Yorgia, Maltese Tiger, Rubbing alcohol, Olympiakos Neon Liosion, List of longest runways, More..
- Update: Scottish U-19 cricket team, USA U-19 cricket team, Uganda U-19 cricket team, Daz Eden, Sandy Thomas, Toni Daggert, More...
- Neutrality: Hells Angels, Anti-racism, Żydokomuna, West Godavari district, Nicholas Gruner, Hezbollah, More...
- Copyedit: Watson's (United States), Team Relay Rescue, The Prophecy (professional wrestling), António Silva, Mung Lai Stream, List of G.I. Joe ARAH characters, More...
- Merge: Portuguese sausage, eggs and rice, History of New England Patriots head coaches, Ancient African history, Rose O'Neill Literary House, Khalde, RMS Empress of Scotland (1906), More...
- Style: Glen, Baltimore, TVAC, Morfeo Open-Source Software Community, Dartmouth Big Green, New England Role Playing Organization, Intelius, More...
- Expand: Ningyang County, John Huppenthal, Bjørn Helge Riise, Ethel Mertz, Autodesk Animator, Brain and Creativity Institute, Maureen Drake, Catholic Daughters of the Americas, Anomerization, More...
- Requests: Auñamendi Encyclopedia, Make a Move on Me, J statistic, Dobrow syndrome, Yamabiru, Daggatun, Jane Barlow, Iminoglycinuria, Laplace series, Akodon pervalen, Cozell McQueen, More...
- Articles to be split: Warrant Officer, Third Robotech War, List of Robotech characters, The Wild Geese, Roy Focker, Bruno J. Global, More...
- Mediation Cabal: Greenhouse effect, Medical degree, Virgin America, Council on American-Islamic Relations, Steffi Graf, 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.
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Collaborations
To improve the quality of articles that are short or lacking in detail, Wikipedia's community organizes collaborations to expand articles.
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Core Topics Collaboration
The Core Topics Collaboration works to improve essential Wikipedia topics. The current collaboration is Amazon rainforest.
The Amazon Rainforest (Brazilian Portuguese: Floresta Amazônica or Amazônia; Spanish: Selva Amazónica or Amazonía) is a moist broadleaf forest in the Amazon Basin of South America. The area, also known as Amazonia, the Amazon jungle or the Amazon Basin, encompasses seven million square kilometers (1.7 billion acres), though the forest itself occupies some 5.5 million square kilometers (1.4 billion acres), located within nine nations: Brazil (with 60 percent of the rainforest), Peru (with 13 percent of the rainforest, second after Brazil), Colombia, Venezuela, Ecuador, Bolivia, Guyana, Suriname, and French Guiana. States or departments in four nations bear the name Amazonas after it. The Amazon represents over half of the planet's remaining rainforests and comprises the largest and most species-rich tract of tropical rainforest in the world.
You can help pick the next Core Topic collaboration article.
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Collaborations by topic
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Other collaborations
Active improvement teams
Maintenance
Help clear up the backlog of articles to be merged! Merging is the process combining two (or sometimes more) articles into a new article, or adding the content of one article to another. You'll need to be familiar with the associated templates. Before you begin, you need to know the details of merging and moving pages. After you read that, you're ready to begin consolidating and improving articles!
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 the more popular languages).
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Guidelines, help, and 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.
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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 to both articles and how to work with fellow editors. For easy access, the shortcuts to the pages are also listed.
Article standards
Working with others
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Resources
New user information
Introduction · Sandbox · Help · Adoption · What Wikipedia is not · Glossary · Account benefits · Planning school assignments
Ways to communicate
Contact (overview) · Discussion pages · Mailing lists · IRC chat · Meetups · User pages · Requests for comment · Public watchlists · Regional notice boards · Administrators' noticeboard · Requests for article feedback · Local Embassy
Community support groups and programs
Welcoming committee · Editor assistance · Wiki-adoption · Birthday Committee · Harmonious editing club · Kindness Campaign · Reach out · Stress alerts · Wikipedia awards program · Dept. of Fun · One featured article per quarter · Missing encyclopedic articles
Common procedures
Featured content · Good articles · Requests for feedback · Deleting a page (full policy) · Moving a page (naming policies) · Protecting a page (full policy) · Reverting a page · Administrator nominations (summaries) · Category-based access
How to resolve conflicts
Stay cool! · Be nice to newcomers · Alert others · Dispute resolution · Arbitration policy
Community information
About Wikipedia · Goings-on · About Wikimedia · Wikipedians · Wiki-adoption · Donations · Administrators · Babel · Culture · Games · Humor · Mottoes
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. |
Why have lists when there are categories?
Lists on Wikipedia have three main purposes:
- Information
- Lists are a valuable presentation format, especially the structured list. Examples include lists organized chronologically, grouped by theme, glossarized, or annotated.
- Navigation
- If a user is browsing without a specific research goal in mind, he would likely use the See also lists embedded in articles. If the user has some general idea of what he is looking for but does not know the specific terminology, the lists of related topics would be most useful.
- Development
- The lists of related topics give an indication of the state of the 'pedia, the articles that have been written, and the articles that have yet to be written (shown by redlinks).
Like categories, lists are great for keeping track of changes to subject areas, using the Related Changes feature. Unlike categories, lists are centralized, providing direct control over the contents. Lists also allow detection of deletion of pages from them. Another advantage of a list is that changes can be tracked in the page's history, while changes to categories cannot.
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