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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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Ask questions about how to use or edit Wikipedia
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Ask research questions about any topic except Wikipedia itself
Work with other editors on a shared area of interest
Get help resolving disputes
Discuss existing and proposed policies
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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 [add]

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 December 2024 editing blitz is a one-week-long effort by the Guild of Copy Editors to reduce its backlog. The themes are: articles on the GOCE Requests page from November to December 2024, and articles on the backlog from July 2023 and August 2023. It will begin on 15 December, 00:00 (UTC), and end on 21 December, 23:59 (UTC).
  • Wikipedia:WikiProject Women in Red 2024 Events:
Recently completed: Asian women Geofocus: Islands Q–Z Women in engineering
New this month: Women who died: 2024 Religion
Ongoing initiatives: #1day1woman Education
Upcoming events: Ideas


Meetups for December 2024 +/-
Christchurch 34 December 1, 2024 (2024-12-01)
BLT Antenna New Orleans December 7, 2024 (2024-12-07)
Haitian Creole NYC December 8, 2024 (2024-12-08)
London 211 December 8, 2024 (2024-12-08)
Perth 85 December 15, 2024 (2024-12-15)
San Diego 117 December 16, 2024 (2024-12-16)
Seattle meetup December 17, 2024 (2024-12-17)


Meetups for January 2025 +/-
Edinburgh 19 January 25, 2025 (2025-01-25)
Wikipedia Day NYC January 25, 2025 (2025-01-25)

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.

General notices

Help out

You can help improve the articles listed below! This list updates frequently, so check back here for more tasks to try. (See Wikipedia:Maintenance or the Task Center for further information.)

Fix spelling and grammar
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Help counter systemic bias by creating new articles on important women.

Help improve popular pages, especially those of low quality.

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