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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For a listing of ongoing discussions and current requests, see the Dashboard.

Help desk

Ask questions about how to use or edit Wikipedia

The Teahouse

Friendly help for newcomers

Reference desk

Ask research questions about any topic except Wikipedia itself

WikiProjects

Work with other editors on a shared area of interest

Dispute resolution

Get help resolving disputes

Village pump sections (view all)

Policy

Discuss existing and proposed policies

Technical

Discuss technical issues about Wikipedia

Proposals

Discuss new proposals that are not policy-related

Idea lab

Incubate new ideas before formally proposing them

WMF

Discuss issues involving the Wikimedia Foundation

Miscellaneous

Post messages that do not fit into any other category

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

The 2024 Developing Countries WikiContest is an editing competition with a focus towards developing countries. It will begin on July 1st and signups will close on July 15th. Sign up now!
Want to help good articles get better? Sign up for the October 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 is 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 will end on 31 January, 23:59 (UTC).
Wikipedia:WikiProject Women in Red 2024 Events:

Recently completed:	#1day1woman Education Religion
New this month:	Music #1day1woman Alphabet run: A & B Internet personalities
Ongoing initiatives:	Women who died: 2024
Upcoming events:	Ideas

**Meetups for January 2025** +/-
Wikipedia Day Seattle	January 11, 2025 (2025-01-11)
London 212	January 12, 2025 (2025-01-12)
Wikipedia Day Minnesota	January 15, 2025 (2025-01-15)
Wikipedia Day San Francisco	January 18, 2025 (2025-01-18)
Exeter 2	January 18, 2025 (2025-01-18)
Oxford 107	January 19, 2025 (2025-01-19)
Wikipedia Day Toronto	January 19, 2025 (2025-01-19)
Wikipedia Day Chicago	January 19, 2025 (2025-01-19)
Edinburgh 19	January 25, 2025 (2025-01-25)
Wikipedia Day NYC	January 25, 2025 (2025-01-25)
Brixton 6	January 27, 2025 (2025-01-27)

**Meetups for February 2025** +/-
Utah Wikipedia Day at Sundance Film Festival	February 1, 2025 (2025-02-01)
US Mountain West online	February 11, 2025 (2025-02-11)
WikiCredCon - San Francisco	February 14, 2025 (2025-02-14)
Seattle	February 18, 2025 (2025-02-18)

WikiProject notices [add]

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:
  - Outline of Leeds
  - Outline of Glasgow
- Another outline has made it to Featured List status:
  - Outline of the Marvel Cinematic Universe
- The following outline covers an ongoing situation, please help keep it updated:
  - Outline of the Russo-Ukrainian War
- Outline drafts recently moved to article space (thank you!):
  - Outline of George Washington
- Outline drafts nearing completion include:
  - Draft:Outline of Delhi
- New outline drafts:
  - Draft:Outline of the Kennedy family
- The Outline of the week is Outline of artificial intelligence.
- 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)

Technical news

Requests for comment

Discussions in the following areas have requested wider attention via Requests for comment:

General notices

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