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 counter systemic bias by creating new articles on important women.

Help improve popular pages, especially those of low quality.

This week's article for improvement is:

Convent

Previous selections: Heather Dubrow · Evergreen · Gender studies

This week's backlog of the week is:

Category:Western NY articles missing geocoordinate data

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.

WikiProject Women in Green: GA Editathon. From October 1–31, WikiProject Women in Green is hosting a virtual editathon event with the following goals: to improve, nominate, and review GA-class articles related to women and women's works (e.g., books, films), and to help editors build a greater capacity for bringing articles up to GA (Good Article) status. Both new and experienced participants are welcome! Instructions, resources, and one-on-one assistance will be available (plus a special barnstar). Sign up here.
Wikipedia:WikiCup. The WikiCup is a championship that has taken place every year on Wikipedia since 2007. The Cup is played and won by skill of editing. The purpose of the Cup is to encourage content creation and improvement and make editing on Wikipedia more fun. There is a new round every month, until the current contest ends; below are the details.
- May 1 to June 28 – 32 contestants left.
- July 1 to August 29 – 16 contestants left.
- September 1 to October 31 – 8 finalists left, the contestant with the highest score will win!

Monthly or continuously ongoing events

The Vital GA Drive is active from 1 September to 15 October 2022, with an aim to improve Land and Coffee articles to good article status. Join us now!
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 September 2022 backlog drive is a one-month-long effort of 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 listed on the GOCE Requests page. It began 1 September 2022, 00:00 (UTC), and ends 31 September 2022, 23:59 (UTC).

Wikipedia:WikiProject Women in Red 2022 Events: October – Alphabet Run: G & H women's names (new); Women+Climate (year-long initiative); #1day1woman (continuing).
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.

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.

Recruiting new members for the Degrassi taskforce! For over 18 months I've been going around creating, expanding, and improving articles about the Degrassi teen drama franchise, which were mostly really poor and obviously last edited 10 years ago as well as improving coverage of the original series and I am interested in reviving this task force to encourage collaborative effort and help get Degrassi articles to featured status! If you are interested, please join "us" and help revive the project! ToQ100gou (talk) 02:16, 19 September 2022 (UTC)Reply[reply]
WikiProject Vital Articles aims to have all Vital articles archive good article status by 2032, without compromising quality. To join us, come to WikiProject Vital Articles#Join us. DFlhb (talk) 11:51, 13 September 2022 (UTC)Reply[reply]
Wikiproject User Rehab is trying to be revived. We're also looking for cases who are willing to be mentored by a participant in this Wikiproject. We help editors who have made serious errors in the past and mentor them, among other things. To join, go to Wikiproject User Rehab Supporters. 𝙷𝚎𝚕𝚕𝚘𝚑𝚎𝚊𝚛𝚝 👋❤️ (𝚃𝚊𝚕𝚔🤔) 04:17, 1 September 2022 (UTC)Reply[reply]
A group of editors has created a lichen task force under the banner of Wikipedia:WikiProject Fungi. Right now the group is busily tagging appropriate articles, converting existing articles to Wikipedia's automatic taxobox system, and creating an outline of lichens to direct future article development. If you're interested in learning more, please join us! MeegsC (talk) 16:24, 15 August 2022 (UTC)Reply[reply]
Wikipedia:WikiProject Unreferenced articles is urgently looking for volunteers to assist in the backlog of articles with no or insufficient citations. With over 142,000 articles, there is something for everyone. If you'd like to contribute, please announce your involvement at the Volunteers page Preceding unsigned comment added by Kazamzam (talk • contribs) 8 June 2022 (UTC)
Wikipedia:WikiProject The Beatles is trying to get all Beatles albums to at least GA status (currently we’re working on Please Please Me). If you want to chip in, please announce your involvement on the talk page. Preceding unsigned comment added by Blueskiesdry (talk • contribs) 13 April 2022 (UTC)

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

Two database fields in the templatelinks table are now being dropped: tl_namespace and tl_title. Any queries that rely on these fields need to be changed to use the new normalization field called tl_target_id. See T299417 for more information. This is part of normalization of links tables. [1][2]

Changes later this week

The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 20 September. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 21 September. It will be on all wikis from 22 September (calendar).
In Kartographer maps, you can use icons on markers for common points of interest. On Tuesday, the previous icon set will be updated to version maki 7.2. That means, around 100 new icons will be available. Additionally, all existing icons were updated for clarity and to make them work better in international contexts. [3][4]

Future changes

In a group discussion at Wikimania, more than 30 people talked about how to make content partnership software in the Wikimedia movement more sustainable. What kind of support is acceptable for volunteer developers? Read the summary and leave your feedback.

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Requests for comment

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

General notices

A request for adminship is open for discussion.
A request for comment to determine whether to deploy the Vector (2022) skin as the default appearance on the English Wikipedia is open.