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

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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Discuss new proposals that are not policy-related
Incubate new ideas before formally proposing them
Discuss issues involving the Wikimedia Foundation
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

Monthly or continuous events

Recently completed: Translation Women writers & their works Geofocus: Islands A–H
New this month: Women in STEM Geofocus: Islands I–P Women in archaeology
Ongoing initiatives: #1day1woman Education
Upcoming events: Ideas


Meetups for October 2024 +/-
NC Triangle Trivia October 1, 2024 (2024-10-01)
London 209 October 13, 2024 (2024-10-13)
Seattle meetup October 15, 2024 (2024-10-15)
Oxford 105 October 20, 2024 (2024-10-20)
WikiClub Toronto meetup October 20, 2024 (2024-10-20)
Wiki Uff da! - Event 1 October 23, 2024 (2024-10-23)
NYC Wikidata Day October 26, 2024 (2024-10-26)
Seattle Wikidata Day October 26, 2024 (2024-10-26)
San Diego 115 October 26, 2024 (2024-10-26)
BLT Office Hours October 27, 2024 (2024-10-27)


Meetups for November 2024 +/-
US Mountain West online November 12, 2024 (2024-11-12)
Wiki Uff da! - Event 2 November 14, 2024 (2024-11-14)
Wiki Uff da! - Event 3 November 20, 2024 (2024-11-20)
WikiCon Australia 2024 November 23, 2024 (2024-11-23)
BLT Office Hours November 24, 2024 (2024-11-24)

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.)

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:

Navy

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User scripts

Many different things on Wikipedia can be simplified, automated, or customized with user scripts. For example, you can create scripts to automate different vandalism warnings, perform an AfD nomination, or display the current time in a place of your choosing.

Many scripts have been written by Wikipedians, and are ready for you to make use of. To enable these pre-made scripts, simply paste them into your common.js file (a user's common.js is loaded regardless of which skin they are using). You may have to purge the page before the script will load for the first time.

To add this auto-updating template to your user page, use {{totd}}