Wikipedia:Community portal
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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
- WikiProject Organized Labour is helping organise a month-long multi-language editing campaign in solidarity with meta:Wiki Workers United, including about the history of trade union and current developments. Sign up on meta
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: drive. The September 2026 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}}, {{copy edit inline}}, and their redirects), and those listed on the GOCE Requests page. It will begin on 1 September, 00:00 (UTC), and end on 30 September, 23:59 (UTC).
- Wikipedia:WikiProject Women in Red 2025 Events:
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| San Diego 137 Wiknic | August 1, 2026 |
| San Diego 138 edit-a-thon | August 2, 2026 |
| Kitchener, Ontario | August 8, 2026 |
| London 231 | August 9, 2026 |
| Christchurch 48 | August 15, 2026 |
| Prayagraj 1 | August 16, 2026 |
| Oxford 125 | August 16, 2026 |
| US Mountain West online | August 18, 2026 |
| Bay Area Wikisalon | August 18, 2026 |
| Seattle Wiknic | August 22, 2026 |
| Iriga 3 | August 23, 2026 |
| Auckland 50 | August 29, 2026 |
| Portland, Oregon Wiknic | September 5, 2026 |
| Christchurch 49 | September 13, 2026 |
| London 232 | September 13, 2026 |
| Seattle meetup | September 15, 2026 |
| Bay Area WikiSalon | September 15, 2026 |
| Fullerton 1 | September 17, 2026 |
| Nottingham 2 | September 19, 2026 |
| Riverside 4 (Temecula) | September 19, 2026 |
| WikiConference North America | September 24, 2026 |
| Auckland 51 | September 26, 2026 |
| Edinburgh 29 | September 26, 2026 |
| Brixton 18 | September 27, 2026 |
| San Diego 139 | September 27, 2026 |
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.
- WP Unreferenced articles is trying to clear the decades-long backlog of unreferenced articles, please help to lower the number of unreferenced articles below 40,000. Come contribute! Catfurball (talk) 15:21, 6 May 2026 (UTC)
- WikiProject Outlines news:
- New outlines:
- The following outline covers an ongoing situation, please help keep it updated:
- The Outline of the week is Outline of ancient Rome.
- Please help improve them. —The Transhumanist 09:46, 25 March 2026 (UTC)
- A new task force of WikiProject Wildfire has been activated as the Canada task force! Editors are welcome to join the new task force and help tag articles on Canadian wildfires as part of the task force, as well as help expand the main page. 🌀Hurricane Wind and Fire (talk) (contribs)🔥 00:51, 5 March 2026 (UTC)
Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
Updates for editors
- The Special:CreateAccount page has been simplified as part of ongoing work to modernize the account creation experience. The panel showing project statistics no longer appears next to the form on desktop and mobile web. Multiple account creation experiments show that a simpler form helps newcomers complete registration.
- In order to improve page performance, images now load when they are viewed. This means images lower down an article will not load if a reader never scrolls to that part of the page, which may affect some image-related metrics.
View all 42 community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week. For example, an issue where image thumbnails in Abstract Wikipedia could fail to display after the corresponding file was moved on Wikimedia Commons, has now been fixed. Thumbnails will now update correctly when files are moved.
Updates for technical contributors
- User Info card is a feature that helps patrollers see information about user accounts. So far, it has been available only in places such as page history, logs and recent changes. Now, it's possible to place it in the page content as well, using the
{{#uic:}}parser function. It can be particularly useful in templates like{{Userlinks}}(or their specialized variants), as it will make it easier to see the context about a user on various noticeboard pages. The card will be displayed only to users who have it enabled in their preferences. - Due to user security and privacy risks, we have disabled access to
Special:MyPageURLs when specifically usingaction=raw. If you are impacted by this, consider whether you can use an alternative approach.Special:MyPageURLs can still be accessed and used withoutaction=raw. Specified user page URLs (e.g.User:Myusername) can still be used withaction=raw. - Due to an update, the thumbnailing software has been improved. This includes upgrading
librsvgto 2.60 andImageMagickto 7, as well as resolving a number of long-standing thumbnailing bugs like rendering errors.
- Detailed code updates later this week: MediaWiki
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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
Update with new information
Expand short articles
Check and add references
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| This week's article for improvement is: Previous selections: Ratchet (device) · Alan Paton · HDR10 | The backlog of the week is: |
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