 Welcome to the Community Portal! The community portal is the central place to find out what's happening on Wikipedia. Learn what tasks need to be done, and get or post news about recent events or current activities. The community bulletin board below is provided for general announcements, while more specific sections are provided further below for collaborations updates, new featured content, things to do, ongoing projects, etc. See also the Signpost, Wikipedia's internal newspaper, providing a weekly summary of major developments.
For technical discussions, assistance, policy, proposals, and other news, see: Village pump - Wikipedia's discussion forums.
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Community bulletin board
Post your Wikipedia-related news and announcements here. A new portal, department, notice board, or project has been created? Tell us about it! A new initiative, proposal, discussion, or article drive is under way? Key us in! A success has taken place? Share it with us! There's a backlog that really needs help, or you need to request the help of volunteers for your WikiProject? Please, let us know right here...
- The vote for the Main Page Redesign, which continues through March 18th, is currently running 67.6% support / 3.9% conditional support / 24.4% oppose / 4.1% neutral. Everyone with a user account is welcome to vote on the new design.
- Ashibaka is compiling a list of hoaxes on Wikipedia. If you can remember any he's missed, go ahead and add them!
- The Article assessment team, having finished with extinct mammals, is looking at articles about 1980s comedy films and accepting submissions for African countries during the week starting March 6, 2006.
- WikiProject Law Enforcement is in desperate need of support. Any help from people with experience or knowledge in this field would be greatly appreciated.
- A Portal on NATO has been created. However it was started without prior knowledge to portal creation and editors to help create it would be extremely welcome.
- WikiProject Hiking Trails has been founded and welcomes new members.
- WikiProject Military history/Middle Ages task force has formed and welcomes new members.
- Portal:North America has been established and needs editors to construct it.
- Portal:Denmark is created. Contributions are welcome.
- The Rugby union collaboration of the fortnight has now started, and needs several more users to help. The first collaboration is rugby union.
- The WikiProject Dinosaurs, has officially been reactivated and seeks more members knowledgable of dinosaurs. Please come and sign up on the project page.
- There is a new Collaboration Project, Join in, designed to take some of the weight off Article Improvement Drive and deliver a faster response for editors that just need a few helpers with their article. Three articles have been nominated, so get collaborating!
- WikiGnomes are writing WikiTips for the upcoming Grand Reopening of the Tip of the day project, which has been on hiatus since 2004. If you are a WikiGnome, and would like to become a Wikipedia tipster, feel free to join the fun! More on the reopening later...
- We need help with the Basketball Wikiportal. If you like basketball this is the portal for you.
- Wikipedia has reached 1,000,000 articles! Read the press release. The article was Jordanhill railway station, created by Nach0king. Anr won the Million Pool.
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Things to do
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Here are some tasks you can do:
- Requests: Special enthalpy change, Name and Shame, Sequence similarity search, Kimono-hiyoku-layering, Jen Perzow, More...
- Stubs: Dissident, Prime Minister of Denmark, New Jersey Department of Education, Nature reserve, Herbivore, Ilmor, More...
- Verify: Pat Vincent, Homo erectus soloensis, Gentex, Brian Lotti, Amanieu III, Ringer T-shirt, BMW Flugelrad, Backlog...
- Update: Al-Qa'im (town), High-definition television in the United States, Bookland (type of land), Santiago de Las Vegas, More...
- NPOV: List of metropolitan areas by population, Sartre and bad faith, Papersticks, Homelessness, Lika, Balhae, Backlog...
- Copyedit: Digital Fortress, Culture of Mongolia, Consequentialism, Nigerien hip hop, Core Design, Arso Jovanović, More...
- Wikify: Pascale Machaalani, Digipie, List of television stations in Italy, Alavi Bohras, Hartlaub's Francolin, UASB, Backlog...
- Merge: Beth number, Foreign Aid to Syria, North Fork Kentucky River, Edward Oliver Wolcott, Freedom of Expression®, Backlog...
- Cleanup: Opportunity rover, Vera Leigh, Steakhouse, UK STD code 1252, Erga omnes, Staatsgalerie Stuttgart, Mehkar, Backlog...
- Style: Newton Faulkner, Bash bish, Mu Online, New Mobility Agenda, Imaginations Through the Looking Glass, Jeyaraj, More...
- Expand: Indian locomotives, Chief executive officer, Talk:Arroyo Hondo, New Mexico, Sweetheart (song), Wally George, More...
- Cleanup backlogs - Active fixup projects - Maintenance projects - Maintenance COTW: copyright problems
- Other: Requests for rollback poll - New deletion process
Not sure where to report a certain type of problem with article content? If it exists, it's probably listed at Wikipedia:Maintenance.
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New featured content
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Collaborations
In order to improve the quality of articles which are short or lacking in detail, Wikipedia's community takes part in collaborations to expand articles.
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Collaboration of the week
Help edit English Interregnum, Wikipedia's current collaboration of the week! Please help to bring it up to featured article standard.
The English Interregnum was the period of republican rule after the English Civil War between the regicide of Charles I in 1649 and the restoration of Charles II in 1660.
You can still help with last week's articles, Meat (see improvements), or help pick next week's article.
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Current collaborations
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Article Improvement Drive
Improve Roma people, the present incumbent at the Article Improvement Drive. The Article Improvement Drive works on a non-stub article that needs a lot of help before reaching featured-article standard.
The Roma people (singular Rom; sometimes Rroma, Rrom; often referred to as Gypsies) are an ethnic group mostly living in Europe. They are believed to be descended from nomadic peoples from northwestern India and Pakistan who began a diaspora from the eastern end of the Iranian plateau into Europe and north Africa about 1,000 years ago. Roma do not form a majority in any state.
Many Roma speak some form of Romany, a language closely related to the Indo-European languages, particularly Sanskrit and other Indo-Iranian languages like Punjabi and Sindhi. Similar descendent languages are found in the desert regions of the northern Indian Subcontinent, central Pakistan and Afghanistan. However, most Roma speak the dominant language of the region they live in.
You can still help with last week's article, Contact lens (see improvements), or help pick next week's article.
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Ongoing projects
WikiProjects are ongoing collaborations to improve articles having to do with a particular subject. Hundreds exist — to find one that interests you, click here. Wikipedia's general projects are listed here.
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