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Notices

• Consensus was reached at Wikipedia:WikiProject Council/Proposals/Four Award to create Wikipedia:Four Award

Project pages seeking contributors

Discussions

Discussions in the following areas have requested wider attention:

Help out

Wikipedia is, by number of articles, the largest encyclopedia ever to exist. However, many articles are stubs, or otherwise need attention. If you like, go ahead, be bold, and jump right in. If you are not ready to fly solo, you can participate in a Collaboration.

Things to do

• Respond to a request for comment, Wikiquette alert or provide a third opinion.
• Adopt a basic topic list, to help develop and maintain a table of contents to a major subject on Wikipedia.
• Give a requested editor review.
• Can you draw or take pictures? Make a requested image.
• Peer review or give feedback on some articles.
• Comment at Featured portal candidates and Portals at peer review.
• Make recommendations on articles listed at Good article reassessment.
• Respond to the Reward board or Bounty board.
• Are you good at photo editing? Then try cleaning up some of these images, or helping out at the Graphics Lab.
• Can you use GIS tools? Help make requested maps.
• Can you communicate in another language? There are articles that need translation into English. You can also proofread a translation.
• Let SuggestBot suggest pages for you to improve.
• Update pages with old (ref or note template) citations to the new references format.
• Patrol new pages and help improving new articles.
• Assess articles by quality or by importance – pick a topic of interest and grade according to that WikiProject's scale. (See links from article talk pages.)
• Category:Wikipedia backlog always needs attention.

Fix-up projects

Open tasks

Here are some tasks you can do:

• Wikify: International Society of Protocol & Etiquette Professionals, Juan Carlos Lomonaco, Vertigo bird, Winchester Shirt, Educational anthropology, More...
• Copyedit: Secrets of a Hollywood Super Madam, Rissho University, Roman church in Kalinciakovo, Valentine (film), St. Andrew's chapel in Kos (Slovakia), More...
• Update: Lake Arrowhead, California, Liam Connor, Bob Hope (Emmerdale), Irma Anderson, Militaria, More...
• Style: Tickle Me Elmo, Samantha Fitzgerald, Ttfn (novel), John Kay (spinning frame), Muslim views on astrology, More...
• Cleanup: Dublanc, Good Hope, Dominica, Grand Bay, Dominica, Forest farming, List of northern California rappers, More...
• Verify: Yorgia, List of sequenced bacterial genomes, Eurybiini, Mantidactylus, Mantellinae, More...
• Neutrality: Fitzalan High School, New Vrindaban, Perejil Island, Ecuadorian–Peruvian war of 1858, Requiem: Memento Mori, More...
• Original research: Digital native, Oracle Fusion Middleware, YTV (TV channel), John Cutruzzola, Charles II: The Power and The Passion, More...
• Merge: Reservoir petrophysics, Sub-sampling, Coning and quartering, Bodsham, Elmsted, More...
• Split: D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson, Jeanette (singer), ALCO FA, EMD GP40-based passenger diesels, USS Vance (DE-387), More...
• Stubs: DoubleDuck, Party of Freedom and Solidarity, Augustin Nsanze, The Language of Elk, Stevan Jackson, More...
• Expand: De Vita Beata, Hunky Culture, Jill Robinson, Puerto Rico Health Reform, Yamai, More...
• Article Requests: Bukit Purmei, Ectopic enamel, Amesfrane Rock Wall, Margarita Salas, Lake Tikshozero, Binary optics, More...
• Image Requests: Caribbean Chinese cuisine, Columbretes Islands, Harmonichord, Banbury cake, Hairy-nosed Otter, More...
• Mediation Cabal: War of 1812, The Founding of a Republic or Help mediate an open case!

Not sure where to report a certain type of problem with article content? If it exists, it is probably listed at Wikipedia:Maintenance.

Purge

Collaborations

To improve the quality of articles that are short or lacking in detail, Wikipedia's community organizes collaborations to expand articles.

Collaborations by topic

Other collaborations

Active improvement teams

• Countering systemic bias
• Version 1.0
• Spam fighting team
• Categorization projects
• Spotlight

WikiProjects

WikiProjects are ongoing team efforts to improve articles having to do with a particular subject, and to manage the logistics of that topic. Hundreds exist—examine the master list to find one that interests you.

Language translation

Wikipedia is not just in English. Versions exist in many different languages. To fill in some of the English Wikipedia's gaps, we translate articles from other languages into English. You can view a list of articles that need translation from any language, or, in a few cases, by only one language (this is only available for the more popular languages).

Gift shop

Share ideas of logos or other Wikipedia motifs to be used on clothing or for other purposes in Wikipedia merchandise.

Guidelines, help & resources

Wikipedia has many help pages, policies, and departments. Here are some of the most general. For a comprehensive list of Wikipedia's departments, see the Wikipedia department directory.

Help

• Wikipedia help – Browse help pages
• Where to ask questions

Editing

• The Manual of Style guidelines and tutorial
• How to edit a page
• Contributing
• How to write a great article
• Where to find information for articles
• A list of template messages
• What special pages are
• Tools for editing
• Request newspapers or magazines

Policies and guidelines

Wikipedia has many established policies, guidelines, conventions, and traditions. This is a very brief sampling of some of the most important; for more information, see the main policies and guidelines page. Policies and guidelines apply to both articles and how to work with fellow editors. For easy access, the shortcuts to the pages are also listed.

Article standards

Working with others

Resources

New user information

Introduction · Sandbox · Help · Adoption · What Wikipedia is not · Glossary · Account benefits · Planning school assignments

Ways to communicate

Contact (overview) · Discussion pages · Mailing lists · IRC chat · Meetups · User pages · Requests for comment · Public watchlists · Regional notice boards · Administrators' noticeboard · Requests for article feedback · Local Embassy

Community support groups and programs

Welcoming committee · Editor assistance · Wiki-adoption · Birthday Committee · Harmonious editing club · Kindness Campaign · Reach out · Wikipedia awards program · Dept. of Fun · One featured article per quarter · Missing encyclopedic articles

Common procedures

Featured content · Good articles · Requests for feedback · Deleting a page (full policy) · Moving a page (naming policies) · Protecting a page (full policy) · Reverting a page · Administrator nominations (summaries) · Category-based access

How to resolve conflicts

Stay cool! · Be nice to newcomers · Alert others · Dispute resolution · Arbitration policy

Community information

About Wikipedia · Goings-on · About Wikimedia · Wikipedians · Wiki-adoption · Donations · Administrators · Babel · Culture · Games · Humor · Mottoes

Related communities

Tip of the day...

When creating articles on forums, fansites, or other webpages, remember that Wikipedia has three notability requirements for these types of articles. These requirements are: 1. The content itself has been the subject of multiple non-trivial published works whose source is independent of the site itself. 2. The website or content has won a well known and independent award. 3. The content is distributed via a site which is both well known and independent of the creators. While a particular website need not meet all of these requirements, it should meet at least one of them.

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