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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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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

  • 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 blitz. The August 2024 editing blitz was a one-week-long effort by the Guild of Copy Editors to reduce its backlog. The themes were: articles on the GOCE Requests page from May and June 2024, and articles on the May 2023 and June 2023 backlog. It began on 18 August, 00:00 (UTC), and ended on 24 August, 23:59 (UTC). Stay tuned for the next event.
  • Wikipedia:WikiProject Women in Red 2024 Events:
Recently completed: Science Fiction and Fantasy
New this month: Indigenous women Film and stage
Ongoing initiatives: #1day1woman Education Translation Women in Sports
Upcoming events: Women writers & their works Geofocus: Islands A - H Ideas


Meetups for August 2024 +/-
Christchurch 30 August 4, 2024 (2024-08-04)
NC Triangle Wiknic August 6, 2024 (2024-08-06)
Seattle Wiknic August 11, 2024 (2024-08-11)
London 207 August 11, 2024 (2024-08-11)
San Diego 112 Wiknic August 17, 2024 (2024-08-17)
Oxford 103 August 18, 2024 (2024-08-18)
Manhattan Beach
Edit-a-thon
August 24, 2024 (2024-08-24)
BLT Office Hours August 25, 2024 (2024-08-25)
San Diego 113 August 26, 2024 (2024-08-26)
Brixton 2 August 27, 2024 (2024-08-27)
Edinburgh 17 August 31, 2024 (2024-08-31)
Meetups for September 2024 +/-
Christchurch 31 September 1, 2024 (2024-09-01)
London 208 September 8, 2024 (2024-09-08)
Seattle meetup September 17, 2024 (2024-09-17)
BLT Office Hours September 22, 2024 (2024-09-22)
San Diego 114 September 23, 2024 (2024-09-23)

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 backlog of the week is:

Category:Images requiring maintenance

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