Wikipedia:Community portal/Redesign/Draft2a

Contents: 1 Community bulletin board 2 To do lists 3 Collaborations 4 Editorial departments

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How to add to the community bulletin board Welcome to the community bulletin board, the page used for announcements from WikiProjects and other groups. Included here are coordinated efforts, events, projects, and other general announcements. Dashboard News Task Center Goings-on Meetups In the media Mailing lists General notices Community-wide notices A request for adminship is open for discussion. Sign up for the October Good Articles backlog drive! Review Good Article Nominations to earn bonus points and special awards! A request for adminship is open for discussion. ArbCom Election Committee nominations Adding page mover-specific move protection WikiProject notices WikiProject Unreferenced articles is trying to clear the decades-long backlog of unreferenced articles, please help to lower the number of unreferenced articles below 30,000. Come contribute! Catfurball (talk) 15:21, 1 September 2026 (UTC) WikiProject Outlines news: New outline: Wikipedia:Artificial intelligence resources The following outline covers an ongoing situation, please help keep it updated: Outline of the Russo-Ukrainian war The Outline of the week is Outline of transport. Please help improve them. —The Transhumanist 09:46, 25 March 2026 (UTC) Events (+) 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 was 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 began on 1 September, 00:00 (UTC), and ended on 30 September, 23:59 (UTC). Stay tuned for the next event. Wikipedia:WikiProject Women in Red 2025 Events: Recently completed: Women writers & their works Alphabet run: Countries starting with P, Q & R Labour activists New this month: Women in STEM Alphabet run: Countries starting with S Award winners Ongoing initiatives: #1day1woman: 2026 Sports Upcoming events: Ideas Requests for comment Discussions in the following areas have requested wider attention: Biographies Economy and trade History and geography Language and linguistics Media, the arts, and architecture Politics, government, and law Religion and philosophy Science and mathematics Society, sports, and culture Wikipedia policies and guidelines Wikipedia style and naming WikiProjects and collaborations Wikipedia technical issues and templates Wikipedia proposals Unsorted View all Meetups Meetups for October 2026 (+/-) Portland, Oregon October 3, 2026 (2026-10-03) Minnesota October 4, 2026 (2026-10-04) Kitchener, Ontario October 10, 2026 (2026-10-10) London 233 October 11, 2026 (2026-10-11) Bay Area WikiSalon October 13, 2026 (2026-10-13) San Diego 140 October 17, 2026 (2026-10-17) Auckland 52 October 31, 2026 (2026-10-31) Brighton 9 October 31, 2026 (2026-10-31) Meetups for November 2026 (+/-) US Mountain West online November 10, 2026 (2026-11-10) Boston Coffee Chat November 14, 2026 (2026-11-14) Auckland 53 November 28, 2026 (2026-11-28) San Diego 141 November 28, 2026 (2026-11-28) Technical news Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available. Weekly highlight The process for this year’s Community Wishlist has been published, incorporating community feedback. The wish submission process will end on November 8. This year, a working group (open for volunteering) that includes community members familiar with the technical aspect of our wikis alongside Wikimedia Foundation staff, will take care of the triage process. The triage is expected to be completed by late November. Votes for wishes will start in January. Updates for editors Editors using the visual editor will now see a warning when they paste text that is likely to have initially been copied from one of five external generative AI chatbots into Wikipedia. This feature is known as LLM Paste Check. It is a type of Edit Check that is community configurable. The check looks for markers in the copied HTML and is not using content watermark detection. Edits will also be tagged so that patrollers can review them more closely. The feature helps newcomers add content that respects Wikipedia’s policies and makes it easier for experienced editors to identify problematic edits. Communities with local policies about LLM usage can adjust the wording and policy that is linked. The team apologizes that this was rolled out without a delay for translations. Editors can now easily access the web visual editor directly from the iOS and Android apps. When opening the editor, users will be given a choice between visual editing and source editing. If they choose visual editing, they will be sent to a mobile web window in their phone's browser. After completing their edit, a banner will give them the option to return to the app. This enables readers to make quick contributions while casually reading. Users of the Wikipedia Android and iOS apps will now see a one-time account creation prompt after they have used the app for two consecutive weeks. This prompt explains the benefits of having an account. It is intended to help more casual readers become logged-in users who return to the apps regularly. Editors on group1 wikis, including Wikiquote, Wikibooks, Wikiversity, Wikivoyage, and Wikisource, will no longer see notifications on Recent Changes and Watchlist when a link to another language version of a page is added, removed, or changed in its Wikidata item. This change will begin on October 5 at 07:00 UTC as a two-week trial to reduce high-volume, low-value notifications and make important changes easier to identify. Editors who rely on these notifications can read more on the project page and share feedback or concerns on the talk page. View all 36 community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week. For example, an issue where mentors who removed themselves from the mentorship program could still have mentees assigned to them and receive questions, has now been fixed. Mentees will now be reassigned when a mentor leaves the program. Updates for technical contributors Wikimedia Brasil has published its Development Best Practices Framework (ABPD). It is a guide for staff, contractors and volunteers building technical tools and projects. It covers the project lifecycle, security, accessibility, personal data protection and responsible AI use, and explains how movement-wide guidelines were adapted to a local context. They encourage other affiliates to reuse it and adapt it. Read more in the Diff post. A new, canonical base URL for Wikimedia APIs will soon be introduced. The new canonical route follows a {projectName}/api/ pattern and will act as an alternative path for current REST APIs (for example: {projectName}/w/rest.php/). Both versions will be callable for all existing APIs, but the new structure will be the preferred path for newly created API modules. This change will be non-breaking for most users. The existing pathways will remain available for all existing endpoint requests. However, some endpoints may return URLs following the new pattern in response bodies. Changes will be available on test wiki first, with the rollout expected to cover all wikis by the end of October. Detailed code updates later this week: MediaWiki. Tech news prepared by Tech News writers and posted by bot • Contribute • Translate • Get help • Give feedback • Subscribe or unsubscribe.

To do lists Wikipedia is, by number of articles, the largest encyclopedia ever to exist. However, that comes at a cost: many are stubs, or otherwise need attention. If you like, go ahead, be bold, and jump right in. If you aren't ready to fly solo, you can participate in a Collaboration.
Things to do Help update to the new references format? Respond to a request for comment. Can you draw or take pictures? Make a requested image. Peer review or assess some articles, especially those recently revised. Offer your thoughts and ideas on proposed policies. Can you use GIS tools? Help make requested maps. Can you speak another language? There are articles that need translation into English. Would you like to respond to more requests? Comment on the wisdom of new bot proposals. Can you code? Code a useful bot or update an offline report. Proofread a finished translation. Let SuggestBot suggest pages for you to edit. Fix-up projects Article Categorization Bad category names Blank pages Bad links Dead-end pages Disambig pages w/ links Duplicated sections Elements of Style Linkrot Orphaned categories Punctuation Missing articles Most wanted articles Most wanted stubs Neglected articles Shortpages Stub sorting Syntax Project Templates with red links Transwiki log cleanup Typos Untagged Images Untagged stubs User categorisation Active improvement teams Cleaning department Counter vandalism unit Categorization projects Cleanup Taskforce Version 1.0 Encyclopedic Standards Countering systemic bias	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 Milko Foucault-Larche Stanley Brown (cricketer, born 1885) Mohabat Subh Ka Sitara Hai Fondo Interbancario di Tutela dei Depositi Yape (payment) More... • Learn how Fix wikilinks Amalia Vidari-Griffoni M. Joseph Sirgy Wakhi hat Diana Rickard (sociologist) Sam the Shaggy Dog More... • Learn how Update with new information Kristiansand Bus Terminal N.E.O.N. Kim Driscoll Moldovan Writers' Union Hassan Rouhani More... • Learn how Expand short articles SpacemiT Tecsun Chenguang Shenyang Aeroengine Research Institute InfoTM More... • Learn how Check and add references Apollo Battle of Mohi Ashes to Ashes (Star Trek: Voyager) Togoga airstrike Tritomini More... • Learn how Fix original research issues Indian locomotive class WAG-7 Dračí doupě Berlin S-Bahn Armorial of prime ministers of the United Kingdom Charles Brasher More... • Learn how Improve lead sections Ntdetect.com John Philp Thompson Sr. Usha Sanyal St. Bridget's Convent, Colombo Dunellen station More... • Learn how Add an image Bhairabkunda Shiva Mandir Black Loyalist Heritage Centre Brigalow Belt Broken Cornflower badge Baixadeiro More... • Learn how Translate and clean up Vostok (Russian train) Larysa Skoryk Palazzo di Spagna Königstein im Taunus Zenpōkōenfun More... • Learn how Help counter systemic bias by creating new articles on important women. Help improve popular pages, especially those of low quality. Not sure where to report a certain type of problem with article content? If it exists, it's probably listed at Wikipedia:Maintenance.

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

Collaboration of the week Help edit Lee Smith (baseball), Wikipedia's current collaboration of the week! Please help to bring it up to featured article standard. Lee Arthur Smith (born December 4, 1957 in Shreveport, Louisiana) was a pitcher in Major Leagues. Smith played for eight teams in both the NL and AL in his 18-year career, beginning with the Cubs in 1980. Smith led the league in saves four times during his career and by the time of his retirement in 1997 (with the Expos), he was the all-time leader with 478 saves. Smith used his fastball and size (he stood 6'6") to intimidate batters during the late innings of the game and became one of the premier closers of the 1980's and early 1990's. You can still help with last week's article, Textile (see improvements), or help pick next week's article. Article Collaboration and Improvement Drive The Article Collaboration and Improvement Drive works on an article that needs a lot of help to reach featured-article standard. The subject of this week's article improvement drive is Kim Soo-whan (random unreferenced BLP of the day for 5 Oct 2026 - provided by User:AnomieBOT/RandomPage via WP:RANDUNREF): A picture of Aang and Momo Aang is a fictional character and the main protagonist for Nickelodeon's animated television series Avatar: The Last Airbender, which was created by Michael Dante DiMartino and Bryan Konietzko. He is voiced by Zach Tyler Eisen. Twelve-year-old Aang is the last surviving Airbender, a monk of the Air Nomads' Southern Air Temple, and is a supercentenarian at the incarnation age of 112. He is the current incarnation of the Avatar, the spirit of the planet manifested in human form. Aang, as the Avatar, controls the elements and is tasked with keeping the Four Nations at peace. Aang is the series' reluctant hero and comic, spending a century in suspended animation before joining new friends Katara and Sokka on a quest to master the elements and save their world from the war-hungry imperialist Fire Nation. You can still help with last week's article, World War I, or help pick next week's article. Good Article Collaboration of the week The Good Article Collaboration of the week works to polish already good articles to the highest of standards. This week's improvement drive is Elvis Presley: Elvis Aaron Presley began his career as one of the first performers of rockabilly, an uptempo fusion of country and rhythm and blues with a strong back beat. His novel versions of existing songs, mixing "black" and "white" sounds, made him popular—and controversial—as did his uninhibited stage and television performances. He recorded songs in the rock and roll genre, with tracks like "Hound Dog" and "Jailhouse Rock" later embodying the style. Presley had a versatile voice and had unusually wide success encompassing other genres, including gospel, blues, ballads and pop. To date, he is the only performer to have been inducted into four separate music halls of fame. You can still help pick next week's article.

Collaborations by topic See Template:COTWs for the most up-to-date listing. 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. They are separate from, though may work with, Collaborations.

Editorial departments Wikipedia has hundreds of departments manned by a small army of volunteers. Here are some on the most general; for more specific departments, see the appropriate page.

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