Wikipedia:Community portal
(Redirected from Wikipedia:COM)
Latest comment: 2 months ago by Catfurball in topic Community bulletin board
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.
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: drive. The July 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 began on 1 July, 00:00 (UTC), and will end on 31 July, 23:59 (UTC).
- Wikipedia:WikiProject Women in Red 2025 Events:
| Recently completed: | |
| New this month: | |
| Ongoing initiatives: | |
| Upcoming events: |
| Iriga 2 | July 11, 2026 |
| London 230 | July 12, 2026 |
| San Diego 136 | July 18, 2026 |
| Christchurch 47 | July 19, 2026 |
| Seattle meetup | July 21, 2026 |
| Chicago Wiknic 2026 | July 25, 2026 |
| Portland, Oregon | July 25, 2026 |
| Oxford 124 | July 26, 2026 |
| Wikimedia Café: Governance reform |
July 26, 2026 |
| Brixton 17 | July 27, 2026 |
| San Francisco Wikisalon | July 28, 2026 |
| 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 |
| US Mountain West online | August 11, 2026 |
| Christchurch 48 | August 15, 2026 |
| Bay Area Wikisalon | August 18, 2026 |
| Seattle Wiknic | August 22, 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 architecture.
- 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
Content Translation now supports dark mode, fulfilling a Community Wishlist request. This brings the tool in line with the accessibility features available in the Vector 2022 and Minerva skins, helping reduce visual fatigue for users translating content. [1]- DiscussionTools' source mode and the 2017 wikitext editor will now offer autocomplete for links (
[[), templates ({{), HTML and parser tags (<), and magic words (__), making it quicker and easier to insert links, templates, and other wiki markup while editing. [2] - The Readers Growth team has concluded its experiment with mobile page previews and will not roll out the feature. Page Previews are a pop-up bottom sheet that appears when readers tap a blue link, showing a thumbnail, lead paragraph, and an option to open the article. The experiment showed flat retention and negative indicator metrics, suggesting that mobile web readers preferred navigating directly to linked articles rather than using page previews.
- The Reader Experience team has seen encouraging early results from the Reading Lists feature, with 93% of participating users reporting that it was useful. Reading Lists help active readers save articles for future reading and support their learning goals on Wikimedia projects. The team plans further improvements before expanding the feature to more users.
- The Explore Feed Refresh initiative was tested with new and casual Wikipedia app readers. The refreshed feed helps readers discover new and relevant content. After a 10.5% increase in engagement with the feed, Wikimedia Apps team has decided to scale the Home Feed redesign to iOS with the learnings from the Android release applied.
View all 23 community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week. For example, an issue where subject names in the Article Guidance feature were displayed with incorrect capitalization on French Wikipedia, has now been fixed. Subject names will now follow the correct capitalization rules for the language. [3]
Updates for technical contributors
- After running several Account Creation Experiments to improve registration completion rates, a new version of the username field on Create Account has been rolled out. It includes a popover summarizing the username policy to provide clearer guidance during account creation. As part of this change, the messages
createacct-helpusernameandcreateacct-username-helpthat several communities have configured will no longer be used. If communities want to customize the guidance shown in the new popover, they can instead edit the following messages:createacct-username-policy-popover-bullet1,createacct-username-policy-popover-bullet2, andcreateacct-username-policy-popover-bullet3. [4] - Later this week, the CodeMirror syntax highlighter will offer themes. The themes can be picked from a dropdown menu in the full CodeMirror preferences dialog. For wikitext, available themes are default, colorblind-friendly (previously the colorblind preference option on Special:Preferences#mw-prefsection-editing) and no-highlighting. For code languages (i.e., CSS/JavaScript/JSON/Vue/Lua), there are several themes available. These same themes will eventually be available for wikitext, too. [5]
- From now on, wikis can restrict editing in the "User" namespace to only the page owner and certain user groups. Read the configuration documentation to learn more.
- 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.
Discussions in the following areas have requested wider attention via Requests for comment:
- 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
General notices
 |
|---|
| 13 July 2026 |
|
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
Fix wikilinks
Update with new information
Expand short articles
Check and add references
Fix original research issues
Improve lead sections
Add an image
Translate and clean up
| This week's article for improvement is: | The backlog of the week is: Category:Wikipedia pages about contentious topics without a code |
Newest featured content
- Figure skating at the 2022 Winter Olympics
- Metroid Prime: Trilogy
- British monarchs
- Kristen Bell
- Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
- No. 86 Wing RAAF
- Overview of Lecrae
- Roman invasion of Africa (204–201 BC)
- Scottish invasion of England (1648)
- Line of Duty
- Overview of SZA
- Green Bay Packers players
- History of the National Hockey League
- Peter Capaldi
- Detroit Lions draft history
- Women's Amateur Snooker Championship
- List of constituencies of the Chhattisgarh Legislative Assembly
- Dutch Figure Skating Championships
- 2026 Men's T20 World Cup qualification
- Timeline of the 1998 Pacific hurricane season
- Prince of Zhou (Ming dynasty)
- List of Billboard Hot 100 number ones of 1970
- Figure skating at the 2022 Winter Olympics
- Marina Diamandis discography
- List of gerbillines
- Timeline of the Thomas Jefferson presidency
- List of Coldplay live performances
- List of Billboard Hot 100 number ones of 1969
- Grade I listed buildings in Oxford
- Czechoslovak Figure Skating Championships
- Souvenir map of the World's Columbian Exposition
- The Hay Wain
- Xuande Emperor
- Hongxi Emperor
- Juvenile springbok stotting
- Henkel's leaf-tailed gecko, top view
- Henkel's leaf-tailed gecko, side view
- Folarin Balogun
- Brown boobook
- Indian leopard
- Mount St Michael, Cornwall
- Vertical rock formation at Wadi Rum
- Ewuare
- Unisphere in 1964
- Bayeux Tapestry, left half
Tip of the day
.jpg){kind=link}
,_Parque_Nacional_de_Lokobe,_Nosy_Be,_Madagascar,_2025-09-21,_DD_50.jpg){kind=link}
,_Parque_Nacional_de_Lokobe,_Nosy_Be,_Madagascar,_2025-09-21,_DD_51.jpg){kind=link}
.jpg){kind=link}
