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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
Yearly or infrequent events
- WikiProject Louisville's Derby 150 article development and backlog drive. Help WikiProject Louisville celebrate the 150th running of the Kentucky Derby by joining our article development and backlog drive taking place during the period of the Kentucky Derby Festival, April 20 – May 5, 2024. The purpose of this drive is to improve a corner of the Wikipedia related to and timed for this special rare anniversary.
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 April 2024 editing blitz was a one-week-long effort by the Guild of Copy Editors to reduce its backlog. The themes were: all articles on the GOCE Requests page, and articles on the January 2023 and February 2023 backlog. It began on 14 April, 00:00 (UTC), and ended on 20 April, 23:59 (UTC). Stay tuned for the next event.
- Wikipedia:WikiProject Women in Red 2023 Events: WP:WIR/EVENTS - updated monthly
- The 100,000 Challenge. The quest to bring about 100,000 article improvements and creations globally through a series of 50,000/10,000/1000 Challenges for different regions and countries. This is a loose challenge, a list will not be maintained here, but the components will function independently on each of the subpages. Will be updated every week or two.
- The 50,000 Destubbing Challenge is a long term challenge to destub 50,000 articles on English Wikipedia for every country and topic. It may take decades to accomplish, it may take ten years, it all depends on how many people actively contribute.
| London 203 | April 14, 2024 |
| Oxford 99 | April 21, 2024 |
| San Diego 110 | April 22, 2024 |
| North Carolina Earth Day | April 23, 2024 |
| Edinburgh 15 | April 27, 2024 |
| BLT Office Hours | April 28, 2024 |
| Auckland 22 | May 4, 2024 |
| Leeds 6 | May 4, 2024 |
| Exeter | May 5, 2024 |
| London 204 | May 12, 2024 |
| US Mountain West online | May 14, 2024 |
| San Diego 111 | May 20, 2024 |
| BLT Office Hours | May 26, 2024 |
WikiProject notices
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.
- WikiProject Outlines news:
- Outline drafts nearing completion include:
- The Outline of the week is Outline of extraterrestrial life.
- Please help improve them. —The Transhumanist 10:15, 7 April 2024 (UTC)
- WikiProject Vocaloid's proposal is seeking editors with interest in any Vocaloid related topic to join the project.
- WikiProject Bendigo is currently seeking interested editors to join the project. Lotsw73 (talk) 05:03, 30 January 2024 (UTC)
- WikiProject Operating systems (in proposal state) is looking for interested participants to support the creation of a regular WikiProject page.
- Revive WikiProject United States governors. This WikiProject is dedicated to the leaders of the 50 U.S. states. If you agree, post a message on the WikiProject talk page.
- WikiProject AI Cleanup has recently been started to combat the addition of problematic AI-generated content. Interested editors are encouraged to join! ARandomName123 (talk) 01:35, 5 December 2023 (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.
Recent changes
- Starting this week, newcomers editing Wikipedia will be encouraged to try structured tasks. Structured tasks have been shown to improve newcomer activation and retention. [1]
- You can nominate your favorite tools for the fifth edition of the Coolest Tool Award. Nominations will be open until May 10.
Changes later this week
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 23 April. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 24 April. It will be on all wikis from 25 April (calendar). [2][3]
Future changes
- This is the last warning that by the end of May 2024 the Vector 2022 skin will no longer share site and user scripts/styles with old Vector. For user-scripts that you want to keep using on Vector 2022, copy the contents of Special:MyPage/vector.js to Special:MyPage/vector-2022.js. There are more technical details available. Interface administrators who foresee this leading to lots of technical support questions may wish to send a mass message to your community, as was done on French Wikipedia. [4]
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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
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Help improve popular pages, especially those of low quality.
| This week's article for improvement is: Previous selections: Antarctic · Fire safety · Jean Gabin | This week's backlog of the week is: |
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