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 Fuzheado, Gamaliel, Effeietsanders, Nikikana, LilyOfTheWest, and SuperHamster discuss the annual Wiki Loves Monuments worldwide photography contest
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- Special:UnwatchedPages pages needs you! Currently, and for good reason, this is admin only. If you are a non-admin and would like to help bring the list down, drop a note here and get a list of 10, 20, 200, or however many you want.
- Help from experienced editors would be appreciated at the Drawing board, traffic has more than tripled in recent weeks since the addition of a link from Your first article.
- A proposal to merge the Drawing board and Requests for feedback is going on here. Input on the merge proposal and help maintaining the board would be appreciated.
- A team of editors is needed to develop a set of country profiles/outlines to serve as a useful tool for browsing country-related subjects and comparing countries. Editors experienced in the creation and use of bots and advanced wikitools like WP:AWB and WP:LINKY are especially needed. Please contact The Transhumanist.
- The Articles written by a single editor project page has been redesigned. You can volunteer to help inspect all the articles listed here for missing tags.
- Voice your opinion on the goals of the Main Page redesign. We are looking for ideas (not specific designs yet) as far as what you want on the Main Page.
- As of Oct. 31, AOL is shutting down its FTP space, and all websites they were hosting will be deleted. This is a major shift that will mean plenty of broken links where members' AOL pages are linked to!
- A new WikiProject is added to the Proposals: WikiProject Haystack, aiming to highlight the most essential in Wikipedia. To avoid being overwhelmed by all information in Wikipedia, it would put the most essential into special template boxes that may be read and searched separately.
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Help out
Things to do edit
- 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.
- 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.
- Frequent IRC user, or a wikignome? Visit WikiProject Spotlight to join in on their latest collaboration.
- Category:Wikipedia backlog always needs attention.
Fix-up projects edit
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.
Not sure where to report a certain type of problem with article content? If it exists, it is probably listed at Wikipedia:Maintenance.
CollaborationsTo improve the quality of articles that are short or lacking in detail, Wikipedia's community organizes collaborations to expand articles. | |||
Core topics collaboration edit The Core Topics Collaboration works to improve essential Wikipedia topics. The current collaboration is Amazon rainforest. The Amazon Rainforest (Brazilian Portuguese: Floresta Amazônica or Amazônia; Spanish: Selva Amazónica or Amazonía) is a moist broadleaf forest in the Amazon Basin of South America. The area, also known as Amazonia, the Amazon jungle or the Amazon Basin, encompasses seven million square kilometers (1.7 billion acres), though the forest itself occupies some 5.5 million square kilometers (1.4 billion acres), located within nine nations: Brazil (with 60 percent of the rainforest), Peru (with 13 percent of the rainforest, second after Brazil), Colombia, Venezuela, Ecuador, Bolivia, Guyana, Suriname, and French Guiana. States or departments in four nations bear the name Amazonas after it. The Amazon represents over half of the planet's remaining rainforests and comprises the largest and most species-rich tract of tropical rainforest in the world. You can help pick the next Core Topic collaboration article. | |||
Collaborations by topic edit
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Other collaborations editActive improvement teams editMaintenance editUser:Pretzels/Community portal/Maintenance collaboration WikiProjects editWikiProjects 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. Language translation editWikipedia 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). | ||
Guidelines, help, and resourcesWikipedia 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. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Policies and guidelines editWikipedia 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 editWorking with others edit |
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When you make use of Wikipedia's desks (Help desk, Village pump, and the Reference desk), please consider putting some time in as a volunteer by reading and answering some questions at whichever desk you think you will be the most helpful. Remember: the Help desk always needs help, and questions asked at the Reference desk span the breadth of all human knowledge. You're likely to know the answer to some of the questions. – – To add this auto-updating template to your user page, use {{tip of the day with h3 heading}}
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