Wikipedia:Community portal
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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 [add]
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: blitz. The August 2026 editing blitz is a one-week-long effort by the Guild of Copy Editors to reduce its backlog. The themes are: all articles on the GOCE Requests page, and articles on the backlog from April, May, and June 2025. It began on 16 August, 00:00 (UTC), and will end on 22 August, 23:59 (UTC).
- Wikipedia:WikiProject Women in Red 2025 Events:
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| 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 |
| Christchurch 48 | August 15, 2026 |
| Prayagraj 1 | August 16, 2026 |
| Oxford 125 | August 16, 2026 |
| US Mountain West online | August 18, 2026 |
| Bay Area Wikisalon | August 18, 2026 |
| Seattle Wiknic | August 22, 2026 |
| Portland, Oregon Wiknic | September 5, 2026 |
| Christchurch 49 | September 13, 2026 |
| Seattle meetup | September 15, 2026 |
| Riverside 4 (Temecula) | September 19, 2026 |
| WikiConference North America | September 24, 2026 |
| Edinburgh 29 | September 26, 2026 |
| San Diego 139 | September 27, 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 dinosaurs.
- 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.
Weekly highlight
- The Worklist feature for the Event Registration tool is now live on all Wikimedia wikis. With Worklist, event organizers can add the articles their event will focus on directly to the event page. The Worklist also powers Event Pathways which notifies other editors of the upcoming or ongoing event when they edit an article featured in the event's Worklist. This is the minimum viable version (MVP), and feedback is welcome. Organizers are encouraged to try the feature. A hands-on Worklist Setup Workshop will take place on 18 August at 16:00 UTC and 19 August at 11:00 UTC.
Updates for editors
- Special:ShortPages displays short pages by their size, but in many cases it gets filled with disambiguations and soft redirects, making it harder to find the short articles themselves. Starting this weekend, you will be able to choose not to include an article in the special page by adding the magic word
__EXPECTSHORTPAGE__. - One new wiki has been created: a Wikipedia in Bole (
w:bol:) - Starting the week of August 17, the page toolbar will wrap onto two lines when there is not enough horizontal space for all the buttons. This is a fully merged patch from the Reader Experience team which aims to reduce crowding in the Vector 2022 toolbar, that may occur on some language Wikipedias at certain screen widths.
View all 16 community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week. For example, uploading large files to Wikimedia Commons has become more stable and less prone to failure following some fixes related to the “Could not acquire lock” upload error.
Updates for technical contributors
- Debian Bullseye will reach the end of its Long Term Support on 31 August 2026. Some Cloud VPS projects still have instances running Debian Bullseye. Maintainers of those projects are encouraged to migrate to Debian Bookworm or Debian Trixie. A migration guide is available to help with the process, and users may also want to consider whether their workload is better suited to Toolforge. If you need help or cannot complete the migration by 31 August, please contact the Cloud VPS admins as soon as possible. Read more.
- Detailed code updates later this week: MediaWiki
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Discussions in the following areas have requested wider attention via Requests for comment:
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General notices
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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
Fix wikilinks
Update with new information
Expand short articles
Check and add references
Fix original research issues
Improve lead sections
Translate and clean up
| This week's article for improvement is: | The backlog of the week is: |
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