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Community portal
Welcome to the community portal. This is the place to find out what is happening on Wikipedia. Learn what tasks need to be done, what groups there are to join, and get or post news about recent events or current activities taking place on Wikipedia.
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Help out
Wikipedia is, by number of articles, the largest encyclopedia ever to exist. However, many articles 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.
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Things to do
Fix-up projects
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Here are some tasks you can do:
- Wikify: MTV NEWS: UnFiltered, Practising Law Institute, Chotto Ookii Theatre Company, St. Elizabeth Technical High School, E-OCVM, More..
- Cleanup: Towle Silversmiths, Jeevan Jyoti Hospital, Willowbrook Shopping Centre, Schweizersäbel, Liberal Catholic Church of Ontario, More...
- Stubs: Juniata College, Toyota Canada Inc., Auburn Lull, Gabriel Barletta, More...
- Verify: Economy of Chile, Cryptocephalus, Haţeg Island, Athanas, More..
- Update: Foreign relations of Estonia, Foreign relations of Afghanistan, Foreign relations of Tajikistan, More...
- Neutrality: Pakistan Press International, Conversion of non-Muslim places of worship into mosques, Ann Saunderson, Male rape research, More...
- Copyedit: Vampire Earth, Phantasy Star Online Episode III C.A.R.D. Revolution, Trigonometry in Galois fields, Pfaffenhofen an der Roth, More...
- Merge: Asteroid, Annales School, Ansible, Accidental property, Aedicula, More...
- Style: Mass spectrometry software, BlueDragon, Software Engineering Institute, More...
- Expand: Bone Against Steel, Jed Buchwald, 1593 in music, Dan Balz, 1962 NFL Draft, The Artist at Work, 1975 Minnesota Twins season, 4G, Michael Curry, More...
- Requests: Ken Chilstrom, Femto Slider, Friedrich Karsch, Vertical talus, KeyWorx, George H. Richardson, Frank Aschenbrenner, More...
- Articles to be split: Laodamia, Character-cell and block-oriented terminals, List of people with Hong Kong SAR honours since 1997, LMS diesel shunters, Softmod, More...
- Mediation Cabal: Children of Joseph Smith, Manual of Style, Conflict in Lebanon, Eastern Mediterranean University, IPTV, Internet radio, Centrifugal force, or Help mediate an open case!
Not sure where to report a certain type of problem with article content? If it exists, it's probably listed at Wikipedia:Maintenance.
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Collaborations
To improve the quality of articles that are short or lacking in detail, Wikipedia's community organizes collaborations to expand articles.
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Core Topics Collaboration
The Core Topics Collaboration of the Fortnight works to improve essential Wikipedia topics. The current collaboration is Flight.
Flight is the process by which an object achieves sustained movement either through the air (or movement beyond earth's atmosphere, in the case of spaceflight) by aerodynamically generating lift, propulsive thrust or aerostatically using buoyancy.
The most successful groups of living things that fly are insects, birds, and bats. The extinct Pterosaurs, an order of reptiles contemporaneous with the dinosaurs, were also very successful flying animals. Each of these groups' wings evolved independently.
Mechanical flight is the use of a machine to fly. These machines include airplanes, gliders, helicopters, autogyros, airships, balloons, ornithopters, and spacecraft. Gliders provide unpowered flight. Another form of mechanical flight is parasailing where a parachute-like object is pulled by a boat.
You can help pick the next Core Topic collaboration article.
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Collaborations by topic
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Other collaborations
Active improvement teams
Maintenance
Help clear up the backlog of articles to be merged! Merging is the process combining two (or sometimes more) articles into a new article, or adding the content of one article to another. You'll need to be familiar with the associated templates. Before you begin, you need to know the details of merging and moving pages. After you read that, you're ready to begin consolidating and improving articles!
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.
Language translation
Wikipedia 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).
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Guidelines, help, and resources
Wikipedia 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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Help
Editing
Policies and guidelines
Wikipedia 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 both to articles and how to work with fellow editors. For easy access, the shortcuts to the pages are also listed.
Article standards
Working with others
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Resources
New user information
Introduction · Sandbox · Help · Adoption · What Wikipedia is not · Glossary · Account benefits · Planning school assignments
Ways to communicate
Contact (overview) · Discussion pages · Mailing lists · IRC chat · Meetups · User pages · Requests for comment · Public watchlists · Regional notice boards · Administrators' noticeboard · Requests for article feedback · Local Embassy
Community support groups and programs
Welcoming committee · Editor assistance · Wiki-adoption · Birthday Committee · Harmonious editing club · Kindness Campaign · Reach out · Stress alerts · Wikipedia awards program · Dept. of Fun · One featured article per quarter · Missing encyclopedic articles
Common procedures
Featured content · Good articles · Requests for feedback · Deleting a page (full policy) · Moving a page (naming policies) · Protecting a page (full policy) · Reverting a page · Administrator nominations (summaries) · Category-based access
How to resolve conflicts
Stay cool! · Be nice to newcomers · Alert others · Dispute resolution · Arbitration policy
Community information
About Wikipedia · Goings-on · About Wikimedia · Wikipedians · Wiki-adoption · Donations · Administrators · Babel · Culture · Games · Humor · Mottoes
Related communities
The links below lead to the main community pages of the projects.
All of these projects are multilingual and open-content. |
| Meta-Wiki – |
Coordination of all Wikimedia projects. |
| Wiktionary – |
A collaborative multilingual dictionary. |
| Wikinews – |
News stories written by readers. |
| Wikibooks – |
A collection of collaborative textbooks. |
| Wikiquote – |
A compendium of referenced quotations. |
| Wikisource – |
A repository for free source texts. |
| Wikispecies – |
A directory of species. |
| Wikiversity – |
Where teachers learn, and learners teach. |
| Commons – |
Repository for free images and other media files. |
Forums and e-mails are not acceptable sources
Internet forums and e-mails are not considered reliable sources and should not be used as sources for references in Wikipedia articles. They can however be included as external links. What's the difference? A source or reference is cited to verify the facts in the article. External links point to locations outside of Wikipedia where users can learn more about the subject, or where to see an example of what the article is about.
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