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| May 2022 +/- | |
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| London 180 | May 8, 2022 |
| San Diego 84 | May 9, 2022 |
| Seattle @ Distant Worlds |
May 17, 2022 |
| BLT Office Hours | May 22, 2022 |
| UK virtual 12 | May 26, 2022 |
| Auckland @ Museum |
May 28, 2022 |
| South Africa 18 | May 28, 2022 |
| June 2022 +/- | |
| Canberra | June 3, 2022 |
| Kuala Lumpur 11 | June 4, 2022 |
| Wellington | June 11, 2022 |
| London 181 | June 12, 2022 |
| BLT @ KS | June 25, 2022 |
| BLT Photobooth @ KS/WA | June 25, 2022 |
| San Diego 85 | June 28, 2022 |
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This week's article for improvement is: Previous selections: Cheque · Soil · Food court This week's backlog of the week is: |
General notices
- Do you have need for a specialized script that doesn't exist yet, or have an idea for a cool new script or gadget? Post requests and ideas at Wikipedia:User scripts/Requests.
Projects seeking help
Also consider posting WikiProject, Task Force, and Collaboration news at the Signpost's WikiProject Report page.
- WikiProject Albums' backlog elimination drive is an attempt to reduce Category:Album infoboxes lacking a cover, which currently has 24,000 entries. Participation welcome!
- Wikipedia:WikiProject Idaho - Bringing it back to life; maybe the Portal:Idaho also. Mjquinn_id (talk) 20:45, 5 August 2021 (UTC)
- Wikipedia:WikiProject Zoo - Reviving this, any help is appreciated. -- PaleoMatt (talk) 17:10, 5 September 2021 (UTC)
- Wikipedia:WikiProject Merseyside - Trying to revive this; If you would like to help make sure you check here to sign up or to get suggestions of where to help --- 𝓙𝓪𝓭𝓮 (Talk) • 𝓉𝒽𝑒𝓎/𝓉𝒽𝑒𝓂 22:22, 28 February 2022 (UTC)
- Wikipedia:WikiProject The Beatles is trying to get all Beatles albums to at least GA status (currently we’re working on Please Please Me). If you want to chip in, please announce your involvement on the talk page.
WikiProjects and Task Forces
- WikiProject Go, announces a new portal for the game of Go.
- The Wikipedia Help Project seeks assistance expanding and improving the Task Center and other pages within the Help namespace.
Technical news
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
- Administrators using the mobile web interface can now access Special:Block directly from user pages. [1]
- The www.wiktionary.org portal page now uses an automated update system. Other project portals will be updated over the next few months. [2]
Problems
- The Growth team maintains a mentorship program for newcomers. Previously, newcomers weren't able to opt out from the program. Starting May 19, 2022, newcomers are able to fully opt out from Growth mentorship, in case they do not wish to have any mentor at all. [3]
- Some editors cannot access the content translation tool if they load it by clicking from the contributions menu. This problem is being worked on. It should still work properly if accessed directly via Special:ContentTranslation. [4]
Changes later this week
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 24 May. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 25 May. It will be on all wikis from 26 May (calendar).
Future changes
Gadget and user scripts developers are invited to give feedback on a proposed technical policy aiming to improve support from MediaWiki developers. [5]
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Group efforts and monthly projects
Monthly projects
- Guild of Copy Editors' editing drive. The May 2022 backlog drive is a one-month-long effort of 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}}, and {{copy edit inline}} and their redirects) or listed on the GOCE Requests page. It begins on 1 May 2022, 00:00 (UTC), and ends on 31 May 2022, 23:59 (UTC).
Ongoing group efforts
- 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.
- Wikipedia:WikiCup. The WikiCup is a championship that has taken place every year on Wikipedia since 2007. The Cup is played and won by skill of editing. The purpose of the Cup is to encourage content creation and improvement and make editing on Wikipedia more fun. There is a new round every month, until the current contest ends; below are the details.
- May 1 to June 28 – 32 contestants left.
- July 1 to August 29 – 16 contestants left.
- September 1 to October 31 – 8 finalists left, the contestant with the highest score will win!
- The Core Contest is a recurring six-week contest. Its purpose is to give a boost to Wikipedia's most important articles, especially those that start out in a bad shape. The 2022 contest will start on April 15.
- 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.
- WikiProject Medicine Collaboration of the Month. Every month, a topic will be selected from this page that will be the focus of editing for some members of Wikipedia:WikiProject Medicine. The article may or may not yet exist. Topics may either relate to medical basic sciences (anatomy, biochemistry, and so on), or clinical medicine (illnesses, surgical procedures, and so on).
| Wiki project name | Individual projects |
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| Women in Red | 2021 March:
2021 Q1 contest: 2021 global initiatives: |
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