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You can help improve the articles listed below! This list updates frequently, so check back here for more tasks to try. (See Wikipedia:Task Center for brief guides.)

Help counter systemic bias by creating new articles on important women.

Help improve popular pages, especially those of low quality.

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This section is transcluded from Wikipedia:Community bulletin board. (edit | history)


Wikipedia Meetups
   September 2021 +/-
San Diego
74 (Balboa Park)
75 (Online)		 September 11, 2021 (2021-09-11)
London 174 September 12, 2021 (2021-09-12)
UK virtual 4 September 26, 2021 (2021-09-26)
BLT Online September 26, 2021 (2021-09-26)
   October 2021 +/-
San Diego
76 (Balboa Park)
77 (Online)		 October 10, 2021 (2021-10-10)
London 175 October 10, 2021 (2021-10-10)
BLT Online October 24, 2021 (2021-10-24)
Full Meetup Calendar • Events calendar on Meta
For meetups in other languages, see the list on Meta

This week's article for improvement is:

Student exchange program

Previous selections: History of art · Past ·

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.

    WikiProjects and Task Forces

    • WikiProject Sweep, which aims to comprehensively review every article created in Wikipedia's early days to ensure basic conformity to modern standards, has been launched following a successful proposal at the WikiProject Council.
    • The Wikipedia Help Project seeks assistance expanding and improving the Task Center and other pages within the Help namespace.
    • WikiProject Abandoned Drafts Stale draft drive. An ongoing drive dedicated to reducing the amount of stale user space drafts. Options are to delete, redirect, move to mainspace or blank. Stop by and help the drive out!
    • WikiProject Spoken Wikipedia is looking for people who are interested in helping out in our project to get our articles into an audio format that can be used for any number of uses including, but not limited to, visually impaired or people who just prefer to listen to the article instead of reading it for whatever reason they choose. You can sign up here on our participant's page. We are also in need of native or fluent speakers so that everything is pronounced properly. You can sign up for the Pronunciation task force by adding your name as well as your languages of fluency to section 2.

    Technical news

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    Group efforts and monthly projects

    Monthly projects

    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!
    • 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).
    Table for group projects, by Wikiproject
    Wiki project name Individual projects
    Women in Red 2021 March: Art+ActivismVisibleWikiWomen

    2021 Q1 contest: Africa contest

    2021 global initiatives: #1day1woman2021 Women's rights

    Upcoming Remote Events, Discussions, and Conferences via electronic formats

    Discussions and collaborations

    Discussions in the following areas have requested wider attention via Requests for comment:

    See also


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    How to link to word definitions

    Wikipedia has a sister project that presents hundreds of thousands of word definitions. It's called Wiktionary. Let's say you are writing a sentence and you want to create a link to the definition of a word, the understanding of which is crucial to understanding that article. But in this hypothetical situation, you don't want to link to the Wikipedia page for that word because doing so would be overkill. So, using our Source Editor, here's how you would provide a link to the definition of "understanding" on Wiktionary:

    both [[wiktionary:understanding|]] and [[wikt:understanding|]] will display like this:

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