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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.
Yearly or infrequent events
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' editing blitz. The August 2025 editing blitz is a one-week-long effort by the Guild of Copy Editors to reduce its backlog. The themes are: articles on the GOCE Requests page from May to August 2025, and articles on the backlog from December 2023 and January 2024. It began on 17 August, 00:00 (UTC), and will end on 23 August, 23:59 (UTC).
- Wikipedia:WikiProject Women in Red 2025 Events:
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| Christchurch 41 | August 3, 2025 |
| San Ysidro (SD125) | August 9, 2025 |
| London 219 | August 10, 2025 |
| San Diego Wiknic (SD126) | August 16, 2025 |
| Oxford 114 | August 17, 2025 |
| Aberdeen 4 | August 25, 2025 |
| Minnesota | August 26, 2025 |
| San Diego 126 | September 13, 2025 |
| London 220 | September 14, 2025 |
| Edinburgh 23 | September 27, 2025 |
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. The backlog recently reached under 49,000. Come contribute! Catfurball (talk) 16:35, 7 August 2025 (UTC)
- WikiProject Haiti is newly renovated and looking for interested participants. Averageuntitleduser (talk) 15:38, 21 July 2025 (UTC)
- WikiProject Kabbalah is re-activating as there are a lot of maintenance templates on these articles and new references and inline citations are needed. See Kabbalah Books Online. New participants welcome!! Nnev66 (talk) 23:07, 26 May 2025 (UTC)
- WikiProject Christianity is back and running! We are looking for new and interested editors to join. We look forward to working with you! Sheriff U3 12:51, 5 April 2025 (UTC)
- WikiProject Outlines news:
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- Another outline has been nominated for Featured List status:
- 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 11:59, 29 March 2025 (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.
Updates for editors
- Later this week, people who are logged-in and have the "Discussion tools" Beta Feature enabled will gain the ability to "Thank" individual comments directly from talk pages, rather than needing to navigate to page history. Learn more about this feature. [1]
- An A/B test comparing two versions of the desktop donate link launched on testwiki on 12 August and on English Wikipedia 14 August for 0.1% of logged out users on the desktop site. The experiment will run for three weeks, ending on 12 September. [2]
- An A/A test to measure the baseline for reader retention was launched 12 August using Experimentation Lab. This measures the percentage of users who revisit a wiki after their initial visit over a 14-day period. No visual changes are expected. The experiment will run through 31 August. [3]
- Five new wikis have been created:
View all 46 community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week.
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- Detailed code updates later this week: MediaWiki
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Plus a mysterious CheckUser incident, and the news with Wikinews.
A review of June, July and August.
Who is this guy?
Threads since June.
And slop.
It's not a conlang, it's a crossword puzzle.
gang aft agley, an' lea'e us nought but grief an' pain, for promis'd joy!
Everybody's Somebody's Fool.
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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:Maintenance or the Task Center for further information.)
Help counter systemic bias by creating new articles on important women.
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| This week's article for improvement is: Previous selections: Kingdom of Norway (872–1397) · Housing · History of hide materials | This week's backlog of the week is: |
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