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Welcome to the community portal!

This page provides a listing of current collaborations, tasks, and news about English Wikipedia. New to Wikipedia? See the contributing to Wikipedia page or our tutorial for everything you need to know to get started. For a listing of internal project pages of interest, see the department directory.

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Ask questions about how to use or edit Wikipedia
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Work with other editors on a shared area of interest
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Incubate new ideas before formally proposing them
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Community bulletin board

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

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 October 2025 editing blitz was a one-week-long effort by the Guild of Copy Editors to reduce its backlog. The themes were: articles on the GOCE Requests page, and articles on the backlog from March 2024 and April 2024. It began on 12 October, 00:00 (UTC), and ended on 18 October, 23:59 (UTC). Stay tuned for the next event.
  • Wikipedia:WikiProject Women in Red 2025 Events:
Recently completed: Alphabet run: Q & R Women writers & their works Geofocus: Microstates
New this month: Alphabet run: S & T Women in STEM Halloween
Ongoing initiatives: Music #1day1woman
Upcoming events: Ideas


Meetups for October 2025 +/-
Dunedin 1 October 3, 2025 (2025-10-03)
Perth 89 October 4, 2025 (2025-10-04)
Dunedin 2 October 10, 2025 (2025-10-10)
London 221 October 12, 2025 (2025-10-12)
Minnesota October 14, 2025 (2025-10-14)
Dunedin 3 October 17, 2025 (2025-10-17)
Oxford 116 October 19, 2025 (2025-10-19)
Brixton 10 October 20, 2025 (2025-10-20)
Portsmouth 4 October 25, 2025 (2025-10-25)
Exeter 5 October 25, 2025 (2025-10-25)
San Diego 127 October 25, 2025 (2025-10-25)
Brixton 11 October 27, 2025 (2025-10-27)
Seattle October 28, 2025 (2025-10-28)


Meetups for November 2025 +/-
Wikidata 13th Birth-
    day in Seattle
November 1, 2025 (2025-11-01)
San Diego 128 November 8, 2025 (2025-11-08)
London 222 November 9, 2025 (2025-11-09)
Minnesota November 11, 2025 (2025-11-11)
Brighton 7 November 29, 2025 (2025-11-29)

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.

General notices

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

Help improve popular pages, especially those of low quality.

This week's article for improvement is:

Criticism of monarchy

Previous selections: Cape · Genus · Biting

Tip of the day

Using Special:MyPage to make private links

Special:MyPage is a special link that is dynamically linked to the current user's userpage. So, whoever clicks on it will be taken to their own user page.

If you add a subpage to the link, then only you will be taken to your subpage of that name. Other users will be taken to the subpage of that name in their namespace (if it exists).

This makes the link "private" by only letting the correct user get to the page via that link. Other users will diverted to their own userspace.

The code [[Special:MyPage/To-do list|To-do list]] creates this: To-do list.

However, this only makes the link private, not the page itself. Others can still get to it via the search box or by creating a new link with its entire title.

To add this auto-updating template to your user page, use {{totd}}