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Help desk Reference desk Village pump Peer editing help WikiProjects Barnstars Dispute resolution Help out You can help improve the articles listed below! This list updates frequently, so check back here for more tasks to try. Fix spelling and grammar • Learn how Freemasonry in Luxembourg Subramanya, Karnataka Metal Hero Series Mahishasura Neolithic sites in Kosovo More... Fix wikilinks • Learn how Probation in Pakistan Filipino Cultural Association Human trafficking in Cyprus Flood Gallery Fine Arts Center History of the Tai-Phake people in northeast India More... Update with new information • Learn how Washington State Senate election, 2008 Banking in Bhutan Medical Encyclopedia of Islam and Iran David Florida Laboratory United States–Colombia Free Trade Agreement More... Expand short articles • Learn how P. K. Roy Memorial College Paleontology in Kenya Transportation in West Virginia Lacrosse in England History of Kyrgyzstan More... Check and add references • Learn how Julien Poulin Josh Phillips (musician) Joseph Perry (bishop) Jairo Penaranda Jean-Claude Passeron More... Fix original research issues • Learn how Space art Vinodini Terway Chanyu Horizontal blank interrupt Hazing More... Improve lead sections • Learn how Portland Waterfront Strike, 1922 Psychology of education Presidency of Fidel Castro Peopling of China Partition of States in the United States More... Add an image • Learn how Pamplona (dish) Queensborough, British Columbia Queensborough River Queen Elizabeth's Almshouses, Richmond Qinghai University More... Translate and clean up • Learn how Panabá Municipality Persis Solo Oil-paper umbrella Orhan Birdal Vietnam Idol (season 6) More... Community bulletin board 16 September 2015   Editorial: No access is no answer to closed access Traffic report: Another week News and notes: Byrd and notifications leave, but page views stay; was a terror suspect editing Wikipedia? In the media: Is there life on Mars? Featured content: Why did the emu cross the road? Technology report: Tech news in brief Single page Book Front page About Subscribe Suggestions Archives Centralized discussion Socking policy clarification Proposed edit filter guideline Proposal to re-organize several women-related Wikiprojects, Taskforces, and Initiatives 5 millionth article milestone: community press release, video, open letter, and site banner Enabling VisualEditor for inexperienced and dormant accounts Should we have a special logo when we hit five million articles? Auto sign on talkpages Should verified company names be allowed as usernames? What colors should be used for the default navbox? Arbitration Committee Elections December 2015 Should the Community portal suggest articles on missing highly cited female scientists? This week's article for improvement is Scottish mythology "Boy on white horse" by Theodor Kittelsen Please be bold and help to improve this article! General notices There is a proposed redesign of the Community Portal on its talk page. Free subscriptions to high-quality paywalled journals, newspaper archives, and online reference works are available for Wikipedia editors. For more information, see Wikipedia:TWL/Journals. NorthAmerica1000 11:29, 20 June 2014 (UTC) Projects seeking help Also consider posting WikiProject, Task Force, and Collaboration news at the Signpost's WikiProject Report page. WikiProjects and Task Forces The Tip of The Day task force needs suggestions for new tips, help responding to suggestions, and copy-editors for approaching tips. Under five editors are barely keeping the project on its feet and any help would be geatly appreciated and barnstars may be awarded for excellent work. The newly created WikiProject Women in Red is seeking editors to write articles about notable women. The African football task force of WikiProject Football has just been created. Anyone with substantial knowledge on African football-related articles or anyone interested in African football is welcome to join! Outlines See also: Wikipedia:WikiProject Outlines Under construction Outline of Bihar Outline of MySQL Outline of Star Trek Being overhauled or expanded Outline of Andhra Pradesh Outline of Haryana Need expansion Outline of automation (please add links from series box into the outline) Fully annotated! Outline of Apple Inc. (please proofread) Outline of cell biology (please proofread) Outline of sinology (please proofread) Nearing completion (need remainder of annotations added) Outline of Narnia Outline of canoeing and kayaking (Specific venues section) Outline of chess Outline of fishing (just a few annotations needed) Outline of forensic science Outline of motorcycles and motorcycling Outline of prehistoric technology Outline of wind energy Need link placement Outline of solar energy (from See also into body of outline) Portal report The following portals are in need of attention/upkeep: Portal:Tuvalu Newly created Portal:Half-track Newly created Portal:Virginia Woolf Newly created Portal:Theosophy Newly created Portal:Machine learning Newly created Portal:Kyrgyzstan Newly created Portal:Trichy Newly created Portal:Space The selected article excerpts were copied and pasted between 2006 and 2009. The leads of the corresponding articles have greatly improved since then. Portal:Thinking "Selected" sections need new material. Been the same for years. The following portals have interesting design features that you may find useful: Portal:South East England A "parent" portal that uses selected content from several "child" portals, chosen at random for each type of content. Portal:Philosophy Automatically cycles through 52 "Selected philosophers", one per week, year after year. Portal:Arts Uses random generators to display random featured status selections. Discussions and collaborations Discussions in the following areas have requested wider attention via Requests for comment: Biographies Economy and trade History and geography Language and linguistics Media, the arts, and architecture Politics, government, and law Religion and philosophy Science and mathematics Society, sports, and culture Wikipedia policies and guidelines Wikipedia style and naming WikiProjects and collaborations Wikipedia technical issues and templates Wikipedia proposals Unsorted See also Dashboard News Goings-on Milestones Meetups In the media Mailing lists Wikimedia community portals Here is a list of the main community pages of Wikipedia's sister 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 non-fiction books. 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. Wikivoyage – A world-wide travel guide. Wikidata – A free knowledge base that can be read and edited by humans and machines alike. Commons – Repository for free images and other media files. Motto of the day... “ Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. ” Nominate one! Tip of the day... Navigate faster using Wikipedia shortcuts Many of the pages in the Wikipedia namespace have specialized redirects called "shortcuts" that can be entered into the search box on the left side of your screen. Normally these shortcuts start with WP: and then a capitalized abbreviation for the page name. Some common shortcuts are: WP:DEPT, WP:FAQ, WP:FUN, WP:IMAGE, WP:VP, and of course, WP:TIP. A shortcut to the list of shortcuts is WP:CUT. 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