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This page provides a listing of current collaborations, tasks, and news about English Wikipedia. For a listing of ongoing discussions and current requests, see the dashboard. New to Wikipedia? See the contributing to Wikipedia page for everything you need to know to get started. To find other internal project pages of interest, see the department directory. Interact more Help desk Reference desk Village pump Peer editing help WikiProjects Barnstars Dispute resolution Village pump sections: Policy · Proposals · Tech · Misc Reference desks: Computing · Entertainment · Humanities · Language · Maths · Science · Travel · Misc · Archives 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 Gerolstein SB X-7 CDN 37 Malankara Orthodox Syrian Church Judgment of Solomon More... • Learn how Fix wikilinks Gamma-Re Transition Model Copperstone University Murphy Lake (Troup County, Georgia) Topy Industries Lyric Theater (Stevens Point) More... • Learn how Update with new information Commandment Keepers Local government in Fiji 15th MMC – Pleven Transport in Santa Coloma de Gramenet Zee Bangla More... • Learn how Expand short articles Harbanspura Interchange Lady Willingdon Hospital Kashmiri Gate, Lahore Expo Centre Lahore Muslim Town Flyover More... • Learn how Check and add references Reduced affect display War of 1812 Potemkin village Kalabera Jelly Babies More... • Learn how Fix original research issues Encounters of Every Kind Knowledge acquisition (philosophy) Justin Mortelliti Miss Perú 1987 Gapless playback More... • Learn how Improve lead sections Lands of Lore III Vapochromism V-League 7th Season 2nd Conference Andrew Hussey Benedict Canyon, Los Angeles More... • Learn how Add an image Kelvin Grove Fig Trees and Air Raid Shelter Kuzuyu Kenora District Kumai Karaca Cave More... • Learn how Translate and clean up Executive branch of the government of Honduras Nätti-Jussi Show das Poderosas Vieille Montagne Brazilian Workers Confederation More... • Learn how Counter systemic bias by creating new articles on missing important female scientists. Improve popular low quality articles (top 5,000 articles by pageviews with low ORES article class predictions.) Other helpful tasks include, fixing vandalism, welcoming newcomers, link recovery, categorization, and numerous behind the scenes tasks like moving free images to Wikimedia Commons. See Wikipedia:Maintenance for more maintenance tasks. Community bulletin board 14 October 2016   News and notes: Fundraising, flora and fauna Discussion report: Cultivating leadership: Wikimedia Foundation seeks input In the media: A news columnist on the frustrations of tweaking his Wikipedia bio Technology report: Upcoming tech projects for 2017 Traffic report: Debates and escapes Recent research: A 2011 study resurfaces in a media report Featured content: Variety is the spice of life Single page Book Front page About Subscribe Suggestions Archives Centralized discussion A request for adminship is in progress. Redefining pending changes level 2 and usage Access locks: appearance Access locks: citation template behaviour Proposed speedy deletion criterion for books Deferring suspect edits for review Promotional usernames policy Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 What should the articles from 1 to 100 be moved to? This week's article for improvement is Street food Street food vendors at a roadside market just outside of Hua Hin District, Thailand Please be bold and help to improve this article! WikiProject Missing Encyclopedic articles (% done) Project page—The goal of this project is to ensure that Wikipedia has a corresponding article for every article in every other encyclopedia. Sign in! Monthly focus: MacTutor biographies 46 left 1911 verification: 12.2% ACF Regionals answers: 64.1% Hotlist of topics: 88.7% General topics: 79.6% Science topics: 92% Catholic Encyclopedia: 86.2% Easton's Bible Dictionary: 88% Encyclopaedia Biblica : 69.5% Evangelical Dictionary of Theology: 80.6% Gutenberg authors : 57.1% Jewish Encyclopedia : 39% Literary Encyclopedia: 81.9% List of Poles: 6% Find-A-Grave: 85.1% Stanford Archive answers 97.9% Missing paintings 60.8% Miscellaneous Many other lists of politicians, songs, TV shows and others. Overall progress: 65.2% Spread the word through {{Project missing articles}} Active Wiki Fixup Projects Article Rescue Squadron Check Wikipedia Cleanup Dead-end pages Disambig pages w/ links Fix common mistakes Free images to Commons Geo-coordinates Missing articles Most-wanted articles Orphaned articles Red Link Recovery Requested articles Single editor Stubsensor Today's articles for improvement Uncategorised articles Unreferenced articles Wikification needed Main · Inactive · Mini General notices 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" Projects seeking help Also consider posting WikiProject, Task Force, and Collaboration news at the Signpost's WikiProject Report page. The Africa Destubathon is being held from October 15 - November 27 2016. Substantial prizes have been proposed, with a prize for improving the most stubs for every African country. It needs contributors to improve the diversity of content from geography and wildlife to women biographies across the African continent. Sign up if interested! WikiProjects and Task Forces The Tip of The Day department is looking for tricks and techniques. If you have a special way of doing things, please stop by and share. Outlines See also: Wikipedia:WikiProject Outlines New outlines Outline of Abraham Lincoln Outline of Earth Outline of Himachal Pradesh Outline of Jammu and Kashmir Outline of Jharkhand Outline of Madhya Pradesh Outline of Meghalaya Outline of Mizoram Outline of Nagaland Outline of Punjab, India Outline of Tripura Outline of Uttarakhand Being overhauled or expanded Outline of the Dominican Republic Outline of North Korea Nearing completion (need remainder of annotations added) Outline of theatre Outline of meteorology Outlines in need of attention Outline of communication Outline of computer security Outline of Marvel Comics Outline of skiing Outline of sustainable agriculture Outline of telecommunication Need link placement Outline of solar energy (place entries from See also into body of outline) Outline of prehistoric technology (place entries from See also into body of outline) Outline of sustainability (from nav footer) Portal report The following portals are in need of attention/upkeep: Portal:Fergie (singer) Newly created Portal:Donald Trump Newly created Portal:A. R. Rahman Newly created Portal:Lighthouses Newly created Portal:Shreya Ghoshal Newly created 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. Newest featured content Articles Topics Portals Sabrina Sidney Taylor Swift The World Before the Flood O. G. S. Crawford Allen Walker Eurasian rock pipit Turboliner "Don't Say You Love Me" (M2M song) HMS Alceste (1806) Cleveland Centennial half dollar Ontario Highway 420 Chad Harris-Crane Eega Heavy metals Hope (painting) Overview of Lady Gaga U.S. Highways in Michigan World Fantasy Award Overview of Katy Perry 2015 Vuelta a España Final Fantasy series 1961 Atlantic hurricane season Overview of Leonardo DiCaprio Liverpool F.C. 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Tip of the day Tip of the day... Report problems on noticeboards Noticeboards are for reporting problems that editors encounter while writing or while maintaining Wikipedia articles. Noticeboards are monitored by volunteer administrators and by experienced editors. For a list of noticeboards, see Template:Noticeboard links. Noticeboards are best used for simple or urgent matters. Posting a message to a noticeboard can also be an appropriate early step in resolving disputes on Wikipedia. If the issue is sensitive or confidential please use the Wikipedia private email system available to logged in users. Prior tip – Next tip Read more: Wikipedia:Requests   Become a Wikipedia tipster – Tips library, by subject To add this auto-updating template to your user page, use {{totd}}