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Dashboard News Task Center Goings-on Meetups In the media Mailing lists Events and projects [add] Yearly or infrequent events The 2024 Developing Countries WikiContest is an editing competition with a focus towards developing countries. It will begin on July 1st and signups will close on July 15th. Sign up now! Want to help good articles get better? Sign up for the July Good Article backlog drive! New and experienced reviewers welcome. 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 drive. The July 2024 backlog drive is a one-month-long effort by the Guild of Copy Editors to reduce the backlog of articles that require copy editing: those carrying the {{copy edit}} tag (also {{awkward}}, {{copy edit section}}, {{inappropriate person}}, and {{copy edit inline}}, and their redirects) or are listed on the GOCE Requests page. It began on 1 July, 00:00 (UTC), and will end on 31 July, 23:59 (UTC). Wikipedia:WikiProject Women in Red 2024 Events: Recently completed: LGBTQ+ women | Wiki Loves Pride Women in Music Alphabet run: X–Z New this month: Translation Science Fiction and Fantasy Women in Sports Ongoing initiatives: #1day1woman Education Upcoming events: Ideas Meetups for July 2024 +/- WikiClub Toronto Meetup July 7, 2024 (2024-07-07) London 206 July 14, 2024 (2024-07-14) BLT Office Hours July 28, 2024 (2024-07-28) Perth 82 July 28, 2024 (2024-07-28) San Diego 111 July 29, 2024 (2024-07-29) Meetups for August 2024 +/- San Diego 112 Wiknic August 17, 2024 (2024-08-17) BLT Office Hours August 25, 2024 (2024-08-25) WikiProject notices [add] 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 90,000. Come contribute! — PerfectSoundWhatever (t; c) 17:04, 4 July 2024 (UTC) WikiProject Outlines news: Outline drafts nearing completion include: Draft:Outline of dogs Draft:Outline of God Draft:Outline of JavaScript The Outline of the week is Outline of Bob Marley. Please help improve them. —The Transhumanist 12:23, 9 May 2024 (UTC) WikiProject Bendigo is currently seeking interested editors to join the project. Lotsw73 (talk) 05:03, 30 January 2024 (UTC) Technical news Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available. Recent changes Over the next three weeks, dark mode will become available for all users, both logged-in and logged-out, starting with the mobile web version. This fulfils one of the top-requested community wishes, and improves low-contrast reading and usage in low-light settings. As part of these changes, dark mode will also work on User-pages and Portals. There is more information in the latest Web team update. [1] Logged-in users can now set global preferences for the text-size and dark-mode, thanks to a combined effort across Foundation teams. This allows Wikimedians using multiple wikis to set up a consistent reading experience easily, for example by switching between light and dark mode only once for all wikis. [2] If you use a very old web browser some features might not work on the Wikimedia wikis. This affects Internet Explorer 11 and versions of Chrome, Firefox and Safari older than 2016. This change makes it possible to use new CSS features and to send less code to all readers. [3][4] Wikipedia Admins can customize local wiki configuration options easily using Community Configuration. Community Configuration was created to allow communities to customize how some features work, because each language wiki has unique needs. At the moment, admins can configure Growth features on their home wikis, in order to better recruit and retain new editors. More options will be provided in the coming months. [5] Editors interested in language issues that are related to Unicode standards, can now discuss those topics at a new conversation space in MediaWiki.org. The Wikimedia Foundation is now a member of the Unicode Consortium, and the coordination group can collaboratively review the issues discussed and, where appropriate, bring them to the attention of the Unicode Consortium. One new wiki has been created: a Wikipedia in Mandailing (w:btm:) [6] Problems Editors can once again click on links within the visual editor's citation-preview, thanks to a bug fix by the Editing Team. [7] Future changes Please help us to improve Tech News by taking this short survey. The goal is to better meet the needs of the various types of people who read Tech News. The survey will be open for 2 weeks. The survey is covered by this privacy statement. Some translations are available. Tech news prepared by Tech News writers and posted by bot • Contribute • Translate • Get help • Give feedback • Subscribe or unsubscribe. Requests for comment 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 General notices Want to help good articles get better? Sign up for the July Good Article backlog drive! New and experienced reviewers welcome. Sign up here for the month-long Guild of Copy Editors' July copy-editing drive. Have fun, improve articles, and earn barnstars!
To do Do you have a moment to respond to a request for comment? Can you draw or take pictures? Help make requested images. Can you use GIS tools? Help make requested maps. Can you code? Help make a useful bot or update an offline report. Comment on the wisdom of new bot proposals. Peer review some articles. Offer your thoughts and ideas on proposed Wikipedia policies. Can you speak another language? There are articles that need translation into English. Would you like to respond to more requests? Proofread a finished translation. Or... 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 Cocomelon Estimation of signal parameters via rotational invariance techniques Vasyl Kozak Jerusalem Declaration on Antisemitism Pampady More... • Learn how Fix wikilinks Karnataka State Road Transport Corporation Spa Conference (13–15 August 1918) Miryang Puteri Indonesia 2022 Pet Friendly's More... • Learn how Update with new information SpaceX facilities Bangladesh Davis Cup team Cheshire Constabulary DARPA Gorman Joint School District More... • Learn how Expand short articles Plasmodium youngi Plasmodium watteni Plasmodium uzungwiense Lacertamoeba Plasmodium achromaticum More... • Learn how Check and add references E-government Apostolos Andreas Monastery Stereophonics Neerali Gelsemine More... • Learn how Fix original research issues Santa Fe Railroad tugboats Fiona Russell Powell Khadija Ismayilova Portuguese pavement Kanchanbari More... • Learn how Improve lead sections Opinion polling for the 2014 Indian general election Metaphysical aesthetics Elizabeth Borgwardt William Shenstone Arthur Frank Witulski More... • Learn how Add an image Kelston Knoll Kora National Park Kentucky Route 6 Kulur, Mangalore Kahawa Sug More... • Learn how Translate and clean up Ken Terajima Osman Batur Rench Inmarko New Christian More... • Learn how Help counter systemic bias by creating new articles on important women. Help improve popular pages, especially those of low quality. Not sure where to report a certain type of problem with article content? If it exists, it's probably listed at Wikipedia:Maintenance.	Active collaborations In order to improve the quality of articles which are short or lacking in detail, Wikipedia's community take part in collaborations to expand articles. Collaboration of the week Help edit Lee Smith (baseball), Wikipedia's current collaboration of the week! Please help to bring it up to featured article standard. Lee Arthur Smith (born December 4, 1957 in Shreveport, Louisiana) was a pitcher in Major Leagues. Smith played for eight teams in both the NL and AL in his 18-year career, beginning with the Cubs in 1980. Smith led the league in saves four times during his career and by the time of his retirement in 1997 (with the Expos), he was the all-time leader with 478 saves. Smith used his fastball and size (he stood 6'6") to intimidate batters during the late innings of the game and became one of the premier closers of the 1980's and early 1990's. You can still help with last week's article, Textile (see improvements), or help pick next week's article. Article Collaboration and Improvement Drive The Article Collaboration and Improvement Drive works on an article that needs a lot of help to reach featured-article standard. The subject of this week's article improvement drive is Won Tae-yeon (random unreferenced BLP of the day for 6 Jul 2024 - provided by User:AnomieBOT/RandomPage via WP:RANDUNREF): A picture of Aang and Momo Aang is a fictional character and the main protagonist for Nickelodeon's animated television series Avatar: The Last Airbender, which was created by Michael Dante DiMartino and Bryan Konietzko. He is voiced by Zach Tyler Eisen. Twelve-year-old Aang is the last surviving Airbender, a monk of the Air Nomads' Southern Air Temple, and is a supercentenarian at the incarnation age of 112. He is the current incarnation of the Avatar, the spirit of the planet manifested in human form. Aang, as the Avatar, controls the elements and is tasked with keeping the Four Nations at peace. Aang is the series' reluctant hero and comic, spending a century in suspended animation before joining new friends Katara and Sokka on a quest to master the elements and save their world from the war-hungry imperialist Fire Nation. You can still help with last week's article, World War I, or help pick next week's article.
Other collaborations Africa ({{african-cotw}}) Anime (List of English Dubbed Anime) Biography ({{bio-cotw}}) Book Club (The Razor's Edge by William Somerset Maugham) Canada (None) Cinema ( ) Comics ([[Milo Manara]]) Cricket (Donald Bradman) European Union (News media in the European Union) French Translation (fr:Liberté to Freedom) Football (soccer) (Italy national football team) Gaming (Wikipedia:Gaming Collaboration of the week/current) Hong Kong (Yuen Woo-ping) India (none at the moment) Japan (Current nominations: The Tale of the Heike Abe Shinzo) Latter Day Saint (Helaman) Leftist Parties and Movements (Socialist Party USA) Macintosh (Michael Scott (Apple)) Maintenance (have bot-modified external links checked) Mathematics (Wikipedia:Mathematics Collaboration of the Week/current) Medicine (Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease) Mexico (Coat of Arms of Mexico) Poland ([[Culture of Poland]]) Science ({{Wikipedia:Science collaboration of the week/current}}) Singapore (Co-curricular activity) Spanish Translation (es:Zarzuela to Zarzuela) Texas (Lizzie Velásquez) United Kingdom (British-Spanish relations) United States (United States Postal Service)
Ongoing projects WikiProjects are ongoing collaborations to improve articles having to do with a particular subject. Hundreds exist; find one that interests you! There are also many other fine projects listed below. Active improvement teams: Featured Article Drive Cleanup Taskforce Version 1.0 Editorial Team Forum for Encyclopedic Standards Wikipedia:WikiProject Countering systemic bias Community support groups Association of Members' Advocates Esperanza Department of Fun Welcoming committee Ongoing tasks: Maintenance Categorization Transwiki	About Wikipedia Category-based access to pages about Wikipedia Community information About Wikipedia · About Wikimedia · Wikipedians · Administrators · Babel · Donations · Culture · Humor · Games News Wikipedia Signpost Weekly WP News Wikipedia in the media · Goings-on · Announcements · Press releases · Stats · Milestones Watchlists Public watchlists · Regional notice boards Featured content Featured articles · Featured pictures · Featured lists · Featured portals Related communities Other Wikipedia languages 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.

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