Wikipedia:Community portal
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Welcome to the community portal!
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Community bulletin board
The community bulletin board is used for announcements from WikiProjects and other groups.
General notices
Community-wide notices
WikiProject notices
- WikiProject AI Cleanup (and the community at large) is currently looking for assistance with the overwhelming number of cleanup cases at Wikipedia:AI noticeboard. Those interested can review WP:AICGUIDE on how to help with AI cleanup and WP:AINB? for how the AI noticeboard works.
- WikiProject Unreferenced articles is trying to clear the decades-long backlog of unreferenced articles, please help to lower the number of unreferenced articles below 30,000. Come contribute! Catfurball (talk) 15:21, 1 September 2026 (UTC)
- WikiProject Outlines news:
- New outline: Wikipedia:Artificial intelligence resources
- The following outline covers an ongoing situation, please help keep it updated: Outline of the Russo-Ukrainian war
- The Outline of the week is Outline of ancient Egypt.
- Please help improve them. —The Transhumanist 09:46, 25 March 2026 (UTC)
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Yearly or infrequent events
- WikiProject Organized Labour is helping organise a month-long multi-language editing campaign in solidarity with meta:Wiki Workers United, including about the history of trade union and current developments. Sign up on meta
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: drive. The November 2026 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}}, {{copy edit inline}}, and their redirects), and those listed on the GOCE Requests page. It began on 1 November, 00:00 (UTC), and will end on 30 November, 23:59 (UTC).
- Wikipedia:WikiProject Women in Red 2026 Events:
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| Cardiff | November 3, 2026 |
| Bay Area WikiSalon | November 4, 2026 |
| Los Angeles | November 7, 2026 |
| London 234 | November 8, 2026 |
| US Mountain West online | November 10, 2026 |
| Boston Coffee Chat | November 14, 2026 |
| Philadelphia WikiSalon (online) | November 14, 2026 |
| Toronto | November 15, 2026 |
| Cascadia Wikimedians membership meeting online & in person | November 15, 2026 |
| Leeds 7 | November 21, 2026 |
| Auckland 53 | November 28, 2026 |
| San Diego 141 | November 29, 2026 |
| Christchurch 51 | December 6, 2026 |
| San Diego 142 | December 12, 2026 |
| Philadelphia WikiSalon (online) | December 12, 2026 |
| Auckland 54 | December 19, 2026 |
| Mauritius 1 | December 19, 2026 |
Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
Weekly highlight
- Many Wikimedia tools were taken offline last week because of a security vulnerability in PHP. This affected many websites worldwide. Toolforge and Cloud VPS have been back up since October 22. Many important tools have been gradually restored. Some tools need the respective volunteer maintainers to restart them. Others still need to upgrade to a patched PHP version. Some tools were using older versions of PHP which are not supported by the recent security patches. They will require maintainers to upgrade to a more recent version. This might require additional effort. You can follow the work on Wikitech.
Updates for editors
- A new optional search experiment is running in the Wikipedia Android and iOS apps for Arabic, French, and Japanese Wikipedias. Participating readers can search inside articles and open quoted passages directly in their source articles, no answers or summaries are generated. This is the first of four experiments in Phase 2 of Semantic Search. It began on October 22 and runs for 20 days. Feedback is welcome on the project’s discussion page.
- The Future Audiences team is planning to bring Share Cards to Wikipedia on mobile. This feature gives users the option to share a visually appealing card with friends, based on the article they are reading. The card contains the article’s title, image, opening text, and related attribution, and links back to the article for full reading. Editors are invited to try out this feature by adding
?useformat=mobile&sharecard=1to any article URL from October 29 to November 8. Share any thoughts on the project talk page and report any bugs on Phabricator. - The default renderer for math formulas will change on November 2. After the change, the server sends the formula as MathML, and your browser uses MathJax to show it. This is the last step towards the Mathoid/RESTBase deprecation process, for sustainability and security reasons. You can ask questions or report problems.
- Do you have an idea for a new feature, or a bug that needs fixing? Submit your suggestion for the community wish list by November 8!
View all 41 community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week.
Updates for technical contributors
- Detailed code updates later this week: MediaWiki
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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
Fix wikilinks
Update with new information
Expand short articles
Check and add references
Fix original research issues
Improve lead sections
Add an image
Translate and clean up
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This week's article for improvement is:  Previous selections: Mechanic · Confectionery store · General officer | The backlog of the week is: |
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