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Community bulletin board
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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.
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 drive. The May 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 will begin on 1 May, 00:00 (UTC), and end on 31 May, 23:59 (UTC).
- Wikipedia:WikiProject Women in Red 2024 Events: WP:WIR/EVENTS - updated monthly
- The 100,000 Challenge. The quest to bring about 100,000 article improvements and creations globally through a series of 50,000/10,000/1000 Challenges for different regions and countries. This is a loose challenge, a list will not be maintained here, but the components will function independently on each of the subpages. Will be updated every week or two.
- The 50,000 Destubbing Challenge is a long term challenge to destub 50,000 articles on English Wikipedia for every country and topic. It may take decades to accomplish, it may take ten years, it all depends on how many people actively contribute.
Auckland 22 | May 4, 2024 |
Leeds 6 | May 4, 2024 |
London 204 | May 12, 2024 |
US Mountain West online | May 14, 2024 |
Bay Area WikiSalon | May 16, 2024 |
Oxford 100 | May 19, 2024 |
May 20, 2024 | |
Montreal: Canadian Centre for Architecture edit-a-thon |
May 22, 2024 |
BLT Office Hours | May 26, 2024 |
Exeter | June 8, 2024 |
Los Angeles Wiknic | June 8, 2024 |
London 205 | June 9, 2024 |
Bay Area Wikipedians | June 13, 2024 |
BLT Office Hours | June 23, 2024 |
Edinburgh 16 | June 29, 2024 |
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.
- WikiProject Outlines news:
- Outline drafts nearing completion include:
- The Outline of the week is Outline of diabetes.
- Please help improve them. —The Transhumanist 12:23, 9 May 2024 (UTC)
- WikiProject Vocaloid's proposal is seeking editors with interest in any Vocaloid related topic to join the project.
- WikiProject Bendigo is currently seeking interested editors to join the project. Lotsw73 (talk) 05:03, 30 January 2024 (UTC)
- WikiProject Operating systems (in proposal state) is looking for interested participants to support the creation of a regular WikiProject page.
- Revive WikiProject United States governors. This WikiProject is dedicated to the leaders of the 50 U.S. states. If you agree, post a message on the WikiProject talk page.
- WikiProject AI Cleanup has recently been started to combat the addition of problematic AI-generated content. Interested editors are encouraged to join! ARandomName123 (talk) 01:35, 5 December 2023 (UTC)
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
- Several bugs related to the latest updates to the UploadWizard on Wikimedia Commons have been fixed. For more information, see T365107 and T365119.
- In March 2024 a new addPortlet API was added to allow gadgets to create new portlets (menus) in the skin. In certain skins this can be used to create dropdowns. Gadget developers are invited to try it and give feedback.
- Some CSS in the Minerva skin has been removed to enable easier community configuration. Interface editors should check the rendering on mobile devices for aspects related to the classes:
.collapsible
,.multicol
,.reflist
,.coordinates
,.topicon
. Further details are available on replacement CSS if it is needed.
Changes later this week
- The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 28 May. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 29 May. It will be on all wikis from 30 May (calendar). [1][2]
- When you visit a wiki where you don't yet have a local account, local rules such as edit filters can sometimes prevent your account from being created. Starting this week, MediaWiki takes your global rights into account when evaluating whether you can override such local rules. [3]
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