Wikipedia:Community portal

• Community
• Departments
• Directory
• Help
• Index
• Maintenance
  Requests
• Shortcuts
• Tips
• Tools
• WikiProjects

Welcome!

The Community portal is a place to find collaborations, tasks, and news about English Wikipedia.
To find other internal project pages of interest, see the department directory.

New to Wikipedia? See the contributing to Wikipedia page for everything you need to know to get started.

Interact more

Help desk Reference desk Village pump Peer editing help WikiProjects Barnstars Dispute resolution Help out New! Please make sure these highly cited women scientists have articles. 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 Vévé Amasasa Clark Abubakar Shekau Reformers for Democracy and Development Ganga (music) Zenith Cable Modem More... Fix wikilinks • Learn how Cultural transmission in animals LMLN Doctor of Literature and Philosophy National Annenberg Election Survey Donald W. Linebaugh More... Update with new information • Learn how European Conservatives and Reformists Group Executive Michel Enríquez Public image of Barack Obama 2013–14 Nemzeti Bajnokság I/A (women's basketball) Kenji Takama More... Expand short articles • Learn how Operl Island (Alaska) Gravina Island (Prince William Sound) Katmai Wilderness Bogoslof Wilderness Totem Bight State Historical Park More... Check and add references • Learn how Thornbury and Yate (UK Parliament constituency) Mace-Kingsley Ranch School Giovanni Battista Scalabrini MacGregor baronets Islington Central (UK Parliament constituency) More... Fix original research issues • Learn how Mike Tyson vs. Andrew Golota DC animated universe Cowboy coding Solar panel Yamaha YFZ450 More... Improve lead sections • Learn how JIRA Eleanor Sherman Thackara Intellectual movements in Iran Marutswa forest Ray Hudson More... Add an image • Learn how Yong Ju Gol Yorkshire Wildlife Park Yelandur Youth Leadership Camp Yellow Pinch Dam More... Translate and clean up • Learn how Ryszard Słomski 5th Guards Motor Rifle Division Brazilian Workers Confederation Vainakh mythology Russian System of Disaster Management More... Community bulletin board Community Departments Directory Help Index Maintenance Requests Shortcuts Tips Tools WikiProjects 11 February 2015   From the editors: We want to know what you think! News and notes: One editor faces likely ban for work on Wikipedia; another awarded $1 million In the media: Is Wikipedia eating itself? Traffic report: Bowled over WikiProject report: Brand new WikiProjects profiled Featured content: A grizzly bear, Operation Mascot, Freedom Planet & Liberty Island, cosmic dust clouds, a cricket five-wicket list, more fine art, & a terrible, terrible opera... Gallery: Feel the love Single page Book Front page About Subscribe Suggestions Archives Centralized discussion Proposal to remove unused autochecked usergroup Several new proposals to reform the appeals process for banned or long-term blocked users. Proposal to create a vandal fighter user right that includes restricted blocking and page protection abilities This week's article for improvement is Stadium Empire Field, stadium made with temporary structures, cheaper than permanent. Please be bold and help to improve this article! Vote for future TAFI selections Wikipedia ads file info – show another – #173 General notices Athlete's foot is undergoing major expansion, but is proving to be a difficult subject to research. Dozens of questions have been posted on its talk page. Perhaps you can help answer them. Come share what you know about athlete's foot, and help improve public awareness. 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 Wikipedia:Typo Team/moss has just started the first pass of an ambitious spell-check of the entire encyclopedia. Lots of help is needed to fix misspellings and add correct spellings to the dictionary. 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! The Pop music WikiProject has just been launched. Anyone interested in any kind of pop music should join! Outlines See also: Wikipedia:WikiProject Outlines Under construction Outline of Star Trek Outline of open educational resources Outline of academia Provinces of India (we're shooting for all 28) Outline of Andhra Pradesh Outline of Karnataka Outline of Maharashtra Outline of Tamil Nadu Outline of evolution Outline of democracy Outline of Narnia Being overhauled or expanded (help needed) Outline of transhumanism Outline of Bangladesh (adding missing links) Outline of law enforcement (flesh out the subject with links) Outline of natural language processing (need help with topic gathering, and filling in annotations). Outline of computer security Portal report The following portals are in need of attention/upkeep: 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... “ This motto is empty! Please, take a moment to review the nominations and nominate your own new mottos at Wikipedia:Motto of the day/Nominations/In review and Wikipedia:Motto of the day/Nominations/Specials. Any help would be appreciated. –pjoef (talk • contribs) 07:30, 10 February 2015 (UTC) ” Nominate one! Tip of the day... Explaining Wiki markup to other users The <nowiki> tag can be useful to suppress the interpretation of Wiki markup. This is often useful to demonstrate or explain Wiki markup language to another user. Wiki markup (and Wiki tags that resemble HTML tags) that are placed between <nowiki> and </nowiki> are not interpreted, and are displayed on the page just the way they are typed. For example, [[this]] would ordinarily form a wikilink, but since it is placed between <nowiki> and </nowiki>, no such link is formed. This is rarely of use in an actual Wikipedia article. The <nowiki> tag is helpful, for example, when asking questions at the Teahouse and explaining issues at the Village Pump as well as on an article's Talk page. In this case 'the markup code' can be displayed without being actionable. Read More: Help:Wiki markup Prior tip - Next tip To add this auto-updating template to your user page, use {{totd}}. Become a Wikipedia tipster