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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 École supérieure de chimie physique électronique de Lyon Gumla Chaozhou Los Rieleros del Norte Mandi Bahauddin District More... Fix wikilinks • Learn how Aourrz Aloai Fragmenta de viribus Co-simulation Émile Vacher Sleekpay More... Update with new information • Learn how Biodefense and Pandemic Vaccine and Drug Development Act of 2005 Si Riguleng List of Cincinnati Reds team records Dmytro Korchynsky Privacy Act 1988 More... Expand short articles • Learn how Brigitte Kraus Alwin Wagner Gerd Nagel Udo Gelhausen Ingrid Thyssen More... 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Community bulletin board Community Departments Directory Help Index Maintenance Requests Shortcuts Tips Tools WikiProjects 8 April 2015   Op-ed: We are drowning in promotional artspam News and notes: Advancement department to be created at the Foundation, milestone fixes In the media: Wikipedia on 60 Minutes, Kickstarter, and in the classroom WikiProject report: WikiProject Christianity Featured content: Partisan arrangements, dodgy dollars, a mysterious union of strings, and a hole that became a monument Traffic report: Resurrection week Arbitration report: New Functionary appointments Technology report: Bugs, Repairs, and Internal Operational News Single page Book Front page About Subscribe Suggestions Archives Centralized discussion Proposal to establish a "style noticeboard" RfC on adding example to "case-by-case" exception to OUTING policy, for links to paid editing sites like Elance, for COI/SPA discussions Several new proposals to reform the appeals process for banned or long-term blocked users. This week's article for improvement is History of technology The wheel is one of the most famous and useful inventions in the history of technology Please be bold and help to improve this article! Vote for future TAFI selections Wikipedia ads file info – show another – #105 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. 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: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. Motto of the day... “ → Effort Achieves ” Nominate one! Tip of the day... Cite your sources Wikipedia articles should focus on describing facts in a neutral fashion. When writing about facts, cite sources that verify the information being presented. Stick to a factual style even when writing about fiction or opinions. Providing references is particularly important for controversial opinions—instead of using weasel words like "some people believe…," you should cite sources to help readers know who believes what, and why. 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