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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 Gumla Kpalimé National Party (Syria) Sri Kodandarama Swami Devastanam Anti-Dumping on Washing Machines More... Fix wikilinks • Learn how Koki 200 The Joe Grey Mysteries Diauxic growth MIR187 The Forum (vocal group) More... Update with new information • Learn how USS Cairo Medicare Sustainable Growth Rate Cities and metropolitan areas of the United States Liberalism in Israel Radmin More... Expand short articles • Learn how Gaetano Cima Francesco Tamburini Arturo Caprotti Ruggero Berlam Francesco Ottavio Magnocavalli More... Check and add references • Learn how Southwest Cay Baron Godolphin Thomas Foley (1778–1822) Hedon (UK Parliament constituency) Thomas Ramsay More... Fix original research issues • Learn how Sweep-picking Isaac Titsingh Bill O'Brien (actor) Meg: Primal Waters Reverse Turing test More... Improve lead sections • Learn how Federation of Egyptian Trade Unions Bob Gale Nomocanon Sure Start List of Mobile Suit Gundam 00 chapters More... Add an image • Learn how Holy Cross Church (Bronx) Hand boiler Hotelschool The Hague Hadero Lake Half Moon Bay (Victoria) More... Translate and clean up • Learn how École nationale de l'aviation civile Sumenep Regency Do (singer) 1987 Campeonato Brasileiro Série A Troitsk, Chelyabinsk Oblast More... Community bulletin board This page is not yet ready to use due to a red editing link. Community Departments Directory Help Index Maintenance Requests Shortcuts Tips Tools WikiProjects 13 May 2015   Foundation elections: WMF Board candidates share their views with the Signpost Op-ed: What made Wikipedia lose its reputation? In the media: Grant Shapps story continues; Wikipedia's "leftist ties" News and notes: Swedish Wikimedia chapter organizes simultaneous Wikidata contests Featured content: Four first-time featured article writers lead the way Traffic report: Round Two Single page Book Front page About Subscribe Suggestions Archives Centralized discussion Poll on permissions required to add and remove tags Proposal to make the MoS page an official noticeboard RfC asking if practitioners of alternative medicine have a conflict of interest with regard to content on their field of practice. CfD to establish the term used for Christian places of worship in categories Proposal to add a disclaimer before connecting users to the IRC help channel and prefill their IRC nick to their username using site JavaScript 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 Deep frying Left: Czech bramboráček, a bread made of potato dough, being deep fried. Right: The Royal Navy Trafalgar class attack submarine HMS Tireless (S88) sits on the surface of the North Pole, the northern polar ice cap on Earth Please be bold and help to improve this article! Vote for future TAFI selections Wikipedia ads file info – show another – #19 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 The Wikiproject Cross-language Editing and Learning Exchange is a new Wikiproject for editors writing in a second language. Whether you are learning English or another language, this project is for you. Everyone is invited to join! 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! Outlines See also: Wikipedia:WikiProject Outlines Under construction Outline of brain mapping Outline of the human brain Outline of Star Trek Being overhauled or expanded (help needed) Outline of cuisines (re-established after disappearing for 2 years) Outline of artificial intelligence 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... “ → Has your name become known and desired? ” Nominate one! Tip of the day... Use your browser's toolbar to navigate Wikipedia To create a link to the current page on your browser's toolbar, copy and paste its URL onto the toolbar. This will create an accessible bookmark that you can access anytime regardless of where you are on the Web. Do this for multiple pages to create your own customized Wikipedia navigation bar. Read more: Bookmark (World Wide Web) Prior tip - Next tip To add this auto-updating template to your user page, use {{totd}}. Become a Wikipedia tipster