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Welcome to the community portal!

This page provides a listing of current collaborations, tasks, and news about English Wikipedia. New to Wikipedia? See the contributing to Wikipedia page or our tutorial for everything you need to know to get started. For a listing of internal project pages of interest, see the department directory.

Interact more

For a listing of ongoing discussions and current requests, see the Dashboard.

Ask questions about how to use or edit Wikipedia
Friendly help for newcomers
Ask research questions about any topic except Wikipedia itself
Work with other editors on a shared area of interest
Get help resolving disputes
Discuss existing and proposed policies
Discuss technical issues about Wikipedia
Discuss new proposals that are not policy-related
Incubate new ideas before formally proposing them
Discuss issues involving the Wikimedia Foundation
Post messages that do not fit into any other category

Community bulletin board

How to add to the community bulletin board

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.

Events and projects [add]

Yearly or infrequent events

Monthly or continuous events

Recently completed: Science Fiction and Fantasy
New this month: Indigenous women Film and stage
Ongoing initiatives: #1day1woman Education Translation Women in Sports
Upcoming events: Ideas


Meetups for August 2024 +/-
Christchurch 30 August 4, 2024 (2024-08-04)
NC Triangle Wiknic August 6, 2024 (2024-08-06)
Seattle Wiknic August 11, 2024 (2024-08-11)
London 207 August 11, 2024 (2024-08-11)
San Diego 112 Wiknic August 17, 2024 (2024-08-17)
San Francsico Wiknic August 17, 2024 (2024-08-17)
Oxford 103 August 18, 2024 (2024-08-18)
Manhattan Beach Edit-a-thon August 24, 2024 (2024-08-24)
BLT Office Hours August 25, 2024 (2024-08-25)
San Diego 113 August 26, 2024 (2024-08-26)
Meetups for September 2024 +/-
BLT Office Hours September 22, 2024 (2024-09-22)
San Diego 114 September 23, 2024 (2024-09-23)

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.


General notices



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.)

Help counter systemic bias by creating new articles on important women.

Help improve popular pages, especially those of low quality.

Tip of the day

How to create reusable boilerplates

Pages intended to be reused as portions of other pages are called templates. The names of template pages start with the prefix Template:. A template can be included on another page using the syntax {{Page name}} (including the curly brackets), but leave out the Template: prefix between the curly brackets!

On Wikipedia, templates are created to serve a variety of purposes, such as navigation boxes (e.g. Template:Europe topic), infoboxes (e.g. Template:Infobox person), and notices (e.g. Template:Controversial).

If you wish to make a personal boilerplate (such as a personalized welcome message, or the like), you make it in your own userspace. Simply create the page as a subpage of your userspace (in the format User:Foo/something). To put it onto a page, use the curly brackets as usual, but remember to use the syntax {{User:Foo/something}} rather than {{something}}. This is because the curly-bracket syntax automatically looks in the Template namespace, so if you want to use one from your own userspace, you need to tell it to look there.

Read more:
To add this auto-updating template to your user page, use {{totd}}