World Wizzy:Community Portal

Contents:
1 Community bulletin board
2 Help out
3 Collaborations
4 Guidelines, help, and resources

The Community Portal is the central place to find out what's happening on Wikipedia. Learn what tasks need to be done, what groups can be joined, and get or post news about recent events or current activities.

• See the help page for documentation, or ask a question for assistance.
• The Village pump is Wikipedia's main discussion forum; there are separate sections covering News, Policy, Technical, Proposals, Assistance, and Miscellaneous topics.
• For questions about factual topics, please visit Wikipedia's Reference desk.
• For content disputes, follow Wikipedia:Resolving disputes.

Community bulletin board

Post your Wikipedia related news and announcements here! New portals, collaborations, and wikiprojects seeking contributors. New initiatives, proposals, discussions, or article drives, and current maintenance backlogs.

Notices

• Have you seen an article on Wikipedia that needs a photograph but you can't travel a thousand miles to take it? Do you love taking pictures for the wiki but aren't sure what our needs are? Wikipedia:Photo Matching Service was created to solve both problems by matching photographers with articles that need photos.
• The next release version (dubbed 0.7) is now open, please nominate articles you wish to see on this release version. To take part in the process see the to do list.
• To help resolve disputes over article content or between users, or evaluate proposed guidelines, see Wikipedia:Requests for comment.
• A rewrite of the Wikipedia:External Links guideline (Wikipedia:External links/workshop) has reached a level of stability and is now up for comment.

New project pages seeking contributors

See also

Wikizine · In the media · News · Announcements · Press releases

Help out

Wikipedia is, by number of articles, the largest encyclopedia ever to exist. However, many articles are stubs, or otherwise need attention. If you like, go ahead, be bold, and jump right in. If you aren't ready to fly solo, you can participate in a Collaboration.

Things to do

• Help update to the new references format.
• Respond to a request for comment.
• Give a requested editor review
• Can you draw or take pictures? Make a requested image.
• Peer review or give feedback on some articles.
• Respond to the Reward board or Bounty board.
• Offer your thoughts and ideas on proposed policies.
• Can you use GIS tools? Help make requested maps.
• Can you speak another language? There are articles that need translation into English.
• Would you like to respond to more requests?
• Comment on the wisdom of new bot proposals.
• Can you code? Code a useful bot or update an offline report.
• Proofread a finished translation.
• Let SuggestBot suggest pages for you to improve.

Fix-up projects

Template:Wikipedia:Community Portal/Opentask Not sure where to report a certain type of problem with article content? If it exists, it's probably listed at Wikipedia:Maintenance.

Collaborations

To improve the quality of articles which are short or lacking in detail, Wikipedia's community organizes collaborations to expand articles.

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Collaborations by topic

Other collaborations

Active improvement teams

Maintenance

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WikiProjects

WikiProjects are ongoing team efforts to improve articles having to do with a particular subject, and to manage the logistics of that topic. Hundreds exist — examine the master list to find one that interests you. They are separate from, though may work with, Collaborations.

Language translation

Wikipedia is not just in English! Versions exist in many different languages. To fill in some of the English Wikipedia's gaps, we translate articles from other languages into English. You can view a list of articles that need translation from any language, or, in a few cases, by only one language (this is only available for the more popular languages).

Guidelines, help, and resources

Wikipedia has many help pages, policies, and departments. Here are some of the most general. For a comprehensive list of Wikipedia's departments, see the Wikipedia department directory.

Help

• Wikipedia help - Browse help pages
• Where to ask questions

Editing

• The Manual of Style guidelines and tutorial
• How to edit a page
• Contributing
• How to improve articles
• How to write a great article
• Where to find information for articles
• A list of template messages
• The list of images that have been uploaded to Wikipedia
• What special pages are
• Tools for editing
• Request newspapers or magazines

Policies and guidelines

Wikipedia has many established policies, guidelines, conventions, and traditions. This is a very brief sampling of some of the most important; for more information, see the main policies and guidelines page. Policies and guidelines apply both to articles and how to work with fellow editors. For easy access, the shortcuts to the pages are also listed.

Article standards

Working with others

Resources

New user information

Introduction · Sandbox · Help · New user log · Adoption · What Wikipedia is not · Glossary · Account benefits

Ways to communicate

Contact (overview) · Discussion pages · Mailing lists · IRC chat · Instant Messaging · Meetups · User pages · Surveys · Public watchlists · Regional notice boards · Administrators' noticeboard · Requests for article feedback

Community support groups and programs

Welcoming committee · Members' Advocates · Esperanza · Wiki-adoption · Concordia · Wikipedia Youth Foundation · Kindness Campaign · Wikipedia awards program · Dept. of Fun · One featured article per quarter

Common Procedures

Featured content · Good articles · Requests for feedback · Deleting a page (full policy) · Moving a page (naming policies) · Protecting a page (full policy) · Reverting a page · Administrator nominations (summaries) · Category-based access

How to resolve conflicts

Stay cool! · Be nice to newcomers · Alert others · Request assistance from a members' advocate · Dispute resolution · Arbitration policy

Community information

About Wikipedia · Goings-on · About Wikimedia · Wikipedians · Wiki-adoption · Donations · Administrators · Babel · Culture · Games · Humor · Mottoes

Related communities

Tip of the day

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