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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: Alphabet run: M & N Women in Red turns 10 Geofocus: Ten for Kenya
New this month: Alphabet run: O & P Indigenous women Film and stage
Ongoing initiatives: Music #1day1woman
Upcoming events: Ideas


Meetups for August 2025 +/-
Christchurch 41 August 3, 2025 (2025-08-03)
San Ysidro (SD125) August 9, 2025 (2025-08-09)
London 219 August 10, 2025 (2025-08-10)
San Diego Wiknic (SD126) August 16, 2025 (2025-08-16)
Aberdeen 4 August 25, 2025 (2025-08-25)
Minnesota August 26, 2025 (2025-08-26)


Meetups for September 2025 +/-
San Diego 126 September 13, 2025 (2025-09-13)

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.)

Fix spelling and grammar
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Fix wikilinks
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Help counter systemic bias by creating new articles on important women.

Help improve popular pages, especially those of low quality.

Tip of the day

The lead section

The lead section is an essential summary of an article, located above the first heading.

In the source text (the text in the edit window), a heading looks like this:

== This is a heading ==

The lead section is a very important part of every article. The length should correspond to the overall length of the article: an article of 50,000 characters might well have a three paragraph lead, while one of 15,000 or less should limit itself to one or two paragraphs. The text should give a good overview of the article, but it should also get the reader hooked and interested in learning more. Take a look at some featured articles for inspiration.

It is often a good idea to align a representative image with the lead by placing [[File:Filename.jpg|thumb|caption]] just before the first heading. (Filename is the name of the desired file and caption is a description of the image).

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