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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 Caboga Francis Chinjekure Humane Society International Australia Mehmet Masum Süer Mini job More... Fix wikilinks • Learn how Rhymson Charles Boileau Michael Fleischhacker DP Camp Haid Johann Klemm More... Update with new information • Learn how Domestic partnership in Maine ATP World Tour Awards Alliance Defending Freedom Toyota Avensis Anderson, Alaska More... Expand short articles • Learn how Rawle & Henderson LLP Balch & Bingham Testa, Hurwitz & Thibeault Aylstock, Witkin, Kreis & Overholtz Shea & Gould More... 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Community bulletin board Community Departments Directory Help Index Maintenance Requests Shortcuts Tips Tools WikiProjects 29 October 2014   Featured content: Go West, young man (By the way, there is a monster at the end of this article) In the media: Wikipedia a trusted source on Ebola; Wikipedia study labeled government waste; football biography goes viral Maps tagathon: Find 10,000 digitised maps this weekend Recent research: Informed consent and privacy; newsmaking on Wikipedia; Wikipedia and organizational theories Traffic report: Ebola, Ultron, and Creepy Articles Single page Book Front page About Subscribe Suggestions Archives Centralized discussion A request for the book Fuck: Word Taboo and Protecting Our First Amendment Liberties to be featured on the main page as Today's featured article. Time to replace RfA? RFC on bias issues in Gamergate controversy Proposed reform/restructuring of the Ban Appeals Subcommittee Should we reaffirm and implement the previous RfC consensus that Media Viewer be disabled by default? If so, should we ask WMF to do it? General notices Media Viewer RfC has special need for broad community participation. Alsee (talk) 00:41, 12 October 2014 (UTC) Free access subscriptions to high quality paywalled journals, newspaper archives, and online reference works are presently 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 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 What's going on with outlines: Outlines under construction: Outline of natural science New outlines (please copyedit and expand): Outline of metaphysics Outline of Yukon Outlines being overhauled (your help is needed): Outline of earth science (expansion) Outline of chemistry (expansion) Outline of physics (complete overhaul) Outline of physical science (cleanup and expansion) Outline of thought (revision and expansion) Outline of exercise (restructuring and cleanup) Portal report The following portals are in need of attention/upkeep: Portal:Kyrgyzstan - Newly created portal. Portal:Trichy – Newly created portal. 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:Philosophy – cycles through 52 "Selected philosophers", one per week, automatically 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 This week's article for improvement is: Pizza A pizza is an oven-baked flat bread typically topped with tomato sauce, cheese and various toppings Please be bold and help to improve this article! Vote for future TAFI selections. See also: Dashboard News Goings-on Milestones Meetups In the media Mailing lists 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... “ → It happened once... It happened once, and so it will be forever. ” Nominate one! Tip of the day... 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