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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 7th March Speech of Sheikh Mujibur Rahman Julius Mayr Bangladesh Islami Chhatra Shibir Empire of Japan (internal politics 1914–44) Mothers of Khavaran More... Fix wikilinks • Learn how Krista McGee Akumyō Margaretha Coppier METIS United Nations Millennium Forum More... Update with new information • Learn how César Valdez Islami Oikya Jote Nirou Moharekeh Qazvin F.C. Culture of Libya 27th MMC – Stara Zagora More... Expand short articles • Learn how Infantile digital fibromatosis Pseudopelade of Brocq Melanonychia Graham-Little syndrome Median nail dystrophy More... 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Community bulletin board Community Departments Directory Help Index Maintenance Requests Shortcuts Tips Tools WikiProjects 3 June 2015   News and notes: Three new community-elected trustees announced, incumbents out Blog: How Wikipedia covered Caitlyn Jenner’s transition Discussion report: The deprecation of Persondata; RfA – A broken process; Complaints from users on Swedish Wikipedia Special report: Towards "Health Information for All": Medical content on Wikipedia received 6.5 billion page views in 2013 In the media: Anonymous Australian editing targets football player, shooting victim Traffic report: A rather ordinary week Featured content: It's not over till the fat man sings Technology report: Things are getting SPDYier Single page Book Front page About Subscribe Suggestions Archives Centralized discussion A proposal to forbid IPs from participating in the RfA process. A proposal to elevate WP:BRD to guideline status Request for comments on "edit in Wikidata" links, for templates using Wikidata A proposal to add an edit restriction function to Wikipedia. This week's articles for improvement are Sport Global cuisine Caramel Arctic Candy apple An example of sport – a view of the 1906 unofficial Olympic Games Please be bold and help to improve these articles! Vote for future TAFI selections Wikipedia ads file info – show another – #227 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 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... “ → — "Steady boy. Just keep telling yourself you're a girl." — "I'm a girl...I'm a girl...I'm a girl." ” Nominate one! Tip of the day... Talking to Wikipedians Besides the Village pump and article-related talk pages, there are other ways to talk to Wikipedians. The English IRC channel is quite popular, regularly reaching up to 300 users. If you care about our policies and general Wikimedia-related matters, you may also want to consider subscribing to one of the mailing lists (high traffic!). 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