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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. Dashboard News Task Center Goings-on Meetups In the media Mailing lists Events and projects [add] Yearly or infrequent events WikiProject Unreferenced articles is holding a month-long Unreferenced articles backlog drive beginning 1 November 2024, 00:00 (UTC). The 2024 Developing Countries WikiContest is an editing competition with a focus towards developing countries. It will begin on July 1st and signups will close on July 15th. Sign up now! Want to help good articles get better? Sign up for the October Good Article backlog drive! New and experienced reviewers welcome. Monthly or continuous events Monthly contest, WikiProject Military history. The contest department of the Military history WikiProject aims to motivate increased quality in military history articles by offering a form of friendly competition for project members making improvements to them. The primary contest available is a simple rolling competition that awards points for improving articles. The contest runs from the first to last day of each month. Guild of Copy Editors' editing drive. The November 2024 backlog drive is a one-month-long effort by the Guild of Copy Editors to reduce the backlog of articles that require copy editing: those carrying the {{copy edit}} tag (also {{awkward}}, {{copy edit section}}, {{inappropriate person}}, and {{copy edit inline}}, and their redirects) or are listed on the GOCE Requests page. It began on 1 November, 00:00 (UTC), and will end on 30 November, 23:59 (UTC). Wikipedia:WikiProject Women in Red 2024 Events: Recently completed: Asian women Geofocus: Islands Q–Z Women in engineering New this month: Women who died: 2024 Religion Ongoing initiatives: #1day1woman Education Upcoming events: Ideas Meetups for December 2024 +/- Christchurch 34 December 1, 2024 (2024-12-01) BLT Antenna New Orleans December 7, 2024 (2024-12-07) London 211 December 8, 2024 (2024-12-08) Perth 85 December 15, 2024 (2024-12-15) San Diego 117 December 16, 2024 (2024-12-16) Seattle meetup December 17, 2024 (2024-12-17) Meetups for January 2025 +/- Edinburgh 19 January 25, 2025 (2025-01-25) WikiProject notices [add] 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. WikiProject Outlines news: New outlines: Outline of Leeds Outline of Glasgow Outline of the Kennedy family Another outline has made it to Featured List status: Outline of the Marvel Cinematic Universe The following outline covers an ongoing situation, please help keep it updated: Outline of the Russo-Ukrainian War Outline drafts recently moved to article space (thank you!): Outline of dyslexia Outline drafts nearing completion include: Draft:Outline of Delhi Draft:Outline of George Washington The Outline of the week is Outline of music. Please help improve them. —The Transhumanist 00:36, 5 September 2024 (UTC) We're trying to revive Wikipedia:WikiProject Geocaching! If you're a Geocacher and want to improve the quality of the Geocaching related articles, sign up now! Lordseriouspig 20:12, 1 August 2024 (UTC) We are looking to revive Task Force Philippine History and are looking for interested editors! Sign-up now! NyanThousand (talk) 15:45, 28 July 2024 (UTC) WP Unreferenced articles is trying to clear the decades-long backlog of unreferenced articles. The backlog recently reached under 90,000. Come contribute! — PerfectSoundWhatever (t; c) 17:04, 4 July 2024 (UTC) WikiProject Bendigo is currently seeking interested editors to join the project. Lotsw73 (talk) 05:03, 30 January 2024 (UTC) Technical news Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available. Updates for editors A new version of the standard wikitext editor-mode syntax highlighter will be available as a beta feature later this week. This brings many new features and bug fixes, including right-to-left support, template folding, autocompletion, and an improved search panel. You can learn more on the help page. The 2010 wikitext editor now supports common keyboard shortcuts such Ctrl+B for bold and Ctrl+I for italics. A full list of all six shortcuts is available. Thanks to SD0001 for this improvement. [1] Starting November 28, Flow/Structured Discussions pages will be automatically archived and set to read-only at the following wikis: bswiki, elwiki, euwiki, fawiki, fiwiki, frwikiquote, frwikisource, frwikiversity, frwikivoyage, idwiki, lvwiki, plwiki, ptwiki, urwiki, viwikisource, zhwikisource. This is done as part of StructuredDiscussions deprecation work. If you need any assistance to archive your page in advance, please contact Trizek (WMF). View all 25 community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week. For example, a user creating a new AbuseFilter can now only set the filter to "protected" if it includes a protected variable. Updates for technical contributors The CodeEditor, which can be used in JavaScript, CSS, JSON, and Lua pages, now offers live autocompletion. Thanks to SD0001 for this improvement. The feature can be temporarily disabled on a page by pressing Ctrl+, and un-selecting "Live Autocompletion". Tool-maintainers who use the Graphite system for tracking metrics, need to migrate to the newer Prometheus system. They can check this dashboard and the list in the Description of the task T350592 to see if their tools are listed, and they should claim metrics and dashboards connected to their tools. They can then disable or migrate all existing metrics by following the instructions in the task. The Graphite service will become read-only in April. [2] The New PreProcessor parser performance report has been fixed to give an accurate count for the number of Wikibase entities accessed. It had previously been resetting after 400 entities. [3] Meetings and events A Language community meeting will take place November 29 at 16:00 UTC. There will be presentations on topics like developing language keyboards, the creation of the Mooré Wikipedia, the language support track at Wiki Indaba, and a report from the Wayuunaiki community on their experiences with the Incubator and as a new community over the last 3 years. This meeting will be in English and will also have Spanish interpretation. Tech news prepared by Tech News writers and posted by bot • Contribute • Translate • Get help • Give feedback • Subscribe or unsubscribe. Requests for comment 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 General notices Eligible users are invited to vote on candidates for the Arbitration Committee until 23:59 December 2, 2024 (UTC). You can view the candidates' statements. If you have trouble accessing the vote server from a mobile device, please try from a desktop browser. Should comments in discussions made using LLMs or chatbots be discounted or even removed? Enacting CSD T5 for unused template subpages Open letter re Wikimedia Foundation's potential disclosure of editors' personal information Extended-confirmed pending changes and preemptive protection in contentious topics The length of recall petitions
Tip of the day Dates in Wikipedia articles Two date formats are commonly used in Wikipedia articles: December 2, 2009 and 2 December 2009. These are referred to as alphanumeric dates. The first is used in articles with a connection to the United States, and the second in articles relating to most Commonwealth countries (although no preference is expressed for Canada). In articles with no particular national affiliation, to prevent needless edit warring, the established date format should not be changed. However any given article should use just one of the two formats consistently. Dates that are all numeric are highly discouraged to avoid confusion, however if used must be in the YYYY-MM-DD format and never in YYYY-DD-MM format. Prior tip – Tips library – Next tip Read more: Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Dates and numbers   All tips   Become a Wikipedia tipster To add this auto-updating template to your user page, use {{tip of the day with h3 heading}}
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Collaborations In order to improve the quality of articles which are short or lacking in detail, Wikipedia's community takes part in collaborations to expand articles.
Collaboration of the week Help edit Lee Smith (baseball), Wikipedia's current collaboration of the week! Please help to bring it up to featured article standard. Lee Arthur Smith (born December 4, 1957 in Shreveport, Louisiana) was a pitcher in Major Leagues. Smith played for eight teams in both the NL and AL in his 18-year career, beginning with the Cubs in 1980. Smith led the league in saves four times during his career and by the time of his retirement in 1997 (with the Expos), he was the all-time leader with 478 saves. Smith used his fastball and size (he stood 6'6") to intimidate batters during the late innings of the game and became one of the premier closers of the 1980's and early 1990's. You can still help with last week's article, Textile (see improvements), or help pick next week's article.	Collaborations by topic See Template:COTWs for the most up-to-date listing.
Article Collaboration and Improvement Drive The Article Collaboration and Improvement Drive works on an article that needs a lot of help to reach featured-article standard. The subject of this week's article improvement drive is Stephen Wandu Bimo (random unreferenced BLP of the day for 1 Dec 2024 - provided by User:AnomieBOT/RandomPage via WP:RANDUNREF): A picture of Aang and Momo Aang is a fictional character and the main protagonist for Nickelodeon's animated television series Avatar: The Last Airbender, which was created by Michael Dante DiMartino and Bryan Konietzko. He is voiced by Zach Tyler Eisen. Twelve-year-old Aang is the last surviving Airbender, a monk of the Air Nomads' Southern Air Temple, and is a supercentenarian at the incarnation age of 112. He is the current incarnation of the Avatar, the spirit of the planet manifested in human form. Aang, as the Avatar, controls the elements and is tasked with keeping the Four Nations at peace. Aang is the series' reluctant hero and comic, spending a century in suspended animation before joining new friends Katara and Sokka on a quest to master the elements and save their world from the war-hungry imperialist Fire Nation. You can still help with last week's article, World War I, or help pick next week's article.
Good Article Collaboration of the week The Good Article Collaboration of the week works to polish already good articles to the highest of standards. This week's improvement drive is Elvis Presley: Elvis Aaron Presley began his career as one of the first performers of rockabilly, an uptempo fusion of country and rhythm and blues with a strong back beat. His novel versions of existing songs, mixing "black" and "white" sounds, made him popular—and controversial—as did his uninhibited stage and television performances. He recorded songs in the rock and roll genre, with tracks like "Hound Dog" and "Jailhouse Rock" later embodying the style. Presley had a versatile voice and had unusually wide success encompassing other genres, including gospel, blues, ballads and pop. To date, he is the only performer to have been inducted into four separate music halls of fame. You can still help pick next week's article.
Policies and guidelines Wikipedia has many established policies, guidelines, conventions, and traditions. This is a very brief sampling of some of the most important.
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