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Collaborations, tasks and news about English Wikipedia
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Community bulletin board
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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.
Yearly or infrequent events
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: blitz. The April 2026 editing blitz is a one-week-long effort by the Guild of Copy Editors to reduce its backlog. The themes are: articles on the GOCE Requests page, and articles on the backlog from September 2024 and October 2024. It began on 12 April, 00:00 (UTC), and will end on 18 April, 23:59 (UTC).
- Wikipedia:WikiProject Women in Red 2025 Events:
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| WikiClub Canada (online) | April 8, 2026 |
| Bay Area | April 9, 2026 |
| Philadelphia WikiSalon (online) | April 11, 2026 |
| San Diego 133 | April 11, 2026 |
| London 227 | April 12, 2026 |
| WikiClub Toronto Meetup | April 18, 2026 |
| Seattle—edit 2026 SIFF and related pages | April 18, 2026 |
| Perth 94 | April 19, 2026 |
| Oxford 121 | April 19, 2026 |
| Seattle meetup | April 21, 2026 |
| Edinburgh 27 | April 25, 2026 |
| Christchurch 44 | April 26, 2026 |
| Wikicon Aotearoa 2026 | May 2, 2026 |
| Hackathon and wikitech Meetup San Francisco | May 3, 2026 |
| Open Christchurch Workshop | May 3, 2026 |
| San Diego 134 | May 10, 2026 |
| US Mountain West online | May 12, 2026 |
| WikiClub Canada (online) | May 13, 2026 |
| Bay Area (SF Wikisalon) | May 14, 2026 |
| Seattle meetup | May 19, 2026 |
| Bay Area Wikicafé (Oakland) | May 23, 2026 |
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:
- The following outline covers an ongoing situation, please help keep it updated:
- The Outline of the week is Outline of jazz.
- Please help improve them. —The Transhumanist 09:46, 25 March 2026 (UTC)
- A new task force of WikiProject Wildfire has been activated as the Canada task force! Editors are welcome to join the new task force and help tag articles on Canadian wildfires as part of the task force, as well as help expand the main page. 🌀Hurricane Wind and Fire (talk) (contribs)🔥 00:51, 5 March 2026 (UTC)
- WP Unreferenced articles is trying to clear the decades-long backlog of unreferenced articles, please help to lower the number of unreferenced articles below 30,000. Come contribute! Catfurball (talk) 20:15, 6 January 2026 (UTC)
- WikiProject Nevada was recently re-activated! New editors interested in the subject are encouraged to join. There are over 800 articles with unknown importance levels. Your help assessing these articles would be appreciated! The sub-project, WikiProject Las Vegas, has recently become inactive, so new editors for WikiProject Nevada may also be interested joining here!
🌀Hurricane Wind and Fire (talk) (contribs)🔥 02:09, 24 November 2025 (UTC)
- Wikipedia:WikiProject Amateur radio starts living again! If you would like to contribute, please add yourself to the list of participants and include ways they can contribute. We've already started, come see! Check out the new navigational Template:Amateur radio topics! Feel free to invite new members personally or through public postings. Sinucep (talk) 14:29, 23 December 2025 (UTC)
Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
Weekly highlight
- Experienced editors are invited to test the Article guidance feature, designed to help less-experienced editors create well-structured, policy-compliant Wikipedia articles. Testing instructions are available. Also, after reviewing the outlines, please provide feedback on the project talk page. Based on your input, the feature will be refined and transferred to the pilot Wikipedias to translate and adapt. Check out the video explaining the feature.
Updates for editors
- On most wikis, all autoconfirmed users can now use Special:ChangeContentModel page to create new pages with custom content models, such as mass message lists, making custom page formats more accessible. Check Special:ListGroupRights for the status of your wiki.
- The Growth team has launched an account creation experiment to evaluate whether adding an account creation button to the mobile web header increases new account registrations and encourages more mobile users to contribute to the wikis. The experiment is currently live on Hindi, Indonesian, Bengali, Thai, and Hebrew Wikipedia, and targets 10% of logged-out mobile web users.
View all 30 community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week. For example, an issue where VisualEditor could get stuck loading on Windows devices with animations turned off, has now been fixed.
Updates for technical contributors
- Starting later this week, Edit filter managers who have the Improved Syntax Highlighting beta feature enabled will have CodeMirror instead of CodeEditor as the editor at Special:AbuseFilter. This is part of the broader effort to make the user experience more consistent across all editors.
- Tools and bots that access the Notifications API (
action=query&meta=notifications) will need to update their OAuth or BotPassword grants to also include access to private notifications. - Due to a library upgrade, listings on category pages may be displayed out of order starting on Monday, 20th April. A migration script will be run to correct this, and will take hours to days depending on the size of the wiki (up to a week for English Wikipedia).
Detailed code updates later this week: MediaWiki
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