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Help desk Reference desk Village pump Peer editing help WikiProjects Barnstars Dispute resolution Help out 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 Voikovs'kyi Magic (paranormal) J.A.K.Q. Dengekitai Travis Kauffman Swabian German More... • Learn how Fix wikilinks Minister of Safety & Security v Van Duivenboden St. Vincent's Day Care Harshpur Roscommon Senior Hurling Championship 2008 The Invention of Art More... • Learn how Update with new information Humanitarian response to the 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake Iran and weapons of mass destruction Ninjai Politics of Chile Oxford Libraries Information System More... • Learn how Expand short articles Mohamed Liban Noureddine Gharsalli Djibouti at the 1992 Summer Olympics Association Sportive Tadjourah Djibouti national football team results More... • Learn how Check and add references Korean War in popular culture Argumentation theory Grafton, North Dakota Lepturinae Protandim More... • Learn how Fix original research issues The Volokh Conspiracy University of Minnesota Marching Band Freestyle walking Genyōsha New Jersey Network More... • Learn how Improve lead sections Bancroft rule National Police Commission (Philippines) Mokpo National University Eagle Ridge High School Big Thompson River More... • Learn how Add an image Canterbury mudfish Cathedral of Sts. Peter and Paul Chok anan Chicken mull Cuningar Loop More... • Learn how Translate and clean up Kozma Spassky-Avtonomov 62nd Rocket Division Troitsk, Chelyabinsk Oblast Fernando Castro Lozada Fórmula Truck More... • Learn how Counter systemic bias by creating new articles on missing important female scientists. Community bulletin board 23 March 2016   Interview: WMF interim executive director Katherine Maher says the org is at an "interesting moment of change" News and notes: Lila Tretikov a Young Global Leader; Wikipediocracy blog post sparks indefinite blocks In the media: Angolan file sharers cause trouble for Wikipedia Zero; the 3D printer edit war; a culture based on change and turmoil Editorial: "God damn it, you've got to be kind." Traffic report: Be weary on the Ides of March Featured content: Watch out! A slave trader, a live mascot, and a crested serpent await! Arbitration report: Palestine-Israel article 3 case amended Wikipedia Weekly: Podcast #120—the status of Wikimania 2016 Single page Book Front page About Subscribe Suggestions Archives Centralized discussion Film title disambiguation year Related Pages extension Separate articles for reactions to terrorist incidents Consensus for changes in citation coding style Ethnicity & religion parameters in Infobox person (2 RfCs) Corrections on Main Page Enabling Hovercards by default Embedding full-length films/videos in articles Physical address of schools/universities/buildings Closure of Possibly Unfree Files Towards a standard biography footer This week's article for improvement is Gates of hell The Gates of Hell sculpture by Auguste Rodin, an example depicting the concept of the gates of hell Please be bold and help to improve this article! WikiProject Missing Encyclopedic articles (% done) Project page—The goal of this project is to ensure that Wikipedia has a corresponding article for every article in every other encyclopedia. Sign in! Monthly focus: MacTutor biographies 63 left 1911 verification: 12.2% ACF Regionals answers: 0% Hotlist of topics: 85.9% General topics: 79.6% Science topics: 92% Catholic Encyclopedia: 86.2% Easton's Bible Dictionary: 88% Encyclopaedia Biblica : 69.5% Evangelical Dictionary of Theology: 80.6% Gutenberg authors : 57.1% Jewish Encyclopedia : 39% Literary Encyclopedia: 81.9% List of Poles: 6% Find-A-Grave: 85.1% Stanford Archive answers 97.9% Missing paintings 60.8% Miscellaneous Many other lists of politicians, songs, TV shows and others. Overall progress: 65.2% Spread the word through {{Project missing articles}} Active Wiki Fixup Projects Article Rescue Squadron Check Wikipedia Cleanup Dead-end pages Disambig pages w/ links Free images to Commons Geo-coordinates Missing articles Most-wanted articles Requested articles Orphaned articles Red Link Recovery Fix common mistakes Single editor Stubsensor Today's articles for improvement Uncategorised articles Unreferenced articles Wikification needed Main · Inactive · Mini General notices On 1 November 2015, the English Wikipedia reached 5,000,000 articles. 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" Projects seeking help Also consider posting WikiProject, Task Force, and Collaboration news at the Signpost's WikiProject Report page. WikiProjects and Task Forces The Tip of The Day department is looking for tricks and techniques. If you have a special way of doing things, please stop by and share. Outlines See also: Wikipedia:WikiProject Outlines New outlines Outline of government Being overhauled or expanded Outline of medicine Outline of education Outline of knowledge Nearing completion (need remainder of annotations added) Outline of transhumanism Outline of Narnia Outline of canoeing and kayaking (Specific venues section) Outline of chess Outline of fishing (just a few annotations needed) Outline of forensic science Outline of motorcycles and motorcycling Outline of prehistoric technology Outline of wind energy Need link placement Outline of solar energy (place entries from See also into body of outline) Portal report The following portals are in need of attention/upkeep: Portal:Lighthouses Newly created Portal:Shreya Ghoshal Newly created 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... “ Wherever you go...   there you are. ” Nominate one! Tip of the day... Working on the Main Page Being the gateway to the encyclopedia - the Main Page is Wikipedia's most frequently visited page. The main page is always protected and can only be edited by admins. But, most of the content on the main page is piped in each day from various departments, via templates. The volunteers in these departments work year round to prepare the content on the Main page to be viewed by the World each day. The departments that prep content for the Main Page are: Wikipedia:Today's featured article – prepares excerpts from featured articles, to be displayed on the main page. Wikipedia:Did you know – prepares and selects "hooks" to new articles or articles that have been expanded by a factor of five. Wikipedia:In the news – participants nominate blurbs from Portal:Current events, and decide which of these get displayed on the main page. Admins post the blurbs as soon as they are approved. Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries – prepares the pages that get displayed in the "On this day" section of the main page. Wikipedia:Picture of the day – copies and formats featured pictures into the POTD scheduling queue, and writes the captions that accompany the pictures. Anybody can help prep the pages that feed into the main page's templates (up until the day they are displayed on the Main page), by proofreading and correcting them, and we encourage you to do so. The scheduled queues of pages to be displayed by each department on the main page can be found at: Today's featured article queue: follow this link (which looks like this: [[Wikipedia:Today's featured article/{{CURRENTMONTHNAME}} {{CURRENTYEAR}}|this link]]) Did you know queue: Template:Did you know/Queue In the news doesn't have a queue. Instead, items to be included are decided on by participants (you) at Wikipedia:In the news/Candidates. News items that achieve consensus are posted by admins. Selected anniversaries queue: Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/All Picture of the day queue for the main page: the subpages of Template:POTD protected (their titles are dates). Only the current date is actually protected. See http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special%3APrefixIndex&prefix=POTD+protected&namespace=10 Important: Be sure to follow the instructions posted at each department. Prior tip – Next tip Read more: Wikipedia:Editing the main page   Become a Wikipedia tipster – Tips library, by subject To add this auto-updating template to your user page, use {{totd}}