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This page provides a listing of current collaborations, tasks, and news about English Wikipedia. For a listing of ongoing discussions and current requests, see the dashboard. New to Wikipedia? See the contributing to Wikipedia page for everything you need to know to get started. To find other internal project pages of interest, see the department directory. Interact more Help desk Reference desk Village pump Peer editing help WikiProjects Barnstars Dispute resolution Village pump sections: Policy · Proposals · Tech · Misc Reference desks: Computing · Entertainment · Humanities · Language · Maths · Science · Travel · Misc · Archives 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 Aizawl North College Irvine Spectrum Hiphop Tamizha M. Athar Tahir Meltwater Entrepreneurial School of Technology More... • Learn how Fix wikilinks The Little Theatre (India) Inverasdale George Wade Robinson Machine-dependent software Vaquejada More... • Learn how Update with new information Geraldo Alckmin Shibuya Airwaves Hutchison Ports List of Grand Prix motorcycle racers: W Alliance Airlines More... • Learn how Expand short articles 1978–79 Kentucky Wildcats men's basketball team Hopkinsville Hoppers Ron Finley Stadium Kentucky Bisons Lexington Men O' War More... • Learn how Check and add references Streptococcus thermophilus Blitz Week Fremitus Canary Islands oystercatcher Olle Nordmark More... • Learn how Fix original research issues Manguinhos, Serra Chicago White Sox Skiboarding Cult of the Dead Port knocking More... • Learn how Improve lead sections Multicultural education Maryland Department of General Services Transport in Bosnia and Herzegovina British Empire Exhibition The Fearless Vampire Killers More... • Learn how Add an image J S Battye Library John F. Kennedy Stadium (Bridgeport) Jawa Dam (Jordan) Jacksons Lane James Cook University Singapore More... • Learn how Translate and clean up History of Monterrey Armenians in the Ottoman Empire Periyanayaki Shrine Thiruvithancode Vladimir Berdnikov Notre-Dame de la Garde More... • Learn how Counter systemic bias by creating new articles on missing important female scientists. Improve popular low quality articles (top 5,000 articles by pageviews with low ORES article class predictions.) Other helpful tasks include, fixing vandalism, welcoming newcomers, link recovery, categorization, and numerous behind the scenes tasks like moving free images to Wikimedia Commons. See Wikipedia:Maintenance for more maintenance tasks. Community bulletin board 29 September 2016   News and notes: Case study of Wikimedia Education Program published; remembrance of departed colleague Ray Saintonge (Eclecticology) In the media: This edition's roundup of media coverage Featured content: Three weeks in the land of featured content Arbitration report: Arbcom looking for new checkusers and oversight appointees while another case opens Traffic report: From Gene Wilder to JonBenét: Four weeks of traffic Technology report: Category sorting and template parameters Single page Book Front page About Subscribe Suggestions Archives Centralized discussion Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 Qualifications for the New Page Patroller user right What should the articles from 1 to 100 be moved to? 2016 FLC delegate elections CheckUser and Oversight candidates Two-item disambiguation pages Preventative/punitive blocks and outing Does this source violate WP:BLPSPS? 2016 Arbcom Election RFC Route diagram templates and Template:Routemap This week's article for improvement is Math rock 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 49 left 1911 verification: 12.2% ACF Regionals answers: 64.1% Hotlist of topics: 88.7% 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 Fix common mistakes Free images to Commons Geo-coordinates Missing articles Most-wanted articles Orphaned articles Red Link Recovery Requested articles Single editor Stubsensor Today's articles for improvement Uncategorised articles Unreferenced articles Wikification needed Main · Inactive · Mini 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" 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 Abraham Lincoln Outline of Earth Outline of Himachal Pradesh Outline of Jammu and Kashmir Outline of Jharkhand Outline of Madhya Pradesh Outline of Meghalaya Outline of Mizoram Outline of Nagaland Outline of Punjab, India Outline of Tripura Outline of Uttarakhand Being overhauled or expanded Outline of the Dominican Republic Outline of North Korea Nearing completion (need remainder of annotations added) Outline of theatre Outline of meteorology Outlines in need of attention Outline of communication Outline of computer security Outline of Marvel Comics Outline of skiing Outline of sustainable agriculture Outline of telecommunication Need link placement Outline of solar energy (place entries from See also into body of outline) Outline of prehistoric technology (place entries from See also into body of outline) Outline of sustainability (from nav footer) Portal report The following portals are in need of attention/upkeep: Portal:Fergie (singer) Newly created Portal:Donald Trump Newly created Portal:A. R. Rahman Newly created 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. 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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. Newest featured content Articles Topics Portals European hare Paul Palaiologos Tagaris Lieutenant Kijé (Prokofiev) Stegoceras Burke and Hare murders Bud Dunn Zero Escape: Virtue's Last Reward Vladimir Lenin History of Liverpool F.C. (1985–present) Josephine Butler Komm, du süße Todesstunde, BWV 161 Vincent van Gogh William Borah CMLL World Middleweight Championship 2003–04 Arsenal F.C. season Overview of Lady Gaga U.S. Highways in Michigan World Fantasy Award Overview of Katy Perry 2015 Vuelta a España Final Fantasy series 1961 Atlantic hurricane season Overview of Leonardo DiCaprio Liverpool F.C. 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