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2011-09-19 From the editor: Changes to The Signpost News and notes: Ushahidi research tool announced, Citizendium five years on: success or failure?, and Wikimedia DC officially recognised In the news: Wikipedia: yesterday's news? Calls for women, doctors, and scholars of humanities; Wales makes Wikimedia work "look easy" Sister projects: On the Wikinews fork WikiProject report: Back to school Featured content: The best of the week Arbitration report: ArbCom narrowly rejects application to open new case Technology report: MediaWiki 1.18 deployment begins, the alleged "injustice" of WMF engineering policy, and Wikimedians warned of imminent fix to magic word Popular pages: Article stats for the English Wikipedia in the last year About·Archives·Newsroom·Single-page·Suggestions Centralized discussion RfC about checks and balances in the AfD nomination process Idea lab discussion on crafting a proposal to balance gender representation in sporting topics RfC on extending the ArbCom moratorium on Ireland/Republic of Ireland page move discussions RfC on the rules and procedures for the December 2011 English Wikipedia Arbitration Committee election RfC about clarifying style on capitalization of common names of animal species RfC on the pros and cons of pending changes. RfC on a proposal to remove or rename outline articles RfC on the creation of an OTRS member group

Notices

• Wikipedia Loves Libraries will be held in cities across North America in October 2011, with help from Wikimedians Active in Local Regions of the United States (WALRUS) and Wikimedia Canada.
• Proofreaders and testers are needed for the Tip-of-the-day project. We need people to try out the tips before they go live, to make sure they work as claimed.
• Need editors for WP:GOCE backlog, editing 10 pages each - for 50 editors to join WP:GOCE September backlog-editing drive (fix grammar, punctuation, wikilinks). See over 100 articles in Category:...April 2010. Each article takes 1 hour; with 80 people, each could edit ~10 articles in September.

Project pages seeking contributors

Discussions

Discussions in the following areas have requested wider attention:

Help out

Wikipedia is, by number of articles, the largest encyclopedia ever to exist. However, many articles are stubs, or otherwise need attention. If you like, go ahead, be bold, and jump right in. If you are not ready to fly solo, you can participate in a Collaboration.

Things to do

General tasks

• Patrol new pages and help improve new articles.
• Category:Wikipedia backlog always needs attention.
• Assess articles by quality or by importance—pick a topic of interest and grade according to that WikiProject's scale. (See links from article talk pages.)
• Adopt a basic topic list (Outline), to help develop and maintain a table of contents to a major subject on Wikipedia.
• Let SuggestBot suggest pages for you to improve.
• Update pages with old (ref or note template) citations to the new references format.
• Do you have a historical perspective? Articles slanted towards recent events might need to be looked at with a new eye.

Commenting

• Respond to a request for comment or Wikiquette alert, or provide a third opinion.
• Give a requested editor review.
• Peer review or give feedback on some articles.
• Comment at Featured portal candidates and Portals at peer review.
• Make recommendations on articles listed at Good article reassessment.
• Respond to the Reward board or Bounty board.
• Discuss which articles should be deleted and review proposed deletions.

Special skills

• Can you draw or take pictures? Make a requested image.
• Are you good at photo editing? Then try cleaning up some of these images, or helping out at the Graphics Lab.
• Can you use GIS tools? Help make requested maps.
• Can you communicate in another language? There are articles that need translation into English. You can also proofread a translation.
• Are you a budding journalist? Summarise Wikipedia-related news and events for the Signpost.

Fix-up projects

Open tasks

Here are some tasks you can do:

• Wikify: Dil Dosti Dance, William Evans (landscape painter), William Evans (watercolourist), Erattamundakkal, Thomas Simpson Evans, More...
• Orphans: International Regatta KRC Ghent, Rarities Mint, Lighthouse Beach, Ballina, Turbo regenfussi, Money on the Side, More...
• Copyedit: Frieder Burda, Professional Hockey Players' Association, Wolverine in other media, List of Jewel Riders characters, László Nagy (handballer), More...
• Update: Chamber of Commerce and Industry of Romania building, Statewide opinion polling for the Republican Party (United States) presidential primaries, 2012, Nobu Hotel and Residences, Tower Verre, C.D. Olivais e Moscavide, More...
• Style: Prakashchandra Pandurang Shirodkar, Sergiu Băhăian, Market reduction approach, Bullet (interurban), Manoj Srivastava, More...
• Translation: Mangkunegara II, Mangkunegara I, Vikkollen, U6 (Berlin U-Bahn), Les Mercuriales, More...
• Cleanup: MV Kaitaki, Jugni, Sadiya, Savage 2: A Tortured Soul, MacBreak, More...
• Verify: Great Moravia, Rhodochorton, Vbuzzer, Eastern Mediterranean University, Grand Duchess Xenia Alexandrovna of Russia, More...
• Neutrality: Media curbs and usage of social networking sites in Kashmir, UK Gay Liberation Front 1971 Festival of Light action, Hollywood Foreign Press Association, 2008 in video gaming, Mark Twain Intermediate School 239, More...
• Original research: The Irresistible Cathy Dennis, Super Bowl XVIII, Digital signal processor, List of Gospels, 1971 May Day Protests, More...
• Merge: Divinity Hall, Harvard Divinity School, Divinity Hall, Treasury Board Secretariat, Golden Era Records, Man-Kzin Wars, More...
• Split: Jazz improvisation, Royal house, Hummingbird discography, Nova revija, Han purple and Han blue, More...
• Stubs: Karlene Faith, On-again, off-again relationship, Bukovskyite, Andreas Tofte, William Lindsay Murphy, More...
• Expand: Colmar Brunton, Gopalganj Sadar Upazila, Dower, Albany, Vermont, Savior (film), More...
• Article Incubator: Yosef Babad (Hebrew Theological College), Tau Omega Mu Fraternity and its Ladies' Circle, Trotskyist League of Canada, Valery Fedorenko, Elliott Wald, More...
• Article deletion discussions: Academics and educators, Schools, Christianity, Religion, Turkey, More...
• Article Requests: Geology of Germany, Poverty in Japan, Banking in Colombia, Piet Botha, Purtilo syndrome, More...
• Image Requests: Takakia, Filipino Chinese cuisine, Wiki Peak, Sacred Heart Cathedral (Salina, Kansas), Okarito Kiwi, More...
• Mediation Cabal: Murder of Meredith Kercher (two sentences), or Help mediate an open case!

Not sure where to report a certain type of problem with article content? If it exists, it is probably listed at Wikipedia:Maintenance.

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Collaborations

To improve the quality of articles that are short or lacking in detail, Wikipedia's community organizes collaborations to expand articles.

Collaborations by topic

Other collaborations

Active improvement teams

• Countering systemic bias
• Version 1.0
• Spam fighting team
• Categorization projects
• Spotlight

WikiProjects

WikiProjects are ongoing team efforts to improve articles having to do with a particular subject, and to manage the logistics of that topic. Hundreds exist — examine the master list to find one that interests you.

Language translation

Wikipedia is not just in English. Versions exist in many different languages. To fill in some of the English Wikipedia's gaps, we translate articles from other languages into English. You can view a list of articles that need translation, organized by language.