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2011-09-26 Opinion essay: The global mission, the image filter and the "German question" Recent research: Top female Wikipedians, reverted newbies, link spam, social influence on admin votes, Wikipedians' weekends, WikiSym previews News and notes: WMF strikes down enwiki consensus, academic journal partnerships, and eyebrows raised over minors editing porn-related content In the news: Sockpuppeting journalist recants, search dominance threatened, new novels replete with Wikipedia references WikiProject report: A project in overdrive: WikiProject Automobiles Featured content: The best of the week Arbitration report: "Broadly construed" explained, voting begins on Senkaku Islands case, invitation to comment on CU/OS candidates Technology report: 1.18 deployment on track, "mythical" Git migration scheduled, editor decline statistics improved About·Archives·Newsroom·Single-page·Suggestions Centralized discussion RfC about whether {{db-repost}} (CSD G4) is applicable or inapplicable to a previously kept page whose most recent discussion ended in deletion RfC on the use of images in section headings, should they be allowed or not? Invitation to comment on candidates for appointment to CheckUser and Oversight 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

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: Coins of the Venezuelan venezolano, Kazuo Inamori, Personal mythology, Dominic Ziegler, Preference Ranking Organization Method for Enrichment Evaluation, More...
• Orphans: Andrea Borromeo, Horton, Blyth Valley, Bill Hay (radio announcer), David Yermack, Sungai Rokam, More...
• Copyedit: Patrick Carnes, Mr. Six, Praça Velha, List of speeches given by Presidents of the United States, The Shield of Achilles: War, Peace, and the Course of History, More...
• Update: Indian states ranking by literacy rate, Katamari Damacy, DVD ripper, Cinema of Colombia, Renewable energy in the European Union, More...
• Style: You Are the Quarry, Register machine, So You Think You Can Dance (season 5) finalists, Folktales of Mexico, Recruitment in the Republic of Ireland, More...
• Translation: 28th Army (Soviet Union), Mahmoud Djellouli, Anti-discrimination laws in Brazil, 7th Guards Rocket Division, Bobbio, More...
• Cleanup: Hysteresis, T-VIPS, Dragstrip, Steric exclusion, Frederick the Great, More...
• Verify: John Baker White, Comparison of ISO image software, Coginchaug River, Effigia, Richard Blumenthal, More...
• Neutrality: Little Angels, Adams motor, Textbook, Internal Security Operations Command, Class discrimination, More...
• Original research: Nissan Sentra, Sean Masterson, Final Grades, Positive science, Shells (Angel), More...
• Merge: Opposition to the American Civil War, Old Orthodox Movement, English major, Adam Sutherland, Swing yarder, More...
• Split: TV3 News, Late Middle Ages, WNEX, Berserk (manga), Diary of a Wimpy Kid Do-It-Yourself Book, More...
• Stubs: Kəpənəkçi, Barda, Randi Rahm, JTE 7-31, Derek Sikua, Plješivica, More...
• Expand: Oophana, Hull, Massachusetts, Dundas Valley, New South Wales, Stadacona, 3 Seasons in Hell, More...
• Article Incubator: Ruth Pineda, Inside Out (Britney Spears song), Scottish Uruguayan, Bloginity, Crocodillin, More...
• Article deletion discussions: Music, Computing, Deletion sorting, People, Literature, 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.