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- There is a proposed redesign of the Community Portal on its talk page.
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Projects seeking help
Also consider posting WikiProject, Task Force, and Collaboration news at the Signpost's WikiProject Report page.
- The Tip of The Day department needs your help in maintaining tips and replacing obsolete ones. Do you have a special way of doing things that would help others? Any tricks or techniques to get things done easier or faster? All suggestions are welcome, from tips for beginners to the techniques of power users. Come share your wiki expertise. To see today's tip, go to the bottom of this page (Community Portal).
- The newly created WikiProject Women in Red is seeking editors to write articles about notable women.
- The African football task force of WikiProject Football has just been created. Anyone with substantial knowledge on African football-related articles or anyone interested in African football is welcome to join!
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The following portals are in need of attention/upkeep:
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:
See also
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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. |
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How to link to word definitions
Let's say you are writing an article and you want to create a link to the definition of a word the understanding of which is crucial to understanding the article. But in this hypothetical situation, you don't want to link to the Wikipedia article for that word because it would be overkill. Wikipedia has a sister project that presents hundreds of thousands of definitions. It's called Wiktionary. Here's how you would provide a link to the definition of "understanding":
both [[wiktionary:understanding|]] and [[wikt:understanding|]] will look like this:
- understanding
and link to the definition of the word "understanding".
Notice that the "pipe trick" (|) was used in the links above.
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