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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 Govinda (actor) Shaukat Qadir Johnny & Associates Sage (comics) Block FACT More... • Learn how Fix wikilinks Brickvention On the Open Road (play) One transaction rule Houston Public Library (Minnesota) Mercury Tilt Switch More... • Learn how Update with new information High Energy Liquid Laser Area Defense System Army Combat Uniform Endeavour (crater) Bude Canal Clarice Bean series More... • Learn how Expand short articles North Midlands Ladybellegate Street Meicen British wildwood Teddington Urban District More... • Learn how Check and add references Solati Trio Swedish Language Council Joan II of Navarre History of Colorado Springs, Colorado Vasile Lupu More... • Learn how Fix original research issues Kingdom Come (comics) Jack L. Gray Rocket engine Bishop's Stortford College Battle of the Heroes More... • Learn how Improve lead sections Payment and settlement systems in India What Happened to Goodbye Tenchu: Shadow Assassins Botswana military ranks and insignia North Korean cargo ship seizure in Panama More... • Learn how Add an image Alemany Maze Australian College of Theology Arab Gas Pipeline Åsebakken Priory Abu Bakar Royal Mosque More... • Learn how Translate and clean up 62nd Rocket Division Torrinha Apaseo el Grande Meat-jelly Festival Rainer Küschall More... • Learn how Counter systemic bias by creating new articles on these missing highly cited female scientists. Community bulletin board 10 February 2016   Special report: New internal documents raise questions about the origins of the Knowledge Engine In focus: An in-depth look at the special report's newly revealed documents News and notes: Another WMF departure In the media: Jeb Bush swings at Wikipedia and connects Featured content: This week's featured content Traffic report: A river of revilement Blog: Wikimedia Foundation removes The Diary of Anne Frank due to copyright law requirements Single page Book Front page About Subscribe Suggestions Archives Centralized discussion Should MfD relists be allowed or disallowed? Should the "Resting place" parameter of Infobox Person be used to note cremation Multiple letter capitalisations in articles Moving articles from mainspace to draft namespace Should the "Gather" extension be disabled on English WP Guidelines for authority control CSD#G13 criteria to include Draft and Draft talk namespaces This week's article for improvement is Cold An iceberg, which is relatively cold. 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 44% 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, 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:Shreya Ghoshal Newly created Portal:Corsica 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... Using the Authority control template Authority control systems assign a unique identifier to each topic, to allow precise identification of topics, and enable more accurate searches. The entries typically correspond to people, book titles, and similar well-defined entities. The {{Authority control}} template links Wikipedia articles to the corresponding entries in library catalogs of national libraries and other authority files all over the world. This is why you may see several code numbers listed. As an example, the Wikipedia authority control information for the Alexander Graham Bell article looks like this: Prior tip – Next tip Read more: WP:Authority control (for editors)    Help:Authority control (for readers)    Become a Wikipedia tipster – Tips library, by subject To add this auto-updating template to your user page, use {{totd}}