Wikipedia:Community Portal

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Welcome to the Community Portal!

You can help build Wikipedia into a better encyclopedia and wiki community by editing and creating new articles. If you create an account, you can track your changes and more.

See Help for assistance or to ask a question. For community news, you can read, and write for, the Wikipedia Signpost or see what's going on. The Village pump has a variety of discussions about operations, policies, technical issues, and the concerns of other Wikipedians.

Contents

1 To do
2 Active collaborations
3 Ongoing projects
4 About Wikipedia
5 Help
6 Resources

To do

Or...

Here are some tasks you can do (edit):


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

Active collaborations

In order to improve the quality of articles which are short or lacking in detail, Wikipedia's community take part in collaborations to expand articles.

Collaboration of the week

Help edit Military history of Germany, Wikipedia's current collaboration of the week! Please help to bring it up to featured article standard.

  • German tribes often fought the Roman Empire.
  • In AD 9 a Roman army led by Publius Quinctilius Varus was defeated by the Cheruscan leader Arminius (Hermann) in the Battle of the Teutoburg Forest.
  • Around 260, the Germans finally broke through the Limes and the Danube frontier.

You can still help with last week's article, Lydia (see improvements), or help pick next week's article.

Other collaborations

Ongoing projects

Active Wiki Fixup Projects

Disambig pages w/ links
Commons:Untagged images
Most visited articles
Shortpages
Templates w/ red links
Linkrot
Punctuation
Most wanted articles
Blank pages
Orphaned categories
Untagged images
Elements of Style
Duplicated sections
User categorisation
Dead-end pages
Broken categories
Missing articles
Most wanted stubs
Transwiki log cleanup
Stub sorting
Image sleuthing

Main - Inactive - Mini

WikiProjects are ongoing collaborations to improve articles having to do with a particular subject. Hundreds exist; find one that interests you! There are also many other fine projects listed below.

Active improvement teams:

Community support groups

Ongoing tasks:

About Wikipedia

Category-based access to pages about Wikipedia

Community information

About Wikipedia · About Wikimedia · Wikipedians · Friends of Wikipedia · Babel · Donations · Culture · Humor · Games

News

The Wikipedia Signpost
Wikipedia Signpost
Weekly WP News

Wikipedia in the media · Goings-on · Announcements · Press releases · Stats · Milestones

Watchlists

Public watchlists · Regional notice boards

Featured content

Featured articles · Featured pictures · Featured lists

Related communities

Other Wikipedia languages

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 textbooks.
Wikiquote – A compendium of referenced quotations.
Wikisource – A repository for free source texts.
Wikispecies – A directory of species.
Commons – Repository for free images and other media files.

Help

New user information

Welcome! · Tutorial · Sandbox · Help · New user log · Wikipedia:How to edit a page

Advanced help for contributors

User's Guide · Table format · TeX and math formulae · Images and multimedia · Customizing your display with CSS

Frequently asked questions

FAQ list and Overview · Administration · Contributing · Editing · Schools · Misc · Problems · Readers' · Technical · Glossary · What Wikipedia is not

Ways to communicate

Contact (overview) · Village pump (News, Policy, Technical, Proposals, Assistance, Miscellaneous) · Discussion pages · Mailing lists · IRC chat · Instant Messaging · In person meetings · User pages · Surveys

Common procedures

Featuring an article, pictures or lists· Peer review · Deleting a page (full policy) · Moving a page (naming policies) · Protecting a page (full policy) · Reverting a page · Administrator nominations

Account maintenance

Account benefits · Choosing and Changing a username · Logging in · User preferences · Changing attribution for edits · Account deletion

Technical information

The MediaWiki software · Requests and bug reports · Browser notes · Bots · Database download · Export page(s) in XML

Writing/Reference resources

Policies, conventions and guidelines

Overview of policies · Neutral point of view (NPOV) · Copyright · Editing · Manual of Style (Layout, Naming conventions, Disambiguation, Captions) · Image use · Citing Wikipedia · Libel · Wikipedia etiquette · Be bold!

How to resolve conflicts

Stay cool! · Be nice to newcomers · Alert others · Request assistance from a members' advocate · Dispute resolution · Arbitration policy

Resources

Ask a question· How to edit a page (Wiki markup) · Special pages · Basic topics · Contributing · Improving articles · Writing a great article · Sources for articles · Templates · Image list · Tools


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