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
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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.
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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.

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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.

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Other collaborations
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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:
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About Wikipedia

Category-based access to pages about Wikipedia

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Community information

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

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News

The Wikipedia Signpost
Wikipedia Signpost
Weekly WP News

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

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Watchlists

Public watchlists · Regional notice boards

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Featured content

Featured articles · Featured pictures · Featured lists

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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.
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Help

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New user information

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

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Advanced help for contributors

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

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Frequently asked questions

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

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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

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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

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Account maintenance

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

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Technical information

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

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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!

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How to resolve conflicts

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

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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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