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How to add to the community bulletin board

The community bulletin board has 2 sections that can be used by Wikipedians for announcements: "Events and projects" and "WikiProject notices". In general, keep it concise (under 2 lines), refrain from fancy formatting, and new entries should be placed at the top of their section. Before editing, make sure you are on Wikipedia:Community bulletin board, not Wikipedia:Community portal, where the board is transcluded. Events and projects: In this section, only organized events, projects, and/or competitions should be listed. These are organized by how often they occur: The Yearly section is for uncommon events, like events that only occur every year, once, or irregularly. The Monthly section is for events that occur each month, or are always ongoing. WikiProject notices: In this section, any announcement, request for help or other notice from a WikiProject should be listed here. Entries should be signed, and ordered from newest to oldest. Entries are to be removed after a period of 6 months.

Welcome to the community bulletin board, which is a page used for announcements from WikiProjects and other groups. Included here are coordinated efforts, events, projects, and other general announcements.

Events and projects [add]

Yearly or infrequent events

• The Core Contest. April 15 - May 31, an contest to improve broad and important articles, together with others or alone. Sign-ups are open until the end of the competition.
• Wikidata and Sister Projects. May 29 - June 1, an online event exploring the different ways Wikidata is connected and used in the other Wikimedia projects, including Wikipedia. We are currently accepting session proposals for the event program, you can submit them here, or ask any questions you may have!

Monthly or continuous events

• Monthly contest, WikiProject Military history. The contest department of the Military history WikiProject aims to motivate increased quality in military history articles by offering a form of friendly competition for project members making improvements to them. The primary contest available is a simple rolling competition that awards points for improving articles. The contest runs from the first to last day of each month.
• Guild of Copy Editors' editing drive. The May 2025 backlog drive is a one-month-long effort by the Guild of Copy Editors to reduce the backlog of articles that require copy editing: those carrying the {{copy edit}} tag (also {{awkward}}, {{copy edit section}}, {{inappropriate person}}, and {{copy edit inline}}, and their redirects) or are listed on the GOCE Requests page. It began on 1 May, 00:00 (UTC), and will end on 31 May, 23:59 (UTC).
• Wikipedia:WikiProject Women in Red 2025 Events:

Recently completed:	Alphabet run: G & H Business
New this month:	Revolutionary women Alphabet run: I & J
Ongoing initiatives:	Music #1day1woman
Upcoming events:	Ideas

Meetups for May 2025 +/-

Exeter 3	May 3, 2025 (2025-05-03)
San Diego 121	May 3, 2025 (2025-05-03)
San Francisco	May 8, 2025 (2025-05-08)
San Diego 122	May 10, 2025 (2025-05-10)
London 216	May 11, 2025 (2025-05-11)
Los Angeles	May 11, 2025 (2025-05-11)
US Mountain West online	May 13, 2025 (2025-05-13)
WikiCon New Zealand	(2025-05-16) (2025-05-18)May 16–18, 2025
Singapore 21	May 17, 2025 (2025-05-17)
Johannesburg	May 17, 2025 (2025-05-17)
Cape Town	May 17, 2025 (2025-05-17)
Oxford 111	May 18, 2025 (2025-05-18)
Chicago May 2025	May 24, 2025 (2025-05-24)
Aberdeen 2	May 26, 2025 (2025-05-26)
Edinburgh 21	May 31, 2025 (2025-05-31)

Meetups for June 2025 +/-

Brighton 5	June 14, 2025 (2025-06-14)
San Diego 123	June 21, 2025 (2025-06-21)

WikiProject notices [add]

Also consider posting WikiProject, Task Force, and Collaboration news at The Signpost's WikiProject Report page. Please include your signature when adding a listing here.

• WikiProject Christianity is back and running! We are looking for new and interested editors to join. We look forward to working with you! Sheriff U3 12:51, 5 April 2025 (UTC)
• WikiProject Outlines news:
  • New outlines:
    • Outline of San Diego
    • Outline of Leeds
    • Outline of Glasgow
  • Another outline has been nominated for Featured List status:
    • Outline of caves
  • The following outline covers an ongoing situation, please help keep it updated:
    • Outline of the Russo-Ukrainian War
  • The Outline of the week is Outline of William Shakespeare.
  • Please help improve them. —The Transhumanist 11:59, 29 March 2025 (UTC)
• WP Unreferenced articles is trying to clear the decades-long backlog of unreferenced articles. The backlog recently reached under 67,000 -- down from 90,000 half a year ago. Come contribute! Mrfoogles (talk) 21:44, 12 March 2025 (UTC)

Technical news

This section is transcluded from Wikipedia:Tech news. (edit | history)

Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Weekly highlight

• The Wikimedia Foundation has shared the latest draft update to their annual plan for next year (July 2025–June 2026). This includes an executive summary (also on Diff), details about the three main goals (Infrastructure, Volunteer Support, and Effectiveness), global trends, and the budget and financial model. Feedback and questions are welcome on the talk page until the end of May.

Updates for editors

• For wikis that have the CampaignEvents extension enabled, two new feature improvements have been released:
  • Admins can now choose which namespaces are permitted for Event Registration via Community Configuration (documentation). The default setup is for event registration to be permitted in the Event namespace, but other namespaces (such as the project namespace or WikiProject namespace) can now be added. With this change, communities like WikiProjects can now more easily use Event Registration for their collaborative activities.
  • Editors can now transclude the Collaboration List on a wiki page (documentation). The Collaboration List is an automated list of events and WikiProjects on the wikis, accessed via Special:AllEvents (example). Now, the Collaboration List can be added to all sorts of wiki pages, such as: a wiki mainpage, a WikiProject page, an affiliate page, an event page, or even a user page.
• View all 27 community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week.

Updates for technical contributors

• Developers who use the moment library in gadgets and user scripts should revise their code to use alternatives like the Intl library or the new mediawiki.DateFormatter library. The moment library has been deprecated and will begin to log messages in the developer console. You can see a global search for current uses, and ask related questions in this Phabricator task.
• Developers who maintain a tool that queries the Wikidata term store tables (wbt_*) need to update their code to connect to a separate database cluster. These tables are being split into a separate database cluster. Tools that query those tables via the wiki replicas must be adapted to connect to the new cluster instead. Documentation and related links are available. [1]
• Detailed code updates later this week: MediaWiki

In depth

• The latest Chart Project newsletter is available. It includes updates on preparing to expand the deployment to additional wikis as soon as this week (starting May 6) and scaling up over the following weeks, plus exploring filtering and transforming source data.

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Requests for comment

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

General notices

• Inactivity requirements for autopatrolled
• Speedy keep for no-BEFORE mass nominations
• Capitalization of sources in citations

1 May 2025
News and notes: India cut off from Wiki money; WMF annual plan and Wikimedia programs seek comment In the media: Feds aiming for WMF's nonprofit status Recent research: How readers use Wikipedia health content; Scholars generally happy with how their papers are cited on Wikipedia Arbitration report: Sysop Tinucherian removed and admonished by the ArbCom Discussion report: Latest news from Centralized discussions Traffic report: Of Wolf and Man Disinformation report: At WikiCredCon, Wikipedia editors and Internet Archive discuss threats to trust in media News from the WMF: Product & Tech Progress on the Annual Plan Humour: Crisis erupts as furious admins, functionaries complain about crappy t-shirts Comix: By territory In focus: Using AI on the Russian Wikipedia: opportunities or challenges? Community view: A deep dive into Wikimedia Debriefing: Barkeep49's RfB debriefing Gallery: Meet the winners of Wiki Loves Monuments 2024 Obituary: JarrahTree, JohnClarknew and Yashthepunisher
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