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How to add to the community bulletin board

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! She riff U3 12:51, 5 April 2025 (UTC)
WikiProject Outlines news:
- New outlines:
- 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 Earth science.
- 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

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:

General notices

To do

Do you have a moment to respond to a request for comment?
Can you draw or take pictures? Help make requested images.
Can you use GIS tools? Help make requested maps.
Can you code? Help make a useful bot or update an offline report.
Comment on the wisdom of new bot proposals.
Peer review some articles.
Offer your thoughts and ideas on proposed Wikipedia policies.
Can you speak another language? There are articles that need translation into English.
Would you like to respond to more requests?
Proofread a finished translation.

Or...

You can help improve the articles listed below! This list updates frequently, so check back here for more tasks to try. (See Wikipedia:Maintenance or the Task Center for further information.)

Fix spelling and grammar

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Update with new information

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Expand short articles

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Fix original research issues

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Improve lead sections

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Add an image

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Translate and clean up

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Help counter systemic bias by creating new articles on important women.

Help improve popular pages, especially those of low quality.

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 Lee Smith (baseball), Wikipedia's current collaboration of the week! Please help to bring it up to featured article standard.

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

Article Collaboration and Improvement Drive

The Article Collaboration and Improvement Drive works on an article that needs a lot of help to reach featured-article standard. The subject of this week's article improvement drive is Andrew Champion (random unreferenced BLP of the day for 11 May 2025 - provided by User:AnomieBOT/RandomPage via WP:RANDUNREF):

Aang is a fictional character and the main protagonist for Nickelodeon's animated television series Avatar: The Last Airbender, which was created by Michael Dante DiMartino and Bryan Konietzko. He is voiced by Zach Tyler Eisen.

Twelve-year-old Aang is the last surviving Airbender, a monk of the Air Nomads' Southern Air Temple, and is a supercentenarian at the incarnation age of 112. He is the current incarnation of the Avatar, the spirit of the planet manifested in human form. Aang, as the Avatar, controls the elements and is tasked with keeping the Four Nations at peace.

Aang is the series' reluctant hero and comic, spending a century in suspended animation before joining new friends Katara and Sokka on a quest to master the elements and save their world from the war-hungry imperialist Fire Nation.

You can still help with last week's article, World War I, or help pick next week's article.

Other collaborations

Africa ({{african-cotw}})
Anime (List of English Dubbed Anime)
Biography ({{bio-cotw}})
Book Club (The Razor's Edge by William Somerset Maugham)
Canada (None)
Cinema ( )
Comics ([[Mad (magazine)]])
Cricket (Donald Bradman)
European Union (News media in the European Union)
French Translation (fr:Liberté to Freedom)
Football (soccer) (Italy national football team)
Gaming (Wikipedia:Gaming Collaboration of the week/current)
Hong Kong (Yuen Woo-ping)
India (none at the moment)

Japan (Current nominations:
The Tale of the Heike
Abe Shinzo)
Latter Day Saint (Helaman)
Leftist Parties and Movements (Socialist Party USA)
Macintosh (Michael Scott (Apple))
Maintenance (have bot-modified external links checked)
Mathematics (Wikipedia:Mathematics Collaboration of the Week/current)
Medicine (Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease)
Mexico (Coat of Arms of Mexico)
Poland ([[Culture of Poland]])
Science ({{Wikipedia:Science collaboration of the week/current}})
Singapore (Co-curricular activity)
Spanish Translation (es:Zarzuela to Zarzuela)
Texas (Lizzie Velásquez)
United Kingdom (British-Spanish relations)
United States (United States Postal Service)

Ongoing projects

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

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.