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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.
Yearly or infrequent events
- The 2024 Developing Countries WikiContest is an editing competition with a focus towards developing countries. It will begin on July 1st and signups will close on July 15th. Sign up now!
- Want to help good articles get better? Sign up for the July Good Article backlog drive! New and experienced reviewers welcome.
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 blitz. The August 2024 editing blitz is a one-week-long effort by the Guild of Copy Editors to reduce its backlog. The themes are: articles on the GOCE Requests page from May and June 2024, and articles on the May 2023 and June 2023 backlog. It began on 18 August, 00:00 (UTC), and will end on 24 August, 23:59 (UTC).
- Wikipedia:WikiProject Women in Red 2024 Events:
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| Christchurch 30 | August 4, 2024 |
| NC Triangle Wiknic | August 6, 2024 |
| Seattle Wiknic | August 11, 2024 |
| London 207 | August 11, 2024 |
| San Diego 112 Wiknic | August 17, 2024 |
| Oxford 103 | August 18, 2024 |
| Manhattan Beach Edit-a-thon | August 24, 2024 |
| BLT Office Hours | August 25, 2024 |
| San Diego 113 | August 26, 2024 |
| Christchurch 31 | September 1, 2024 |
| Seattle meetup | September 17, 2024 |
| BLT Office Hours | September 22, 2024 |
| San Diego 114 | September 23, 2024 |
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 Outlines news:
- Another outline has made it to Featured List status:
- The following outline covers an ongoing situation, please help keep it updated:
- Outline drafts recently moved to article space (thank you!):
- Outline drafts nearing completion include:
- The Outline of the week is Outline of dinosaurs.
- Please help improve them. —The Transhumanist 14:35, 13 August 2024 (UTC)
- We're trying to revive Wikipedia:WikiProject Geocaching! If you're a Geocacher and want to improve the quality of the Geocaching related articles, sign up now! Lordseriouspig 20:12, 1 August 2024 (UTC)
- We are looking to revive Task Force Philippine History and are looking for interested editors! Sign-up now! NyanThousand (talk) 15:45, 28 July 2024 (UTC)
- WP Unreferenced articles is trying to clear the decades-long backlog of unreferenced articles. The backlog recently reached under 90,000. Come contribute! — PerfectSoundWhatever (t; c) 17:04, 4 July 2024 (UTC)
- WikiProject Bendigo is currently seeking interested editors to join the project. Lotsw73 (talk) 05:03, 30 January 2024 (UTC)
Discussions in the following areas have requested wider attention via Requests for comment:
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- Wikipedia policies and guidelines
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- WikiProjects and collaborations
- Wikipedia technical issues and templates
- Wikipedia proposals
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Help counter systemic bias by creating new articles on important women.
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