Library & ITS Wiki:Community Portal

Community Portal Welcome to the Community Portal. This is the central place to find out what's happening on Wikipedia. Learn what tasks need to be done, what groups can be joined, and get or post news about recent events or current activities. Contents: 1 Community bulletin board 2 Help out 3 Collaborations 4 Guidelines, help, and resources You might be looking for... Help with an aspect of Wikipedia: See the help page for documentation, or ask a question for assistance. Answers for questions about factual topics: Please visit Wikipedia's Reference desk. A place to discuss things with other users: The Village pump is Wikipedia's main discussion forum, with sections covering News, Policy, Technical, Proposals, Assistance, and Miscellaneous topics. A place to resolve disputes: For content disputes, follow Wikipedia:Resolving disputes.

Community bulletin board Post your Wikipedia-related news and announcements here!

Help out Wikipedia is, by number of articles, the largest encyclopedia ever to exist. However, many articles are stubs, or otherwise need attention. If you like, go ahead, be bold, and jump right in. If you aren't ready to fly solo, you can participate in a Collaboration.

Things to do Respond to a request for comment, Wikiquette alert or provide a third opinion. Give a requested editor review. Can you draw or take pictures? Make a requested image. Peer review or give feedback on some articles. Respond to the Reward board or Bounty board. Are you good at photo editing? Then try cleaning up some of these images. Can you use GIS tools? Help make requested maps. Can you communicate in another language? There are articles that need translation into English. You can also proofread a finished translation. Let SuggestBot suggest pages for you to improve. Update pages with old (ref or note template) citations to the new references format. Fix-up projects Article Categorization Bad category names Bad links Category needs checking Core topics needing cleanup Dead-end pages Disambig pages with links Elements of Style League of Copyeditors Linkrot Notability Punctuation Missing articles Most wanted articles Most wanted stubs Name disambiguation Stub sorting Templates with red links Transwiki log cleanup Typos Unreferenced articles Untagged images Untagged stubs

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

Collaborations To improve the quality of articles that are short or lacking in detail, Wikipedia's community organizes collaborations to expand articles.

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Other collaborations Active improvement teams Countering systemic bias Encyclopedic Standards Version 1.0 Cleanup Taskforce Spam fighting team Categorization projects Maintenance WikiProjects WikiProjects are ongoing team efforts to improve articles having to do with a particular subject, and to manage the logistics of that topic. Hundreds exist — examine the master list to find one that interests you. They are separate from, though may work with, Collaborations. Language translation Wikipedia is not just in English! Versions exist in many different languages. To fill in some of the English Wikipedia's gaps, we translate articles from other languages into English. You can view a list of articles that need translation from any language, or, in a few cases, by only one language (this is only available for the more popular languages).

Guidelines, help, and resources Wikipedia has many help pages, policies, and departments. Here are some of the most general. For a comprehensive list of Wikipedia's departments, see the Wikipedia department directory.

Help Wikipedia help - Browse help pages Where to ask questions Editing The Manual of Style guidelines and tutorial How to edit a page Contributing How to improve articles How to write a great article Where to find information for articles A list of template messages What special pages are Tools for editing Request newspapers or magazines Policies and guidelines Wikipedia has many established policies, guidelines, conventions, and traditions. This is a very brief sampling of some of the most important; for more information, see the main policies and guidelines page. Policies and guidelines apply both to articles and how to work with fellow editors. For easy access, the shortcuts to the pages are also listed. Article standards Be bold! WP:BB • WP:BOLD Citing sources WP:CITE • WP:REF Copyrights WP:C Editing WP:EP External links WP:EL Image use WP:IUP Include only verifiable information WP:V Manual of Style WP:MOS • WP:STYLE Neutral point of view WP:NPOV What Wikipedia is not WP:WWIN • WP:NOT Working with others Assume good faith WP:AGF • WP:FAITH Avoid instruction creep WP:CREEP Civility and etiquette WP:CIV • WP:EQ Consensus WP:CON Don't bite the newcomers WP:BITE Don't disrupt Wikipedia to illustrate a point WP:POINT No personal attacks WP:NPA • WP:ATTACK Resolving disputes WP:DR Vandalism WP:VAND

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