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Welcome to the community portal!

This page provides a listing of current collaborations, tasks, and news about English Wikipedia. New to Wikipedia? See the contributing to Wikipedia page or our tutorial for everything you need to know to get started. For a listing of internal project pages of interest, see the department directory.

Interact more

For a listing of ongoing discussions and current requests, see the Dashboard.

Ask questions about how to use or edit Wikipedia
Friendly help for newcomers
Ask research questions about any topic except Wikipedia itself
Work with other editors on a shared area of interest
Get help resolving disputes
Discuss existing and proposed policies
Discuss technical issues about Wikipedia
Discuss new proposals that are not policy-related
Incubate new ideas before formally proposing them
Discuss issues involving the Wikimedia Foundation
Post messages that do not fit into any other category

Community bulletin board

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

Monthly or continuous events

Recently completed: LGBTQ+ women | Wiki Loves Pride Women in Music Alphabet run: X–Z
New this month: Translation Science Fiction and Fantasy Women in Sports
Ongoing initiatives: #1day1woman Education
Upcoming events: Ideas


Meetups for July 2024 +/-
WikiClub Toronto Meetup July 7, 2024 (2024-07-07)
London 206 July 14, 2024 (2024-07-14)
Oxford 102 July 21, 2024 (2024-07-21)
BLT Office Hours July 28, 2024 (2024-07-28)
Perth 82 July 28, 2024 (2024-07-28)
San Diego 111 July 29, 2024 (2024-07-29)
Brixton 1 July 30, 2024 (2024-07-30)
Meetups for August 2024 +/-
NC Triangle Wiknic August 6, 2024 (2024-08-06)
San Diego 112 Wiknic August 17, 2024 (2024-08-17)
BLT Office Hours August 25, 2024 (2024-08-25)

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.


General notices



Help out

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.)

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

Help improve popular pages, especially those of low quality.

Tip of the day

How to make a table on a page

Using the Wikipedia text editor:

  1. Click on "Advanced" at the top of the editing box
  2. Click on icon
  3. Add data into cells, rows or columns
  4. Provide an edit summary and save your work

Another box will appear allowing you to set up the number of rows and columns and style of the table.

Using the Visual Editor:

  1. Click on "Insert" near the top of the page
  2. Click on "Table"
  3. Click on each cell or drag across multiple cells
  4. Merge, add or delete cells as needed
  5. Click on "Properties" to assign properties to cells, rows, or columns
  6. Insert data into cells, rows or columns
  7. Provide an edit summary and save your work
See also:
To add this auto-updating template to your user page, use {{totd}}