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Community portal

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.

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Help desk

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Teahouse

Friendly help for newcomers

Reference desk

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WikiProjects

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Dispute resolution

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Policy

Discuss existing and proposed policies

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Idea lab

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WMF

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Miscellaneous

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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

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 December 2025 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, and articles on the backlog from April 2024, May 2024, and June 2024. It will begin on 14 December, 00:00 (UTC), and end on 20 December, 23:59 (UTC).
Wikipedia:WikiProject Women in Red 2025 Events:

Recently completed:	Alphabet run: U, V, W Asian women
New this month:	Alphabet run: X, Y, Z Food and drink Women who died: 2025
Ongoing initiatives:	Music #1day1woman
Upcoming events:	Ideas

**Meetups for December 2025** +/-
Brixton 12	December 1, 2025 (2025-12-01)
Philadelphia WikiSalon	December 13, 2025 (2025-12-13)
London 223	December 14, 2025 (2025-12-14)
San Diego 129	December 14, 2025 (2025-12-14)
Seattle meetup	December 16, 2025 (2025-12-16)

**Meetups for January 2026** +/-

San Diego 130	January 17, 2026 (2026-01-17)
Seattle Wikipedia Day 2026	January 17, 2026 (2026-01-17)
Toronto Wikipedia Day 2026	January 18, 2026 (2026-01-18)

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 Nevada was recently re-activated!

New editors interested in the subject are encouraged to join. There are over 800 articles with unknown importance levels. Your help assessing these articles would be appreciated! The sub-project, WikiProject Las Vegas, has recently become inactive, so new editors for WikiProject Nevada may also be interested joining here! 🌀Hurricane Wind and Fire (talk) (contribs)🔥 02:09, 24 November 2025 (UTC)

WikiProject Outlines news:
- New outlines:
- Another outline has received 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 psychology.
- Please help improve them. —The Transhumanist 11:45, 21 October 2025 (UTC)
WikiProject Magic: The Gathering has been cleaned up and is looking for interested participants. Also welcoming general suggestions and collabs. Snuggle 🖤 (talk) 20:43, 7 October 2025 (UTC)
WP Unreferenced articles is trying to clear the decades-long backlog of unreferenced articles, please help to lower the number of unreferenced articles below 40,000. Come contribute! Catfurball (talk) 19:58, 10 September 2025 (UTC)
WikiProject Haiti is newly renovated and looking for interested participants. Averageuntitleduser (talk) 15:38, 21 July 2025 (UTC)
WikiProject Kabbalah is re-activating as there are a lot of maintenance templates on these articles and new references and inline citations are needed. See Kabbalah Books Online. New participants welcome!! Nnev66 (talk) 23:07, 26 May 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

Anybody who wishes to secure their user account can now use two-factor authentication (2FA). This is available to all registered users of all Wikimedia projects. This is part of the Account Security initiative. Later, 2FA will be required for all users who can take security- or privacy-sensitive actions.

Updates for editors

Following last week's deployments, the Add a link feature, which allows editors to add suggested links during editing, will be available to an additional 33 Wikipedias starting on 9 December. This expansion is possible thanks to the new prediction model that now supports all languages, including those that were previously not covered. While the feature has been available on most Wikipedias for some time, this rollout brings us closer to using the improved model everywhere. If you have any questions or would like more details please contact Trizek (WMF).
Last week, the Search Platform team added transliterated as-you-type search suggestions to Georgian wikis. If there are only a few regular search suggestions, then queries in Latin or Cyrillic script are now rewritten into Georgian script to look for more matches. For example, searching for either bedniereba or бедниереба will now suggest the existing article about ბედნიერება ("happiness"). You can recommend other languages where transliterated suggestions would be useful on Phabricator for future development.
Later this week, a controlled experiment will begin for editors on the 100 largest Wikipedias who are editing a section in the mobile web visual editor. 50% of these editors will notice a new "Edit full page" button that will enable them to expand their editing session to the whole page. This feature is intended to make it easier for people on mobile web to edit any article section, regardless of which section-edit icon they tapped to begin. The experiment will last ~4 weeks. You can find more details about the project.
Later this week, the Reader Growth team will launch a mobile web experiment to expand all article sections by default (currently they are collapsed by default) and pin the section header the user is currently reading to the top of the page. The experiment will affect 10% of users on Arabic, Chinese, French, Indonesian, and Vietnamese Wikipedias. [1]
The Wikipedia Year in Review 2025, a feature in the Wikipedia mobile apps (iOS and Android) that provides users with a personalised summary of their engagement with Wikipedia over the year, is now available on the iOS and Android apps. This edition includes expanded personalised insights, improved reading highlights, new donor messaging, and updated designs. Open the app to view your Year in Review and explore your reading journey from 2025.
A recent software bug caused edits made with VisualEditor to make unintended changes to wikitext, including removing whitespace and replacing spaces with underscores in wikilinks inside citations. This was partially fixed last week, and further fixes are in progress. Editors who used VisualEditor between November 28 and December 2 should review their edits for unexpected modifications. [2]
View all 23 community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week. For example, the incorrect handling of URLs copied from the address bar of Microsoft Edge users, has been resolved. [3]

Updates for technical contributors

Starting this week, users of the "Improved Syntax Highlighting" beta feature will have CodeMirror as the editor for Lua, JavaScript, CSS, JSON and Vue content models, instead of CodeEditor. With this, the linters will be upgraded. This is part of a larger effort to eventually replace CodeEditor and provide a consistent code editing experience. [4]
Developers are encouraged to take the 2025 Developer Satisfaction Survey, which remains open until 5 January 2026. If you build software for the Wikimedia ecosystem and would like to share your experiences or feedback, your participation is greatly appreciated. [5]
There is no new MediaWiki version this week.

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Requests for comment

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General notices

The voting phase of the administrator elections is open! Voting ends at 23:59, 15 December 2025 UTC.

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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.)

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Spoken language

Previous selections: Judgement · Computer algebra system · Emergency management

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1 December 2025
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