User:Pretzels/Community portal

 Community portal Welcome to the community portal. This is the place to find out what is happening on Wikipedia. Learn what tasks need to be done, what groups there are to join, and share news about recent events or current activities taking place on Wikipedia. Jump to: Community bulletin board &middot; Help out &middot; Collaborations &middot; Guidelines, help, and resources  You might be looking for...
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 * A place to resolve disputes: for content disputes, follow the guidelines on this page.

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 * Special:UnwatchedPages pages needs you! Currently, and for good reason, this is admin only.  If you are a non-admin and would like to help bring the list down, drop a note here and get a list of 10, 20, 200, or however many you want.
 * Help from experienced editors would be appreciated at the Drawing board, traffic has more than tripled in recent weeks since the addition of a link from Your first article.
 * A proposal to merge the Drawing board and Requests for feedback is going on here. Input on the merge proposal and help maintaining the board would be appreciated.
 * A team of editors is needed to develop a set of country profiles/outlines to serve as a useful tool for browsing country-related subjects and comparing countries. Editors experienced in the creation and use of bots and advanced wikitools like WP:AWB and WP:LINKY are especially needed. Please contact The Transhumanist.
 * The Articles written by a single editor project page has been redesigned. You can volunteer to help inspect all the articles listed here for missing tags.
 * Voice your opinion on the goals of the Main Page redesign. We are looking for ideas (not specific designs yet) as far as what you want on the Main Page.
 * As of Oct. 31, AOL is shutting down its FTP space, and all websites they were hosting will be deleted. This is a major shift that will mean plenty of broken links where members' AOL pages are linked to!
 * A new WikiProject is added to the Proposals: WikiProject Haystack, aiming to highlight the most essential in Wikipedia. To avoid being overwhelmed by all information in Wikipedia, it would put the most essential into special template boxes that may be read and searched separately.

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Project pages seeking contributors
Discussions

Discussions in the following areas have requested wider attention:

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 Help out

Things to do

 * Respond to a request for comment, Wikiquette alert or provide a third opinion.
 * Adopt a basic topic list, to help develop and maintain a table of contents to a major subject on Wikipedia.
 * Give a requested editor review.
 * Can you draw or take pictures? Make a requested image.
 * Peer review or give feedback on some articles.
 * Make recommendations on articles listed at Good article reassessment.
 * Respond to the Reward board or Bounty board.
 * Are you good at photo editing? Then try cleaning up some of these images, or helping out at the Graphics Lab.
 * 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 translation.
 * Let SuggestBot suggest pages for you to improve.
 * Update pages with old (ref or note template) citations to the new references format.
 * Patrol new pages and help improving new articles.
 * Frequent IRC user, or a wikignome? Visit WikiProject Spotlight to join in on their latest collaboration.
 * Category:Wikipedia backlog always needs attention.

Fix-up projects


Not sure where to report a certain type of problem with article content? If it exists, it is probably listed at Maintenance.

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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).
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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 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 to both articles and how to work with fellow editors. For easy access, the shortcuts to the pages are also listed.

Working with others

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Resources
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