Wikipedia:Community bulletin board/Archive 2

2017

 * Free subscriptions to high-quality paywalled journals, newspaper archives, and online reference works are available for Wikipedia editors. For more information, see The Wikipedia Library

2018

 * SearchSuite is a userscript that provides user control over search results: it can strip them down to a single-spaced list, sort, and more. Most of its features are presented as menu item toggles to turn each feature on/off. Feedback and feature suggestions welcome.

2019

 * A project is under way to add short descriptions to all articles. This is mainly for the benefit of mobile users searching Wikipedia. Help is welcomed – please visit WikiProject Short descriptions to learn more.
 * A newsletter about userscript development on Wikipedia has been created: Scripts++. To subscribe, visit its mailing list.

January 2020

 * Wikipedia now has six million articles!

February 2020

 * WikiProject Guild of Copy Editors February Blitzes. This Copy Editing Project Blitz is a one-week-long effort of the Guild of Copy Editors to reduce the backlog of articles that require copy editing; those carrying the tag or listed on the GOCE Requests page. It began on 16 February, at 00:00 (UTC) and will end on 22 February, at 23:59 (UTC). Blitz participants can earn barnstar awards based on the number of articles—and the word counts of the articles—they copy edit. Awards will be given out once the blitz has finished.
 * The blitz is open to all. You should be fluent in English grammar and spelling. Please read Wikipedia's guide to basic copy editing before you start working. If you're unsure about spelling or grammar, consult the Manual of Style. Fluency in English is especially important for articles on the Requests page.
 * Women in Green. On 10 February the project became a WikiProject in its own right after about four and half years as a task force. The project is dedicated to promoting articles on women to Good Article status. Currently only about 4% of GAs are about women, and very few core articles have reached GA status. New members and interest in this would be appreciated.

March 2020

 * The Great Britain/Ireland Destubathon is running in March with nearly $500 in book prizes.
 * Spell checkers needed - Typo Team/moss got a complete update from the August 20, 2019 database dump. The project hosts lists of articles with misspelled words, words missing from Wiktionary, and unknown words that need investigation.
 * WikiProject Guild of Copy Editors/Backlog elimination drives/March 2020 a month-long copy-editing drive.
 * The Great Britain/Ireland De-stub-athon is a contest/editathon aimed at expanding over 1000 stubs for the UK and Ireland. Almost $500 in Amazon voucher prizes are offered for most articles and most counties covered.
 * WikiProject Military history - March Madness. March Madness is a backlog reduction drive, which will run from 00:01 UTC on 1 March through to 23:59 UTC on 31 March. The drive is open to all Wikipedians. This year the drive is focused on several goals, listed at the event's page, such as e.g. creating articles that are listed as "requested" on the project's various task force pages or other lists of missing articles.
 * Art+Activism: 2020 Art+Feminism Wikipedia Edit-a-thon —Art+Feminism is pleased to announce the theme of its seventh annual Wikipedia Edit-a-thon is Art+Activism. Activism is something that is deeply rooted in the fiber of this organization. Art has long been a vehicle to reflect and urge social, political and cultural change. Just like the word “feminism” can have different meanings to the individual, “activism” can as well. We welcome all interpretations, wide and narrow, of Art+Activism to be part of our 2020 campaign.
 * Visit our Tumblr to learn more about this year's theme.
 * Click here to view the edit-a-thons taking place across the globe for the months of March and April.
 * To Organize an Event: A) Consult Organizers Quick Guide. in English, Spanish, French, and Portuguese. B) Email us at info@artandfeminism.org to learn more and to let us know about your event. C) Create a program on the Program & Events Dashboard (instructions here). D) List your editathon by submitting your event details via this form. E) Learn how to edit clicking the Resources tab on this Meet up page.
 * How We Organize: From the beginning, Art+Feminism has paid careful attention to how and where we organize our events, prioritizing off-wiki channels of communication. We use the Programs & Events Dashboard instead of meetup pages, and we are collecting the list of events on our website, rather than here. We do this because our UX/UI review found that, because we had so many events and the wiki interface is confusing to new users, this main meet up page was difficult to parse and folks were missing events in their towns.
 * VisibleWikiWomen (image campaign), March and April 2020. In March and April, WikiProject Women in Red are collaborating again with Whose Knowledge?/VisibleWikiWomen by encouraging the upload of images to WikiCommons. These can be photos or other images related to women, their works, and their issues. Anyone can take part in this event. Don't forget to include any new images you post on our other meetup pages. We should keep track of all the new images you add to Commons.
 * WikiProject COVID-19 has been formed to help develop and organize articles on the current pandemic.

April 2020

 * A new template is available to link to project pages with the nutshell automatically added as a tooltip. To use it, type e.g.  to generate.

May 2020

 * Remote events and meetups, May 2020
 * Remote events by DC Meetup

For more information, see Meetup/DC.


 * The "Summer World Destubbing Challenge" for The 50,000 Destubbing Challenge starts on May 1 and ends on July 31. Over the summer, £250 worth of Amazon vouchers are being given away for most stubs expanded, covering 10 regions of the world. 4 regions are dedicated to England, Wales, Scotland and Ireland/N. Ireland and the remainder by continent of the world. Editors now with more time to edit during the pandemic please help contribute and help us work towards expanding 50,000 stubs!
 * Houston Online Wikipedia Edit-a-thon Series. These virtual edit-a-thons on Zoom will focus on Houston women artists. We will provide tutorials for the beginner Wikipedian, reference materials, and encouragement. Sign up at houstonwiki.eventbrite.com to receive the Zoom link. Participants will be able to ask questions throughout and are not required to stay for the entire session.
 * Platform: Zoom (link will be sent an hour before the event)
 * The Summer World Destubbing Challenge is taking place between May 1 and July 31, 2020.

June 2020

 * Women in Red Project: Reducing gender imbalance. Improve coverage of women in countries where they are poorly represented either on the English Wikipedia and/or in those where serious imbalances exist between the sexes. We have tried to cover countries in all the continents, as you will see from the lists at the page for this project. We have used two sources: List of gender imbalance per country by number of biographies on the English Wikipedia; and the World Economic Forum's Global Gender Gap Report 2020, especially Table 1 showing "The Global Gender Gap Index 2020 rankings".
 * WikiProject Black Lives Matter/June 2020: "Wikipedia wants YOUR help to improve our coverage of Black Lives Matter and related topics! For the entire month of June 2020, we are holding the Black Lives Matter article improvement drive, a collaborative effort to improve our articles on topics relating to racism, racialized violence, and the African diaspora more widely.

September 2020

 * WikiProject: Women in Red: Women writers & their works, September 2020. In September, Women in Red is once again focusing on women writers and their works from around the world. Although we welcome the creation of articles on any of the notable women writers around the world, we would like to include some of those associated in one way or another with World War II, It has also been suggested we should give attention to those involved in TV or radio and to those from non-English speaking countries whose works have been translated into English or have led to films distributed around the world.

October 2020

 * The AfroCine Project invites you to join us again this October and November, the two months which are dedicated to improving content about the cinema of Africa, the Caribbean, and the diaspora.(awarding prizes to different categories of winners:)

December 2020

 * Women in Red editing drive, BLM/Anti-discrimination, July – December 2020. From July to December 2020, as a result of the rapid development of interest in Black Lives Matter (BLM) and anti-discrimination, we have decided to embark on an editathon over an extended period. It complements WikiProject Black Lives Matter's June, July, and August editathons.
 * The virtual edit-a-thon allows enthusiasts from around the globe to participate in the work.
 * The lists of redlinks should provide inspiration.
 * There is a section where you can list the articles you create this month, and another section where you can add the images you uploaded to Commons.
 * This essay on creating women's biographies and our Ten Simple Rules might be helpful to newcomers.
 * This essay on creating women's biographies and our Ten Simple Rules might be helpful to newcomers.

March 2021

 * Help celebrate Women's History Month. This page gathers several events that take place on or around International Women's Day (8 March) and Women's History Month in March 2021, and where the goal is to come closer to closing the gender gap. Take a look at the events that are listed, and sign up! Alternately, do you lack an event to take part in? Solve it the wiki way: organize it yourself! There are many resources you can use, and help to get. See more information at the page.

June 2020

 * WP:The Core Contest is a recurring six-week contest, starting on June 1 in 2021. The purpose is to give a boost to Wikipedia's most important articles, especially those that start out in a bad shape.

July 2021

 * Good Article Nominations backlog drive runs from 1 July 2021, 00:00 (UTC) and ends on 31 July 2021, 23:59 (UTC). This is a monthlog effort to cut the number of outstanding GANs and in particular those which have been in the queue 90 days or more. Awards will be given out to those individuals who do the most work in helping reduce the size of the backlog and reach milestones related to the number, age, and size, of articles reviewed.

June 2022

 * WikiProject Albums' backlog elimination drive is an attempt to reduce Category:Album infoboxes lacking a cover, which currently has 24,000 entries. Participation welcome!
 * The Wikipedia Help Project seeks assistance expanding and improving the Task Center and other pages within the Help namespace. Preceding unsigned comment added by Sdkb (talk • contribs) 7 March 2020 (UTC)
 * WikiProject Zoo - Reviving this, any help is appreciated. -- PaleoMatt (talk) 17:10, 5 September 2021 (UTC)
 * WikiProject Go, announces a new portal for the game of Go. Preceding unsigned comment added by Coastside (talk • contribs) 9 October 2021 (UTC)
 * WikiProject Idaho - Bringing it back to life; maybe the Portal:Idaho also. Mjquinn_id (talk) 20:45, 5 August 2021 (UTC)
 * The Core Contest is a recurring six-week contest. Its purpose is to give a boost to Wikipedia's most important articles, especially those that start out in a bad shape. The 2022 contest ended on 31 May 2022.
 * WikiProject Medicine Collaboration of the Month. Every month, a topic will be selected from this page that will be the focus of editing for some members of WikiProject Medicine. The article may or may not yet exist. Topics may either relate to medical basic sciences (anatomy, biochemistry, and so on), or clinical medicine (illnesses, surgical procedures, and so on).

July 2022

 * WikiProject Women in Red July 2022 Events: Women of the Baltic States.