Wikipedia:Community portal/Redesign/Draft1a

The Community Portal is the central place to find out what's happening on Wikipedia. Learn what tasks need to be done, and get or post news about recent events or current activities.


 * For help on reading and editing Wikipedia see the Help menu.
 * For technical discussions, assistance, policy, proposals and other news see the Village pump - Wikipedia's discussion forum.

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Things to do
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 * Respond to a request for comment.
 * Can you draw or take pictures? Make a requested image.
 * Peer review or assess some articles, especially those recently revised.
 * Offer your thoughts and ideas on proposed policies.
 * Can you use GIS tools? Help make requested maps.
 * Can you speak another language? There are articles that need translation into English.
 * Would you like to respond to more requests?
 * Comment on the wisdom of new bot proposals.
 * Can you code? Code a useful bot or update an offline report.
 * Proofread a finished translation.
 * Become a Wikipedia tipster
 * Let a bot suggest pages for you to edit

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


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New featured content

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Collaborations In order to improve the quality of articles which are short or lacking in detail, Wikipedia's community takes part in collaborations to expand articles.




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Policies and guidelines Wikipedia has many established policies, guidelines, conventions, and traditions. This is a very brief sampling of some of the most important.




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Working with others

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Article standards

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Wikipedia by department Wikipedia has hundreds of unique departments, each maintaining a certain subject, or a template, or resolving disputes. Here is a list of many of these groups.




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Information: About Wikipedia
Welcome! · New user tutorial · New user log · Sandbox · What Wikipedia is not · Wikipedians · Glossary · Donations

Account settings and maintenance · Getting in touch


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 Editorial departments Articles are contributed and edited directly by users. All Wikipedians belong to the editorial team.
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WikiProjects
WikiProjects are ongoing collaborations to improve articles having to do with a particular subject. Hundreds exist &mdash; to find one that interests you, click here. Wikipedia's general projects are listed here.

General maintenance

 * Cleaning department
 * Counter vandalism unit

Active improvement teams

 * Categorization projects
 * Cleanup Taskforce
 * Version 1.0 Editorial Team
 * Forum for Encyclopedic Standards
 * WikiProject Countering systemic bias


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Fix-up projects
Article Categorization Bad category names Blank pages Bad links Dead-end pages Disambig pages w/ links Duplicated sections Elements of Style Linkrot Orphaned categories Punctuation Missing articles Most wanted articles Most wanted stubs Neglected articles Shortpages Stub sorting Syntax Project Templates with red links Transwiki log cleanup Typos Untagged Images Untagged stubs Commons:Untagged img User categorisation
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Deletion departments

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Help departments

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Community support groups and programs

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Dispute resolution departments

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Main Page departments

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Related communities
Wikipedia is hosted by the Wikimedia Foundation, a non-profit organization that also hosts a range of other multilingual and free-content projects. Here are the links to their main community pages:

Wiktionary Dictionary and thesaurus Wikibooks Free textbooks and manuals Wikinews Free-content news Wikisource Free-content library Wikispecies Directory of species Wikiquote Collection of quotations Commons Shared media repository Meta-Wiki Wikimedia project coordination About Wikimedia · Other Wikipedia languages · Multilingual portal · Wikimedia goings-on
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