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Hi! This isn't the alter ego of Wall-E (Waste Allocation Lift Loader, Earth-Class). But his best friend! Hi! This isn't the alter ego of Wall-E (Waste Allocation Lift Loader, Earth-Class). But his best friend!

I've given a mirror image of our Community portal below; as I'm still learning how to work out different things out here... Cheers :-)
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* Help with an aspect of Misplaced Pages: ''see the ''']''' for documentation, or ''']''' for assistance.''
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* A place to discuss things with other users: ''the ''']''' is Misplaced Pages's main discussion forum.''
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Revision as of 05:44, 21 October 2009

Hi! This isn't the alter ego of Wall-E (Waste Allocation Lift Loader, Earth-Class). But his best friend!

I've given a mirror image of our Community portal below; as I'm still learning how to work out different things out here... Cheers :-)

Community portal
Contents

1 Community bulletin board
2 Help out
3 Collaborations
4 Guidelines, help & resources

Community portal

Welcome to the community portal. This is the place to find out what is happening on Misplaced Pages. 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 Misplaced Pages. You might be looking for...
  • Help with an aspect of Misplaced Pages: see the help page for documentation, or ask a question for assistance.
  • Answers for questions about factual topics: please visit Misplaced Pages's reference desk.
  • A place to discuss things with other users: the village pump is Misplaced Pages's main discussion forum.
  • A place to resolve disputes: for content disputes, follow the guidelines on this page.

Post your Misplaced Pages-related news or announcement here »

Community bulletin board

How to add to the community bulletin board
The community bulletin board has 2 sections that can be used by Wikipedians for announcements: "Events and projects" and "WikiProject notices". In general, keep it concise (under 2 lines), refrain from fancy formatting, and new entries should be placed at the top of their section.
  • Before editing, make sure you are on Misplaced Pages:Community bulletin board, not Misplaced Pages:Community portal, where the board is transcluded.
  • Events and projects: In this section, only organized events, projects, and/or competitions should be listed. These are organized by how often they occur:
    • The Yearly section is for uncommon events, like events that only occur every year, once, or irregularly. The Monthly section is for events that occur each month, or are always ongoing.
  • WikiProject notices: In this section, any announcement, request for help or other notice from a WikiProject should be listed here.
    • Entries should be signed, and ordered from newest to oldest.
    • Entries are to be removed after a period of 6 months.

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

Yearly or infrequent events

Monthly or continuous events

Recently completed: Asian women Geofocus: Islands Q–Z Women in engineering
New this month: Women who died: 2024 Religion
Ongoing initiatives: #1day1woman Education
Upcoming events: Music #1day1woman Alphabet run: A & B Internet personalities Ideas


Meetups for December 2024 +/-
Christchurch 34 December 1, 2024 (2024-12-01)
BLT Antenna New Orleans December 7, 2024 (2024-12-07)
Haitian Creole NYC December 8, 2024 (2024-12-08)
London 211 December 8, 2024 (2024-12-08)
Chicago December 2024 December 14, 2024 (2024-12-14)
Perth 85 December 15, 2024 (2024-12-15)
San Diego 117 December 16, 2024 (2024-12-16)
Seattle meetup December 17, 2024 (2024-12-17)


Meetups for January 2025 +/-
Misplaced Pages Day Seattle January 11, 2025 (2025-01-11)
London 212 January 12, 2025 (2025-01-12)
Misplaced Pages Day Minnesota January 15, 2025 (2025-01-15)
Exeter 2 January 18, 2025 (2025-01-18)
Misplaced Pages Day Toronto January 19, 2025 (2025-01-19)
Edinburgh 19 January 25, 2025 (2025-01-25)
Misplaced Pages Day NYC January 25, 2025 (2025-01-25)
Brixton 6 January 27, 2025 (2025-01-27)
WikiProject notices

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.

Technical news This section is transcluded from Misplaced Pages:Tech news. (edit | history)

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

  • Interested in improving event management on your home wiki? The CampaignEvents extension offers organizers features like event registration management, event/wikiproject promotion, finding potential participants, and more - all directly on-wiki. If you are an organizer or think your community would benefit from this extension, start a discussion to enable it on your wiki today. To learn more about how to enable this extension on your wiki, visit the deployment status page.

Updates for editors

  • Users of the iOS Misplaced Pages App in Italy and Mexico on the Italian, Spanish, and English Wikipedias, can see a personalized Year in Review with insights based on their reading and editing history.
  • Users of the Android Misplaced Pages App in Sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia can see the new Rabbit Holes feature. This feature shows a suggested search term in the Search bar based on the current article being viewed, and a suggested reading list generated from the user’s last two visited articles.
  • The global reminder bot is now active and running on nearly 800 wikis. This service reminds most users holding temporary rights when they are about to expire, so that they can renew should they want to. See the technical details page for more information.
  • The next issue of Tech News will be sent out on 13 January 2025 because of the end of year holidays. Thank you to all of the translators, and people who submitted content or feedback, this year.
  • Recurrent item View all 27 community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week. For example, a bug was fixed in the Android Misplaced Pages App which had caused translatable SVG images to show the wrong language when they were tapped.

Updates for technical contributors

  • There is no new MediaWiki version next week. The next deployments will start on 14 January.

Tech news prepared by Tech News writers and posted by bot • Contribute • Translate • Get help • Give feedback • Subscribe or unsubscribe.

Requests for comment

Discussions in the following areas have requested wider attention via Requests for comment:

General notices
The Signpost
24 December 2024

Help out

Misplaced Pages is, by number of articles, the largest encyclopedia ever to exist. However, many articles are stubs, or otherwise need attention. If you like, go ahead, be bold, and jump right in. If you are not ready to fly solo, you can participate in a Collaboration.

Things to do

Fix-up projects

Open tasks

You can help improve the articles listed below! This list updates frequently, so check back here for more tasks to try. (See Misplaced Pages:Maintenance or the Task Center for further information.)

Fix spelling and grammar None More... • Learn how Fix wikilinks More... • Learn how Update with new information More... • Learn how Expand short articles More... • Learn how Check and add references More... • Learn how Fix original research issues More... • Learn how Improve lead sections More... • Learn how Add an image More... • Learn how Translate and clean up More... • Learn how

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

Help improve popular pages, especially those of low quality.

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

Purge

Collaborations

To improve the quality of articles that are short or lacking in detail, Misplaced Pages's community organizes collaborations to expand articles.

Collaborations
Articles
Science and technology
Miscellaneous

Other collaborations

Active improvement teams

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.

Language translation

Misplaced Pages is not just in English. Versions exist in many different languages. To fill in some of the English Misplaced Pages'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).

Gift shop

Share ideas of logos or other Misplaced Pages motifs to be used on clothing or for other purposes in Misplaced Pages merchandise.

Guidelines, help & resources

Misplaced Pages has many help pages, policies, and departments. Here are some of the most general. For a comprehensive list of Misplaced Pages's departments, see the Misplaced Pages department directory.

Help

Editing

Policies and guidelines

Misplaced Pages 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.

Article standards

Be bold! WP:BB • WP:BOLD
Citing sources WP:CITE • WP:REF
Copyrights WP:C
Editing WP:EP
External links WP:EL
Image use WP:IUP
Include only verifiable information WP:V
Manual of Style WP:MOS • WP:STYLE
Neutral point of view WP:NPOV  • WP:NEU
What Misplaced Pages is not WP:WWIN • WP:NOT

Working with others

Assume good faith WP:AGF • WP:FAITH
Avoid instruction creep WP:CREEP
Civility and etiquette WP:CIV • WP:EQ
Consensus WP:CON
Do not bite the newcomers WP:BITE
Do not disrupt Misplaced Pages to illustrate a point WP:POINT
No personal attacks WP:NPA • WP:ATTACK
Resolving disputes WP:DR
Vandalism WP:VAND

Resources

New user information

Introduction · Sandbox · Help · Adoption · What Misplaced Pages is not · Glossary · Account benefits · Planning school assignments

Ways to communicate

Contact (overview) · Discussion pages · Mailing lists · IRC chat · Meetups · User pages · Requests for comment · Public watchlists · Regional notice boards · Administrators' noticeboard · Requests for article feedback · Local Embassy

Community support groups and programs

Welcoming committee · Editor assistance · Wiki-adoption · Birthday Committee · Harmonious editing club · Kindness Campaign · Reach out · Misplaced Pages awards program · Dept. of Fun · One featured article per quarter · Missing encyclopedic articles

Common procedures

Featured content · Good articles · Requests for feedback · Deleting a page (full policy) · Moving a page (naming policies) · Protecting a page (full policy) · Reverting a page · Administrator nominations (summaries) · Category-based access

How to resolve conflicts

Stay cool! · Be nice to newcomers · Alert others · Dispute resolution · Arbitration policy

Community information

About Misplaced Pages · Goings-on · About Wikimedia · Wikipedians · Wiki-adoption · Donations · Administrators · Babel · Culture · Games · Humor · Mottoes

Related communities

Here is a list of the main community pages of Misplaced Pages's sister projects.
All of these projects are multilingual and open-content.
Meta-Wiki – Coordination of all Wikimedia projects.
Wiktionary – A collaborative multilingual dictionary.
Wikinews – News stories written by readers.
Wikibooks – A collection of collaborative non-fiction books.
Wikiquote – A compendium of referenced quotations.
Wikisource – A repository for free source texts.
Wikispecies – A directory of species.
Wikiversity – Where teachers learn, and learners teach.
Wikivoyage – A world-wide travel guide.
Wikidata – A free knowledge base that can be read and
edited by humans and machines alike.
Commons – Repository for free images and other media files.

Tip of the day

If you have privileged access to web pages...

The "perfect" Misplaced Pages article is built on solid research (remember to cite your sources). Contrary to popular belief, not all information is available for free on the Internet. Some research is only published in scientific journals and books (ask your library for remote lending services); some material is available only in commercial, password-protected electronic databases. If you have access to useful research material, please add the relevant information to Misplaced Pages:WikiProject Resource Exchange, a central portal to find Wikipedians with access to such resources. Remember we can only use facts from sources such as these, not a particular copyrighted expression thereof.

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