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Contents:
1 Community bulletin board
2 To do lists
3 Collaborations
4 Help and Resources

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

See the help page for assistance, or ask a question.

The Village pumps are Misplaced Pages's discussion forums, covering:

(News, Policy, Technical, Proposals, Assistance, Miscellaneous)

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.

• Dashboard
• News
• Task Center
• Goings-on
• Meetups
• In the media
• Mailing lists

Yearly or infrequent events

• The 2024 Developing Countries WikiContest is an editing competition with a focus towards developing countries. It will begin on July 1st and signups will close on July 15th. Sign up now!
• Want to help good articles get better? Sign up for the October Good Article backlog drive! New and experienced reviewers welcome.

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 drive. The January 2025 backlog drive is a one-month-long effort by the Guild of Copy Editors to reduce the backlog of articles that require copy editing: those carrying the {{copy edit}} tag (also {{awkward}}, {{copy edit section}}, {{inappropriate person}}, and {{copy edit inline}}, and their redirects) or are listed on the GOCE Requests page. It began on 1 January, 00:00 (UTC), and will end on 31 January, 23:59 (UTC).
• Misplaced Pages:WikiProject Women in Red 2024 Events:

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 Outlines news:
  • New outlines:
    • Outline of Leeds
    • Outline of Glasgow
  • Another outline has made it to Featured List status:
    • Outline of the Marvel Cinematic Universe
  • The following outline covers an ongoing situation, please help keep it updated:
    • Outline of the Russo-Ukrainian War
  • Outline drafts recently moved to article space (thank you!):
    • Outline of George Washington
  • Outline drafts nearing completion include:
    • Draft:Outline of Delhi
  • New outline drafts:
    • Draft:Outline of the Kennedy family
  • The Outline of the week is Outline of artificial intelligence.
  • Please help improve them. —The Transhumanist 00:36, 5 September 2024 (UTC)

• We're trying to revive Misplaced Pages:WikiProject Geocaching! If you're a Geocacher and want to improve the quality of the Geocaching related articles, sign up now! Lordseriouspig 20:12, 1 August 2024 (UTC)
• We are looking to revive Task Force Philippine History and are looking for interested editors! Sign-up now! NyanThousand (talk) 15:45, 28 July 2024 (UTC)
• WP Unreferenced articles is trying to clear the decades-long backlog of unreferenced articles. The backlog recently reached under 90,000. Come contribute! — PerfectSoundWhatever (t; c) 17:04, 4 July 2024 (UTC)

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

• Biographies
• Economy and trade
• History and geography
• Language and linguistics
• Media, the arts, and architecture
• Politics, government, and law
• Religion and philosophy
• Science and mathematics
• Society, sports, and culture
• Misplaced Pages policies and guidelines
• Misplaced Pages style and naming
• WikiProjects and collaborations
• Misplaced Pages technical issues and templates
• Misplaced Pages proposals
• Unsorted

• Refining the administrator elections process
• Blocks for promotional activity outside of mainspace
• Voluntary RfAs after resignation
• Proposed rewrite of WP:BITE
• LLM/chatbot comments in discussions

24 December 2024
News and notes: Responsibilities and liabilities as a "Very Large Online Platform" Op-ed: Beeblebrox on Wikipediocracy, the Committee, and everything Opinion: Graham87 on being the first-ever administrator recall subject In the media: Delhi High Court considers Caravan and Ken for evaluating the ANI vs. WMF case From the archives: Where to draw the line in reporting? Recent research: "Misplaced Pages editors are quite prosocial", but those motivated by "social image" may put quantity over quality Humour: Backlash over Santa Claus' Misplaced Pages article intensifies Gallery: A feast of holidays and carols Traffic report: Was a long and dark December
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To do lists

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

Things to do

• Help update to the new references format?
• 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.
• Let SuggestBot suggest pages for you to edit.

Fix-up projects

Active improvement teams

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.)

• Valentino Rossi
• List of analog television stations in the Philippines
• Bhumij rebellion
• 2025 January Southern Winter Storm

• History of the Islamic Republic of Iran
• Edgar Street Grid
• Second Congo War
• Tupolev Tu-154
• Sofía Vergara

• Before Your Very Eyes
• Colour Blind (play)
• Hell Hath No Fury Like a Woman Scorned
• Nine Suitcases (play)
• Happiness (play)

• Bell Pottinger
• China–Palestine relations
• Skyfall
• Neoliberalism
• Debbie Gibson

• Functional decomposition
• Air-ground radiotelephone service
• Alias Smith and Jones
• Syllogism
• William Stephenson

• List of members of the third Volkskammer
• Ken MacLeod
• Gunvalkyrie
• San Mateo station
• Nathan Connolly

• Najafgarh Lake
• Northern Crossing (shopping mall)
• National Zoo & Aquarium
• National Library of Guyana
• Namık Kemal House Museum, Tekirdağ

• Giancarlo Vallauri
• Palazzo di Spagna
• Julia Wieniawa
• ASD Forza e Coraggio
• Gabriela Pizarro

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's probably listed at Misplaced Pages:Maintenance.

Collaborations

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

Collaboration of the week

Help edit Lee Smith (baseball), Misplaced Pages's current collaboration of the week! Please help to bring it up to featured article standard.

Lee Arthur Smith (born December 4, 1957 in Shreveport, Louisiana) was a pitcher in Major Leagues. Smith played for eight teams in both the NL and AL in his 18-year career, beginning with the Cubs in 1980. Smith led the league in saves four times during his career and by the time of his retirement in 1997 (with the Expos), he was the all-time leader with 478 saves. Smith used his fastball and size (he stood 6'6") to intimidate batters during the late innings of the game and became one of the premier closers of the 1980's and early 1990's.

You can still help with last week's article, Textile (see improvements), or help pick next week's article.

Article Collaboration and Improvement Drive

The Article Collaboration and Improvement Drive works on an article that needs a lot of help to reach featured-article standard. The subject of this week's article improvement drive is Łukasz Zbonikowski (random unreferenced BLP of the day for 11 Jan 2025 - provided by User:AnomieBOT/RandomPage via WP:RANDUNREF):

Aang is a fictional character and the main protagonist for Nickelodeon's animated television series Avatar: The Last Airbender, which was created by Michael Dante DiMartino and Bryan Konietzko. He is voiced by Zach Tyler Eisen.

Twelve-year-old Aang is the last surviving Airbender, a monk of the Air Nomads' Southern Air Temple, and is a supercentenarian at the incarnation age of 112. He is the current incarnation of the Avatar, the spirit of the planet manifested in human form. Aang, as the Avatar, controls the elements and is tasked with keeping the Four Nations at peace.

Aang is the series' reluctant hero and comic, spending a century in suspended animation before joining new friends Katara and Sokka on a quest to master the elements and save their world from the war-hungry imperialist Fire Nation.

You can still help with last week's article, World War I, or help pick next week's article.

Good Article Collaboration of the week

The Good Article Collaboration of the week works to polish already good articles to the highest of standards.

This week's improvement drive is Elvis Presley:

Elvis Aaron Presley began his career as one of the first performers of rockabilly, an uptempo fusion of country and rhythm and blues with a strong back beat. His novel versions of existing songs, mixing "black" and "white" sounds, made him popular—and controversial—as did his uninhibited stage and television performances. He recorded songs in the rock and roll genre, with tracks like "Hound Dog" and "Jailhouse Rock" later embodying the style. Presley had a versatile voice and had unusually wide success encompassing other genres, including gospel, blues, ballads and pop. To date, he is the only performer to have been inducted into four separate music halls of fame.

You can still help pick next week's article.

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.

Guidelines, Help, and Resources

Misplaced Pages has hundreds of departments manned by a small army of volunteers. Here are some on the most general; for more specific departments, see the appropriate page.

Help

• Misplaced Pages help - Browse help pages
• Where to ask questions

Editing

• The Manual of Style guidelines and tutorial
• How to edit a page
• Contributing
• How to improve articles
• How to write a great article
• Where to find information for articles
• List of basic topic lists
• A list of template messages
• The list of images that have been uploaded to Misplaced Pages
• What special pages are
• Tools for editing
• Request newspapers or magazines

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

Article standards

Working with others

Resources

New user information

Welcome! · New user tutorial · Sandbox · Help · New user log · What Misplaced Pages is not · Glossary · Account benefits

Ways to communicate

Contact (overview) · Discussion pages · Mailing lists · IRC chat · Instant Messaging · Meetups · User pages · Surveys · Public watchlists · Regional notice boards · Administrators' noticeboard

Community support groups and programs

Welcoming committee · Members' Advocates · Esperanza · Kindness Campaign · Misplaced Pages awards program · Dept. of Fun

Common Procedures

Featured content · Deleting a page (full policy) · Moving a page (naming policies) · Protecting a page (full policy) · Reverting a page · Administrator nominations · Category-based access

How to resolve conflicts

Stay cool! · Be nice to newcomers · Alert others · Request assistance from a members' advocate · Dispute resolution · Arbitration policy

Community information

About Misplaced Pages · About Wikimedia · Wikipedians · Donations · Administrators · Babel · Culture · Humor · Games

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Tip of the day

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If you decide that an image does not need a caption, then please follow the advice at Misplaced Pages:Alternative text for images to specify appropriate "alt" text. Alt text should not be a mirror of the caption text. Captions can be added by using the frame or thumb parameter as part of an image tag. For example: ]