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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.

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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 will begin on 1 January, 00:00 (UTC), and end on 31 January, 23:59 (UTC).
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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:
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  • 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 sociology.
  • 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)

• WikiProject Bendigo is currently seeking interested editors to join the project. Lotsw73 (talk) 05:03, 30 January 2024 (UTC)

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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.

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• 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.
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• 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.

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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.

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• Assess articles by quality or by importance - pick a topic of interest and grade according to that WikiProject's scale. (See links from article talk pages.)
• 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 Misplaced Pages.
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• 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.
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• 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.
• Category:Misplaced Pages backlog always needs attention.

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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.)

• Spain under Joseph Bonaparte
• National symbols of North Korea
• Puteri Indonesia 2022
• Hyun Joo-yup
• List of analog television stations in the Philippines

• Yvan Randriasandratriniony
• ISO 7637
• Woot
• Dispensation (Catholic canon law)
• Toronto subway rolling stock

• Charles H. Spencer House
• East Indian Creek Bridge
• Emerson Hough Elementary School
• Le Grand Bridge (1896)
• Nevada Downtown Historic District

• Patrick Wang
• Surbhi Jyoti
• Health in Kenya
• Hassan Saajin
• Renen Schorr

• Zoroastrianism in Iran
• Bowed psaltery
• Nu gaze
• City chicken
• Article 49 of the French Constitution

• R. C. L. Lindsay
• History of Slovakia
• Pliocene flora of Frankfurt am Main
• 329th Fighter-Interceptor Squadron
• Convention People's Party

• Moukoukoulou Dam
• Milligan Street, Perth
• Morning roll
• Mandai Road
• Miami University Hamilton

• The civil war of the Keitai and Kinmei dynasties
• Line S5 (Chengdu Metro)
• Mahoroba (train)
• Battle on the Oreške fields
• Max Müller (Danish army officer)

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Help improve popular pages, especially those of low quality.

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Active improvement teams

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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).

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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.

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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

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Community information

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