Misplaced Pages:Community portal

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The Main Page redesign team is proud to present their working draft. They've just begun an open editing session which will last until the 18th; your involvement is both welcome and crucial. There will be a pause to sort through the data, fix bugs, perform tests, et cetera before the final election commences on March 1st. It will put the new draft up against the current Main Page.

Proposals for new projects have been made. See the Community Portal Discussion page to voice your opinions on them

Welcome to the Community Portal!

You can help build Misplaced Pages into a better encyclopedia and wiki community by editing and creating new articles. If you create an account, you can track your changes and more.

See Help for assistance or to ask a question. For news about the site, you can read, and write for, the Misplaced Pages Signpost or see what's going on. The Village pump has a variety of discussions about operations, policies, technical issues, and the concerns of other Wikipedians.

Are you a new Wikipedian looking for help? Come along to the Misplaced Pages Boot Camp for some friendly help.

Contents

» To do
» Active collaborations
» Ongoing projects
» About Misplaced Pages
» Help
» Resources

To do

Do you have a moment to respond to a request for comment?
Can you draw or take pictures? Help make requested images.
Can you use GIS tools? Help make requested maps.
Can you code? Help make a useful bot or update an offline report.
Comment on the wisdom of new bot proposals.
Peer review some articles.
Offer your thoughts and ideas on proposed Misplaced Pages policies.
Can you speak another language? There are articles that need translation into English.
Would you like to respond to more requests?
Proofread a finished translation.

Or...

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's probably listed at Misplaced Pages:Maintenance.

Active collaborations

In order to improve the quality of articles which are short or lacking in detail, Misplaced Pages's community take part in 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 Aaron Coundley (random unreferenced BLP of the day for 27 Dec 2024 - 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.

Other collaborations

Africa (Template:African-cotw)
Anime (List of English Dubbed Anime)
Australia (Template:ACOTF article)
Biography (Template:Bio-cotw)
Book Club (The Razor's Edge by William Somerset Maugham)
Canada (None)
Cinema ( )
Comics (])
Core topics (working toward release version)
Cricket (Donald Bradman)
European Union (News media in the European Union)
French Translation (fr:Liberté to Freedom)
Football (soccer) (Italy national football team)
Gaming (Misplaced Pages:Gaming Collaboration of the week/current)
Hong Kong (Yuen Woo-ping)
India (none at the moment)

Japan (Current nominations:
The Tale of the Heike
Abe Shinzo)
Latter Day Saint (Helaman)
Leftist Parties and Movements (Socialist Party USA)
Macintosh (Michael Scott (Apple))
Maintenance (have bot-modified external links checked)
Mathematics (Misplaced Pages:Mathematics Collaboration of the Week/current)
Medicine (Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease)
Mexico (Coat of Arms of Mexico)
Poland (])

Science (
The current science collaboration of the month article is: Chemistry
Please help improve this article to featured article quality standards.

Last month's collaboration was European science in the Middle Ages.

To propose future collaborations, please contribute here!

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Singapore (Co-curricular activity)

Spanish Translation (es:Universidad Nacional de La Plata to Universidad Nacional de La Plata)

Texas (Lizzie Velásquez)

United Kingdom (British-Spanish relations)

United States (United States Postal Service)

Ongoing projects

Active Wiki Fixup Projects
AI Cleanup Articles for improvement Article Rescue Squadron Bluelink patrol Broken section links Check Misplaced Pages Cleanup Dead-end pages Disambig pages w/ links Fix common mistakes Free images to Commons Geo-coordinates Missing articles Most-wanted articles Notability Orphaned articles Reliability Requested articles Single editor Spell check Stubsensor Uncategorised articles Unreferenced articles Wikification needed
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WikiProjects are ongoing collaborations to improve articles having to do with a particular subject. Hundreds exist; find one that interests you! There are also many other fine projects listed below.

Active improvement teams:

Community support groups

Ongoing tasks:

About Misplaced Pages

Category-based access to pages about Misplaced Pages

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.