Wikipedia:Community Portal/Redesign/Draft2a

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Contents:

1 Community bulletin board
2 To do lists
3 Collaborations
4 Editorial departments

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WikipediaWeekly
11 December 2006 – Episode 9
New board members

New board members Oscar, Mindspillage and Jan Bart; Stable versions; Google Earth; NYC meetup; Cultural moment via Wikisource

[edit] Notices

  • The new translation project has been launched. Please sign up if contributing by translating interests you. Any comments, questions or reports of bugs should be posted on the project's talkpage.
  • The Physics article has been undergoing an (arduous) review. Editors involved in the process now have (after much discussion) three lead section proposals. A request for votes from the wikipedia community is now required to gain a broader base of opinion on what the lead section of the Physics article should be. Voting page and lead proposal links are located here, votes and comments welcomed.
  • The Graphics Lab has just been set up. Based on its successful French counterpart, the Graphics Lab is a place for users propose images for clean-up and request the creation of SVG maps and diagrams. Everything is in place now, but there is an urgent need of users who can clean up photos, create SVG diagrams and maps!
  • The new topic of discussion at the Virtual Classroom is Budgiekiller, on vandalism. Both questions and answers are welcome.
  • A proposal for a new policy designed to replace the current vandalism warning policy has been started by Azer Red.

[edit] New project pages seeking contributors

WikiProjects Portals and Collaborations

See also

Wikizine · In the media · News · Announcements · Press releases · E-mail list summary service


To do lists

Wikipedia 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.

[edit] Things to do

[edit] 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
User categorisation

[edit] Active improvement teams
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Here are some tasks you can do:

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


Collaborations

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

[edit] Collaboration of the week

Help edit Lee Smith (baseball), Wikipedia'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.

[edit] Article Creation and Improvement Drive

The Article Creation and Improvement Drive works on an article that needs a lot of help before reaching featured-article standard. The subject of this week's article improvement drive is Death:

"Death is the end of life"(Srikanth Kadiyala). Death, the full cessation of vital functions in a biological organism. It is generally considered a permanent state in the field of biology, and all living things eventually die, whether through natural causes such as disease, or unnatural ones such as accident.

You can still help with last week's article, Cactus, or help pick next week's article.

[edit] Good Article Collaboration of the week

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

This week's improvement drive is Photosynthetic reaction centre

A photosynthetic reaction centre is a protein that is the site of the light reactions of photosynthesis. The reaction centre contains pigments such as chlorophyll and phaeophytin. These absorb light, promoting an electron to a higher energy level within the pigment. The free energy created is used to reduce an electron acceptor and is critical for the production of chemical energy during photosynthesis.

You can still help pick next week's article.

[edit] Collaborations by topic

[edit] 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.


Editorial departments

Wikipedia 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.

[edit] Help

[edit] Editing

[edit] Policies and guidelines

Wikipedia 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.

[edit] 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 · WP:VERIFY
Manual of Style WP:MOS · WP:STYLE
Neutral point of view WP:NPOV
No original research WP:NOR
What Wikipedia is not WP:WWIN · WP:NOT

[edit] Working with others

Assume good faith WP:AGF · WP:FAITH
Civility and etiquette WP:CIV and WP:EQ
Don't bite the newcomers WP:BITE
Don't disrupt Wikipedia to illustrate a point WP:POINT
No personal attacks WP:NPA · WP:ATTACK
Resolving disputes WP:DR
Vandalism WP:VAND

[edit] Resources

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Related communities

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Wikiversity – Where teachers learn, and learners teach.
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