[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 to 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.
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See also
Wikizine · In the media · News · Announcements · Press releases · E-mail list summary service
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[edit] Tip of the day
Automating tasks on Wikipedia
Uploading hundreds of files or changing thousands of pages can be tedious. We allow limited automation unless it interferes with normal systems operations. You always can grab your favorite scripting language and write a bot, but there's no need to reinvent the wheel: take a look at PyWikipediaBot, a quite complex automation framework for Wikipedia. If you are more into Perl, libwww-perl is a very useful library for automating web tasks. If you have tested your bot and intend to run it over a longer period of time, please get in touch with the developers first (preferably using the wikitech-l mailing list). We then can register your bot, so it can be hidden from the list of recent changes.
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[edit] Things to do
Or...
Here are some tasks you can do:
- Wikify: Active safety, Barbara 'Baz' Wilder, Grayed out, Quarter Midget racing, Vaid, Center for Arms Control and Non-Proliferation, Tape baking Backlog...
- Cleanup: Wild Jimmy Spruill, Sigrid D. Peyerimhoff, Silver Springs, Ocala and Gulf Railroad, Politics of Manchukuo, Backlog...
- Stubs: Sportscaster, Member of the Scottish Parliament, Continental Europe, City of license, Marche, Aube, Brig, More...
- Verify: Badr Bin Muhammad Bin Abdullah Bin Jalawi al-Saud, Nihilism, Chiminea, Endowment tax, Gerrus, Backlog...
- Update: Labour and Social Justice Party, First Battalion, Abdul Razzaq, Liberalisterne, 2005-2006 Thai political crisis, More...
- Neutral Point of View (NPOV): Katherine Albrecht, Production car racing, Axis of evil, Outcome-based education, Modern Taiwanese Language, Backlog...
- Copyedit: Workflow recovery, Paul Abbott, Vanda Miss Joaquim, Necessary and sufficient conditions, Kildare GAA, Samsun, More...
- Merge: Jang Keum-song, Mechagodzilla, Joseph Bismuth, Gain (detergent), Blue Cross and Blue Shield Association, Backlog...
- Style: Royal Doulton, JS Clayden, WKT Sealant, Tannirubhavi Beach, Ash Comic Convention, ENKA Schools, BibliOZ, More...
- Expand: Craig Morgan (album), APXS, Dysentery, University of Calgary, Chandpur District, More...
- Requests: Magic Edge, Harrod-neutral, Interior solution, Charlse S. Wright, Pasillo, Merengue tipico cibaeno, SVAR, More...
- Mediation Cabal: Mitrokhin Archive, false attribution, LaRouche intro, Alan Oakley, Metropolis Magazine, Second Life, More...
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Cleanup backlogs - Review recent overhauls - Active fixup projects - Maintenance projects - Maintenance COTW: be merged
Not sure where to report a certain type of problem with article content? If it exists, it's probably listed at Wikipedia:Maintenance.
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[edit] New featured content
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Articles recently awarded "featured" status
Lists recently awarded "featured" status
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Portals recently awarded "featured" status
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[edit] Collaborations
In order to improve the quality of articles which are short or lacking in detail, Wikipedia's community takes part in collaborations to expand articles.
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[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.
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[edit] Collaborations by topic
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[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.
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[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.
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[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.
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[edit] Working with others
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[edit] Article standards
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