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

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30 March 2007 –Episode 16
Jimbo apologizes
Jimbo apologizes in The New Yorker for Essjay. Other topics include: web 3.0, Wikimania preparations, gaming.wikia, vuguru and Lewis Carol's Jabberwocky

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  • Community enforceable mediation has entered a 90 day experimental phase. This new dispute resolution option allows editors to resolve conflicts with binding agreements. To request a case visit this page.
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  • WikiProject Vandalism studies has completed Study 1 that analyzed 100 random articles' total 668 edits during the months of November 2004, 2005, and 2006. The salient findings suggest that in a given month approximately 5% of edits are vandalism and 97% of that vandalism is done by anonymous editors. Further discussion is happening for Study 1 and Study 2 is being planned out right now.
  • An essay, Wikipedia:We aren't Citizendium, has been written in response to a recent blog post by Larry Sanger. Please make appropriate changes and place feedback on the talk page.
  • Messedrocker's Contest, which is centered around the improvement of articles to Good Article status, has begun.
  • Following statements by Jimbo Wales, there is a new discussion about whether there was a consensus to merge Wikipedia:Verifiability and Wikipedia:No original research into Wikipedia:Attribution.
  • The new lesson at the Virtual classroom is Yuser, on fighting linkspam.

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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.

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Collaborations

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

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.

Article Creation and Improvement Drive

The Article Creation 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 Winston Churchill:

Sir Winston Leonard Spencer-Churchill, KG, OM, CH, TD, FRS, PC (Can) (30 November 1874 – 24 January 1965) was an English statesman, soldier, and author, best known as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom during the Second World War. Well-known as an orator, strategist, and politician, Churchill was one of the most important leaders in modern British and world history. He won the 1953 Nobel Prize in Literature for his many books on English and world history. Sir Winston Churchill was voted the greatest-ever Briton in the 2002 BBC poll the 100 Greatest Britons.

You can still help with last week's article, Vladimir Lenin, 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 Massively multiplayer online role-playing game:

MMORPG (Massively Multiplayer Online Role-Playing Game) is a genre of online computer role-playing games (RPGs) in which a large number of players interact with one another in a virtual world. As in all RPGs, players assume the role of a fictional character (most commonly in a fantasy setting) and take control over many of that character's actions. MMORPGs are distinguished from single-player or small multi-player RPGs by the number of players, and by the game's persistent world, usually hosted by the game's publisher, which continues to exist and evolve while the player is away from the game.

MMORPGs are very popular throughout the world, with combined global memberships in subscription and non-subscription games exceeding 15 million as of 2006. Worldwide revenues for MMORPGs exceeded half a billion dollars in 2005, and Western revenues exceeded $1bn in 2006.

You can still help pick next week's article.

Collaborations by topic

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No original research WP:NOR
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Don't bite the newcomers WP:BITE
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