Wikipedia:Community Portal/Redesign/October 2005

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Contents

1 To do
2 Active collaborations
3 Ongoing projects
4 About Wikipedia
5 Help
6 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 Wikipedia policies.
Can you speak another language? There are articles which need translation into English.

Or...

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Here are some tasks you can do:

Wikify: Mor-Taxan, General Placido Vega y Daza, Timothy Morss, Backlog...
Cleanup: Special:Whatlinkshere/Category:Cleanup from July 2005, Albany Movement, Special:Search/Cleanup from July 2005, Backlog...
Stubs: Roy A. Tucker, Santa Cruz de Tenerife (province), Gaafu Dhaalu Atoll, Spectral class, Sportscaster, Krško, More...
Verify: Hipster (1990s subculture), Banu (Arabic), IMBEWU, Al Sharpton, Excitatism, Suzlon Energy, Backlog...
Update: List of United States House committees, Non-Manufacturing Business Activity Index, Armenian Power, SIDPERS, AmBX, More...
Neutrality: Iraqi Security Forces, Kristin Nelson, Adam Beattie, Bobby Bland, Martha Chávez, Jewish Bolshevism, VKB, Backlog...
Copyedit: Kandahar, Pearse Jordan, History of Baku, Aziz Abdul Naji, Chocolate City Records, Teachings of Falun Gong, More...
Merge: Steady state theory, Faculty of Forestry and Geomatics of Université Laval, Univision.com, Military of Iraq, Pi, Backlog...
Style: Sarkar (film), Sting and Lex Luger, Newsbreak Magazine, Production logo, Peer exchange, More...
Expand: Sri Padmanabhaswamy temple, The Curse of Yig (short story), Erotica, Harivamsa, More...
Requests: Lam ploen, Amenable set, Literature by region, Top-coded, Nattura, Bidding function, Transient evidence More...
Mediation Cabal: Robert Gray, Joie de Vivre, anarchy battlefield, Almeda University, Global warming, More...
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.

Active collaborations

In order to improve the quality of articles which are short or lacking in detail, Wikipedia's community take part in collaborations to expand articles. The two main collaborations are:

Collaboration of the week

Currently working on Lee Smith (baseball).

Article improvement drive

Currently working on NASA.

Other collaborations include:

Africa (Ashanti)
Australia (Australia and the United Nations)
Biography (Henry the Navigator)
Book Club (The Razor's Edge by William Somerset Maugham)
Canada (None)
Cinema (Casino Royale (2006 film))
Comics ([[Marvel Comics]])
Computer and video games (SunDog: Frozen Legacy)
Cricket (Donald Bradman)
Football (soccer) (Wembley Stadium)
Gaming (Kirby Super Star)
Hong Kong (Yuen Woo-ping)
India (Indian art)
Japan (Current nominations:
The Tale of the Heike
Abe Shinzo)
Latter Day Saint (Helaman)
Mathematics (False discovery rate)
Medicine (Blood pressure)
Poland ([[Culture of Poland]])
Science (Oxygen)
Spanish Translation of the Week (Capernaum, translated from Cafarnaúm Cafarnaúm)
Texas (Strand National Historic Landmark District)
United Kingdom (British-Spanish relations)
United States (Shreveport, Louisiana)
Unusual (Nihilartikel)

Ongoing projects

Active Wiki Fixup Projects
Dead-end pages Most wanted stubs Most wanted articles Missing articles Stubsensor Uncategorised articles Orphaned articles Wikification needed Orphaned talk pages Disambig pages w/ links Linkrot Transwiki log cleanup
Main - Inactive - Mini

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 Wikipedia

Category-based access to pages about Wikipedia

The links below lead to the main community pages of the 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 textbooks.
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.
Commons –	Repository for free images and other media files.