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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.
- Good article candidates continues to have a large backlog (approximately 150 articles!). Although Good Articles has just reached a new milestone with its 2,000th article, reviewers are still needed to help eliminate the backlog. If you are new to reviewing, see the GA criteria and the instructions on the candidates page. If just a hundred reviewers look at one article each, the backlog can quickly be eliminated and allow for a smaller time period in waiting for articles to be reviewed. Any assistance is appreciated!
- 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.
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- 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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Tip of the day
Wikipedia-specific Google searchbox
The default Wikipedia search engine can be slow and unreliable. Luckily, alternatives are available, such as a customized Google searchbox, already preset to search Wikipedia: [1]
Cut and paste it to your Userpage, or click on it, and save it as a button on your browser's toolbar.
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Things to do
Or...
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...
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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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New featured content
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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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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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Collaborations by topic
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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.
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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.
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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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Working with others
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Article standards
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