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: Don Angell, Sergio Berlioz, Gene Clark, Maravilla, Alhamiri, Backlog...
Cleanup: Tourism in the United States, List of music prodigies, Harry T. Burn, 1990 in association football, Software quality, Purwokerto, Backlog...
Stubs: 1928 in radio, Capitalist Roader, Cable box (outside), CEVNI, Ajeeb, Academic institution, 112, More...
Verify: Language demographics of Quebec, Pirates in popular culture, Angel, Backlog...
Update: British Columbia Highway 99A, Australian Senate, Ansari X Prize, BBC One, Bright House Networks, More...
Neutrality: E. Lee Spence, History of Latinos and Hispanics in the United States, Cod, Jack Dann, Liang-Jie Zhang, Backlog...
Copyedit: Oru Vadakkan Veeragatha, OC Transpo Route 95, Naidu, Sorcerer Hunters, Gienger, More...
Merge: Mendez Middle School, Elgin tablets, Institute of Scientific Instrumentation, Backlog...
Style: Evolution of belief, CD-R, Gladiators (British TV show), Mercer County Park, Henry V (play), More...
Expand: Bone Against Steel, Jed Buchwald, 1593 in music, Dan Balz, 1962 NFL Draft, The Artist at Work, 1975 Minnesota Twins season, 4G, Michael Curry, More...
Requests: Interim efficient, Internal knowledge spillover, Linear pricing schedule, Market power theory of advertising, Metaproduction function, More...
Articles to be split: A Separate Peace, AMV (TV station), Abu Suhail an-Nafi, Adam's Bridge, Afro-Mexican, More...
Mediation Cabal: help mediate an open case!
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 (Murrumbidgee River)
Biography (Wikipedia:Biography Collaboration of the Week/current)
Book Club (The Razor's Edge by William Somerset Maugham)
Canada (None)
Cinema (1960s in film

)

Comics ([[List of comic book superpowers]])
Computer and video games (SunDog: Frozen Legacy)
Cricket (Donald Bradman)
Football (soccer) (Italy national football team)
Gaming (N/A)
Hong Kong (Yuen Woo-ping)
India (Air India)
Japan (Current nominations:
The Tale of the Heike
Abe Shinzo)
Latter Day Saint (Helaman)
Mathematics (Wikipedia:Mathematics Collaboration of the Week/current)
Medicine (Ascending cholangitis)
Poland ([[Culture of Poland]])
Science (Carbon)
Spanish Translation of the Week (Capernaum, translated from Cafarnaúm Cafarnaúm)
Texas (Marshall, Texas)
United Kingdom (British-Spanish relations)
United States (United States)
Unusual (Nihilartikel)

Ongoing projects

Active Wiki Fixup Projects
Wikification needed Dead-end pages Most wanted stubs Most wanted articles Missing articles Disambig pages w/ links Templates w/ red links Red Link Recovery Unreferenced articles Geo-coordinates Uncategorised articles Orphaned articles 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.