Wikipedia:Community portal

Welcome to the Community Portal!

You can help build Wikipedia into a better encyclopedia and wiki community by editing and creating new articles. If you create an account, you can track your changes and more.

See Help for ass or to ask a question. For community news, you can read, and write for, the Wikipedia Signpost or see what's going on. The Village pump has a variety of discussions about operations, policies, technical issues, and the concerns of other Wikipedians.

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 that need translation into English.

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You can help improve the articles listed below! This list updates frequently, so check back here for more tasks to try. (See Wikipedia:Maintenance or the Task Center for further information.)

Fix spelling and grammar

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Fix wikilinks

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Update with new information

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Expand short articles

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Check and add references

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Fix original research issues

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Improve lead sections

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Add an image

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Translate and clean up

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Help counter systemic bias by creating new articles on important women.

Help improve popular pages, especially those of low quality.

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.

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.

Other collaborations

Article improvement drive (Template:IDRIVE-current)
Africa (Wikipedia:African Collaboration of the Week/current)
Australia (Template:ACOTF article)
Biography (Wikipedia:Biography Collaboration of the Week/current)
Book Club (The Razor's Edge by William Somerset Maugham)
Canada (None)
Cinema ( )
Comics ([[Template:COMICSCOTF article]])
Computer and video games (SunDog: Frozen Legacy)
Cricket (Donald Bradman)
European Union (News media in the European Union)
Football (soccer) (Italy national football team)
Gaming (Wikipedia:Gaming Collaboration of the week/current)
Hong Kong (Yuen Woo-ping)
India (none at the moment)
Japan (Current nominations:
The Tale of the Heike
Abe Shinzo)
Latter Day Saint (Helaman)
Leftist Parties and Movements (Socialist Party USA)
Maintenance (have bot-modified external links checked)
Mathematics (Wikipedia:Mathematics Collaboration of the Week/current)
Medicine (Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease)
Mexico (Coat of Arms of Mexico)
Poland ([[Culture of Poland]])

Science (

The current science collaboration of the month article is: Chemistry
Please help improve this article to featured article quality standards.

Last month's collaboration was European science in the Middle Ages.

To propose future collaborations, please contribute here!

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Spanish Translation (Mission of Nuestra Señora de Loreto from: es:Misión de Nuestra Señora de Loreto)

Texas (Lizzie Velásquez)

United Kingdom (British-Spanish relations)

United States (United States Postal Service)

Ongoing projects

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

Here is a list of the main community pages of Wikipedia's sister 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 non-fiction books.
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.
Wikivoyage –	A world-wide travel guide.
Wikidata –	A free knowledge base that can be read and edited by humans and machines alike.
Commons –	Repository for free images and other media files.