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Community bulletin board
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Welcome to the community bulletin board, which is a page used for announcements from WikiProjects and other groups. Included here are coordinated efforts, events, projects, and other general announcements.
Yearly or infrequent events
- Want to help good articles get better? Sign up for the June Good Article backlog drive! New and experienced reviewers welcome.
Monthly or continuous events
- Monthly contest, WikiProject Military history. The contest department of the Military history WikiProject aims to motivate increased quality in military history articles by offering a form of friendly competition for project members making improvements to them. The primary contest available is a simple rolling competition that awards points for improving articles. The contest runs from the first to last day of each month.
- Guild of Copy Editors: blitz. The June 2026 editing blitz was a one-week-long effort by the Guild of Copy Editors to reduce its backlog. The themes were: all articles on the GOCE Requests page, and articles on the backlog from December 2024, and from January and February 2025. It began on 14 June, 00:00 (UTC), and ended on 20 June, 23:59 (UTC). Stay tuned for the next event.
- Wikipedia:WikiProject Women in Red 2025 Events:
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| London, Ontario | June 9, 2026 |
| SF Bay Area Wikisalon: Wiki x AI |
June 11, 2026 |
| Portland, Oregon | June 13, 2026 |
| San Diego 135 | June 13, 2026 |
| SF Bay Area Wiknic | June 13, 2026 |
| London 229 | June 14, 2026 |
| Seattle June meetup | June 16, 2026 |
| Christchurch 46 | June 20, 2026 |
| Calgary meetup | June 20, 2026 |
| Oxford 123 | June 21, 2026 |
| Brighton 8 | June 27, 2026 |
| Edinburgh 28 | June 27, 2026 |
| Wikimedia Café regarding Editor reflections | June 27, 2026 |
| San Diego 136 | July 18, 2026 |
| Christchurch 47 | July 19, 2026 |
| Brixton 17 | July 27, 2026 |
Also consider posting WikiProject, Task Force, and Collaboration news at The Signpost's WikiProject Report page. Please include your signature when adding a listing here.
- WP Unreferenced articles is trying to clear the decades-long backlog of unreferenced articles, please help to lower the number of unreferenced articles below 40,000. Come contribute! Catfurball (talk) 15:21, 6 May 2026 (UTC)
- WikiProject Outlines news:
- New outlines:
- The following outline covers an ongoing situation, please help keep it updated:
- The Outline of the week is Outline of relationships.
- Please help improve them. —The Transhumanist 09:46, 25 March 2026 (UTC)
- A new task force of WikiProject Wildfire has been activated as the Canada task force! Editors are welcome to join the new task force and help tag articles on Canadian wildfires as part of the task force, as well as help expand the main page. 🌀Hurricane Wind and Fire (talk) (contribs)🔥 00:51, 5 March 2026 (UTC)
- Wikipedia:WikiProject Amateur radio starts living again! If you would like to contribute, please add yourself to the list of participants and include ways they can contribute. We've already started, come see! Check out the new navigational Template:Amateur radio topics! Feel free to invite new members personally or through public postings. Sinucep (talk) 14:29, 23 December 2025 (UTC)
Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
Weekly highlight
- Growth features are now available at Wikidata. This update enables access to Mentorship (if configured), Impact module, the Help Panel, and a simplified Newcomer Homepage (without Suggested Edits). Wikidata administrators are still configuring the features through Community Configuration.
Updates for editors
- The special page Special:RangeCalculator has been created. It allows users to find an IP range without needing to rely on external tools. Until now, this tool was only available to CheckUsers. [1]
- Sub-referencing is a new MediaWiki feature that allows editors to reuse references with different details. It will be deployed to most small and medium-sized Wikipedia language versions on June 23. The FAQ lists possible actions to take on your wiki to support the deployment. Check the rollout plan for the next deployment steps. [2]
- Starting next week, users will get a notification when they are blocked or unblocked from editing, or if this block changes. [3]
View all 32 community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week.
Updates for technical contributors
- Starting next week, abuse filters that are set to "require CAPTCHA verification" will begin to also affect users with the
skipcaptcharight, which includes most autoconfirmed users. Bots are exempted. This change only affects edits that trigger an abuse filter. Theskipcaptcharight will continue to exempt users from having to solve CAPTCHAs in the ordinary course of using the wikis. [4] - Reference documentation for the Lift Wing API has moved from the API Portal to the interactive REST Sandbox.
- The API Portal wiki is now closed. For API documentation, see Wikimedia APIs on mediawiki.org. All API Portal wiki URLs (https://api.wikimedia.org/wiki/) will redirect to the mediawiki.org page starting June 22. [5]
Detailed code updates later this week: MediaWiki
Meetings and events
- Join an online call on 25 June at 2:30pm UTC to meet the current Wikimedia interns for Google Summer of Code and Outreachy. Interns will provide an overview of their projects and a brief demo of their work so far. Attendees are encouraged to share ideas and connections in their community.
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Discussions in the following areas have requested wider attention via Requests for comment:
- Biographies
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- History and geography
- Language and linguistics
- Media, the arts, and architecture
- Politics, government, and law
- Religion and philosophy
- Science and mathematics
- Society, sports, and culture
- Wikipedia policies and guidelines
- Wikipedia style and naming
- WikiProjects and collaborations
- Wikipedia technical issues and templates
- Wikipedia proposals
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Help out
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.)
| This week's article for improvement is: | The backlog of the week is: |
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