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Welcome to the community portal!

This page provides a listing of current collaborations, tasks, and news about English Wikipedia. New to Wikipedia? See the contributing to Wikipedia page or our tutorial for everything you need to know to get started. For a listing of internal project pages of interest, see the department directory.

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Community bulletin board

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.

Events and projects [add]

Yearly or infrequent events

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:
Recently completed: Alphabet run: Countries starting with G and H Works by women: Scientific works Religion: and Spirituality
New this month: LGBTQ+ women Alphabet run: Countries starting with I–L Orphaned women
Ongoing initiatives: #1day1woman: 2026 Sports
Upcoming events: Crime and law Alphabet run: Countries starting with M Ideas


Meetups for June 2026 +/-
London, Ontario June 9, 2026 (2026-06-09)
SF Bay Area Wikisalon:
Wiki x AI
June 11, 2026 (2026-06-11)
Portland, Oregon June 13, 2026 (2026-06-13)
San Diego 135 June 13, 2026 (2026-06-13)
SF Bay Area Wiknic June 13, 2026 (2026-06-13)
London 229 June 14, 2026 (2026-06-14)
Seattle June meetup June 16, 2026 (2026-06-16)
Christchurch 46 June 20, 2026 (2026-06-20)
Calgary meetup June 20, 2026 (2026-06-20)
Oxford 123 June 21, 2026 (2026-06-21)
Brighton 8 June 27, 2026 (2026-06-27)
Edinburgh 28 June 27, 2026 (2026-06-27)
Wikimedia Café regarding Editor reflections June 27, 2026 (2026-06-27)


Meetups for July 2026 +/-
San Diego 136 July 18, 2026 (2026-07-18)
Christchurch 47 July 19, 2026 (2026-07-19)
Chicago Wiknic 2026 July 25, 2026 (2026-07-25)
Brixton 17 July 27, 2026 (2026-07-27)

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General notices

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:

Injury

Previous selections: Khoekhoe · Drinking water · Articulated bus

Tip of the day

What are portals? "Doorways to knowledge." Wikipedia's coverage of subjects can be extensive (mathematics, for example, is covered by tens of thousands of articles on Wikipedia). Portals are an alternative entry to a subject (besides its main article), and to that subject's coverage in the encyclopedia, in a way similar to how the Main Page provides sample fare from Wikipedia as a whole.

Portals may include features such as Selected article sections, Selected image, news, points of interest (Did you know?, Anniversaries), and links to related Wikimedia. Portals are more diverse than the Main page, and may include features such as panoramic banners, slide shows, category trees, topics lists, and whatever else portal designers can come up with.

A secondary purpose of portals is to provide bridges between reading and editing, and between the encyclopedia and the Wikipedia community. They may provide links to the related WikiProjects, Wikipedia's Reference desk, and so on. Portals are a hybrid between encyclopedia pages and project pages, and occupy their own special namespace, the Portal namespace. Therefore, all portal titles are preceded by the prefix "Portal:"

The list of all completed portals is Portal:Contents/Portals. A list of all portals, including those under construction, can be found at Category:All portals. The Portals WikiProject is dedicated to collaboratively building and maintaining portals, and further expanding on the Portal concept, such as with automated features, and is always looking for new participants.

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