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The Community portal is a place to find collaborations, tasks, and news about English Wikipedia.
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Dispute resolution

Help out

New! Please make sure these highly cited women scientists have articles.


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

Help improve popular pages, especially those of low quality.

Community bulletin board


How to add to the 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

Recently completed: #1day1woman Education Religion
New this month: Music #1day1woman Alphabet run: A & B Internet personalities
Ongoing initiatives: Women who died: 2024
Upcoming events: Ideas


Meetups for January 2025 +/-
Wikipedia Day Seattle January 11, 2025 (2025-01-11)
London 212 January 12, 2025 (2025-01-12)
Wikipedia Day Minnesota January 15, 2025 (2025-01-15)
Wikipedia Day San Francisco January 18, 2025 (2025-01-18)
Exeter 2 January 18, 2025 (2025-01-18)
Oxford 107 January 19, 2025 (2025-01-19)
Wikipedia Day Toronto January 19, 2025 (2025-01-19)
Wikipedia Day Chicago January 19, 2025 (2025-01-19)
Edinburgh 19 January 25, 2025 (2025-01-25)
Wikipedia Day NYC January 25, 2025 (2025-01-25)
Brixton 6 January 27, 2025 (2025-01-27)


Meetups for February 2025 +/-
Utah Wikipedia Day at
Sundance Film Festival
February 1, 2025 (2025-02-01)
US Mountain West online February 11, 2025 (2025-02-11)
WikiCredCon - San Francisco February 14, 2025 (2025-02-14)
Seattle February 18, 2025 (2025-02-18)

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.

General notices

Wikimedia community portals

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.


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