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Community bulletin board

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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

  • 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' editing blitz. The October 2024 editing blitz is a one-week-long effort by the Guild of Copy Editors to reduce its backlog. The themes are: articles on the GOCE Requests page from June to August 2024, and articles on the June 2023 and July 2023 backlog. It began on 13 October, 00:00 (UTC), and will end on 19 October, 23:59 (UTC).
  • Wikipedia:WikiProject Women in Red 2024 Events:
Recently completed: Translation Women writers & their works Geofocus: Islands A–H
New this month: Women in STEM Geofocus: Islands I–P Women in archaeology
Ongoing initiatives: #1day1woman Education
Upcoming events: Ideas


Meetups for October 2024 +/-
NC Triangle Trivia October 1, 2024 (2024-10-01)
London 209 October 13, 2024 (2024-10-13)
Seattle meetup October 15, 2024 (2024-10-15)
Oxford 105 October 20, 2024 (2024-10-20)
WikiClub Toronto meetup October 20, 2024 (2024-10-20)
Wiki Uff da! - Event 1 October 23, 2024 (2024-10-23)
Edinburgh 18 October 26, 2024 (2024-10-26)
NYC Wikidata Day October 26, 2024 (2024-10-26)
Chicago Wikidata Day October 26, 2024 (2024-10-26)
Seattle Wikidata Day October 26, 2024 (2024-10-26)
San Diego 115 October 26, 2024 (2024-10-26)
BLT Office Hours October 27, 2024 (2024-10-27)


Meetups for November 2024 +/-
London 210 November 10, 2024 (2024-11-10)
US Mountain West online November 12, 2024 (2024-11-12)
Wiki Uff da! - Event 2 November 14, 2024 (2024-11-14)
Wiki Uff da! - Event 3 November 20, 2024 (2024-11-20)
WikiCon Australia 2024 November 23, 2024 (2024-11-23)
BLT Office Hours November 24, 2024 (2024-11-24)
WikiProject notices [add]

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.

Technical news
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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

  • Communities can now request installation of Automoderator on their wiki. Automoderator is an automated anti-vandalism tool that reverts bad edits based on scores from the new "Revert Risk" machine learning model. You can read details about the necessary steps for installation and configuration. [1]

Updates for editors

Updates for technical contributors

  • It is now possible for <syntaxhighlight> code blocks to offer readers a "Copy" button if the copy=1 attribute is set on the tag. Thanks to SD0001 for these improvements. [3]
  • Customized copyright footer messages on all wikis will be updated. The new versions will use wikitext markup instead of requiring editing raw HTML. [4]
  • Advanced item Later this month, temporary accounts will be rolled out on several pilot wikis. The final list of the wikis will be published in the second half of the month. If you maintain any tools, bots, or gadgets on these 11 wikis, and your software is using data about IP addresses or is available for logged-out users, please check if it needs to be updated to work with temporary accounts. Guidance on how to update the code is available.
  • Advanced item Rate limiting has been enabled for the code review tools Gerrit and GitLab to address ongoing issues caused by malicious traffic and scraping. Clients that open too many concurrent connections will be restricted for a few minutes. This rate limiting is managed through nftables firewall rules. For more details, see Wikitech's pages on Firewall, GitLab limits and Gerrit operations.
  • Five new wikis have been created:

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Requests for comment

Discussions in the following areas have requested wider attention via Requests for comment:

General notices
The Signpost
26 September 2024

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.)

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

Help improve popular pages, especially those of low quality.

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This week's article for improvement is:

Navy

Previous selections: Currency of Spain · Human geography · Polling station

This week's backlog of the week is:

Category:Novel has infobox needing cover

Things to review

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Information:

Lists are a valuable presentation format, especially the structured list. Examples include lists organized chronologically, grouped by theme, glossarized, or annotated.

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Development:

Outlines and indices give an indication of the state of the 'pedia, the articles that have been written, and the articles that have yet to be written (shown by red links).

Like categories, lists are great for keeping track of changes to subject areas, using the Related Changes feature. Unlike categories, lists are centralized, providing direct control over the contents. Lists also allow detection of deletion of pages from them (the list item will "red link"). Another advantage of a list is that changes can be tracked in the page's history, while changes to categories cannot.

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