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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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For a listing of ongoing discussions and current requests, see the Dashboard.

Ask questions about how to use or edit Wikipedia
Friendly help for newcomers
Ask research questions about any topic except Wikipedia itself
Work with other editors on a shared area of interest
Get help resolving disputes
Discuss existing and proposed policies
Discuss technical issues about Wikipedia
Discuss new proposals that are not policy-related
Incubate new ideas before formally proposing them
Discuss issues involving the Wikimedia Foundation
Post messages that do not fit into any other category

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

  • 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 June 2025 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 March to June 2025, and articles on the backlog from October 2023 and November 2023. It will begin on 15 June, 00:00 (UTC), and end on 21 June, 23:59 (UTC).
  • Wikipedia:WikiProject Women in Red 2025 Events:
Recently completed: Revolutionary women Alphabet run: I & J
New this month: LGBTQ+ women Alphabet run: K & L
Ongoing initiatives: Music #1day1woman
Upcoming events: Ideas


Meetups for June 2025 +/-
Melbourne 48 June 2, 2025 (2025-06-02)
London 217 June 8, 2025 (2025-06-08)
Lez Wiki Edit-a-thon June 8, 2025 (2025-06-08)
Singapore 22 June 13, 2025 (2025-06-13)
Brighton 5 June 14, 2025 (2025-06-14)
Oxford 112 June 15, 2025 (2025-06-15)
San Diego 123 June 21, 2025 (2025-06-21)
Cape Town 49 June 21, 2025 (2025-06-21)
Johannesburg 18 June 21, 2025 (2025-06-21)
Exeter 4 June 28, 2025 (2025-06-28)
Lez Wiki Edit-a-thon June 29, 2025 (2025-06-29)


Meetups for July 2025 +/-
San Diego 124 July 12, 2025 (2025-07-12)
London 218 July 13, 2025 (2025-07-13)
Minnesota Wiknic July 19, 2025 (2025-07-19)

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

Tip of the day

How to insert a picture into an article

The syntax used for displaying an image is:

[[File:{name}|{type}|{location}|{size}|{alt=}|{caption}]]

Only [[File:{name}]] parameter is required.
Do not put spaces between parameters. The other parameters are optional and can be placed in any order. Some infoboxes do not require the brackets. Keep parameters in lower case. The other parameters are:
Type
'thumb' / 'thumbnail' or 'frame'. This causes image to be displayed with specific formatting. "thumb" is normally preferred.
Location
'right', 'left', 'center' or 'none'. Determines placement of the image on the page. "Left" or "right" is the norm, but large panoramas or timelines can be displayed in the center.
Size
{width}px or {width}x{height}px (e.g. 50x40px, would limit width to 50 pixels and height to 40 pixels). Normally only one variable is used. Use common sense when determining the sizes; you can use the "Show preview" button if you need to. If thumb or thumbnail is chosen, size should normally be left out, so that the size defaults to the size set in a user's preferences.
alt=
(keep it lower case). This is the "alternate image" parameter used to describe the image for screenreaders or for people with low-vision. It should be more descriptive than the caption alone. Do not use this for another copy of the caption or of the article title, as the reader will already be aware of these.
Caption
Any element which cannot be identified as one of the above is automatically treated as caption text. It is traditional to put this last. The caption should identify what the image is, and ideally be a complete sentence that adds to the article by pointing out something a casual reader would not have noticed otherwise, or add information the pertains to the image. Full sentence or multi fragment captions require full stop punctuation.

If you have created a picture that is not already in Wikipedia's image collection on the Commons that you want to include in an article, you will need to upload it first. Bonus tip: Similar formatting is used to insert basic audio or basic video clips into articles.

To add this auto-updating template to your user page, use {{totd}}