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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

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 drive. The March 2024 backlog drive is a one-month-long effort by the Guild of Copy Editors to reduce the backlog of articles that require copy editing: those carrying the {{copy edit}} tag (also {{awkward}}, {{copy edit section}}, {{inappropriate person}}, and {{copy edit inline}} and their redirects) or are listed on the GOCE Requests page. It began on 1 March, 00:00 (UTC), and will end on 31 March, 23:59 (UTC).
  • Wikipedia:WikiProject Women in Red 2023 Events: WP:WIR/EVENTS - updated monthly
  • The 100,000 Challenge. The quest to bring about 100,000 article improvements and creations globally through a series of 50,000/10,000/1000 Challenges for different regions and countries. This is a loose challenge, a list will not be maintained here, but the components will function independently on each of the subpages. Will be updated every week or two.
    • The 50,000 Destubbing Challenge is a long term challenge to destub 50,000 articles on English Wikipedia for every country and topic. It may take decades to accomplish, it may take ten years, it all depends on how many people actively contribute.


Meetups for March 2024 +/-
Portland Jewish Artists
edit-a-thon		 March 10, 2024 (2024-03-10)
London 202 March 10, 2024 (2024-03-10)
Seattle articles edit-a-thon March 12, 2024 (2024-03-12)
NYC (Queens Name Explorer) March 16, 2024 (2024-03-16)
Oxford 98 March 17, 2024 (2024-03-17)
Seattle monthly meetup March 19, 2024 (2024-03-19)
San Diego 109 March 25, 2024 (2024-03-25)
BLT Office Hours March 24, 2024 (2024-03-24)
BLT x UPenn March 27, 2024 (2024-03-27)
Meetups for April 2024 +/-
London 203 April 14, 2024 (2024-04-14)
San Diego 110 April 22, 2024 (2024-04-22)
North Carolina Earth Day April 23, 2024 (2024-04-23)
Edinburgh 15 April 27, 2024 (2024-04-27)
BLT Office Hours April 28, 2024 (2024-04-28)
WikiProject notices

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.

Recent changes

  • The notice "Language links are at the top of the page" that appears in the Vector 2022 skin main menu has been removed now that users have learned the new location of the Language switcher. [1]
  • IP info feature displays data from Spur, an IP addresses database. Previously, the only data source for this feature was MaxMind. Now, IP info is more useful for patrollers. [2]
  • The Toolforge Grid Engine services have been shut down after the final migration process from Grid Engine to Kubernetes. [3][4][5]
  • Communities can now customize the default reasons for undeleting a page by creating MediaWiki:Undelete-comment-dropdown. [6]

Problems

  • RevisionSlider is an interface to interactively browse a page's history. Users in right-to-left languages reported RevisionSlider reacting wrong to mouse clicks. This should be fixed now. [7]

Changes later this week

  • The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 19 March. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 20 March. It will be on all wikis from 21 March (calendar). [8][9]
  • All wikis will be read-only for a few minutes on March 20. This is planned at 14:00 UTC. [10][11]

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

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