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Section One

Post your Wikipedia-related news and announcements here!

New portals, collaborations, and wikiprojects seeking contributors. New initiatives, proposals, or article drives, and current maintenance backlogs.

Volume 4, Issue 23 — 2008-06-02 Board elections open WikiWorld: "Facial Hair" Wikipedia in the News Dispatches: Style guide and policy changes Features and admins Bugs, Repairs, and Internal Operational News The Report on Lengthy Litigation Archives·Newsroom·Tip line·Single-page·Subscribe Episode 50:Wikipedia Story May 28, 2008 A call by Andrew Lih to have Wikipedians write the final chapter of his book, The Wikipedia Story (How a bunch of nobodies created the world's greatest encyclopedia). Onsite · Offsite Subscription · Feedback Talk to us on skype! It's NotTheWikipediaWeekly Next Skypecast: TBD (details/sign up) Latest: Episode 18 June 6th This one's a bit of a 'special' Interviews with each of the candidates in the election for the Board of Trustees of the Wikimedia Foundation. Radio Wikipedia Issue 7: Attention Please! (Previous Issue)

Notices

• A proposal to rename all of the lists of basic topics to something more representative and professional is under discussion at the Village Pump. This will affect hundreds of pages (see the rest here).
• There is a discussion to add interproject links (such as Commons and Wikispecies) to {{taxobox}}.
• Help review Good articles at the Nominations and reassessment pages.
• Global discussion and consensus is being sought for the Notability (fiction) guideline.
• WikiProject India is conducting a Tagging and Assessment drive, more than 20000 articles need to be assessed and lots of prizes to be won.
• A ratification poll on whether to add {{C-Class}} to {{grading scheme}} has been started. The vote will close on June 18, 2008 at 0300 UTC.

New project pages seeking contributors

Discussions

Discussions in the following areas have requested wider attention:

See also

Wikizine · In the media · News · Announcements · Mailing lists · Meetups

Section Two

Wikipedia is, by number of articles, the largest encyclopedia ever to exist. However, many articles are stubs, or otherwise need attention. If you like, go ahead, be bold, and jump right in. If you aren't ready to fly solo, you can participate in a Collaboration.

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• Respond to a request for comment.
• Give a requested editor review.
• Can you draw or take pictures? Make a requested image.
• Peer review or give feedback on some articles.
• Respond to the Reward board or Bounty board.
• Are you good at photo editing? Then try cleaning up some of these images.
• Offer your thoughts and ideas on proposed policies.
• Help create the XML based format for Wikis, WML.
• Can you use GIS tools? Help make requested maps.
• Can you communicate in another language? There are articles that need translation into English.
• Respond to other requests?
• Comment on the wisdom of new bot proposals.
• Can you code? Code a useful bot or update an offline report.
• Proofread a finished translation.
• Let SuggestBot suggest pages for you to improve.
• Update pages with old (ref or note template) citations to the new references format.

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Here are some tasks you can do:

• Wikify: Don Angell, Sergio Berlioz, Gene Clark, Maravilla, Alhamiri, Backlog...
• Cleanup: Tourism in the United States, List of music prodigies, Harry T. Burn, 1990 in association football, Software quality, Purwokerto, Backlog...
• Stubs: 1928 in radio, Capitalist Roader, Cable box (outside), CEVNI, Ajeeb, Academic institution, 112, More...
• Verify: Language demographics of Quebec, Pirates in popular culture, Angel, Backlog...
• Update: British Columbia Highway 99A, Australian Senate, Ansari X Prize, BBC One, Bright House Networks, More...
• Neutrality: E. Lee Spence, History of Latinos and Hispanics in the United States, Cod, Jack Dann, Liang-Jie Zhang, Backlog...
• Copyedit: Oru Vadakkan Veeragatha, OC Transpo Route 95, Naidu, Sorcerer Hunters, Gienger, More...
• Merge: Mendez Middle School, Elgin tablets, Institute of Scientific Instrumentation, Backlog...
• Style: Evolution of belief, CD-R, Gladiators (British TV show), Mercer County Park, Henry V (play), More...
• Expand: Bone Against Steel, Jed Buchwald, 1593 in music, Dan Balz, 1962 NFL Draft, The Artist at Work, 1975 Minnesota Twins season, 4G, Michael Curry, More...
• Requests: Interim efficient, Internal knowledge spillover, Linear pricing schedule, Market power theory of advertising, Metaproduction function, More...
• Articles to be split: A Separate Peace, AMV (TV station), Abu Suhail an-Nafi, Adam's Bridge, Afro-Mexican, More...
• Mediation Cabal: India, or help mediate an open case!
• Cleanup backlogs - Review recent overhauls - Active fixup projects - Maintenance projects - Maintenance COTW: be merged

Not sure where to report a certain type of problem with article content? If it exists, it's probably listed at Wikipedia:Maintenance.

Collaborations

To improve the quality of articles that are short or lacking in detail, Wikipedia's community organizes collaborations to expand articles.

[edit] Article Collaboration and Improvement Drive

The Article Collaboration and Improvement Drive works on an article that needs a lot of help to reach featured-article standard. The subject of this week's article improvement drive is Aang:

A picture of Aang and Momo

You can still help with last week's article, World War I, or help pick next week's article.

[edit] Good Article Collaboration of the week

The Good Article Collaboration of the week works to polish already good articles to the highest of standards.

This week's improvement drive is Elvis Presley:

Elvis Aaron Presley began his career as one of the first performers of rockabilly, an uptempo fusion of country and rhythm and blues with a strong back beat. His novel versions of existing songs, mixing "black" and "white" sounds, made him popular—and controversial—as did his uninhibited stage and television performances. He recorded songs in the rock and roll genre, with tracks like "Hound Dog" and "Jailhouse Rock" later embodying the style. Presley had a versatile voice and had unusually wide success encompassing other genres, including gospel, blues, ballads and pop. To date, he is the only performer to have been inducted into four separate music halls of fame.

You can still help pick next week's article.

[edit] Core Topics Collaboration

The Core Topics Collaboration of the Fortnight works to improve essential Wikipedia topics. The current collaboration is Boat.

A boat is a watercraft designed to float or plane on water, and provide transport over it. Usually this water will be inland (lakes) or in protected coastal areas. However, boats such as the whaleboat were historically designed to be operated from a ship in an offshore environment. In naval terms, a boat is something small enough to be carried aboard another vessel (a ship). Some boats too large for the naval definition include the Great Lakes freighter, riverboat, narrowboat and ferryboat. Modern submarines can also be called boats, despite their underwater capabilities and size. This may be because the first submarines could be carried by a ship and were not capable of making independent offshore passages. Boats may be used by the military or other government interests, or for research or commercial purposes; but regardless of size, a vessel in private, non-commercial usage is almost certainly a boat.

You can help pick the next Core Topic collaboration article.

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User:Janosabel/sandbox/Maintenance Collaboration

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WikiProjects are ongoing team efforts to improve articles having to do with a particular subject, and to manage the logistics of that topic. Hundreds exist — examine the master list to find one that interests you. They are separate from, though may work with, Collaborations.

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Wikipedia is not just in English! Versions exist in many different languages. To fill in some of the English Wikipedia's gaps, we translate articles from other languages into English. You can view a list of articles that need translation from any language, or, in a few cases, by only one language (this is only available for the more popular languages).

Guidelines, help, and resources

Wikipedia has many help pages, policies, and departments. Here are some of the most general. For a comprehensive list of Wikipedia's departments, see the Wikipedia department directory.

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• Wikipedia help - Browse help pages
• Where to ask questions

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• The Manual of Style guidelines and tutorial
• How to edit a page
• Contributing
• How to improve articles
• How to write a great article
• Where to find information for articles
• A list of template messages
• What special pages are
• Tools for editing
• Request newspapers or magazines

[edit] Policies and guidelines

Wikipedia has many established policies, guidelines, conventions, and traditions. This is a very brief sampling of some of the most important; for more information, see the main policies and guidelines page. Policies and guidelines apply both to articles and how to work with fellow editors. For easy access, the shortcuts to the pages are also listed.

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New user information

Introduction · Sandbox · Help · New user log · Adoption · What Wikipedia is not · Glossary · Account benefits

Ways to communicate

Contact (overview) · Discussion pages · Mailing lists · IRC chat · Instant Messaging · Meetups · User pages · Surveys · Public watchlists · Regional notice boards · Administrators' noticeboard · Requests for article feedback · Local Embassy

Community support groups and programs

Welcoming committee · Editor assistance · Wiki-adoption · Birthday Committee · Harmonious editing club · Kindness Campaign · Reach out · Stress alerts · Wikipedia awards program · Dept. of Fun · One featured article per quarter · Missing encyclopedic articles

Common Procedures

Featured content · Good articles · Requests for feedback · Deleting a page (full policy) · Moving a page (naming policies) · Protecting a page (full policy) · Reverting a page · Administrator nominations (summaries) · Category-based access

How to resolve conflicts

Stay cool! · Be nice to newcomers · Alert others · Request assistance from a members' advocate · Dispute resolution · Arbitration policy

Community information

About Wikipedia · Goings-on · About Wikimedia · Wikipedians · Wiki-adoption · Donations · Administrators · Babel · Culture · Games · Humor · Mottoes

Related communities

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