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Community bulletin board

29 March 2020   From the ors: The bad and the good News and notes: 2018 Wikipedian of the year blocked WikiProject report: WikiProject COVID-19: A WikiProject Report Special report: Wikipedia on COVID-19: what we publish and why it matters In the media: Blocked in Iran but still covering the big story Discussion report: Rethinking draft space Arbitration report: Unfinished business In focus: "I have been asked by Jeffrey Epstein …" Community view: Wikimedia community responds to COVID-19 Recent research: Disease outbreak uncertainties, AfD forecasting, auto-updating Wikipedia From the archives: Text from Wikipedia good enough for Oxford University Press to claim as own Traffic report: The only thing that matters in the world Gallery: Visible Women on Wikipedia News from the WMF: Amid COVID-19, Wikimedia Foundation offers full pay for reduced hours, mobilizes all staff to work remote, and waives sick time On the bright side: What's making you happy this month? Single page Front page About Subscribe Suggestions Archives This week's article for improvement is Meatloaf In Germany, meatloaf is referred to as Hackbraten. Please be bold and help to improve this article! Active Wiki Fixup Projects Article Rescue Squadron Check Wikipedia Cleanup Dead-end pages Disambig pages w/ links Fix common mistakes Free images to Commons Geo-coordinates Missing articles Most-wanted articles Notability Orphaned articles Red Link Recovery Reliability Requested articles Single or Spell check Stubsensor Today's articles for improvement Uncategorised articles Unreferenced articles Wikification needed Main · Inactive · Mini v t e

General notices

• The 50,000 Destubbing Challenge launches in April 2020, starting off with entries done for the March contest. It is a very long term goal to reduce our stub count by 50,000 articles. Editors now with more time to during the pandemic please help contribute to setting this off on its way!
• Wikipedia:WikiProject COVID-19 has been formed to help develop and organize articles on the current pandemic.
• The Great Britain/Ireland Destubathon is running in March with nearly $500 in book prizes.
• A newsletter about userscript development on Wikipedia has been created: Wikipedia:Scripts++. To subscribe, visit its mailing list.
• A project is under way to add short descriptions to all articles. This is mainly for the benefit of mobile users searching Wikipedia. Help is welcomed – please visit WikiProject Short descriptions to learn more.
• SearchSuite is a userscript that provides user control over search results: it can strip them down to a single-spaced list, sort, and more. Most of its features are presented as menu item toggles to turn each feature on/off. Feedback and feature suggestions welcome.
• Do you have need for a specialized script that doesn't exist yet, or have an idea for a cool new script or gadget? Post requests and ideas at Wikipedia:User scripts/Requests.
• Free subscriptions to high-quality paywalled journals, newspaper archives, and online reference works are available for Wikipedia ors. For more information, see Wikipedia:The Wikipedia Library

Projects seeking help

Also consider posting WikiProject, Task Force, and Collaboration news at the Signpost's WikiProject Report page.

WikiProjects and Task Forces

• The Wikipedia Help Project seeks assistance expanding and improving the Task Center and other pages within the Help namespace.
• WikiProject Houston is looking for ors who are interested in collaborating on articles relevant to the Houston area.
• Spell checkers needed - Wikipedia:Typo Team/moss got a complete update from the August 20, 2019 database dump. The project hosts lists of articles with misspelled words, words missing from Wiktionary, and unknown words that need investigation.
• Call for volunteers at WikiProject Biography, Assessment backlog.
• WikiProject Abandoned Drafts Stale draft drive. An ongoing drive dedicated to reducing the amount of stale user space drafts. Options are to delete, redirect, move to mainspace or blank. Stop by and help the drive out!

Wikiproject group activities and efforts

February

• Women in Green. On 10 February the project became a WikiProject in its own right after about four and half years as a task force. The project is dedicated to promoting articles on women to Good Article status. Currently only about 4% of GAs are about women, and very few core articles have reached GA status. New members and interest in this would be appreciated.

March

• The Great Britain/Ireland De-stub-athon is a contest/athon aimed at expanding over 1000 stubs for the UK and Ireland. Almost $500 in Amazon voucher prizes are offered for most articles and most counties covered.

• WikiProject Military history - March Madness. March Madness is a backlog reduction drive, which will run from 00:01 UTC on 1 March through to 23:59 UTC on 31 March. The drive is open to all Wikipedians. This year the drive is focused on several goals, listed at the event's page, such as e.g. creating articles that are listed as "requested" on the project's various task force pages or other lists of missing articles.
• Wikipedia:WikiCup. The WikiCup is a championship that has taken place every year on Wikipedia since 2007. The Cup is played and won by skill of ing. The purpose of the Cup is to encourage content creation and improvement and make ing on Wikipedia more fun. The Next round begins March 1 and ends April 28th.
• Art+Activism: 2020 Art+Feminism Wikipedia Edit-a-thon —Art+Feminism is pleased to announce the theme of its seventh annual Wikipedia Edit-a-thon is Art+Activism. Activism is something that is deeply rooted in the fiber of this organization. Art has long been a vehicle to reflect and urge social, political and cultural change. Just like the word “feminism” can have different meanings to the individual, “activism” can as well. We welcome all interpretations, wide and narrow, of Art+Activism to be part of our 2020 campaign.
  • Visit our Tumblr to learn more about this year's theme.
  • Click here to view the -a-thons taking place across the globe for the months of March and April.
  • To Organize an Event: A) Consult Organizers Quick Guide. in English, Spanish, French, and Portuguese. B) Email us at info@artandfeminism.org to learn more and to let us know about your event. C) Create a program on the Program & Events Dashboard (instructions here). D) List your athon by submitting your event details via this form. E) Learn how to clicking the Resources tab on this Meet up page.
  • How We Organize: From the beginning, Art+Feminism has paid careful attention to how and where we organize our events, prioritizing off-wiki channels of communication. We use the Programs & Events Dashboard instead of meetup pages, and we are collecting the list of events on our website, rather than here. We do this because our UX/UI review found that, because we had so many events and the wiki interface is confusing to new users, this main meet up page was difficult to parse and folks were missing events in their towns.
• VisibleWikiWomen (image campaign), March and April 2020. In March and April, WikiProject Women in Red are collaborating again with m:Whose Knowledge?/VisibleWikiWomen by encouraging the upload of images to WikiCommons. These can be photos or other images related to women, their works, and their issues. Anyone can take part in this event. Don't forget to include any new images you post on our other meetup pages. We should keep track of all the new images you add to Commons.
• Wikipedia:WikiProject Guild of Copy Editors/Backlog elimination drives/March 2020 a month-long copy-ing drive.

Ongoing

• Wikipedia: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.

Discussions and collaborations

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

• Biographies
• Economy and trade
• History and geography
• Language and linguistics
• Media, the arts, and architecture
• Politics, government, and law
• Religion and philosophy
• Science and mathematics
• Society, sports, and culture
• Wikipedia policies and guidelines
• Wikipedia style and naming
• WikiProjects and collaborations
• Wikipedia technical issues and templates
• Wikipedia proposals
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