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30 August 2018   From the or: Today's young adults don't know a world without Wikipedia Interview: 2018 Wikimedian of the Year, Farkhad Fatkullin News and notes: Flying high; low practice from Wikipedia 'cleansing' agency; where do our donations go? RfA sees a new trend In the media: Quicksilver AI writes articles Discussion report: Drafting an interface administrator policy Featured content: Featured content selected by the community Special report: Wikimania 2018 Traffic report: Aretha dies – getting just 2,000 short of 5 million hits Technology report: Technical enhancements and a request to prioritize upcoming work Gallery: Leapfrog, historic Thai cave, and a rhythmic beat Recent research: Wehrmacht on Wikipedia, neural networks writing biographies Humour: Signpost or censors herself Essay: Principle of Some Astonishment From the archives: Playing with Wikipedia words Single page Book Front page About Subscribe Suggestions Archives This week's article for improvement is Pub session Musicians at a pub session, an event that involves playing music and/or singing in the relaxed social setting of a local pub, in which the music-making is intermingled with the consumption of ale, stout, and beer and conversation. Please be bold and help to improve this article! WikiProject Missing Encyclopedic articles (% done) v t e Project page—The goal of this project is to ensure that Wikipedia has a corresponding article for every article in every other encyclopedia. Sign in! Monthly focus: MacTutor biographies 21 left 1911 verification: 25.0% ACF Regionals answers: 64.1% Hotlist of topics: 88.7% General topics: 79.6% Science topics: 92% Catholic Encyclopedia: 86.2% Easton's Bible Dictionary: 88% Encyclopaedia Biblica : 69.5% Evangelical Dictionary of Theology: 80.6% Gutenberg authors : 57.1% Jewish Encyclopedia : 39% Literary Encyclopedia: 81.9% Polish Biographical Dictionary: 6% Find-A-Grave: 86.8% Stanford Archive answers 98.2% Missing paintings 70.5% Miscellaneous Many other lists of politicians, songs, TV shows and others. Overall progress: 65.2% Spread the word through {{Project missing articles}} 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 Orphaned articles Red Link Recovery Requested articles Single or Spell check Stubsensor Today's articles for improvement Uncategorised articles Unreferenced articles Wikification needed Main · Inactive · Mini v t e

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• Due to WMF data center tests, all Wikimedia wikis will be read only for up to an hour on Wednesday, 12 September and Wednesday, 10 October. The test will start at 14:00 UTC (15:00 BST, 16:00 CEST, 10:00 EDT, 07:00 PDT, 23:00 JST, and in New Zealand at 02:00 NZST on Thursday 13 September and Thursday 11 October).
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Projects seeking help[]

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WikiProjects and Task Forces[]

• WikiProject Abandoned Drafts Stale draft drive. An ongoing drive dedicated to reducing the amount of stale user space drafts. Options are to delete, redirect, or blank. Stop by and help the drive out!
• Wikipedia:Typo Team/moss just got a fresh batch (from the July 20, 2018 database dump) of articles with misspelled words, and words missing from Wiktionary. Stop by and experience the satisfaction of fixing all the misspellings in an article on the topic of your choice!

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Portals[]

Update: Portal development continues at a rapid pace. For the latest developments, see the latest issue of the portals newsletter archive.

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• Portal:Ancient Egypt

You can find more portals to work on at Portal:Contents/Portals and Category:All portals

Discussions and collaborations

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