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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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You can help improve the articles listed below! This list updates frequently, so check back here for more tasks to try. (See Wikipedia:Task Center for brief guides.)

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

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28 December 2020   News and notes: Year-end legal surprises cause concern, but Public Domain Day is imminent In the media: Concealment, data journalism, a non-pig farmer, and some Bluetick Hounds Arbitration report: 2020 election results Opinion: How to make your factory's safety and labor issues disappear Featured content: Very nearly ringing in the New Year with "Blank Space" – but we got there in time. Traffic report: 2020 wraps up News from the WMF: What Wikipedia saw during election week in the U.S., and what we’re doing next Recent research: Predicting the next move in Wikipedia discussions Essay: Subjective importance Op-Ed: An unforgettable year we might wish to forget Gallery: Angels in the architecture Humour: 'Twas the Night Before Wikimas Single page Front page About Subscribe Suggestions Archives This week's article for improvement is: Viral phenomenon Previous selections: Mountain pass · Lumbersexual · Pork chop This week's backlog of the week is: Category:All articles with unsourced statements 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 Articles for improvement Uncategorised articles Unreferenced articles Wikification needed Main · Inactive · Mini v t e

General notices

• Wikipedia Pages Wanting Photos (WPWP), an annual campaign in which Wikipedians across language projects and communities add photos to articles, has started (prizes!).
• 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.

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 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 Spoken Wikipedia is looking for people who are interested in helping out in our project to get our articles into an audio format that can be used for any number of uses including, but not limited to, visually impaired or people who just prefer to listen to the article instead of reading it for whatever reason they choose. You can sign up here on our participant's page. We are also in need of native or fluent speakers so that everything is pronounced properly. You can sign up for the Pronunciation task force by adding your name as well as your languages of fluency to section 2.

Technical news

Wikiproject/Group ing activities and efforts

Monthly projects and group efforts

• Guild of Copy Editors' ing drive. The January 2021 Backlog Drive is a one-month-long effort of the Guild of Copy Editors to reduce the backlog of articles that require copy ing; those carrying the {{copy }} tag (also {{awkward}}, {{copy section}}, {{inappropriate person}}, and {{copy inline}} and their redirects) or listed on the GOCE Requests page. The drive runs from 1 January 2021 0:00 (UTC) to 31 January 2021 23:59 (UTC). Signups are now open.

• WikiProject: Women in Red: Women writers & their works, September 2020. In September, Women in Red is once again focusing on women writers and their works from around the world. Although we welcome the creation of articles on any of the notable women writers around the world, we would like to include some of those associated in one way or another with World War II, It has also been suggested we should give attention to those involved in TV or radio and to those from non-English speaking countries whose works have been translated into English or have led to films distributed around the world.

Ongoing

• The AfroCine Project invites you to join us again this October and November, the two months which are dedicated to improving content about the cinema of Africa, the Caribbean, and the diaspora.(awarding prizes to different categories of winners:)
• 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.

• 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. There is a new round every month, until the current contest ends; below are the details.
  • May 1 to June 28 – 32 contestants left.
  • July 1 to August 29 – 16 contestants left.
  • September 1 to October 31 – 8 finalists left, the contestant with the highest score will win!

• Women in Red ing drive, BLM/Anti-discrimination, July – December 2020. From July to December 2020, as a result of the rapid development of interest in Black Lives Matter (BLM) and anti-discrimination, we have decided to embark on an athon over an extended period. It complements WikiProject Black Lives Matter's June, July, and August athons.

• Women in Red: #1day1woman | 2020. For anyone interested in creating or improving articles on women and their works outside the specific focus of our monthly athons. We have called it #1day1woman as the label can be used worldwide on the social media, creating new trends of interest. Perfectionists might like to create a new article each and every day but one new article on any one day will be the starting point.
  • The virtual -a-thon allows enthusiasts from around the globe to participate in the work.
  • The lists of redlinks should provide inspiration.
  • There is a section where you can list the articles you create this month, and another section where you can add the images you uploaded to Commons.
  • This essay on creating women's biographies and our Ten Simple Rules might be helpful to newcomers.
• 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.
• WikiProject Medicine Collaboration of the Month. Every month, a topic will be selected from this page that will be the focus of ing for some members of Wikipedia:WikiProject Medicine. The article may or may not yet exist. Topics may either relate to medical basic sciences (anatomy, biochemistry, and so on), or clinical medicine (illnesses, surgical procedures, and so on).

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• Science and mathematics
• Society, sports, and culture
• Wikipedia policies and guidelines
• Wikipedia style and naming
• WikiProjects and collaborations
• Wikipedia technical issues and templates
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