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Help desk Reference desk Village pump Peer editing help WikiProjects Barnstars Dispute resolution Help out You can help improve the articles listed below! This list updates frequently, so check back here for more tasks to try. Fix spelling and grammar • Learn how Japanese asset price bubble Jennell Jaquays Jainism in North Karnataka Jurisprudence of values Presbyterianism in South Korea More... Fix wikilinks • Learn how European BEST Engineering Competition Everychild Foundation Embryomics Episcopal Diocese of Southwestern Virginia European Company Lawyers Association More... Update with new information • Learn how Australian citizenship test Atlantic Southeast Airlines Aston Martin One-77 Argentine Chamber of Deputies Aquino–Binay Campaign, 2010 More... Expand short articles • Learn how Electoral history of the Constitution Party of Utah Eranhipalam English Table Tennis Association Environment of Brazil Extreme points of the Caribbean More... 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Community bulletin board Bulletins Quick directory Directory Index Maintenance Requests Shortcuts Tools 26 March 2014   Op-ed: Why we're updating the default typography for Wikipedia Comment: A foolish request News and notes: Commons Picture of the Year—winners announced Traffic report: Down to a simmer WikiProject report: From the peak Featured content: Winter hath a beauty that is all his own Recent research: Wikipedians' "encyclopedic identity" dominates even in Kosovo debates; analysis of "In the news" discussions; user hierarchy mapped Technology report: Why will Wikipedia look like the Signpost? Single page Book Front page About Subscribe Suggestions Archives Centralized discussion An RfC regarding changing the username policy to allow role accounts. An RfC to mark Wikipedia:Editor review as historical A discussion on ways to improve the "Today's featured article requests" system. An RfC about indefinitely blocked IP addresses An RfC to promote the links section of Wikipedia:Signatures to policy An RfC on resolving article title policy conflicts between MOS TITLE COMMONNAME etc. General notices Projects seeking help Also consider posting WikiProject, Task Force, and Collaboration news at the Signpost's WikiProject Report page. WikiProjects and Task Forces Outlines What's going on with outlines: New outlines (please copyedit and expand): Outline of Yukon Outlines being overhauled (your help is needed): Outline of United States history#By subject (expansion) Outline of Algeria (expansion) Outline of Sweden (expansion) Portal report The following portals are in need of attention/upkeep: Portal:Trichy – Newly created portal. Portal:Space – the selected article excerpts were copied and pasted between 2006 and 2009. The leads of the corresponding articles have greatly improved since then. Portal:Thinking – "selected" sections need new material. Been the same for years. The following portals have interesting design features that you may find useful: Portal:Philosophy – cycles through 52 "Selected philosophers", one per week, automatically year after year. Portal:Arts – uses random generators to display random featured status selections. Discussions and collaborations Discussions in the following areas have requested wider attention: 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 Unsorted This week's article for improvement is: Injury The knee of a patient is examined with help of radiography after an injury. Please be bold and help to improve this article! See also: Dashboard News Goings-on Milestones Meetups In the media Mailing lists Here is a list of the main community pages of Wikipedia's sister projects. All of these projects are multilingual and open-content. Meta-Wiki – Coordination of all Wikimedia projects. Wiktionary – A collaborative multilingual dictionary. Wikinews – News stories written by readers. Wikibooks – A collection of collaborative non-fiction books. Wikiquote – A compendium of referenced quotations. Wikisource – A repository for free source texts. Wikispecies – A directory of species. Wikiversity – Where teachers learn, and learners teach. Wikivoyage – A world-wide travel guide. Wikidata – A free knowledge base that can be read and edited by humans and machines alike. Commons – Repository for free images and other media files. Motto of the day... “ → Thin, airy shoals of visionary ghosts. ” Nominate one! Tip of the day... Working on the Main Page Being the gateway to the encyclopedia - the Main Page is Wikipedia's most frequently visited page. The main page is always protected and can only be edited by admins. But, most of the content on the main page is piped in each day from various departments, via templates. The volunteers in these departments work year round to prepare the content on the Main page to be viewed by the World each day. The main page support departments are: Wikipedia:Today's featured article – prepares excerpts from featured articles, to be displayed on the main page. Wikipedia:Did you know – prepares and selects "hooks" to new articles or articles that have been expanded by a factor of five. Wikipedia:In the news – participants nominate blurbs from Portal:Current events, and decide which of these get displayed on the main page. Admins post the blurbs as soon as they are approved. Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries – prepares the pages that get displayed in the "On this day" section of the main page. Wikipedia:Picture of the day – copies and formats featured pictures into the POTD scheduling queue, and writes the captions that accompany the pictures. Anybody can help prep the pages that feed into the main page's templates (up until the day they are displayed on the Main page), by proofreading and correcting them, and we encourage you to do so. The scheduled queues of pages to be displayed by each department on the main page can be found at: Today's featured article queue: follow this link (which looks like this: [[Wikipedia:Today's featured article/{{CURRENTMONTHNAME}} {{CURRENTYEAR}}|this link]]) Did you know queue: Template:Did you know/Queue In the news doesn't have a queue. Instead, items to be included are decided on by participants (you) at Wikipedia:In the news/Candidates. News items that achieve consensus are posted by admins. Selected anniversaries queue: Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/All Picture of the day queue for the main page: the subpages of Template:POTD protected (their titles are dates). Only the current date is actually protected. See http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special%3APrefixIndex&prefix=POTD+protected&namespace=10 Important: Be sure to follow the instructions posted at each department. Read more: Wikipedia:Editing the main page Prior tip - Next tip To add this auto-updating template to your user page, use {{totd}}. Become a Wikipedia tipster