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The backlog on Category:Copy to Wiktionary has burst through the 1,000 mark. It desperately needs attention from a bot, if you know how to program or know someone who does.
Wikipedians are encouraged to participate in a data-gathering survey regarding Wikipedia. Responses are warmly welcomed.
A new initiative, called Requests for feedback, has been created. It is meant as a place where newer users can ask experienced users about the content of their "pet" articles without going through an extensive peer review.
There has been a new anti-vandalism and newbie recuiting proposal here. Please post your opinions!
WikiProject Amphibians and Reptiles is looking for frog photos to fill the gaps in the List of Anuran families. If you have a photo from a family not represented with a photo, please Upoad It, and add it to the article. Also, if you have an amphibian or reptile photo you would like identified, please leave a message on the project's talk page.
It has been proposed to officially deprecate the mother of meta-templates, qif. Please contribute to the discussion so we can gather consensus over a template which has the potential to crash Wikipedia.
A new design for the Community Portal has been implemented. We hope you like it. This will hopefully end the design "wars" over the page.
A test page has been created to experiment a new look for the Wikipedia:Featured articles page. The changes concerns new subsectioning of the page, the sound icons and bolding titles. You could also participate in the related discussion.
user:Alanmak has added a template at the top of all united nations-related articles containing the alternative names in 5 languages. This has caused a great deal of controversy. There is a poll being conducted at Talk:United_Nations_Commission_on_Human_Rights#Poll to settle the issue.
A CD version of selected Wikipedia articles is now available from here. You can examine what articles are on the CD or participate in a project to produce another CD.
A new POV template has been made. Template:POV-statement is aimed to contest the neutrality of a statement or sentence, over an entire article or section.
Poll regarding introduction for Republic of Macedonia article – Given ongoing discussions and the divisive nature of the topic, a poll is currently underway to decide the rendition of the lead for the Republic of Macedonia article (also listed). Please weigh in!
The Community Portal was recently reverted to a version that appeared months ago. There is currently a poll to decide whether or not to overturn that decision and to restore the page that was there, or to use a third draft choice.
The backlog on Category:Copy to Wiktionary has burst through the 1,000 mark. It desperately needs attention from a bot, if you know how to program or know someone who does.
A proposal has been made to close the September 11 Wiki. This is a separate wiki hosted by the WikiMedia Foundation that was spun off from the English Wikipedia in 2001.
Your help is needed with wikification. Over 6,000 articles have been tagged; the goal of the Maintenance COTW is to completely eliminate this backlog in the coming weeks. Wikification is quick and easy once you get the hang of it!
There is a discussion concerning the removal of links from the familiar browsebar navigation aid (seen at the top of the Community Portal and Help page, and on many other pages around Wikipedia), and of removing the browsebar itself from many of its current locations. Do you use it? Is it useful? Tell us!
To address the massive 10,000+ article backlog on Wikipedia:Cleanup, a cleanup sorting system has been proposed. Please comment!
WikiProject Arthropods has started up and is looking for members to expand and standardise articles related to insects, arachnids, crustaceans and other arthropods.
A new project has been created against stubs called Anti-Stub.
Wikipedia:WikiProject Missouri has started up, and is looking for new members to help with articles relating to government, geography, history, culture, and other topics.
The Prophets of Islam WikiProject has started up and is looking for members.
WikiProject Current events has formed to better organize the current events page and monthly archives, and collaborate on current event stub articles.
WikiProject on Fungi is looking for members interested in mushrooms, molds, and other mycota. Both contributors and editors are sought after. The project itself could use some help fleshing out and help with a to-do list would also be welcome.
WikiProject Michigan is looking for members interested in writing articles on state-related topics. There are a few articles in the Featured Article queue that need copyediting and research; your contributions would be welcomed. Any questions should be places on the Project or user:Jtmichcock's Talk page.
Portal:Politics has been abandoned and, because it is headed with clippings from current affairs, is grossly out of date and no credit to Wikipedia. Someone expert in Portal design should take this in hand - there's a lot of good material already there.
Portal:Theatre has recently been created and seeks several more editors to help out. If you have any questions and comments, please contact User:TBC.
The Iraq portal has recently been created. It still needs a lot of editing, so come and visit it and help us out. Contact Snailwalker for questions.
Use forum software or have an interest in them? Well take a look at Portal:Forums, the portal to organise Wikipedia's various forum information.
Interested in food? Then come to Portal:Food, a recently created portal that needs several more editors to join and help out. If you have any questions or comments, please contact User:TBC.
For those who are fashion savvy, help build the new Portal:Fashion. Any questions, comments should be directed to User:Osbus.
Portal:Fascism has been created, and any help editing and adding content would be welcome. Contact User:Lurker for further details.
The poll for the proposal to replace the Main Page is over! Just over 1000 users turned out for the event. The preliminary count of the poll results came out to 687 votes in support of the new design vs 213 oppose, with the remainder voting conditionally, neutrally, or anonymously. In commemoration of the end of the election, check out the pic of the day. Cheers!
Portal:Asia has recently been created and needs several more editors to come and help out. See User:TBC if you have any questions or comments.
The Tip of the day project needs Wikipedia experts to contribute their best tips. Remember your hardest wiki-lessons learned? Come and share those lessons in the form of tips, so that others won't have to go through the same troubles as you did in the climb up the learning curve. Tips begin displaying again on April 20th (for the first time since 2004)!
Portal: Rock and Roll has been created. However, it needs help on the construction of the portal itself and collaborators would be appreciated. For more information, see User:Osbus and if interested, leave a message on User talk: Osbus. Thank you.
Portal:Singularity has recently been created and needs several more editors to come and help out. See User:Jeb if you have any questions or comments. This will be a HUGE portal and many collaborators will be needed. I find that I am very overwhelmed with trying to figure out how to edit this Portal. Please help 'ole Jeb! Jeb 05:41, 24 March 2006 (UTC)
WikiProject Gaelic Games, is looking for users to help start up the project. If you have an interest, knowledge of, would like to learn more about Gaelic Games, i.e. Gaelic Football, Hurling, Camogie, or would just like to help out, then please come and sign up on the project page, or drop the project a line.
We have created new portal called Portal:Culture of Indians. We need people to help support and design it. We have 6 sections and 2 of them are completed.
Wikipedia:Scientific peer review is currently recruiting academic scientists for a review board. If you want to nominate yourself or another, come on over. Also, anyone who wants to help work out the logistics is welcome.
WikiProject Law Enforcement is in desperate need of support. Any help from people with experience or knowledge in this field would be greatly appreciated.
A Portal on NATO has been created. However it was started without prior knowledge to portal creation and editors to help create it would be extremely welcome.
The WikiProject Dinosaurs, has officially been reactivated and seeks more members knowledgable of dinosaurs. Please come and sign up on the project page.
There is a new Collaboration Project, Join in, designed to take some of the weight off Article Improvement Drive and deliver a faster response for editors that just need a few helpers with their article. Three articles have been nominated, so get collaborating!
WikiGnomes are writing WikiTips for the upcoming Grand Reopening of the Tip of the day project, which has been on hiatus since 2004. If you are a WikiGnome, and would like to become a Wikipedia tipster, feel free to join the fun! More on the reopening later...*We need help with the Basketball Wikiportal. If you like basketball this is the portal for you.
The vote for the Main Page Redesign, which continues through March 18th, is currently running 73% support / 27% oppose. Everyone with a user account is welcome to vote on the
Construction has begun on Portal:Psychology. Interested users needed to improve and maintain the portal.
A few of us have decided to start WikiProject Early Web History. If you remember the early thrill of the Web from a decade ago or more, please help us make sure that everyone else will.
The Wikipedia:WikiProject Poker Wikiproject has been active for about a week now. We welcome any new members that can help us complete our uncompleted tasks.
The Paris Streets Wikiproject is just ready to go - searchable street database (with infobox code generator) and experimental 'map and floating point' infobox is finally done and operational. Where do you live, where have you visited? Come share!
The Paris Portal has been launched, but is in need of expansion. Categories concerning Paris (needed by the Portal) are in great need of sorting and organisation - this last task could use some 'tried hands'.
The new WikiProject Pro Golfers needs your help inserting infoboxes on as many pages as possible. The template can be found at Template:Infobox golfer. Most of the information that you will need can be found in the pages or at [1].
New weekly collaboration - The Core topics collaboration of the week - has started. We'll work on essential articles intended for a release version of Wikipedia. You're invited.
The Help Project needs your help. We are about to undertake the monumental task of cleaning up the Wikipedia namespace, including a redesign of Wikipedia's help system. What were we thinking? Helllllllp!
