Wikipedia:Community bulletin board: Difference between revisions

How to add to the community bulletin board

"WP:CBB" redirects here. For WikiProject College Basketball, see WP:CBBALL.

Welcome to the community bulletin board, which is a page used for announcements from WikiProjects and other groups. Included here are coordinated efforts, events, projects, and other general announcements.

• Dashboard
• News
• Task Center
• Goings-on
• Meetups
• In the media
• Mailing lists

Events and projects [add]

Yearly or infrequent events

• WikiProject Women in Green is holding a month-long Good Article Edit-a-thon event in October 2023!

Monthly or continuous events

• 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.
• Guild of Copy Editors' editing drive. The March 2024 backlog drive is a one-month-long effort by the Guild of Copy Editors to reduce the backlog of articles that require copy editing: those carrying the {{copy edit}} tag (also {{awkward}}, {{copy edit section}}, {{inappropriate person}}, and {{copy edit inline}} and their redirects) or are listed on the GOCE Requests page. It began on 1 March, 00:00 (UTC), and will end on 31 March, 23:59 (UTC).
• Wikipedia:WikiProject Women in Red 2023 Events: WP:WIR/EVENTS - updated monthly
• 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.

Meetups for August 2024 +/-

Christchurch 30	August 4, 2024 (2024-08-04)
NC Triangle Wiknic	August 6, 2024 (2024-08-06)
Seattle Wiknic	August 11, 2024 (2024-08-11)
London 207	August 11, 2024 (2024-08-11)
San Diego 112 Wiknic	August 17, 2024 (2024-08-17)
San Francisco Wiknic	August 17, 2024 (2024-08-17)
Oxford 103	August 18, 2024 (2024-08-18)
Manhattan Beach Edit-a-thon	August 24, 2024 (2024-08-24)
BLT Office Hours	August 25, 2024 (2024-08-25)
San Diego 113	August 26, 2024 (2024-08-26)

Meetups for September 2024 +/-

Christchurch 31	September 1, 2024 (2024-09-01)
Seattle meetup	September 17, 2024 (2024-09-17)
BLT Office Hours	September 22, 2024 (2024-09-22)
San Diego 114	September 23, 2024 (2024-09-23)

WikiProject notices [add]

Also consider posting WikiProject, Task Force, and Collaboration news at The Signpost's WikiProject Report page. Please include your signature when adding a listing here.

• WikiProject Bendigo is currently seeking interested editors to join the project. Lotsw73 (talk) 05:03, 30 January 2024 (UTC)
• WikiProject Operating systems (in proposal state) is looking for interested participants to support the creation of a regular WikiProject page.
• WikiProject Outlines news:
  • The newest outlines are:
    • Outline of classical music
    • Outline of the 2023 Israel–Hamas war
    • Outline of the Iraq War
  • The Outline of the week is Outline of globalization.
  • Feel free to help improve them. —The Transhumanist 15:58, 19 January 2024 (UTC)
• Revive WikiProject United States governors. This WikiProject is dedicated to the leaders of the 50 U.S. states. If you agree, post a message on the WikiProject talk page.
• WikiProject AI Cleanup has recently been started to combat the addition of problematic AI-generated content. Interested editors are encouraged to join! ARandomName123 (talk) 01:35, 5 December 2023 (UTC)

Technical news

Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Feature news

• AbuseFilter editors and maintainers can now make a CAPTCHA show if a filter matches an edit. This allows communities to quickly respond to spamming by automated bots. [1]
• Stewards can now specify if global blocks should prevent account creation. Before this change by the Trust and Safety Product Team, all global blocks would prevent account creation. This will allow stewards to reduce the unintended side-effects of global blocks on IP addresses.

Project updates

• Nominations are open on Wikitech for new members to refresh the Toolforge standards committee. The committee oversees the Toolforge Right to fork policy and Abandoned tool policy among other duties. Nominations will remain open until at least 2024-08-26.
• One new wiki has been created: a Wikipedia in West Coast Bajau (w:bdr:) [2]

Tech news prepared by Tech News writers and posted by bot • Contribute • Translate • Get help • Give feedback • Subscribe or unsubscribe.

Requests for comment

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
• Unsorted

General notices