Wikipedia:Community portal/Redesign/Draft1a

• Respond to a request for comment.
• Can you draw or take pictures? Make a requested image.
• Peer review or assess some articles, especially those recently revised.
• Offer your thoughts and ideas on proposed policies.
• Can you use GIS tools? Help make requested maps.
• Can you speak another language? There are articles that need translation into English.
• Would you like to respond to more requests?
• Comment on the wisdom of new bot proposals.
• Can you code? Code a useful bot or update an offline report.
• Proofread a finished translation.
• Become a Wikipedia tipster
• Let a bot suggest pages for you to edit

Or...

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Not sure where to report a certain type of problem with article content? If it exists, it's probably listed at Wikipedia:Maintenance.

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Collaborations

In order to improve the quality of articles which are short or lacking in detail, Wikipedia's community takes part in collaborations to expand articles.

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Policies and guidelines

Wikipedia has many established policies, guidelines, conventions, and traditions. This is a very brief sampling of some of the most important.

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Wikipedia by department

Wikipedia has hundreds of unique departments, each maintaining a certain subject, or a template, or resolving disputes. Here is a list of many of these groups.

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Welcome! ·

New user tutorial ·

New user log ·

Sandbox ·

What Wikipedia is not ·

Wikipedians ·

Glossary ·

[http://wikimediafoundation.org/fundraising Donations]

Account settings and maintenance ·

Getting in touch

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Editorial departments

Articles are contributed and edited directly by users. All Wikipedians belong to the editorial team.

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WikiProjects are ongoing collaborations to improve articles having to do with a particular subject. Hundreds exist — to find one that interests you, click here. Wikipedia's general projects are listed here.

• Wikipedia:Cleaning department
• Counter vandalism unit

• Categorization projects
• Cleanup Taskforce
• Version 1.0 Editorial Team
• Forum for Encyclopedic Standards
• Wikipedia:WikiProject Countering systemic bias

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Article Categorization

Bad category names

Blank pages

Bad links

Dead-end pages

Disambig pages w/ links

Duplicated sections

Elements of Style

Linkrot

Orphaned categories

Punctuation

Missing articles

Most wanted articles

Most wanted stubs

Neglected articles

Shortpages

Stub sorting

Syntax Project

Templates with red links

Transwiki log cleanup

Typos

Untagged Images

Untagged stubs

Commons:Untagged img

User categorisation

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Wikipedia is hosted by the Wikimedia Foundation, a non-profit organization that also hosts a range of other multilingual and free-content projects. Here are the links to their main community pages:

About Wikimedia · Other Wikipedia languages · [http://www.wikipedia.org Multilingual portal] ·

Wikimedia goings-on

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