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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.
Events and projects [add]
Yearly or infrequent events
- Want to help good articles get better? Sign up for the February Good Article backlog drive! New and experienced reviewers welcome.
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 January 2026 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}}, {{copy edit inline}}, and their redirects) or are listed on the GOCE Requests page. It began on 1 January, 00:00 (UTC), and will end on 31 January, 23:59 (UTC).
- Wikipedia:WikiProject Women in Red 2025 Events:
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| Philadelphia WikiSalon (online) | January 10, 2026 |
| London 224 | January 11, 2026 |
| NC Wikipedia Day 2026 | January 15, 2026 |
| Perth 91 (Wikipedia Day) | January 15, 2026 |
| Chicago Wikipedia Day 2026 | January 17, 2026 |
| San Diego 130 | January 17, 2026 |
| Seattle Wikipedia Day 2026 | January 17, 2026 |
| Singapore Wikipedia Day 2026 | January 17, 2026 |
| Oxford 118 | January 18, 2026 |
| Manila Wikipedia Day 2026 | January 18, 2026 |
| Toronto Wikipedia Day 2026 | January 18, 2026 |
| Minnesota Wikipedia Day 2026 | January 18, 2026 |
| Portland (PDX) Wikipedia 25 | January 18, 2026 |
| Cardiff 6 | January 22, 2026 |
| Bay Area Wikipedia Day 2026 | January 24, 2026 |
| Exeter 5 | January 24, 2026 |
| Los Angeles Wikipedia Day 2026 | January 24, 2026 |
| Wikipedia Day NYC 2026 | January 25, 2026 |
| Brixton 13 | January 26, 2026 |
| San Diego 131 | February 7, 2026 |
| London 225 | February 8, 2026 |
| US Mountain West online | February 10, 2026 |
| Minnesota online | February 10, 2026 |
| Philadelphia WikiSalon (online) | February 14, 2026 |
| Christchurch 43 | February 15, 2026 |
| Perth 92 | February 15, 2026 |
| WikiDiaspora Day Toronto | February 28, 2026 |
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.
- WP Unreferenced articles is trying to clear the decades-long backlog of unreferenced articles, please help to lower the number of unreferenced articles below 30,000. Come contribute! Catfurball (talk) 20:15, 6 January 2026 (UTC)
- WikiProject Nevada was recently re-activated! New editors interested in the subject are encouraged to join. There are over 800 articles with unknown importance levels. Your help assessing these articles would be appreciated! The sub-project, WikiProject Las Vegas, has recently become inactive, so new editors for WikiProject Nevada may also be interested joining here!
🌀Hurricane Wind and Fire (talk) (contribs)🔥 02:09, 24 November 2025 (UTC)
- WikiProject Outlines news:
- New outlines:
- Outline of the Mongol Empire
- Outline of the Red Terror (Russia)
- Outline of the Russian Revolution of 1905
- Outline of the Russo-Japanese War
- Outline of the California genocide
- Outline of the Bailiwick of Guernsey
- Outline of the Chernobyl disaster
- Outline of the Chinese Civil War
- Outline of the Doors
- Outline of the C programming language
- Outline of the C sharp programming language
- Outline of the Java programming language
- Outline of the JavaScript programming language
- Outline of the Python programming language
- Outline of the Rust programming language
- Another outline has received Featured List status:
- The following outline covers an ongoing situation, please help keep it updated:
- The Outline of the week is Outline of France.
- Please help improve them. —The Transhumanist 11:45, 21 October 2025 (UTC)
- New outlines:
- WikiProject Magic: The Gathering has been cleaned up and is looking for interested participants. Also welcoming general suggestions and collabs. Snuggle 🖤 (talk) 20:43, 7 October 2025 (UTC)
- WikiProject Haiti is newly renovated and looking for interested participants. Averageuntitleduser (talk) 15:38, 21 July 2025 (UTC)
- Wikipedia:WikiProject Amateur radio starts living again! If you would like to contribute, please add yourself to the list of participants and include ways they can contribute. We've already started, come see! Check out the new navigational Template:Amateur radio topics! Feel free to invite new members personally or through public postings. Sinucep (talk) 14:29, 23 December 2025 (UTC)
Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
Updates for editors
- Wikimedia Foundation invites comments on proposed future of the Product and Technology Advisory Council until 28 February.
- All users with registered accounts can now use passkeys for two-factor authentication (2FA). Passkeys are a simple way to log in without using a second device. They verify the user's identity using a fingerprint, face scan, or a PIN code. To set up a passkey, first set up a regular 2FA method. Currently, to log in with a passkey, users must also use a password. Later this quarter, passwordless login will allow users to log in with a single click and a passkey. Users with advanced rights will also be required to have 2FA enabled. This is part of the Account Security project.
- Unregistered contributors on blocked IPs or blocked IP ranges can now interact on-wiki to appeal a block by creating a temporary account to appeal a block on the user talk page, unless the "prevent this user from editing their own talk page" is enabled. This solves the problem of logged-out users unable to use the default unblock process via user talk page. [1]
View all 20 community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week. For example, the Two-Factor Authentication (2FA) methods description on the management page has been updated. It is now clearer and easier for users to understand and make use of. [2]
Updates for technical contributors
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account_type, has been added to provide a reliable way to determine the account type being created in thecreateaccountandautocreateaccountactions. As part of this change, the variableaccountnamehas been renamed toaccount_name, andaccountnameis now deprecated. Edit filter managers should update any filters that use hardcoded account type checks or the deprecated variable. [3] - Image thumbnails that are requested in non-standard sizes, and using non-standard methods such as direct requests to
upload.wikimedia.org/…will stop working in the near future. This change is to prevent ongoing external abuse by web-scrapers and bots. Some users with custom CSS/JS, Interface Admins who can fix gadgets and local skins, and Tool-authors, will need to update their code to use standard thumbnail sizes. Details, search-links, and examples of how to fix them, are available in the task. - Detailed code updates later this week: MediaWiki
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