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Community bulletin board Bulletins Quick directory Directory Index Maintenance Requests Shortcuts Tools 29 January 2014   News and notes: Wiki-PR defends itself, condemns Wikipedia's actions Traffic report: Six strikes out WikiProject report: Special report: Contesting contests Arbitration report: Kafziel case closed; Kww admonished by motion Recent research: Translation assignments, weasel words, and Wikipedia's content in its later years Single page Book Front page About Subscribe Suggestions Archives Centralized discussion A CfD on whether to delete Category:Articles created via the Article Wizard, which has 33,000 pages. A request for the film Fuck to be featured on the main page as Today's featured article. An RfC on which abbreviations and parameters should be included in {{Marriage}}. An RfC for AfC reviewer permission implementation. An RfC on creating a speedy deletion criterion for pages in violation of WP:NOTWEBHOST. An RfC to approve a bot adding stress marks to Russian words. An RfC to establish criteria for use of Pending Changes level 2. An RfC on requiring QPQ for Did You Know nominations of pages created by other editors. An alternative idea to make orphan tags invisible in the mainspace, rather than move them to the talk page. An RfC on how MOS:YEAR should be applied to sports year ranges: 2010/2011 vs. 2010/11 or 2010–11 vs. 2010–2011 depending on length of season. Should Wikipedia provide a more prominent disclaimer in general, or on health and medical content? An RfC on the use(s) of the summary-style template main and its allies. 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 Nova Scotia 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: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:Azerbaijan – news section has reports from 2009. 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: Life sciences The life sciences involve the study of living organisms 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... “ → It was all completely incomprehensible to me. I was fearful of the language. You had to look up every third word. ” Nominate one! Tip of the day... How to add an article to a category Wikipedia has index systems called Categories, in which links to articles are provided based on category tags included in each article. To add an article to a particular category, add [[Category:Category name]] to the article's text (preferably at the bottom). 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