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Community bulletin board

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How to add to the community bulletin board

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

Monthly or continuous events

Recently completed: Women who died: 2024 Alphabet run: A & B Internet personalities
New this month: Alphabet run: C & D Black women
Ongoing initiatives: Music #1day1woman
Upcoming events: Alphabet run: E & F Artists+Activists Ideas


Meetups for February 2025 +/-
Utah Wikipedia Day at
Sundance Film Festival		 February 1, 2025 (2025-02-01)
Singapore 19 February 1, 2025 (2025-02-01)
Los Angeles Wildfire Edit-a-thon
at the Hammer Museum		 February 2, 2025 (2025-02-02)
CAH Black History Month online February 4, 2025 (2025-02-04)
London 213 February 9, 2025 (2025-02-09)
US Mountain West online February 11, 2025 (2025-02-11)
WikiCredCon - San Francisco February 14, 2025 (2025-02-14)
Christchurch 36 February 16, 2025 (2025-02-16)
Oxford 108 February 16, 2025 (2025-02-16)
Seattle February 18, 2025 (2025-02-18)
NYC (WikiWed) February 19, 2025 (2025-02-19)
South Africa 45 February 22, 2025 (2025-02-22)


Meetups for March 2025 +/-
Edmonton A+F Panel March 6, 2025 (2025-03-06)
London 214 March 9, 2025 (2025-03-09)
Brighton 4 March 15, 2025 (2025-03-15)
Seattle March 18, 2025 (2025-03-18)
Edinburgh 20 March 29, 2025 (2025-03-29)
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.

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

Weekly highlight

  • Communities using growth tools can now showcase one event on the Special:Homepage for newcomers. This feature will help newcomers to be informed about editing activities they can participate in. Administrators can create a new event to showcase at Special:CommunityConfiguration. To learn more about this feature, please read the Diff post, have a look at the documentation, or contact the Growth team.

Updates for editors

Highlighted talk pages improvements
  • Starting next week, talk pages at these wikis – Spanish Wikipedia, French Wikipedia, Italian Wikipedia, Japanese Wikipedia – will get a new design. This change was extensively tested as a Beta feature and is the last step of talk pages improvements. [1]
  • You can now navigate to view a redirect page directly from its action pages, such as the history page. Previously, you were forced to first go to the redirect target. This change should help editors who work with redirects a lot. Thanks to user stjn for this improvement. [2]
  • When a Cite reference is reused many times, wikis currently show either numbers like "1.23" or localized alphabetic markers like "a b c" in the reference list. Previously, if there were so many reuses that the alphabetic markers were all used, an error message was displayed. As part of the work to modernize Cite customization, these errors will no longer be shown and instead the backlinks will fall back to showing numeric markers like "1.23" once the alphabetic markers are all used.
  • The log entries for each change to an editor's user-groups are now clearer by specifying exactly what has changed, instead of the plain before and after listings. Translators can help to update the localized versions. Thanks to user Msz2001 for these improvements.
  • A new filter has been added to the Special:Nuke tool, which allows administrators to mass delete pages, to enable users to filter for pages in a range of page sizes (in bytes). This allows, for example, deleting pages only of a certain size or below. [3]
  • Non-administrators can now check which pages are able to be deleted using the Special:Nuke tool. Thanks to user MolecularPilot for this and the previous improvements. [4]
  • Recurrent item View all 25 community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week. For example, a bug was fixed in the configuration for the AV1 video file format, which enables these files to play again. [5]

Updates for technical contributors

  • Parsoid Read Views is going to be rolling out to most Wiktionaries over the next few weeks, following the successful transition of Wikivoyage to Parsoid Read Views last year. For more information, see the Parsoid/Parser Unification project page. [6][7]
  • Developers of tools that run on-wiki should note that mw.Uri is deprecated. Tools requiring mw.Uri must explicitly declare mediawiki.Uri as a ResourceLoader dependency, and should migrate to the browser native URL API soon. [8]

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Requests for comment

Discussions in the following areas have requested wider attention via Requests for comment:

General notices
The Signpost
7 February 2025

Help out

You can help improve the articles listed below! This list updates frequently, so check back here for more tasks to try. (See Wikipedia:Maintenance or the Task Center for further information.)

Fix spelling and grammar
None
Fix wikilinks

Help counter systemic bias by creating new articles on important women.

Help improve popular pages, especially those of low quality.

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This week's article for improvement is:

Family cookbooks

Previous selections: Peninsula · Ice cream social · Gastropub

This week's backlog of the week is:

Category:Biography articles without blp parameter

Things to review

Newest featured content

Tip of the day

When to use subpages

A subpage is a page that is stored "under" another page, and includes the parent page's name in its title, followed by "/" and the subpage's name. For example, User:Eloquence/Favorite Wikipedia quotes. When you visit a subpage, you will see a backlink (aka breadcrumb) near the top of the page back to the parent page.

Subpages can be useful for organizing and archiving project content, and for creating workspace under a user account. On a parent page, you can create a link to one of its subpages by typing [[/Name]]. If you end the link with a slash, e.g., [[/Name/]], the slashes are hidden in the output.

Articles don't have subpages. That is, subpages are not enabled in the article namespace, because many articles might qualify as subtopics of more than one topic. Instead, follow article naming conventions and include links to related subjects in the text.

For the subtopic structure of subjects, see Portal:Contents/Outlines.

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