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Welcome to the community portal!

This page provides a listing of current collaborations, tasks, and news about English Wikipedia. New to Wikipedia? See the contributing to Wikipedia page or our tutorial for everything you need to know to get started. For a listing of internal project pages of interest, see the department directory.

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For a listing of ongoing discussions and current requests, see the Dashboard.

Ask questions about how to use or edit Wikipedia
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Ask research questions about any topic except Wikipedia itself
Work with other editors on a shared area of interest
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Discuss existing and proposed policies
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Incubate new ideas before formally proposing them
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Community bulletin board

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

  • The Core Contest. April 15 - May 31, an contest to improve broad and important articles, together with others or alone. Sign-ups are open until the end of the competition.
  • Wikidata and Sister Projects. May 29 - June 1, an online event exploring the different ways Wikidata is connected and used in the other Wikimedia projects, including Wikipedia. We are currently accepting session proposals for the event program, you can submit them here, or ask any questions you may have!

Monthly or continuous events

Recently completed: Alphabet run: E & F Artists+Activists Women of the Arab World
New this month: Alphabet run: G & H Business
Ongoing initiatives: Music #1day1woman
Upcoming events: Revolutionary women Alphabet run: I & J Ideas


Meetups for April 2025 +/-
Christchurch 38 April 6, 2025 (2025-04-06)
Minnesota April 6, 2025 (2025-04-06)
Adelaide 24 April 12, 2025 (2025-04-12)
Perth 88 April 13, 2025 (2025-04-13)
London 215 April 13, 2025 (2025-04-13)
Seattle April 22, 2025 (2025-04-22)
Johannesburg April 25, 2025 (2025-04-25)
Los Angeles April 26, 2025 (2025-04-26)
Singapore (2025-04-26) (2025-04-27)April 26–27, 2025
Oxford 110 April 27, 2025 (2025-04-27)
San Diego 120 April 27, 2025 (2025-04-27)
Aberdeen 1 April 28, 2025 (2025-04-28)


Meetups for May 2025 +/-
Exeter 3 May 3, 2025 (2025-05-03)
San Diego 121 May 3, 2025 (2025-05-03)
San Francisco May 8, 2025 (2025-05-08)
San Diego 122 May 10, 2025 (2025-05-10)
London 216 May 11, 2025 (2025-05-11)
Los Angeles May 11, 2025 (2025-05-11)
US Mountain West online May 13, 2025 (2025-05-13)
WikiCon New Zealand (2025-05-16) (2025-05-18)May 16–18, 2025

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.

General notices

This week's article for improvement is:

Internet research

Previous selections: Stuffed toy · Honshu · Plate (dishware)

Tip of the day

Setting Wikipedia time to your time zone

Wikipedia's servers record activity based on Coordinated Universal Time (UTC for short). You can set your user preferences to display time for the time zone you are in.

If you do this, Wikipedia will show all times in Recent changes, page histories, and contribution histories based on your local time zone. However, when you sign a talk page with ~~~~, the timestamp is created in text, so it has to be displayed in UTC. Automated logs such as image file uploads are also shown in server time (UTC).

To show other users what time zone you are in, you could even add a time userbox to your own user page.

Read more:
To add this auto-updating template to your user page, use {{totd}}