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Community bulletin board

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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

Monthly or continuous events

Recently completed: Alphabet run: U, V, W Asian women
New this month: Alphabet run: X, Y, Z Food and drink Women who died: 2025
Ongoing initiatives: Music #1day1woman
Upcoming events: Ideas


Meetups for December 2025 +/-
Brixton 12 December 1, 2025 (2025-12-01)
Philadelphia WikiSalon December 13, 2025 (2025-12-13)
London 223 December 14, 2025 (2025-12-14)
San Diego 129 December 14, 2025 (2025-12-14)
Seattle meetup December 16, 2025 (2025-12-16)
Zamboanga 1 December 18, 2025 (2025-12-18)
Singapore 25 - SingLit Wikithon December 27, 2025 (2025-12-27)


Meetups for January 2026 +/-
San Diego 130 January 17, 2026 (2026-01-17)
Seattle Wikipedia
     Day 2026		 January 17, 2026 (2026-01-17)
Manila Wikipedia
     Day 2026		 January 18, 2026 (2026-01-18)
Toronto Wikipedia
     Day 2026		 January 18, 2026 (2026-01-18)
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.

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)

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.

Updates for editors

  • Recurrent item View all 18 community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week. For example, one of the fixes addressed an issue for temporary accounts adding an external URL, which triggered an hCaptcha request in more cases than intended, and did not display the required popup on the first attempt to publish the edit. [1]

Updates for technical contributors

  • To improve database and site performance, external links to Wikimedia projects will no longer be stored in the database. This means they will not be searchable in Special:LinkSearch, will not be checked by the Spam Blacklist or AbuseFilter as new links, and will not be in the externallinks table on database replicas. In the future this may be extended to other highly-linked trusted websites on a per-wiki basis, such as Creative Commons links on Wikimedia Commons. [2]
  • Recurrent item Detailed code updates later this week: MediaWiki

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Requests for comment

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


General notices
  • Stay up to date with what's happening on Wikipedia. The newest issue of The Signpost is out now.
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17 December 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
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Fix wikilinks
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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 backlog of the week is:

Category:Wikipedia non-free file size reduction requests for manual processing

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