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If you'd like a free, high-quality picture each day you can subscribe to the [[Commons:Main Page|Commons]]' [[Commons:Commons:Picture of the day|Picture of the day]] mailing list. Sign up [https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/daily-image-l via email] or [https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/api.php?action=featuredfeed&feed=potd&feedformat=rss&language=en via RSS feed].
== You
Wikipedia calls itself "the free encyclopedia that anyone can edit." If you don't think you have anything to add to it, you're wrong—Wikipedia is still far from complete. But you as a reader can help when you see an article with a problem, or if you search for an article and don't find it.
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{{WTMM-tip|When you're thinking about fixing or adding to a Wikipedia article, make sure you have reliable sources at your fingertips first, as described on [[Help:Wikipedia: The Missing Manual/Name of Part of the Book/Name of the Chapter#Section heading|the section about xx]].}}
=== Articles with
If you see vandalism in a Wikipedia article, it could easily have just happened, and an editor's in the process of fixing it. Wait 5 minutes or so, and then refresh your browser window (or leave the page and return). If it's still not gone, you can ask editors to help. Similarly, when you see something in an article that's incorrect or obviously missing (perhaps you had a question that you expected the article to answer), you can always ask about the problem, which makes it much more likely that active editors will fix it.
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:Voilá! You've posted a comment to Wikipedia, thereby contributing to the improvement of an article (or bringing missed vandalism to the attention of other editors).
=== Missing
You've searched for an article and didn't find it, even using an outside search engine ([[Help:Wikipedia: The Missing Manual/Name of Part of the Book/Name of the Chapter#Section heading|the section about xx]]). Now what? Wikipedia has created a page where you can check to see if someone has already suggested that Wikipedia needs such an article. And that page, [[Wikipedia:Requested articles]], has associated pages where you can add the name of the article as a suggestion if no one else already has.
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