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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
- Monthly contest, WikiProject Military history. The contest department of the Military history WikiProject aims to motivate increased quality in military history articles by offering a form of friendly competition for project members making improvements to them. The primary contest available is a simple rolling competition that awards points for improving articles. The contest runs from the first to last day of each month.
- Guild of Copy Editors' editing drive. The September 2025 backlog drive is a one-month-long effort by the Guild of Copy Editors to reduce the backlog of articles that require copy editing: those carrying the {{copy edit}} tag (also {{awkward}}, {{copy edit section}}, {{inappropriate person}}, and {{copy edit inline}}, and their redirects) or are listed on the GOCE Requests page. It will begin on 1 September, 00:00 (UTC), and end on 30 September, 23:59 (UTC).
- Wikipedia:WikiProject Women in Red 2025 Events:
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| Christchurch 41 | August 3, 2025 |
| San Ysidro (SD125) | August 9, 2025 |
| Seattle Wiknic | August 9, 2025 |
| London 219 | August 10, 2025 |
| San Diego Wiknic (SD126) | August 16, 2025 |
| Oxford 114 | August 17, 2025 |
| Aberdeen 4 | August 25, 2025 |
| Minnesota | August 26, 2025 |
| Brighton 6 | September 6, 2025 |
| San Diego 126 | September 13, 2025 |
| Exeter 5 | September 13, 2025 |
| London 220 | September 14, 2025 |
| Seattle | September 16, 2025 |
| Edinburgh 23 | September 27, 2025 |
| Chicago Editathon | September 16, 2025 |
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.
- WP Unreferenced articles is trying to clear the decades-long backlog of unreferenced articles. The backlog recently reached under 48,000. Come contribute! Catfurball (talk) 18:53, 23 August 2025 (UTC)
- WikiProject Haiti is newly renovated and looking for interested participants. Averageuntitleduser (talk) 15:38, 21 July 2025 (UTC)
- WikiProject Kabbalah is re-activating as there are a lot of maintenance templates on these articles and new references and inline citations are needed. See Kabbalah Books Online. New participants welcome!! Nnev66 (talk) 23:07, 26 May 2025 (UTC)
- WikiProject Christianity is back and running! We are looking for new and interested editors to join. We look forward to working with you! Sheriff U3 12:51, 5 April 2025 (UTC)
- WikiProject Outlines news:
- New outlines:
- Another outline has been nominated for Featured List status:
- The following outline covers an ongoing situation, please help keep it updated:
- The Outline of the week is Outline of ancient Rome.
- Please help improve them. —The Transhumanist 11:59, 29 March 2025 (UTC)
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