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General notices
- The RFC discussion regarding WP:OUTING and WMF essay about paid editing and outing (see more at the ArbCom noticeboard archives) is now archived. Milieus #3 and #4 received support; so did concrete proposal #1.
- The gadget to opt-out search results from sister projects is created per discussion. Registered users may go to user preferences setup, find the opt-out option and select it.
- Search results from selected sister projects—Wiktionary,
Wikibooks, Wikivoyage (title matches only), Wikiquote, and Wikisource—are now activated. See more at the archived RfC discussion (short summary of results).
- Correction: There was "no consensus" to include search results from Wikibooks. Therefore, a Phabricator task was filed to suppress those search results.
- Do you have need for a specialized script that doesn't exist yet, or have an idea for a cool new script or gadget? Post requests and ideas at Wikipedia:User scripts/Requests.
- Free subscriptions to high-quality paywalled journals, newspaper archives, and online reference works are available for Wikipedia editors. For more information, see Wikipedia:The Wikipedia Library/Databases
Projects seeking help
Also consider posting WikiProject, Task Force, and Collaboration news at the Signpost's WikiProject Report page.
- The Tip of The Day department needs editors to monitor the tips before they "go live". To do this, place {{Totd-tomorrow}} on your user page or user talk page. That will show the tip a day early. When you find an inaccuracy or other problem, you can fix it yourself, or report it at the Tip of the day talk page. Thank you!
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- Portal:Space - The selected article excerpts were copied and pasted between 2006 and 2009. The leads of the corresponding articles have greatly improved since then.
- Portal:Thinking - "Selected" sections need new material. Been the same for years.
- The following portals have interesting design features that you may find useful
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- Portal:South East England - A "parent" portal that uses selected content from several "child" portals, chosen at random for each type of content.
- Portal:Philosophy - Automatically cycles through 52 "Selected philosophers", one per week, year after year.
- Portal:Arts - Uses random generators to display random featured status selections.
Discussions and collaborations
Discussions in the following areas have requested wider attention via Requests for comment:
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How to use red links
When a link in Wikipedia leads to nowhere, it is displayed in red to alert our editors that it requires attention. A red link can mean one of two things:
- The link is broken and no longer leads to an article (perhaps because the underlying article was deleted). In such a case, the link needs to be removed or renamed to point to an existing article.
- A new article is needed. When a Wikipedian writes an article, it is common practice to linkify key topics pertinent to an understanding of the subject, even if those topics don't have an article on Wikipedia yet. This has two applications:
- From within an article, such a link prepares the article to be fully supported. At any time, a Wikipedian may independently write an article on the linked-to subject, and when this happens, there's already a link ready and waiting for it. The red link also gives readers the opportunity to click on it to create the needed article on the spot.
- In topic lists, it is useful to include every topic on the subject you can possibly find or think of. When they are turned into links, the list immediately shows where the gaps in Wikipedia's coverage for that subject are, since all of the topics missing articles will show up in red. Such lists are useful tools in developing subject areas on Wikipedia, as they show where work is needed most.
To add this auto-updating template to your user page, use {{totd}}
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