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Community bulletin board

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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

Monthly or continuous events

Recently completed: Women in STEM Geofocus: Islands I–P Women in archaeology
New this month: Asian women Geofocus: Islands Q–Z Women in engineering
Ongoing initiatives: #1day1woman Education
Upcoming events: Ideas


Meetups for November 2024 +/-
London 210 November 10, 2024 (2024-11-10)
US Mountain West online November 12, 2024 (2024-11-12)
Wiki Uff da! - Event 2 November 14, 2024 (2024-11-14)
Oxford 106 November 17, 2024 (2024-11-17)
San Diego 116 November 18, 2024 (2024-11-18)
Seattle meetup November 19, 2024 (2024-11-19)
Wiki Uff da! - Event 3 November 20, 2024 (2024-11-20)
WikiCon Australia 2024 November 23, 2024 (2024-11-23)
BLT Office Hours November 24, 2024 (2024-11-24)


Meetups for December 2024 +/-
Christchurch 34 December 1, 2024 (2024-12-01)
London 211 December 8, 2024 (2024-12-08)
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.

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

  • Stewards can now make global account blocks cause global autoblocks. This will assist stewards in preventing abuse from users who have been globally blocked. This includes preventing globally blocked temporary accounts from exiting their session or switching browsers to make subsequent edits for 24 hours. Previously, temporary accounts could exit their current session or switch browsers to continue editing. This is an anti-abuse tool improvement for the Temporary Accounts project. You can read more about the progress on key features for temporary accounts. [1]
  • Wikis that have the CampaignEvents extension enabled can now use the Collaboration List feature. This list provides a new, easy way for contributors to learn about WikiProjects on their wikis. Thanks to the Campaign team for this work that is part of the 2024/25 annual plan. If you are interested in bringing the CampaignEvents extension to your wiki, you can follow these steps or you can reach out to User:Udehb-WMF for help.
  • The text color for red links will be slightly changed later this week to improve their contrast in light mode. [2]
  • View all 32 community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week. For example, on multilingual wikis, users can now hide translations from the WhatLinksHere special page.

Updates for technical contributors

  • XML data dumps have been temporarily paused whilst a bug is investigated. [3]

In depth

  • Temporary Accounts have been deployed to six wikis; thanks to the Trust and Safety Product team for this work, you can read about the deployment plans. Beginning next week, Temporary Accounts will also be enabled on seven other projects. If you are active on these wikis and need help migrating your tools, please reach out to User:Udehb-WMF for assistance.
  • The latest quarterly Language and Internationalization newsletter is available. It includes: New languages supported in translatewiki or in MediaWiki; New keyboard input methods for some languages; details about recent and upcoming meetings, and more.

Meetings and events

  • MediaWiki Users and Developers Conference Fall 2024 is happening in Vienna, Austria and online from 4 to 6 November 2024. The conference will feature discussions around the usage of MediaWiki software by and within companies in different industries and will inspire and onboard new users.

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Requests for comment

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

General notices
  • A request for adminship is open for discussion.
  • Eligible users are invited to submit a candidacy for the Arbitration Committee elections at the elections page.
  • Sign up here for the month-long Guild of Copy Editors' November copy-editing drive. Have fun, improve articles, and earn barnstars!
The Signpost
6 November 2024

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.)

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 article for improvement is:

Slow living

Previous selections: Space Age · Image · Longshore drift

This week's backlog of the week is:

Wikipedia:WikiProject U.S. Roads/Shields task force/Requests

Things to review

Newest featured content

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  1. Edit directly in the signature box
    1. Go to your Preferences and type some wiki-markup code (and/or HTML markup code) into the signature box to augment your stock signature
    2. Check the box that says "Treat the above as Wiki markup"
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    2. Design how you want your signature to look, putting links in it by adding brackets [[ ]]
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    4. Be sure not to copy the tags at the beginning and end of the code that say <p> </p>. Or...
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