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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.
Yearly or infrequent events
- Want to help good articles get better? Sign up for the October Good Article backlog drive! New and experienced reviewers welcome.
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 blitz. The October 2025 editing blitz was a one-week-long effort by the Guild of Copy Editors to reduce its backlog. The themes were: articles on the GOCE Requests page, and articles on the backlog from March 2024 and April 2024. It began on 12 October, 00:00 (UTC), and ended on 18 October, 23:59 (UTC). Stay tuned for the next event.
- Wikipedia:WikiProject Women in Red 2025 Events:
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Dunedin 1 | October 3, 2025 |
Perth 89 | October 4, 2025 |
Dunedin 2 | October 10, 2025 |
London 221 | October 12, 2025 |
Minnesota | October 14, 2025 |
Dunedin 3 | October 17, 2025 |
Oxford 116 | October 19, 2025 |
Brixton 10 | October 20, 2025 |
Edinburgh 24 | October 22, 2025 |
Portsmouth 4 | October 25, 2025 |
Exeter 5 | October 25, 2025 |
San Diego 127 | October 25, 2025 |
Seoul | October 25, 2025 |
Brixton 11 | October 27, 2025 |
Aberdeen 6 | October 27, 2025 |
Seattle | October 28, 2025 |
Wikidata 13th Birth- day in Seattle |
November 1, 2025 |
Cardiff 5 | November 6, 2025 |
San Diego 128 | November 8, 2025 |
London 222 | November 9, 2025 |
Minnesota | November 11, 2025 |
Brighton 7 | November 29, 2025 |
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.
- WikiProject Outlines news:
- New outlines:
- Outline of the Mongol Empire
- Outline of the Red Terror (Russia)
- Outline of the Russian Revolution of 1905
- Outline of the Russo-Japanese War
- Outline of the California genocide
- Outline of the Bailiwick of Guernsey
- Outline of the Chernobyl disaster
- Outline of the Chinese Civil War
- Outline of the Doors
- Outline of the C programming language
- Outline of the C sharp programming language
- Outline of the Java programming language
- Outline of the JavaScript programming language
- Outline of the Python programming language
- Outline of the Rust programming language
- Another outline has received Featured List status:
- The following outline covers an ongoing situation, please help keep it updated:
- The Outline of the week is Outline of biochemistry.
- Please help improve them. —The Transhumanist 11:45, 21 October 2025 (UTC)
- New outlines:
- Wikipedia:WikiProject Magic: The Gathering has been cleaned up and is looking for interested participants. Also welcoming general suggestions and collabs. Snuggle 🖤 (talk) 20:43, 7 October 2025 (UTC)
- WP Unreferenced articles is trying to clear the decades-long backlog of unreferenced articles. The number of unreferenced articles has risen above 47,000, help to lower that number below 40,000. Come contribute! Catfurball (talk) 19:58, 10 September 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)
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20 October 2025 |
And the "Global Resource Distribution Committee" emerges.
Two shortlisted WMF Board candidates removed from the ballot.
Who was bumped and why?
...while Musk prepares to launch "Grokipedia".
Serial-killer miniseries, deceased scientist, government shutdowns and Sandalwood hit "Kantara" crowd the tubes.
Don't get too excited before you read this.
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