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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
- 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 drive. The November 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 November, 00:00 (UTC), and end on 30 November, 23:59 (UTC).
- Wikipedia:WikiProject Women in Red 2025 Events:
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| Upcoming events: |
| 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 |
| Seattle Wikidata 13th Birthday |
November 1, 2025 |
| Cardiff 5 | November 6, 2025 |
| San Diego 128 | November 8, 2025 |
| London 222 | November 9, 2025 |
| Minnesota | November 11, 2025 |
| West Hollywood | November 15, 2025 |
| Oxford 117 | November 16, 2025 |
| Seattle meetup | November 18, 2025 |
| Chicago Nov 2025 | November 22, 2025 |
| Perth 90 | November 23, 2025 |
| Aberdeen 7 | November 24, 2025 |
| Brighton 7 | November 29, 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.
- 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 the Renaissance.
- Please help improve them. —The Transhumanist 11:45, 21 October 2025 (UTC)
- New outlines:
- 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)
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
- The Wikipedia iOS app has launched an A/B/C test of improvements made to the tabbed browsing feature for select regions and languages. The test, named “More dynamic tabs”, explores new tab experiences and includes “Did you know” and “Because you read” article recommendations. You can read more on the project page.
- Autoconfirmed users on small and medium wikis with the CampaignEvents extension can now use Event Registration without the Event Organizer right. This feature lets organizers enable registration, manage participants, and lets users register with one click instead of signing event pages.
View all 31 community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week. For example, the issue of flashing colors when holding or pressing the arrow keys under the dark mode settings in Vector 2022 has been fixed. [1]
Updates for technical contributors
- The CampaignEvents extension will be deployed to all remaining wikis during the week of 17 November 2025. The extension currently includes three features: Event Registration, Collaboration List, and Invitation List. For this rollout, Invitation List will not be enabled on Wikifunctions and MediaWiki unless requested by those communities. Visit the deployment page to learn more.
- The SwaggerUI-based REST sandbox experience is now live on all wiki projects. The sandbox can be accessed through the Special:RestSandbox page. Please report any issues to the MediaWiki Interfaces team board, or join the discussion on the project launch page. [2]
- Transform endpoints with a trailing slash path in the MediaWiki REST API are now marked as deprecated. They will remain functional during this time, but removal is expected by the end of January 2026. All API users currently calling them are encouraged to transition to the non-trailing slash versions. Both endpoint variations can be found and tested using the REST Sandbox. See the MediaWiki REST API Deprecation page for more detailed information about the API deprecation policies and procedures.
- A dedicated changelog now exists for the MediaWiki REST API. The changelog provides an overview of these changes, making it easier for developers to keep track of improvements and iterations. Announcements will also continue to flow through the standard communication channels, including Tech News and email distribution lists, but can now be more easily referenced from a central location. If you have feedback about the style, structure, or content of this changelog, please join the discussion.
- Administrators can delete the tracking category which was previously added by the JsonConfig extension, as it is no longer used. See the categories linked from Q130635582. It is OK if there are still pages listed in the category as that is just a caching issue, and they will be automatically cleared out the next time each page is edited. [3]
- Detailed code updates later this week: MediaWiki
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General notices
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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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