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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.
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- 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 began on 1 November, 00:00 (UTC), and will end on 30 November, 23:59 (UTC).
- Wikipedia:WikiProject Women in Red 2025 Events:
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| Seattle Wikidata 13th Birthday |
November 1, 2025 |
| Cardiff 5 | November 6, 2025 |
| Philadelphia WikiSalon | November 8, 2025 |
| San Diego 128 | November 8, 2025 |
| London 222 | November 9, 2025 |
| Minnesota | November 11, 2025 |
| US Mountain West online | November 11, 2025 |
| West Hollywood | November 15, 2025 |
| Seattle meetup | November 18, 2025 |
| Chicago Nov 2025 | November 22, 2025 |
| Perth 90 | November 23, 2025 |
| Oxford 117 | November 23, 2025 |
| Aberdeen 7 | November 24, 2025 |
| Brighton 7 | November 29, 2025 |
| Philadelphia WikiSalon | December 13, 2025 |
| London 223 | December 14, 2025 |
| Seattle meetup | December 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.
- 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 anthropology.
- 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, please help to lower the number of unreferenced articles 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
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- Starting November 12, users will see a change in the appearance of talk pages on some Wikipedias. Almost all wikis have received this design change; English Wikipedia will get these changes later. You can read more on Diff. Users can opt out of these changes in their user preferences in "Show discussion activity". [1]
- MediaWiki can now display a page indicator automatically while a page is protected. This feature is disabled by default. It can be enabled by community request. [2]
- Using the "Show preview" or "Show changes" buttons in the wikitext editor will now carry over certain URL parameters like 'useskin', 'uselang' and 'section'. This update also fixes an issue where, if the browser crashed while previewing an edit to a single section, saving this edit could overwrite the entire page with just that section’s content. [3][4][5]
- Wikivoyage wikis can use colored map markers in the article text. The text of these markers will now be shown in contrasting black or white color, instead of always being white. Local workarounds for the problem can be removed. [6]
- The Activity tab in the Wikipedia Android app is now available for all users. The new tab offers personalized insights into reading, editing, and donation activity, while simplifying navigation and making app use more engaging. [7]
- The Reader Growth team is launching an experiment called "Image browsing" to test how to make it easier for readers to browse and discover images on Wikipedia articles. This experiment, a mobile-only A/B test, will go live on English Wikipedia in the week of November 17 and will run for four weeks, affecting 0.05% of users on English wiki. The test launched on November 3 on Arabic, Chinese, French, Indonesian, and Vietnamese wikis, affecting up to 10% of users on those wikis. [8]
View all 27 community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week. For example the inability to lock accounts on mobile sites has been fixed. [9]
Updates for technical contributors
- Nominations are open on Wikitech for new Toolforge standards committee members. The committee oversees the Toolforge Right to fork policy and Abandoned tool policy among other duties. Nominations will remain open through 2025-11-28.
- The JWT issuer field in OAuth 2 access tokens for SUL wikis has been changed to
https://meta.wikimedia.org. Old access tokens will still work. [10] - The JWT subject field in OAuth 2 access tokens will soon change from
<user id>tomw:<identity type>:<user id>, where<identity type>is typicallyCentralAuth:(for SUL wikis) orlocal:<wiki id>(for other wikis). This is to avoid conflicts between different user ID types, and to make OAuth 2 access tokens and thesessionJwtcookie more similar. Old access tokens will still work. [11] - MediaWiki's block messages (blockedtext, blockedtext-partial, autoblockedtext, systemblockedtext, blockedtext-tempuser, autoblockedtext-tempuser) now support additional parameters indicating whether the user is blocked from editing their own user talk page
$9or emailing other users$10. [12] - A
REL1_45branch for MediaWiki core and each of the extensions and skins in Wikimedia git has been created. This is the first step in the release process for MediaWiki 1.45.0, scheduled for late November 2025. If you are working on a critical bug fix or working on a new feature, you may need to take note of this change. [13] - The process for generating CirrusSearch dumps has been updated due to slowing performance. If you encounter any issues migrating to the replacement dumps, please contact the Search Platform Team for support. [14][15]
- Detailed code updates later this week: MediaWiki
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