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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.
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.
The 100,000 Challenge. The quest to bring about 100,000 article improvements and creations globally through a series of 50,000/10,000/1000 Challenges for different regions and countries. This is a loose challenge, a list will not be maintained here, but the components will function independently on each of the subpages. Will be updated every week or two.
The 50,000 Destubbing Challenge is a long term challenge to destub 50,000 articles on English Wikipedia for every country and topic. It may take decades to accomplish, it may take ten years, it all depends on how many people actively contribute.
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WikiProject AI Cleanup has recently been started to combat the addition of problematic AI-generated content. Interested editors are encouraged to join! ARandomName123 (talk) 01:35, 5 December 2023 (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.
Recent changes
The software used to render SVG files has been updated to a new version, fixing many longstanding bugs in SVG rendering. [21]
The HTML used to render all headings is being changed to improve accessibility. It was changed last week in some skins (Vector legacy and Minerva). Please test gadgets on your wiki on these skins and report any related problems so that they can be resolved before this change is made in Vector-2022. The developers are still considering the introduction of a Gadget API for adding buttons to section titles if that would be helpful to tool creators, and would appreciate any input you have on that.
The HTML markup used for citations by Parsoid changed last week. In places where Parsoid previously added the mw-reference-text class, Parsoid now also adds the reference-text class for better compatibility with the legacy parser. More details are available. [22]
Problems
There was a bug with the Content Translation interface that caused the tools menus to appear in the wrong location. This has now been fixed. [23]
Changes later this week
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 11 June. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 12 June. It will be on all wikis from 13 June (calendar). [24][25]
The new version of MediaWiki includes another change to the HTML markup used for citations: Parsoid will now generate a <span class="mw-cite-backlink"> wrapper for both named and unnamed references for better compatibility with the legacy parser. Interface administrators should verify that gadgets that interact with citations are compatible with the new markup. More details are available. [26]
On multilingual wikis that use the <translate> system, there is a feature that shows potentially-outdated translations with a pink background until they are updated or confirmed. From this week, confirming translations will be logged, and there is a new user-right that can be required for confirming translations if the community requests it. [27]
The Resilient Barnstar For remaining tactically neutral even after mistakenly pissing off a meticulous bitch. (staying cool while in the line of fire) Ste4k 00:20, 9 July 2006 (UTC)
The Random-Acts-of-Kindness Barnstar CJC47 05:15, 12 July 2006 (UTC)
The Spamstar of Glory Presented to A. B. for diligence in fighting spam on Wikipedia -- ReyBrujo
The Working Man's Barnstar For your ongoing willingness to take on the laborious tasks involved in fighting spam, and for being a driving force at WikiProject Spam, I award you the Working Man's Barnstar. Keep up the excellent work! --AbsolutDan(talk) 17:44, 19 November 2006 (UTC)
The Barnstar of Diligence Presented to A. B. For extraordinary diligence combating spam! Hu12 07:07, 10 January 2007 (UTC)
The Defender of the Wiki Barnstar No one more deserving of the Defender of the Wiki Barnstar for fighting Spam on Wikipedia, is you. Thank You! Hu12 05:49, 18 April 2007 (UTC)
The Spamstar of Glory Presented to A. B. for extraordinary effort and diligence fighting spam on Wikipedia. That was some nest you uncovered there. Fantastic work! -- SiobhanHansa 13:56, 1 June 2007 (UTC)
Smile For stepping in with such sensible suggestions to calm down the heat in the maritime quest discussion - and for the nice comments about valued long term contributor and good faith editor Viv Hamilton 17:14, 6 August 2007 (UTC)
Defender of the Wiki Ribbon as always, great work!--Hu12 23:39, 3 September 2007 (UTC)
Anti-Spam Super Sleuth! Your thorough investigation of spammers is critical to our anti-spam efforts. Your hard work is greatly appreciated. --Versageek 04:16, 28 September 2007 (UTC)
The Defender of the Wiki Barnstar Thanks for cleaning up all the modelsobserver.com spam! -- Ed (Edgar181) 15:13, 11 April 2008 (UTC)
The Random-Acts-of-Kindness Barnstar Thank you for removing a personal attack from my userpage, as well as blocking the user who made that attack for a week! Johnny Au (talk) 15:27, 4 June 2008 (UTC)
The Defender of the Wiki Barnstar To A.B., for protecting "Mesothelioma" from spam. Axl (talk) 23:00, 15 July 2008 (UTC)
The Barnstar of Diplomacy I just saw how you stood by me to ensure that the pages I created on Nigerian topics don’t get deleted. You’re appreciated. Amaekuma (talk) 09:18, 24 June 2023 (UTC)
The Special Barnstar Thank you for addressing an unfounded personal attack, both in the AfD and on the ANI page. You spoke up against injustice and went on and beyond expectations! gidonb (talk) 00:01, 20 July 2023 (UTC)
The Tireless Contributor Barnstar Thank you for all of the time you spend checking, rechecking and tracking down references in AFD discussions. You indeed seem tireless! LizRead!Talk! 02:57, 30 July 2023 (UTC)
The Barnstar of Diplomacy For doing the right thing in multiple places after an initially unpleasant misunderstanding, and for calling me out when you suspected wrongdoing. Actualcpscm (talk) 19:27, 2 August 2023 (UTC)
A tiny token of recognition that you are one of the most conscientious editors around. The project is very fortunate to have you. — Athaenara ? 09:55, 20 July 2008 (UTC)
A kitten for you! Hi! The meta:Steward request/username change wasn't the right place for this, so I brought you a kitten. I just wanted to let you know that we genuinely appreciate your volunteer efforts. Keep up the awesome work; we see it and value it! – DreamRimmer (talk) 15:48, 13 January 2024 (UTC)