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The community bulletin board is used for announcements from WikiProjects and other groups.
General notices
Community-wide notices
WikiProject notices
- WikiProject AI Cleanup (and the community at large) is currently looking for assistance with the overwhelming number of cleanup cases at Wikipedia:AI noticeboard. Those interested can review WP:AICGUIDE on how to help with AI cleanup and WP:AINB? for how the AI noticeboard works.
- WikiProject Unreferenced articles is trying to clear the decades-long backlog of unreferenced articles, please help to lower the number of unreferenced articles below 30,000. Come contribute! Catfurball (talk) 15:21, 1 September 2026 (UTC)
- WikiProject Outlines news:
- New outline: Wikipedia:Artificial intelligence resources
- The following outline covers an ongoing situation, please help keep it updated: Outline of the Russo-Ukrainian war
- The Outline of the week is Outline of the Renaissance.
- Please help improve them. —The Transhumanist 09:46, 25 March 2026 (UTC)
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Yearly or infrequent events
- WikiProject Organized Labour is helping organise a month-long multi-language editing campaign in solidarity with meta:Wiki Workers United, including about the history of trade union and current developments. Sign up on meta
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: blitz. The October 2026 editing blitz was a one-week-long effort by the Guild of Copy Editors to reduce its backlog. The themes were: all articles on the GOCE Requests page, and articles on the backlog from July, August, and September 2025. It began on 18 October, 00:00 (UTC), and ended on 24 October, 23:59 (UTC). Stay tuned for the next event.
- Wikipedia:WikiProject Women in Red 2026 Events:
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| Kitchener, Ontario | October 10, 2026 |
| Philadelphia WikiSalon (online) | October 10, 2026 |
| London 233 | October 11, 2026 |
| Bay Area WikiSalon | October 13, 2026 |
| Dumaguete 1 | October 16, 2026 |
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| Wiki Café in Oakland | October 17, 2026 |
| Oxford 127 | October 18, 2026 |
| Seattle meetup | October 20, 2026 |
| Brixton 19 | October 26, 2026 |
| Auckland 52 | October 31, 2026 |
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| Bay Area WikiSalon | November 4, 2026 |
| Los Angeles | November 7, 2026 |
| London 234 | November 8, 2026 |
| US Mountain West online | November 10, 2026 |
| Boston Coffee Chat | November 14, 2026 |
| Philadelphia WikiSalon (online) | November 14, 2026 |
| Toronto | November 15, 2026 |
| Cascadia Wikimedians membership meeting online & in person | November 15, 2026 |
| Leeds 7 | November 21, 2026 |
| Auckland 53 | November 28, 2026 |
| San Diego 141 | November 29, 2026 |
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
- To measure the impact of incorporating some community-requested features on logged-out reader retention, a test for Image Carousel will be pushed to logged-out readers. With the Image Carousel feature, readers browse community-uploaded images, selected by editors as relevant to specific articles. The test starts on November 20.
- An experimental notice will be pushed to 0.5% of logged-out mobile readers who come to English Wikipedia from Google, asking them to add Wikipedia as a Google Preferred Source. The test is to see if this notice increases reader retention and encourages people who use Google Search to visit Wikipedia more often. It will run from October 15–29 and will be assessed for its impact on retention and referrals.
View all 26 community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week. For example, an issue where Quarry returned an “Access denied” error when users tried to run SQL queries, preventing queries from running normally, has now been fixed.
Updates for technical contributors
Due to a long-standing bug, applications that use the OAuth 2 client credentials flow to act on their owners’ behalf are treated as if they are logged out. This will be fixed for new applications registered on or after Monday, October 19. Some affected applications need to re-register. - Detailed code updates later this week: MediaWiki
Meetings and events
- A proposal to hold the Wikimedia Hackathon every three years, with regional hackathons in between, has been shared. It explores making the event more accessible to technical communities in different regions. Share your feedback on the proposal’s talk page before November 6.
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