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Fix spelling and grammar Eve of Passover on Shabbat Irvine Spectrum Executive branch of the government of Honduras Kutani ware Rapid transit technology More... • Learn how Fix wikilinks John Gavin (comedian) Utah Venture Capital Enhancement Act BATF2 KRI Cobra HLA-A29 More... • Learn how Update with new information Strauss–Howe generational theory Glade Festival International adoption of South Korean children California University of Pennsylvania Tri-City Dust Devils More... • Learn how Expand short articles Limocar Optibus Western Kenosha County Transit Palmer Bus Service Grey Goose Bus Lines More... • Learn how Check and add references Argumentation theory Herculia (moth) Robert Koch Stephanie Gray Besleria More... • Learn how Fix original research issues Basic Exchange Telephone Radio Service Volvo PV444/544 Encounters of Every Kind Alias Smith and Jones Mississippi River More... • Learn how Improve lead sections Dalmellington 1991 Campeonato Argentino de Rugby Ryusuke Sakai Director telephone system Trinidad and Tobago dollar More... • Learn how Add an image Hispaniolan moist forests Hanshin Industrial Region Huff paste H.V. McKay Memorial Gardens Hydroelectric power in Himachal Pradesh More... • Learn how Translate and clean up Castle of San Jorge La lettrice ANPI Françoise Dolto Vladimir Berdnikov More... • Learn how Counter systemic bias by creating new articles on missing important female scientists. Improve popular low quality articles (top 5,000 articles by pageviews with low ORES article class predictions.) Other helpful tasks include, fixing vandalism, welcoming newcomers, link recovery, categorization, and numerous behind the scenes tasks like moving free images to Wikimedia Commons. See Wikipedia:Maintenance for more maintenance tasks. Community bulletin board 18 August 2016   News and notes: Focus on India—WikiConference produces new apps; state government adopts free licenses Special report: Engaging diverse communities to profile women of Antarctica In the media: The ugly, the bad, the playful, and the promising Featured content: Simply the best ... from the last two weeks Traffic report: Olympic views Technology report: User script report (January–July 2016, part 2) Arbitration report: The Michael Hardy case Single page Book Front page About Subscribe Suggestions Archives Centralized discussion Use of Google Translate links in citations & external links. A proposal for a confidential COI mailing list Deprecation of coordinate-related infobox parameters except "|coordinates=" Amend F11 policy to waive 7-day waiting period for expired OTRS-received images Names of categories about water courses Is posting links to accounts on other sites allowed, per WP:OUTING? Former names in lead, for transgender/non-binary people This week's article for improvement is Archaeological record Archaeological record example: a section of the Papyrus of Ani showing cursive hieroglyphs Please be bold and help to improve this article! WikiProject Missing Encyclopedic articles (% done) Project page—The goal of this project is to ensure that Wikipedia has a corresponding article for every article in every other encyclopedia. Sign in! Monthly focus: MacTutor biographies 53 left 1911 verification: 12.2% ACF Regionals answers: 64.1% Hotlist of topics: 88.7% General topics: 79.6% Science topics: 92% Catholic Encyclopedia: 86.2% Easton's Bible Dictionary: 88% Encyclopaedia Biblica : 69.5% Evangelical Dictionary of Theology: 80.6% Gutenberg authors : 57.1% Jewish Encyclopedia : 39% Literary Encyclopedia: 81.9% List of Poles: 6% Find-A-Grave: 85.1% Stanford Archive answers 97.9% Missing paintings 60.8% Miscellaneous Many other lists of politicians, songs, TV shows and others. Overall progress: 65.2% Spread the word through {{Project missing articles}} Active Wiki Fixup Projects Article Rescue Squadron Check Wikipedia Cleanup Dead-end pages Disambig pages w/ links Fix common mistakes Free images to Commons Geo-coordinates Missing articles Most-wanted articles Orphaned articles Red Link Recovery Requested articles Single editor Stubsensor Today's articles for improvement Uncategorised articles Unreferenced articles Wikification needed Main · Inactive · Mini General notices Free subscriptions to high-quality paywalled journals, newspaper archives, and online reference works are available for Wikipedia editors. For more information, see Wikipedia:TWL/Journals" Projects seeking help Also consider posting WikiProject, Task Force, and Collaboration news at the Signpost's WikiProject Report page. Win up to £250 ($330) in Amazon vouchers from Aug 8-28 by contributing articles on Devon, Cornwall and the West Country of England as part of the West Country Challenge! All editors are warmly welcome to contribute to the contest/editathon so sign up ready for the start on the 8th! WikiProjects and Task Forces The Tip of The Day department is looking for tricks and techniques. If you have a special way of doing things, please stop by and share. Outlines See also: Wikipedia:WikiProject Outlines New outlines Outline of the Moon Outline of Joseph Smith Outline of meals (merged 2 lists) Outline of A Song of Ice and Fire franchise (Game of Thrones) Outline of William Shakespeare   (the first biographical outline!) 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R. Rahman Newly created Portal:Lighthouses Newly created Portal:Shreya Ghoshal Newly created Portal:Tuvalu Newly created Portal:Half-track Newly created Portal:Virginia Woolf Newly created Portal:Theosophy Newly created Portal:Machine learning Newly created Portal:Kyrgyzstan Newly created Portal:Trichy Newly created Portal:Space The selected article excerpts were copied and pasted between 2006 and 2009. The leads of the corresponding articles have greatly improved since then. Portal:Thinking "Selected" sections need new material. Been the same for years. The following portals have interesting design features that you may find useful: Portal:South East England A "parent" portal that uses selected content from several "child" portals, chosen at random for each type of content. Portal:Philosophy Automatically cycles through 52 "Selected philosophers", one per week, year after year. Portal:Arts Uses random generators to display random featured status selections. 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Wikiquote – A compendium of referenced quotations. Wikisource – A repository for free source texts. Wikispecies – A directory of species. Wikiversity – Where teachers learn, and learners teach. Wikivoyage – A world-wide travel guide. Wikidata – A free knowledge base that can be read and edited by humans and machines alike. Commons – Repository for free images and other media files. Newest featured content Articles Topics Portals Wrestle Kingdom 9 Rare Replay Lynx (constellation) HMS Emerald (1795) No. 91 Wing RAAF Millipede Heffernan v. City of Paterson "Slug" (song) Mr. Dooley The Dawn of Love (painting) An Introduction to Animals and Political Theory Interstate 275 (Michigan) Peter Martyr Vermigli Catherine Zeta-Jones SMS Körös Overview of Lady Gaga U.S. Highways in Michigan World Fantasy Awards Overview of Katy Perry 2015 Vuelta a España Final Fantasy series 1961 Atlantic hurricane season Overview of Leonardo DiCaprio Liverpool F.C. 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