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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 blitz. The June 2024 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 February 2023 and March 2023 backlog. It began on 16 June, 00:00 (UTC), and ended on 22 June, 23:59 (UTC). Stay tuned for the next event.
Wikipedia:WikiProject Women in Red 2024 Events: WP:WIR/EVENTS - updated monthly
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.

**Meetups for November 2024** +/-
London 210	November 10, 2024 (2024-11-10)
US Mountain West online	November 12, 2024 (2024-11-12)
Wiki Uff da! - Event 2	November 14, 2024 (2024-11-14)
Oxford 106	November 17, 2024 (2024-11-17)
San Diego 116	November 18, 2024 (2024-11-18)
Seattle meetup	November 19, 2024 (2024-11-19)
Wiki Uff da! - Event 3	November 20, 2024 (2024-11-20)
CCA Montreal Editathon	November 20, 2024 (2024-11-20)
WikiCon Australia 2024	November 23, 2024 (2024-11-23)
Brighton 3	November 23, 2024 (2024-11-23)
BLT Office Hours	November 24, 2024 (2024-11-24)
Brixton 5	November 26, 2024 (2024-11-26)

**Meetups for December 2024** +/-
Christchurch 34	December 1, 2024 (2024-12-01)
London 211	December 8, 2024 (2024-12-08)
San Diego 117	December 16, 2024 (2024-12-16)

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WikiProject Outlines news:
- Outline drafts nearing completion include:
- The Outline of the week is Outline of anthropology.
- Please help improve them. —The Transhumanist 12:23, 9 May 2024 (UTC)

WikiProject Vocaloid's proposal is seeking editors with interest in any Vocaloid related topic to join the project.

WikiProject Bendigo is currently seeking interested editors to join the project. Lotsw73 (talk) 05:03, 30 January 2024 (UTC)
WikiProject Operating systems (in proposal state) is looking for interested participants to support the creation of a regular WikiProject page.
Revive WikiProject United States governors. This WikiProject is dedicated to the leaders of the 50 U.S. states. If you agree, post a message on the WikiProject talk page.
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)

Technical news

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

On wikis with the Translate extension enabled, users will notice that the FuzzyBot will now automatically create translated versions of categories used on translated pages. [1]
View all 29 community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week. For example, the submitted task to use the SecurePoll extension for English Wikipedia's special administrator election was resolved on time. [2]

Updates for technical contributors

In 1.44.0-wmf-2, the logic of Wikibase function getAllStatements changed to behave like getBestStatements. Invoking the function now returns a copy of values which are immutable. [3]
Wikimedia REST API users, such as bot operators and tool maintainers, may be affected by ongoing upgrades. The API will be rerouting some page content endpoints from RESTbase to the newer MediaWiki REST API endpoints. The impacted endpoints include getting page/revision metadata and rendered HTML content. These changes will be available on testwiki later this week, with other projects to follow. This change should not affect existing functionality, but active users of the impacted endpoints should verify behavior on testwiki, and raise any concerns on the related Phabricator ticket.

In depth

Admins and users of the Wikimedia projects where Automoderator is enabled can now monitor and evaluate important metrics related to Automoderator's actions. This Superset dashboard calculates and aggregates metrics about Automoderator's behaviour on the projects in which it is deployed. Thanks to the Moderator Tools team for this Dashboard; you can visit the documentation page for more information about this work. [4]

Meetings and events

21 November 2024 (8:00 UTC & 16:00 UTC) - Community call with Wikimedia Commons volunteers and stakeholders to help prioritize support efforts for 2025-2026 Fiscal Year. The theme of this call is how content should be organised on Wikimedia Commons.

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A request for adminship is open for discussion.
Editors may now ask questions to Arbitration Committee candidates. Voting will begin at 00:00, 19 November 2024 (UTC).
There is a petition to the WMF in response to potential disclosures of editors' personal information by the Wikimedia Foundation.

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 * '''[[Wikipedia:WikiProject_Military_history/Contest|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 blitz<!--drive-->.''' The '''[[Wikipedia:WikiProject Guild of Copy Editors/Blitzes/June 2024|June 2024 editing blitz]]''' is a one-week-long effort by the '''[[WP:GOCE|Guild of Copy Editors]]''' to reduce its backlog. The themes are: all articles on the [[WP:GOCE/REQ|GOCE Requests page]], and articles on the [[:Category:Wikipedia articles needing copy edit from February 2023|February 2023]] and [[:Category:Wikipedia articles needing copy edit from March 2023|March 2023]] backlog. <!--The '''[[Wikipedia:WikiProject Guild of Copy Editors/Backlog elimination drives/May 2024|May 2024 backlog drive]]''' was a one-month-long effort by the [[Wikipedia:WikiProject Guild of Copy Editors|'''Guild of Copy Editors''']] to reduce the backlog of articles that require copy editing: those carrying the {{tl|copy edit}} tag (also {{Tl|awkward}}, {{Tl|copy edit section}}, {{tl|inappropriate person}}, and {{Tl|copy edit inline}}, and their redirects) or are listed on the [[WP:GOCE/REQ|GOCE Requests page]].--> <u>It began on 16 June, 00:00 (UTC), and will end on 22 June, 23:59 (UTC).</u> <!-- Stay tuned for the next event. -->
+* '''Guild of Copy Editors' editing blitz<!--drive-->.''' The '''[[Wikipedia:WikiProject Guild of Copy Editors/Blitzes/June 2024|June 2024 editing blitz]]''' was a one-week-long effort by the '''[[WP:GOCE|Guild of Copy Editors]]''' to reduce its backlog. The themes were: all articles on the [[WP:GOCE/REQ|GOCE Requests page]], and articles on the [[:Category:Wikipedia articles needing copy edit from February 2023|February 2023]] and [[:Category:Wikipedia articles needing copy edit from March 2023|March 2023]] backlog. <!--The '''[[Wikipedia:WikiProject Guild of Copy Editors/Backlog elimination drives/May 2024|May 2024 backlog drive]]''' was a one-month-long effort by the [[Wikipedia:WikiProject Guild of Copy Editors|'''Guild of Copy Editors''']] to reduce the backlog of articles that require copy editing: those carrying the {{tl|copy edit}} tag (also {{Tl|awkward}}, {{Tl|copy edit section}}, {{tl|inappropriate person}}, and {{Tl|copy edit inline}}, and their redirects) or are listed on the [[WP:GOCE/REQ|GOCE Requests page]].--> <u>It began on 16 June, 00:00 (UTC), and ended on 22 June, 23:59 (UTC).</u> Stay tuned for the next event. <!-- -->
 * '''[[Wikipedia:WikiProject Women in Red]] 2024 Events''': [[WP:WIR/EVENTS]] - updated monthly
 * '''[[Wikipedia:The 100,000 Challenge|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.

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