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Community bulletin board

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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.

Events and projects [add]

Yearly or infrequent events

Monthly or continuous events

Recently completed: Alphabet run: U, V, W Asian women
New this month: Alphabet run: X, Y, Z Food and drink Women who died: 2025
Ongoing initiatives: Music #1day1woman
Upcoming events: #1day1woman Sports Alphabet run: Countries starting with A Ideas


Meetups for December 2025 +/-
Brixton 12 December 1, 2025 (2025-12-01)
Philadelphia WikiSalon December 13, 2025 (2025-12-13)
London 223 December 14, 2025 (2025-12-14)
San Diego 129 December 14, 2025 (2025-12-14)
Seattle meetup December 16, 2025 (2025-12-16)
Zamboanga 1 December 18, 2025 (2025-12-18)
Singapore 25 - SingLit Wikithon December 27, 2025 (2025-12-27)


Meetups for January 2026 +/-
London 224 January 11, 2026 (2026-01-11)
Chicago Wikipedia Day 2026 January 17, 2026 (2026-01-17)
San Diego 130 January 17, 2026 (2026-01-17)
Seattle Wikipedia Day 2026 January 17, 2026 (2026-01-17)
Oxford 118 January 18, 2026 (2026-01-18)
Manila Wikipedia Day 2026 January 18, 2026 (2026-01-18)
Toronto Wikipedia Day 2026 January 18, 2026 (2026-01-18)
Minnesota Wikipedia Day 2026 January 18, 2026 (2026-01-18)
Cardiff 6 January 22, 2026 (2026-01-22)
Bay Area Wikipedia Day 2026 January 24, 2026 (2026-01-24)
Brixton 13 January 29, 2026 (2026-01-29)
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.

New editors interested in the subject are encouraged to join. There are over 800 articles with unknown importance levels. Your help assessing these articles would be appreciated! The sub-project, WikiProject Las Vegas, has recently become inactive, so new editors for WikiProject Nevada may also be interested joining here! 🌀Hurricane Wind and Fire (talk) (contribs)🔥 02:09, 24 November 2025 (UTC)

Technical news
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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

  • From January, edit filters can be set to automatically suppress their details such as rules and list of attempted edits and actions. This will help oversighters use edit filters to prevent doxxing or other suppressible material. [1]
  • The next issue of Tech News will be sent out on 12 January 2026 because of the end of year holidays. Thank you to all of the translators, and people who submitted content or feedback, this year.
  • Recurrent item View all 16 community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week. For example, the crash that occurred when tapping "First Steps" in the Wikipedia Android Year in Review has now been fixed, and the feature opens as expected. [2]

Updates for technical contributors

  • Interface elements such as diffs and categories generated by MediaWiki used to have the attribute data-mw="interface" to distinguish from wiki content. The attribute has been replaced with data-mw-interface="", to avoid potential conflicts with other data-mw attributes, which are generated by Parsoid. [3]
  • Recurrent item There is no new MediaWiki version this week or next week.

Meetings and events

  • The Wikimedia Hackathon Northwestern Europe 2026 will take place on 13-14 March 2026 in Arnhem, the Netherlands. Applications just opened mid-December and will close in mid-January or earlier if capacity is reached. With space for approximately 100 participants, early application is encouraged.

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Discussions in the following areas have requested wider attention via Requests for comment:


General notices
The Signpost
17 December 2025

Help out

You can help improve the articles listed below! This list updates frequently, so check back here for more tasks to try. (See Wikipedia:Maintenance or the Task Center for further information.)

Fix spelling and grammar
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Help counter systemic bias by creating new articles on important women.

Help improve popular pages, especially those of low quality.

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