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Community bulletin board

How to add to the community bulletin board

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

  • 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 February 2025 editing blitz was a one-week-long effort by the Guild of Copy Editors to reduce its backlog. The themes were: articles on the GOCE Requests page from January to February 2025, and articles on the backlog from August 2023 and September 2023. It began on 16 February, 00:00 (UTC), and ended on 22 February, 23:59 (UTC). Stay tuned for the next event.
  • Wikipedia:WikiProject Women in Red 2024 Events:
Recently completed: Women who died: 2024 Alphabet run: A & B Internet personalities
New this month: Alphabet run: C & D Black women
Ongoing initiatives: Music #1day1woman
Upcoming events: Alphabet run: E & F Artists+Activists Women of the Arab World Ideas


Meetups for February 2025 +/-
Utah Wikipedia Day at
Sundance Film Festival
February 1, 2025 (2025-02-01)
Singapore 19 February 1, 2025 (2025-02-01)
Los Angeles Wildfire Edit-a-thon
at the Hammer Museum
February 2, 2025 (2025-02-02)
CAH Black History Month online February 4, 2025 (2025-02-04)
London 213 February 9, 2025 (2025-02-09)
US Mountain West online February 11, 2025 (2025-02-11)
WikiCredCon - San Francisco February 14, 2025 (2025-02-14)
Christchurch 36 February 16, 2025 (2025-02-16)
Oxford 108 February 16, 2025 (2025-02-16)
Seattle February 18, 2025 (2025-02-18)
NYC (WikiWed) February 19, 2025 (2025-02-19)
South Africa 45 February 22, 2025 (2025-02-22)


Meetups for March 2025 +/-
Edmonton A+F Panel March 6, 2025 (2025-03-06)
London 214 March 9, 2025 (2025-03-09)
Brighton 4 March 15, 2025 (2025-03-15)
Seattle March 18, 2025 (2025-03-18)
Edinburgh 20 March 29, 2025 (2025-03-29)

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.

General notices

This week's article for improvement is:

Jewish deli

Previous selections: Family cookbooks · Peninsula · Ice cream social

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