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2018
SearchSuite is a userscript that provides user control over search results: it can strip them down to a single-spaced list, sort, and more. Most of its features are presented as menu item toggles to turn each feature on/off. Feedback and feature suggestions welcome.
2019
A project is under way to add short descriptions to all articles. This is mainly for the benefit of mobile users searching Wikipedia. Help is welcomed – please visit WikiProject Short descriptions to learn more.
A newsletter about userscript development on Wikipedia has been created: Wikipedia:Scripts++. To subscribe, visit its mailing list.
WikiProject Guild of Copy Editors February Blitzes. This Copy Editing Project Blitz is a one-week-long effort of the Guild of Copy Editors to reduce the backlog of articles that require copy editing; those carrying the {{copyedit}} tag or listed on the GOCE Requests page. It began on 16 February, at 00:00 (UTC) and will end on 22 February, at 23:59 (UTC). Blitz participants can earn barnstar awards based on the number of articles—and the word counts of the articles—they copy edit. Awards will be given out once the blitz has finished.
The blitz is open to all. You should be fluent in English grammar and spelling. Please read Wikipedia's guide to basic copy editing before you start working. If you're unsure about spelling or grammar, consult the Wikipedia:Manual of Style. Fluency in English is especially important for articles on the Requests page.
Women in Green. On 10 February the project became a WikiProject in its own right after about four and half years as a task force. The project is dedicated to promoting articles on women to Good Article status. Currently only about 4% of GAs are about women, and very few core articles have reached GA status. New members and interest in this would be appreciated.
Spell checkers needed - Wikipedia:Typo Team/moss got a complete update from the August 20, 2019 database dump. The project hosts lists of articles with misspelled words, words missing from Wiktionary, and unknown words that need investigation.
The Great Britain/Ireland De-stub-athon is a contest/editathon aimed at expanding over 1000 stubs for the UK and Ireland. Almost $500 in Amazon voucher prizes are offered for most articles and most counties covered.
WikiProject Military history - March Madness. March Madness is a backlog reduction drive, which will run from 00:01 UTC on 1 March through to 23:59 UTC on 31 March. The drive is open to all Wikipedians. This year the drive is focused on several goals, listed at the event's page, such as e.g. creating articles that are listed as "requested" on the project's various task force pages or other lists of missing articles.
Art+Activism: 2020 Art+Feminism Wikipedia Edit-a-thon —Art+Feminism is pleased to announce the theme of its seventh annual Wikipedia Edit-a-thon is Art+Activism. Activism is something that is deeply rooted in the fiber of this organization. Art has long been a vehicle to reflect and urge social, political and cultural change. Just like the word “feminism” can have different meanings to the individual, “activism” can as well. We welcome all interpretations, wide and narrow, of Art+Activism to be part of our 2020 campaign.
Click here to view the edit-a-thons taking place across the globe for the months of March and April.
To Organize an Event: A) Consult Organizers Quick Guide. in English, Spanish, French, and Portuguese. B) Email us at info@artandfeminism.org to learn more and to let us know about your event. C) Create a program on the Program & Events Dashboard (instructions here). D) List your editathon by submitting your event details via this form. E) Learn how to edit clicking the Resources tab on this Meet up page.
How We Organize: From the beginning, Art+Feminism has paid careful attention to how and where we organize our events, prioritizing off-wiki channels of communication. We use the Programs & Events Dashboard instead of meetup pages, and we are collecting the list of events on our website, rather than here. We do this because our UX/UI review found that, because we had so many events and the wiki interface is confusing to new users, this main meet up page was difficult to parse and folks were missing events in their towns.
VisibleWikiWomen (image campaign), March and April 2020. In March and April, WikiProject Women in Red are collaborating again with m:Whose Knowledge?/VisibleWikiWomen by encouraging the upload of images to WikiCommons. These can be photos or other images related to women, their works, and their issues. Anyone can take part in this event. Don't forget to include any new images you post on our other meetup pages. We should keep track of all the new images you add to Commons.
A new template is available to link to project pages with the nutshell automatically added as a tooltip. To use it, type e.g. {{WP|BOLD}} to generate WP:BOLD.
The "Summer World Destubbing Challenge" for The 50,000 Destubbing Challenge starts on May 1 and ends on July 31. Over the summer, £250 worth of Amazon vouchers are being given away for most stubs expanded, covering 10 regions of the world. 4 regions are dedicated to England, Wales, Scotland and Ireland/N. Ireland and the remainder by continent of the world. Editors now with more time to edit during the pandemic please help contribute and help us work towards expanding 50,000 stubs!
Houston Online Wikipedia Edit-a-thon Series. These virtual edit-a-thons on Zoom will focus on Houston women artists. We will provide tutorials for the beginner Wikipedian, reference materials, and encouragement. Sign up at houstonwiki.eventbrite.com to receive the Zoom link. Participants will be able to ask questions throughout and are not required to stay for the entire session.
Platform: Zoom (link will be sent an hour before the event)
Wikipedia:WikiProject Black Lives Matter/June 2020: "Wikipedia wants YOUR help to improve our coverage of Black Lives Matter and related topics! For the entire month of June 2020, we are holding the Black Lives Matter article improvement drive, a collaborative effort to improve our articles on topics relating to racism, racialized violence, and the African diaspora more widely.
September 2020
WikiProject: Women in Red: Women writers & their works, September 2020. In September, Women in Red is once again focusing on women writers and their works from around the world. Although we welcome the creation of articles on any of the notable women writers around the world, we would like to include some of those associated in one way or another with World War II, It has also been suggested we should give attention to those involved in TV or radio and to those from non-English speaking countries whose works have been translated into English or have led to films distributed around the world.
Help celebrate Women's History Month. This page gathers several events that take place on or around International Women's Day (8 March) and Women's History Month in March 2021, and where the goal is to come closer to closing the gender gap. Take a look at the events that are listed, and sign up! Alternately, do you lack an event to take part in? Solve it the wiki way: organize it yourself! There are many resources you can use, and help to get. See more information at the page.
June 2020
WP:The Core Contest is a recurring six-week contest, starting on June 1 in 2021. The purpose is to give a boost to Wikipedia's most important articles, especially those that start out in a bad shape.
July 2021
Good Article Nominations backlog drive runs from 1 July 2021, 00:00 (UTC) and ends on 31 July 2021, 23:59 (UTC). This is a monthlog effort to cut the number of outstanding GANs and in particular those which have been in the queue 90 days or more. Awards will be given out to those individuals who do the most work in helping reduce the size of the backlog and reach milestones related to the number, age, and size, of articles reviewed.
The Core Contest is a recurring six-week contest. Its purpose is to give a boost to Wikipedia's most important articles, especially those that start out in a bad shape. The 2022 contest ended on 31 May 2022.
WikiProject Medicine Collaboration of the Month. Every month, a topic will be selected from this page that will be the focus of editing for some members of Wikipedia:WikiProject Medicine. The article may or may not yet exist. Topics may either relate to medical basic sciences (anatomy, biochemistry, and so on), or clinical medicine (illnesses, surgical procedures, and so on).
