MyWiki:Community portal/Redesign/Draft1b

This is a redesign of the current Community Portal. It is expected to be ready to replace the current one by the end of this month.
Nothing above this line will eventually make it onto the redesign.

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Wikipedia news The Wikipedia Signpost, Wikipedia's online newspaper. Wikipedia usage in the media. The Village Pump for discussion. Announcements relating to Wikipedia. Press releases More news and announcements... Jobs to do Respond to a request for comment. Can you draw or take pictures? Make a requested image. Peer review or assess some articles, especially those recently revised. Offer your thoughts and ideas on proposed policies. Can you use GIS tools? Help make requested maps. Can you speak another language? There are articles that need translation into English. Would you like to respond to more requests? Comment on the wisdom of new bot proposals. Can you code? Code a useful bot or update an offline report. Proofread a finished translation. Become a Wikipedia tipster Or... REDIRECT Wikipedia:Community portal/Open tasks Not sure where to report a certain type of problem with article content? If it exists, it's probably listed at Wikipedia:Maintenance. Ongoing projects WikiProjects are ongoing collaborations to improve articles having to do with a particular subject. Hundreds exist; find one that interests you! There are also many other fine projects listed below. Active improvement teams: Featured Article Drive Cleanup Taskforce Version 1.0 Editorial Team Forum for Encyclopedic Standards Spoken Wikipedia Wikipedia:WikiProject Countering systemic bias Community support groups Association of Members' Advocates Esperanza Welcoming committee Ongoing tasks: Maintenance Categorization Counter Vandalism Unit WikiProject Spam Transwiki Topic areas: List of WikiProjects - Topics include art, business and economics, games, geography, history, humanities, law, literature, mathematics, music, politics, science, sports, technology, transportation, and more. Editing The style guidelines and tutorial. Where to ask questions What special pages are. Contributing How to improve articles. How to write a great article. Where to find information for articles. A list of templates. The list of images that have been uploaded to Wikipedia. Tools for editing. Request a newspapers or magazines. Help Wikipedia help - Browse help pages Help desk - Ask a question Village pump - Discussion (assistance · news · policy · proposals · technical · miscellaneous) Administrators' noticeboard Dispute resolution

Collaborations Collaborations are where Wikipedians come together to focus on an article or task. REDIRECT Wikipedia:Community portal/COTW REDIRECT Wikipedia:Community portal/aid-summary REDIRECT Wikipedia:Community portal/gac-summary Deletion The deletion policy. Deletion guidelines for administrators Candidates for speedy deletion Articles for deletion Templates for deletion Images and media for deletion Categories for deletion Stub types for deletion Redirects for deletion Miscellany for deletion Deletion review Deletion log Bad Jokes and Other Deleted Nonsense Archived delete debates Deletion tools

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