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 How to add to the community bulletin board
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 | The community bulletin board has 2 sections that can be used by Wikipedians for announcements: "Events and projects" and "WikiProject notices". In general, keep it concise (under 2 lines), refrain from fancy formatting, and new entries should be placed at the top of their section.
- Before editing, make sure you are on Misplaced Pages:Community bulletin board, not Misplaced Pages:Community portal, where the board is transcluded.
- Events and projects: In this section, only organized events, projects, and/or competitions should be listed. These are organized by how often they occur:
- The Yearly section is for uncommon events, like events that only occur every year, once, or irregularly. The Monthly section is for events that occur each month, or are always ongoing.
- WikiProject notices: In this section, any announcement, request for help or other notice from a WikiProject should be listed here.
- Entries should be signed, and ordered from newest to oldest.
- Entries are to be removed after a period of 6 months.
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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
Yearly or infrequent events
Monthly or continuous events
Meetups for January 2025 +/-
| Misplaced Pages Day Seattle |
January 11, 2025 (2025-01-11)
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| London 212 |
January 12, 2025 (2025-01-12)
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| Misplaced Pages Day Minnesota |
January 15, 2025 (2025-01-15)
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| Misplaced Pages Day San Francisco |
January 18, 2025 (2025-01-18)
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| Exeter 2 |
January 18, 2025 (2025-01-18)
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| Oxford 107 |
January 19, 2025 (2025-01-19)
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| Misplaced Pages Day Toronto |
January 19, 2025 (2025-01-19)
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| Misplaced Pages Day Chicago |
January 19, 2025 (2025-01-19)
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| Edinburgh 19 |
January 25, 2025 (2025-01-25)
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| Misplaced Pages Day NYC |
January 25, 2025 (2025-01-25)
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Los Angeles Wildfire Edit-a-thon
at the Wilshire Ebell Theater |
January 26, 2025 (2025-01-26)
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| Brixton 6 |
January 27, 2025 (2025-01-27)
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WikiProject notices
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.
Technical news
This section is transcluded from Misplaced Pages:Tech news. (edit | history)
Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
Weekly highlight
- The Single User Login system is being updated over the next few months. This is the system which allows users to fill out the login form on one Wikimedia site and get logged in on all others at the same time. It needs to be updated because of the ways that browsers are increasingly restricting cross-domain cookies. To accommodate these restrictions, login and account creation pages will move to a central domain, but it will still appear to the user as if they are on the originating wiki. The updated code will be enabled this week for users on test wikis. This change is planned to roll out to all users during February and March. See the SUL3 project page for more details and a timeline.
Updates for editors
- On wikis with PageAssessments installed, you can now filter search results to pages in a given WikiProject by using the
inproject: keyword. (These wikis: Arabic Misplaced Pages, English Misplaced Pages, English Wikivoyage, French Misplaced Pages, Hungarian Misplaced Pages, Nepali Misplaced Pages, Turkish Misplaced Pages, Chinese Misplaced Pages)
- One new wiki has been created: a Misplaced Pages in Tigre (
w:tig:)
 View all 35 community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week. For example, there was a bug with updating a user's edit-count after making a rollback edit, which is now fixed.
Updates for technical contributors
 Wikimedia REST API users, such as bot operators and tool maintainers, may be affected by ongoing upgrades. Starting the week of January 13, we will begin rerouting some page content endpoints from RESTbase to the newer MediaWiki REST API endpoints for all wiki projects. This change was previously available on testwiki and should not affect existing functionality, but active users of the impacted endpoints may raise issues directly to the MediaWiki Interfaces Team in Phabricator if they arise.- Toolforge tool maintainers can now share their feedback on Toolforge UI, an initiative to provide a web platform that allows creating and managing Toolforge tools through a graphic interface, in addition to existing command-line workflows. This project aims to streamline active maintainers’ tasks, as well as make registration and deployment processes more accessible for new tool creators. The initiative is still at a very early stage, and the Cloud Services team is in the process of collecting feedback from the Toolforge community to help shape the solution to their needs. Read more and share your thoughts about Toolforge UI.
- For tool and library developers who use the OAuth system: The identity endpoint used for OAuth 1 and OAuth 2 returned a JSON object with an integer in its
sub field, which was incorrect (the field must always be a string). This has been fixed; the fix will be deployed to Wikimedia wikis on the week of January 13.
- Many wikis currently use Cite CSS to render custom footnote markers in Parsoid output. Starting January 20 these rules will be disabled, but the developers ask you to not clean up your MediaWiki:Common.css until February 20 to avoid issues during the migration. Your wikis might experience some small changes to footnote markers in Visual Editor and when using experimental Parsoid read mode, but if there are changes these are expected to bring the rendering in line with the legacy parser output.
Meetings and events
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Requests for comment
Discussions in the following areas have requested wider attention via Requests for comment:
General notices
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