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Wikipedia wants you! Together we build an encyclopedia and a wiki community. You can edit and create articles on Wikipedia right now. Learn how to contribute with the tutorial (or just play around in our sandbox).

You can post a lot of comments at the Village pump, and please read the Help directory and our policies, contact us or other Wikipedians, and keep track of what's going on. If you haven't done so already, you may want to create an account (why?).

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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.)

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Help counter systemic bias by creating new articles on important women.

Help improve popular pages, especially those of low quality.

Collaboration of the Week

Help edit History of the Balkans, Wikipedia's current Collaboration of the week! Please help to improve it to featured article standard.

The distinct identity of the Balkans owes as much to its fragmented and often violent common history as to its mountainous geography. The history of the Balkans was dominated by wars, rebellions, invasions and clashes between empires.

You can still help with last week's article History of sex (see how it improved), look at previous collaborations, or help pick next week's article.

Other collaborations

See also other collaborations: Hong Kong; India; UK; Cryptography; Gaming; Spanish Translation

Get involved

Wikimedia Collaboration of the Week

The Wikimedia Collaboration of the Week is an attempt to get the Wikimedia community to join forces in tackling problems that affect all our projects. The current COTW is to create a standard multilingual manual for the MediaWiki software. The help pages should be linked from Help:Contents on Meta, our Wikimedia-wide coordination wiki. Please see the instructions for this COTW and help to make it happen!

About Wikipedia

Topical index

New user information

Welcome!TutorialSandboxHelpNew user log

Frequently asked questions

FAQ list and OverviewAdministrationContributingEditingSchoolsMiscProblemsReaders'Talk EtiquetteTechnicalGlossaryWhat Wikipedia is not

Ways to communicate

Contact (overview)Village pump (News, Policy, Technical, Proposals, Assistance, Miscellaneous) – Discussion pagesMailing listsIRC chatInstant MessagingIn person meetingsUser pages

Community information

About WikipediaAbout WikimediaWikipediansFriends of WikipediaDonations

Wikipedia highlights

Featured articles and picturesCollaboration of the weekSurveysAnnouncements and other Goings-onWikipedia in the media and Press releasesStatsMilestones

Common procedures

Featuring an article or picturePeer reviewDeleting a page (full policy) – Protecting a page (full policy) – Reverting a pageAdministrator nominations

Help with Meta-Wiki

User's GuideTable formatTeX, math and formulaeImages and embedding

Account maintenance

Account benefitsChoosing and Changing a usernameLogging inUser preferencesChanging attribution for editsAccount deletion

Downloads

Wikipedia database download Special:Export (Quite Large)

Writing/Reference resources

Policies and conventions

Overview of policiesNeutral point of view (NPOV)CopyrightEditingManual of Style (Layout, Naming conventions, Disambiguation, Captions) – Image useCiting WikipediaLibel

Behavioral guidelines

Wikipedia etiquetteBe bold! but Stay cool!Be nice to newcomersDispute resolutionArbitration policyAssociation of Members' Advocates

Resources

Help deskReference deskHow to edit a pageSpecial pagesUtilitiesBasic topicsContributingImproving articlesWriting a great articleSources for articlesTemplatesImage listTools

Projects

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Technical information

The MediaWiki softwareRequests and bug reportsBrowser notesUser styles (customizing your display with CSS)MultimediaBotsSQL dumps (TomeRaider format)

Other Wikipedia languages

Here is a list of the main community pages of Wikipedia's sister projects.
All of these projects are multilingual and open-content.
Meta-Wiki – Coordination of all Wikimedia projects.
Wiktionary – A collaborative multilingual dictionary.
Wikinews – News stories written by readers.
Wikibooks – A collection of collaborative non-fiction books.
Wikiquote – A compendium of referenced quotations.
Wikisource – A repository for free source texts.
Wikispecies – A directory of species.
Wikiversity – Where teachers learn, and learners teach.
Wikivoyage – A world-wide travel guide.
Wikidata – A free knowledge base that can be read and
edited by humans and machines alike.
Commons – Repository for free images and other media files.
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