Wikipedia talk:Community bulletin board

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Video Wikipedia talk:Community bulletin board

Instructions

What is it for?

It is for various kind of announcements: new projects, portals, discussions, proposals, policy changes, inititives, notice boards, fund drives, etc. etc. It is designed to help Wikipedians spread the word. News items should be of general interest of an ordinary Wikipedian. Entries should generally ask for involvement, feedback, or suggestions.

What is it NOT for?

• Merely asking for help. The subject (i.e. project, portal) must be new.
• Discussions or proposals. Put a link to the discussion page. NO discussions here!
• Something that has not yet started or is not finished. Think about the CBB as the "Grand Opening" sign. You would not invite customers to a shop that has yet to be build. Same goes here. Announce projects that are complete and ready to be "used."
• Lengthy reports about anything. Keep brief!
• Your own personal use. Don't put personal messages up here.
• Questions. See Wikipedia:Questions for that.
• Vandalism reports. That goes to WP:ANB
• Minor conflicts (e.g. about renaming a page)
• Spam.

How to list?

1. Keep the items brief (usually under 2 lines), and provide a link to further discussions.
2. Include the pull date (typically seven days after posting) for your entry in comment delimiters at the beginning of the entry.
3. Please do not use templates on this page, so that archives present the actual historical content. Templates can be "subst"'d in.
4. Do not use fancy formating.
5. Put new items on top.

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New User Trying to Learn

Hey guys. I've been developing pages for years. I'm just now getting into Wiki. I want to help out tremendously. I like to watch for vandals. Old school I hear. Can someone tell me what I should be doing to make a better positive impact? Maybe point me in the right direction. I want to become an Admin. Twaz (talk) 02:48, 12 March 2008 (UTC)

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Overseers

I will be monitoring the entries to make sure they abide the above rules. Renata 02:50, 18 February 2006 (UTC) Not any more. Renata 02:19, 27 April 2006 (UTC)

I watch this to stay informed, but I'll look over it, too.--HereToHelp (talk o contribs) 03:36, 18 February 2006 (UTC)

I do basic maintenance and roll my eyes a lot. -Quiddity 00:47, 15 June 2006 (UTC)

I keep an eye on this article,too. Geo.plrd 20:29, 20 June 2006 (UTC)

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Past tense

I've seen things like:

Portal:Portugal is created.

Should it be written as:

Portal:Portugal has been created.

? x42bn6 Talk 00:53, 7 March 2006 (UTC)

I think, considering that this is news, we should work in present tense.--HereToHelp (talk o contribs) 01:12, 7 March 2006 (UTC)

(Old discussion) But, as the portal has already been created, wouldn't it be more appropriate to use the present perfect, as above? Clearly the portal in the example is no longer being created, though it was created recently. --Cuiviénen^T|C, Sunday, 14 May 2006 @ 18:03 UTC

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Discussion

While I think it's fine for instructions to be here, I think we should point everyone to Wikipedia talk:Community Portal for discussion relating to WP:CBB. Many people might not have intrinsic understanding of how the community portal is set-up with transcluded templates. If they have an issue or concern about the CBB, they're likely to raise it on the Community Portal talk page and not here. --Aude (talk | contribs) 18:43, 30 March 2006 (UTC)

Would it be appropriate to announce a new wiki hosted on a non-mediawiki server here? HamillianActor 21:06, 16 June 2006 (UTC)

replied at user page. -Quiddity 20:58, 20 June 2006 (UTC)

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Portals

In the middle of May, a portal proposal process was established at Wikipedia:Portal/Proposals. The aim of this is to reduce the proliferation of poorly maintained (or unmaintained) portals, which is indeed an annoying problem. Now, we've had a number of users propose something and then completely disregard the proposal process and create the portal anyway. (see Portal:Sega, Portal:LGBT, Portal:Guitar) And a number of others that didn't even bother to propose (Golf, Ice hockey, Tennis, Oklahoma, Punk rock, University of Texas at Austin, ...). I'm not sure what we can do to prevent creation of such portals. While I hope these portals turn out to be well-maintained, I don't think they should be listed here if they blatantly ignore the process. Thus, I removed Guitar and put up Marvel. --Aude (talk contribs) 19:12, 22 June 2006 (UTC)

No problem. I agree this is a problem. And one of the faults of the CBB is that it encourages it. I'll remove portal:guitar from portal:browse too (especially as it's still underconstruction). -Quiddity 19:20, 22 June 2006 (UTC)

Thanks. I'm going through all the portals to identify the unmaintained ones, to see which ones can be salvaged and which should be put up for deletion. --Aude (talk contribs) 19:27, 22 June 2006 (UTC)

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Portal announcements

I think there should be a place on the CBB to make annoucements for portals that already exist, but need more participation. There are many unmaintained portals. I've been going through the portal namespace to find these, and some are salvagable (the topic is broad enough) if we can recruit maintainers. As well, other portals have only one maintainer and could use more. The announcements would be one line, such as "Portal:Archaeology has not updated in months, and needs new maintainers." --Aude (talk contribs) 21:51, 28 June 2006 (UTC)

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Bounty and Reward Board annoucements

I support the addition of the annoucements about the bounty and reward boards; there's no need to link to MyWikiBiz, but (AFAIK) these haven't been mentioned on here before, and so are useful, at least to me. In any case, it's not vandalism. (I do wonder why whoever added them felt the need to do so in such an obvious sockpuppet, though...) JesseW, the juggling janitor 20:02, 25 August 2006 (UTC)

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Quick question

We have just created a formal WikiProject for Wikification from Category:Articles that need to be wikified, as its new I'd like to stick it on here as a notice BUT then I boticed the rules above (see I read them first) about new projects only. Well it is a new project - people in the past have never really indentified as being regular wikifiers - yet it isnt a new topic, what do you all reckon to it going on there? We do need to drum up support somehow though as there are now 7000+ articles to go through!!!! --Errant Tmorton166^(Talk)(Review me) 13:46, 29 August 2006 (UTC)

Look fine to me. Add it :) --Quiddity 18:15, 29 August 2006 (UTC)

K cheers --Errant Tmorton166^(Talk)(Review me) 18:19, 29 August 2006 (UTC)

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WikipediaWeekly

I reverted the addition of {{WikipediaWeekly-subscription}}, primarily because it overwhelmed the section with the logo's size/color, and the misfloat to the left of the Signpost. Can it be replaced with a minimal version (Just a header link to Wikipedia:WikiProject WikipediaWeekly and the contents of {{WikipediaWeekly-textonly}} would be good), floated under the Signpost? That might work better. --Quiddity 04:40, 27 November 2006 (UTC)

I've created Template:WikipediaWeekly-subscription-small as per your minimalist/logo removal suggestion (although Signpost gets to keep its logo, but i guess it is black and white...). As for floating it under the signpost subscription box, I'm not sure exactly how to do that even after some tinkering. Do you know how to? I imagine it might be similar to stacking images (at least that is what i'm picturing). If not i'll ask around. JoeSmack ^Talk 07:41, 27 November 2006 (UTC)

Think i got it by simply using a userbox template to stack the two subscription boxes. Hopefully this is what you were asking for! :) JoeSmack ^Talk 17:41, 27 November 2006 (UTC)

Yup, thanks :) I tightened it up a little more, and removed the excess spacing and the duplicate link from "see also". Hopefully that all works for everyone. (and hopefully WikiZine doesnt ask for a box too! :) --Quiddity 21:45, 27 November 2006 (UTC)

Whatever works is fine by me - thanks for the touch of formatting. You did edit the new Template:WikipediaWeekly-subscription-small though which i kinda liked as is, so i created Template:WikipediaWeekly-subscription-compact for your version and made the appropriate changes to the community bulletin board. Templates everywhere! JoeSmack ^Talk 22:39, 27 November 2006 (UTC)

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Adoption

Would anyone mind if I put up a request for contributors (under New project pages seeking contributors) for WP:ADOPT.

Also two question would under "New project pages seeking contributors" be the right please to put it?

And could we have a two week pull date for this project - new but potential high impact/

Cheers Lethaniol 18:52, 8 December 2006 (UTC)

As no one has complained I am going to do as above - leave a message on my talk page if their is a problem - Cheers Lethaniol 17:22, 10 December 2006 (UTC)

HELP: Hi there, I can't edit the semi-protected page even though I'm logged in. I'm new to this, so please don't blow my head off. I'm probably posting this in the wrong place. I'd like to add www.payorwiki.com to the list of new wikiprojects needing contributors and assistance. Can you help? If so, please do. Thanks. contact AT payorwiki DOT com

Have had a good response - but ideally need more - so have added on another two weeks to Adopt-a-user program - have left at bottom of list. leave a message on my talk page if their is a problem - Cheers Lethaniol 14:18, 24 December 2006 (UTC)

I agree with this. Certain programs warrant being included longer. --Centrx->talk o 23:39, 29 December 2006 (UTC)

Again I have put the Adopt-a-user program up - and extended it for 2 weeks. We have had a good response, but more Adopters would be great. I will not be extending it/adding it again in the near future. If you disagree please remove or shorten. Cheers Lethaniol 14:05, 4 March 2007 (UTC)

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Pulldate

In general, there should be flexibility for the pull date, especially if there is a shortage of items. A discussion for designing the main page, or a viable proposal that affects the entire Image namespace is important and should remain longer, whereas a new favorite essay, etc. would not be. Anyway, if there is nothing to put on the announcements list, there is no point in taking things off to make space for new items that aren't there. --Centrx->talk o 02:37, 26 January 2007 (UTC)

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Support the Youth

I have added a notice under the notice area. It's asks people to add their name if they support the support editting Wikipedia. Asher Heimermann 05:45, 5 February 2007 (UTC)

Like User:JoeSmack, I don't think this does not belong here. It's not that I'm against the petition (I'd be happy to see a petition that I don't agree with featured here), it's that I don't even know what it's about as the page you link to has no information on its background and you seem to be not willing to discuss it on-wiki. Therefore, I removed it. -- Jitse Niesen (talk) 07:05, 5 February 2007 (UTC)

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Bug in edit links

Some sort of bug in the edit links, I've noted it at meta:Talk:Migration to the new preprocessor. -- Quiddity (talk) 06:16, 1 February 2008 (UTC)

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WP:LAB

Something in the bulletin board about the WP:LAB needing people who can do graphics work, especially people with artistic SVG skills, but all welcome to try their hand at any requests. Thanx. 68.39.174.238 (talk) 02:18, 2 May 2008 (UTC)

Done? Renata (talk) 06:16, 2 May 2008 (UTC)

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Olympics heads-up

As we all (probably) know, the Olympics are a month away, and here at Wikipedia the Olympics WikiProject is hard at work preparing pages for the massive editing they will endure over the next few months. In an effort to keep consistency among all our pages, we strive to make decisions together on the project talk page, and stick with those over all of our pages. With 302 events at this year's games and a page for each one, as well as other pages under the 2008 scope, there are many pages that will come under strike from vandals, yes, but also from people who may not know how Olympics pages have been structured in the past. I know it might be bold to suggest it, but if people took the time to see how, for example, the 2004 Olympics pages were set up, it would be easier to edit pages in the future, and I know that from experience.

What I plan on doing in a couple weeks is placing a message on the bulletin board suggesting that users browse other Olympics pages, reference WP:OLY, and join in the discussions on the project talk page before making large edits to Olympics pages. I think this way, those users who see the message will at least have the heads up to know that there is somewhere on Wikipedia where the Olympic Games are organized. In general, I think it will help out the entire site, not least of which us at the Olympics WikiProject, because frankly, if something is done right the first time, there is no need to go back and redo it (something we had to do a lot of on the 2004 pages).

I write this because, again, this is a bold thing to do, because I know the possible interpretations of a message like this (e.g. "Don't edit Olympics pages unless you know what you're doing."), but I can assure anyone who might be opposed that it will do more good than harm. I didn't want this to be a shocker to everyone when I put it up, so this is my heads up to you. If anyone has any suggestions for me, please suggest them! Thanks! Jared (t) 15:39, 8 July 2008 (UTC)

Sounds good. I think I'm the main maintainer around here currently - I'll keep an eye on it. Use a 1 month pulldate (or whatever is appropriate) when you post it. :) -- Quiddity (talk) 22:51, 9 July 2008 (UTC)

Hey thanks! I knew when I wrote that that you would probably be the one to respond; I checked the edit history of the main template before coming here! Anyway, it'll be up soon, after I check with the WikiProj. Jared (t) 23:47, 9 July 2008 (UTC)

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Where is the right place to sing the praises of WP?

I contribute to the Reference Desks from time to time. A few months ago I posted an obscure question, and several Wikipedians collaborated over a period of weeks to research the answer. This required consulting shelves of library books, advanced Google searching, map reading abilities, and a fair degree of lateral thinking and creativity. Some of the sources went back 100 years. In the end, we got there. I am really impressed by the power of Wikipedia to come up with the goods, and told all the contributors so, with barnstars to thank them.

My question here is: What is the best place within Wikipedia to flag up this fantastic collaborative effort? (My first port of call, Wikipedia:Village pump (miscellaneous), suggested the Communicty Bulletin Board, hence this.) I think this achievement deserves to be known to a wider audience, just how diligent, persistent, and downright clever Wikipedians can be, especially those on the RefDesks. (To save clicking through, I'll say here that my original question concerned a mysterious island known only as Nuni, mentioned in a biography of American writer John Howard Griffin, author of Black Like Me. The Ref Desk found the island.) BrainyBabe (talk) 15:21, 17 July 2008 (UTC)

You could possibly write something for the Signpost? I believe they welcome contributions of all sorts.

If you've already given the participants thanks and barnstars, and added the information discovered to the relevant articles, that might be sufficient. We're all volunteers here, and we know how much we rock ;) -- Quiddity (talk) 19:51, 18 July 2008 (UTC)

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Four Podcasts

If anyone has any suggestions for simplifying/reducing the 4 huge boxes advertising the 4 podcasts (wikipediaweekly, notthewikipediaweekly, radiowikipedia, wikipediaupdate), that would be helpful... (Or if you can get the contributors to cooperate on programs, instead of "competing" with each other...) -- Quiddity 17:29, 6 August 2008 (UTC)

I like this idea - and hope to touch base with some of the other folk before too long to chat through some ideas... in the meantime, I've set up what I think is probably the best order for the templates... thoughts most welcome.... Privatemusings (talk) 04:25, 21 August 2008 (UTC)

Speaking for "Wikipedia Weekly": The signpost newspaper is the oldest and most important news source for the community and has well deserved its place on top of the list. Wikipedia Weekly, has been around now for 2 years (since october '06). We moved up to the top of the community portal during wikimania - with the agreement of Signpost - due to the fact that we would be broadcasting far more frequently and up-to-date information from the conference. This was a temporary arrangement and we did the same thing for wikimania Taipei. I certainly do not want to see a fight for the top spot where each group moves their template when they release a new episode - Not professional.

As for the proliferation of podcasts and their templates I do agree that the right-hand column is getting out of hand. However the most recent two (wikiradio and wikiupdate) appear to be having a war amongst themselves over who gets to "own" the show hence why there are two and why they are branded so heavily with their author's name. The purpose of WikipediaWeekly is to summarise and analyse the news, the purpose of NotTheWikipediaWeekly is to debate the points of discussion about that news. I'm not sure what the point of the last two is - especially since they are such short broadcasts. (although I admit I'm not in an objective position here, so take my opinion with a grain of salt. Witty Lama 04:47, 21 August 2008 (UTC)

I thoroughly agree with both of you, and I'd also like to thank Renata for taking the initiative in trying to keep this area clean.

In light of the above comments, I'd like to propose that:

the individual templates have their branding reduced to the same size as the Signpost uses, or smaller:

• a title of the same dimensions or smaller
• an end-line that is small and 1-line long (Archives·Newsroom·Tip line·...)
• no bold for links (it's not house-style anyway, so bad encouragement)
• Only keep "current" episodes in the live list - ["current" left purposefully ambiguous for intelligent users ;]

Does most of that sound reasonable? Or something close to it? If so, go update your templates as necessary! (I don't have the inclination or time to dabble in design currently).

On a heavier note, I'd suggest that the templates advertising WikiUpdate and Radio Wikipedia be reduced to about 1/4 of their current size. (I would have interfered and done just that long ago, if I'd had time to argue it out and do the redesign.) My happiness would know-no-bounds, if someone could make that so! *ahem* -- Quiddity 06:01, 21 August 2008 (UTC)

Following Quiddity's comments I've gone ahead and made the Wikipediaweekly template comply to the proposed standards. I've left all of the episodes from wikimania in there as I believe they are "current". They will go once we get back to regular broadcasting schedule. Gone are the bold links and the endline is now one line long. The logo was already the same size (if not smaller than Signpost's. I don't think it would be politik of me to redesign the other templates myself - let each do their own or ignore this issue at their peril. Witty Lama 07:42, 21 August 2008 (UTC)

Here's an idea- does this look good for a template at the bottom of the board?

RedThunder 21:29, 21 August 2008 (UTC)

Not really.

• It breaks at 800x600 screen res and leaves whitespace at everything larger
• it gives equal value to non-equal shows:
  • WW and NTWW are generally 30-60 mins long, WU is averaging 5 mins
  • WU appears to be reading/summarizing Signpost articles (eg cyclones and milhist and news&notes), and bulletin board notices. It's more useful (and understandable!) than Radio Wikipedia, but not much.

Sorry for being harsh, but at the moment its main purpose seems to be as podcasting practice for its participants.

I would strongly suggest that its participants collaborate with WW or NTWW on episodes. -- Quiddity 00:06, 22 August 2008 (UTC)

Furthermore this doesn't take in to account the Radio Wikipedia whcih would make this box even wider. I don't know what is going on between RW and WU but I would suggest that the two sort out their differences and build up a body of work and a steady listenership before making such a large template on the community portal. For example, Wikipedia Weekly had been publishing episodes for some time before we asked signpost if they would mind if we put our template below theirs. This may sound conceited, but I believe that a project has to earn its place on the community bulletin board - especially if it is a permanent place. Witty Lama 03:30, 22 August 2008 (UTC)

I'm removing WikiUpdate (and RW) until it both redesigns, and gains consensus for being added. -- Quiddity 17:42, 24 August 2008 (UTC)

Transclusion of notices

Can we create a subpage for the notices so they can be transcluded separately? (Also does anybody think that notices and WP:CENT serve a similar function?) -- Mentisock 12:23, 8 November 2008 (UTC)

Which particular notices? This template contains nothing but notices!

Yes, and more. See MediaWiki talk:Watchlist-details/Archive 2#Too many "ongoing discussion" noticeboards for the most recent mention I can remember/find. Gives me a headache. -- Quiddity (talk) 20:31, 8 November 2008 (UTC)

These notices. They seem to be more popular than WP:CENT at least. -- Mentisock 09:37, 12 November 2008 (UTC)

There is already some {if:noticesonly} code in the template, but I don't recall how it works. Perhaps try searching through the history or whatlinkshere to see where it is being used already. See if it can be adapted. I'd be against further splitting of this page into subpages, it's already hard for people to keep track of what is where! -- Quiddity (talk) 19:18, 12 November 2008 (UTC)

Afghanistan article errors

Under the culture section, I noticed that when describing the destruction of the Buddhas in Bamiyan the "i" was omitted. Also in a list of the major cities of Afghanistan, the city of Herat has been misspelled as Heart. If an established user would like to take a minute and fix these minor flaws, I'd be very grateful. Xanopos (talk) 01:50, 24 January 2009 (UTC)

These are changes you can make yourself. Be bold! Bob the Wikipedian ^{(talk o contribs)} 02:10, 24 January 2009 (UTC)

WikiProject Ad box

It seems as though this template would be a good place to include the Wikipedia Ad template, which displays a randomly selected ad for a WikiProject. Any objections? Bob the Wikipedian ^{(talk o contribs)} 02:07, 24 January 2009 (UTC)

I'd prefer to keep it text-only, without any animated images. It's transcluded on several other pages, and plus, the Wikipedia Ad image is already everywhere I go :) Gary King (talk) 03:48, 24 January 2009 (UTC)

I also object. Ugly and distracting.-- Quiddity (talk) 21:58, 24 January 2009 (UTC)

The ads were added by Mrjulesd with this edit on 9 December 2014. In light of this pre-existing thread, I have removed the ads, which I also agree are ugly and distracting. Although this thread only had 3 participants, it had a 2:1 oppose-support ratio. With my opinion and presumably that of Mrjulesd, that ratio would now be 3:2. In other words, there would be no consensus for the addition of the ads. Courtesy pings: Bob the Wikipedian, Gary King, Quiddity. Cheers, Jason Quinn (talk) 12:55, 4 July 2015 (UTC)

Move?

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I suggest this page be moved to {{Community bullentin board}}, because {{Announcements}} has been deleted. A move to "Community bullentin board" would be the most adequate title. Xenus (talk) 11:58, 28 March 2009 (UTC)

Not done: page move requests should be made at Wikipedia:Requested moves. --Amalthea 12:16, 28 March 2009 (UTC)

Help to locate my ancestry

My father was born in zambia in the town/district of Mpika in the year 1920 - 1930. He came to southen rhodesia now zimbabwe between 1948 - 1950. He later died in 1978. I never knew any of his relatives until his dearth. His name/surname Safeli Chanda. Tribe Bemba. Pls help me trace his relatives. Henry Chanda Zimbabwe. --Preceding unsigned comment added by 217.74.239.201 (talk) 10:32, 9 October 2009 (UTC)

New Shared IP template

I just created the {{SharedIPCORP}} template for use on business and corporate networks opposed to the generic {{SharedIP}} template. PCHS-NJROTC ^(Messages) 22:15, 15 November 2009 (UTC)

Wikipedia articles are on sale as printed books for 50 dollars in Amazon.com with no warning

This is the kind of worst case scenario for wikipedia, where people are deprived from their hard earned money with false advertising.

Wikipedia articles are on sale as printed books for 50 dollars in Amazon.com with no warning in amazon yet as printed in 4th page of the "book" after you buy it

We require a huge task force that can put a warning to thousands of similar titles in amazon.com as customer review so that people might be warned about this issue. Read VDM Publishing House for details.

Not sure right place to post, but feel free to move or duplicate the thread elsewhere. Kasaalan (talk) 04:35, 26 February 2010 (UTC)

copied to Wikipedia:Village pump (miscellaneous). -- Quiddity (talk) 07:38, 26 February 2010 (UTC)

suggestion for Wikipedia

Times are not only changing, but have already changed. Wikipedia doesn't allow forums or blogs to be used as citation sources. This is perhaps the dumbest rule in the history of Wikipedia. Approximately 87% of all news sources are blogs and news-forums. Only a handful of sites actually provide newspaper based news articles anymore. Wikipedia should get with the times and allow such sites to be used as news sources. Many corporations only provide their news via forums or blogs, and thus, their press releases are uncitable due to this rule. This is extremely prevalent in the video game industry.--ILoveSky (T | C) 06:56, 16 May 2010 (UTC)

If you're looking for an actual discussion about this, you should try posting your comments at Wikipedia talk:Identifying reliable sources or at Wikipedia:Village pump (proposals).

This page is just intended for discussing the Community Portal's bulletin board, and very few people are reading it. HTH. -- Quiddity (talk) 18:15, 16 May 2010 (UTC)

WikiProject North America

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Please add an announcement for the creation of Wikipedia:WikiProject North America to the CBB. Thanks. 76.66.199.238 (talk) 09:05, 24 October 2010 (UTC)

Done. --Morn (talk) 15:41, 24 October 2010 (UTC)

WikiProject East Asia

{{editsemiprotected}}

Please add an announcement for the creation of WikiProject East Asia to the CBB. It was just created yesterday. It designed to improve coverage of East Asia topics on Wikipedia. 76.66.203.138 (talk) 13:36, 1 November 2010 (UTC)

Done Stickee (talk) 01:55, 2 November 2010 (UTC)

Edit request from Pdiyer, 8 February 2011

{{edit semi-protected}} Hi,

I would like to post a link to Wikipedia Chrome Extension. This was created by me and it is Free. My intent was to make it easier for users to access and search Wikipedia easily. Here is the link, if you'd like to verify:

https://chrome.google.com/extensions/detail/gfpcpdfgehkppkkingfjbleoahlmgfbn Pdiyer (talk) 23:58, 8 February 2011 (UTC) Pdiyer (talk) 23:58, 8 February 2011 (UTC)

This bulletin board is only for posting notices related to on-wiki activities. The software you've created certainly sounds interesting, but I don't think there's any place you could link to it on Wikipedia. Promoting things that you've made yourself, even if they are free, is not permitted. I hope that makes sense; let me know if you have any questions. --Danger (talk) 01:23, 9 February 2011 (UTC)

Edit request from Gwendolyn719, 5 March 2011

{{edit semi-protected}} I am concerned about my community, I live in the used to be called Kensington Apartments, I have just lived here for just a year, now I am being told that they are renaming the complex the Oakland Apartments, while living here they have gone threw some changes, but my concern is the reputation that the new owners have in not protecting our community, I have heard from long standing residents, that under the Oakland Apartments, they were finding dead bodies,our families were afraid to come and visit with us, the police were very, very, slow to respond to the gun play going on in the community. Now that it is a little safer, somewhat, a calmer and gentler complex, they change it back to the oakland apartmant. They are claiming that they have two swimming pools,free shuttle service to and from the train station,they claim false packages, to fill up the community, My sincere thought and feeling is that we are going to go backward into the living hell that some of have lived threw. When someone can fire a gun and the bullet goes threw a window, it becomes a danger to even get up and go to work. And to live in fear, just because you can not afford to move, and be a prisonerin your own home it crazy. I would like you to print this as a letter from a concerned community. It is going to get worst this time around. Thanks for allowing me to express my concerns. Gwendolyn719 P.S. The shuttle bus transportation stays broken down more than in service to the community.

Gwendolyn719 (talk) 18:38, 5 March 2011 (UTC)

This is for announcements of on-wiki activities. You might find a local newspaper or community website more appropriate.-gadfium 19:41, 5 March 2011 (UTC)

Edit request from 96.33.2.253, 16 September 2011

96.33.2.253 (talk) 16:15, 16 September 2011 (UTC) this is Reid Baer - my entire wiki page has been deleted. Why? -- Preceding unsigned comment added by 96.33.2.253 (talk)

Try asking at the help desk. -- Bility (talk) 18:21, 16 September 2011 (UTC)

Edit request from 67.162.180.246, 17 September 2011

Please change Carlo to Vincenzo, Sandrigo,Venito to Santa Cristina,Sicily,Italy, August 22,1902 to August 25,1902 and age 12 to age 3 and New york to Kansas City,Mo 67.162.180.246 (talk) 00:05, 18 September 2011 (UTC)

Not done This is not the right place to ask about changing specific articles e.g. Charles Carrollo. If you want to make an edit to an article, then do so on the article's page, but remember to back up your information with reliable sources. If the page is semi-protected, then file an edit request there. Thanks. Jay _????????^discuss 07:13, 18 September 2011 (UTC)

Wikiproject Cooperation

I'm not sure exactly how I should be adding it to this bulletin, but I recently created Wikipedia:WikiProject Cooperation two days ago and felt like it should be noted here. Silverseren^C 22:44, 11 January 2012 (UTC)

Edit request on 10 August 2012

explanatory "from newest content" text implies that philistine cowboys from Texas looted Cypriot painted churches, when in fact, the Houston-based Menil Trust donated the money to repurchase and restore those paintings from Turkish thieves on the European black market, on behalf of the Church of Cyprus. This is an extremely insulting and critical omission. Wisaacs (talk) 02:54, 10 August 2012 (UTC)

Not done: this is the talk page for discussing improvements to the page Wikipedia:Community bulletin board. Please make your request at the talk page for the article concerned. FloBo A boat that can float! (watch me float!) 13:17, 11 August 2012 (UTC)

Edit request on 27 September 2012

I've created a new portal, and would like to list it here, but I'm new and not allowed to edit semi-protected pages. Can an established user do this on my behalf, please? I need to get the word out so contributors can start helping out. Jacob.husted (talk) 16:03, 27 September 2012 (UTC)

 Done -- John of Reading (talk) 16:58, 28 September 2012 (UTC)

Community portal changed

Why was the Community portal link changed to this page? -- Preceding unsigned comment added by 67.70.43.198 (talk) 02:44, 6 March 2013 (UTC)

I just checked the Community portal link and it still leads to the community portal. The Community Bulletin Board (CBB) shortcut used to lead to the Community portal page because that is the main place the CBB was displayed -- but it hasn't been displayed there since that page was redesigned. The Transhumanist 06:59, 6 March 2013 (UTC)

The CBB was restored to the Community Portal shortly thereafter, because it had become apparent that removing it had gutted that page. The CBB had replaced been there with a notice to submit project-related announcements to the Signpost, which was very inconvenient and only published once every week. The directly accessible Community Bulletin Board is much more convenient and timely. The Transhumanist 09:47, 18 September 2015 (UTC)

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There is a discussion at Wikipedia talk:Manual of Style/Layout#Placement of expand language templates that may be of interest to those watching this page. Thanks. TimothyJosephWood 12:11, 18 June 2017 (UTC)

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