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End of Open Collaboration?

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people edit Wikipedia for money

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 A request for adminship is open for
discussion.
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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!
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assistance expanding and improving
the Task Center and other pages
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 WikiProject Abandoned Drafts
Stale draft drive. An ongoing drive
dedicated to reducing the amount of
stale user space drafts. Options are
to delete, redirect, move to
mainspace or blank. Stop by and
help the drive out!
 WikiProject Spoken Wikipedia is
looking for people who are interested
in helping out in our project to get our
articles into an audio format that can
be used for any number of uses
including, but not limited to, visually
impaired or people who just prefer to
listen to the article instead of reading
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You can sign up here on our
participant's page. We are also in
need of people who speak other
languages so that the proper
pronunciation of words can be
properly spoken. You can sign up for
the Pronunciation task force by
adding your name to section 2 as
well as the languages you are fluent
in.
Wikiproject/Group editing activities and efforts
May–June

 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.
o Platform: Zoom (link will be sent an
hour before the event)
 Women in Red Project: Reducing
gender imbalance. Improve coverage
of women in countries where they are
poorly represented either on the
English Wikipedia and/or in those
where serious imbalances exist
between the sexes. We have tried to
cover countries in all the continents,
as you will see from the lists at the
page for this project. We have used
two sources: List of gender
imbalance per country by number of
biographies on the English
Wikipedia; and the World Economic
Forum's Global Gender Gap Report
2020, especially Table 1 showing
"The Global Gender Gap Index 2020
rankings".
 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.
Ongoing

 The 100,000 Challenge. The quest

to bring about 100,000 article
improvements and creations globally
through a series of
50,000/10,000/1000 Challenges for
different regions and countries. This
is a loose challenge, a list will not be
maintained here, but the components
will function independently on each of
the subpages. Will be updated every
week or two.
o The 50,000 Destubbing
Challenge is a long term challenge
to destub 50,000 articles on
English Wikipedia for every country
and topic. It began on March 1,
2020 with the Wikipedia:The Great
Britain/Ireland Destubathon and
opened as a global editathon on
March 31. It may take decades to
accomplish, it may take ten years,
it all depends on how many people
actively contribute. A long term
framework which will hopefully be
sped up by running There are
more than 3,300,000 stub articles
on the English Wikipedia, more
 than half of our articles. It needs to
be drastically reduced somehow!
Ideally we need a 1 million
Destubbing Challenge!
o The Summer World Destubbing
Challenge is taking place between
May 1 and July 31, 2020.
 Wikipedia:WikiCup. The WikiCup is
a championship that has taken place
every year on Wikipedia since 2007.
The Cup is played and won by skill of
editing. The purpose of the Cup is to
encourage content creation and
improvement and make editing on
Wikipedia more fun. There is a new
round every month, until the current
contest ends; below are the details.
o May 1 to June 28 – 32 contestants
left.
o July 1 to August 29 – 16
contestants left.
o September 1 to October 31 – 8
finalists left, the contestant with the
highest score will win!
 Women in Red: #1day1woman |
2020. For anyone interested in
creating or improving articles on
women and their works outside the
specific focus of our monthly
editathons. We have called
it #1day1woman as the label can be
used worldwide on the social media,
creating new trends of interest.
Perfectionists might like to create a
new article each and every day but
one new article on any one day will
be the starting point. This is an
opportunity for our members and all
other editors to create or improve
articles on women who are notable in
any field.
o The virtual edit-a-thon allows
enthusiasts from around the globe
to participate in the work.
o The lists of redlinks should provide
inspiration.
o There is a section where you can
list the articles you create this
month, and another section where
you can add the images you
uploaded to Commons.
o This essay on creating women's
biographies and our Ten Simple
Rules might be helpful to
newcomers.
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Initiatives
Schedule below, listed by group, eg local meetup or
any other sponsoring group or venue.

Remote events by DC Meetup

For more information, see Wikipedia:Meetup/DC.
 DC Art and Feminism 2020 -
Remote Article Creation Initiative
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