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Discussion: Should the help landing page be replaced with something much simpler? A draft redesign is in progress. Straw poll: How many times can an AfD be relisted? If not indefinitely, how to close an AfD with insufficient participation? Straw poll: should the pending changes protection trial be continued or abandoned? RfC: What should be the inclusion criteria for "List of X" articles? RfC: Are symbols as usernames allowable? Proposal to create a new WikiProject namespace Discussion about which links & references to sites on the now-closed GeoCities web host to rescue, and how. RfC: Does Wikipedia:NAMES apply to fictional characters? RfC: Is there consensus to include support for Microformats in templates? RfC on the idea of removing highly inactive bureaucrats. Discussion about changing the Picture Of The Day/Today's Featured Picture selection process to deal with the huge backlog in the queue. RfC: Regarding the use of italics in article titles and if their use should be dictated by a single guideline, or decided by each individual WikiProject

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The Public Policy Initiative is recruiting Wikipedian for an assessment testing team, to help test out our trial assessment system (a more detailed rating system compatible with the standard Wikipedia 1.0 system). Team members will test the consistency of the metric and look for discrepancies between Wikipedian assessment and subject matter expert assessment. This work will play a crucial role in the evaluation of the public policy project and could lead to valuable insight as the foundation and community begin to work toward improving assessment within Wikipedia. Please check out the project assessment page or contact ARoth (Public Policy Initiative) for more info.
The Wikimedia Foundation is seeking volunteers to be flown to San Francisco for a long weekend in late September (airfare and all living expenses will be paid by the Foundation), to create resources for editors interested in doing instructional screencasts. You don't need to have ever created a screencast, but you should be an experienced Wikipedia editor with some involvement in teaching/training/helping others with Wikipedia editing. Apply here by September 1.

Consider posting WikiProject, Task Force, and Collaboration news at the Signpost's WikiProject Report page.

Wikipedia:WikiProject Home Living is a new project concerned with potentially the most important articles on Wikipedia, those related to our everyday lives at home! Seeking volunteers to help improve articles within our scope.
All world cities with a population > 1000. Help creating new articles and redirects.