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Contents

1 Community bulletin board
2 Help out
3 Collaborations
4 Guidelines, help & resources

Community portal

Welcome to the community portal. This is the place to find out what is happening on WikiQueer. Learn what tasks need to be done and what groups there are to join, and share news about recent events or current activities taking place on WikiQueer.

If you were looking for...

• Help with an aspect of WikiQueer: see the help documentation, or ask a question for assistance.
• Answers for questions about factual topics: please visit WikiQueer's reference desk.
• A place to discuss things with other users: the village pump is WikiQueer's main discussion forum.
• A place to resolve disputes: use the dispute resolution guidelines.

Post your WikiQueer-related news or announcement here » Community bulletin board

Centralized discussion Announcements December 2012 Launch of Queergle search engine WikiQueer founder named one of 13 to Watch in 2013 LGBT Free Media Collective launches Testing begins on WikiQueer Maps Tom Morris appointed Deputy Lead Administrator Project pages seeking contributors WikiProjects and Working Groups Portals and Collaborations Discussions Discussions in the following areas have requested wider attention: Contents pages navigation WikiQueer:Requests for comment See also: Dashboard · News · Goings-on · Milestones · Meetups · In the media · Mailing lists · Village pump

Help out

If you like, go ahead, be bold, and jump right in. Things to do General tasks Patrol new pages and help improve new articles. Assess articles by quality or by importance—pick a topic of interest and grade according to that WikiProject's scale. (See links from article talk pages.) Do you have a historical perspective? Articles slanted towards recent events might need to be looked at with a new eye. Commenting Respond to the Reward board or Bounty board. Respond to a request for comment or Wikiquette alert, or provide a third opinion. Give a requested editor review. Peer review high quality articles and grade good article nominations. Make recommendations on articles listed at Good article reassessment. Discuss which articles should be deleted and review proposed deletions. Special skills Can you draw or take pictures? Make a requested image. Are you good at photo editing? Then try cleaning up some of these images, or helping out at the Graphics Lab. Can you use GIS tools? Help make requested maps. Can you communicate in another language? There are articles that need translation into English. You can also proofread a translation. Fix-up projects Article categorization Articles to be split Bad category names Category needs checking Dead-end pages Disambig pages with links Elements of Style External links Articles needing copy edit Wikitext syntax cleanup Linkrot Notability Missing articles Most wanted articles Name disambiguation Stub sorting Transwiki log cleanup Typos Unreferenced articles List of syntax errors

Open tasks Here are some tasks you can do: Wikify Open tasks... Orphans Open tasks... Copyedit Open tasks... Update Open tasks... Style Open tasks... Cleanup Open tasks... Verify Open tasks... Neutrality Open tasks... Merge Open tasks... Split Open tasks... Stubs Open tasks... Expand Open tasks... Article Incubator Open tasks... Article deletion discussions Open tasks... Article Requests Image Requests Open tasks... Not sure where to report a certain type of problem with article content? If it exists, it is probably listed at WikiQueer:Maintenance.

Guidelines, help & resources
WikiQueer has many help pages, policies, and departments. Here are some of the most general. For a comprehensive list of WikiQueer's departments, see the WikiQueer department directory.
Help WikiQueer help contents – Browse help pages Help desk Where to ask questions Editing The Manual of Style guidelines and tutorial How to edit a page Contributing How to write a great article A list of free online resources for research A list of template messages What special pages are Tools for editing Policies and guidelines WikiQueer has many established policies, guidelines, conventions, and traditions. This is a very brief sampling of some of the most important; for more information, see the main policies and guidelines page. Policies and guidelines apply to both articles and how to work with fellow editors. For easy access, the shortcuts to the pages are also listed. Article standards Be bold! WQ:BOLD Citing sources WQ:CITE • WQ:REF Copyrights WQ:C Editing WQ:EP External links WQ:EL Image use WQ:IUP Include only verifiable information WQ:V Manual of Style WQ:MOS • WQ:STYLE Neutral point of view WQ:NPOV What WikiQueer is not WQ:NOT Working with others Assume good faith WQ:AGF Avoid instruction creep WQ:CREEP Civility and etiquette WQ:CIV • WQ:EQ Consensus WQ:CON IPs are human too WQ:HUMAN Do not bite the newcomers WQ:BITE Do not disrupt WikiQueer to illustrate a point WQ:POINT No personal attacks WQ:NPA • WQ:ATTACK Resolving disputes WQ:DR Vandalism WQ:VAND	Resources New user information Introduction Tutorial Sandbox Help What WikiQueer is not Glossary Account benefits New contributors' help page FAQ Ways to communicate Contact (overview) Discussion pages Mailing lists IRC chat Meetups User pages Requests for comment Public watchlists Administrators' noticeboard Requests for article feedback Community support groups and programs Welcoming committee Editor assistance WikiQueer awards program Dept. of Fun Missing encyclopedic articles Common procedures Featured content Good articles Requests for feedback Deleting a page (full policy) Moving a page (naming policies) Protecting a page (full policy) Reverting a page Administrator nominations (summaries) Category-based access How to resolve conflicts Stay cool! Be nice to newcomers Alert others Dispute resolution Arbitration policy Community information About WikiQueer Goings-on About Wikimedia WikiQueerians Donations Merchandise Administrators Babel Culture Games Humor