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Quality assessments by Wikipedia editors rate articles in terms of completeness, organization, prose quality, sourcing, etc. Most wikiprojects follow the general guidelines at Wikipedia:Content assessment, but some have specialized assessment guidelines. A recent Village pump proposal was approved and has been implemented to add a |class= parameter to {{WikiProject banner shell}}, which can display a general quality assessment for an article, and to let project banner templates "inherit" this assessment.

No action is required if your wikiproject follows the standard assessment approach. Over time, quality assessments will be migrated up to {{WikiProject banner shell}}, and your project banner will automatically "inherit" any changes to the general assessments for the purpose of assigning categories.

However, if your project has decided to "opt out" and follow a non-standard quality assessment approach, all you have to do is modify your wikiproject banner template to pass {{WPBannerMeta}} a new |QUALITY_CRITERIA=custom parameter. If this is done, changes to the general quality assessment will be ignored, and your project-level assessment will be displayed and used to create categories, as at present. Aymatth2 (talk) 13:57, 10 April 2023 (UTC)[reply]

As this is a highly active WikiProject, I would like to introduce you to Credibility bot. This is a bot that makes it easier to track source usage across articles through automated reports and alerts. We piloted this approach at Wikipedia:Vaccine safety and we want to offer it to any subject area or domain. We need your support to demonstrate demand for this toolkit. If you have a desire for this functionality, or would like to leave other feedback, please endorse the tool or comment at WP:CREDBOT. Thanks! Harej (talk) 18:05, 5 August 2023 (UTC)[reply]

2023 Tenerife wildfire. Hello, can someone create this article in English? I am creating it in Spanish, but I don't know how to speak English: Incendio forestal en Tenerife de 2023. 87.223.107.156 (talk) 13:13, 19 August 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Editors have proposed merging the articles Kidnapping of Hersh Goldberg-Polin and Kidnapping of Noa Argamani into 2023 Israel–Hamas war hostage crisis, and the latter is of interest to this WikiProject.

You are invited join the discussions at Talk:2023 Israel–Hamas war hostage crisis § Proposed merger and Talk:2023 Israel–Hamas war hostage crisis § Proposed merger 2.—Alalch E. 17:42, 19 November 2023 (UTC)[reply]

My team at the foundation, WME, has developed a dashboard that tries to identify new articles related to global "newsworthy" events as they are being written about across Wikipedia language editions at any given moment. You can read more about it here. I'm seeking help to improve the feature.

Here is the direct link to the dashboard. (desktop only).

I'd appreciate if anyone that tries it out can surface any potentially missing templates from across language projects that would help us capture more results. Using the thumbs up and down buttons in the demo to confirm or deny if entries are accurately identified as breaking news, would help me in the long and medium-term in building a better, more accurate tool.

Although Enterprises' focus is not on creating editing tools or gadgets, we hope this can be of use to the community, too.

Thanks! FNavas-WMF (talk)

There is a requested merge discussion at Talk:Russian_invasion_of_Ukraine#Merge_discussion that may be of interest to members of this WikiProject. Dan the Animator 22:24, 10 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]

I just created New Pact on Migration and Asylum which was agreed to today. Thriley (talk) 20:59, 20 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]

 You are invited to join the discussion at Template talk:Current event editnotice § Encouraging more use. {{u|Sdkb}} ^talk 01:16, 3 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

 You are invited to join the discussion at Portal talk:Current events § Centralizing talk spaces. {{u|Sdkb}} ^talk 01:21, 3 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

I just noticed that less than 1% of Portal talk:Current events subpages are tagged with {{WikiProject Current events}}, e.g. Portal talk:Current events/2023 March 23. Is this on purpose or an omission? I'd like to either remove the existing tags, or add them to the remaining pages so that they are all uniformly tagged. This seems like an omission, but with such a disparity, I figured it best to ask. Pinging some frequent taggers I've seen in this area for inclusion: GeoffreyT2000, Family27390, Isabelle Belato, and WeatherWriter.   ~ Tom.Reding (talk ⋅dgaf)  02:08, 13 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Will add WPCE soon per WP:SILENT, since all editors pinged have since edited.   ~ Tom.Reding (talk ⋅dgaf)  00:00, 20 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Dear all

I've just created an article for Artists4Ceasefire, any additions are very welcome.

Thanks very much

John Cummings (talk) 11:01, 11 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

There is a requested move discussion at Talk:2024 Crocus City Hall attack#Requested move 22 March 2024 that may be of interest to members of this WikiProject. RodRabelo7 (talk) 00:39, 23 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

There is a requested move discussion at Talk:2024 Haitian jailbreak#Requested move 8 March 2024 that may be of interest to members of this WikiProject. RodRabelo7 (talk) 00:40, 23 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

An article which may be of interest to members of this project—2024 Lake Suviana explosion—has been proposed for merging with Lake Suviana. If you are interested, please participate in the merger discussion. Thank you. IgnatiusofLondon IgnatiusofLondon (he/him • ☎️) 13:39, 10 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]