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To-do list:

Here are some tasks awaiting attention:

Article requests :
Requested articles (Sports)
Requested articles (Association football)
Requested articles (Association football women)
Requested articles (Motor sports)
Requested articles (Estonian sportspeople)
Assess : newly added and existing articles, maybe nominate some good B-class articles for GA; independently assess some as A-class, regardless of GA status.
Cleanup :
- Sport governing body (this should-be-major article is in a shameful state)
- Field hockey (History section needs sources and accurate information - very vague at the moment.)
- Standardize Category:American college sports infobox templates to use same font size and spacing.
- Sport in the United Kingdom - the Popularity section is incorrect and unsourced. Reliable data is required.
- Fix project template and/or "to do list" Current version causes tables of content to be hidden unless/until reader chooses "show."
Expand : Professional sports (crucial article explaining the salaried undertaking of sports)
* Sport industry (currently a sub-stub)
Photo : for pages listed in Category:Wikipedia requested images of sports and games and sub-categories.
Stubs : work on articles in Category:Sports stubs
Update : List of world sports championships
Other :
- Add reliable sources. Experienced editors have free access to books on sports from McFarland.
- Translate the page of sport in each country from corresponding article in other language Wikipedia to English Wikipedia which was marked in red.
- Categorize: Gather all (major/olympic) sports to be part of this project
- RfCs: answer requests for comment

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Bizarre moment

I just saw a broken baby image appear below today’s current events. Though, the edit history doesn’t show it. I reset the page and it disappeared. So, does anyone why a broken baby appeared? KaijuEditor (talk) 22:22, 12 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

This portal consists of several subpages, which are transcluded onto the portal's page. The particular issue you're describing was caused by the page Portal:Current events/2025 December 12. —⁠andrybak (talk) 00:14, 13 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Add Sudan famine to the "Ongoing events" section in "Topics in the news"

Please post suggestions for "Ongoing" to Wikipedia:In the news/Candidates. —⁠andrybak (talk) 13:15, 22 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

The following discussion is closed. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.

Similar to how Gaza war appears (timeline * genocide), how can we do the same for Sudan war (timeline * famine)?^[1] Rockwizfan (talk) 13:02, 22 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

References

^ "Portal:Current events", Wikipedia, 2024-07-15, retrieved 2025-12-22

The discussion above is closed. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.

Fully protected edit request on 16 January 2026

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Change

In South Africa Army Helicopters rescue people stranded in three countries located in southern Africa with the floods killing more than 100 dead

to

In [[Southern Africa]], over 100 people are killed amid ongoing regional flooding in [[South Africa]], [[Mozambique]], and [[Zimbabwe]]

or a transfiguration of the January 15 version with updated statistics and regions,

At least 19 people are killed and hundreds are evacuated across South Africa in flooding caused by torrential rains in several provinces, including Limpopo and Mpumalanga.

Reasoning: I mean come on look at the original text.

Sources: [1][2] FMRadio :3_{(chat | edits | she/her)} 22:08, 16 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]

FMRadio, thank you for taking the time to report this issue. This entry has already been edited a couple of minutes before your comment: Special:Diff/1333294192. You can copyedit the entry yourself further if you wish. On the page Portal:Current events, each box has a link "edit" in the top right corner, e.g. for the box "January 16, 2026 (Friday)". Hope this helps! —⁠andrybak (talk) 22:43, 16 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Ah, I should’ve checked again before posting that. Thank you anyways! FMRadio :3_{(chat | edits | she/her)} 22:55, 16 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Stray "="

Not sure if this is the right talk page to post, but there's a stray "=" after "American rock climber Alex Honnold free-solo climbs the Taipei 101 skyscraper in Taiwan, becoming the first person to ascend the skyscraper in that manner, after completing the 508 m (1,667 ft) climb in about 90 minutes during a livestreamed event". Anyone able to remove? Thanks! ---Another Believer _(Talk) 17:05, 26 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]

This was fixed in Special:Diff/1334969145. In the corresponding box on the portal page, just to the right of "January 25, 2026 (Sunday)", there are three links: "edit", "history", and "watch". Anyone can edit the news entries on the portal by clicking "edit" in the top right corner of the box for each day. —⁠andrybak (talk) 21:44, 26 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks. I see there's now the stray text "{{Current events|year=2026|month=02|day=1|content=" and "}}". ---Another Believer _(Talk) 16:05, 1 February 2026 (UTC)[reply]

This issue was fixed in Special:Diff/1336036266.

Checking the history of the subpage "Portal:Current events/2026 February 1" (the date from the stray text) is the best way of figuring out what went wrong. On the page Portal:Current events, there is "history" link in the top right corner of every box, next to "edit". —⁠andrybak (talk) 16:33, 1 February 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Proposal: integrate Current Events Portal into Wikipedia app

This could make the Wikipedia app much more interesting and useful. I at least would start to use it again to browse around via its home feed.
It would also increase the use of this underrated portal which is relatively unknown with few people reading it regularly, thereby making all of your work more worth the effort (thanks for updating & maintaining this page!). Image on the right shows how it could look like.

See Wish305: A tile for the Current events portal in the Wikipedia app (voting open).
Prototyperspective (talk) 17:21, 29 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]

[1] "Portal:Current events", Wikipedia, 2024-07-15, retrieved 2025-12-22

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