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Wikipedia has no central editorial board. Contributions are made by a large number of volunteers at their own discretion. Edits are neither the responsibility of the Wikimedia Foundation (the organisation that hosts the site) nor of its staff and edits will not generally be made in response to an email request.
Either contact an administrator directly, or try the Administrators' noticeboard. Click here for a list of recently active admins . To ask an administrator a question, seek advice, etc., place {{ Admin help }} on your talkpage .
If your question is about a Wikipedia article, draft article, or other page on Wikipedia, tell us what it is! Check back on this page to see if your question has been answered. For real-time help, use our IRC help channel, #wikipedia-en-help. New editors may prefer the Teahouse, a help area for beginners (but please don't ask in both places).
You should include the date and time as part of the diff, unless the timing is not relevant to your request. For example, instead of writing the following, which makes it very difficult to understand what is going on:
Wikipedia is written almost exclusively by volunteers — people from across the world, just like you. This means that sometimes it contains incorrect information, either accidentally or deliberately. If you find some incorrect information, there are a few things you can do. First, you can fix it yourself! Anyone can edit Wikipedia.
Join the #wikipedia-en-help IRC channel for real-time chat. Contact Wikipedia – is a page that describes how and where to contact Wikipedia directly for a variety of reasons. Community standards and advice
This is a guide to current practice at Wikipedia's requests for adminship (RfA) process, the mechanism by which editors are considered for administrator status. To become an administrator, there needs to be a clear consensus that you are committed to Wikipedia and can be trusted to know and uphold its policies and guidelines.
If you are a member of the press looking to contact the Wikimedia Foundation, our press department can be contacted at press wikimedia.org, or by phoning +1 415-839-6885. We also have international contacts, some of whom work for various affiliated organisations and some of whom are editors.