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Welcome! This is the page for the Contemporary History Task Force, at WikiProject: History.

• Members
  • User:Sm8900, (Interested in timeline articles, country articles. Lead Coordinator, WikiProject History)
  • User:Michael E Nolan, (Interested in timeline articles.)
  • User:Elijahandskip, (Interested in current event articles / deciding notability. (Lead Coordinator for WikiProject Current Events.)

• Items covered
  • Timelines for current year
  • Country articles for history up to present day
  • Articles on conflicts, issues, debates, activism, etc, occuring in the present day
  • Any historical articles needing updates due to events in the current time period
  • Any other articles requiring current data, updates, etc.
  • anything else suggested by members of this Task Force.

The Contemporary History task force writes, updates, and maintains articles pertaining to contemporary history. This includes timelines for the current year; articles covering historical periods that include the present day; regular articles covering historical events, conflicts, or issues which are currently transpiring; and also, any regular topics or areas which have had recent developments, and which need to be updated on that basis.

• Link:
  • Wikipedia:WikiProject History/Task forces/Contemporary history task force

Articles covered. Below are just some examples of articles which would fall under this task force.

• Timelines and articles for the current year
  • 2024
  • 2024 in politics
  • 2024 in science
  • 2024 in the United States
  • List of presidential trips made by Joe Biden (2024–25)
  • Timeline of the Joe Biden presidency (2024 Q3)
  • Timeline of the Islamic State (2024)
  • Timeline of the Israeli–Palestinian conflict in 2024
  • Timeline of the Russian invasion of Ukraine (1 August 2024 – present)
• Historical articles covering the present day
  • Presidency of Joe Biden
  • Presidency of Emmanuel Macron
  • Premiership of Narendra Modi
  • Premiership of Pedro Sánchez
  • Premiership of Keir Starmer
  • Premiership of Justin Trudeau
• Historical events, conflicts and issues that are still developing
  • Israel–Hamas war
  • Russian invasion of Ukraine
  • Sudanese civil war (2023–present)
  • Syrian civil war
• Articles covering specific societal and political events scheduled for the current year
  • 2024 Algerian presidential election
  • 2024 United States presidential election
• Regular articles that needed major edits recently, due to recent events and updates
  • History of Ukraine