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See New Pages Feed for our new articles interface that makes it easier to find, sort and filter pages that need to be reviewed. Other helpful tasks include, fixing vandalism, welcoming newcomers, link recovery, categorization, and numerous behind the scenes tasks like moving free images to Wikimedia Commons.
Wikipedia backlog by category
Click any linked number for that category's articles prioritized by their number of incoming links.
- Backlog categories
- Lacking references
- Accuracy
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- Non-free file use
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General notices
- Free subscriptions to high-quality paywalled journals, newspaper archives, and online reference works are available for Wikipedia editors. For more information, see Wikipedia:TWL/Journals"
Projects seeking help
Also consider posting WikiProject, Task Force, and Collaboration news at the Signpost's WikiProject Report page.
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- Being overhauled or expanded
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The following portals are in need of attention/upkeep:
The following portals have interesting design features that you may find useful:
| Portal:South East England |
A "parent" portal that uses selected content from several "child" portals, chosen at random for each type of content. |
| Portal:Philosophy |
Automatically cycles through 52 "Selected philosophers", one per week, year after year. |
| Portal:Arts |
Uses random generators to display random featured status selections. |
Discussions and collaborations
Discussions in the following areas have requested wider attention via Requests for comment:
See also
Here is a list of the main community pages of Wikipedia's sister projects.
All of these projects are multilingual and open-content. |
| Meta-Wiki – |
Coordination of all Wikimedia projects. |
| Wiktionary – |
A collaborative multilingual dictionary. |
| Wikinews – |
News stories written by readers. |
| Wikibooks – |
A collection of collaborative non-fiction books. |
| Wikiquote – |
A compendium of referenced quotations. |
| Wikisource – |
A repository for free source texts. |
| Wikispecies – |
A directory of species. |
| Wikiversity – |
Where teachers learn, and learners teach. |
| Wikivoyage – |
A world-wide travel guide. |
| Wikidata – |
A free knowledge base that can be read and
edited by humans and machines alike. |
| Commons – |
Repository for free images and other media files. |
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Featured article candidates
While a good article is a satisfactory article, a featured article exemplifies our very best work and has the following attributes:
- 1. High and reliable quality. It has: (a) engaging prose of a professional standard; (b) comprehensive coverage of major facts, details and context; (c) factual accuracy, with citations for verification against reliable sources; (d) neutral presentation of viewpoints; (e) stable content.
- 2. Detailed style standards. It complies with the entire Manual of Style and has: (a) a concise summarizing lead; (b) a substantial table of contents; (c) consistently formatted inline citations.
- 3. Images. It has images in accordance with image use policies; in particular, they have acceptable copyright status and fair use rationales where necessary.
- 4. Length. It stays focused on the main topic without going into unnecessary detail.
Articles achieving GA status are candidates for FA-Class (Featured Article) status. Examples of featured articles are viewable daily at Wikipedia's Main Page.
To add this auto-updating template to your user page, use {{totd}}
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