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Counter systemic bias by creating new articles on missing important female scientists.
Improve popular low quality articles (top 5,000 articles by pageviews with low ORES article class predictions.)
Other helpful tasks include, fixing vandalism, welcoming newcomers, link recovery, categorization, and numerous behind the scenes tasks like moving free images to Wikimedia Commons. See Wikipedia:Maintenance for more maintenance tasks.
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The primary purposes of new page patrolling are to identify articles which do not meet the criteria for inclusion and/or to tag them for any glaring issues that need attention. Most critical are copyright violations and defamatory material about living persons.
- 01:17, 8 August 2016 Solanum curvicuspe (hist) [1,038 bytes] Filikovalo (talk | contribs)
- 01:10, 8 August 2016 Jackson Jeremiah Doyle (hist) [387 bytes] Jaythedude (talk | contribs)
- 01:08, 8 August 2016 Adair County Democrat-Adair County Free Press Building (hist) [2,160 bytes] Farragutful (talk | contribs)
- 01:07, 8 August 2016 Billy Davis (American) (hist) [28 bytes] Zbl0X940 (talk | contribs) (Tags: Mobile edit, Mobile web edit, very short new article, Visual edit)
- 01:07, 8 August 2016 Siege master (hist) [516 bytes] Siegeplan (talk | contribs) (Tag: Visual edit)
- 01:04, 8 August 2016 Chan Ho-tin (hist) [7,622 bytes] Lmmnhn (talk | contribs)
- 00:59, 8 August 2016 Chaunty spillane (hist) [5,317 bytes] VBrockmann (talk | contribs)
- 00:58, 8 August 2016 Phantom Productions (hist) [103 bytes] Jaythedude (talk | contribs) (Tag: very short new article)
- 00:57, 8 August 2016 Elke Papp (hist) [524 bytes] Oldshoe (talk | contribs)
- 00:55, 8 August 2016 Empress Njamah (hist) [3,224 bytes] Darreg (talk | contribs)
- 00:53, 8 August 2016 2016 Challenger Banque Nationale de Gatineau – Women's Doubles (hist) [5,677 bytes] JGab12 (talk | contribs)
- 00:51, 8 August 2016 Ana Carla Cozendey (hist) [545 bytes] Oldshoe (talk | contribs)
- 00:50, 8 August 2016 Primus technologies (hist) [1,546 bytes] Csullivan2016 (talk | contribs) (Tags: large unwikified new article, Visual edit)
- 00:49, 8 August 2016 The Guest House (hist) [6,588 bytes] PC78 (talk | contribs)
- 00:49, 8 August 2016 Alto Tarauacá Extractive Reserve (hist) [6,117 bytes] Aymatth2 (talk | contribs)
- 00:49, 8 August 2016 His Bonded Wife (hist) [1,696 bytes] Koplimek (talk | contribs)
- 00:48, 8 August 2016 Golden Jazz Fusion (hist) [1,133 bytes] BiyemAssi (talk | contribs)
- 00:48, 8 August 2016 1986–87 England Hockey League season (hist) [5,163 bytes] Leicesterglory (talk | contribs)
- 00:48, 8 August 2016 Jack Henry Whalen (hist) [925 bytes] Danjenkerson45 (talk | contribs)
- 00:43, 8 August 2016 Tommaso Dal Pozzo (hist) [2,480 bytes] Rococo1700 (talk | contribs)
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Wikipedia backlog by category
This backlog lists tasks that should be done to improve Wikipedia (assuming the cleanup templates were placed correctly). Helping reduce backlogs is an important issue, so please feel free to help out.
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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- Content
- Links
- Layout
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- File description
- File quality
- Non-free file use
- File licensing
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- Meta
- Quality content
- Other
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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.
- Win up to £250 ($330) in Amazon vouchers from Aug 8-28 by contributing articles on Devon, Cornwall and the West Country of England as part of the West Country Challenge! All editors are warmly welcome to contribute to the contest/editathon so sign up ready for the start on the 8th!
- The Tip of The Day department is looking for tricks and techniques. If you have a special way of doing things, please stop by and share.
- New outlines
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- Outline drafts (please help complete them, so they can be moved to article space)
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- Outlines in need of attention
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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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How to watch for pages that do not exist yet
If you have requested an article, are waiting for an article that someone else has requested, or are concerned about a deleted article being re-created, you can add the non-existent page to your watchlist and find out when it is created! Follow the red link, then click the "watch" tab.
To add this auto-updating template to your user page, use {{totd}}
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