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.
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- 18:30, 20 July 2016 1909 in Iceland (hist) [1,190 bytes] Oceanh (talk | contribs)
- 18:27, 20 July 2016 Diuon (hist) [2,070 bytes] Danielpenadiuon (talk | contribs) (Tags: possible autobiography or conflict of interest, Visual edit)
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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.
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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.
- 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.
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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.
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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 make a table on a page
Using the Wikipedia text editor:
- Click on "Advanced" at the top of the editing box
- Click on icon
- Add data into cells, rows or columns
- Provide an edit summary and save your work
Another box will appear allowing you to set up the number of rows and columns and style of the table.
Using the Visual Editor:
- Click on "Insert" near the top of the page
- Click on "Table"
- Click on each cell or drag across multiple cells
- Merge, add or delete cells as needed
- Click on "Properties" to assign properties to cells, rows, or columns
- Insert data into cells, rows or columns
- Provide an edit summary and save your work
To add this auto-updating template to your user page, use {{totd}}
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