Wikipedia:Today's articles for improvement

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Welcome to Today's articles for improvement! (And you thought all the juicy articles had already been written...) We identify and collaborate upon underdeveloped articles that require improvement. Our goal is to use widespread collaborative editing to improve articles over a short time frame. So far, we have improved hundreds of articles; some have even been promoted to good or featured article status! Boldly edit the current article for improvement, or join the project today! This week's article for improvement is: Corruption in the United States Previous selections: Synchrony and diachrony · Technological evolution · Bird of prey How to contribute This week's article for improvement is Corruption in the United States Please be bold and help to improve this article! Check out the project's Articles for improvement page. Just start editing and help to improve our selected articles! You can nominate an article for us to work on. You may join the project by adding your name to the members list, and can sign up for weekly notices. If you have any questions, please feel free to ask at our talk page, and also at the Teahouse or Help desk. If you are new to Wikipedia, you may find Wikipedia's tutorial useful - it covers the basics of Wikipedia in under a hour. Be bold! Articles here can can be edited at any time by all users, regardless of project membership status. Goals The project's four main tasks are to: Coordinate and collaborate to improve articles Identify candidate articles Select the order they appear on the community portal in the Today's articles for improvement section Assess and track our accomplishments Project organisation Process Articles follow the following process to be selected as Today's Article For Improvement: Nominations page Articles for improvement Schedule Articles are submitted and approved by participating editors at the nominations page. Successful nominations are listed at Wikipedia:Articles for improvement. Articles on the list page can be improved at any time. One article is randomly selected from the list of articles each week, which is placed in the schedule. A few weeks later, it's that article's turn to be the week's selected TAFI article! Project accomplishments Some of our notable accomplishments include: Article Accomplishments Notes Entertainment Expanded from Start-Class to Good Article. Promoted to GA on 27 February 2013 Writer Expanded from Stub-Class (c.4K bytes to c.66K bytes). Sea Expanded from Start-Class to Featured Article Life sciences Expanded from Stub-class to C-class (c.3K bytes to c.76K bytes) Solar activity Did you know? article for 21 Sep 2014 Animatronics Did you know? article for 21 Sep 2014 Steak Expanded from Start-class to Good article (c.8K bytes to c.37K bytes). Promoted to GA on 25 November 2014. Solar activity Expanded from a Disambiguation page to a C-class article. (c.1K to 70K bytes) Deep frying Expanded from Start-class to B-class (3.7kB to 13kB) Improved to Good Article as a further collaboration (14kB, ~2,400 words) Did you know? article for 15 November 2015 (diff), having qualified per being promoted to GA status Promoted to GA on 17 September 2015 Hors d'oeuvre Improved from start-class to c-class. Did you know? article for 15 January 2016 Chowder Improved from start-class to c-class. Did you know? article for 9 February 2016 – See the Accomplishments page for additional articles. Members The project member list is located at the Members page. Assessment Our assessment criteria and procedure are explained on the Assessment page. Like many other WikiProjects, TAFI assesses the articles it is involved with. Unlike other projects, we only assess the article's state before and immediately after its week of collaborative editing – that improvement is one (but not the only) measure of our success. Automation and templates TAFI makes use of various templates. See the Automation page for details, including banners, talk page messages, user and project maintenance templates. The project's bot tasks are also listed here, currently undertaken by MusikBot. TAFI Embassy Similar article improvement projects exist at various language versions of Wikipedia. Kunlaboraĵo de la semajno (Esperanto) इस सप्ताह का सुधार हेतु लेख (Hindi) Proiectul săptămânii (Romanian) Bài ưu tiên nâng cấp trong tuần (Vietnamese) Archives The archives page gives an overview of archived submissions and schedules. For unsuccessful nominations, archived by month, see Unsuccessful nominations for an index. For successfully nominated articles that were not selected to either be scheduled or kept in the List of articles area, see the List of articles archive. For articles that were scheduled and appeared as "Today's article for improvement", see the Schedule archive. Project management TAFI Scheduling (automated checklist) Item This week Next week Week after 1. Weekly page created 2. Article specified 3. Picture/file chosen 4. Caption written It is currently week 15 of 2017. to refresh the checklist. See the Project management page for information. Further collaboration The TAFI Article collaboration page is a place to coordinate further collaboration on articles above and beyond our weekly selections. The TAFI Google Doodle task force improves Google Doodle-related articles See also Collaborations Today Today's articles for improvement Science & technology Dinosaurs Medicine Miscellaneous Inactive collaborations Active Wiki Fixup Projects Article Rescue Squadron Check Wikipedia Cleanup Dead-end pages Disambig pages w/ links Fix common mistakes Free images to Commons Geo-coordinates Missing articles Most-wanted articles Orphaned articles Red Link Recovery Requested articles Single editor Stubsensor Today's articles for improvement Uncategorised articles Unreferenced articles Wikification needed Main · Inactive · Mini Related projects WikiProject Cleanup WikiProject Editor Retention WikiProject Intertranswiki – has a monthly stub creation focus and also highlights select articles for improvement in a given month, usually related to Latin American women. WikiProject Missing encyclopedic articles Rescue list – hosted at WikiProject Article rescue squadron WikiProject Quality Article Improvement Wikipedia:The 10,000 Challenge – aims to reach 10,000 article improvements for UK- and Ireland-related articles WikiProject Africa/The 10,000 Challenge – aims to reach 10,000 article improvements for Africa-related articles Wikipedia Vital articles WikiProject Women in Red – objective is to turn "redlinks" into blue ones within the project scope Articles for Improvement (inactive) Wikipedia Spotlight (defunct) Tools See also: Wikipedia:Tools reFill – Edits bare url references: adds title, dates, publisher, etc. Reflinks – Edits bare references: adds title/dates etc. to bare references Checklinks – Edit and repair external links Dab solver – Quickly resolve ambiguous links. Peer reviewer – Provides hints and suggestion to improving articles. X!'s tools – Checks grammar and spelling (provided by LanguageTool) plus wikidata - displays page views and edit history