Wikipedia talk:Community portal/Open tasks

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-- Beland 23:47, 11 February 2006 (UTC) (edited by ~fl 03:50, 16 May 2009 (UTC))

Scorpion Food???

I always wonder what kind of food scorpions eat, because I love scorpions and would like to keep one as my pet but as much as I want to keep one I would not like to stave it to death. so if you could help me with the kind of food scorpions eat, I would be greatful if you could send me a mail. I am Eyrami Abormegah from Ghana. and my email is torgbui_mose@yahoo.com Thanks for the good work.

Famous French people

The pending requests for these biographies have been moved to Wikipedia:Requested articles/Other categorization schemes, due to the new auto-update scheme. -- Beland 00:00, 12 February 2006 (UTC)

Font size

I returned the font size to 85%, where it has been for a while. 100% makes this template wrap to 3 lines per category on the Community Portal, which makes the column it is in too long. Also, the Mediation Cabal line is at 85%, and they should match. If a font size increase is desired (I'm not sure why), then we should consider reducing the number of characters per line. I can adjust the parameter Pearle uses to determine this, if necessary. -- Beland 19:14, 4 April 2006 (UTC)

This is just a test.

Stubs

I noticed people removing a lot of non-stubs from the stubs line. Wikipedia:Most wanted stubs had accumulated a lot of non-stubs because it now needs to be purged manually. I went through that entire page and removed all the non-stubs I could find. But if you see a non-stub listed as a stub in the future, the best thing to do is to remove it from the MWS list, so it won't appear here again later.-- Beland 19:07, 10 September 2006 (UTC)

Purge

Just a button to keep handy. Ignore its presence if you'd like. :)

• Purge!

Thanks. :) ~Kylu (u|t) 19:28, 22 October 2006 (UTC)

Adding this template to other pages

How can I add this template, for example to my user page? Is there any sort of {{[[Template:{{{1}}}|{{{1}}}]]}} ? Turbinator 19:51, 5 December 2006 (UTC)

Type {{Wikipedia:Community_Portal/Opentask}} into your userpage. It might not be the best method, but it works. --Sigma 7 23:02, 13 December 2006 (UTC)

Question

This may not be the right place to post this but I can't sort out where else to ask. I noticed the External Link section has only one link. I'm rather an art fan, so I planned on entering links to the article to various resources that I find interesting. However, they seem to be continually removed. I'm not complaining, I'm asking, are external links to resources something not to put here? I realize this article is kinda special. I just don't want to be making work for people, or stepping out of bounds here. If it's not something that is wanted thats fine with me. Please advise.

I have no idea what article you are talking about; there are no external links on this page. -- Beland 09:32, 7 April 2007 (UTC)

Dual Core-Dual Processor

I would like to see a discussion about these two, for example Intels line of dual cores vs there pentium D (dual processors), the discussion can include advantages + disadvantages, this discussion would help new computer buyers like myself who still have questions on getting a cheap PD or an expensive Dual-core, i mean which is cost effective and ext...

tnx

This is the wrong place for such questions, but see Multiprocessing and Multi-core (computing). -- Beland 09:32, 7 April 2007 (UTC)

Maintained again

Sorry about the neglect; Pearle is at least working read-only now, so this page can get updated again without too much manual intervention. -- Beland 09:30, 7 April 2007 (UTC)

Hmmm, I have definitely fixed some of the things there (and not only today, which I'm willing to assume is because the bot hasn't updated yet), but it's been several days now, and I'm not noticing any changes to the list. Does no-one else use this list to find things to do? Or does it simply not update? Or is it just me? -- Leviel 10:33, 30 August 2007 (UTC)

Oh, I only saw your comment that it's not automated to update on Gold Coast City Art Gallery now. I'd really like to use this, so it would be wonderful if it was sorted out... but at least I understand if it's not updating at the moment. Leviel 10:44, 30 August 2007 (UTC)

hey nice work —Preceding unsigned comment added by 213.6.252.181 (talk) 09:11, 6 December 2007 (UTC)

Gold Coast City Art Gallery

I currently edited Gold Coast City Art Gallery, and it's still on the Wikify list, could someone check it to see if it still belongs in the list, and one of it's links (Gold Coast Art Centre) wasn't on wikipedia, so i completely created it, all 11 headlines and everything in them, could someone check that too. And for the Gold Coast City Art Gallery, just come here. §→Nikro 19:03, 24 May 2007 (UTC)

Looks wikified. Once you remove the tag, it will remain on the list until the next update (which is hopefully within 24 hours, but it's not automated at the moment due to technical difficulties). -- Beland 19:49, 30 June 2007 (UTC)

New pages patrolle: unpatrolled pages

With the new feature to mark a page as patrolled, it seems there is an enormous amount of pages who go unpatrolled. Is there any way to add the unpatroled pages to the open tasks? Martijn Hoekstra (talk) 16:30, 21 November 2007 (UTC)

Either More... or Backlog... but not both, please

Each of the tasks on this page (ie. Wikipedia:Community_Portal/Opentask) ends with either Backlog... (eg. Verify: ... list ... Backlog...) or More... (eg. Copyedit: ... list ... More....

Is there a reason for this? If not, can I change them all to More...?

I came to this Opentask page, not to look for opentasks, but as another step in trying to educate myself about how Wikipedia works. And this little inconsistency put me into a muddle for a few minutes.

Permacultura (talk) 13:23, 7 June 2008 (UTC)

That's fixed now.  Atyndall93 | talk  11:12, 8 July 2008 (UTC)

What links here

{{Opentask}} is on hundreds of user pages which really messes up the "what links here" list for any page that has the bad fortune to be mentioned. Can anything be done about that, please? Jmath666 (talk) 06:57, 24 November 2008 (UTC)

Hm, no it doesn't? Rich Farmbrough, 12:02, 15 October 2009 (UTC).

Oh yes it ruddy well does. See post below. DewiMorgan (talk) 22:58, 24 October 2009 (UTC)

Do NOT edit this page

I feel the 'Do NOT edit this page' is a bit harsh and unecessary with infobox about being automatically update, at least we should make it 'Please do NOT edit this page? LeeVJ (talk) 01:53, 2 February 2009 (UTC)

It has been removed. Foxy Loxy ^Pounce! 02:52, 2 February 2009 (UTC)

Thankyou, that is much more pleasant :) LeeVJ (talk)

Propose adding "Orphans" to list of tasks

WikiProject Orphanage needs support. Adding an extra task for orphaned articles would help recruit much-needed people to perform this useful task. -- œ^™ 09:21, 26 June 2009 (UTC)

Stub category

Hi all - given that Category:Stubs is frequently empty (it is regularly cleared into by-subject categories which are stored in Category:Stub categories), would it make more sense to link this template to Category:Stub categories? Grutness...wha? 00:33, 20 October 2009 (UTC)

Project spam breaks Special:WantedPages, Special:WhatLinksHere, and others.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:WantedPages lists Bukit Purmei as the most requested real page. Why? Because it's what's listed most by this project, which is placed on thousands of user pages, which causes thousands of dead links to a page which people really have little interest in. Same with Ectopic Enamel. How can I tell? Click on those red links, then click their "what links here" link. Hey, all that links to those pages is user pages! Why's that? Click any one of the user pages, and you'll see this project and all its links. So, this project breaks WantedPages. As an example, Bukit Purmei has, in its references, only about a dozen REAL links that I could spot (ie not "User:Talk" pages, etc). But even then it's hard to be sure that a bot hasn't just messed up and stuck the template into a random page, eg here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Leibherr_T_282B

So, because of this project, it's impossible to use the WantedPages link count to find what articles *actually* need creating.

Obviously, this will also break all "what links here" pages, in EVERY category mentioned by this project, as pointed out by Jmath666 above. Eg, see Alaska Aviation Heritage Museum, which is listed in the "stubs" section of this template. Click "what links here" (http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:WhatLinksHere/Alaska_Aviation_Heritage_Museum&limit=5000 warning, long list of 5,000 user pages), and there are some 8,000 links, each of which is, unsurprisingly, a "User:" page that's been spammed with this project.

The project is a good idea, and even spamming a link to this list to new users was potentially a nice idea, but because links were included in the spam, and because the special pages respect links from user pages, the project sadly has a very broken implementation, which is breaking Wikipedia for the rest of us. Please: stop spamming, and delete all spam already pasted. - DewiMorgan (talk) 22:56, 24 October 2009 (UTC)

Corrections and suggests:

1. This page (or the bot that maintains it) does not spam anyone and does not have the ability to post to any page besides this project page. Any user can choose to transclude this page wherever they wish. To address this userpage spam problem you would need to convince every user who has decided to transclude this page that they shouldn't anymore. An impossible task.
2. At any one time, there are about 5 articles in category on this page, and these articles remain there for ~3 hours. That means that in Special:WantedPages, there is a total of 5 invalid articles every time it is generated, hardly groundbreaking stuff and easy to weed out.
3. You can get rid of all the userpage links in WhatLinksHere by setting the namespace to "(Article)". Why would you need userpage links anyway?
4. This page has been here since 2003; nearly 6 years. In this time people have obviously found a workaround to this problem, or don't care, or this isn't actually as big a problem as believed here.

Is there anything I have not addressed? ~fl 00:50, 25 October 2009 (UTC)

Add relisted Articles for Deletion discussions

I propose adding some of the relisted articles for deletion discussions to this template of tasks. AfD needs more participation, and relisted debates need extra eyes most of all. They can be selected from Category:Relisted AfD debates. Fences&Windows 19:13, 20 December 2009 (UTC)

 Done ~fl 03:32, 21 December 2009 (UTC)

You star. That's about the fastest reaction to a suggestion I've ever seen on Wikipedia. Fences&Windows 16:30, 21 December 2009 (UTC)

Let's exclude old AfD logs, but list only individual AfD discussions. --PFHLai (talk) 00:27, 7 March 2010 (UTC)

translation cleanup

Any chance we could add a line for Category:Rough translations (and Category:Wikipedia articles needing cleanup after translation if its possible to have one line from two categories) to this list? While not a huge backlog, its not going anywhere first because it needs fluent speakers of whatever language, many of us at WP:PNT just base translations of machine translators--Jac16888^Talk 01:56, 29 December 2009 (UTC)

Helllllllllloooooooooooooooooooooooo? hello hello hello hello hello hello hello hello--Jac16888^Talk 21:23, 5 January 2010 (UTC)

This template is operated by a bot. Please contact the bot's owner, fl (talk · contribs), if you want the bot's re-programmed for this. For now, please populate (& periodically re-fresh) the line on Opentask manually. I've done the first one for you. Hope this helps. --PFHLai (talk) 21:38, 6 March 2010 (UTC)

 Done. Only just noticed this, contacting me via email would have sped the process up considerably. ~fl 01:03, 22 August 2010 (UTC)

Welcome back, fl.

To avoid a translation overload, I've removed my temporary line of translation-related tasks. One line operated by the bot should be enough. --PFHLai (talk) 01:18, 22 August 2010 (UTC)

Link from main page

Currently if a casual visitor to Wikipedia wants to lend a hand for quick (ok, perhaps not so quick) tasks, they'd have to scan the main page until they find the community portal link down below, give it a shot as the closest thing from a "how I can help" link in the main page, and then scroll down to the "Help out" section (perhaps they'll be lucky to click the TOC link), and then skip the left column (which, given the cultural context of most English readers, is typically the one read first), in order to finally get to the open tasks. I've read somewhere (can't find the link, sorry!), and agree, that in open projects it's a good idea to have straight away a list of easy tasks for newbies (see this post by Brion for example). I want to hear your thoughts on having a link to this template, or to that section in the community portal where it appears, in a prominent place on the main page. How prominent, of course, is up to discussion, and so is the text of the link ("How can I help?" would be a nce one, for instance). Also, it'd be nice to have it on Wikipedia:Introduction#How can I contribute? as well. What do you guys say? --Waldir ^talk 10:30, 12 March 2010 (UTC)

I suggested this at the main page talk and it got shot down. I agree but many are wary of opening this up to brand new users.

I would support this suggestion also, although I am fairly inactive these days. ~fl 01:04, 22 August 2010 (UTC)

Article incubator?

Could some of the articles in the Wikipedia:Article Incubator be included on this task list? See Category:Articles in the Article Incubator. It'd help avoid those incubated articles going stale. Fences&Windows 15:41, 27 June 2010 (UTC)

 Done ~fl 01:03, 22 August 2010 (UTC)

Orphaned articles?

Could we add Deorphaning Category:Orphaned articles to our open tasks? It's one of the largest backlogs right now according to Category:Wikipedia backlog, Sadads (talk) 14:55, 30 January 2011 (UTC)

• Yes by all means, I support doing this. I'd say be bold and do it if you know how, but I think you'd still need to contact the User:FlBot owner to change the bot code so that it updates the page properly. -- œ^™ 15:55, 30 January 2011 (UTC)

•  Done I've gone and added the orphan category to the bot's supported categories. You can move the orphaned list section around the page as you wish, just don't delete the

  <span id="orphan"></span>

  html, as that shows the bot where to place the list. ~fl 14:13, 21 February 2011 (UTC)