Wikipedia:Articles for improvement
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Welcome to 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: Previous selections: Happiness · List of public art in Chicago · Cape (geography)
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This week's article for improvement is |
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Please be bold and help improve it! |
- 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 an hour.
- Be bold! Articles here can be edited at any time by all users, regardless of project membership status.
Goals
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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 Articles for improvement section.
- Assess and track our accomplishments.
Project organisation
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Process
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Nominations page | ![]() |
Articles list | ![]() |
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Project accomplishments
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Article | Accomplishments | Notes |
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Entertainment | Expanded from ![]() ![]() |
Promoted to GA on 27 February 2013 |
Writer | Expanded from ![]() |
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Sea | Expanded from ![]() ![]() |
Promoted to FA on 5 October 2013 |
Life sciences | Expanded from ![]() ![]() |
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Solar activity | ![]() |
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Animatronics | ![]() |
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Steak | Expanded from ![]() ![]() |
Promoted to GA on 25 November 2014 |
Solar activity | Expanded from a ![]() ![]() |
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Deep frying |
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Promoted to GA on 17 September 2015 |
Hors d'oeuvre |
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Chowder |
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– See the Accomplishments page for additional articles.
Members
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The project member list is located at the Members page.
Assessment
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Our assessment criteria and procedure are explained on the Assessment page. Like many other WikiProjects, AFI 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
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AFI 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.
Research
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- File:Wikipedia’s poor treatment of its most important articles.pdf (2011)
- File:Fun or Functional? The Misalignment Between Content Quality and Popularity in Wikipedia (WMF Research Showcase 2015-09-16).pdf
Archives
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Holding area archives (historical) Schedule archives Nomination discussion archives |
The Articles for Improvement archives are split over several pages:
- Nominations (including both successful and failed nominations)
- Scheduled pages that appeared as the AFI
- Holding area (historical, 2013–2015), consisting of articles that were successfully nominated but never selected as the AFI
The accomplishments page also includes a record of selections since 2013 alongside other information. Some archives of a predecessor version of this project that existed c. 2012 are located as subpages. This project was previously known as "Today's article for improvement" (TAFI), and there may be a few remnants of the renaming in places.
Project management
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See the Project management page for information.
See also
edit- Most popular low-quality articles
- meta:Social media/Article of the week – announces in advance an article the WMF plans to share on their official social media accounts
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Related projects
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- WikiProject Cleanup
- WikiProject Editor Retention
- WikiProject Intertranswiki
- 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
- Wikipedia:Discord/Team-B-Vital – aims to improve vital articles up to B class.
- WikiProject Women in Red – objective is to turn "redlinks" into blue ones within the project scope
- Articles for improvement (historical) (inactive)
- Wikipedia Spotlight (defunct)
Tools
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- 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.
- X!'s tools – Checks grammar and spelling (provided by LanguageTool) plus wikidata - displays page views and edit history
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