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Wikipedia:Task Center#Maintenance

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Maintenance

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| experience level = all editors

| title = Fact-Checking

| subtitle = Help to verify articles' information, add sources, and fix links.

| description = Sometimes, editors add information without adding sources to back it up. And sometimes sources get old and links no longer work (known as "linkrot"). Your job will be to add sources, verify content, and repair linkrot.

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  • Fix unsourced statements with [https://tools.wmflabs.org/citationhunt/en Citation Hunt]
  • {{GoToRandom|All articles lacking sources}}
  • {{GoToRandom|All articles that may contain original research}}
  • {{GoToRandom|Wikipedia articles needing factual verification from {{CURRENTMONTHNAME}} {{CURRENTYEAR}}}}
  • {{GoToRandom|All articles with bare URLs for citations}}
  • {{GoToRandom|Articles with dead external links}}

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{{job description

| experience level = all editors

| title = Categorization

| subtitle = Help put pages into their proper categories.

| description = Pages need to be put into categories so that the public can more easily find them. Help search the new pages feed and the Uncategorized Pages category in order to find pages to categorize. Add categories to articles with too few categories.

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  • {{GoToRandom|All uncategorized pages}}
  • Special:Newpages
  • {{GoToRandom|Articles needing additional categories from {{CURRENTMONTHNAME}} {{CURRENTYEAR}}}}

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{{job description

| experience level = all editors

| title = Copy editing

| subtitle = Help keep Wikipedia articles clear, clean, and easy to read.

| description = Articles created in a rush often have various grammar or tone issues. Please help fix them to make the article decent for the public.
Note: this task does require a very high level of English writing skill, and is not a recommended task for editors with less than professional proficiency. Editors interested in this task should also familiarise themselves with Wikipedia's Manual of Style.

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{{job description

| experience level = all editors

| title = Random Article Patrol

| subtitle = See Wikipedia as it really is, and learn a lot of random information.

| description = Random article patrol is a chance to appreciate how good (and how lacking) Wikipedia is. It can be a soothing experience, especially after tedious maintenance tasks. As a bonus, it can be a great training tool to sharpen your knowledge if you're a trivia buff or are scheduled to appear on Jeopardy! Just go to random pages and fix what you can.

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{{job description

| experience level = intermediate editors

| title = Answer an Edit Request

| subtitle = Help someone else contribute to the encyclopedia.

| description = Sometimes, users cannot edit a page because it is protected or they are partially blocked from it, or they should not because they have a conflict of interest with its subject. Review their edit requests, implementing the good ones and rejecting the less-than-good ones.

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{{job description

| experience level = intermediate editors

| title = Anti-Vandalism

| subtitle = Stop vandals from damaging Wikipedia.

| description = Wikipedia gets thousands of edits per day—unfortunately, many of these are vandalism. As a Recent Changes Patroller, you are the first line of defense against such abuse, ensuring that readers of Wikipedia are not faced with vandalized content where they expected to find a useful article.

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{{job description

| experience level = intermediate editors

| title = General Image Maintenance

| subtitle = Help fix issues with images.

| description = Uploading images on Wikipedia is a lengthy process and many mistakes are made. Therefore, there are a lot of mistakes that need to be fixed.

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  • {{GoToRandom|Wikipedia requested images}}
  • {{GoToRandom|All Wikipedia files with unknown source}}

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{{job description

| experience level = intermediate editors

| title = Merging and Splitting

| subtitle = Sometimes articles need to be combined or separated by hand.

| description = Help merge articles by adding a redirect and copying and pasting or help split an article by removing content and pasting it into a new article. When merging, follow attribution rules to ensure copyright compliance.

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  • {{GoToRandom|All articles to be merged}}
  • {{GoToRandom|All articles to be split}}

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{{job description

| experience level = intermediate editors

| title = New Images Patrol

| subtitle = Prevent the illegal release of images.

| description = Search the new images feed to find pictures that violate rules and copyright laws and get them deleted.

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{{job description

| experience level = advanced editors

| title = New Pages Patrol

| subtitle = Help delete spam articles before the public sees them.

| description = Some people, either acting in good faith or maliciously, create new articles which aren't suitable for inclusion on Wikipedia. By participating in new article patrol you can ensure that these articles are deleted as soon as possible.

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Writing

{{job description

| experience level = intermediate editors

| title = Expand a Short Article

| subtitle = Help fill the gaps of Wikipedia article content.

| description = Help make small articles called stubs more complete by doing more research.

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{{job description

| experience level = multilingual intermediate editors

| title = Translate an Article

| subtitle = Help improve Wikipedia's global coverage.

| description = Article contributions are made in many languages besides English. Helpers are needed to translate and polish translations so that all languages have good coverage of notable topics.

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{{job description

| experience level = advanced editors

| title = Expand a Broad-topic Article

| subtitle = Help fill the gaps of important Wikipedia articles.

| description = Improve our coverage on broad-topic articles. It could be as simple as copyediting or adding sources.

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(Higher level denotes decreasing broadness)

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  • {{GoToRandomVital|5}}

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{{job description

| experience level = advanced editors

| title = Create an Article

| subtitle = Help expand the reach of the encyclopedia.

| description = Create an article on a subject previously unknown to Wikipedia.

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{{job description

| experience level = advanced editors

| title = Good Articles

| subtitle = Help edit and nominate articles or review nominations of articles for good article status.

| description = Find potentially good articles and work on them for a while to bring them up to a high standard. Then nominate them for Good Article status. You can also review good article nominations and critique them.

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{{job description

| experience level = ambitious and advanced editors

| title = Featured Articles

| subtitle = Help nominate or review nominations of articles for featured article status.

| description = Upgrade articles and work on them for a long time to bring them up to a very high standard, until they deserve to be featured on the main page. Then, get peer review and nominate them for Featured Article status. You can also critique feature article nominations. Obtaining featured article status is considered to be one of the most prized achievements in Wikipedia.

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Community

{{job description

| experience level = intermediate editors

| title = Contribute to Noticeboards

| subtitle = Help contribute to discussions on noticeboards.

| description = Contribute your opinions to noticeboards in order to have a say in important decisions and help come to consensus on certain issues.

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{{job description

| experience level = intermediate or advanced editors

| title = Help Someone

| subtitle = Answer questions from newer Wikipedians.

| description = Help a user needing help. You don't have to know everything and you can just answer the questions you know. There is a need for more helpers to help speed up response times.

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{{job description

| experience level = intermediate or advanced editors

| title = The Rewards Board

| subtitle = Come to receive or post reward listings for editing tasks.

| description = The Rewards Board is a place where anyone can come to either post a task that they want done in exchange for a reward or to fulfill a task in exchange for a reward. The rewards offered are mostly barnstars but some people offer items or money for their tasks.

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{{job description

| experience level = advanced editors

| title = Conflict Resolution

| subtitle = Help editors come to a consensus with minimal conflict.

| description = Providing unbiased commentary is a great chance to improve your Wiki-relations. Instead of debating, you can read the arguments of opposing editors and suggest a compromise that is in Wikipedia’s best interest. By doing so, you will learn a lot about the policies.

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Collaborations

{{Today's articles for improvement}}

{{Backlog of the week}}

See also

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  • [https://copypatrol.wmcloud.org/en Copyvios]
  • New pages
  • New files
  • [//en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Contributions&contribs=newbie New editors]
  • [//en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:RecentChanges&userExpLevel=unregistered IP edits]
  • Discussions

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Recognition

  • Wikipedia:Awards – reward vigorous Wikipedia contributors for their hard work and due diligence.

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