Wikipedia:The Cure for WikiBoredom
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Welcome, Wikipedians, to The Cure for WikiBoredom. This page was established on June 20, 2006 to list all the tasks that need to be accomplished on Wikipedia. The community portal has something similar, however, would get too large if it were to list all the tasks wanted to get done. That's right, I want you to make this list as giant as possible. If you keep a personal list of goals to accomplish on Wikipedia, you can add things from that list to this page. Don't worry about making the page too big; we can always section it off into further subpages. If there's something you want to get done, list it here. The goal is to keep the WikiBored occupied for as long as possible – we can do it!
Articles
==Article improvement==
List tasks related to article improvement in this section.
- Create a requested article
- Do you know a foreign language? Translate an article into another language, or from another language into English; have a look at the Pages needing translation into English
- Find sources for articles ({{PAGESINCATEGORY:All articles lacking sources}} pages)
- For individual unsourced statements ({{PAGESINCATEGORY:All articles with unsourced statements}} pages)
- Wikify articles ({{PAGESINCATEGORY:All articles covered by WikiProject Wikify}} pages)
- Expand articles ({{PAGESINCATEGORY:All articles to be expanded}} pages)
- Merge articles ({{PAGESINCATEGORY:All articles to be merged}} pages)
- Split articles ({{PAGESINCATEGORY:All articles to be split}} pages)
- Write lead sections ({{PAGESINCATEGORY:Pages missing lead section}} pages)
- Check articles for neutrality ({{PAGESINCATEGORY:All Wikipedia neutral point of view disputes}} pages)
- Clean up articles
- Clean up link rot in articles
==Patrolling==
List tasks related to new page patrolling (WP:NPP) and counter-vandalism patrolling (WP:CVU) in this section.
- Take a look at [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:RecentChanges&hideliu=1&namespace=1&limit=500 New article talk pages created by anons] (look for the Ns). Often the pages are deletable tests, requiring boldness encouragement or in need of a point to the Reference desk
- Perform New page patrol on unpatrolled pages about to expire from the list. All of the obvious vandalism is filtered out by this stage, so tagging and fact-checking are in order.
Community
List tasks related to WikiProjects, consensus discussions, or the Wikipedia Community in general in this section.
- Settle a dispute among editors
- Answer a question at
- the Help desk
- the Teahouse
- Seek out individual editors in need of help
- Help out at peer review
Maintenance
List tasks related to keeping Wikipedia in shape, such as sorting through images or articles, in this section.
- Find a source for images
- Remove toolbar experiments from articles
- Categorize articles listed at :Category:Uncategorized pages