Wikipedia:Discord/Team-B-Vital

Team-B-Vital is a collaboration effort by the unofficial Wikimedia Community Discord server. The #team-b-vital channel is an effort towards running collaborative pushes to bring vital articles up to B class if possible, similar to WP:Articles for Improvement. Each effort will run for two weeks, ending early if the article in question is either felt to be at B-class or impossible to improve further. Articles are chosen by a week-long vote evey other week among interested chatters, with the goal of working together on improving various vital articles.

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Article	Change during run	Time range	Notes	Further promotions
Amazon parrot	[ ]	July 15, 2021 – July 21, 2021	Chosen for first trial run effort. Article improved from Start to B (diff). Improvements were also made to List of amazon parrots (diff).	(July 27, 2021)
Tasmanian Wilderness World Heritage Area	[ ]	July 22, 2021 – July 28, 2021	Chosen for second trial run effort. Article improved from Start to B (diff). Helsham Inquiry was also created from a redlink.	(October 2, 2021)
Scimitar	[ ]	July 29, 2021 – August 4, 2021	Chosen for third trial run effort. Though improved from Start to C and significantly cleaned up, participants generally felt the topic has proven very broad and difficult to properly source. Most B criteria are met and ORES predicts 80% B assessment, but broadness and completeness is likely still lacking (diff).
Okonomiyaki	[ ]	August 5, 2021 – August 11, 2021	Chosen for the fourth and final trial run effort; a final source was added to resolve a citation needed tag the next day after it ended. Article improved from Start to B (diff).	(September 3, 2021)
Garden	[ ]	August 12, 2021 – August 18, 2021	Chosen for the first non-trial week, another rather broad topic. Low participation, with some minor cosmetic edits, but no major expansions (diff).
News program	[ / ]	August 19, 2021 – August 25, 2021	Shortly before the topic was selected, a merger to News broadcast was proposed. The merger was completed mid-way through the effort. News broadcast itself was improved from Start to C (diff).
Waterfall	[ ]	August 26, 2021 – September 1, 2021	Reassessed as B class on August 28, 2021, with a few further improvements over the week (diff).
Winnie-the-Pooh (book)	[ ]	September 2, 2021 – September 8, 2021	Reassessed as B class on September 7, 2021 (diff).
Kingdom of Georgia	[ ]	September 9, 2021 – September 15, 2021	A special request from WP:CCI, the article was rated as a B but was substantially pruned due to copyright cleanup. Some content was recovered, but concerns about the sourcing and suitability of the prior text beyond copyright concerns dropped the article to C (diff).
Match fixing	[ ]	September 16, 2021 – September 22, 2021	Some cleanup to the article was achieved and a little sourcing improved, but overall the article is at a C (diff). More sourcing would be needed to raise to B.
Akashi Kaikyo Bridge	[ ]	September 23, 2021 – September 29, 2021	Reassessed as B class on September 28, 2021 (diff).
Sargasso Sea	[ ]	September 30, 2021 – October 6, 2021	Copy editing, expansion, and cleanup, raising to C (diff).
Maccabean Revolt	[ ]	October 7, 2021 – October 13, 2021	Reassessed as B class on October 13, 2021 (diff).
Dolley Madison	[ ]	October 14, 2021 – October 20, 2021	Reassessed as B class on October 20, 2021 (diff).
Anne Wojcicki	[ ]	October 21, 2021 – October 27, 2021	Some cleanup and copyediting completed (diff).
Loch Ness	[ ]	October 28, 2021 – November 3, 2021	Close to a B but participants did not feel it was quite expanded enough for that (diff).
Sherwood Forest	[ ]	November 4, 2021 – November 10, 2021	Some light gnoming (diff).
Spring (hydrology)	[ ]	November 11, 2021 – November 17, 2021	Lot of work, nearly B class but needs a few more sources (diff).
Aqueduct (water supply)	[ ]	November 18, 2021 – December 1, 2021	Two week run; minor cleanup (diff).
Banded bullfrog	[ ]	December 2, 2021 – December 15, 2021	Two week run; reassessed as B class on December 15, 2021‎. Lot of work, low B but in good shape (diff).	(February 25, 2022)
Colby cheese	[ ]	December 16, 2021 – December 22, 2021	Reassessed as B class on December 22, 2021 (diff).	(January 12, 2022)
Yes, Virginia, there is a Santa Claus Ebenezer Scrooge	[ ] [ ]	December 23, 2021 – December 29, 2021	Special Christmas Double Article Run! "Yes, Virginia, there is a Santa Claus" reassessed as B class on December 26, 2021 (diff); only minor work done on Ebenezer.	Yes, Virginia: (January 1, 2022) (January 3, 2023)

Article	Change during run	Time range	Notes	Further promotions
Ferret	[ ]	December 30, 2021 – January 12, 2022	Special server theme pick for New Year's Eve. Reassessed as B (diff).
Moai	[ ]	January 13, 2022 – January 26, 2022	Two week run. Lot of work but still C right now (diff).
Passenger train	[ ]	January 27, 2022 – February 9, 2022	Re-assessed as C - at the time of this run wrapping, further improvement was possible but (if done) would continue separately (diff).
Video camera	[ ]	February 10, 2022 – March 2, 2022	Longer run; some work done but still Start-class (diff).
Drawbridge	[ ]	March 3, 2022 – March 16, 2022	Two-week run; some work done but still Start-Class (diff).
Wanderer above the Sea of Fog	[ ]	March 17, 2022 – March 30, 2022	Two-week run; reassessed as B-class on March 30, 2022 (diff).
Colosseum	[ ]	March 31, 2022 – April 13, 2022	Two-week run; reassessed as B-class after the run on May 2, 2022 (diff).
Michael Eisner	[ ]	April 16, 2022 – May 12, 2022	Overran; reassessed as B-class on May 13th, 2022 (diff).
Flywheel	[ ]	May 13, 2022 – June 2, 2022	Overran; reassessed as C-class on June 3, 2022 (diff).
American Museum of Natural History	[ ]	June 3, 2022 – June 15, 2022	Slightly shorter run; reassessed as B (diff). (Due to external circumstances, there was a small break between the end of this run and the beginning of the next.)
The Death of Socrates	[ ]	June 30, 2022 – July 13, 2022	Slightly shorter run; reassessed as B on July 18, 2022 (diff).
Minesweeper (video game)	[ ]	July 17, 2022 – August 4th, 2022	Overran; reassessed as B on August 4, 2022 (diff). (Due to external circumstances, there was a short break between the end of this run and the beginning of the next.)	(October 25, 2022)
Webcam	[ ]	August 19, 2022 – August 31, 2022	Slightly shorter run; left as Start due to sourcing concerns. (diff)
Willis Tower	[ ]	September 3, 2022 – September 14, 2022	Slightly shorter run; reassessed as B on October 1, 2022 (diff).
Java (programming language)	[ ]	September 17, 2022 – September 28, 2022	Slightly shorter run. Little work done, remained as C-class (diff).
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum	[ ]	September 30, 2022 – October 12, 2022	Slightly shorter run; reassessed as B on October 9, 2022 (diff).
Unix time	[ ]	October 16, 2022 – October 26, 2022	Slightly shorter run; reassessed as C on October 25, 2022‎ (diff).
Web browser	[ ]	October 30, 2022 – December 6, 2022	Slightly delayed/longer run. Lots of work done but remained C-class. (diff).
Sagrada Família	[ ]	December 7, 2022 – December 27, 2022	Slightly delayed run. Some work done but remained C-class. (diff).

Article	Change during run	Time range	Notes
Lunar eclipse	[ ]	December 28, 2022 – January 10, 2023	Slightly delayed run. Some work done but remained Start-class. (diff).
Website	[ ]	January 11, 2022 – January 24, 2023	A small amount of work done but remained C-class. (diff).
Gamer	[ ]	January 25, 2022 – February 7, 2023	No work done, remained C-class (diff).
Coach (bus)	[ ]	February 8, 2023 – February 21, 2023	A small amount of work done but remained Start-class. (diff).
Art museum	[ ]	February 25, 2023 – March 7, 2023	Slightly delayed/shortened run.
Take Five	[ ]	March 10, 2023 – March 21, 2023	Slightly delayed/shortened run.
Adélie Land	[ ]	March 23, 2023 – April 5, 2023	Slightly delayed/shortened run.
Peer-to-peer file sharing	[ ]	April 9, 2023 – April 25, 2023	Slightly delayed/extended run.
Grammy Awards	[ ]	April 26, 2023 – May 9, 2023
Elevated railway	[ ]	May 11, 2023 – May 23, 2023	Slightly delayed/shortened run.
Tehran Metro	[ ]	May 26, 2023 – June 6, 2023	Slightly delayed/shortened run.
Little Women	[ ]	June 8, 2023 – June 20, 2023	Slightly delayed/shortened run.
Iridaceae	[ ]	June 22, 2023 – July 4, 2023	Slightly delayed/shortened run (diff).
Signal-to-noise ratio	[ ]	July 7, 2023 – July 18, 2023	Slightly delayed/shortened run. No edits during run; remained C-class.
Hammerhead shark	[ ]	August 10, 2023 – August 29, 2023	Delayed/extended run (diff).
iOS	[ ]	September 3, 2023 – September 19, 2023	Delayed/extended run. No work done, remained C-class (diff).
Planck constant Planck units	[ ] [ ]	September 20, 2023 – October 3, 2023	Double run due to the overlap.
Auditory system	[ ]	October 20, 2023 – October 31, 2023	Delayed/extended run.
Giant clam	[ ]	November 17, 2023 – November 28, 2023	Delayed/shortened run.

Article	Change during run	Time range	Notes	Further promotions
Memory card	[ ]	August 17, 2024 – August 31, 2024
Near side of the Moon	[ ]	August 31, 2024 – September 14, 2024

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