Wikipedia:Wikiwork Brigade
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Welcome to the Wikiwork Brigade, where Wikipedians get things done.
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With nearly three million articles, it's hard to imagine that there is still plenty to be done on Wikipedia, but there is. Articles have to be cleaned up, facts have to be checked, grammar has to be corrected, references have to be inserted, the status of images have to be clarified, stubs have to be expanded, links and interlinks have to be made, tables have to be straightened, stubs have to be categorized, formats have to be maintained — in short, if you're looking for something to do, have we got a job for you!
Here at the Wikiwork brigade, we hand out the work. In fact, anyone is entitled to hand out the work, as long as they take a task for themselves.
Tasks can be of many different kinds. To select a task simply sign your name beside it. When you complete the task, you can take one point. For every two points, you may add a task to the list. For every 25 points, you are entitled to a task-master barnstar.
Types of tasks
Every task created should fall under one of these broad classifications:
- Sources, as an encyclopedia it is particularly important that our facts, especially the non-obvious ones, are correctly sourced.
- To complete these tasks, read the entire linked article and find sources for non-trivial facts. Move to talk facts which you can not source. The task is complete when all major non-trivial facts are sourced.
- Merge, merging is an important but often thankless task. Many articles have been awaiting merges for a long time.
- To complete these tasks, read the both articles to be merged entirely and their talk pages and merge the pages. Do not hesitate to ask other editors for input if you need it, but don't allow a lack of interest to prevent the merge.
- Restructuring/reorganization restructuring is an important but often thankless tasks. Many articles have been awaiting restructuring for a long time.
- To complete these tasks, first flesh out this instruction then perform the work.
- Libel check, it is particularly important to remove unsourced material on articles about living people which may cause harm.
- To complete these tasks, read the entire linked article and find and/or check sources for any potentially libelous material, remove (or move to the talk page) material which is potentially libelous and not easily sourcable.
List of the tasks to be done
Please sign the completed field and change the status when you complete a task.
Sources
| Article | Status | Proposed | Completed |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ingvaeonic nasal spirant law | Incomplete | --Shanel 05:25, 17 March 2006 (UTC) |
Libel check
| Article | Status | Proposed | Completed |
|---|---|---|---|
| Lico Reyes | Incomplete | Gmaxwell 05:31, 17 March 2006 (UTC) | |
| Prem Rawat | Incomplete | Gmaxwell 05:31, 17 March 2006 (UTC) | |
| Hugo Chávez | Incomplete | Gmaxwell 05:31, 17 March 2006 (UTC) | |
| George W. Bush | Incomplete | Gmaxwell 05:31, 17 March 2006 (UTC) | |
| Tony Blair | Incomplete | Gmaxwell 05:31, 17 March 2006 (UTC) | |
| Hank Aaron | Incomplete | Gmaxwell 05:31, 17 March 2006 (UTC) | |
| George Galloway | Incomplete | Gmaxwell 05:31, 17 March 2006 (UTC) | |
| Bill Clinton | Incomplete | Gmaxwell 05:31, 17 March 2006 (UTC) | |
| Karl Rove | Incomplete | Gmaxwell 05:31, 17 March 2006 (UTC) | |
| Margaret Thatcher | Incomplete | Gmaxwell 05:31, 17 March 2006 (UTC) | |
| John Kerry | Incomplete | Gmaxwell 05:31, 17 March 2006 (UTC) | |
| Fred Phelps | Incomplete | Gmaxwell 05:31, 17 March 2006 (UTC) | |
| Saddam Hussein | Incomplete | Gmaxwell 05:31, 17 March 2006 (UTC) | |
| Tori Amos | Incomplete | Gmaxwell 05:31, 17 March 2006 (UTC) | |
| Silvio Berlusconi | Incomplete | Gmaxwell 05:31, 17 March 2006 (UTC) | |
| Pope Benedict XVI | Incomplete | Gmaxwell 05:31, 17 March 2006 (UTC) | |
| Arnold Schwarzenegger | Incomplete | Gmaxwell 05:31, 17 March 2006 (UTC) | |
| Yoweri Museveni | Incomplete | Gmaxwell 05:31, 17 March 2006 (UTC) | |
| Zbigniew Brzezinski | Incomplete | Gmaxwell 05:31, 17 March 2006 (UTC) | |
| Prince (artist) | Incomplete | Gmaxwell 05:31, 17 March 2006 (UTC) |
Merge
Note: You may decide that it is worthwhile to keep the two as distinct articles. If that is the case, then simply remove the tags and leave a note on the talk page.
| Article | Status | Proposed | Completed |
|---|---|---|---|
| Complete | Danny 05:18, 17 March 2006 (UTC) | —MESSEDROCKER (talk) 19:22, 20 March 2006 (UTC) | |
| Complete | Danny 05:18, 17 March 2006 (UTC) | Kirill Lokshin 17:24, 17 March 2006 (UTC) | |
| 1920s | Incomplete | Danny 05:30, 17 March 2006 (UTC) | |
| Complete | Danny 05:30, 17 March 2006 (UTC) | Kirill Lokshin 17:24, 17 March 2006 (UTC) | |
| Complete | Danny 05:30, 17 March 2006 (UTC) | Kirill Lokshin 17:24, 17 March 2006 (UTC) | |
| Complete | Danny 05:30, 17 March 2006 (UTC) | Danny 10:40, 17 March 2006 (UTC) | |
| Complete | Danny 05:30, 17 March 2006 (UTC) | Kirill Lokshin 00:52, 18 March 2006 (UTC) | |
| Battle of the Murgo Choke | Incomplete | Danny 05:30, 17 March 2006 (UTC) | |
| Complete | Danny 05:30, 17 March 2006 (UTC) | Gmaxwell 06:15, 17 March 2006 (UTC) | |
| Complete | Gmaxwell 03:33, 18 March 2006 (UTC) | Kcordina 10:10, 20 March 2006 (UTC) | |
| Complete | Gmaxwell 03:33, 18 March 2006 (UTC) | --Celestianpower háblame 10:15, 18 March 2006 (UTC) | |
| Rollo Tomasi | Incomplete | Gmaxwell 03:33, 18 March 2006 (UTC) | |
| Pop music parodies | Incomplete | Gmaxwell 03:33, 18 March 2006 (UTC) | |
| Incomplete | Gmaxwell 03:33, 18 March 2006 (UTC) | Conscious 12:55, 28 March 2006 (UTC) | |
| Oracle Financials | Complete | Gmaxwell 03:33, 18 March 2006 (UTC) | Kcordina Talk 13:34, 22 March 2006 (UTC) |
| Complete | Gmaxwell 03:33, 18 March 2006 (UTC) | Golbez 07:17, 22 March 2006 (UTC) (work done by User:BassPlyr23) | |
| Once Upon a Mattress | Incomplete | Gmaxwell 03:33, 18 March 2006 (UTC) | |
| Sea Gypsies | Incomplete | Gmaxwell 03:33, 18 March 2006 (UTC) | |
| Supergene | Incomplete | Gmaxwell 03:33, 18 March 2006 (UTC) | |
| Complete | Gmaxwell 03:33, 18 March 2006 (UTC) | Christopher Parham (talk) 20:45, 26 March 2006 (UTC) | |
| Teleimmersion | Incomplete | Gmaxwell 03:33, 18 March 2006 (UTC) | |
| Tenancy agreement | Complete | Gmaxwell 03:33, 18 March 2006 (UTC) | Kcordina 09:56, 20 March 2006 (UTC) |
| complete | Gmaxwell 03:33, 18 March 2006 (UTC) | Kcordina 11:14, 20 March 2006 (UTC) | |
| Complete | Gmaxwell 03:33, 18 March 2006 (UTC) | Kirill Lokshin 16:23, 18 March 2006 (UTC) |
Restructuring/reorganization
| Article | Status | Proposed | Completed |
|---|---|---|---|
| Assembly mode | Incomplete | Kelly Martin (talk) 05:20, 17 March 2006 (UTC) | |
| Complete | Kelly Martin (talk) 05:20, 17 March 2006 (UTC) | bainer (talk) 01:24, 18 March 2006 (UTC) |
Article expansion
Burkina Faso
Burkina Faso has 45 provinces, most of which are stub articles. There does, however, seem to be more information in the French Wikipedia, including a table of the towns in each province. To perform this task, simply copy the table to the relevant English article (see Bam for an example). Then change the French phrase "Villes du X" to "Towns in X" and the word "ville" in the chart to town. You might also want to check if we have articles about all of the towns and link to them.Danny 11:20, 17 March 2006 (UTC)
- Actually where there are population figures, they could do with converting the point separating thousands to a comma, and removal of hab. after the number. Markyour words 11:43, 18 March 2006 (UTC)
- Any information where these statistics come from? (I would assume that Burkina Faso has had at least one census in the last 40 years.) Knowing when the census was made (or if it is an official estimate) is important & can only help Wikipedia's credibility. -- llywrch 04:42, 19 March 2006 (UTC)
- At least one of the French versions uses this as the source for the population. Rmhermen 04:35, 24 March 2006 (UTC)
- Any information where these statistics come from? (I would assume that Burkina Faso has had at least one census in the last 40 years.) Knowing when the census was made (or if it is an official estimate) is important & can only help Wikipedia's credibility. -- llywrch 04:42, 19 March 2006 (UTC)
- Actually where there are population figures, they could do with converting the point separating thousands to a comma, and removal of hab. after the number. Markyour words 11:43, 18 March 2006 (UTC)
Acamprosate
A while back, I saw this article and decided to expand it a bit. It has been greatly improved since then, but I'd also like another person to work on it as well. —MESSEDROCKER (talk) 20:49, 20 March 2006 (UTC)
Endless Online
This article has a poor history of being an article, and is currently in the stub stage. If someone can work on this article with me, that'd be great. —MESSEDROCKER (talk) 20:49, 20 March 2006 (UTC)