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We identify and facilitate collaboration at underdeveloped articles that require improvement. Our primary goal is to use these articles as starting-points for newcomers to make their first edits. So far, we have improved hundreds of articles; some have even been promoted to good or featured article status! See if there's suggestions for improvement you could make or a newcomer you could help at the current article for improvement, or join the project today!

This week's article for improvement is:

Mechanic

Previous selections: Confectionery store · General officer · Split of Christianity and Judaism

How to contribute

Goals

The project's four main tasks are to:

Since its inception, the 'Articles for Improvement' project has successfully enhanced hundreds of articles, with several achieving 'Good Article' or 'Featured Article' status, demonstrating the impact of collaborative editing efforts.

Upcoming articles

Want to help with future articles? Look for sources and add them on the talk pages using the {{Refideas}} template to help newcomers!

Frozen yogurt
Week of 2 November – 8 November
Add your sources
Frozen yogurt, blueberry flavored
Spinning top
Week of 9 November – 15 November
Add your sources
African spin tops
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Week of 16 November – 22 November
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Project organisation

Process

Articles follow the following process to be selected as an Article For Improvement:
Nominations page Articles list
Schedule
  1. Articles are submitted and approved by participating editors on the nominations page.
  2. Successful nominations are listed on the articles list. Articles on that page can be improved at any time.
  3. One article is randomly selected from the list of articles each week, which is placed in the schedule.
  4. A few weeks later, it's that article's turn to be the week's selected AFI article!

Project accomplishments

Some of our notable accomplishments include:

Article Accomplishments Notes
Entertainment Expanded from Start-Class to Good Article. Promoted to GA on 27 February 2013
Writer Expanded from Stub-Class (c.4K bytes to c.66K bytes).
Sea Expanded from Start-Class to Featured Article Promoted to FA on 5 October 2013
Life sciences Expanded from Stub-class to C-class (c.3K bytes to c.76K bytes)
Solar activity Did you know? article for 21 Sep 2014
Animatronics Did you know? article for 21 Sep 2014
Steak Expanded from Start-class to Good article (c.8K bytes to c.37K bytes). Promoted to GA on 25 November 2014
Solar activity Expanded from a Disambiguation page to a C-class article. (c.1K to 70K bytes)
Deep frying
  • Expanded from Start-class to B-class (3.7kB to 13kB)
  • Improved to Good Article as a further collaboration (14kB, ~2,400 words)
  • Did you know? article for 15 November 2015 (diff), having qualified per being promoted to GA status
 Promoted to GA on 17 September 2015
Hors d'oeuvre
  • Improved from start-class to c-class.

Did you know? article for 15 January 2016
Chowder
  • Improved from start-class to c-class.

Did you know? article for 9 February 2016

– See the Accomplishments page for additional articles.

Members

The project member list is located at the Members page.

Assessment

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 tools

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.

Some tools are often useful when improving articles:

Research

Archives

The Articles for Improvement archives are split over several pages:

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

AFI automated checklist
Item This week Next week Week after
1. Weekly page created Yes Yes Yes
2. Article specified Yes Yes Yes
3. Picture chosen Yes Yes Yes
4. Caption written No No No
It is currently week 44 of 2026 (refresh)

TAFI Project management activities include:

See also

Notes

  1. ↑ per Wikipedia:Requests for comment/Adding this week's article for improvement to the Main page, this week's article for improvement will focus primarily on helping create new editors while also improving articles.