Wikipedia:Articles for improvement
We identify and facilitate collaboration at underdeveloped articles that need improvement by featuring one article on the Main Page every week. 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 status! See if there are 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:
Previous selections: Mechanic · Confectionery store · General officer
How to contribute
| This week's article for improvement is |
| Frozen yogurt |
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| Please be bold and help improve it! |
- Check out the project's Articles for improvement page. Just start editing and help newcomers while improving our selected articles!
- You can nominate an article to be worked on.
- You may join the project by adding your name to the members list, and can sign up for weekly notices.
- If you have any questions, please feel free to ask at our talk page, and also at the Teahouse or Help desk.
- If you are new to Wikipedia, you may find Wikipedia's tutorial useful – it covers the basics of Wikipedia in under an hour.
- Be bold! Articles here can be edited at any time by all users, regardless of project membership status.
Goals
The project's four main tasks are to:
- Coordinate and collaborate to engage newcomers and improve articles.
- Identify candidate articles.
- Select the order they appear on the community portal in the Articles for improvement section.
- Assess and track our accomplishments.
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!
Project organisation
Process
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Articles list | |
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Project accomplishments
See the Accomplishments page for additional articles.
Some of our notable accomplishments include:
| Article | Accomplishments | Notes |
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| 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). |
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| 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) |
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| Solar activity |  Did you know? article for 21 Sep 2014 |
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| Animatronics | Did you know? article for 21 Sep 2014 |
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| 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) |
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| Deep frying |
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Promoted to GA on 17 September 2015 |
| Hors d'oeuvre |
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| Chowder |
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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:
- reFill – Edits bare URL references: adds title, dates, publisher, etc.
- Reflinks – Edits bare references: adds title/dates etc. to bare references
- Checklinks – Edit and repair external links
- Dab solver – Quickly resolve ambiguous links.
- Xtools – Checks grammar and spelling (provided by LanguageTool) plus wikidata - displays page views and edit history
Research
Archives
The Articles for Improvement archives are split over several pages:
- Nominations (including both successful and failed nominations)
- Scheduled pages that appeared as the AFI
- Holding area (historical, 2013–2015), consisting of articles that were successfully nominated but never selected as the AFI
The nominations between April and December 2013 were not archived anywhere it seems, it was probably nominated then cause it's been on the list since 2013. 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
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TAFI Project management activities include:
- Adding templates to approved/unapproved nominations at the Article nomination board.
- Updating the Articles for improvement page, including the addition of new approved entries and removing entries that are scheduled as collaborations
- Selecting articles to schedule using the {{TAFI scheduled selection}} template on the project talk page
- Scheduling, including creating/populating the necessary subpages, writing captions, adding images
- Notify Wikiprojects when articles within their scope are a weekly selection – {{TAFI project notice}}
- Update article talk pages when collaborations have finished – {{Former TAFI}}. This has not been performed lately.
- Removing {{TAFI}} from atop articles when collaborations have concluded. The template is added by Theo's Little Bot, but it appears that it must be manually removed.
- Sending weekly notifications to users on the notifications list. This is typically done using mass messaging.
- Updating project accomplishments
- Periodic updates to the automation and templates page as needed
- Periodically checking the members page to make sure things are properly formatted
- Fixing template errors that occur from time-to-time.
- Updating project pages periodically when project processes change, such as instructions and templates
- Promoting the project by sending invitations – {{Today's article for improvement invitation}}
- Providing overviews of article improvements on the project's talk page after project collaborations have concluded
- Nominating improved articles that qualify as Did you know entries
See also
| Collaborations |
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| Articles |
| Science and technology |
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| Miscellaneous |
- Most popular low-quality articles
- meta:Social media/Article of the week – announces in advance an article the WMF plans to share on their official social media accounts
- WikiProject Cleanup
- WikiProject Editor Retention
- WikiProject Intertranswiki
- WikiProject Missing encyclopedic articles
- Rescue list – hosted at WikiProject Article rescue squadron
- WikiProject Quality Article Improvement
- Wikipedia:The Challenge series - aims to reach 100,000 article improvements through a series of Challenges for different regions and countries
- Wikipedia Vital articles
- Wikipedia:Discord/Team-B-Vital – aims to improve vital articles up to B class.
- WikiProject Women in Red – objective is to turn "redlinks" into blue ones within the project scope
- Articles for improvement (historical) (inactive)
- Wikipedia Spotlight (defunct)
Notes
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