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{{short description|Wikipedia article improvement collaboration project}}
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<span style="font-size:120%">Welcome to '''Articles for improvement!'''''</span></div>
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<span style="font-size:95%">'''(And you thought all the juicy articles had already been written...)'''</span></div>

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We identify and collaborate upon underdeveloped articles that require [[Wikipedia:Be bold|improvement]]. Our goal is to use widespread collaborative editing to improve articles over a short time frame. So far, we have improved hundreds of articles; some have even been promoted to [[WP:GA|good]] or [[WP:FA|featured]] article status! '''[[WP:BOLD|Boldly]]''' edit the current article for improvement, or '''[[WP:AFIM|join the project today]]'''!
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===[[Image:Nuvola apps kword.png|29x29px]] How to contribute===
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* Check out the project's '''[[Wikipedia:Articles for improvement/Articles|Articles for improvement]]''' page. Just [[WP:Be bold|start editing]] and help to improve our selected articles!
* You can '''[[Wikipedia:Articles for improvement/Nominations|nominate]]''' an article for us to work on.
* You may join the project by adding your name to the [[Wikipedia:Articles for improvement/Members|members list]], and can sign up for [[Wikipedia:Articles for improvement/Members/Notifications|weekly notices]].
* If you have any questions, please feel free to ask at our [[Wikipedia talk:Articles for improvement|talk page]], and also at the [[Wikipedia:Teahouse|Teahouse]] or [[Wikipedia:Help desk|Help desk]].
* If you are new to Wikipedia, you may find Wikipedia's [[Wikipedia:Tutorial|tutorial]] useful - it covers the basics of Wikipedia in under an hour.
* '''[[Wikipedia:Be bold|Be bold!]]''' Articles here can be '''edited at any time by all users''', regardless of project membership status.

===[[File:SMirC-Barnstar.svg|26x26px]] Goals===
The project's four main tasks are to:
* Coordinate and '''[[Wikipedia:Collaborations|collaborate]]''' to improve articles.
* Identify candidate articles.
* Select the order they appear on the [[WP:COMM|community portal]] in the ''Articles for improvement'' section.
* Assess and track our accomplishments.

=={{anchor|Project organization}}Project organisation==
===[[File:Start hand.svg|22x22px]] Process ===
<div style="text-align:center;">Articles follow the following process to be selected as an Article For Improvement:</div>

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# Articles are submitted and approved by participating editors at the '''[[Wikipedia:Articles for improvement/Nominations|nominations]]''' page.
# Successful nominations are listed at the '''[[Wikipedia:Articles for improvement/Articles|articles list]]'''. Articles on that page can be '''improved at any time'''.
# One article is randomly selected from the list of articles each week, which is placed in the '''[[Wikipedia:Articles for improvement/Schedule|schedule]]'''.
# A few weeks later, it's that article's turn to be the week's selected AFI article!
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==[[File:Bookmark-new.svg|23x23px]] Project accomplishments ==
<div style="float:right">{{navbar|Wikipedia:Articles for improvement/Accomplishments|plain=1}}</div> Some of our notable accomplishments include:
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– See the '''[[Wikipedia:Articles for improvement/Accomplishments|Accomplishments]]''' page for additional articles.

==[[File:Collaboration logo V2.svg|28px]] Members==
The project member list is located at the '''[[Wikipedia:Articles for improvement/Members|Members]]''' page.

==[[File:Yellow star, blue check, green plus.svg|24x24px]] Assessment==
Our assessment criteria and procedure are explained on the '''[[Wikipedia:Articles for improvement/Assessment|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.

==[[File:Nuvola apps kcmsystem.svg|24x24px]] Automation and templates==
AFI makes use of various [[WP:Template|templates]]. See the '''[[Wikipedia:Articles for improvement/Automation|Automation]]''' page for details, including banners, talk page messages, user and project maintenance templates. The project's [[WP:BOT|bot tasks]] are also listed here, currently undertaken by [[User:MusikBot|MusikBot]].

==[[File:Conical flask blue.svg|24x24px]] Research==
*[[:File:Wikipedia’s poor treatment of its most important articles.pdf]] (2011)
*[[:File:Fun or Functional? The Misalignment Between Content Quality and Popularity in Wikipedia (WMF Research Showcase 2015-09-16).pdf]]

==[[File:Replacement filing cabinet.svg|23x23px]] Archives==
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==Project management==
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See the [[Wikipedia:Articles for improvement/Project management|Project management]] page for information.
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==See also==
*[[User:DataflowBot/output/Popular low quality articles (id-2)|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
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===[[File:Community.png|24x24px]] Related projects===
* [[Wikipedia:Cleanup|WikiProject Cleanup]]
* [[Wikipedia:WikiProject Editor Retention|WikiProject Editor Retention]]
*[[Wikipedia:WikiProject Intertranswiki|WikiProject Intertranswiki]] – has a monthly stub creation focus and also highlights select articles for improvement in a given month, usually related to Latin American women.
* [[Wikipedia:WikiProject Missing encyclopedic articles|WikiProject Missing encyclopedic articles]]
* [[Wikipedia:Article Rescue Squadron/Rescue list|Rescue list]]{{spaced ndash}} hosted at WikiProject Article rescue squadron
* [[Wikipedia:WikiProject Quality Article Improvement|WikiProject Quality Article Improvement]]
* [[Wikipedia:The 10,000 Challenge]] – aims to reach 10,000 article improvements for UK- and Ireland-related articles
* [[Wikipedia:WikiProject Africa/The 10,000 Challenge|WikiProject Africa/The 10,000 Challenge]] – aims to reach 10,000 article improvements for Africa-related articles
* [[Wikipedia:Vital articles|Wikipedia Vital articles]]
* [[Wikipedia:WikiProject Women in Red|WikiProject Women in Red]] – objective is to turn "[[Wikipedia:WikiProject Women in Red/Redlist index|redlinks]]" into [[wikilink|blue ones]] within the project scope
* [[Wikipedia:Articles for improvement (historical)|Articles for improvement (historical)]] (inactive)
* [[Wikipedia:Spotlight|Wikipedia Spotlight]] (defunct)

===[[File:Icon tools.png|24x24px]] Tools===
{{see also|Wikipedia:Tools}}
* [https://tools.wmflabs.org/refill/ reFill]{{spaced ndash}} Edits bare url references: adds title, dates, publisher, etc.
* [https://tools.wmflabs.org/dispenser/view/Reflinks Reflinks]{{spaced ndash}} Edits bare references: adds title/dates etc. to bare references
* [https://tools.wmflabs.org/dispenser/view/Checklinks Checklinks]{{spaced ndash}} Edit and repair external links
* [https://tools.wmflabs.org/dispenser/view/Dab_solver Dab solver]{{spaced ndash}} Quickly resolve ambiguous links.
* [https://tools.wmflabs.org/dispenser/view/Peer_reviewer Peer reviewer]{{spaced ndash}} Provides hints and suggestion to improving articles.
* [https://tools.wmflabs.org/xtools-articleinfo/index.php? X!'s tools]{{spaced ndash}} Checks grammar and spelling (provided by [[LanguageTool]]) plus wikidata - displays page views and edit history

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