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{{For|a less beginner-friendly but more comprehensive list of tasks on Wikipedia|Wikipedia:Maintenance}}
 
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{{Wikipedia:Task Center/header}}
 
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<div class="center">{{Horizontal TOC|nonum=yes}}</div>
 
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<div class="hlist" style="text-align: center; margin-top: 0px">{{shortcuts|WP:JOBS|WP:TASKS}}</div>
 
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== Maintenance ==
 
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{{job description
 
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| experience level = {{color|green|all editors}}
 
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| title        = Anti-Vandalism
 
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| subtitle    = Stop vandals from damaging Wikipedia.
 
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| description  = Wikipedia gets thousands of edits per day—unfortunately, many of these are [[WP:VAND|vandalism]]. As a Recent Changes Patroller, you are the first line of defense against such abuse, ensuring that readers of Wikipedia are not faced with vandalized content where they expected to find a useful article.
 
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| skills      =
 
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*[[WP:Vandalism]]
 
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*[[WP:Recent changes patrol]]
 
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*[[WP:Counter-Vandalism Academy]]
 
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| links        =
 
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*[https://doublecheck.wikiloop.org/ WikiLoop DoubleCheck]
 
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*[[WP:Counter-Vandalism Unit]]
 
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}}
 
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{{job description
 
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| experience level = {{color|green|all editors}}
 
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| title        = Categorization
 
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| subtitle    = Help put pages into their rightful categories.
 
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| description  = Pages need to be put into categories so that the public can more easily find them. Help search the new pages feed and the Uncategorized Pages category in order to find pages to categorize. Add categories to articles with too few categories.
 
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| skills      =
 
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*[[WP:Categorization]]
 
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| links        =
 
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*{{GoToRandom|All uncategorized pages}}
 
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*[[Special:Newpages]]
 
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*{{GoToRandom|Articles needing additional categories from {{CURRENTMONTHNAME}} {{CURRENT YEAR}}}}
 
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}}
 
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{{job description
 
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| experience level = {{color|green|all editors}}
 
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| title        = Copy editing
 
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| subtitle    = Help keep Wikipedia articles clear, clean, and easy to read.
 
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| description  = Articles created in a rush often have various issues. Please help fix them to make the article decent for the public.
 
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| skills      =
 
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*[[WP:Neutral point of view]]
 
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*[[WP:Basic copyediting]]
 
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*[[WP:WikiProject Guild of Copy Editors/How to|How to copy edit]]
 
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| links        =
 
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*{{GoToRandom|All articles needing copy edit}}
 
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*[[Wikipedia:WikiProject Guild of Copy Editors|The Guild of Copy Editors]]
 
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*{{GoToRandom|All pages needing cleanup}}
 
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*{{GoToRandom|Wikipedia introduction cleanup from {{CURRENTMONTHNAME}} {{CURRENT YEAR}}}}
 
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*[[WP:CLEANUP|WikiProject Cleanup]]
 
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*{{GoToRandom|All articles with too few wikilinks}}
 
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*[[Wikipedia:Typo Team/moss|Collective spell check]]
 
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*{{GoToRandom|All Wikipedia articles in need of updating}}
 
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*[[User:DataflowBot/output/Popular low quality articles (id-2)|Popular low quality articles]] (top 1000 by pageviews with low [[mw:ORES#Article quality|ORES article quality predictions]])
 
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}}
 
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{{job description
 
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| experience level = {{color|green|all editors}}
 
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| title        = Fact-Checking
 
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| subtitle    = Help to verify articles' information, add sources, and fix links.
 
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| description  = Sometimes, editors add information without adding sources to back it up. And sometimes sources get old and experience linkrot. Your job will be to add sources, verify content, and repair linkrot.
 
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| skills      =
 
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*[[WP:Link rot]]
 
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*[[WP:Identifying reliable sources]]
 
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*[[WP:Citing sources]]
 
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*[[WP:Verifiability]]
 
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| links        =
 
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*Fix unsourced statements with <span class="plainlinks">[https://tools.wmflabs.org/citationhunt/en Citation Hunt]</span>
 
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*{{GoToRandom|All articles lacking sources}}
 
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*{{GoToRandom|All articles that may contain original research}}
 
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*{{GoToRandom|Wikipedia articles needing factual verification from {{CURRENTMONTHNAME}} {{CURRENT YEAR}}}}
 
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*{{GoToRandom|All articles with bare URLs for citations}}
 
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}}
 
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{{job description
 
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| experience level = {{color|green|all editors}}
 
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| title        = Random Article Patrol
 
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| subtitle    = See Wikipedia as it really is, and learn a lot of random information.
 
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| description  = Random article patrol is a chance to appreciate how good (and how lacking) Wikipedia is. It can be a soothing experience, especially after tedious maintenance tasks. As a bonus, it can be a great training tool to sharpen your knowledge if you're a trivia buff or are scheduled to appear on ''[[Jeopardy!]]'' Just go to random pages and fix what you can.
 
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|skills      =
 
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*[[WP:Random]]
 
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*[[WP:Random page patrol]]
 
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|links        =
 
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*[[Special:Random]]
 
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}}
 
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{{job description
 
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| experience level = {{color|darkgoldenrod|intermediate editors}}
 
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| title        = Answer an Edit Request
 
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| subtitle    = Help someone else contribute to the encyclopedia.
 
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| description  = Sometimes, users cannot edit a page because it is [[WP:PP|protected]], or they should not because they have a [[WP:COI|conflict of interest]] with its subject. Review their edit requests, implementing the good ones and rejecting the less-than-good ones.
 
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| skills      =
 
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*[[WP:EDITREQ#Responding to requests and mandatory copyright attribution|Responding to protected edit requests]]
 
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*[[WP:COI#Dealing with edit requests from COI or paid editors|Responding to COI edit requests]]
 
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| links        =
 
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*{{GoToRandom|Wikipedia semi-protected edit requests|custom=with a [[User:AnomieBOT/SPERTable|semi-protected edit request]]}}
 
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*{{GoToRandom|Wikipedia requested edits|custom=with a [[User:AnomieBOT/EDITREQTable|COI edit request]]}}
 
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}}
 
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{{job description
 
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| experience level = {{color|darkgoldenrod|intermediate editors}}
 
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| title        = General Image Maintenance
 
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| subtitle    = Help fix issues with images.
 
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| description  = Uploading images on Wikipedia is a lengthy process and many mistakes are made. Therefore, there are a lot of mistakes that need to be fixed.
 
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| skills      =
 
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*[[WP:Images]]
 
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| links        =
 
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*{{GoToRandom|Wikipedia requested images}}
 
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*{{GoToRandom|All Wikipedia files with unknown source}}
 
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}}
 
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{{job description
 
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| experience level = {{color|darkgoldenrod|intermediate editors}}
 
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| title        = Merging and Splitting
 
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| subtitle    = Sometimes articles need to be combined or separated by hand.
 
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| description  =  Help merge articles by adding a redirect and copying and pasting or help split an article by removing content and pasting it into a new article. When merging, follow [[WP:Merging|attribution rules]] to ensure copyright compliance.
 
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| skills      =
 
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*[[WP:Merging]]
 
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*[[WP:Splitting]]
 
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| links        =
 
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*{{GoToRandom|All articles to be merged}}
 
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*{{GoToRandom|All articles to be split}}
 
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}}
 
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{{job description
 
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| experience level = {{color|darkgoldenrod|intermediate editors}}
 
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| title        = New Images Patrol
 
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| subtitle    = Prevent the release of illegal images.
 
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| description  = Search the new images feed to find pictures that violate rules and copyright laws and get them deleted.
 
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| skills      =
 
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*[[WP:New pages patrol/Image namespace checklist]]
 
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*[[WP:File copyright tags]]
 
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*[[WP:Images]]
 
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| links        =
 
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*[[Special:Newimages]]
 
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{{job description
 
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| experience level = {{color|firebrick|advanced editors}}
 
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| title        = New Pages Patrol
 
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| subtitle    = Help delete spam articles before the public sees them.
 
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| description  = Some people, either acting in good faith or maliciously, create new articles which aren't suitable for inclusion on Wikipedia. By participating in new article patrol you can ensure that these articles are deleted as soon as possible.
 
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| skills      =
 
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*[[WP:New pages patrol]]
 
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*[[WP:Criteria for speedy deletion]]
 
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*[[WP:Notability]]
 
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| links        =
 
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*[[Special:Newpages]]
 
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*[[WP:Proposed deletion]]
 
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*[[WP:Twinkle]]
 
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== Writing ==
 
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{{job description
 
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| experience level = {{color|darkgoldenrod|intermediate editors}}
 
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| title        = Expand a Short Article
 
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| subtitle    = Help fill the gaps of Wikipedia article content.
 
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| description  = Help make small articles called stubs more complete by doing more research.
 
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| skills      =
 
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*[[WP:Stub]]
 
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*[[WP:Manual of Style/Lead section]]
 
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| links        =
 
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*{{GoToRandom|All stub articles}}
 
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*{{GoToRandom|All articles to be expanded}}
 
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*{{GoToRandom|Pages missing lead section}}
 
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*[[WP:Articles for improvement]]
 
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*[[User:DataflowBot/output/Popular low quality articles (id-2)|Popular low-quality articles]]
 
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{{job description
 
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| experience level = {{color|darkgoldenrod|bilingual intermediate editors}}
 
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| title        = Translate an Article
 
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| subtitle    = Help improve Wikipedia's global coverage.
 
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| description  = Article contributions are made in many languages besides English. Helpers are needed to translate and polish translations so that all languages have good coverage of notable topics.
 
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| skills      =
 
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*[[WP:Translation]]
 
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*[[WP:Translate us]]
 
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*[[Wikipedia:Content translation tool]]
 
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| links        =
 
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*[[WP:Pages needing translation into English]]
 
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*[[:Category:Articles needing translation from foreign-language Wikipedias]]
 
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*{{GoToRandom|Wikipedia articles needing cleanup after translation}}
 
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}}
 
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{{job description
 
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| experience level = {{color|firebrick|advanced editors}}
 
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| title        = Create an Article
 
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| subtitle    = Help expand the reach of the encyclopedia.
 
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| description  = Create an article on a subject previously unknown to Wikipedia.
 
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| skills      =
 
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*[[Help:Your first article]]
 
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| links        =
 
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*[[WP:Most-wanted articles]]
 
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*[[WP:Requested articles]]
 
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*[[WP:Article wizard]]
 
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== Community ==
 
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{{job description
 
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| experience level = {{color|darkgoldenrod|intermediate editors}}
 
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| title        = Contribute to Noticeboards
 
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| subtitle    = Help contribute to discussions on noticeboards.
 
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| description  = Contribute your opinions to noticeboards in order to have a say in important decisions and help come to consensus on certain issues.
 
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| skills      =
 
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*[[WP:Noticeboards]]
 
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*[[Wikipedia:Consensus]]
 
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| links        =
 
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*[[WP:Dashboard]]
 
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{{job description
 
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| experience level = {{color|darkgoldenrod|intermediate editors}}
 
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| title        = Help Someone
 
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| subtitle    = Answer questions on noticeboards.
 
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| description  = Help a user needing help. You don't have to know everything and you can just answer the questions you know. There is a need for more helpers to help speed up response times.
 
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| skills      =
 
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*[[WP:Help desk/How to answer]]
 
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*[[Wikipedia:Help desk/Templates]]
 
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*[[Wikipedia:Reference desk/Guidelines]]
 
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| links        =
 
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*[[WP:Teahouse]]
 
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*[[WP:Help desk]]
 
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*[[WP:Reference desk]]
 
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*{{GoToRandom|Wikipedians looking for help}}
 
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*[[WP:Editor assistance]]
 
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*[[WP:Peer review]]
 
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*[[WP:IRC]]
 
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{{job description
 
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| experience level = {{color|darkgoldenrod|intermediate}} or {{color|firebrick|advanced editors}}
 
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| title        = The Rewards Board
 
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| subtitle    = Come to receive or post reward listings for editing tasks.
 
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| description  = The Rewards Board is a place where anyone can come to either post a task that they want done in exchange for a reward or to fulfill a task in exchange for a reward. The rewards offered are mostly barnstars but some people offer items or money for their tasks.
 
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| skills      =
 
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*[[Help:Editing]]
 
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| links        =
 
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*[[WP:Reward board]]
 
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{{job description
 
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| experience level = {{color|firebrick|advanced editors}}
 
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| title        = Conflict Resolution
 
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| subtitle    = Help editors come to a consensus with minimal conflict.
 
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| description  = Providing unbiased commentary is a great chance to improve your Wiki-relations. Instead of debating, you can read the arguments of opposing editors and suggest a compromise that is in Wikipedia’s best interest. By doing so, you will learn a lot about the policies.
 
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| skills      =
 
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*[[WP:Mediation]]
 
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| links        =
 
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*[[WP:Requests for comment]]
 
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*[[WP:Third opinion]]
 
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*[[WP:Dispute resolution noticeboard]]
 
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*{{GoToRandom|All NPOV disputes}}
 
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{{job description
 
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| experience level = {{color|firebrick|highly advanced editors}}
 
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| title        = Good Articles
 
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| subtitle    = Help edit and nominate articles or review nominations of articles for good article status.
 
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| description  =  Find potentially good articles and work on them for a while to bring them up to a high standard. Then nominate them for Good Article status. You can also review good article nominations and critique them.
 
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| skills      =
 
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*[[Help:Editing]]
 
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*[[Wikipedia:Good article criteria]]
 
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*[[Wikipedia:Reviewing good articles]]
 
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| links        =
 
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*[[WP:Good articles]]
 
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== Collaborations ==
 
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{{Today's articles for improvement}}
 
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{{Backlog of the week}}
 
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== See also ==
 
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{{Sidebar
 
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| heading1= [[Wikipedia:Maintenance|Things to review]]
 
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*[[Special:NewPagesFeed|New pages]]
 
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*[[Special:NewFiles|New files]]
 
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*[//en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Contributions&contribs=newbie New editors]
 
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*[//en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:RecentChanges&userExpLevel=unregistered  IP edits]
 
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*[[Wikipedia:Dashboard|Discussions]]
 
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*'''[[Wikipedia:Maintenance]]'''  – main page where tasks can be found.
 
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*[[Wikipedia:Community portal/Opentask]] – simple list of article maintenance tasks.
 
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*[[Wikipedia:Dashboard]]  – for a listing of ongoing discussions and current requests.
 
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'''Automated lists'''
 
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*[[Wikipedia:Backlog]] – all articles needing cleanup.
 
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*[https://bambots.brucemyers.com/cwb/index.html Cleanup needs by WikiProject] – pick a topic, then pick an article with a specific type of problem
 
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*[[Wikipedia:Database reports]] –  various maintenance tasks.
 
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* [[Template:Category tracker]]  – various maintenance backlogs.
 
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*[[Special:Specialpages]] – various maintenance reports.
 
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*[[Special:NewPagesFeed|New Pages Feed]] – patrol for vandals and redundancy with existing articles.
 
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*[[toollabs:copypatrol|CopyPatrol]]  –  for identifying and resolving copyright violations.
 
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*[[User:SuggestBot]]  –  a computer program that tries to help Wikipedia contributors find articles to edit.
 
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'''Recognition'''
 
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*[[Wikipedia:Awards]] – reward vigorous Wikipedia contributors for their hard work and due diligence.
 
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