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    This is a sub directory of WikiProjects that deal with Wikipedia contents systems and maintenance. WikiProjects marked with a green background are currently active, while those with a gray background are not. Task forces of large projects are marked with a blue background. You can also use the Special:Search box below to locate WikiProjects and sub-pages.

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    Contents systems

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    Project Active Assessment Peer review Collaboration Portal Notes
    Categories yes
    Contents no
    Glossaries yes
    Help system yes
    Indexes yes
    Lists of topics no
    Outlines yes Contents/Outlines
    Portals yes yes Contents/Portals Rebooted in April 2018

    Maintenance

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    Project Active Assessment Peer review Collaboration Portal Notes
    Abandoned Articles yes
    Abandoned Drafts yes Improve Wikipedia's use of article drafts kept in retired users' subpages and the organization of information and articles on this topic.
    Accessibility yes Works to make wikipedia more available to all, assists users, and protects disabled editors from undue community sanction.
    Admin Nominators no Supports nominators in the Requests for Adminship process.
    AI Cleanup yes Combats problematic use of AI generated content.
    Alternative Views no
    Arbitration Enforcement no Coordinates arbitration enforcement.
    Articles for creation yes yes Reviews new articles submitted by unregistered users.
    Awareness no
    Barnstar Awarding Team no Awarding barnstars to users who deserve them
    Bluelink patrol‎ yes Corrects and improves wikilinks
    Check Wikipedia yes
    Citation cleanup yes yes For cleaning up the massive backlogs with regards to wrong and inconsistent footnotes.
    Citizendium Porting no Imports content from Citizendium Approved Articles into Wikipedia
    Cleanup yes For posting cleanup requests and cleaning up articles
    Closed proxies no
    Community no
    Connect the Dots no Now redirects to Wikipedia:Integrate
    Cooperation no Facilitates collaboration with editors who are paid to edit Wikipedia
    Copyright Cleanup no
    Countering systemic bias no
    Counter-Vandalism Unit yes
    Database analysis no
    Deletion no
    Deletion sorting yes
    Department of Fun no yes The Department of Fun is dedicated to providing the Wikipedian community, both young and old editors, with things to make them stay at Wikipedia, indirectly improving the encyclopedia.
    Disambiguation yes Improve disambiguation pages and fix accidental links to disambiguation pages. There's even a friendly competition to see who can fix the most links each month.
    Echo no Improve Wikipedia's coverage on other languages by finding featured articles in other languages. Superseded by WikiProject Intertranswiki.
    Edit counters no
    Esperanza no A group that works to build a sense of community and create a positive environment in which to build the encyclopedia (inactive).
    Essays no
    Expert Request Sorting no A project that works to categorise articles tagged as needing attention from experts
    External links no
    Featured Article Help Desk no
    Fix common mistakes no
    Flag Template yes
    Flagged Revisions no Created on 18 August 2009
    For the Record no Respond to press coverage of Wikipedia.
    French Collaboration Project no
    Galatea no
    General Audience no
    Geographical coordinates no
    Grammar no
    Guild of Copy Editors yes This project's purpose is to improve the English Wikipedia by working on the articles tagged for copy edit.
    Help Project no This project aims to improve Wikipedia's help documentation.
    Inclusion yes
    Infoboxes yes Central location for infobox designers to collaborate and assist each other
    Inline Templates no Consistency for templates in articles
    Interlanguage Links no Improve Wikipedia's coverage on other languages through interwiki work.
    Intertranswiki yes A project for identifying the missing articles from each language wikipedia in a directory and then working towards translating articles from other wikipedias into English. Includes translating new articles as well as improving existing articles by translation.
    Introductions no
    Keywords no
    Kindness Campaign no The goals of this WikiProject are to promote Wikipedia:Civility and Wikipedia:WikiLove. It continues to be active as people sign up to The rolls of the kindness campaign.
    Laundromat no
    Lead section cleanup no
    Lead Improvement Team yes Improves lead sections of articles
    Lists yes development of anything related to lists, from guidelines to articles
    Location Format no
    WikiProject Manual of Style no A project to coordinate the Manual of Style pages.
    WikiProject Merge yes A project to coordinate the process of merging articles.
    Microformats no
    Missing encyclopedic articles yes
    Distributed indexing
    Gardening for the Millions topics
    Modular Articles no
    Neutrality no Superseded by Wikipedia:Neutral point of view/Noticeboard
    New page no
    New pages patrol yes Reviews newly created pages listed at Special:Newpages
    Music encyclopedia topics yes
    Notability yes This project is to clear the backlog of CAT:NN (the notability category), which holds a backlog that is over 60,000 articles.
    Notability essays yes
    On Adminship no
    OpenStreetMap no
    Orphanage yes
    Pedophilia Article Watch no
    Persondata no
    Policy and Guidelines no See WP:PROPOSAL for Wikipedia's procedural policy on the creation of new guidelines and policies. See how to contribute to Wikipedia guidance for recommendations regarding the creation and updating of policy and guideline pages.
    Policy matters no
    Portals yes yes Contents/Portals Project rebooted in April 2018.
    Proposed deletion patrolling no
    Punctuation no
    Red Link Recovery no This project aims to reduce the number of unnecessary red links within Wikipedia articles.
    Redirects yes This project is a collaboration of editors who are dedicated to improvement of the categorization and maintenance of redirects on the Wikipedia project.
    Reference Desk Article Collaboration no
    Reforming Wikipedia no The goal of this project is to advocate for reforms that will promote higher-quality content, as well as ensure more fair and efficient governance systems.
    Release Version no
    Reliability yes This project aims to improve the reliability of Wikipedia articles.
    Requested articles no
    Research yes
    Resource Exchange yes A project where Wikipedians offer to search in their resources for the reference that you are looking for.
    Scientific peer review no
    Spam yes
    Statistics Department no
    Stub improvement no This project aims to expand stubs to improve Wikipedia's coverage.
    Stub sorting yes As well as sorting stubs, this project attempts to standardise and coordinate the usage and uniformity of stub templates and categories across Wikipedia. "To do" list serves as the equivalent of a project collaboration
    Succession Box Standardization no This project aims to standardise all succession boxes around Wikipedia (replacing the old-type boxes with newer ones) and include boxes in articles that need them but do not have any.
    Sweep no Aims to comprehensively review every article created in Wikipedia's early days to ensure basic conformity to modern standards
    Talk pages no
    Template sharing no
    Templates yes
    Timeline Tracer no
    Tip of the day yes This project provides useful advice daily on how to use or develop Wikipedia more effectively. It is responsible for maintaining the complete schedule of tips that are displayed by those templates. See also Wikipedia:tips, the complete library of tips arranged by subject.
    Translation yes
    Transwiki no A project for helping with the transwiki process outside of the Wikimedia family. This is done by explaining how to import and export articles, linking to help with MediaWiki software, prepping templates for use outside of Wikipedia, listing available resources (including editors willing to help), and much more.
    Trivia Cleanup yes This WikiProject focuses on cleaning up trivia sections in articles.
    Turnkey Project no
    Typo Team yes This project coordinates spelling and typo corrections.
    Unreferenced Articles yes Category based project to review and add references to articles (especially BLPs) that are unreferenced.
    Unreferenced BLP Rescue yes Aims to eliminate unreferenced BLPs from Wikipedia by concentrating on one month's tagged articles at a time.
    Update Watch no
    Usability yes
    User categorisation no
    User Help no Inactive per this MFD
    User Rehab no Seeks to rehabilitate problem editors who may have been banned, but who have great potential.
    User Page Help yes Tips subpage from the User page design center
    User scripts no Superseded by WikiProject Javascript
    User warnings yes
    Userboxes yes
    Vandalism studies no Now redirects to Wikipedia:Counter-Vandalism Unit/Vandalism studies
    Vital Articles yes yes yes yes Vital articles Works on all of Wikipedia's vital articles.
    Wikidemia no This WikiProject organizes (mostly quantitative) academic research on Wikipedia and the other WMF projects.
    WikiFun Police no Cleans up, organizes, and develops humorous aspects of Wikipedia.
    Wikify no This wikiproject is dedicated to editing and fixing articles tagged with maintenance templates. Wikification refers mostly to style cleanup, including adding links and infoboxes, using wiki-markup over html code and adding sort keys.
    Wikipedia no
    Wikipedia Audit no
    Wikipedia Awards no Wikipedia:Awards
    Wikipedia Reform no
    Wikipedians for encyclopedic merit no
    Wiki Syntax no
    WikiWorld no
    Wikicite no now at m:Wikicite
    WikipediaWeekly no
    Wikipedians against censorship yes
    WikiProject on open proxies yes
    Work via Wikiprojects yes Part of the Wikipedia:Version 1.0 Editorial Team
    Wikipedia-Books no This is to provide community support to Wikipedia:Books.

    Files

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    Project Active Assessment Peer review Collaboration Portal Notes
    Free book covers (main listing here)
    Graphics Lab yes Improve and create images for Wiki
    Illustration workshop
    Map workshop
    Photography workshop
    Graphical content problem no
    Images and Media no
    Free images
    Moving free images to Wikimedia Commons
    Illustration Create and improve all types of images on Wikipedia.
    Non-free
    Sound Project to add sound snippets to WP articles.
    Wiki Makes Video yes Encourage creation of video content.
    WikiTV no Realise creation of video content.
    Maps yes
    Open Street Map no
    Media Restoration no
    Photography yes
    Photo Matching Service no
    Screencast no Tutorials and assistance for producing screencasts
    Spoken Wikipedia yes A project to produce recordings of Wikipedia articles being read aloud.
    SVG no yes yes yes This project aims to improve the graphical quality of Wikipedia, specifically by creating SVG graphics.
    Upload placeholder images yes System to request images in the article space infobox
    Writing Captions yes yes yes yes yes

    Article improvement and grading

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    Project Active Assessment Peer review Collaboration Portal Notes
    Article Rescue yes Improvement of content at XfD
    Articles by single editor no yes Spotting needy articles
    Articles for improvement yes yes Targets high-importance, low-quality articles. Collaborates on one page per week.
    Collaboration of the week no
    Constellation program no
    Featured Article Collaboration Center no
    Featured articles no
    Former Featured articles no
    Good articles no yes yes yes Articles found at Wikipedia:Good articles
    Spotlight no
    Unreferenced GA task force
    Project Quality task force
    Quality Article Improvement yes
    Version 1.0 Editorial Team yes
    Stub Improvement no Improvement of articles with stub templates.
    Vital articles yes Improvement of WP:Vital articles

    Classroom projects

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    Project Active Assessment Peer review Collaboration Portal Notes
    Classroom coordination no Coordinates with professional educators who assign students to edit Wikipedia articles.
    AP Biology 2008 no
    AP Biology 2009 no
    AP Biology 2010 no
    AP Biology 2011 no
    AP Biology Bapst 2012 no
    AP Biology Bapst 2013 no
    AP Biology Bapst 2014 no
    AP Biology Bapst 2015 no
    AP Biology 2016 no
    AP Biology 2017 no
    AP Biology 2018 no
    Murder Madness and Mayhem no
    North of the Rio Grande no

    WikiProjects

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    Project Active Assessment Peer review Collaboration Portal Notes
    WikiProject Council yes yes A group of Wikipedians gathered to encourage—and assist with—the development of active WikiProjects, and to act as a central point for inter-WikiProject discussion and collaboration.
    WikiProject X no An initiative to improve WikiProjects and other subject-area collaborations on Wikipedia through research, design, and experimentation.
    Wikiproject Beta Cluster yes The Beta Cluster is a project for Wikipedias running the beta MediaWiki Software
    WikiProject Democracy yes An initiative to improve Wikipedia by improving its democratic structures and mechanisms.