User:Paul2520/tasks
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This page tracks tasks that I want to accomplish on Wikipedia, including backlogs I monitor. Others are welcome to help tackle them; please let me know what you do. If you are new to Wikipedia and/or simply interested to help remove red links and aren't sure where to begin, let me know and I'd be happy to make suggestions of topics to work on!
Idle tasks
[edit]- AutoWikiBrowser Script (AWB/JWB)
- There are 7 pages in Category:Pages with missing references list; random
- Edit summary templates:
added [[:Category:Pages with missing references list|missing notes list]]
added missing notes list -- you can help @ [[:Category:Pages with missing references list]]
added missing notes list (article was listed in [[:Category:Pages with missing references list]])
- There are 185 pages in Category:CS1 errors: dates ( ; random)
- use – for date ranges
- instead of having
|year=2022a
for Harvard citations, see example 1 and example 2 of using the|ref=
param - See also Category:CS1 maint: date format
- Category:CS1 maint: unrecognized language -- list of supported codes / names -- Random page in category CS1 maint: unrecognized language
fixed [[:Category:CS1 maint: unrecognized language|unrecognized language error]]
- review Special:PendingChanges
>Very low pending changes backlog: 0 pages according to DatBot as of 23:15, 12 November 2024 (UTC)
Updated reference title so it's not the [[:Category:CS1 maint: archived copy as title|generic/default "Archived copy"]]
filled-in __ reference(s) that had [[:Category:CS1 maint: archived copy as title|"Archived copy" as title]]
Photos to find/take
[edit]Top priority
[edit]- TODO: rename this section.
- add examples to pandas (software), like on NumPy
- plot summary to The African Child & add sources; perhaps [1]
- Category:Wikipedia requested photographs in Minneapolis–Saint Paul
- cite Mapping Prejudice (TPT) documentary on List of Jim Crow law examples by state and/or Housing discrimination (and elsewhere, if applicable)
- see WikiProject Women; I'm a member! Create some articles (they have red list(s)).
- add some refs to Autoreduction; see [2], e.g.
- Emily Parker Groom: add photo of house? + cite [3] directly
- see also [4]
- Dan Navarro to GA/FA?
- add refs: is this good? [5]
- add research references to Ifakara Health Institute
- Alex Désert filmography: should be easy to populate
- update recording of LibriVox? also virtual volunteering?
- at least explore Wikipedia:Adopt-a-user
- refs to Pumpernickel
- notably refs @ Kora (instrument)
- new articles & articles to expand (see below)
- NPP backlog: see Special:NewPagesFeed
Quick tasks
[edit]- find direct link for "Why I Want to Fuck Ronald Reagan"; not sure about [6] or [7]
- + refs to Primary key ([8]?)
- + refs to Mille-feuille
- patents, more refs to John Luick: [9]
- add references to Bayard Wootten (might be a GA candidate article, too...); also get her mentioned on Pepsi (~ renamed by Bradham's neighbor, if I can find a cite)
- Talk:Autoreduction#possible references for Public transit section
- maybe not "quick", but ref work @ Edward Steichen
- Commonly misspelled English words: can just search a few of them
- New Trier High School needs some reference work
- + ref(s) to Aryness Joy Wickens? ([10]) (I first saw [11])
- something like User:Paine Ellsworth/Geeeraffe (found via User:Gobonobo/Flower - which is also pretty)
- created at User:Paul2520/elephants; needs documentation
- try User:Kephir/gadgets/rater
- depending on how much time I want to spend: explore User:Wasted Time R's userpage in more depth! I like the advice!
Pages to create
[edit]- JD Jackson (narrator) (or rename that): [12]
- The Stars and the Blackness Between Them & Jericho Brown's poetry book
- see others like Michael Kramer (narrator) via this search
- See, e.g., Wikipedia:WikiProject Women in Red/Computer science
- Janne Puustinen
- ABIR (musician) / Abir Haronni (e.g., [13])
- Terry Blas (created [14]; mentioned in a few articles already
- h2o.ai
- Phil Abrams (Cabin Fever (Lost))
- any of the Lost Gay Novels (and/or their authors) that don't already have articles
- Philanthrofund Foundation / PFund Foundation [15]
- see women mentioned @ [16]
- Brett Bevell, author [17]
- FaunaPhotonics [18]
- statues without articles, via List of tallest statues
- The Malaria Capers, by Robert S. Desowitz [19]
- The Herbivorous Butcher, mentioned (with refs) on Veganism; co-founder mentioned on Kale (name)
- Family Tree Clinic [20], [21], [22], [23], [24], [25], [26], [27], [28], [29], [30]
- Tweets @ [31]
- is a wiki, so not a reliable source: [32]
- Would there be value in creating Category:Fiber artists? Gwendolyn Ann Magee and others could be included
- See LGBT/women lists, like those found @ User:Jooojay/articles needed
- redlinks @ Rezball
- maybe Chatfield Brass Band Music Lending Library, via Chatfield, Minnesota (has two refs already)
Pages to develop/expand
[edit]- Rose Wagner Performing Arts Center
- Short prose
- expand, via my note about the reddit thread: Talk:Kindred Spirits (sculpture)#reddit thread
- expand Soleil Ho
- expand Listowel Castle
- expand Turnaround time
- expand Bryant-Lake Bowl
- Distributed knowledge
- Uptown Theater (Minneapolis) ( + updated photo?)
- Georg Løkkeberg
- Gandhi Jayanti
- needs refs; also lots of redlinks: Southern Ndebele people
- needs references: Get Out (board game)
- expand Tomboy (comic strip)
- add Research activity section to Ifakara Health Institute: do a scholarly search for malaria, mosquito traps, other tropical diseases, etc. (can start with IHI homepage)
- Improve Control limits
- possible outstanding issues; better internationalization of Sexism in the technology industry (see discussion tab, with a grain of salt)
- my userpage; I like the simplicity of User:Voceditenore's and others linked via my userpage
- Hahgwehdiyu
Good Article
[edit]I am interested in getting an article to "Good Article" status. I have not done so before. If you are reading this is, you are welcome to help. Possible candidate articles:
- Andrea Jenkins
- Ibn Battuta (former GA!)
- Bent (play)
- Barbara Kingsolver
- Betty Robinson
- Beverly Cleary
- Brownie Lake
- Byronic hero
- Cleve Jones
- Danica Roem
- Ecosia
- Gearóid Ó Cuinneagáin
- Grace Lee Boggs
- Guy Delisle
- Hans Asperger
- HeLa
- Katherine Johnson
- Nnedi Okorafor
- Paulo Coelho
- Phillipe Cunningham
- Robert Owen
- Tian Shan
- Ulysses pact small, but potentially big impact?
- Urheimat
- Will Eisner
Tools
[edit]- Wikipedia:WikiProject Resource Exchange, and specifically list of shared resources for accessing public libraries, academic journal databases, etc. I have mentioned some resources to which I have access, and now that I'm aware of the list, I plan to check back, reach out to anyone if the need arises, and update with anything I think of that I can access.references requests
- The Wikipedia Library
- English Wikipedia Top 100, updated daily
- Digital Object Identifier System
- doi2bib
- QPQ check (DYK check)
- Internet Archive Management Interface
- Earwig's Copyvio Detector
- Wikipedia:File Upload Wizard and Wikimedia Commons: File Upload Wizard
- reFill tool & reFill help
- Wikimedia downloads
- Grammarly, a spell checker and grammar checker that works on emails and when editing Wikipedia (Chrome extension)
- archive.is (archive.is Wikipedia entry)
- Internet Archive bookmarklet code:
javascript:window.location="https://web.archive.org/web/*/"+window.location;
- talk page archive: Help:Archiving a talk page archive a talk page
- Wikipedia:WikiSpeak
- Page view statistics: for a given article; data dumps
- Twinkle documentation
- find link (information)findlink
- Copyright violation detector
- Wikipedia:WikiBlame [33]
- Wikipedia:Correct typos in one click
- WikiDiff (comparisons between two Wiktionary terms)
- User:InternetArchiveBot: run bot
Templates
[edit]- WikiProject banner shell:
{{WPBS|1=
- Template:Cite tweet:
{{Cite tweet |user= |number= |date= |title= }}
- abbreviations/tool tip (like this):
{{Abbr|CDF|Cumulative distribution function}}
- Template:Outdent
Editing projects
[edit]- LGBT watchlist
- Category:Wikipedia backlog
- Category:Articles needing link rot cleanup (reFill)
- Category:Articles with dead external links
- other CS1 errors
- Category:Pages with citations lacking titles
- Category:Pages with URL errors (see also Help:CS1 errors)
- Category:All articles with broken links to citations (articles with [citation not found] templates)
- Category:CS1 errors: chapter ignored
- Special:NewPages
- Special:UncategorizedPages
- help with the migration of Persondata to Wikidata
- Wikipedia:Reward board
- can check references via Special:Contributions/InternetArchiveBot
Editing help
[edit]Other great collections of helpful links
[edit]- User:Mr. Granger#Links I find useful
- User:SStephens13#Wiki tools
- User:Bamyers99
- User:Northamerica1000/Miscellaneous links
- User:Utcursch
Projects/roles/tools to explore
[edit]- User:Ohconfucius/script/MOSNUM dates
- Wikipedia:Disambiguation pages with links
- Wikipedia:Copyright problems/Clerks
- Wikipedia:Today's articles for improvement/Members
- recording audio versions of articles: WikiProject Spoken Wikipedia
- See examples like You Only Move Twice
- candidate articles to record: Whirlpool; I also have some documented in my "offline" notes.
- User:镜音铃/Wikiplus
- Wikipedia:WikiProject Guild of Copy Editors/Requests
- User:Citation bot/use
- User:Ap/LaTeX conversion utility
Dream tasks
[edit]- maybe a simple script to do this?
- learn to make cool svg graphics like User:Shyamal/svgimg does
- try writing a bot (see, e.g., User:HBC AIV helperbot/source)
- maybe can attack some maintenance category
- could be useful for other wikis to prevent spam, etc.