User:Mahanga/Links

A repository of some useful Wikipedia links unknown to many people.

General thoughts on Wikipedia

 * Major article improvement is done by one user, sometimes two
 * Copyeditors (more than MoS, reference fixers) are desperately needed for Peer Review, GAC, FAC
 * Disappointing to see an article's monthly edits consist of IP or new user changes followed by reverts.
 * Help and tutorial pages are mediocre. More images and video needed
 * IPs never (99%) cite their sources. Block IPs on biographies of living people (BLP)?
 * Readers (and professors) still don't know how wikipedia actually works. a few friends assumed there was some paid authority figure checking every edit
 * improve search engine
 * Implemented 'Did you mean...'
 * Added autosuggest search terms
 * Add wysiwyg or make syntax simpler for people to edit.
 * Use tools/bots to find factual errors and inconsistencies in articles (such as Biographical pages with several incompatible dates of birth)
 * Make text simpler and easier to read for non-experts (see Flesch–Kincaid readability test and the results of this study
 * Condense documentation and tutorials, add more images and gifs/video to those pages.
 * Find some way to see who added or removed certain content or images from an article. (WikiTrust)
 * Eliminate wikirot -> flagged revisions, semi-protection
 * A 'Report this' link. A lot of users encounter vandalism, mistakes, copyright violations and don't know or don't have time to fix it. Clicking on this link would bring up a textbox where the user can specify the error. The form would have the article name and revision and other relevant information.
 * Make links for sister projects (especially Commons) more visible for readers. It often has many more images than the article can accommodate, yet the only the reader will find it is if he/she finds the small link to it.
 * Have a new tab or subpage for useful external links. (see citizendium)
 * One of the biggest issues from new user edits is lack of sources. Bring up a alert box if no reference and ask what's the source? (include refToolbar in default toolbar]])
 * Discussion pages need revamp. See LiquidThreads
 * FlaggedRevisions, [] are long overdue

User

 * User:Mahanga/vector.js
 * User:Mahanga/vector.css

Special

 * Special:Specialpages
 * Special:Version
 * Special:Linksearch
 * Special:Log
 * Special:Log/delete
 * Special:Newimages
 * Special:Recentchangeslinked/Category:Living_people
 * Request for database queries

WikiProjects

 * WikiProject User scripts
 * WikiProject Vandalism studies
 * Semantic MediaWiki | Semantic MediaWiki

WP 1.0

 * WP:1.0
 * Version 1.0 Editorial Team/Statistics - statistics for all assessments
 * User:Kingbotk - semi-automation assessments of stubs
 * Vital articles
 * Version 1.0 Editorial Team/Core topics
 * Version 1.0 Editorial Team/Core topics/Supplement
 * Core topics - 1,000
 * WP 1.0: Core Topics Collaboration of the Fortnight

Wikipedia

 * 100,000 feature-quality articles
 * One featured article per quarter
 * Wikipedia in popular culture
 * Wikipedians with articles / Category:Notable Wikipedians
 * WikiCharts - Wikipedia article traffic statistics - most popular articles on Wikipedia (also link)
 * Category:Milestone_Wikipedia_articles
 * Two-million_pool / Category:Wikipedia pools
 * Category:Wikipedia statistics
 * Category:Office protected
 * Edit summary legend
 * User:Omegatron/Most needed software features
 * Requesting free content - guide to requesting images on flickr, for example.
 * comScore data on Wikimedia projects
 * enwp.org/Abc - url shortener like tinyurl
 * Database reports

Wikipedia Maintenance and Cleanup

 * WikiProject Check Wikipedia

Templates

 * How to fix bunched-up edit links - section links (use the div float solution)
 * Help:Footnotes - new style, easier to read
 * Template:Current related - current news related
 * Template:Commons category-inline
 * Tooshort - Lead section too short
 * Template:Nowrap
 * maintained
 * Template:Articleissues
 * (timeline)
 * (timeline)

Analysis

 * Scope, Completeness, and Accuracy of Drug Information in Wikipedia
 * Comparison of Wikipedia and other encyclopedias for accuracy, breadth, and depth in historical articles
 * Internet encyclopaedias go head to head

Wikipedians

 * Category:Wikipedians
 * Deceased Wikipedians
 * Celebrities who have been quoted as having used Wikipedia
 * List of Wikipedians by featured article nominations (our finest Wikipedians)
 * Wikipedia: Facebook - pics or ban
 * Wikipedians with articles

Tools

 * User:Kingbotk/Plugin
 * AutoWikiBrowser
 * User:Dispenser/Checklinks - dead external links checker (useful for FAC nominations) FAC GAN (click on Full Results)
 * WP:TWINKLE - reverting tool with warnings
 * HOTCAT - change categories with autocomplete and ajax
 * [ CatScan] (intersection of Categories)
 * Citation tools
 * [ Contributors tool] (shows all users who edited a certain article)
 * Readability analysis
 * Disambiguation links Finder for articles
 * Abuse filter and Special:AbuseLog
 * Can We Link It - Link suggestor by User:Nickj/Can We Link It

Images

 * Find free images tool
 * Based on a location, find articles needing images
 * Flickr search for free images - good place to find free images for places, musicians, sports, events

Essays

 * User:Mike Christie/How I survive Wikipedia
 * User:Rjgibb - Essay on Wikipedians
 * Wikipedia in academic studies

Education

 * WikiProject Murder Madness and Mayhem

Editing

 * User:Tony1/How to satisfy Criterion 1a
 * Category:Wikipedia introduction cleanup
 * Recent changes - possible libel or vandalism on BLPs/biography of living people

New user tasks

 * Copyedit articles
 * Join a Wikiproject
 * Get adopted and learn the ropes
 * Add links to words
 * Revert vandalism
 * Write an article
 * Sort stubs