User:Paul2520/tasks

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

 * AutoWikiBrowser Script (AWB/JWB)
 * There are pages in Category:Pages with missing references list;
 * Edit summary templates:


 * There are pages in Category:CS1 errors: dates
 * use – for date ranges
 * instead of having  for Harvard citations, see example 1 and example 2 of using the   param
 * See also Category:CS1 maint: date format


 * Category:CS1 maint: unrecognized language -- list of supported codes / names --


 * review Special:PendingChanges


 * Category:CS1 maint: archived copy as title
 * See also Category:CS1 errors: generic name and Category:CS1 errors: generic title
 * See also Category:CS1 errors: generic name and Category:CS1 errors: generic title
 * See also Category:CS1 errors: generic name and Category:CS1 errors: generic title

Photos to find/take

 * Sushi Go! gameplay
 * better photo of growing wild rice than this

Top priority

 * TODO: rename this section.


 * add examples to pandas (software), like on NumPy
 * plot summary to The African Child & add sources; perhaps
 * 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, e.g.
 * Emily Parker Groom: add photo of house? + cite directly
 * Dan Navarro to GA/FA?
 * add refs: is this good?


 * 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 Adopt-a-user
 * refs to Pumpernickel
 * notably refs @ Kora (instrument)
 * new articles & articles to expand (see below)
 * NPP backlog: see Special:NewPagesFeed

Quick tasks

 * find direct link for "Why I Want to Fuck Ronald Reagan"; not sure about or
 * + refs to Primary key (?)
 * + refs to Mille-feuille
 * patents, more refs to John Luick:
 * 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
 * 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? (I first saw )
 * 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

 * JD Jackson (narrator) (or rename that):
 * The Stars and the Blackness Between Them & Jericho Brown's poetry book
 * see others like Michael Kramer (narrator) via this search
 * See, e.g., WikiProject Women in Red/Computer science
 * Janne Puustinen
 * ABIR (musician) / Abir Haronni (e.g., )
 * Terry Blas (created ; 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
 * see women mentioned @
 * Brett Bevell, author
 * FaunaPhotonics
 * statues without articles, via List of tallest statues
 * The Malaria Capers, by Robert S. Desowitz
 * The Herbivorous Butcher, mentioned (with refs) on Veganism; co-founder mentioned on Kale (name)
 * Family Tree Clinic, , , , , , , , , ,
 * Tweets @
 * is a wiki, so not a reliable source:


 * 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

 * Rose Wagner Performing Arts Center
 * Short prose
 * expand, via my note about the reddit thread: Talk:Kindred Spirits (sculpture)
 * 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
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

 * 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
 * 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:
 * talk page archive: Help:Archiving a talk page archive a talk page
 * WikiSpeak
 * Page view statistics: for a given article; data dumps
 * Twinkle documentation
 * find link (information) findlink
 * Copyright violation detector
 * WikiBlame
 * Correct typos in one click
 * WikiDiff (comparisons between two Wiktionary terms)
 * User:InternetArchiveBot: run bot

Templates

 * WikiProject banner shell:
 * Template:Cite tweet:
 * abbreviations/tool tip (like this):
 * Template:Outdent

Editing projects

 * LGBT watchlist
 * Category:Wikipedia backlog
 * Category:Biography articles without infoboxes &mdash; Template:Infobox person
 * 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 &#91;citation not found&#93; templates)
 * Category:CS1 errors: chapter ignored
 * Special:NewPages
 * Special:UncategorizedPages
 * help with the migration of Persondata to Wikidata
 * Reward board
 * can check references via Special:Contributions/InternetArchiveBot

Editing help

 * Manual of Style/Layout
 * Tips
 * Wikimedia [outreach bookshelf]

Other great collections of helpful links

 * User:Mr. Granger
 * User:SStephens13
 * User:Bamyers99
 * User:Northamerica1000/Miscellaneous links
 * User:Utcursch

Projects/roles/tools to explore

 * User:Ohconfucius/script/MOSNUM dates
 * Disambiguation pages with links
 * Copyright problems/Clerks
 * 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
 * WikiProject Guild of Copy Editors/Requests
 * User:Citation bot/use
 * User:Ap/LaTeX conversion utility

Dream tasks

 * 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.