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The Atlantic hurricane season is about to start again - it's time to get prepared... again.

Wikipedia is consistently in the top ten visited websites in the world, according to Alexa traffic rankings. Regardless of the reasons behind this, this entails one thing: we no longer have the ability to say, "We can work on this later". Readers expect to have accurate information, and to have it quick. This is a natural result of our popularity, and while it is a great honor, it is also a humbling responsibility.

While we are getting much better at providing information about current storms, our visibility now forces us to provide accurate, verifiable, attributed information about all storms. We are making some progress; in April 2005, only 4.6% of our 240 storm articles were GAs or better; nowadays, that same number is 27.8%, and we have had a net increase of 159 storm articles in that period, to a total of 399. Additionally, there are now 39 featured articles and 10 featured lists, along with two featured topics. Gradually, the project is becoming the leading source of information of tropical cyclones on the internet. The problem is despite having 78 members, the majority of the work is being done by a very small amount of people.

Although many projects would wish to have the types of results we're obtaining, this does not mean that we are in a "It isn't broke, so don't fix it" situation. If there are too few people doing something, losing even one of them would significantly cripple our efforts, and that is a situation no one wants. It also poses problems of scale: at this pace, we cannot "fix" things at the rate that adequately addresses our need to become more visible. We can't keep our pace without your help. There are over 500 articles of "Start" quality or worse, including many articles on seasons, retired storms, and other aspects of tropical cyclones. Many of these pages are missing small things, such as formatted citations. Others, including the key article, tropical cyclone need organization. These tasks can be done by anyone.

It doesn't take an expert. Even for new articles, once you begin, things begin to get easier. The WikiProject counts with a wide array of resources, ranging from links to professional meteorologists, copyeditors to image specialists, to aid you in your efforts.