Wikipedia:Articles for improvement

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We identify and collaborate upon underdeveloped articles that require improvement. Our goal is to use widespread collaborative editing to improve articles over a short time frame. So far, we have improved hundreds of articles; some have even been promoted to good or featured article status! Boldly edit the current article for improvement, or join the project today!

[[Image:Nuvola apps kword.png|29x29px]] How to contribute

 * Check out the project's Articles for improvement page. Just start editing and help to improve our selected articles!
 * You can nominate an article for us to work on.
 * You may join the project by adding your name to the members list, and can sign up for weekly notices.
 * If you have any questions, please feel free to ask at our talk page, and also at the Teahouse or Help desk.
 * If you are new to Wikipedia, you may find Wikipedia's tutorial useful - it covers the basics of Wikipedia in under an hour.
 * Be bold! Articles here can be edited at any time by all users, regardless of project membership status.

SMirC-Barnstar.svg Goals
The project's four main tasks are to:
 * Coordinate and collaborate to improve articles.
 * Identify candidate articles.
 * Select the order they appear on the community portal in the Articles for improvement section.
 * Assess and track our accomplishments.

Start hand.svg Process
Articles follow the following process to be selected as an Article For Improvement:

Bookmark-new.svg Project accomplishments
Some of our notable accomplishments include:

– See the Accomplishments page for additional articles.

Collaboration logo V2.svg Members
The project member list is located at the Members page.

Yellow star, blue check, green plus.svg Assessment
Our assessment criteria and procedure are explained on the Assessment page. Like many other WikiProjects, AFI assesses the articles it is involved with. Unlike other projects, we only assess the article's state before and immediately after its week of collaborative editing – that improvement is one (but not the only) measure of our success.

Nuvola apps kcmsystem.svg Automation and templates
AFI makes use of various templates. See the Automation page for details, including banners, talk page messages, user and project maintenance templates. The project's bot tasks are also listed here, currently undertaken by MusikBot.

Conical flask blue.svg Research

 * File:Wikipedia’s poor treatment of its most important articles.pdf (2011)
 * File:Fun or Functional? The Misalignment Between Content Quality and Popularity in Wikipedia (WMF Research Showcase 2015-09-16).pdf

Project management
See the Project management page for information.

Community.png Related projects

 * WikiProject Cleanup
 * WikiProject Editor Retention
 * WikiProject Intertranswiki
 * WikiProject Missing encyclopedic articles
 * Rescue list – hosted at WikiProject Article rescue squadron
 * WikiProject Quality Article Improvement
 * The 10,000 Challenge – aims to reach 10,000 article improvements for UK- and Ireland-related articles
 * WikiProject Africa/The 10,000 Challenge – aims to reach 10,000 article improvements for Africa-related articles
 * Wikipedia Vital articles
 * Discord/Team-B-Vital – aims to improve vital articles up to B class.
 * WikiProject Women in Red – objective is to turn "redlinks" into blue ones within the project scope
 * Articles for improvement (historical) (inactive)
 * Wikipedia Spotlight (defunct)

Icon tools.png Tools

 * reFill – Edits bare url references: adds title, dates, publisher, etc.
 * Reflinks – Edits bare references: adds title/dates etc. to bare references
 * Checklinks – Edit and repair external links
 * Dab solver – Quickly resolve ambiguous links.
 * X!'s tools – Checks grammar and spelling (provided by LanguageTool) plus wikidata - displays page views and edit history