Wikipedia:Backlog

This backlog page lists tasks that should be done to improve Wikipedia (assuming the cleanup templates were placed correctly). Helping reduce backlogs is an important issue, so please feel free to help out and/or develop this page (or ways to quantify these things) further. Wikipedia talk:Backlog is the discussion page for this page, and the technical Village Pump page is where technical issues are discussed.

Status

 * See Category:Wikipedia backlog for more categories, and Task Center for brief guides.

Legend:
 * – Backlog is reduced and has WikiGnome activity in 6 months range
 * – Backlog stays the same or not applicable (e.g. FAC, GAN)
 * – Backlog is increasing in 6 months range

Update the delta at Backlog status and refer to Internet Archive of this page.

Oldest backlogs by issue

 * See also
 * 1) Articles requested for more than a year

Statistics
For statistics on how a specific category's size has changed over time, use apersonbot/cat-track. Not all categories are available; a category is only tracked if its page transcludes the CatTrack template. Otherwise, at present there does not appear to be any other project-wide collation of backlog statistics. A discussion may be required to determine if one is wanted or needed.

Templates

 * backlog – adds a category to Category:Wikipedia backlog
 * Backlog status – used in the "Status" section above. It has code in it that has been commented out that allows for the focus on a particular backlog
 * Backlog count – date and count for backlogs categories that is updated by a bot
 * Backlog progress bar – progress bar for tracking backlog elimination
 * Backlog of the week – transcludes a box highlighting a randomly chosen backlog updated each week