Wikipedia:Maintenance collaboration of the week

For currently active backlog reduction, please see Backlog.

This page is designed to bring attention to general-interest maintenance backlogs. The current collaboration is publicized by editing the Template:wiki-week and Maintenance collaboration of the week/current. This will feature the collaboration on the Community Portal, on user pages, and anywhere else these templates are used. We also try to make announcements on wiki community pages and IRC, and recommend edit summaries that will draw attention to the backlog.

Collaborations focus on the worst backlogs, and we try to set a specific goal that should take no more than a few months to reach.

Major collaborations
We are currently focusing on backlogs that are over 1,000 entries or 12 months.

These are in the order that they will be featured, unless otherwise requested.


 * Articles requested for more than a year
 * Backlog: Over 200 articles requested for more than a year, as of 7 July 2006
 * Goal: Empty this page!


 * Neglected articles
 * Backlog: Tens of thousands of articles only edited by one person, back to Jan 2005
 * Goal: Review all single-editor articles up to 3 months ago


 * Category:Articles to be merged
 * Backlog: Over 9,800 articles, as of 7 July 2006
 * Goal: Reduce backlog to 1,000 articles.


 * Category:Cleanup by month
 * Backlog: Over 16,600 articles, going back 13 months, as of 7 July 2006
 * Goal 2: Reduce backlog from 13 months to 9
 * More discussion: Wikipedia talk:Cleanup


 * WikiProject Missing encyclopedic articles
 * Backlog: Over 33,000 articles as of 7 July 2006
 * Goal: Complete the following subprojects:
 * WikiProject Missing encyclopedic articles/Top list (less than 60 remaining as of 7 July 2006)
 * WikiProject Missing encyclopedic articles/GeneralxHotlist (less than 240 remaining as of 15 June 2006)
 * WikiProject Missing encyclopedic articles/Hotlist of History of Ideas (less than 100 remaining as of 7 July 2006)
 * WikiProject Missing encyclopedic articles/biographies (less than 780 remaining as of 5 July 2006)


 * Category:Articles that need to be wikified
 * Backlog: 6457 articles as of 7 July 2006
 * Goal: Eliminate backlog entirely!


 * Category:Wikipedia neutral point of view disputes
 * Backlog: Over 2,700 articles as of 7 July 2006
 * Goal: Reduce backlog to 1,000 articles.


 * Transwiki log
 * Backlog: 1500+ articles as of 17 September 2006
 * Goal: Eliminate backlog entirely!

Members

 * Maurreen (talk) 04:08, 3 August 2005 (UTC)
 * CQ (key up) 09:58, 3 August 2005 (UTC)
 * Martin (Bluemoose) 11:08, 5 August 2005 (UTC)
 * Missmarple 11:06, 24 August 2005 (UTC)
 * Neutralitytalk 03:58, September 12, 2005 (UTC)
 * Gflores Talk 03:02, 5 December 2005 (UTC)
 * Phorque 17:50, 29 March 2006 (UTC)
 * Urthogie 13:57, 1 January 2006 (UTC)
 * GrantNeufeld 22:05, 2 May 2006 (UTC)
 * Ydam 19:21, 11 June 2006 (UTC)
 * Swift 05:19, 18 August 2006 (UTC)

Sources for future collaborations
Ideas for future collaborations may be found, among other places, in:
 * Category:Wikipedia maintenance
 * Template:Active Wiki Fixup Projects
 * Category:Wikipedia backlog