Wikipedia:Maintenance collaboration of the week/archive

This is an archive of the old-style version of this page, which was decommissioned on December 5, 2005.

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This page chooses the weekly maintenance collaboration, to be featured on the Community Portal, among other pages. The focus is on backlogs (see also Category:Wikipedia backlog), the Wikipedia namespace and other maintenance tasks. Your help is needed for this week's collaboration (as shown above), but also in choosing next week's focus.

Procedure
Here's how the selection process works:
 * One item will be chosen every Sunday. If two items are tied, the oldest one will win. You can show your support with approval voting.
 * Any backlog which has been cleared may be de-listed. (You may wish to make a comment to that effect, if it is a borderline case.)
 * If a backlog is cleared before the week is up, the next item should be promoted to fill the remaining days, plus its regular term.
 * If a backlog still has more than a week's worth of work at the end of its time, it may be automatically re-nominated (starting over with zero votes).
 * When you vote, please update the tally in the headers and move the entry up or down the list..

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Past winners

 * Jul 31-Aug 06 2005 - Category:Articles that need to be wikified (by fiat, about 500 done)
 * Aug 07-Aug 13 2005 - WikiProject Missing encyclopedic articles (7 votes)
 * Aug 14-Aug 20 2005 - Disambiguation pages with links (8 votes)
 * Aug 21–Aug 27 2005 - Articles requested for more than a year (10 votes)
 * Aug 28-Sep 03 2005 - Category:Articles that need to be wikified (2nd run, 7 votes, about 400 done)
 * Sep 04-Sep 10 2005 - WikiProject Stub sorting (7 votes)
 * Sep 11-Sep 17 2005 - Category:Wikipedia categories in need of attention (8 votes)
 * Sep 18-Sep 24 2005 - Deadend pages (8 votes)
 * Sep 25-Oct 01 2005 - Oldest subcategory of Category:Cleanup by month, updating as needed (6 votes)
 * Note: This was Category:Cleanup from September 2004 for the full run. 20 out of 32 articles in that category were cleaned up.
 * Oct 02-Oct 08 2005 - Most wanted articles (6 votes)
 * Oct 09-Oct 15 2005 - Category:Articles to be merged (6 votes; 138 merged, 23 marked disputed, 3,014 to go)
 * Oct 15-Oct 22 2005 - Special:Uncategorizedcategories (6 votes; working list copied to Category:Orphaned categories)
 * Oct 23-Oct 29 2005 - Category:Articles that need to be wikified (8 votes, slipped 200 articles back)
 * Oct 31-Nov 05 2005 - Most wanted stubs (4 votes)
 * Nov 06-Nov 12 2005 - Category:Wikipedia articles needing style editing (3 votes)
 * Nov 13-Nov 19 2005 - Transwiki log (3 votes, held over to Nov 30 due to neglect)
 * Dec 01-Dec 12 2005 - Articles requested for more than a year (4 votes)

Later scheduled collaborations

 * Dec 11-17 - WikiProject Missing encyclopedic articles/2004xEncarta, 4 votes
 * Dec 18-24 - Elements of Style improvement project, 3 votes
 * Dec 25-31 - Request for comment, 2 votes (responding to RFCs, not just tidying up) (ran 2 weeks due to neglect)
 * Jan 08-14 - Category:Wikipedia articles in need of updating, 1 vote
 * Jan 15-21 - Category:Wikipedia articles needing factual verification, 1 vote (ran 2 weeks due to neglect)
 * Jan 29-Feb 04 - Category:Move to Wikibooks, 1 vote (ran till Mar 4 due to neglect)
 * 1911 Encyclopedia topics, 2 votes - This was completed before being featured.
 * Mar 05-11 - Copyright problems, 1 vote
 * Mar 12-18 - Category:Copy to Wiktionary, 1 vote

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