Welcome to Today's articles for improvement (TAFI)
Each week we identify underdeveloped articles that require improvement. Our goal is to use widespread collaborative editing to improve articles to Good article, Featured article or Featured list quality over a short time frame.
What do we do?
Our four main tasks are to:
Identify candidate articles
Select the order they appear on the community portal in the Today's articles for improvement section
Coordinate and collaborate to improve articles
Assess and track our accomplishments
How can you help?
First and foremost, just start editing – help us improve our selected articles!
You can also nominate an article for us to work on, or have your say in future selections.
If you have any questions, please feel free to ask at the Teahouse (a friendly place for new editors), Help desk (questions about how to use or edit Wikipedia), or on our talk page (other questions related to the project).
Spaghetti is this week's article for improvement. You can participate in this collaborative effort! Editing help is available. (Pictured: A plate of spaghetti and meatballs.)
TAFI makes use of various templates. See the Automation page for details of these, including banners, talk page messages, and user templates. Also listed are the project's bot tasks, currently undertaken by Theo's Little Bot.
Assessment
Like many other WikiProjects, TAFI 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. Our assessment criteria and procedure are explained on the Assessment page.
Archives
The archives page gives an overview of archived submissions and schedules. For unsuccessful nominations, archived by month, see Unsuccessful nominations for an index. For successfully nominated articles that were not selected to either be scheduled or kept in the holding area, see the Holding area archive. For articles that were scheduled and appeared as "Today's article for improvement", see the Schedule archive.