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Welcome to Wikiproject Vital Articles! This project aims to improve the quality of all vital articles (articles considered especially important to the English-language Wikipedia), with a special focus on the standard 1000 vital articles list. Broader topics are listed at the vital 100 and vital 10 lists, while more specific topics are listed at 10,000 and 50,000 articles lists.
- Expanded 19 Vital articles to 30 kilobytes in the 30 kB drive, 26 July 2022 – 31 August 2022
- Upcoming: Pushing 2 Vital articles to good article status in the Vital GA Drive, 1 September 2022 – 15 October 2022
Goal
Our goal is to have all Vital articles achieving good article status by 2032, without compromising quality.
Percentage of Vital Level 3 articles that are GA or FA: 19.9% complete | ||
- Why?
- Ask yourselves: why didn't you look up Wikipedia's articles about economy, Dmitri Mendeleev, man or land even though you know little about them? Simple, because they suck. Millions of people feel the same way too. This is not acceptable on our side and this must be changed by making these articles good.
- As for the ambitious timeline, it has to be. Making a goal too far into the future encourages people to become sluggish. Because the Wikipedia community has proved themselves capable of doing great things, this is a goal that is attainable. So let's do it.
- How?
- In short, by doing what Wikipedia excels in its early days: iterative improvements. Small quality edits add up to big improvements. This ultimately making the article good enough to pass its good article nomination. In practice, we need to work on article-wide problems first (layout, images, maybe copyright violations, etc.) before focusing on the smaller details (citations, manual of style stuff, copyediting, etc.) We also need to concentrate editors' efforts efficiently, this is done here as a series of drives. Feel free to talk about your questions and concerns at our project's talk page.
Annual goal
- 2022
- This project is revived in late July 2022, so there isn't much time to accomplish any really ambitious goal. Still, here it is:
- 10 Vital good articles (or 1.25% of total GA needed), achieved by the Vital GA Drive and later drives.
- Clean up the image mess. This goal is considered accomplished when no article have more than 2 images at the lead AND these images are of high quality (high res, centered, good color, etc.) Human can be taken as a minimum standard.
- Get WMF's attention for funding the WikiProject. The money used would be strictly be for improving articles, such as buying books, paywall resources, etc.
Join us
Once you've joined, free merch for your user page can be found at {{User Vital}} and {{Wikipedia ads|287}}. Feel free to talk at our project's talk page.
- CactiStaccingCrane (talk) 09:04, 14 July 2022 (UTC)
- Woop woop, I can be an early adopter — PerfectSoundWhatever (t; c) 20:19, 15 July 2022 (UTC)
- Such ambition towards an insurmountable task...I like it. CollectiveSolidarity (talk) 04:07, 17 July 2022 (UTC)
- DMT Biscuit (talk) 19:09, 22 July 2022 (UTC)
- Might as well while I'm here LarstonMarston (talk) 07:08, 24 July 2022 (UTC)
- Whatever it takes... Aza24 (talk) 21:08, 27 July 2022 (UTC)
- Happy to help, this is a good goal. —Ganesha811 (talk) 14:10, 28 July 2022 (UTC)
- Thebiguglyalien (talk) 06:35, 6 August 2022 (UTC)
- Ahated (talk!) 09:59, 11 August 2022 (UTC)
- More coordination and focus on key topics can only be a good thing. Jr8825 • Talk 16:07, 17 August 2022 (UTC)
- Qwertyu2244 (talk) 17:48, 18 August 2022 (UTC)
- Zephyr the west wind (talk) 21:44, 19 August 2022 (UTC)
- Gusfriend (talk) 08:56, 21 August 2022 (UTC)
- Curbon7 (talk) 16:30, 22 August 2022 (UTC)
- ♦ Dr. Blofeld 18:54, 22 August 2022 (UTC)
Awards
We have a good roster of awards, given to those that help us advancing the goal to make all Vital Articles GAs and FAs. This awards may be awarded by anyone, to anyone worthy.
Barnstars
- {{Vital Barnstar}} – good old barnstar, give to those that have done a good job.
- {{Good Article Barnstar}} – Barnstar for those that has nominated successfully a Vital good article.
- {{Featured Article Barnstar}} – Barnstar for those that has nominated successfully a Vital featured article.
Userboxes
- {{Vital userbox}} – good old userbox, give to those that have done a good job.
- {{Good Vital infobox}} – Userbox for those that has nominated successfully a Vital good article.
- {{Featured Vital infobox}} – Userbox for those that has nominated successfully a Vital featured article.
See also
- Wikipedia:Vital Direct – an informal outline of how this project will work
- Wikipedia:Vital articles/Frequently Asked Questions
- Wikipedia:WikiProject Vital articles/Article alerts – specialized noticeboard for Vital articles
- 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
- Wikipedia:WikiProject Vital Articles/Readability (2016)