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Welcome to Articles for improvement!
(And you thought all the juicy articles had already been written...)
We identify and collaborate upon underdeveloped articles that require improvement. Our goal is to use widespread collaborative editing to improve articles over a short time frame. So far, we have improved hundreds of articles; some have even been promoted to good or featured article status! Boldly edit the current article for improvement, or join the project today! This week's article for improvement is: Previous selections: Fashion accessory · Huizhou · Do-rag
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This week's article for improvement is |
Tattoo |
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![]() Tattooing among women of the Koita people of Papua New Guinea traditionally began at age five and was added to each year. The V-shaped marks on the chest, with certain others, indicate that the woman is marriageable. Photo taken in 1912. |
Please be bold and help improve it! |
- Check out the project's Articles for improvement page. Just start editing and help to improve our selected articles!
- You can nominate an article for us to work on.
- You may join the project by adding your name to the members list, and can sign up for weekly notices.
- If you have any questions, please feel free to ask at our talk page, and also at the Teahouse or Help desk.
- If you are new to Wikipedia, you may find Wikipedia's tutorial useful - it covers the basics of Wikipedia in under an hour.
- Be bold! Articles here can be edited at any time by all users, regardless of project membership status.
Goals
The project's four main tasks are to:
- Coordinate and collaborate to improve articles.
- Identify candidate articles.
- Select the order they appear on the community portal in the Articles for improvement section.
- Assess and track our accomplishments.
Project organisation
Process
Nominations page | ![]() |
Articles list | ![]() |
Schedule | ![]() |
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Some of our notable accomplishments include:
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Entertainment | Expanded from ![]() ![]() |
Promoted to GA on 27 February 2013 |
Writer | Expanded from ![]() |
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Sea | Expanded from ![]() ![]() |
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Life sciences | Expanded from ![]() ![]() |
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Solar activity | ![]() |
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Animatronics | ![]() |
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Steak | Expanded from ![]() ![]() |
Promoted to GA on 25 November 2014. |
Solar activity | Expanded from a ![]() ![]() |
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Deep frying |
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Promoted to GA on 17 September 2015 |
Hors d'oeuvre |
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Chowder |
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– See the Accomplishments page for additional articles.
Members
The project member list is located at the Members page.
Assessment
Our assessment criteria and procedure are explained on the Assessment page. Like many other WikiProjects, AFI 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.
Automation and templates
AFI makes use of various templates. See the Automation page for details, including banners, talk page messages, user and project maintenance templates. The project's bot tasks are also listed here, currently undertaken by MusikBot.
Research
- 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
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 List of articles area, see the List of articles archive. For articles that were scheduled and appeared as an "article for improvement", see the Schedule archive.
Some archives of a predecessor version of this project that existed c. 2012 are located as subpages.
Project management
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See the Project management page for information.
Further collaboration
- The AFI Article collaboration page is a place to coordinate further collaboration on articles above and beyond our weekly selections.
- The AFI Google Doodle task force improves Google Doodle-related articles
See also
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Articles |
Articles for improvement |
Science and technology |
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Miscellaneous |
Related projects
- WikiProject Cleanup
- WikiProject Editor Retention
- WikiProject Intertranswiki – has a monthly stub creation focus and also highlights select articles for improvement in a given month, usually related to Latin American women.
- WikiProject Missing encyclopedic articles
- Rescue list – hosted at WikiProject Article rescue squadron
- WikiProject Quality Article Improvement
- Wikipedia:The 10,000 Challenge – aims to reach 10,000 article improvements for UK- and Ireland-related articles
- WikiProject Africa/The 10,000 Challenge – aims to reach 10,000 article improvements for Africa-related articles
- Wikipedia Vital articles
- WikiProject Women in Red – objective is to turn "redlinks" into blue ones within the project scope
- Articles for Improvement (inactive)
- Wikipedia Spotlight (defunct)
Tools
- reFill – Edits bare url references: adds title, dates, publisher, etc.
- Reflinks – Edits bare references: adds title/dates etc. to bare references
- Checklinks – Edit and repair external links
- Dab solver – Quickly resolve ambiguous links.
- Peer reviewer – Provides hints and suggestion to improving articles.
- X!'s tools – Checks grammar and spelling (provided by LanguageTool) plus wikidata - displays page views and edit history