Team-B-Vital is a collaboration effort by WP:Discord. The channel #team-b-vital is an effort towards running collaborative pushes to bring vital articles up to B class if possible, similar to WP:Articles for Improvement. Each effort will run for one or two weeks, ending early if the article in question is either felt to be at B-class or impossible to improve further. Articles are chosen by a quick (usually 24-hour) vote among interested chatters, with the goal of working together on improving various vital articles.
A brief record of Discord's #team-b-vital's efforts:
Article | Change during run | Time range | Notes |
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Amazon parrot | [ ] | July 15, 2021 – July 21, 2021 | Chosen for first trial run effort. Article improved from Start to B (diff). Improvements were also made to List of amazon parrots (diff). The article was promoted to GA on July 27, 2021. |
Tasmanian Wilderness World Heritage Area | [ ] | July 22, 2021 – July 28, 2021 | Chosen for second trial run effort. Article improved from Start to B (diff). Helsham Inquiry was also created from a redlink. The article was promoted to GA on October 2, 2021. |
Scimitar | [ ] | July 29, 2021 – August 4, 2021 | Chosen for third trial run effort. Though improved from Start to C and significantly cleaned up, participants generally felt the topic has proven very broad and difficult to properly source. Most B criteria are met and ORES predicts 80% B assessment, but broadness and completeness is likely still lacking (diff). |
Okonomiyaki | [ ] | August 5, 2021 – August 11, 2021 | Chosen for the fourth and final trial run effort; a final source was added to resolve a citation needed tag the next day after it ended. Article improved from Start to B (diff). The article was promoted to GA on September 3, 2021. |
Garden | [ ] | August 12, 2021 – August 18, 2021 | Chosen for the first non-trial week, another rather broad topic. Low participation, with some minor cosmetic edits, but no major expansions (diff). |
News program | [ / ] | August 19, 2021 – August 25, 2021 | Shortly before the topic was selected, a merger to News broadcast was proposed. The merger was completed mid-way through the effort. News broadcast itself was improved from Start to C (diff). |
Waterfall | [ ] | August 26, 2021 – September 1, 2021 | Reassessed as B class on August 28, 2021, with a few further improvements over the week (diff). |
Winnie-the-Pooh (book) | [ ] | September 2, 2021 – September 8, 2021 | Reassessed as B class on September 7, 2021 (diff). |
Kingdom of Georgia | [ ] | September 9, 2021 – September 15, 2021 | A special request from WP:CCI, the article was rated as a B but was substantially pruned due to copyright cleanup. Some content was recovered, but concerns about the sourcing and suitability of the prior text beyond copyright concerns dropped the article to C (diff). |
Match fixing | [ ] | September 16, 2021 – September 22, 2021 | Some cleanup to the article was achieved and a little sourcing improved, but overall the article is at a C (diff). More sourcing would be needed to raise to B. |
Akashi Kaikyo Bridge | [ ] | September 23, 2021 – September 29, 2021 | Reassessed as B class on September 28, 2021 (diff). |
Sargasso Sea | [ ] | September 30, 2021 – October 6, 2021 | Copy editing, expansion, and cleanup, raising to C (diff). |
Maccabean Revolt | [ ] | October 7, 2021 – October 13, 2021 | Reassessed as B class on October 13, 2021 (diff). |
Dolley Madison | [ ] | October 14, 2021 – October 20, 2021 | Reassessed as B class on October 20, 2021 (diff). |
Anne Wojcicki | [ ] | October 21, 2021 – October 27, 2021 | Some cleanup and copyediting completed. (diff). |
Loch Ness | [ ] | October 28, 2021 – November 3, 2021 | Close to a B but participants did not feel it was quite expanded enough for that (diff). |
Sherwood Forest | [ ] | November 4, 2021 – November 10, 2021 | Some light gnoming (diff). |
Spring (hydrology) | [ ] | November 11, 2021 – November 17, 2021 | Lot of work, nearly B class but needs a few more sources (diff). |
Aqueduct (water supply) | [ ] | November 18, 2021 – December 1, 2021 | Two week run; minor cleanup (diff). |
Banded bullfrog | [ ] | December 2, 2021 – December 15, 2021 | Two week run; reassessed as B class on December 15, 2021. Lot of work, low B but in good shape (diff). The article was promoted to GA on February 25, 2022. |
Colby cheese | [ ] | December 16, 2021 – December 22, 2021 | Reassessed as B class on December 22, 2021 (diff) and promoted to GA on January 12, 2022 . |
Yes, Virginia, there is a Santa Claus Ebenezer Scrooge |
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December 23, 2021 – December 29, 2021 | Special Christmas Double Article Run! "Yes, Virginia, there is a Santa Claus" reassessed as B class on December 26, 2021 (diff) and promoted to GA on January 1, 2022 . Only minor work done on Ebenezer. |
ferret | [ ] | December 30, 2021 – January 12, 2022 | Special server theme pick for New Year's Eve. Reassessed as B (diff). |
Moai | [ ] | January 13, 2022 – January 26, 2022 | Two week run. Lot of work but still C right now (diff). |
Passenger train | [ ] | January 27, 2022 – February 9, 2022 | Re-assessed as C - at the time of this run wrapping, further improvement was possible but (if done) would continue separately (diff). |
Video camera | [ ] | February 10, 2022 – March 2, 2022 | Longer run; some work done but still Start-class (diff). |
Drawbridge | [ ] | March 3, 2022 – March 16, 2022 | Two-week run; some work done but still Start-Class (diff). |
Wanderer above the Sea of Fog | [ ] | March 17, 2022 – March 30, 2022 | Two-week run; reassessed as B-class on March 30, 2022 (diff). |
Colosseum | [ ] | March 31, 2022 – April 13, 2022 | Two-week run; reassessed as B-class after the run on May 2, 2022 (diff). |
Michael Eisner | [ ] | April 16, 2022 – May 12, 2022 | Overran; reassessed as B-class on May 13th, 2022 (diff). |
Flywheel | [ ] | May 13, 2022 – June 2, 2022 | Overran; reassessed as C-class on June 3, 2022 (diff). |
American Museum of Natural History | [ ] | June 3, 2022 – June 15, 2022 | Slightly shorter run. |