Where we intend to show the various kinds of activity on which Wikipedia depends.
Intended to recruit more Copy-editors, WikiGnomes and Anti-vandals.
You can explore the links below to find new things to do and the documentation to help you on your way.
Fixing things big and small - Enter the WikiGnomes
Active Wiki Fixup Projects
Must be active, systematic, have lists, & need help.
Writing
Articles that need to be wikified
Massive backlog. Ongoing (category)
Dead-end pages
These pages are not wikified. Ongoing (category)
Missing articles
Wikipedia is not as complete as you might think. Ongoing
Most wanted articles
Updated February 2015
Oldest requested articles
Updated November 2012
Other
Articles needing geo-coordinates
Help locate places. See WP:GEO. Ongoing (category)
Articles written by a single editor
Reviewing articles written by a newer editor. Updated February 2013
Bluelink patrol
Directing wayward links to the intended articles. Ongoing
Check Wikipedia
Fix the syntax of Wikipedia. Updated every 15 minutes
Disambiguation pages with links
Directing ambiguous links to the intended articles. Ongoing
Fix Common Mistakes
Fix common mistakes in English grammar (e.g. "the the", "and and"). Ongoing
moss
Currently doing a collaborative spell-check of the entire encyclopedia.
Moving free images to Wikimedia Commons
Moving free images to the Commons so they are easier to find. Ongoing (categories)
Orphaned articles
Help link to these orphaned articles. Ongoing (category)
Red Link Recovery
Turn red links blue. Ongoing
Stubsensor
Help remove stub tags from articles they don't belong on. Updated August 2011
Uncategorised articles
Help categorise articles. Ongoing (category)
Unreferenced articles
Ensuring articles include at least one reference or source. Ongoing (category)
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WikiGnomes work behind the scenes of a wiki, tying up little loose ends and making things run more smoothly. Examples of WikiGnome-like behavior include fixing typos, correcting poor grammar, creating redirects, adding categories, and repairing broken links.
They are the wiki version of the mythical Menehunes of Hawai'i - little people who go around and fix things when no-one's looking.
Finding things to fix
The following pages have a huge list of things needing fixing. Use whichever you prefer.
Fixing layout, adding images etc. - touch of a WikiFairy
A great deal of work is in fixing tables, adding hatnotes and footers, adding images and sound files and improving the layout. You can compare an article with a Featured article from the same category to see how it should ideally look.
Copy editing is the process of making improvements to an article to make it clear, correct, concise, comprehensible, and consistent; make it say what it means, and mean what it says. The Manual of Style is a common reference.
SuggestBot can send you a little list of articles to work on. By default it will base its suggestions on your contributions. You can however tell it what categories or articles you would prefer to work on.
Working on specific topics - Wikiprojects
Standard topics have a Wikiproject page. They are a good option if only a few topics interest you.
The idea is not to push an article to Featured Article status, but rather to improve its Quality. See the essay 100,000 feature-quality articles which explains this point of view and gives some ideas on how to do that.
Not very interesting, but we should mention the WikiElves who work behind the scenes at Wikipedia on user problems like RfA, RFCN, and AfD. You can hop over to any of the Noticeboards and knock yourself out. Besides this, there is also the administrative work of creating new categories and templates, protecting and unprotecting pages and speedy deletes.
Help and Documentation
Read the documentation
Wikipedia is extremely well documented, but it is difficult to find the documentation. The documentation given below is a good starting point. You can easily find the necessary document by doing an advanced search in Help space or Wikipedia space or simply a Google search.