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)
Main
Inactive
Mini
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Welcome to the second stub cleanup project. Here you can get information about volunteering to help remove the stub tag from articles that are really not stubs. This project was created with a new version of stubsensor and should be more accurate than the last one. As last time stubsensor does not edit any articles, only people do.
The task is to remove the ((stub)) (or one of its relatives) from the listed articles that it does not belong on. This is really the key; it would be simple to make a computer program to remove the tag from each article but this is not what should be done. A human really needs to make a decision to remove that stub tag or not. The following definitions and examples may make this easier:
Substubs are simply a type of stub.
Stub | Substub |
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An airplane is a machine that flies through the air. It was created by the Wright brothers in 1903. It is able to fly because the wing shape creates greater air pressure under the wing than above it. Today, the Boeing 747 line of airplanes has revolutionized commercial air travel and mass transit, making inter-continental flights not only possible but commonplace. |
Airplanes are flying machines with wings. |
A computer in the modern sense of the word is a machine that computes information electronically. They nowadays use transistors and microchips to process data. They normally use the binary number system, which is composed of ones and zeros. |
A computer processes information with a mouse. It is in binary. |
Ironworker was originally a brand name, but has since become the generic name, for a machine which can shear, notch, and punch holes in steel plate. This is accomplished with a powerful hydraulic system and a blade made of extremely hard and brittle (high carbon content) steel. Because of the enormous forces required to shear steel the machines must also be made of thick steel. It is common to see machines using steel over 1 inch (25 mm). The hydraulic system is driven by an electric motor and three phase alternating current is chosen when possible. Hydraulic rams push down on a variety of hardened steel blades and dies to perform the shearing, punching, and notching action. | |
Public distributed artificial intelligence | In artificial intelligence, public distributed artificial intelligence seeks to use large numbers of members of the public to help create artificially intelligent applications and was pioneered by Chris McKinstry with the launch in May of 1996 of the MISTIC (Minimum Intelligent Signal Test Item Corpus) project. It was an attempt to collect large numbers of propositions of human consensus fact. The project was superseded in July of 2000 by the Mindpixel project which seeks to not only collect propositions but also validate them against the population of World Wide Web users that created them yielding large numbers of Probabilistic propositions. |
Power Rangers: SPD is a new Power Rangers season coming in 2005. | |
Ingredient | An ingredient is one of the things that goes into a mixture when something is made, especially in cooking or in following a formula. |
Anthony J. Drexel Biddle | Anthony J. Drexel Biddle (1876 - 1948) was the man the play and film The Happiest Millionaire was based upon. |
Well one day Rockerfeller decided Colorado was awesome so He made an oil refinery there. | |
Dryers' first invented the ice cream cone using less dense cream and more milk by products producing a low calorie LITE-CONE. |
You are much more likely to contribute useful work if you read at least the your mission section as it addresses issues that have been seen in the past. That section is also likely to change if other issues arise so please check it periodically as you work.
Overall 100% complete - Great work everyone!
Feel free to sign your name here and leave any comments you wish.
A false positive is an article that was not a stub or that did not exist. False negatives can be resolved through modification of Stubsensor or some times by correcting errors in the original article. Some articles must be ignored on a case by case basis.
Please bring conflicts out into the light as soon as possible. If you are another editor who disagrees with the removal of the stub template from an article please list the article, the reason, and sign the comment. The goal is to work together to find the following things: 1) a consistent view of what a stub is or is not; 2) the correct tag for the article (if it is not a stub does it need ((expand)) or ((cleanup)); 3) what else can be done to help solve the conflict. Once you have listed your reasoning you are welcome to change the your mission section if you think it would help avoid conflict in the future.
re: The removal of ((California-geo-stub)) from the East Los Angeles, California article: This particular article, except for the opening paragraph and a picture, is nothing but the User:Rambot added data (census, etc.). Therefore, even though it has lots of text, it's still a geo-stub in my opinion, and the stub should not have been removed. BlankVerse ∅ 09:21, 3 Jun 2005 (UTC)