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Must be active, systematic, have lists, & need help.
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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
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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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Although activity is slower than it once was, anyone is welcome to participate in the project.

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Stubsensor is a wiki clean up project that analyzes the English Wikipedia and tries to identify out-of-the-ordinary Stub articles; the software never edits an article, only humans do. It is a fairly easy project that does not require a lot of Wiki markup skills that is suited for old and new volunteers alike.

You can use database reports to find other articles with stub templates that need to be removed.

What to do

Open a report that has not been completed and Read the How to help section. Then begin looking at articles and improving them. The project focus is around removing stub tags from articles that are no longer stubs; but you can make any improvements to the articles that are needed.

Reports

August 23, 2011 - 3,000 more articles - Now being worked
February 15, 2011 - 5,516 more articles - (Outdated, see above report)
August 26, 2010 - 6,666 more articles - (Outdated, see above report)
July 7, 2007 - 10,000 more articles - Done
March 7, 2007 - 10,000 more articles - Done
August 10, 2006 - 10,000 more articles - Done
Jun 07, 2006 - 2,000 more articles - Done
Jun 23, 2005 2,000 more articles are up for human review. - Done
May 16, 2005 Another 2000 articles generated by the first version of stubsensor to feature a cruft detector to eliminate some false positives. - Done
April 21, 2005 The top 2000 articles that have a really good probability of being mislabeled as a stub from the SQL dump of the same date. Completed in 7 days. - Done

Suggestions

Feel free to leave ideas here.

Hello, the edit summary volunteers are asked to use when they destub an article: "Stubsensor cleanup project; you can help!" doesn't mention that the article was, umm, destubbed. What about changing it to something like "Destubbed by a volunteer from the Stubsensor cleanup project; you can help!".S Sepp 20:39, 29 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Good idea, I will incorporate in the new update. Jeepday (talk) 10:20, 28 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Was this done? --Leahtwosaints (talk) 00:05, 31 October 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Yes, check Wikipedia:WikiProject Stubsensor/20100826, each section now has the statement If you want, you can place Destubbed by a volunteer from the Stubsensor cleanup project; [[Wikipedia:WikiProject Stubsensor/20100826|you can help!]] in your edit summary.

See also

Wikipedia:WikiProject Unreferenced articles

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