How to help
editHow you can help depends on your time, resources, and interest. Here are a variety of ideas for contributions ranging from simple to complex. Take a look at the Open Tasks section of this page for more article-specific tasks.
Writing and editing
- Create new articles: A good starting point might be requested visual arts articles.
- List articles that are needed, but you aren't creating yourself, at requested visual arts articles.
- If creating pages about artists, see Manual of Style (biographies) and WikiProject Biography.
- Expand stubs:
- Choose an article from an art stub subcategory and develop it. (See Article development.)
- Choose an article from an artist stub subcategory and develop it. (See Article development.)
- Check references on visual arts pages.
- Copy-edit pages. Fix up grammar, spelling, links and the like.
Images
- Upload and add images to visual arts pages. A logical starting point would be the requested art images.
- Public domain image resources is a great place to start looking for images to add.
- External links to online galleries/images can also be helpful, especially when free images are not available for upload and copyright violations might be an issue.
Wikipedia maintenance
- Sort stubs:
- Move articles from Category:Art stubs to more specific stub categories.
- Move articles from Category:Artist stubs to more specific stub categories.
- Manage infoboxes (Please use these judiciously and be conscientious of page layout.)
- Add artist infoboxes {{Infobox Artist}}
- Add {{needs artist infobox}} to the talk pages of artist entries that lack said infobox.
- Add painting infoboxes {{Painting}}
- Add artist infoboxes {{Infobox Artist}}
- Check categorization of existing articles and help organize. (See Categorization and Category:Visual arts)
- Revert vandalism on this portal and on articles to do with visual arts.
- Contribute to articles for deletion discussions.
- Contribute to conversations on articles listed here: Requests for comment/Media, art and literature.
Visual arts portal
- Maintain and update the visual arts portal. There are no parameters for how frequently things can be updated on the portal. Be bold.
- Update the selected article.
- Update the selected picture.
- Update the did you know section.
- Complete tasks listed in the Things you can do section. Add new open tasks as relevant. Try to maintain a consistent number of items in each section.
Visual arts project
- Add the project template {{Visual arts}} to the talk pages of relevant articles that don't already have one.
- Join the discussions on the project talk page.
- Publicize - Inform editors who have displayed interest in visual arts about the project via their talk page.
- Take a look at the project to-do list and help with listed project-related tasks.