Wikipedia:Task Center

For a less beginner-friendly but more comprehensive list of tasks on Wikipedia, see Wikipedia:Maintenance.

Welcome to the
Wikipedia Task Center!

What do Wikipedians do?

If you are looking for a way to help, find a task that suits you, read the appropriate background pages, and be bold.

And if you are here for the fuzzy feeling, stand back and marvel at the range of work that is done daily by other Wikipedians.

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Maintenance

Anti-Vandalism		Suitable for all editors
Stop vandals from damaging Wikipedia. Wikipedia gets thousands of edits per day - unfortunately many of these are vandalism. As a Recent Changes Patroller, you are the first line of defense against such abuse, ensuring that readers of Wikipedia are not faced with vandalized content where they expected to find a useful article.	More Information WP:Recent changes patrol WP:Vandalism Vandalism on Wikipedia	Do It! Special:Recent changes WP:Counter-Vandalism Unit WP:Administrator intervention against vandalism

Categorization		Suitable for all editors
Help put pages into their rightful categories. Pages need to be put into categories so that the public can more easily find them. Help search the new pages feed and the Uncategorized Pages category in order to find pages to categorize. Add categories to articles with too few categories.	More Information WP:Categorization	Do It! ‹See TfM›Go to a random page in Category:All uncategorized pages Special:Newpages ‹See TfM›Go to a random page in Category:Articles needing additional categories from May 2021

Copy editing		Suitable for all editors
Help keep Wikipedia articles clear, clean, and easy to read. Articles created in a rush often have various issues. Please help fix them to make the article decent for the public.	More Information WP:Neutral point of view WP:Basic copyediting How to copy edit	Do It! ‹See TfM›Go to a random page in Category:All articles needing copy edit The Guild of Copy Editors ‹See TfM›Go to a random page in Category:All pages needing cleanup ‹See TfM›Go to a random page in Category:Wikipedia introduction cleanup from May 2021 WikiProject Cleanup ‹See TfM›Go to a random page in Category:All articles with too few wikilinks Collective spell check ‹See TfM›Go to a random page in Category:All Wikipedia articles in need of updating Popular low quality articles (top 1000 by pageviews with low ORES article quality predictions)

Fact-Checking		Suitable for all editors
Help to verify articles' information, add sources, and fix links. Sometimes, editors add information without adding sources to back it up. And sometimes sources get old and experience linkrot. Your job will be to add sources, verify content, and repair linkrot.	More Information WP:Link rot WP:Identifying reliable sources WP:Citing sources WP:Verifiability	Do It! Fix unsourced statements with Citation Hunt ‹See TfM›Go to a random page in Category:All articles lacking sources ‹See TfM›Go to a random page in Category:All articles that may contain original research ‹See TfM›Go to a random page in Category:Wikipedia articles needing factual verification from May 2021 ‹See TfM›Go to a random page in Category:All articles with bare URLs for citations

Random Article Patrol		Suitable for all editors
See Wikipedia as it really is, and learn a lot of random information. Random article patrol is a chance to appreciate how good (and how lacking) Wikipedia is. It can be a soothing experience, especially after tedious maintenance tasks. As a bonus, it can be a great training tool to sharpen your knowledge if you're a trivia buff or are scheduled to appear on Jeopardy! Just go to random pages and fix what you can.	More Information WP:Random WP:Random page patrol	Do It! Special:Random

Answer an Edit Request		Suitable for intermediate editors
Help someone else contribute to the encyclopedia. Sometimes, users cannot edit a page because it is protected, or they should not because they have a conflict of interest with its subject. Review their edit requests, implementing the good ones and rejecting the less-than-good ones.	More Information Responding to protected edit requests Responding to COI edit requests	Do It! ‹See TfM›Go to a random page with a semi-protected edit request ‹See TfM›Go to a random page with a COI edit request

General Image Maintenance		Suitable for intermediate editors
Help fix issues with images. Uploading images on Wikipedia is a lengthy process and many mistakes are made. Therefore, there are a lot of mistakes that need to be fixed.	More Information WP:Images	Do It! ‹See TfM›Go to a random page in Category:Wikipedia requested images ‹See TfM›Go to a random page in Category:All Wikipedia files with unknown source

Merging and Splitting		Suitable for intermediate editors
Sometimes articles need to be combined or separated by hand. Help merge articles by adding a redirect and copying and pasting or help split an article by removing content and pasting it into a new article. When merging, follow attribution rules to ensure copyright compliance.	More Information WP:Merging WP:Splitting	Do It! ‹See TfM›Go to a random page in Category:All articles to be merged ‹See TfM›Go to a random page in Category:All articles to be split

New Images Patrol		Suitable for intermediate editors
Prevent the release of illegal images. Search the new images feed to find pictures that violate rules and copyright laws and get them deleted.	More Information WP:New pages patrol/Image namespace checklist WP:File copyright tags WP:Images	Do It! Special:Newimages

New Pages Patrol		Suitable for advanced editors
Help delete spam articles before the public sees them. Some people, either acting in good faith or maliciously, create new articles which aren't suitable for inclusion in Wikipedia. By participating in new article patrol you can ensure that these articles are deleted as soon as possible.	More Information WP:New pages patrol WP:Criteria for speedy deletion WP:Notability	Do It! Special:Newpages WP:Proposed deletion WP:Twinkle

Writing

Expand a Short Article		Suitable for intermediate editors
Help fill the gaps of Wikipedia article content. Help make small articles called stubs more complete by doing more research.	More Information WP:Stub WP:Manual of Style/Lead section	Do It! ‹See TfM›Go to a random page in Category:All stub articles ‹See TfM›Go to a random page in Category:All articles to be expanded ‹See TfM›Go to a random page in Category:Pages missing lead section WP:Articles for improvement Popular low-quality articles

Translate an Article		Suitable for bilingual intermediate editors
Help improve Wikipedia's global coverage. Article contributions are made in many languages besides English. Helpers are needed to translate and polish translations so that all languages have good coverage of notable topics.	More Information WP:Translation WP:Translate us Wikipedia:Content translation tool	Do It! WP:Pages needing translation into English Category:Articles needing translation from foreign-language Wikipedias ‹See TfM›Go to a random page in Category:Wikipedia articles needing cleanup after translation

Create an Article		Suitable for advanced editors
Help expand the reach of the encyclopedia. Create an article on a subject previously unknown to Wikipedia.	More Information Help:Your first article	Do It! WP:Most-wanted articles WP:Requested articles WP:Article wizard

Community

Contribute to Noticeboards		Suitable for intermediate editors
Help contribute to discussions on noticeboards. Contribute your opinions to noticeboards in order to have a say in important decisions and help come to consensus on certain issues.	More Information WP:Noticeboards Wikipedia:Consensus	Do It! WP:Dashboard

Help Someone		Suitable for intermediate editors
Answer questions on noticeboards. Help a user needing help. You don't have to know everything and you can just answer the questions you know. There is a need for more helpers to help speed up response times.	More Information WP:Help desk/How to answer Wikipedia:Help desk/Templates Wikipedia:Reference desk/Guidelines	Do It! WP:Teahouse WP:Help desk WP:Reference desk ‹See TfM›Go to a random page in Category:Wikipedians looking for help WP:Editor assistance WP:Peer review WP:IRC

The Rewards Board		Suitable for intermediate or advanced editors
Come to receive or post reward listings for editing tasks. The Rewards Board is a place where anyone can come to either post a task that they want done in exchange for a reward or to fulfill a task in exchange for a reward. The rewards offered are mostly barnstars but some people offer items or money for their tasks.	More Information Help:Editing	Do It! WP:Reward board

Conflict Resolution		Suitable for advanced editors
Help editors come to a consensus with minimal conflict. Providing unbiased commentary is a great chance to improve your Wiki-relations. Instead of debating, you can read the arguments of opposing editors and suggest a compromise that is in Wikipedia’s best interest. By doing so, you will learn a lot about the policies.	More Information WP:Mediation	Do It! WP:Requests for comment WP:Third opinion WP:Dispute resolution noticeboard ‹See TfM›Go to a random page in Category:All NPOV disputes

Good Articles		Suitable for highly advanced editors
Help edit and nominate articles or review nominations of articles for good article status. Find potentially good articles and work on them for a while to bring them up to a high standard. Then nominate them for Good Article status. You can also review good article nominations and critique them.	More Information Help:Editing Wikipedia:Good article criteria Wikipedia:Reviewing good articles	Do It! WP:Good articles

Collaborations

This week's article for improvement is:

Tattoo

Previous selections: Fashion accessory · Huizhou · Do-rag

This week's backlog of the week is:

Category:Articles needing sections

See also

• Wikipedia:Maintenance – main page where tasks can be found.
• Wikipedia:Community portal/Opentask – simple list of article maintenance tasks.
• Wikipedia:Dashboard – for a listing of ongoing discussions and current requests.

Automated lists

• Wikipedia:Backlog – all articles needing cleanup.
• Cleanup needs by WikiProject – pick a topic, then pick an article with a specific type of problem
• Wikipedia:Database reports – various maintenance tasks.
• Template:Category tracker – various maintenance backlogs.
• Special:Specialpages – various maintenance reports.
• New Pages Feed – patrol for vandals and redundancy with existing articles.
• CopyPatrol – for identifying and resolving copyright violations.
• User:SuggestBot – a computer program that tries to help Wikipedia contributors find articles to edit.

Recognition

• Wikipedia:Awards – reward vigorous Wikipedia contributors for their hard work and due diligence.