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This is a directory of WikiProjects that deal with Wikipedia maintenance. WikiProjects marked with a green background are currently active, while those with a gray background are not. Task forces of large projects are marked with a blue background.
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The directory is constructed using the {{Wikipedia:WikiProject Council/Directory/WikiProject}} template; full instructions and a definition of "inactive WikiProject" are available here.
General
| Project | Active | Assessment | Peer review | Collaboration | Portal | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Abandoned Articles | yes | |||||
| WikiProject Accessibility | yes | yes | yes | Works to make wikipedia more available to all, assists users, and protects disabled editors from undue community sanction. | ||
| Advocate Cabal | no | |||||
| Alternative Views | yes | |||||
| Animated Wikipedia | no | |||||
| Anti-Stub | yes | |||||
| Articles for creation | yes | |||||
| Awards | yes | Wikipedia:Awards | ||||
| Awareness | no | |||||
| Categories | yes | |||||
| Citation cleanup | yes | yes | For cleaning up the massive backlogs with regards to wrong and inconsistent footnotes. | |||
| Classroom coordination | yes | Coordinates with professional educators who assign students to edit Wikipedia articles. | ||||
| Closed proxies | yes | |||||
| Committee of Wikipedians | no | |||||
| Community | yes | |||||
| Community/Strategy/WikiProjectCentral | no | |||||
| Computer help desk | no | Redirects to the computing section of the Reference desk | ||||
| Conceptual Jungle | yes | |||||
| Connect the Dots | no | |||||
| Contents | yes | |||||
| Council | yes | |||||
| Countering systemic bias | yes | |||||
| Counter-Vandalism Unit | yes | |||||
| Creation trends | no | |||||
| Database analysis | yes | |||||
| Deletion | yes | |||||
| Deletion sorting | yes | |||||
| Department of Fun | yes | |||||
| Disambiguation | yes | |||||
| Echo | yes | Improve Wikipedia's coverage on other languages by finding featured articles in other languages. | ||||
| Edit counters | yes | |||||
| Esperanza | no | A group that works to build a sense of community and create a positive environment in which to build the encyclopedia (inactive). | ||||
| Essay Categorization and/or Classification | yes | |||||
| Expert Request Sorting | yes | |||||
| External links | yes | |||||
| Fair use | yes | |||||
| Featured Article Help Desk | no | |||||
| Fix common mistakes | yes | |||||
| For the Record | yes | Respond to press coverage of Wikipedia. | ||||
| Free book covers | (main listing here) | |||||
| Free images | yes | |||||
| French Collaboration Project | yes | |||||
| General Audience | no | |||||
| Geographical coordinates | yes | |||||
| Grammar | yes | |||||
| Graphic Lab | yes | Improve and create images for Wiki | ||||
| Graphical content problem | no | |||||
| Graphics | yes | |||||
| Guild of Copy Editors | yes | This project's purpose is to improve the English Wikipedia by working on the articles tagged for copy edit. | ||||
| Hall of Fame | no | |||||
| Help Project | no | |||||
| Illustration | no | Create and improve all types of images on Wikipedia. | ||||
| Image Monitoring Group | yes | |||||
| Inclusion | yes | |||||
| Infoboxes | yes | Central location for infobox designers to collaborate and assist each other | ||||
| Inline Templates | yes | Consistency for templates in articles | ||||
| Integration | yes | |||||
| Interlanguage Links | yes | Improve Wikipedia's coverage on other languages through interwiki work. | ||||
| Introductions | yes | Has undergone major revamp | ||||
| JETFA | no | |||||
| Keep It Simple | yes |
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| Keywords | yes | |||||
| Kindness Campaign | yes | The goals of this WikiProject are to promote Wikipedia:Civility and Wikipedia:WikiLove. It continues to be active as people sign up to The rolls of the kindness campaign. | ||||
| Laundromat | yes | |||||
| League of Copyeditors | no | This project's purpose is to keep the growing backlog of copyedit tagged articles in check. | ||||
| Linkification | no | |||||
| Lists | yes | development of anything related to lists, from guidelines to articles | ||||
| Lists of basic topics | yes | |||||
| Living People Patrol | no | |||||
| Location Format | no | |||||
| Maps | yes | |||||
| WikiProject Manual of Style | yes | A project to coordinate the Manual of Style pages. | ||||
| Microformats | yes | |||||
| Missing encyclopedic articles | yes | |||||
| Missing encylopedia articles/Distributed indexing | no | |||||
| Missing encylopedic articles/Gardening for the Millions topics | yes | |||||
| Modular Articles | no | |||||
| Moving free images to Wikimedia Commons | yes | |||||
| Neutrality Project | yes | |||||
| New page | yes | |||||
| Music encyclopedia topics | no | |||||
| Notability | yes | This project is to clear the backlog of CAT:NN (the notability category), which holds a backlog that is nearing 5000 articles. | ||||
| Notability essays | yes | |||||
| Notice boards | yes | |||||
| Music/Wikipedia OmniaMusica | no | |||||
| on Adminship | no | |||||
| OpenStreetMap | yes | |||||
| Panorama Welding | no | |||||
| Pedophilia Article Watch | yes | |||||
| Persondata | yes | |||||
| Photography | yes | |||||
| Policy | no | |||||
| Policy and Guidelines | no | |||||
| Policy matters | no | |||||
| Portal dynamics | no | |||||
| Portals | yes | |||||
| Project Galatea | no | |||||
| Proposed deletion patrolling | yes | |||||
| Punctuation | no | |||||
| Quality spot check | no | |||||
| Rankings | no | |||||
| WikiProject Reader | no | |||||
| WikiProject Redirect | yes | |||||
| Red Link Recovery | yes | This project aims to reduce the number of unecessary red links within Wikipedia articles | ||||
| Reference Desk Article Collaboration | yes | |||||
| Reference Investigation | no | |||||
| Release Version | yes | |||||
| Removing POV from pop culture articles | no | |||||
| Resource Exchange | yes | A project where Wikipedians offer to search in their resources for the reference that you are looking for. | ||||
| Roadmap | no | |||||
| Scientific peer review | no | |||||
| Semiprotect | no | |||||
| Sound | no | Project to add sound snippets to WP articles. | ||||
| Spam | yes | |||||
| Spell Check | yes | |||||
| Spoken Wikipedia | yes | A project to produce recordings of Wikipedia articles being read aloud. | ||||
| Statistics Department | no | |||||
| Stub removal | yes | |||||
| Stub sorting | yes | |||||
| Succession Box Standardization | yes | This project aims to standardise all succession boxes around Wikipedia (replacing the old-type boxes with newer ones) and include boxes in articles that need them but do not have any. | ||||
| SVG | yes | This project aims to improve the graphical quality of Wikipedia, specifically by creating SVG graphics. | ||||
| Template sharing | no | |||||
| Templates | yes | |||||
| Time to Think | yes | |||||
| Timeline Tracer | yes | |||||
| Tip of the day | yes | |||||
| Translation | yes | |||||
| Translation into English | yes | This project is primarily focused on translating articles from Wikipedias in other languages, but also embraces many related pages, including one for foreign-language content placed in the English Wikipedia. See Template:Translation department for many related undertakings. | ||||
| Transwiki | yes | A project for helping with the transwiki process outside of the Wikimedia family. This is done by explaining how to import and export articles, linking to help with MediaWiki software, prepping templates for use outside of Wikipedia, listing available resources (including editors willing to help), and much more. | ||||
| Trivia Cleanup | yes | This WikiProject focuses on cleaning up trivia sections in articles. | ||||
| Turnkey Project | no | |||||
| Typo | yes | This project coordinates spelling and typo corrections. | ||||
| Unreferenced Article Cleanup | yes | |||||
| Unused templates | no | |||||
| Update Watch | yes | |||||
| Upload placeholder images | yes | System to request images in the article space infobox | ||||
| Usability | yes | |||||
| User categorisation | no | |||||
| User Help | no | Inactive per this MFD | ||||
| User Page Help | yes | |||||
| User scripts | yes | |||||
| User warning layout standardisation | no | Merged with Wikipedia:WikiProject User warnings | ||||
| User warnings | yes | |||||
| Userbox Migration | no | |||||
| Userboxes | yes | |||||
| Vandalism studies | yes | |||||
| Wikidemia | yes | This WikiProject organizes (mostly quantitative) academic research on Wikipedia and the other WMF projects. | ||||
| Wikify | yes | |||||
| Wikipedia | yes | |||||
| Wikipedia Audit | no | |||||
| Wikipedia Reform | yes | |||||
| Wikipedians for encylopedic merit | no | |||||
| Wiki Syntax | no | |||||
| WikiProject WikiRaid | no | |||||
| WikiWorld | no | |||||
| Wikicite | no | now at m:Wikicite | ||||
| WikipediaWeekly | yes | |||||
| Wikipedians against censorship | yes | |||||
| Wikipedians for local history | no | |||||
| WikiProject on Article Verification | no | |||||
| WikiProject on open proxies | yes | |||||
| Work via Wikiprojects | yes | |||||
| Writing Captions | no | |||||
Article Improvement and Grading
| Project | Active | Assessment | Peer review | Collaboration | Portal | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article Rescue | yes | Improvement of articles listed at AfD | ||||
| Collaboration of the week | no | |||||
| Fact and Reference Check | yes | |||||
| Good articles | yes | yes | yes | yes | Articles found at Wikipedia:Good articles | |
| → | Unreferenced GA task force | |||||
| → | Project Quality task force | |||||
| Version 1.0 Editorial Team | yes | |||||
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