Wikipedia:The Cure for WikiBoredom
Welcome, Wikipedians, to The Cure for WikiBoredom. This page was established on June 20, 2006 to list all the tasks that need to be accomplished on Wikipedia. The community portal has something similar, however, would get too large if it were to list all the tasks wanted to get done. That's right, I want you to make this list as giant as possible. If you keep a personal list of goals to accomplish on Wikipedia, you can add things from that list to this page. Don't worry about making the page too big; we can always section it off into further subpages. If there's something you want to get done, list it here. The goal is to keep the WikiBored occupied for as long as possible – we can do it!
Articles[edit]
Article improvement[edit]
List tasks related to article improvement in this section.
- Create a requested article
- Do you know a foreign language? Translate an article into another language, or from another language into English; have a look at the Pages needing translation into English
- Find sources for articles (96,344 pages)
- For individual unsourced statements (517,346 pages)
- Wikify articles (34,694 pages)
- Expand articles (66,166 pages)
- Merge articles (1,623 pages)
- Split articles (800 pages)
- Write lead sections (205 pages)
- Check articles for neutrality (7,598 pages)
- Clean up articles
- Clean up link rot in articles
Patrolling[edit]
List tasks related to new page patrolling (WP:NPP) and counter-vandalism patrolling (WP:CVU) in this section.
- Take a look at New article talk pages created by anons (look for the Ns). Often the pages are deletable tests, requiring boldness encouragement or in need of a point to the Reference desk
- Perform New page patrol on unpatrolled pages about to expire from the list. All of the obvious vandalism is filtered out by this stage, so tagging and fact-checking are in order.
Community[edit]
List tasks related to WikiProjects, consensus discussions, or the Wikipedia Community in general in this section.
- Settle a dispute among editors
- Answer a question at
- Seek out individual editors in need of help
- Help out at peer review
Maintenance[edit]
List tasks related to keeping Wikipedia in shape, such as sorting through images or articles, in this section.
- Find a source for images
- Remove toolbar experiments from articles
- Categorize articles listed at Category:Uncategorized pages