Wikipedia:WikiProject Red Link Recovery

Active Wiki Fixup Projects Leading the charge in the War on Error! Must be active, systematic, have lists, & need help. Writing Articles that need to be wikified Massive backlog. Updated live (category) Dead-end pages These pages are not wikified. Updated 2007 Nov 3 Missing articles Wikipedia is not as complete as you might think. Ongoing Most wanted articles Updated July 2011 Oldest requested articles Updated 2008 June 22 Other Red Link Recovery Turn red links blue. Updated January 2012 Articles needing geo-coordinates Help locate places. See WP:GEO. Updated live (category) Articles written by a single editor Reviewing articles written by an inexperienced editor. Updated 2011 May 24 Check Wikipedia Fix the syntax of Wikipedia. Updated every 15 minutes Disambiguation pages with links Directing ambiguous links to the intended articles. Updated 2009 June 1 Moving free images to Wikimedia Commons Moving free images to the Commons so they are easier to find. Updated live (categories) Orphaned articles Help link to these orphaned articles. Updated live (category Red Link Recovery Turn red links blue. Updated January 2012 Stubsensor Help remove stub tags from articles they don't belong on. Updated August 2011 Talk page redirects Fix mis-targeted talk page redirects. Updated 10 April 2009 Uncategorised articles Help categorise articles. Updated live (category) Unreferenced articles Ensuring articles include at least one reference or source. Updated live (category) Main · Inactive · Mini

Introduction

In Wikipedia, editors add links to articles where they think a reader might want to know more about something. Where links are blue, readers can click on them to see a more detailed article on that subject. However, when Wikipedia doesn't contain an article for a particular link, it shows up as a red link (like this one).

This project is looking at all methods of reducing the number of unnecessary red links in Wikipedia.

They can exist for one of several reasons:

• Wikipedia doesn't have an article on the linked subject ...
  • ... but one should exist, but nobody has written one yet.
  • ... because the subject doesn't meet Wikipedia's notability guidelines
  • ... because the link makes no sense - it may be a mistake or vandalism
• Wikipedia does have an article on the linked subject, but under a different title ...
  • ... maybe the editor just typed its name incorrectly
  • ... it might be hard to find because it is stored under an unusual title and needs to be moved
  • ... perhaps alternate names need to be given to the article using redirects

Tools

• Red Link Recovery Live is a toolserver based tool that does two tasks. Firstly, it can be used to check all the red links in an article and suggest likely alternative targets for them. Secondly, a more carefully prepared list of red links and likely alternate targets can be accessed. Project members are encouraged to work through this list. (Discuss)
• The Unlikely Links tool on the toolserver can be used to search for red links that seem improbable. (Discuss)
• The Red Link explorer tool on the toolserver can be used to browse all red links. (Discuss)
• Outdated lists used prior to the above tools can be viewed here

Participants

The list of past and present participants in this project can be found here.

There is also a project userbox:

This user is part of the WikiProject Red Link Recovery.

{{User:JackSparrow Ninja/Userboxes/User Redlinkrecoveryteam}}

Related

• Most red links - Articles containing the greatest number of red links.
• Wikipedia:Most wanted articles - The most common targets of red links.
• Category:Wikipedia_red_link_lists - Lists of red links meeting certain criteria
• Wikipedia:Templates with red links - Red links in templates are likely to represent red links in many articles.
• Wikipedia:Requested articles
• Wikipedia:Linkrot - A project of similar scope, but for external links as opposed to internal links

Sub-pages

• Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Red Link Recovery - the general project discussion page
• /RLRL and /Unlikely links, discussion pages for these two tools
• /Stats - Data about numbers of red links and historical work done by project members