User:Paul2520/tasks

This page tracks tasks that I want to accomplish on Wikipedia, including backlogs I monitor. Others are welcome to help tackle them; please let me know what you do. If you are new to Wikipedia and/or simply interested to help remove red links and aren't sure where to begin, let me know and I'd be happy to make suggestions of topics to work on!

Idle tasks

• AutoWikiBrowser Script (AWB/JWB)
• There are 67 pages in Category:Pages with missing references list; random

Edit summary templates:

added [[:Category:Pages with missing references list|missing notes list]]

added missing notes list -- you can help @ [[:Category:Pages with missing references list]]

added missing notes list (article was listed in [[:Category:Pages with missing references list]])

• There are 116 pages in Category:CS1 errors: dates (; random)

• use – for date ranges
• instead of having |year=2022a for Harvard citations, see example 1 and example 2 of using the |ref= param
• See also Category:CS1 maint: date format

• Category:CS1 maint: unrecognized language -- list of supported codes / names -- Random page in category CS1 maint: unrecognized language

fixed [[:Category:CS1 maint: unrecognized language|unrecognized language error]]

• review Special:PendingChanges

>Moderate pending changes backlog: 9 pages according to DatBot as of 01:30, 15 July 2024 (UTC)

• Category:CS1 maint: archived copy as title

Updated reference title so it's not the [[:Category:CS1 maint: archived copy as title|generic/default "Archived copy"]]

filled-in __ reference(s) that had [[:Category:CS1 maint: archived copy as title|"Archived copy" as title]]

• See also Category:CS1 errors: generic name and Category:CS1 errors: generic title

Photos to find/take

• Sushi Go! gameplay
• better photo of growing wild rice than this

Top priority

TODO: rename this section.

• add examples to pandas (software), like on NumPy
• plot summary to The African Child & add sources; perhaps [1]
• watch Munger Road (film) for plot summary? also see [2]
• Category:Wikipedia requested photographs in Minneapolis–Saint Paul
• cite Mapping Prejudice (TPT) documentary on List of Jim Crow law examples by state and/or Housing discrimination (and elsewhere, if applicable)
• see WikiProject Women; I'm a member! Create some articles (they have red list(s)).
• add some refs to Autoreduction; see [3], e.g.
• Emily Parker Groom: add photo of house? + cite [4] directly
• Dan Navarro to GA/FA?

• add refs: is this good? [5]

• add research references to Ifakara Health Institute
• Alex Désert filmography: should be easy to populate
• update recording of LibriVox? also virtual volunteering?
• at least explore Wikipedia:Adopt-a-user
• refs to Pumpernickel
• notably refs @ Kora (instrument)
• new articles & articles to expand (see below)
• NPP backlog: see Special:NewPagesFeed

Quick tasks

• find direct link for "Why I Want to Fuck Ronald Reagan"; not sure about [6] or [7]
• + refs to Primary key ([8]?)
• + refs to Mille-feuille
• patents, more refs to John Luick: [9]
• add references to Bayard Wootten (might be a GA candidate article, too...); also get her mentioned on Pepsi (~ renamed by Bradham's neighbor, if I can find a cite)
• Talk:Autoreduction#possible references for Public transit section
• maybe not "quick", but ref work @ Edward Steichen
• Commonly misspelled English words: can just search a few of them
• New Trier High School needs some reference work
• + ref(s) to Aryness Joy Wickens? ([10]) (I first saw [11])
• something like User:Paine Ellsworth/Geeeraffe (found via User:Gobonobo/Flower - which is also pretty)

• created at User:Paul2520/elephants; needs documentation

• try User:Kephir/gadgets/rater
• depending on how much time I want to spend: explore User:Wasted Time R's userpage in more depth! I like the advice!

Pages to create

• JD Jackson (narrator) (or rename that): [12]
  • The Stars and the Blackness Between Them & Jericho Brown's poetry book
  • see others like Michael Kramer (narrator) via this search
• See, e.g., Wikipedia:WikiProject Women in Red/Computer science
• Janne Puustinen
• ABIR (musician) / Abir Haronni (e.g., [13])
• Terry Blas (created [14]; mentioned in a few articles already
• h2o.ai
• Phil Abrams (Cabin Fever (Lost))
• any of the Lost Gay Novels (and/or their authors) that don't already have articles
• Philanthrofund Foundation / PFund Foundation [15]
• see women mentioned @ [16]
• Brett Bevell, author [17]
• FaunaPhotonics [18]
• statues without articles, via List of tallest statues
• The Malaria Capers, by Robert S. Desowitz [19]
• The Herbivorous Butcher, mentioned (with refs) on Veganism; co-founder mentioned on Kale (name)
• Family Tree Clinic [20], [21], [22], [23], [24], [25], [26], [27], [28], [29], [30]

• Tweets @ [31]
• is a wiki, so not a reliable source: [32]

• Would there be value in creating Category:Fiber artists? Gwendolyn Ann Magee and others could be included
• See LGBT/women lists, like those found @ User:Jooojay/articles needed
• redlinks @ Rezball
• maybe Chatfield Brass Band Music Lending Library, via Chatfield, Minnesota (has two refs already)

Pages to develop/expand

• Rose Wagner Performing Arts Center
• Short prose
• expand, via my note about the reddit thread: Talk:Kindred Spirits (sculpture)#reddit thread
• expand Soleil Ho
• expand Listowel Castle
• expand Turnaround time
• expand Bryant-Lake Bowl
• Distributed knowledge
• Uptown Theater (Minneapolis) ( + updated photo?)
• Georg Løkkeberg
• Gandhi Jayanti
• needs refs; also lots of redlinks: Southern Ndebele people
• needs references: Get Out (board game)
• expand Tomboy (comic strip)
• add Research activity section to Ifakara Health Institute: do a scholarly search for malaria, mosquito traps, other tropical diseases, etc. (can start with IHI homepage)
• Improve Control limits
• possible outstanding issues; better internationalization of Sexism in the technology industry (see discussion tab, with a grain of salt)
• my userpage; I like the simplicity of User:Voceditenore's and others linked via my userpage
• Hahgwehdiyu

Good Article

I am interested in getting an article to "Good Article" status. I have not done so before. If you are reading this is, you are welcome to help. Possible candidate articles:

• Andrea Jenkins
• Ibn Battuta (former GA!)
• Bent (play)
• Barbara Kingsolver
• Betty Robinson
• Beverly Cleary
• Brownie Lake
• Byronic hero
• Cleve Jones
• Danica Roem
• Ecosia
• Gearóid Ó Cuinneagáin
• Grace Lee Boggs
• Guy Delisle
• Hans Asperger
• HeLa
• Katherine Johnson
• Nnedi Okorafor
• Paulo Coelho
• Phillipe Cunningham
• Robert Owen
• Tian Shan
• Ulysses pact small, but potentially big impact?
• Urheimat
• Will Eisner

Tools

• Wikipedia:WikiProject Resource Exchange, and specifically list of shared resources for accessing public libraries, academic journal databases, etc. I have mentioned some resources to which I have access, and now that I'm aware of the list, I plan to check back, reach out to anyone if the need arises, and update with anything I think of that I can access.references requests
• The Wikipedia Library
• English Wikipedia Top 100, updated daily
• Digital Object Identifier System
• doi2bib
• QPQ check (DYK check)
• Internet Archive Management Interface
• Earwig's Copyvio Detector
• Wikipedia:File Upload Wizard and Wikimedia Commons: File Upload Wizard
• reFill tool & reFill help
• Wikimedia downloads
• Grammarly, a spell checker and grammar checker that works on emails and when editing Wikipedia (Chrome extension)
• archive.is (archive.is Wikipedia entry)
• Internet Archive bookmarklet code: javascript:window.location="https://web.archive.org/web/*/"+window.location;
• talk page archive: Help:Archiving a talk page archive a talk page
• Wikipedia:WikiSpeak
• Page view statistics: for a given article; data dumps
• Twinkle documentation
• find link (information)findlink
• Copyright violation detector
• Wikipedia:WikiBlame [33]
• Wikipedia:Correct typos in one click
• WikiDiff (comparisons between two Wiktionary terms)
• User:InternetArchiveBot: run bot

Templates

• WikiProject banner shell: {{WPBS|1=
• Template:Cite tweet: {{Cite tweet |user= |number= |date= |title= }}
• abbreviations/tool tip (like this): {{Abbr|CDF|Cumulative distribution function}}
• Template:Outdent

Editing projects

• LGBT watchlist
• Category:Wikipedia backlog
  • Category:Biography articles without infoboxes — Template:Infobox person
• Category:Articles needing link rot cleanup (reFill)
• Category:Articles with dead external links
• Category:CS1 maint: extra text
• other CS1 errors
• Category:Pages with citations lacking titles
• Category:Pages with empty citations
• Category:Pages with archiveurl citation errors
• Category:Pages with URL errors (see also Help:CS1 errors)
• Category:All articles with broken links to citations (articles with [citation not found] templates)
• Category:Pages using web citations with no URL
• Category:Pages using citations with accessdate and no URL
• Category:CS1 errors: chapter ignored
• Special:NewPages
• Special:UncategorizedPages
• help with the migration of Persondata to Wikidata
• Wikipedia:Reward board
• can check references via Special:Contributions/InternetArchiveBot

Editing help

• Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Layout
• Wikipedia:Tips
• Wikimedia [outreach] bookshelf

Other great collections of helpful links

• User:Mr. Granger#Links I find useful
• User:SStephens13#Wiki tools
• User:Bamyers99
• User:Northamerica1000/Miscellaneous links
• User:Utcursch

Projects/roles/tools to explore

• User:Ohconfucius/script/MOSNUM dates
• Wikipedia:Disambiguation pages with links
• Wikipedia:Copyright problems/Clerks
• Wikipedia:Today's articles for improvement/Members
• recording audio versions of articles: WikiProject Spoken Wikipedia

• See examples like You Only Move Twice
• candidate articles to record: Whirlpool; I also have some documented in my "offline" notes.

• User:镜音铃/Wikiplus
• Wikipedia:WikiProject Guild of Copy Editors/Requests
• User:Citation bot/use
• User:Ap/LaTeX conversion utility

Dream tasks

• maybe a simple script to do this?
• learn to make cool svg graphics like User:Shyamal/svgimg does
• try writing a bot (see, e.g., User:HBC AIV helperbot/source)

• maybe can attack some maintenance category
• could be useful for other wikis to prevent spam, etc.