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Active Wiki Fixup Projects Must be active, systematic, have lists, & need help. Writing Articles that need to be wikified Massive backlog. Ongoing (category) Dead-end pages These pages are not wikified. Ongoing (category) Missing articles Wikipedia is not as complete as you might think. Ongoing Most wanted articles Updated February 2015 Oldest requested articles Updated November 2012 Other Articles needing geo-coordinates Help locate places. See WP:GEO. Ongoing (category) Articles written by a single editor Reviewing articles written by a newer editor. Updated February 2013 Bluelink patrol Directing wayward links to the intended articles. Ongoing Check Wikipedia Fix the syntax of Wikipedia. Updated every 15 minutes Disambiguation pages with links Directing ambiguous links to the intended articles. Ongoing Fix Common Mistakes Fix common mistakes in English grammar (e.g. "the the", "and and"). Ongoing moss Currently doing a collaborative spell-check of the entire encyclopedia. Moving free images to Wikimedia Commons Moving free images to the Commons so they are easier to find. Ongoing (categories) Orphaned articles Help link to these orphaned articles. Ongoing (category) Red Link Recovery Turn red links blue. Ongoing Stubsensor Help remove stub tags from articles they don't belong on. Updated August 2011 Uncategorised articles Help categorise articles. Ongoing (category) Unreferenced articles Ensuring articles include at least one reference or source. Ongoing (category) Main Inactive Mini .mw-parser-output .navbar{display:inline;font-size:88%;font-weight:normal}.mw-parser-output .navbar-collapse{float:left;text-align:left}.mw-parser-output .navbar-boxtext{word-spacing:0}.mw-parser-output .navbar ul{display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;line-height:inherit}.mw-parser-output .navbar-brackets::before{margin-right:-0.125em;content:"[ "}.mw-parser-output .navbar-brackets::after{margin-left:-0.125em;content:" ]"}.mw-parser-output .navbar li{word-spacing:-0.125em}.mw-parser-output .navbar a>span,.mw-parser-output .navbar a>abbr{text-decoration:inherit}.mw-parser-output .navbar-mini abbr{font-variant:small-caps;border-bottom:none;text-decoration:none;cursor:inherit}.mw-parser-output .navbar-ct-full{font-size:114%;margin:0 7em}.mw-parser-output .navbar-ct-mini{font-size:114%;margin:0 4em}v t e


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Intro

Date of my first edit: 26 NOV 2004

Really, Really Important things I've learned about Wikipedia

These are my notes:

Write to the target audience

Audience: A related question, is who should the pages be written for? Most writers are in college or past college. However, there is evidence that most readers are high-school students, or other people who are not familar with a topic. What is obvious and irrelevant to a CS student or grad, may be very unclear and important to a high-school student or someone who is thinking of returning to college. Of course, Wikipedia has yet to define its target audience very well. The lists make it accessible to a much broader audience. excerpted from a comment by an anon who signed his message: The Phantom Avenger for SE

Summary:

K.I.S.S. - Keep It Sweet and Simple.
- Write first for the Educated Layperson (that's hard)...
- ...then try to do it better and write for the beginner (that's harder)
If an educated layperson can't figure it out by following the wikilinks, then it's too hard.
Yes, we're experts (more or less) but we're writing for a general audience. We could write a clever, concise, deep sentence to explain something...but it's useless if it isn't easy to understand.
Eschew argot, technicality and cant.

Spelling/Grammar checking

'Whenever doing anything but minor editing, copy and paste to a word-processor with real time spelling/grammar checking!

That and that I can't spell. I also can't capitalize, but that's a different matter.

Very useful wiki pages that I use a lot

Wikipedia:Requested articles
Wikipedia:Glossary
Wikipedia:Manual of Style
Wikipedia:Cleanup resources Clean up templates

Cute

monthly statistics

'Evolution of Heavy Metal Umlaut' video

techblog

Cleanup Projects

We seem to have briefly caught up with stub sorting so I think I'll spend some time working on:

Category:Articles needing cleanup

Wikipedia:WikiProject Check Wikipedia

Category:Wikipedia introduction cleanup

Category:Articles with ibid

Category:Articles needing sections

wikiblame (tool)

Category:All articles needing copy edit --> Wikipedia:WikiProject_League_of_Copyeditors/proofreading#Ready_for_final_proofread

category:Category needed (maybe someday, when I catch up...)

Wikipedia:Uncategorized pages

m:Transwiki transwiki instructions

Wikipedia:Peer review

Tools

User:Anomie/linkclassifier

With the default rules, a link to a redirect like foo will appear in green as foo, a link to a disambiguation page like bar will appear with a yellow background as bar, and all the pages in Category:Articles for deletion should appear in a pinkish color.

I made admin

We all know admin is "no big deal" (in fact the quote is here, Jimbo Wales said it), but it's really nice to be asked.

The vote is/was at Wikipedia:Requests for adminship/RJFJR. (I put this link here so I could watch while I was fretting over whether I'd get it).

here is the admin's reading list that I'm still trying to absorb and will keep handy as a reference.

Images

I've uploaded these images to commons:

Awards

		The Original Barnstar
		In gratitude for your work on the Park Golf page, I, in my minimal authority here on Wikipedia, would like to present you with this Barnstar. Thank you for aiding in fixing the page and making it so that reading it doesn't make my eyes bleed anymore. Banpei 08:38, 14 March 2007 (UTC)