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Wikipedia article improvement collaboration project

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Welcome toArticles for improvement!

(And you thought all the juicy articles had already been written...)

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We identify and collaborate upon underdeveloped articles that requireimprovement. Our goal is to use widespread collaborative editing to improve articles over a short time frame. So far, we have improved hundreds of articles; some have even been promoted togood orfeatured article status!Boldly edit the current article for improvement, orjoin the project today!

This week'sarticle for improvement is:

Emergency management

Previous selections:Kidnapping ·Crop ·Performance

How to contribute

Emergency management
This week'sarticle for improvement is
Pleasebe bold and help improve it!

Check out the project'sArticles for improvement page. Juststart editing and help to improve our selected articles!
You cannominate an article for us to work on.
You may join the project by adding your name to themembers list, and can sign up forweekly notices.
If you have any questions, please feel free to ask at ourtalk page, and also at theTeahouse orHelp desk.
If you are new to Wikipedia, you may find Wikipedia'stutorial useful - it covers the basics of Wikipedia in under an hour.
Be bold! Articles here can beedited at any time by all users, regardless of project membership status.

Goals

The project's four main tasks are to:

Coordinate andcollaborate to improve articles.
Identify candidate articles.
Select the order they appear on thecommunity portal in theArticles for improvement section.
Assess and track our accomplishments.

Since its inception, the 'Articles for Improvement' project has successfully enhanced hundreds of articles, with several achieving 'Good Article' or 'Featured Article' status, demonstrating the impact of collaborative editing efforts.

Project organisation

Process

Articles follow the following process to be selected as an Article For Improvement:

Nominations page

Articles list

Schedule

Articles are submitted and approved by participating editors on thenominations page.
Successful nominations are listed on thearticles list. Articles on that page can beimproved at any time.
One article is randomly selected from the list of articles each week, which is placed in theschedule.
A few weeks later, it's that article's turn to be the week's selected AFI article!

Project accomplishments

Some of our notable accomplishments include:

Article	Accomplishments	Notes
Entertainment	Expanded from Start-Class to Good Article.	Promoted to GA on 27 February 2013
Writer	Expanded from Stub-Class (c.4K bytes to c.66K bytes).
Sea	Expanded from Start-Class to Featured Article	Promoted to FA on 5 October 2013
Life sciences	Expanded from Stub-class to C-class (c.3K bytes to c.76K bytes)
Solar activity	Did you know? article for21 Sep 2014
Animatronics	Did you know? article for 21 Sep 2014
Steak	Expanded from Start-class to Good article (c.8K bytes to c.37K bytes).	Promoted to GA on 25 November 2014
Solar activity	Expanded from a Disambiguation page to a C-class article. (c.1K to 70K bytes)
Deep frying	Expanded from Start-class to B-class (3.7kB to 13kB) Improved to Good Article as afurther collaboration (14kB, ~2,400 words) Did you know? article for 15 November 2015 (diff), having qualified per being promoted to GA status	Promoted to GA on 17 September 2015
Hors d'oeuvre	Improved from start-class to c-class. Did you know? article for15 January 2016
Chowder	Improved from start-class to c-class. Did you know? article for9 February 2016

– See theAccomplishments page for additional articles.

Members

The project member list is located at theMembers page.

Assessment

Our assessment criteria and procedure are explained on theAssessment page. Like many other WikiProjects, AFI assesses the articles it is involved with. Unlike other projects, we only assess the article's state before and immediately after its week of collaborative editing – that improvement is one (but not the only) measure of our success.

Automation and templates

AFI makes use of varioustemplates. See theAutomation page for details, including banners, talk page messages, user and project maintenance templates. The project'sbot tasks are also listed here, currently undertaken byMusikBot.

Research

Project management

AFI Scheduling (automated checklist)
Item	This week	Next week	Week after
1. Weekly page created
2. Article specified
3. Picture/file chosen
4. Caption written
It is currently week 48 of 2025.Purge this page to refresh the checklist.

See theProject management page for information.

Active Wiki Fixup Projects
AI Cleanup Articles for improvement Article Rescue Squadron Bluelink patrol Broken section links Check Wikipedia Cleanup Dead-end pages Disambig pages w/ links Fix common mistakes Free images to Commons Geo-coordinates Missing articles Most-wanted articles Notability Orphaned articles Reliability Requested articles Single editor Spell check Stubsensor Uncategorised articles Unreferenced articles Wikification needed
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Related projects

WikiProject Cleanup
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WikiProject Africa/The 10,000 Challenge – aims to reach 10,000 article improvements for Africa-related articles
Wikipedia Vital articles
Wikipedia:Discord/Team-B-Vital – aims to improve vital articles up to B class.
WikiProject Women in Red – objective is to turn "redlinks" intoblue ones within the project scope
Articles for improvement (historical) (inactive)
Wikipedia Spotlight (defunct)

Tools

See also:Wikipedia:Tools

reFill – Edits bare url references: adds title, dates, publisher, etc.
Reflinks – Edits bare references: adds title/dates etc. to bare references
Checklinks – Edit and repair external links
Dab solver – Quickly resolve ambiguous links.
X!'s tools – Checks grammar and spelling (provided byLanguageTool) plus wikidata - displays page views and edit history

This is aWikiProject, an open group of Wikipedia editors. New participants are welcome; feel free totalk to us!

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Essays on building, editing, and deleting content

Philosophy	Articles are more important than policy Articles must be written All Five Pillars are equally important Avoid vague introductions Be a reliable source Civil POV pushing Cohesion Competence is required Concede lost arguments Dissent is not disloyalty Don't lie Don't search for objections Duty to comply Editing Wikipedia is like visiting a foreign country Editors will sometimes be wrong Eight simple rules for editing our encyclopedia Explanationism External criticism of Wikipedia Five pillars Here to build an encyclopedia Large language models Leave it to the experienced Levels of competence Levels of consensus Most ideas are bad Need Not broken is ugly Not editing because of Wikipedia restriction Not every article can be a Featured Article The one question Oversimplification Paradoxes Paraphrasing POV and OR from editors, sources, and fields Process is important Product, process, policy Purpose Reasonability rule Systemic bias There is no seniority Ten Simple Rules for Editing Wikipedia Tendentious editing The role of policies in collaborative anarchy The rules are principles Trifecta We are absolutely here to right great wrongs Wikipedia in brief Wikipedia is an encyclopedia Wikipedia is a community Wikipedia is not RationalWiki
Article construction	100K featured articles Abandoned stubs Acronym overkill Adding images improves the encyclopedia Advanced text formatting Akin's Laws of Article Writing Alternatives to the "Expand" template Amnesia test A navbox on every page An unfinished house is a real problem Archive your sources Article revisions Articles have a half-life Autosizing images Avoid mission statements Be neutral in form Beef up that first revision Blind men and an elephant BOLD, revert, discuss cycle Build content to endure Cherrypicking Chesterton's fence Children's lit, adult new readers, & large-print books Citation overkill Citation underkill Common-style fallacy Concept cloud Creating controversial content Criticisms of society may be consistent with NPOV and reliability Dictionaries as sources Don't cite Wikipedia on Wikipedia Don't demolish the house while it's still being built Don't get hung up on minor details Don't hope the house will build itself Don't panic Don't "teach the controversy" Editing on mobile devices Editors are not mindreaders Encourage the newcomers Endorsements (commercial) Featured articles may have problems Formatting bilateral relations articles Formatting bilateral relations templates Fruit of the poisonous tree Give an article a chance How to write a featured article Identifying and using independent sources History sources Law sources Primary sources Science sources Style guides Tertiary sources Ignore STRONGNAT for date formats Introduction to structurism Link rot Mine a source Merge Test Minors and persons judged incompetent "Murder of" articles Not every story/event/disaster needs a biography Not everything needs a navbox Not everything needs a template Nothing is in stone Obtain peer review comments Organizing disambiguation pages by subject area Permastub Potential, not just current state Presentism Principle of Some Astonishment The problem with elegant variation Pro and con lists Printability Publicists Put a little effort into it Restoring part of a reverted edit Robotic editing Sham consensus Source your plot summaries Specialized-style fallacy Stublet Stub Makers Run an edit-a-thon Temporary versions of articles Tertiary-source fallacy There are no shortcuts to neutrality There is no deadline There is a deadline The deadline is now Try not to leave it a stub What is a reliable source Understanding Wikipedia's content standards Walled garden What an article should not include Wikipedia is a work in progress Wikipedia is not being written in an organized fashion The world will not end tomorrow Write the article first Writing better articles
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Philosophy	A thank you never hurts A weak personal attack is still wrong Advice for hotheads An uncivil environment is a poor environment Be the glue Beware of the tigers! Civility warnings Deletion as revenge Duty to comply Failure Forgive and forget It's not the end of the world Nobody cares Most people who disagree with you on content are not vandals On Wikipedia no one knows I'm a dog Old-fashioned Wikipedian values Profanity, civility, and discussions Revert notification opt-out Shadowless Fists of Death! Staying cool when the editing gets hot The grey zone The last word There is no Divine Right of Editors Most ideas are bad Nothing is clear Reader The rules of polite discourse There is no common sense Two wrongs don't make a right Wikipedia clichés Wikipedia is not about winning Wikipedia should not be a monopoly Writing for the opponent
Dos	Assume good faith Assume the assumption of good faith Assume no clue Avoid personal remarks Avoid the word "vandal" Be excellent to one another Be pragmatic Beyond civility Call a spade a spade Candor Deny recognition Desist Discussing cruft Drop the stick and back slowly away from the horse carcass Encourage full discussions Get over it How to lose Imagine others complexly Just drop it Keep it concise Keep it down to earth Mind your own business Say "MOBY" Mutual withdrawal Read before commenting Read the room Settle the process first You can search, too
Don'ts	ALPHABETTISPAGHETTI Wikipedia:Because I can Civil POV pushing Cyberbullying Don't accuse someone of a personal attack for accusing of a personal attack Don't be a fanatic Don't be a jerk Don't be an ostrich Don't be ashamed Don't be a WikiBigot Don't be high-maintenance Don't be inconsiderate Don't be obnoxious Don't be prejudiced Don't be rude Don't be the Fun Police Don't bludgeon the process Don't call a spade a spade Don't call people by their real name Don't call the kettle black Don't call things cruft Don't come down like a ton of bricks Don't cry COI Don't demand that editors solve the problems they identify Don't eat the troll's food Don't fight fire with fire Don't give a fuck Don't help too much Don't ignore community consensus Don't knit beside the guillotine Don't make a smarmy valediction part of your signature Don't remind others of past misdeeds Don't shout Don't spite your face Don't take the bait Don't template the regulars Don't throw your toys out of the pram Do not insult the vandals Griefing Hate is disruptive Nationalist editing No angry mastodons just madmen No Nazis No racists No Confederates No queerphobia No, you can't have a pony Passive aggression POV railroad Superhatting There are no oracles There's no need to guess someone's preferred pronouns You can't squeeze blood from a turnip UPPERCASE
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Five pillars
- Ignore all rules

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Conduct (?)

P	Civility Consensus Harassment Vandalism Ignore all rules No personal attacks Ownership of content Edit warring Dispute resolution Sockpuppetry No legal threats Child protection Paid-contribution disclosure
G	Assume good faith Conflict of interest Disruptive editing Do not disrupt Wikipedia to illustrate a point Etiquette Gaming the system Please do not bite the newcomers Courtesy vanishing Responding to threats of harm Talk page guidelines Signatures

Deletion (?)

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Editing (?)

Editing policy

Article size Summary style Be bold Disambiguation Hatnotes Broad-concept article Understandability
Style	Manual of Style Contents Accessibility Dates and numbers Images Layout Lead section Linking Lists
Classification	Categories, lists, and navigation templates Categorization Template namespace

Project content (?)

G	Project namespace WikiProjects User pages User boxes Shortcuts Subpages

WMF (?)

P	Universal Code of Conduct Terms of Use List of policies Friendly space policy Licensing and copyright Privacy policy

List of all policies and guidelines
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Summaries of values and principles
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