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What does it mean to Wikify an article?

  1. Check if the article is a copyright violation. There are a few red flags that indicate text was probably illegally copied into Wikipedia. User:Kjkolb/Copyvio has a quick guide. Instructions for reporting violations are at Wikipedia:Copyright problems.
  2. Check if another article already exists on this subject. Use the search button at the left of the screen to check for duplicate articles, and create a redirect if necessary.
  3. Add wikilinks. Where appropriate, make links to other articles by putting "[[" and "]]" on either side of relevant words (see WP:LINK for more information). . Note that dates should not be linked purely for the purpose of autoformatting; in general, consensus is that there are very limited instances where linking of dates is desirable. Please do not link terms that most readers are familiar with, including common occupations (e.g. "actor/actress", "writer" and "politician"), well-known geographical terms (e.g. "United States", "Britain", "China", "Australia", "New York City" and "Los Angeles"), and everyday items (e.g. "milk", "glass", "house" and "road").
  4. Format the lead. Create or improve the lead paragraph.
  5. Arrange section headers. Arrange section headers as described at Wikipedia:Guide to layout.
  6. Replace html tags with wiki markup, where appropriate. The use of many html tags is discouraged where wiki markup equivalents are available: for example, replace <b>bold text</b> with '''bold text'''. However, this does not apply for all html tags: e.g., H<sub>2</sub>O. See Help:Wikitext examples for a useful list of common wikitext and non-deprecated html tags.
  7. Add an infobox if applicable. Add an infobox if it is appropriate for the article.

Final checks

  1. Add other maintenance tags. If the article needs any other work, add the corresponding tag(s) from Wikipedia:Template messages/Cleanup.
  2. Remove the {{wikify}} tag. This will remove it from the list.
  3. Enhance your edit summary. You can encourage others to help with the wikification backlog by using something like the following as your edit summary when you save your changes:  Wikified as part of the [[WP:WWF|Wikification WikiProject]]!
  4. Save your changes!

Articles that can't be wikified

In some cases, articles cannot be wikified. In these cases, you can do one of the following:

How to find Articles

  1. Find an article to work on. Category:All articles that need to be wikified contains all the articles in the wikification backlog. Many editors choose to work on the oldest articles in the monthly listings first, so that none of them sit around for too long waiting for attention. Some WikiProjects also have dedicated cleanup listings, which list articles for wikification that lie within their scope: see Category:WolterBot cleanup listing subscriptions for a list of participating WikiProjects. Dead-end pages almost always also need to be wikified.

CatScan

Some wikifyors enjoy taking a random dip in All articles that need to be wikified and learning about something completely new along the way. Others prefer editing articles in a field they already know about. Such articles can be found using categories:[Credit 1]

  1. Go to the whimsically named CatScan.
  2. Don't be intimidated! It's easy to use.
  3. Set the Depth to 5.
  4. Write or paste All articles that need to be wikified in the box labelled "Categories".
  5. Write the name of a category of interest on a separate line in the same box, eg Books.
  6. Scroll down and click the button labelled "Do it!"
  7. Be patient... For big categories the results might take a little while.

This example will find articles tagged with {{Wikify}} in Category:Books, as well as its sub-categories, sub-sub-categories, and so on down to sub-sub-sub-sub-sub-categories.

  • You can also crossreference to a WikiProject talk page banner. However, it is not recommended, as it may take a long time to complete, and sometimes will return an error.
  1. Set Depth to 5.
  2. Place All articles that need to be wikified in the Category box.
  3. Tick off both Article and Talk in the Namespaces boxes.
  4. Place the template of the wikiproject in the Templates field and tick off "Use talk pages instead."
  5. Click "Do it!"
  6. Wow! The example search found 6 articles on Pakistan that need wikification and took 68 seconds to execute.

[Credit 2]

Procedures for the drive

  1. Note the article's wordcount before you wikify it. Use the Prose size (text only) count. You will need it to get credit for the wikification. There is an automated word counting script available at User talk:Dr_pda/prosesize.js. It is VERY easy to install and you don't need a shred of technical ability! If you can follow a recipe for making a peanut butter and jelly sandwich, you can install this script. Instructions are below. If you get anxious, ask THENEWMONO for help.
    • If, even with this script, you forget to click the 'Page size' tool before beginning your wikification session, you can still obtain your starting word count. View the article's history (you may prefer to do this in a new browser tab), then click on the linked date of the revision listed below your first wikification edit to view the article as you first found it. Run the 'Page size' script from there and credit yourself that amount.
  2. Log completed articles in the Running Totals section. If you complete a wikification, don't forget to list it so that you can get credit for the edit. Also don't forget to remove the {{wikify}} or {{Dead end}} tag from the article itself.
  3. No rubber-stamping of articles. Be thorough and complete in your wikifications, and make sure all the headings are correct and there are no mistakes in the syntax and coding.
  4. Don't create extra work. Participants should not wikify any article they themselves added a {{wikify}} tag to during the months of November or December.
  5. Have fun. We're here to help bring these articles up to their fullest potential and hence improving the overall quality of the encyclopedia. If you do not enjoy doing that, then there is no motivation to improve these articles and the encyclopedia as a whole.

To add the script that calculates page size:[Credit 3]

  1. If you have JavaScript enabled, go here to access your skin's .js file.
    • If you do not have JavaScript enabled and either do not wish to or cannot, go to Special:Preferences and click on the Appearance tab. In the very first section, Skin, locate the skin that is selected and click on the Custom JS next to your selected skin.
  2. Click Edit on the page that opened.
  3. Add the following code to the page and save it: {{subst:js|User:Dr pda/prosesize.js}}[Credit 4]
  4. Reload the cache.
    • If you are using Internet Explorer, press Ctrl-F5
    • If you are using Firefox/Safari for Windows, hold down Shift while clicking Reload (or press Ctrl-Shift-R); for Mac, press Command-R.
    • If you are using Opera/Konqueror, press F5.
  5. To test it out go to any random article. If you look under the Toolbox menu on the far left of the screen there will be a link for Page size. The backlog elimination drive uses the number of words listed under Prose size (text only).
  6. Go wikify!

Awards

Participants will be awarded one of the following:

  1. ^ Basically ripped from here; original tip from Jubilee♫clipman
  2. ^ All credit for these instructions go to the GOCE backlog elimination drive, which this drive is based on.
  3. ^ All credit for these instructions go to TheTito Discuss
  4. ^ All credit for the script goes to User:Dr pda at User talk:Dr pda/prosesize.js
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