Wikipedia:Backlog
This week's backlog of the week is:
This backlog page lists tasks that should be done to improve Wikipedia (assuming the
technical Village Pump
page is where technical issues are discussed.
Status
- See Category:Wikipedia backlog for more categories, and Wikipedia:Task Center for brief guides.
Legend:
- – Backlog is reduced and has WikiGnome activity in 6 months range
- – Backlog stays the same or not applicable (e.g. FAC, GAN)
- – Backlog is increasing in 6 months range
Update the delta at {{Backlog status}} and refer to Internet Archive of this page.
January's focus is "Articles lacking sources from December 2023": 32% complete | ||
Click any linked number for that category's articles prioritized by their number of incoming links.
Oldest backlogs by issue
- Category:Accuracy disputes (March 2008—20)
- Category:Article sections to be split (July 2021—1)
- Category:Articles containing potentially dated statements (January 2006—4)
- Category:Articles lacking in-text citations (August 2006—20)
- Category:Articles lacking page references (July 2008—1)
- Category:Articles lacking reliable references (January 2007—55)
- Category:Articles lacking sources (April 2008—4)
- Category:Articles needing additional references (October 2006—130)
- Category:Articles needing cleanup (July 2010—9)
- Category:Articles needing sections (November 2023—1)
- Category:Articles slanted towards recent events (May 2009—1)
- Category:Articles sourced by IMDb (February 2024—1)
- Category:Articles sourced only by IMDb (February 2024—1)
- Category:Articles that may be too long (March 2010—2)
- Category:Articles that need to differentiate between fact and fiction (December 2007—4)
- Category:Articles to be expanded (January 2007—14)
- Category:Articles to be merged (August 2023—25)
- Category:Articles to be split (March 2017—1)
- Category:Articles with a promotional tone (April 2009—1)
- Category:Articles with bare URLs for citations (March 2022—18,538)
- Category:Articles with broken or outdated citations (September 2019—2)
- Category:Articles with dead external links (February 2009—5)
- Category:Articles with disputed statements (March 2008—5)
- Category:Articles with minor POV problems (April 2010—4)
- Category:Articles with peacock terms (October 2009—5)
- Category:Articles with sections that need to be turned into prose (July 2010—2)
- Category:Articles with specifically marked weasel-worded phrases (October 2009—48)
- Category:Articles with too few wikilinks (March 2024—0)
- Category:Articles with topics of unclear notability (August 2010—2)
- Category:Articles with trivia sections (January 2017—12)
- Category:Articles with unsourced statements (February 2007—1,496)
- Category:Articles with weasel words (March 2008—1)
- Category:BLP articles lacking sources (January 2007—35)
- Category:Dead-end pages (March 2024—0)
- Category:Orphaned articles (May 2014—239)
- Category:Recently revised (January 2024—1)
- Category:Self-contradictory articles (November 2013—2)
- Category:Unreferenced BLPs (June 2020—12)
- Category:Userspace drafts (before 2007—11)
- Category:Wikipedia articles in need of updating (November 2008—1)
- Category:Wikipedia articles needing clarification (February 2007—6)
- Category:Wikipedia articles needing context (October 2009—107)
- Category:Wikipedia articles needing copy edit (December 2022—11)
- Category:Wikipedia articles needing factual verification (August 2007—3)
- Category:Wikipedia articles needing page number citations (September 2008—3)
- Category:Wikipedia articles needing rewrite (May 2009—199)
- Category:Wikipedia articles that are too technical (November 2007—1)
- Category:Wikipedia articles with plot summary needing attention (April 2008—1)
- Category:Wikipedia articles with possible conflicts of interest (October 2009—4)
- Category:Wikipedia articles with style issues (December 2007—51)
- Category:Wikipedia external links cleanup (July 2014—6)
- Category:Wikipedia introduction cleanup (September 2009—63)
- Category:Wikipedia neutral point of view disputes (December 2011—3)
- Category:Wikipedia spam cleanup (August 2010—3)
- See also
- Wikipedia:Articles requested for more than a year
Statistics
For statistics on how a specific category's size has changed over time, use toollabs:apersonbot/cat-track. Not all categories are available; a category is only tracked if its page transcludes the {{CatTrack}} template. Otherwise, at present there does not appear to be any other project-wide collation of backlog statistics. A discussion may be required to determine if one is wanted or needed.
Templates
- {{backlog}} – adds a category to Category:Wikipedia backlog
- {{Backlog status}} – used in the "Status" section above. It has code in it that has been commented out that allows for the focus on a particular backlog
- {{Backlog count}} – date and count for backlogs categories that is updated by a bot
- {{Backlog progress bar}} – progress bar for tracking backlog elimination
- {{Backlog of the week}} – transcludes a box highlighting a randomly chosen backlog updated each week
See also
- Wikipedia:Maintenance, managerial tasks that are not necessarily backlogged.
- mw:Wikimedia Research/Showcase#February 2018, presentation on Wikipedia backlogs