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This is a directory of WikiProjects that deal with Wikipedia maintenance. WikiProjects marked with a green background are currently active, while those with a gray background are not. Task forces of large projects are marked with a blue background.

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[edit] General

Project Active Assessment Peer review Collaboration Portal Notes
Abandoned Articles yes
WikiProject Accessibility yes yes yes Works to make wikipedia more available to all, assists users, and protects disabled editors from undue community sanction.
Advocate Cabal no
AfD closing no
Alternative Views yes
Animated Wikipedia no
Anti-Stub yes
Articles for creation yes
Awards yes Wikipedia:Awards
Awareness no
Categories yes
Citation cleanup yes yes For cleaning up the massive backlogs with regards to wrong and inconsistent footnotes.
Classroom coordination yes Coordinates with professional educators who assign students to edit Wikipedia articles.
Closed proxies yes
Committee of Wikipedians no
Community yes
Community/Strategy/WikiProjectCentral no
Computer help desk no Redirects to the computing section of the Reference desk
Conceptual Jungle yes
Connect the Dots no
Contents yes
Council yes
Countering systemic bias yes
Counter-Vandalism Unit yes
Creation trends no
Database analysis yes
Deletion yes
Deletion sorting yes
Deletionism yes
Department of Fun yes
Disambiguation yes
Echo yes Improve Wikipedia's coverage on other languages by finding featured articles in other languages.
Edit counters yes
Esperanza no A group that works to build a sense of community and create a positive environment in which to build the encyclopedia (inactive).
Essay Categorization and/or Classification yes
Expert Request Sorting yes
External links yes
Fair use yes
Fancruft no Remove fancruft and inappropriate in-universe writing, deleted
Featured Article Help Desk no
Fix common mistakes yes
For the Record yes Respond to press coverage of Wikipedia.
Free book covers (main listing here)
Free images yes
French Collaboration Project yes
General Audience no
Geographical coordinates yes
Grammar yes
Graphic Lab yes Improve and create images for Wiki
Graphical content problem no
Graphics yes
Hall of Fame yes
Help Project no
Illustration yes Create and improve all types of images on Wikipedia.
Image Monitoring Group yes
Inclusion yes
Infoboxes yes Central location for infobox designers to collaborate and assist each other
Inline Templates yes Consistency for templates in articles
Integration yes
Interlanguage Links yes Improve Wikipedia's coverage on other languages through interwiki work.
Introductions yes Has undergone major revamp
JETFA no
Keep It Simple yes


Keywords yes
Kindness Campaign yes The goals of this WikiProject are to promote Wikipedia:Civility and Wikipedia:WikiLove. It continues to be active as people sign up to The rolls of the kindness campaign.
Laundromat yes
League of Copyeditors yes This project's purpose is to keep the growing backlog of copyedit tagged articles in check.
Linkification no
Lists yes development of anything related to lists, from guidelines to articles
Lists of basic topics yes
Living People Patrol no
Location Format yes
Maps yes
WikiProject Manual of Style yes A project to coordinate the Manual of Style pages.
Microformats yes
Missing encyclopedic articles yes
Missing encylopedia articles/Distributed indexing no
Missing encylopedic articles/Gardening for the Millions topics yes
Modular Articles no
Moving free images to Wikimedia Commons yes
Neutrality Project yes
New page yes
Music encyclopedia topics no
Notability yes This project is to clear the backlog of CAT:NN (the notability category), which holds a backlog that is nearing 5000 articles.
Notability essays yes
Notice boards yes
Music/Wikipedia OmniaMusica no
on Adminship yes
OpenStreetMap yes
Panorama Welding no
Pedophilia Article Watch yes
Persondata yes
Photography yes
Policy no
Policy and Guidelines no
Policy matters no
Portal dynamics no
Portals yes
Project Galatea no
Proposed deletion patrolling yes
Punctuation yes
Quality spot check no
Rankings no
WikiProject Reader no
WikiProject Redirect yes
Red Link Recovery yes
Reference Desk Article Collaboration yes
Reference Investigation no
Release Version yes
Removing POV from pop culture articles no
Resource Exchange yes A project where Wikipedians offer to search in their resources for the reference that you are looking for.
Roadmap no
Scientific peer review no
Semiprotect no
Sound yes Project to add sound snippets to WP articles.
Spam yes
Spell Check yes
Spoken Wikipedia yes A project to produce recordings of Wikipedia articles being read aloud.
Statistics Department no
Stub removal yes
Stub sorting yes
Succession Box Standardization yes This project aims to standardise all succession boxes around Wikipedia (replacing the old-type boxes with newer ones) and include boxes in articles that need them but do not have any.
SVG yes This project aims to improve the graphical quality of Wikipedia, specifically by creating SVG graphics.
Template sharing yes
Templates yes
Time to Think yes
Timeline Tracer yes
Tip of the day yes
Translation yes
Translation into English yes This project is primarily focused on translating articles from Wikipedias in other languages, but also embraces many related pages, including one for foreign-language content placed in the English Wikipedia. See Template:Translation department for many related undertakings.
Trivia Cleanup yes This WikiProject focuses on cleaning up trivia sections in articles.
Turnkey Project no
Typo yes This project coordinates spelling and typo corrections.
Unreferenced Article Cleanup yes
Unused templates no
Update Watch yes
Upload placeholder images yes System to request images in the article space infobox
Usability yes
User categorisation no
User Help yes WikiProject User Help is a Project meant to help users use, edit, discuss, contribute, and thrive in Wikipedia, by welcome the new users and providing general and detailed guidance for them, making templates to make creating and editing pages easier, and developing tools for editing pages.
User Page Help yes
User scripts yes
User warning layout standardisation no Merged with Wikipedia:WikiProject User warnings
User warnings yes
Userbox Migration yes
Userboxes yes
Vandalism studies yes
Wikidemia yes This WikiProject organizes (mostly quantitative) academic research on Wikipedia and the other WMF projects.
Wikify yes
Wikipedia yes
Wikipedia Audit no
Wikipedia Reform yes
Wikipedians for encylopedic merit no
Wiki Syntax no
WikiProject WikiRaid no
WikiWorld no
Wikicite no now at m:Wikicite
WikipediaWeekly yes
Wikipedians against censorship yes
Wikipedians for local history yes
WikiProject on Article Verification no
WikiProject on open proxies yes
Work via Wikiprojects yes
Writing Captions no

[edit] Article Improvement and Grading

Project Active Assessment Peer review Collaboration Portal Notes
Article Rescue yes Improvement of articles listed at AfD
Collaboration of the week no
Fact and Reference Check yes
Good articles yes yes yes yes Articles found at Wikipedia:Good articles
Unreferenced GA task force
Project Quality task force
Version 1.0 Editorial Team yes