Wikipedia:Backlog

Wikipedia maintenance

The backlog of the week is:

This backlog page lists tasks that should be done to improve Wikipedia (assuming the cleanup templates were placed correctly). Helping reduce backlogs is an important issue, so please feel free to help out and/or develop this page (or ways to quantify these things) further. Wikipedia talk:Backlog is the discussion page for this page, and 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.

Click any linked number for that category's articles prioritized by their number of incoming links.

Backlog categories

Lacking references

Fix one!

Accuracy

Content

Copied and pasted: 47
Needs context: 2,647
Needs coordinates: 69,072
Too technical: 3,447
Uses improper non-free content: 12
Uses in-universe perspective: 1,067
Plot summary needs attention: 8,057
Of unclear notability: 56,108
Popular low quality articles (top 5000 by pageviews with low ORES class predictions)

Links

Has dead external links: 363,331
Needs external links cleanup: 2,013

Layout

Style

File description

Copy to Wikimedia Commons: 85,148
Needs author: 5,388

File quality

Has inappropriate JPEG compression: 2,494
Logos that should be in SVG format: 2,752
Should be in PNG format: 225
Has watermarks: 145

Non-free file use

Has red backlink: 56

File licensing

Has disputed copyright information: 394

Meta

Quality content

Other

New articles

Articles for creation: 1,320

(refresh)

Oldest backlogs by issue

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

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See also

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