Category talk:Uncategorized from September 2006

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Okay, as of today there are 5768 articles in here. Obviously there will keep being more; however, we can try to categorize them faster than the bots can tag them. Crystallina 01:13, 14 September 2006 (UTC)

Given the speed at which we took care of the August backlog I guess that would be a reasonnable hope. Pascal.Tesson 22:10, 15 September 2006 (UTC)

I just checked - the number's going down. Crystallina 04:24, 16 September 2006 (UTC)

Argh, just when we had the A's under control, a whole page of them appear! Marasmusine 15:14, 23 September 2006 (UTC)

Hey, it's what we asked for on the main Category Needed page. They're going down quickly, though. Crystallina 16:06, 23 September 2006 (UTC)

But you have only yourself to blame for picking the letter A. :-) See I picked X,Y,Z and I'm having no such problems! Pascal.Tesson 16:52, 23 September 2006 (UTC)

I guess I just wasn't expecting a big batch all at once :> Skipping prod'd articles for now. Marasmusine 19:59, 23 September 2006 (UTC)

Contents 1 History of this backlog 2 gaaah! 9000? 3 10474 4 The letter countdown 5 Below 2000 6 Let's finish it! 7 *hic* Thanks for the *hic* Champagne...

[edit] History of this backlog

I have only started participating in categorization about a month and a halk ago so maybe someone with more experience can clear something up for me. How is it that the backlog was hovering around 0 (and always below 1000) before exploding in August. Are there now dedicated bots that are tagging the articles? Pascal.Tesson 20:36, 23 September 2006 (UTC)

There was a bit of a discussion over at Special:Uncategorized Pages about what to do - for some reason, each database dump only displayed 1000 articles. So every time the database dump came, there would be a new batch of uncategorized articles but the list would never extend beyond B. People had noticed it for awhile and then in August the bots started auto-tagging uncategorized articles. Crystallina 00:09, 24 September 2006 (UTC)

Ah! thanks. Pascal.Tesson 01:43, 24 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] gaaah! 9000?

Please please, someone tell me that this number is completely abnormal! Could it be that we are now getting a rush of articles because of the new way that bots work and that we will not get another 9000 in october! I mean this is almost 1% of the whole Wikipedia... Pascal.Tesson 14:43, 29 September 2006 (UTC)

<whipcrack> Less chatting, more categorizing! :> Marasmusine 19:43, 29 September 2006 (UTC)

Careful what we ask for... Crystallina 02:09, 30 September 2006 (UTC)

<whipcrack> didn't you hear what Marasmusine said? Pascal.Tesson 16:18, 30 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] 10474

This seems to be the final count for September - unless the bots aren't updated. It'll probably be a few more. Problem letters seem to be B, C (understandable, that's where Special:Uncategorized Pages is), and then a lot of T. Crystallina 03:37, 1 October 2006 (UTC)

Am I the only one who feels like we're losing the fight? It's freakin' October 2nd and the October category has over 5000 articles by my count. Aw God... somebody please cheer me up. Pascal.Tesson 17:57, 2 October 2006 (UTC)

In the words of Homestar Runner: "There's a sock on my head? Get it off! Get it off!" Marasmusine 12:38, 3 October 2006 (UTC)

8701. Great job for four days! Crystallina 13:09, 5 October 2006 (UTC)

Greetings. I'm joining in, and will try to do 10 pages per day. Any tips and tricks? ;) --Vsion 18:59, 5 October 2006 (UTC)

Tip: Don't look at the October numbers. Trust me on this one. Crystallina 19:42, 5 October 2006 (UTC)

October numbers? why, I have no idea what you're talking about. Last I saw, the October category had only two or three articles in it. Pascal.Tesson 22:15, 5 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] The letter countdown

I thought this was a decent morale booster for the August backlog. Pascal.Tesson 20:31, 1 October 2006 (UTC) So here we go: 27 26 25 22 21 20 19 18 17 16 15 14 13 12 11 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 0 letters left to kill.

• 0-9
• A
• B
• C
• D
• E
• F
• G
• H
• I
• J
• K
• L
• N
• M
• N
• O
• P
• Q
• R
• S
• Travon Potts and we're done!
• U
• V
• W
• X
• Y
• Z

just logged on. B looks done too. Working on C now... Yeah... --Jayron32 02:35, 6 October 2006 (UTC)

I think C and T are the largest, so if we can zap C now that would be a good morale boost. Marasmusine 09:59, 6 October 2006 (UTC)

Minor Victory Cleared "Ca..." With the size of C's, it is quite a dent. --Jayron32 04:47, 7 October 2006 (UTC)

Goal!; Ce cleared. Marasmusine 19:22, 7 October 2006 (UTC)

Ch, Ci cleared. Marasmusine 14:05, 13 October 2006 (UTC)

Cl, Co cleared; thanks to everyone who helped there, the end of the Cs are in sight! Marasmusine 00:04, 19 October 2006 (UTC)

D is done. OK, all I did was categorized a bunch of PRODS and Transwikis, but SOMEONE had to categorize them to get them off the list. The good news is E, F and G look relatively short. The REALLY bad news is it's almost November. At this rate we won't get the October backlog done until February or March of 2007. Ugh, the uncatbots are getting too good. --Jayron32 05:58, 25 October 2006 (UTC)

I've just left prods alone. A lot of times I'm tempted to just remove the tag if they don't have a snowball's chance in hell of surviving, but then you never know. Crystallina 11:23, 25 October 2006 (UTC)

Es are good. On the subject of prods; I often lazily put them in a higher level category for speed. If they are deleted, no biggy; if they stay they'll be diffused to a more specific category eventually anyway. Marasmusine 16:25, 25 October 2006 (UTC)

I didn't do it, but looks like someone got the H's. On a sadder note, it is the last day of October, and we still haven't kicked the backlog yet. We have got to get more people involved here... --Jayron32 15:24, 31 October 2006 (UTC)

I may be a bit overly optimistic here but I can't believe that the backlog added every month will be as bad as it was in October because bots will (to some small extent) run out of uncategorized articles. Every month, the English wiki grows by about 60K articles and I'm quite confident that less than 1/3 of these are really left uncategorized for more than a few days. Also, it might not be such a bad idea to have a couple of months of backlog as we can expect that some will get categorized by knowledgeable editors before we get there. (Or am I deluding myself?) Pascal.Tesson 16:17, 31 October 2006 (UTC)

The backlog is large here because some of these articles are hard to categorise. Most of the first 200 at any given time are very tricky. I haven't delved into the October list too much, but the articles there seem to be easier to do. —Xezbeth 19:01, 31 October 2006 (UTC)

A lot of that's because people tend to do the easier ones first. I know I do. Crystallina 21:15, 31 October 2006 (UTC)

• I and J went down in just the last hour. Many thanks to Romanc19s and others in this latest drive. At this rate, things are looking better. --Jayron32 20:16, 31 October 2006 (UTC)

That's awesome, thanks guys. Marasmusine 20:35, 31 October 2006 (UTC)

• K and L are now done. Thanks for everyone who got involved. Also, the total count has gotten below 2500 (by my count). Pascal.Tesson 16:46, 1 November 2006 (UTC)
• R was done before I got here today. I picked off the last of the N and P. M is almost done. O doesn't have much either. S looks REALLY nasty though. Still, it is nice to see only 6 letters to go. Single digits looks great! Homestretch, here we go! --Jayron32 06:38, 3 November 2006 (UTC)
• Marvelous! Marasmusine 09:52, 3 November 2006 (UTC)
• S pretty much done. Woot! johnpseudo 08:31, 5 November 2006 (UTC)
• Vanished. Pascal.Tesson 20:37, 8 November 2006 (UTC)
• Unbeliavable progress. Only 500 articles left in the category! Pascal.Tesson 12:12, 9 November 2006 (UTC)
• The A through The G done. The end is nigh! --Jayron32 04:04, 10 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Below 2000

		The Working Man's Barnstar
		I have been less active on this backlog than I was for the August category but to everyone who has in a single month taken this category from over 10K to less than 2K articles: y'all deserve a collective barnstar. Pascal.Tesson 04:27, 3 November 2006 (UTC)

Requesting permission for all involved to move this award to userpages if they so choose? --Jayron32 18:58, 6 November 2006 (UTC)

Had not seen that request but yeah, of course. Anyone who feels they deserve it is more than welcome to move it to their own talk page. 20:39, 10 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Let's finish it!

I propose we finish this behemoth this weekend. 440 articles left. We might even wrap things up tomorrow. All in favor? johnpseudo 22:12, 9 November 2006 (UTC)

Working on it. Also, does anyone really mind if I remove the uncategorized tags from pages clearly destined for deletion? Crystallina 23:22, 9 November 2006 (UTC)

• • It is best to just give them a cursory high-order category. If you remove the tag, there is still a chance the PROD or AFD may not fly, at which point we will still have to categorize them. Usually for these I pick a VERY general category. In the rare case they are kept, they won't end up back on our roles... --Jayron32 02:57, 10 November 2006 (UTC)

I'm at home today, so I'll get cracking too. Marasmusine 09:39, 10 November 2006 (UTC)

This weekend? This thing will be done in less than an hour at the current rate. Great job everyone. Pascal.Tesson 20:38, 10 November 2006 (UTC)

It's done! The last categorized article was Travon Potts. johnpseudo 21:38, 10 November 2006 (UTC)

Which we both tried editing at the same time :> With different categories :> Marasmusine 21:40, 10 November 2006 (UTC)

Travon Potts is such an anti-climax. We should leave the sub-par material but make sure he is the most thoroughly-categorized article on wikipedia. johnpseudo 21:50, 10 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] *hic* Thanks for the *hic* Champagne...

OK... Now off to October. It's the biggest month EVER, but considering we knocked out ~500 articles in about 36 hours here, we CAN push through it. With a similar rate (~350 a day) we should be able to kick it in about a month, which would mean we can start NOVEMBER before december is done. Come on folks, let's go... after one more glass of the bubbly --Jayron32 22:26, 10 November 2006 (UTC)