Wikipedia:WikiProject Categories/Current subprojects

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Cleanup	General - By topic - Copy to Wiktionary - Notability Sorting - English grammar - Copyediting - Spam - Cleanup Taskforce - Wikify an article - Deorphan an article - Update an article
Categories	General cleanup - Articles to be categorized - Underpopulated - Undercategorized categories
Create an article	Most wanted - Requests 1 year+ - Requested articles - Short pages - Missing encyclopedic topics - Review anonymous article submissions
Referencing	Fact-check - Articles lacking sources - Need more references - Original research
Stubs	Advice - Stubs by topic - Most wanted - Short pages - Incomplete lists
Deletion	Speedy - Articles - Categories - Redirects - Templates - Misc. pages - Stub templates and categories - Log - Discussion archives - Review
Polishing	Expand an article - Peer review - Featured candidates - Fill a topic list
Translation into English	Wikipedia:Translation - Existing pages - Spanish trans. of the week - Interwiki link checker
Images	Requested pictures - Images for cleanup - Caption review - Images with missing articles
Controversy	Neutrality - Article accuracy - Statement accuracy
To-do lists	Articles - Projects - Books
Disambiguation	Disambiguation - Manual of Style Disambiguation - Hatnotes - Templates
More	Active wiki fixup projects - Open tasks - Articles to merge - Articles to split - Copyright violations - Requests - Backlogs - Expert request sorting - Missing names

Contents 1 Current projects 1.1 Categorization policy 1.2 Finding uncategorized articles 1.3 Cleaning the category system 1.4 Table of Contents schemes 1.5 Cross-referencing projects 1.6 Content-specific guidelines 1.7 Useful Tools 1.8 Organizing it all

[edit] Current projects

The main project is Wikipedia:WikiProject Categories. Its sub-projects are listed below. Volunteers to these projects are very welcome.

[edit] Categorization policy

• Wikipedia talk:Categorization is where categorization policy is discussed
• Wikipedia talk:Categories for deletion is for discussions related to policy about deleting categories.

[edit] Finding uncategorized articles

• Wikipedia:Auto-categorization lists pages that need categorization which have been pre-sorted by topic.
• Category:Underpopulated categories
• Special:Uncategorizedpages displays an alphabetical list of pages that are not categorized. It is cached (which means it may be slightly out of date) and is not editable. Discuss on Wikipedia talk:Special:Uncategorizedpages.
• Wikipedia:People by year/Reports/No other categories
• Wikipedia:List of lists/uncategorized

[edit] Cleaning the category system

• Wikipedia:Category deletion policy lists the rules, in particular the case of a category corresponding to a template.
• Wikipedia:Template messages/Deletion covers important related deletion templates.
• Wikipedia:Categories for deletion list categories that need renaming or deleting.
• Wikipedia:Categories for deletion/resolved has a number of interesting precedents for naming conventions.
• Category:Wikipedia categories in need of attention lists specific categories that need organizing.
• Wikipedia:WikiProject Categories is a coordination point for systematic cleanup and standards.

[edit] Table of Contents schemes

There are various attempts to create a "Table of Contents" for Wikipedia. "Top-level" categories of this type are themselves added to Category:Categories. Other schemes are listed at Wikipedia:Category schemes. The pages and categories listed generally require updating, organizing, and consolidation.

[edit] Cross-referencing projects

• Category:Years - A chronological cross-referencing project
• Category:Sources - Aims to organize information about reference sources. Spawned from Wikipedia talk:Forum for Encyclopedic Standards#Source_category

[edit] Content-specific guidelines

• Wikipedia:Categories for deletion/resolved has a number of interesting precedents for naming conventions.
• Wikipedia:WikiProject Tree of Life - Organisms by species
• Wikipedia:WikiProject Cities
• Wikipedia:WikiProject Aircraft/Categories
• Category talk:Academic institutions for guidelines on colleges and universities

[edit] Useful Tools

• Special:CategoryTree
• Category Tree
• Category Scan

[edit] Organizing it all

WP:CBTF