What you can do 

What you can do

Here are tasks that can be done as well as some tips....


You can help improve the articles listed below! This list updates frequently, so check back here for more tasks to try. (See Wikipedia:Maintenance or the Task Center for further information.)

Fix wikilinks

Help counter systemic bias by creating new articles on important women.

Help improve popular pages, especially those of low quality.


When not to use links

It is possible to create links to every word in an article. But providing too many defeats their purpose by obscuring the most relevant links. Here's an example of overlinking:

Wikipedia's greatness stems from being able to link articles together easily, but don't overdo it. It can get really annoying and does not help the reader.

The above passage hides the relevant link. Compare that with this:

Wikipedia's greatness stems from being able to link articles together easily, but don't overdo it. It can get really annoying and does not help the reader.
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A better wiki editor: wikEd

Whether you are a new or advanced user, you can edit pages with ease by installing wikEd.

To install, simply select wikEd on the Gadgets panel of your Preferences:

Preferences → Gadgets → Editing → check wikEd: a full-featured integrated text editor for Firefox, Safari, and Google Chrome (documentation)

wikEd provides many abilities, including a multifunctional search-and-replace feature for regular expressions (regex).

wikEd works in the following web browsers: Firefox, Pale Moon, SeaMonkey, Safari, WebKit, Google Chrome, and Opera (version 15 and higher). Currently, wikEd is not compatible with Internet Explorer or versions of Opera below 15.

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