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Congratulations! Five million articles!

• Congratulations, Wikipedia! There have been many ups-and-downs, but the encyclopedia has pushed on to reach the golden 5 million article mark. May Wikipedia continue to be around to serve future generations for decades to come. --I am k6ka ^{Talk to me!} _{See what I have done} 18:23, 1 November 2015 (UTC)
  • And congratulations to Mark E, the winner of the Wikipedia:Five-million pool, for his prediction, made in 2007. -- John Broughton (♫♫) 19:01, 1 November 2015 (UTC)
    • If you've contributed articles, you get your own mini-celebration, by adding a template to your user page, that calculates the percentage of articles that are yours :) --Djembayz (talk) 19:19, 1 November 2015 (UTC)

Time to celebrate with more TLC all around! (tender loving care) ...

How to feed our growing flock of articles?

Any thoughts or tips on how we scale up to curating and maintaining all these articles?

Here are a few:

• If you are a careful and patient person, the Page Curation tool may be worth trying out, as it's one of the first lines of defense on quality control.
• A little-known asset is this page of cleanup listings. If you activate Visual Editor, you can zoom through these listings adding wikilinks and reference cleanup. (Don't throw tomatoes at me until you give it a try!) You'll find that there are Wikiprojects such as African countries that don't have anyone working cleanup, so your contribution can be truly significant.
• De-orphaning by WikiProject can be quite gratifying too. (Here's how to de-orphan).
• There used to be a really neat display of articles ranked by quality and page views over on the Toolserver. You could decide whether you wanted to go for high-traffic, unknown and unassessed, or middle-of-the-road articles. Anybody know where to find it these days? --Djembayz (talk) 19:19, 1 November 2015 (UTC)

• We also have a "copy and paste" detection bot that runs on all new edits to En WP and lists potentially concerning edits [1]. It is correct about half the time and like everything is a work in progress. Doc James (talk · contribs · email) 19:56, 1 November 2015 (UTC)

• @Djembayz: The quality assessment is at https://tools.wmflabs.org/enwp10/cgi-bin/pindex.fcgi . Didn't know about the Bambots cleanup listing! Thanks! Will definitely clean up the Novels orphans in my volunteer time. Sadads (talk) 16:57, 2 November 2015 (UTC)