Wikipedia:Backlog

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This week's backlog of the week is:

Category:Pages with active help requests for the IABot Interface

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.

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

Backlog categories

• General
• Administrative
• Assessment
• Stub sorting
• Template parameter

Lacking references

• Needs references: 152,771
• Needs references (BLP): 1,444
• Needs more references: 419,002
• Needs more references (BLP): 32,966
• Needs in-text citations: 99,797
• Needs reliable references: 78,565
• Has unsourced quotes: 1,262
• Has unsourced statements: 439,667
Fix one!

Accuracy

• Uses broken or outdated citations: 120
• Needs factual verification: 4,454
• Needs references list: 14
• Needs references clean up: 2,051
• Accuracy disputes: 8,716
• Neutrality disputed: 6,421
• Needs updating: 30,703
• Has original research: 16,635
• Self-contradictory: 580

Content

• Copied and pasted: 318
• Needs context: 3,709
• Needs coordinates: 109,610
• Too technical: 2,900
• Uses improper non-free content: 160
• Uses in-universe perspective: 1,584
• Plot summary needs attention: 6,352
• Has trivia sections: 297
• Of unclear notability: 57,321
• Popular low quality articles (top 5000 by pageviews with low ORES class predictions)

Links

• Has dead external links: 260,428
• Needs external links cleanup: 2,756
• Too few wikilinks: 282

Layout

• Needs expansion: 135,092
• Needs to be merged: 2,499
• Needs to be split: 759

Style

• Needs clarification: 5,220
• Needs copy edit: 1,001
• Has peacock terms: 3,969
• Uses promotional tone: 25,687
• Has weasel words: 17,170
• With style issues: 19,531

File description

• Copy to Wikimedia Commons: 139,183
• Incomplete renaming requests: 4
• Needs author: 8,317

File quality

• Has inappropriate JPEG compression: 2,796
• Logos that should be in SVG format: 3,530
• Should be in PNG format: 296
• Has watermarks: 13

Non-free file use

• Has red backlink: 67
• Publicity photographs needing rationale: 458

File licensing

• Has disputed copyright information: 2,849

Meta

• Biographies without "listas" parameter: 9,502
• Biographies without "living" parameter: 33

Quality content

• Featured article candidates: 55
• Featured article review: 25
• Featured list candidates: 38
• Good articles needing "oldid": 21
• Unreviewed good article nominations: 273

Other

• Needs cleanup: 34,846
• Needs cleanup (disambiguations): 8
• Needs expert attention: 3,773
• Is orphaned: 88,374
• Needs to be wikified: 27,736

New articles

• Articles for creation: 1,768

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Oldest backlogs by issue

1. Category:Accuracy disputes (March 2008—31)
2. Category:Article sections to be split (July 2021—1)
3. Category:Articles containing potentially dated statements (January 2006—11)
4. Category:Articles lacking in-text citations (December 2006—57)
5. Category:Articles lacking page references (July 2008—1)
6. Category:Articles lacking reliable references (November 2006—8)
7. Category:Articles lacking sources (December 2006—344)
8. Category:Articles needing additional references (June 2006—31)
9. Category:Articles needing cleanup (November 2009—68)
10. Category:Articles needing sections (May 2021—1)
11. Category:Articles slanted towards recent events (March 2009—2)
12. Category:Articles sourced by IMDb (December 2007—13)
13. Category:Articles sourced only by IMDb (June 2010—2)
14. Category:Articles that may be too long (May 2008—2)
15. Category:Articles that need to differentiate between fact and fiction (October 2007—1)
16. Category:Articles to be expanded (January 2007—18)
17. Category:Articles to be merged (July 2020—2)
18. Category:Articles to be split (November 2015—1)
19. Category:Articles with a promotional tone (January 2009—1)
20. Category:Articles with bare URLs for citations (May 2021—8,252)
21. Category:Articles with broken or outdated citations (November 2018—2)
22. Category:Articles with dead external links (November 2008—0)
23. Category:Articles with disputed statements (March 2008—8)
24. Category:Articles with minor POV problems (February 2010—1)
25. Category:Articles with peacock terms (October 2009—17)
26. Category:Articles with sections that need to be turned into prose (November 2009—4)
27. Category:Articles with specifically marked weasel-worded phrases (September 2009—17)
28. Category:Articles with too few wikilinks (July 2013—1)
29. Category:Articles with topics of unclear notability (December 2009—25)
30. Category:Articles with trivia sections (October 2016—3)
31. Category:Articles with unsourced statements (February 2007—2,098)
32. Category:Articles with weasel words (December 2007—3)
33. Category:BLP articles lacking sources (January 2007—55)
34. Category:Dead-end pages (October 2021—0)
35. Category:NPOV disputes (January 2012—2)
36. Category:Orphaned articles (January 2011—301)
37. Category:Recently revised (October 2021—0)
38. Category:Self-contradictory articles (July 2014—2)
39. Category:Unreferenced BLPs (November 2018—2)
40. Category:User-created public domain files (December 2005—54)
41. Category:Userspace drafts (June 2006—1)
42. Category:Wikipedia articles in need of updating (January 2008—2)
43. Category:Wikipedia articles needing clarification (January 2007—1)
44. Category:Wikipedia articles needing context (October 2009—398)
45. Category:Wikipedia articles needing copy edit (May 2021—11)
46. Category:Wikipedia articles needing factual verification (July 2007—27)
47. Category:Wikipedia articles needing page number citations (March 2008—2)
48. Category:Wikipedia articles needing rewrite (March 2009—1)
49. Category:Wikipedia articles that are too technical (August 2008—2)
50. Category:Wikipedia articles with plot summary needing attention (April 2008—5)
51. Category:Wikipedia articles with possible conflicts of interest (August 2009—40)
52. Category:Wikipedia articles with style issues (October 2007—1)
53. Category:Wikipedia external links cleanup (July 2012—3)
54. Category:Wikipedia introduction cleanup (March 2009—1)
55. Category:Wikipedia spam cleanup (August 2010—8)

See also

1. Wikipedia:Articles requested for more than a year

Statistics

See also: Wikipedia: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

See also

• Wikipedia:Maintenance, managerial tasks that are not necessarily backlogged.
• mw:Wikimedia Research/Showcase#February 2018, presentation on Wikipedia backlogs