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- Maintenance
- Deleting articles || other maintenance tasks (see also open tasks, below)
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I hope you enjoy being a Wikipedian on the English Wikipedia. Feel free to leave any questions on my talk page. :)
Typical Wikipedian tasks
editWikipedia editors do all sorts of things to maintain and expand the projects; this is just a sample (which is a regularly updated template -- so all of the 'tasks' listed will be current whenever you look at it):
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 spelling and grammar
Fix wikilinks
Update with new information
Expand short articles
Check and add references
Fix original research issues
Improve lead sections
Add an image
Translate and clean up
Help counter systemic bias by creating new articles on important women.
Help improve popular pages, especially those of low quality.