Wikipedia:WikiProject Food and drink/Contributing

The editors and contributors to Wikipedia and the Food and Drink WikiProject are the lifeblood of this project. Without you, we cannot reach our goal of becoming the premier site on the web for Food and Drink-related information! To that end, we have taken several steps to help you help us meet our goal.

You can click on the Open tasks or Assessment department main page link above or go directly to the individual pages by using the navigation bar.

 How can you help?

You don't have to join our project to work on Food and Drink-related articles. We welcome everyone who wants to help improve these topics, and encourage you—project member or not—to participate in all of our activities and take full advantage of the support we offer.

Our list of open tasks contains multiple articles that need different types of improvement; there are several lists of things that need to be done. Please feel free to select something that interests you and start editing!

  • There are Project related items that need to be completed on our Tasks list;
  • Specific article related items that have been identified as needing attention by the Project are found on the To do list;
  • Articles that need to verified are on the Articles needing citations list;
  • Articles that need expansion are found on Stubs expansion list;
  • Requests for new articles are found on the Requested articles lists.

If you would like to advertise your participation, you can formally join the project by adding your name to the list of members, or by adding one of our userboxes to your user page.

 Assessment

Assessments are how Wikipedia ranks articles using a system which allows us to monitor the quality of articles in within the project subject areas, and to prioritize work on these articles. It is based on a standard system of assessments, but these ratings are meant primarily for the internal use of the project, and usually do not imply any official standing within Wikipedia as a whole.

As you can see by the chart to the left, we have numerous articles of varying quality and importance. If you wish to have an article assessed, please list it on our Assessment page, linked above. If you would like to try your hand at assessing an article, please feel free to! A complete list of the classifications our project uses is listed on the Assessment Department page, and you can also take the time to join our Assessment Task Force on the Project Membership page.