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[edit]

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.

Oldest backlogs by issue[edit]

1. Category:Accuracy disputes (March 2008—30)
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 (August 2006—26)
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—187)
8. Category:Articles needing additional references (June 2006—28)
9. Category:Articles needing cleanup (January 2010—69)
10. Category:Articles needing sections (September 2021—2)
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 (August 2010—14)
14. Category:Articles that may be too long (May 2009—1)
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 (November 2020—3)
18. Category:Articles to be split (November 2015—1)
19. Category:Articles with a promotional tone (February 2009—25)
20. Category:Articles with bare URLs for citations (May 2021—4,046)
21. Category:Articles with broken or outdated citations (December 2018—3)
22. Category:Articles with dead external links (December 2008—21)
23. Category:Articles with disputed statements (March 2008—8)
24. Category:Articles with minor POV problems (March 2010—1)
25. Category:Articles with peacock terms (October 2009—13)
26. Category:Articles with sections that need to be turned into prose (January 2010—3)
27. Category:Articles with specifically marked weasel-worded phrases (September 2009—17)
28. Category:Articles with too few wikilinks (February 2022—2)
29. Category:Articles with topics of unclear notability (December 2009—8)
30. Category:Articles with trivia sections (October 2016—3)
31. Category:Articles with unsourced statements (February 2007—2,014)
32. Category:Articles with weasel words (December 2007—3)
33. Category:BLP articles lacking sources (January 2007—56)
34. Category:Dead-end pages (February 2022—0)
35. Category:Orphaned articles (April 2011—177)
36. Category:Recently revised (February 2022—0)
37. Category:Self-contradictory articles (April 2012—1)
38. Category:Unreferenced BLPs (December 2018—2)
39. Category:User-created public domain files (no Commons) (May 2007—1)
40. Category:Userspace drafts (November 2006—2)
41. Category:Wikipedia articles in need of updating (July 2008—3)
42. Category:Wikipedia articles needing clarification (January 2007—1)
43. Category:Wikipedia articles needing context (October 2009—333)
44. Category:Wikipedia articles needing copy edit (July 2021—40)
45. Category:Wikipedia articles needing factual verification (July 2007—23)
46. Category:Wikipedia articles needing page number citations (March 2008—2)
47. Category:Wikipedia articles needing rewrite (March 2009—1)
48. Category:Wikipedia articles that are too technical (August 2008—2)
49. Category:Wikipedia articles with plot summary needing attention (April 2008—4)
50. Category:Wikipedia articles with possible conflicts of interest (August 2009—38)
51. Category:Wikipedia articles with style issues (October 2007—2)
52. Category:Wikipedia external links cleanup (October 2012—3)
53. Category:Wikipedia introduction cleanup (May 2009—1)
54. Category:Wikipedia neutral point of view disputes (February 2008—0)
55. Category:Wikipedia spam cleanup (August 2010—8)

See also

1. Wikipedia:Articles requested for more than a year

Statistics[edit]

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[edit]

• {{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[edit]

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