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Did you know 25 Oct 2024 – Voltairine de Cleyre (talk · edit · hist) was nominated for DYK by Grnrchst (t · c); see discussion Good article nominees 13 Aug 2024 – Fagoppositionens Sammenslutning (talk · edit · hist) was GA nominated by Grnrchst (t · c); start discussion 15 Apr 2024 – Anarchism without adjectives (talk · edit · hist) was GA nominated by Grnrchst (t · c); start discussion Requests for comments 13 Oct 2024 – Antifa (United States) (talk · edit · hist) has an RfC by Aquillion (t · c); see discussion Peer reviews 26 Oct 2024 – Lucy Parsons (talk · edit · hist) has been put up for PR by Mujinga (t · c); see discussion Articles for creation 01 Oct 2024 – Draft:Donat Cherepanov (talk · edit · hist) has been submitted for AfC by Speedymagoo (t · c)

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This page gathers some advice on getting started with anarchism articles in one place. For getting started with Wikipedia in general, see Help:Getting started.

Subscribe for drives

Sometimes the anarchism project coordinates a drive for new content. Subscribe for notifications about those events. All editors are welcome.

Low-hanging fruit

• The lifeblood of the encyclopedia is writing articles through finding and paraphrasing reliable, secondary sources. This is the most effective way to contribute to bettering our encyclopedia.

• Start with one of our stubs—extra-short articles—such as these biographies and these non-biographies. Expand the text with citations from academic books, magazines, and reliable sources. Some articles include "Further reading" sections that already list such sources. Start with Google Books and academic databases before moving to magazines and newspapers. If in doubt, reach out to the project talk page to discuss potential sourcing. You can find a full list of our stubs here.

All articles higher than Stub class: 80.1% complete

• If you're not ready to write, consider unearthing new sources for those stubs so someone can write more easily in the future.

• Alternatively, add sources to each item in one of our lists so readers can verify why each element belongs.

• Creating brand new articles is a more advanced activity, since it involves determining the topic's notability (see below).

• Category sorting is much more easy-going. Browse one of the categories to the right and see whether the category is truly a "defining" trait of the topic. If not, either find sourcing to make it so, remove the category with an explanation, or find a more fitting subcategory.

• Add the project's article alerts and talk page/noticeboard to your watchlist so you can see new updates to the project and opportunities to help

Intermediate/Advanced

• Want more? Say so on the project talk page and someone will expand. Examples include writing Good Articles, creating new articles
• Looking for article suggestions?
  • For high impact, edit an article with a high viewcount or "high" importance
  • These "vital" articles are designated high-priority for improving the encyclopedia
  • If you're able to translate articles, these biographies have been recognized by other language Wikipedias and are ripe for translation to English.

(Remember to attribute the translation's source and Wikipedia does not want unedited, machine translations, though if using Google Translate to start, attribute it as well.)

• Match Le Maitron Dictionnaire des anarchistes entries with Wikidata entries (create new entries if no matches)
• Add newly uploaded Commons images to relevant articles (check that the uploader's copyright is correct first, or the image may end up deleted)
• Import primary source texts to Wikisource so we can link to them instead of third-party sites