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Wikipedia has articles and stubs that require merging. Wikipedia has articles that duplicate references. Wikipedia has articles that are orphans.

Wikipedia:WikiProject Integration supports organised:

• Merging
• Cross-referencing
• Linking

The idea behind Wikipedia Integration is let's integrate, let's make it easier to find and maintain data: build it and they will come!

Approach

Stage 1 of Wikipedia Integration

Stage 2 of Wikipedia Integration

Stage 1

• Search various categories for stub articles. Stub articles belonging to a specific category with minimal content should be merged into a meta-article covering that subject matter.
• Rather than delete old pages, redirects should be employed to reduce the chance of users making an article for the same subject. Furthermore, if the stub does have a chance to move beyond stub status, the article can be re-developed on its own merits as a category member.
• Duplicate references should be identified by human or bot as a method of detecting merge-candidates, or overlooked category members. Furthermore, duplicate references that are required should be converted to a template that would appear uniformly on all category member pages.

Stage 2

• Parent categories of significant volume should be reasonably sub categorised. Template:CatDiffuse explains this process.
• Templates should be used to eliminate redundant content within category articles.
• Templates should also be used to link together disparate articles that relate to each other, but may not always be in the same category. Template:Step and Template:Succession are among the usable templates for this purpose.

Analogies

• Integration is white matter: it links together elements for processing.
• Integration is government in the sunshine: it keeps things in the open and not obscure.
• Integration may require ion thrusters: they're slow, but effective and efficient.

Counterpart projects/technologies

As the early Americans were encouraged to unite, articles must unite to bring order to the project.

• Association of Mergist Wikipedians
• Wikipedia:Cleanup process
• Wikipedia:Proposed mergers
• Wikipedia:Preparing_images_for_upload
• Wikipedia:WikiProject Proposed Deletion Patrolling
• Wikipedia:WikiProject Stub sorting
• Wikipedia:WikiProject Red Link Recovery
• Wikipedia:WikiProject Categories
• Wikipedia:WikiProject Orphanage
• Wikipedia:Dead-end pages
• Special:Uncategorizedpages
• Category:Category needed
• Category:Navigational templates
• Wikipedia:Build the web

New components

Tag new components with {{Wikipedia:WikiProject Integration/TechTemplate}} on its discussion page.

• Template:CatDiffuse & Category:Categories requiring diffusion
• Template:Step

Example articles that were created from meta-merging

• ITU V-Series is an article created from the merging of 20+ related stubs.
• Created from several articles in Category:Fictional aircraft: Fictional military aircraft; Aircraft (Left Behind)
• Created from Microsoft Windows stubs: Windows Text-to-Speech; Easter eggs in Microsoft products; Windows library files; Windows Vista Startup Process; Windows audio components; Common menus in Microsoft Windows
• Created from orphan, stub, and full articles in Category:Revelation Space: Characters in Revelation Space; Factions in Revelation Space; Locations in Revelation Space; Races in Revelation Space; Technology in Revelation Space

Templates

Check the Wikipedia Integration category for articles and categories needing review. Deploy the {{WP ʃ}} tag in the appropriate discussion pages. When a category has been fully processed, or an article completed, remove the original tag & display the {{WP ʃ reviewed}} tag.

• Template:WP ʃ
• Template:WP ʃ reviewed

Promoting WP:INT

You can put this Wikipedia:WikiProject Integration/Userbox on your user page. Use {{Wikipedia:WikiProject Integration/Userbox}} to add.

See who already has

WikiProject Connect the Dots

Runa27 formed "WikiProject Connect the Dots" in June 2006 to forge connections between users for the purposes of article improvement. It was merged into "Integration" by SilkTork *** SilkyTalk in September 2007.

Original participants

• Runa27 06:40, 19 June 2006 (UTC)
• Centurion 5 00:33, 15 September 2006 (UTC) ok.
• Pontiff Greg Bard (talk) 10:55, 11 May 2008 (UTC)

Original goals

1. To enable Wikipedians to connect to other Wikipedians and WikiProjects in order to improve articles, usually those which require information/explanations culled from multiple knowledge bases.
2. To point out articles which need help of the kind this WikiProkect can provide.
3. To improve upon the current or past articles listed in the 'Connect the Dots Article Improvement Drive section.