WikiPolish
Finding ten good edits is the hard part of contributing to Wikipedia. This finds them — it reads the API, surfaces specific fixable things, and you make the edit under your own account.
The problem it solves
A new Wikipedia account cannot do much. Ten edits and four days turns it into an autoconfirmed one, which is when the encyclopedia starts trusting you. The barrier is not the ten edits — it is finding ten changes you are genuinely sure are improvements, in an encyclopedia where being wrong in public is the thing everyone fears.
What it does
Type an article, or press Shuffle and take whatever comes. WikiPolish pulls the live text through the Wikipedia API and reads it back to you looking for the small, defensible things: grammar, agreement, punctuation, the sentence that says the opposite of what it meant.
Each finding links straight to the edit view for that article, so the fix happens on Wikipedia in your own account, under your own name, with your own judgement. Nothing is edited for you.
It counts
Log Edit records the ones you actually made, so ten stops being a number you are trying to remember and becomes a number you can see. Next Article keeps the queue moving when one turns out to be already clean.
How it works
- Open itIn a browser. There is nothing to install.
- Get a list of specific fixesNot 'go improve an article' — particular things, in particular places, that are wrong or missing.
- Edit under your own accountIt never edits for you. Your login, your edit, your history.
What it does
Specifications
| Status | Live |
|---|---|
| Platform | Browser |
| Install | None |
| Reads | Wikipedia API |
| Account | Your own Wikipedia login |
Questions
- Does it edit Wikipedia for me?
- No, and deliberately. Automated editing is somebody else's problem to have. It finds the work; you do it under your own account.
- Do I need a Wikipedia account?
- To make the edits, yes. To look at what it finds, no.
- Is this a bot?
- No. It reads the public API and shows you a list.