The Logistics department serves its purpose as a hub for skilled users to help articles expand their content to the
featured article status. This department would help in the following ways:
Copy-editing — thoroughly review an article and edit according to the criteria as specified in the Wikipedia
manual of style and provide assistance to the authors pointing them to ways they can expand their articles.
Graphics — create or modify graphics in an article in such a way that the articles content is enhanced to a superior status. This may include
cartography, illustrations of photos.
Translation — Translate native content available on the web into plausible citations and content. Another coverage area may include translating articles from Wikipedia in other languages to the current one or to translate content from the English Wikipedia to the
Urdu Wikipedia.
Sources — Check the content of the article against the sources and citations provided to ensure verifiability and accuracy of content delivery. Another main area of interest for people opting to check sources would be to deal with
neutral point of view (NPOV) debates.
Copy-editing
Copy-editing is a serious, painful and a time consuming job but one that gives you the most pleasure out of your contribution.
Newly created article or even some articles with a high rate of updates usually forsake the content's
legibility or
readability. Hence, for the copy-editors following is a list of task that need be performed.
Proof-reading lite — includes basic tasks like checking for spelling mistakes and punctuation.
To become a copy-editor, add your name to the
copy-editors list below and add any
requested page in your
watchlist. Please add the level of copy-editing you can provide from the list above.
If you are requesting a copy-edit, please add the copy-edit request in the
copy-edit requests list below and then notify the copy-editors by placing messages on their respective pages.
Copy-editors
Following is a list of copy-editors willing to help with articles.
Graphics can add colour to articles and are considered a better approach towards understanding an article's content better. These may include maps, photographs or diagrams, etc. Following are the jobs of a graphics editor:
Scavenger — a graphics editor that helps locate graphics on the internet that fall under the blanket of fair-use and possibly free images. Once a certain photograph is located on the internet, the editors then need to upload it to Wikipedia adding relevant licensing information and then pasting a link on the
photography sub-project.
Cartographer — editors affluent with mapping techniques or ones that can help located maps. It is required that
scalable vector graphics images be used for mapping purpose, so if an editor locates a map on the internet that's not scalable, they can paste the external link of the map on the
cartography sub-project and another graphics editor, adept with SVG images would recreate the map in the SVG format.
Grim Reapers — editors who review and tag images used in the articles. If an image is not free, they are tagged for deletion but if their is a fair-use explanation, these editors notify the uploaders about it.
Instructions
To become a graphics editor, please consider adding your name to the
graphics editors list below and adding the editing job you can do.
To request a graphics job, for instance, making a bitmap map into an SVG scalable map, add a request to the
graphics requests list below.
Internet is filled with content in the English language, but that pocket-full of important content is always in a different language. If you know a certain language are able to help out with a translation please consider being a translator.
Instructions
To become a translator, add your name to the
translators list below and specify the languages that you can work with. Remember, only write the languages that you are willing to translate content to or from. So, if someone gives you content to be translated, you have a duty to oblige. It is important that you specify translation that you find comfortable doing and also languages that you can assist other users with.
To request translations, you can leave a messages directly on the translator's talk page or leave the content to be translated under the
translation requests list below.
Translators
Arunreginald (
talk) - Translation: UR-to-EN, FR-to-EN; Assistance: UR.