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Categories and links both experience a number of different challenges when creating lists: an editor has to have added the link or category ahead of time, and the practices for adding links or categories can vary widely in different topic areas and Wikimedia communities. Sometimes there are other ways of grouping content. In this section, we are going to introduce more deliberate methods for connecting topics: WikiProjects, Experimental Tools and Wikidata.

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WikiProjects and Community Groups

Some wikis and community groups, have formed editorially communities that focus entirely on organizing content in a certain topical area. On most Wikipedias these projects are called WikiProjects. Examples of WikiProjects or Wikiproject like community groups, include <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Women_in_Red" target="[object Object]">Women in Red</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Climate_change" target="[object Object]">WikiProject Climate change</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_AfroCine" target="[object Object]">WikiProject AfroCine</a> and <a href="https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Projet:Les_sans_pagEs" target="[object Object]">Les San Pages</a>

Wikiprojects are like community hubs: documentation about the topic area on Wikipedia, recommendations on how to contribute, and most importantly a list of topics that are “in scope” of the WikiProject. Currently on the Climate change topic, for example, there are about 4000 articles identified by English Wikipedia’s editing community.Smaller language Wikipedias have identified similar sets of articles (<a href="https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikiproyecto:Cambio_clim%C3%A1tico" target="[object Object]">Spanish has 850</a>, <a href="https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProjekt_Klimawandel" target="[object Object]">German has about 400</a> etc).

WikiProjects are organizing efforts in and of themselves: they involve by complex social and MediaWiki skills to design. Most smaller Wikipedias do not have WikiProjects because it is hard to adapt the infrastructure required to run a WikiProject (doing so requires a mix of bots and templates).

However, the list of content belonging to a WikiProject on one Wiki can help create a list for another language Wikipedia, by using Wikidata and Pet Scan.

WikiProjekt Klimawandel on German Wikipedia. Unlike English or Spanish Wikipedia's WikiProjects, very little of the content organization is automated on German Wikipedia. Similar gaps in infrastructure effect many other Wikipedias with smaller technical communities.

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