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Project Maintenance

This project is about keeping everything in this wiki in order. This includes easy tasks for new editors to get to know the structure of the wiki.

The main page of this projects is Project:Maintenance.

check out the maintenance reports at Special:SpecialPages Special:UncategorizedFiles need categorization All files need licensing information Special:WantedCategories need creation edit this section

Welcome to the Project Maintenance.
This is the page where we collect todos on keeping everything about this wiki in order.

Members of this project

If you want to help in this project you can just link yourself below and also add {{Maintenance member}} on your user page.
Members so far are:

• User:Paula
• category of all maintainers

Reports

There are a lot of maintenance reports in the first section of the page Special:SpecialPages. Most tasks for this projects will be related to those reports.

Highly interesting reports

These are the reports that should be checked regularly and ideally be empty.

• Special:BrokenRedirects
• Special:DoubleRedirects
• Special:UncategorizedCategories should only contain Super-categories
• Special:UncategorizedFiles
• Special:UncategorizedPages should only contain Main Page
• Special:UncategorizedTemplates

Interesting reports

These are reports that have the second highest priority. The goal is to get some of them empty over time as well.

• Special:FewestRevisions ignore translations - other pages might need some looking-over -> Project:Quality control's job
• Special:WantedCategories should maybe be created - never directly create wanted translated categories, but translate the original category

Slightly interesting reports

These are reports that should not be of high concern.

• Special:DeadEndPages contain lots of Drafts
• Special:LongPages are not really an issue
• Special:OrphanedPages contain lots of Drafts
• Special:ProtectedPages only Paula can edit those
• Special:ProtectedTitles empty
• Special:ShortPages ignore Main Page and translations - others might need more content -> Project:Quality control's job
• Special:UnusedCategories ignore translations - other categories should either be used or deleted (might be typos)
• Special:UnusedFiles contain files used deeper in the wiki - others might be unnecessary
• Special:UnusedTemplates ignore translations - other than that contains mostly templates that are just currently unused
• Special:UnwatchedPages contain mostly translations - only relevant if you use watchlist and not Special:RecentChanges
• Special:WantedFiles only some of these are really wanted
• Special:WantedPages contain mostly missing translations
• Special:WantedTemplates contain mostly missing translations

Broken reports

These are reports that don't work on this wiki.

• Special:AncientPages don't really show the oldest pages - also not really relevant
• Special:WithoutInterwiki doesn't work with the translation extention that we use

Translations of categories

Here we'll list which categories in the category tree should be marked for translation (by adding <languages/><translate></translate>) and which not.
Generally it's a good idea to mark a category for translation, if the pages in it are/should be marked for translation.

Legend:

• ✔️ means the category is already marked for translation
• ✔️❗️ means it should be but isn't marked for translation
• no emoji means it's not decided yet
• ❌ means it shouldn't be marked for translation

The list:

• Admin guides ✔️
• Advanced ✔️
  • Promo material ✔️
• Beginners guides ✔️
  • Apps ✔️
• Fediverse ✔️
  • In the Fediverse ✔️
• Fediverse projects ✔️
  • sub categories thereof ✔️❗️
• Fediverse protocols ✔️
  • sub categories thereof ✔️❗️
• Fedizens ✔️
• Files ✔️❗️
• How to ✔️
• Instances ✔️
  • Former instances
  • Instances Austria ✔️
• Media ✔️
  • Book covers
  • Fediverse logos
    • sub-categories thereof
  • Infographics
  • Memes
  • Meta media
    • Fancy media
  • Paintings
  • Profile pics
  • Screenshots
    • sub-categories thereof
  • Server images
  • Unrelated media
  • Unrelated stuff ✔️
  • Zines
• Meta ✔️
  • Articles with issues and sub-categories ❌
  • Disambiguation pages
  • Editing guides
  • Projects
  • Templates ✔️
    • sub-categories thereof
  • Users
    • sub-categories thereof
• Portals
• Topics ✔️
  • Arts, culture & entertainment ✔️
  • Climate ✔️
• What are Fediverse projects? ✔️
  • sub-categories thereof
• What is ✔️

Other tasks

• all categories should be in plural form (Drafts, Fediverse projects...). This was not considered in the past, but User:Paula did a mass-action to change that. If you find a category where it's still wrong let Paula know. Only she can use Special:ReplaceText.
• check Special:NewFiles and add license information and source
• make sub-categories of large categories where it makes sense
• make sure all pages are categorized correctly
• decide which pages should be included in the Template:Navbar
• writing and improving the Category:Editing guides is generally the task of Project:Guidance, but questions like "how should articles be categorized" (see Project:Style guide) also fall into our jurisdiction.

What's going on right now

User:Paula is moving some templates and categories and then starting an automated process to change all referrals to those templates and categories. This is done to follow the naming scheme (see Capitalization and Naming scheme) and for consistency. Here is what's being changed:

• Template:Internal Link -> Template:Internal link
• Category:Meta Media -> Category:Meta media
• Template:LangSwiInd -> Template:Language switch (I had renamed that because the template had issues and I thought it was because of the name, but it was something else)
• Template:Infobox App -> Template:Infobox app
• Template:Infobox App short -> Template:Infobox app short
• Template:Infobox Platform -> Template:Infobox platform

Paula did:

• First create a MediaWiki:Sitenotice to warn of broken links, categories and templates ✅
• Move the pages, e.g. Template:Internal link to Template:Internal link ✅
• Use Special:ReplaceText to let the wiki do the rest automatically ✅
• After it's all done check reports and category tree for mistakes ✅
  • Some things will simply take time to be fixed ✅
• And also mark pages for translation ✅

Everybody can then help:

• See if everything is correct
• Go through "outdated" translations of the languages you speak (everything where e.g. the internal link template was used will display as outdated even though it should be fixed in the translation as well as the source text)

What Paula still has to do:

• Mark Template:Infobox for translations and incorporate sub-pages
• Figure out why translations of Template:Language switch are wanted