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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: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:UncategorizedFiles should get categorized
• 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

Other tasks

• currently User:Paula changes all categories from singular to plural for consistency. Only Paula can do this. It consists of 3 steps:
  • using the Special:ReplaceText page to make sure all articles link to the new category
  • moving the old category to the new name
  • using Special:PageTranslation to mark all pages for translations so the categories are renamed on translated pages too
  • when all is done check Special:WantedCategories and Special:UnusedCategories for things that still need fixing
• define which categories, pages, etc should be translated (exclude e.g. Category:Articles with issues) and prepare them for translation by adding these: <languages/><translate></translate>
• 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, e.g.:
  • lots of Category:Templates pages should be moved to sub-categories
• 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.