FamilySearch Wiki:Maintenance: Difference between revisions

Revision as of 12:09, 22 November 2010

As well as editing, users are invited to become involved in maintenance tasks. Most of these tasks can be done by any user, not just administrators.

Template:Resources for collaboration

Maintenance work is a vital part of keeping the Research Wiki running optimally. Be careful to avoid creating more maintenance work through instruction creep. Organize when you can, but always keep the big picture in sight: we are here to create a resource for family history researchers. If you wish to contribute to FamilySearch Wiki in ways other than maintenance, please consider some suggestions of things you can do.

Things to watch

Special:Recentchanges – Patrol for vandals and other bad edits
New pages – Patrol for vandals and redundancy with existing articles

Reports

Special pages

High priority
Broken redirects
Dead-end pages
Orphaned pages
Short pages
New pages
Uncategorized pages
Uncategorized templates
Uncategorized categories

Medium priority
Double redirects
Duplicate files
Protected pages
Long pages

Low priority
Unused categories
Unused templates
Unused files
Oldest pages
Fewest revisions
Without language links
Protected titles

See also Maintenance Reports

Special pages are updated either automatically or on request by the developers.

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+As well as editing, users are invited to become involved in '''maintenance tasks'''. Most of these tasks can be done by any user, not just [[FamilySearch Wiki:Administrators|administrators]].
+{{Resources for collaboration}}
-=== General Maintenance and Cleanup  ===
+Maintenance work is a vital part of keeping the Research Wiki running optimally. Be careful to avoid creating more maintenance work through [http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Instruction_creep instruction creep]. Organize when you can, but always keep [[The Vision: Why We Built FamilySearch Wiki|the big picture]] in sight: we are here to create a resource for family history researchers. If you wish to contribute to FamilySearch Wiki in ways other than maintenance, please consider some suggestions of [[FamilySearch Wiki:Things you can do|things you can do]].
-{{Maintenance_Resources/General}} <br>
+'''Things to watch'''
-=== Content Maintenance  ===
+*[[Special:Recentchanges]] – Patrol for vandals and other bad edits
+*[[Special:Newpages|New pages]] – Patrol for vandals and redundancy with existing articles
-''These tasks needs some knowledge of the subject matter of the articles in question.''
+'''Reports'''
+<div style="float: left; margin-left: -20px; margin-right: 12px;">{{specialpageslist}}</div>
+Special pages are updated either automatically or on request by the developers.
-{{Maintenance Resources/Content}} <br>
+[[Category:FamilySearch_Wiki_maintenance|{{PAGENAME}}]]
-=== Administrative Maintenance  ===
-''Work that needs additional rights or specialized knowledge to fix.''
-{{Maintenance Resources/Administrative}} <br>
-[[Category:Wiki_maintenance_Help]]