FamilySearch Wiki talk:Maintenance

Adding to maintenance page

It would be nice to have all the possible maintenance work centered on this page. There are a number of tasks that are on the Special page so here I will be adding other required tasks and trying to organize them to fold them into the main Maintenance page. Here they are organized by high-priority to low priority, depending on whether or not the reports actually show a problem or are just good to look at every once in a while.

• Dead-end pages
• Orphaned pages
• Wanted files
• Wanted pages
• Wanted templates
• Patrolling

• Duplicate files
• Protected pages
• Long pages

• Unused templates :*Unused categories
• Unused files
• Oldest pages
• Pages with the fewest revisions
• Pages without language links
• Protected titles

Is the main page better organized by topic as it now is or by priority? Not sure, just thinking. If we organize by topic, the above will have to be folded into the main page. Also, some of these are admin only functions.  How do we set those apart so that everyone knows who can and can't work on them? janellv 05:20, 18 November 2010 (UTC)

I think you make a good point about the other special page maintenance reports. I have created {{specialpageslist}} grouping the based on reports based on your three priority lists. This can of course be altered if needed. My personal opinion is that the FamilySearch Wiki:Maintenance article is kept to tasks that can be done by all users and that tasks that can only be done by users with certain roles/rights be detailed on the pages (or sub-pages) about those roles (ie FamilySearch Wiki:Moderator or FamilySearch Wiki:Administrators). --Steve 11:40, 18 November 2010 (UTC)