FamilySearch Wiki:Maintenance

Welcome to the Wiki Maintenance and Cleanup Project. Everyone is invited to help keep the wiki clean through doing maintenance tasks.

Maintenance work is a vital part of keeping the Research Wiki user friendly for its researchers. While helping with the maintenance tasks, remember two things:

Take the appropriate tag(s) off the page when you have completed cleaning an article.
Document what you have done on the article's talk page for the reference of other editors.

Be careful to avoid creating more maintenance work through instruction creep (bloating of instructions due to numerous edits/additions). 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.

See also:

Maintenance Templates used to report some problems
Maintenance Report that tracks amount of work needing to be done over time.
How to Prepare and send the Weekly Report This report shows were we stand on each of the maintenance pages.

General Maintenance and Cleanup

Work that can be done by anyone, regardless of their knowledge about the subject matter of the articles in question.

Resources for general maintenance
Type	Title (click for report)	Priority	#	How to fix
Cleanup	Dead links	2	0	How to
	Ambiguous page title	2	0	How to
	Requested moves	2	0	How to
	Duplication/merging	3	1	How to
	External links that should be internal	4		How to
	Miscellaneous	2-4	0	How to
Redirects (About Redirects)	Broken redirects	2		How to
	Double redirects	2		How to
	All redirects	**	**	How to

Content Maintenance

Work that needs some knowledge about or research into the subject matter of the articles in question.

Resources for content maintenance (requiring some knowledge or study about the subject matter)
Type	Title (click for report)	Priority	#	How to fix
Cleanup	Out-of-date information	2	2	How to
	Citations needed (statements)	3	0	How to
	Citations needed (articles)	3	0	How to
	Orphaned Pages	3	**	How to
	Oldest Pages	4	**	How to
	Long Pages	4	**	How to
	Dead-end Pages	4	0	How to
Categorization	To be determined	2	0	How to
	Uncategorized pages	2		How to
	Uncategorized categories	3		How to
	Uncategorized files	5		How to
	Uncategorized templates	5		How to
	Wanted categories	5		How to
	Unused categories	5		How to
Content Needed	Wanted Pages	2-4		How to
	Wanted Files	5		How to
	Wanted Templates	5		How to
Other	Unused Files	4		How to
Other	Unused Templates	4		How to

Administrative Maintenance

Work that needs additional rights or specialized knowledge to fix.

Resources for admininistrative maintenance (requiring additional rights or specialized knowledge)
Type	Title (click for report)	Priority	#	How to fix
Governance	Patrolling new pages	1		How to
	Patrolling recent changes (Talk page changes - priority 2; Other changes - priority 3)	2-3		How to
	Articles with content outside wiki scope	2	0	How to
	Neutrality disputes	2	1	How to
	Copyright problems	2	2	How to
Deletion (About Deletion)	Urgent requests	1	0	How to
Deletion (About Deletion)	Deletion requests	3-4	83	How to
Other	Too many expensive parser function calls	?	0	How to