FamilySearch Wiki:Maintenance

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.

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.