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.

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

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Cleanup	Out-of-date information	2	2	How to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
	Unused Templates	4		How to

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 requests	3-4	83	How to
Other	Too many expensive parser function calls	?	0	How to