Wiki maintenance

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This page discusses the maintenance of this wiki.
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This page provides a list of standard routines and practices that are followed for maintaining good structure around the wiki.

Issue Listings

The following pages are useful lists that track areas for improvement all around the wiki. Most of them can be seen in Special pages. (You should be able to see a link to Special pages on the Toolbox panel on the left side of your screen.) In a nutshell, we should aim to clean up these listings as often as we can.

• Redirects: Broken Redirects, Double Redirects
• Problematic pages: Dead-end Pages, Orphaned Pages, Long Pages, Short Pages
• Uncategorized content (see Using Categories for more information on how to deal with these properly): Categories, Files, Pages, Templates
• Unused content: Categories, Files, Templates
• Wanted content: Categories, Files, Pages, Templates
• Tagged articles: Pages to merge, Requests, Candidates for speedy deletion

The following categories contain possibly relevant pages that need better integration into the wiki:

• Notes
• Links

Pages to monitor

The following pages should be checked every now and then to make sure that proper structure is maintained throughout the wiki.

• Categories
• Category Tree
• Disambiguations
• List of Redirects
• New Files
• Recent Changes
• Under construction

Tagging

The following templates are used for tagging articles that could be improved.

• Wanted
• Stub
• Merge to and Merge from
• Under construction
• Delete
• Split

Here are other useful templates for managing content:

• The Warn template is used for cautionary messages to readers.
• The Tip template is used for emphasizing helpful information.

Useful tools

• What links here - If you'd like to find out what other pages on the wiki link to a certain page, click What links here in the Toolbox panel on the left side of the screen. This should provide you with more context when making decisions about a page's content and relevance.

• Watching Pages - for monitoring changes to certain pages