Wiki maintenance

This page is currently under construction and might undergo drastic changes within a short span of time.

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This page discusses the maintenance of this wiki. It assumes that you have already read and familiarized yourself with Wiki instructions. If you have not, please do so before continuing.

Issue Listings

Most of the following pages 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.) They are useful lists that track areas for improvement all around the wiki. 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: Categories, Files, Pages, Templates - See Using Categories for more information on how to deal with these properly.
• Unused content: Categories, Files, Templates
• Wanted content: Categories, Files, Pages, Templates
• Tagged articles: Pages to merge, Requests, Candidates for speedy deletion

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

The Warn template is used for cautionary messages to readers.

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.

Other notes

1. Each of the tools (listed at GVCS tools) should have a standardized, clear, navigable set of instructions. See Product Template. The CEB Press and LifeTrac are the priorities
2. Merge different development templates: GVCS Development Template, Global Village Construction Set - 'deployment' and 'product cycle' sections, possibly others scattered around the wiki and blog post them here
3. Merge pages listed at Category:Pages to merge
4. See the list of 'Wanted' tags on the wiki and take care of them
5. Category: Candidates for speedy deletion should be reviewed and acted upon
6. Special: WantedCategories and Special: WantedTemplates provide lists with categories and templates that potentially need to be merged or removed.
7. Many pages are very small and can be merged into larger related pages. When done, the smaller page should be turned into a redirect to the larger page.
8. Go thru Special:Allpages and Special:UncategorizedPages and categorize each page using the breadcrumb template (explained here)
9. Find pages in nonstandard categories (check the list of categories) and put them in standard categories. (The list of standard categories will need to be expanded over time.)

Merging and moving pages

1. Standardize the list of the GVCS tools. There are conflicting lists at RepLab, Product Ecologies (says there are 49 tools), Global Village Construction Set (says there are 28 tools)
2. Add a page on explaining how to use templates and listing available templates.
3. Please add pictures to as many pages as possible. It doesn't matter if they don't provide extra information; they just make the page nicer to look at.

Categories for Related Groups and Collaboration

Current layout:

• Category:Organizations
  • Category:Resilient Communities
• Category:Friendly Organizations
• Category:Related Groups
  • Allied Organizations
  • Friendly Organizations
  • Category:Related Wikis
  • Category:Collaboration Discussions

Proposed:

• Category:Related
  • Category:Organizations (merge Category:Friendly Organizations and Category:Related Groups here)
    • Merge Allied Organizations and Friendly Organizations; then, create pages for their items.
    • Category:Resilient Communities
  • Category:Related Wikis (Maybe rename to Wikis)
  • Category:Collaboration Discussions (Keep this a sub-category of Category:Related ?