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-This is the start of the Wiki Maintenance Group
+The Wiki Maintenance Group is an ad hoc group of members that work together to improve the wiki in a variety of ways, generate some standard procedures, and help ensure the quality of PS:One's wiki. We hope that the Wiki will be something that members will find useful in their time at PS:One, a historical record and source of truth for the organization, and be generally useful for the broader online Hacker/Maker community.
-Some ideas:
 ==Goals==
 *Introduce new members to the process of editing the wiki
-**create machine [[Template:EquipmentPage|equipment labels]]
+**create [[Template:EquipmentPage|equipment labels and wiki pages]]
 **add authorization details
 **navigation principles
 **basic syntax
 *Have a monthly meeting to edit the wiki
+**Wine Wiki Wednesdays (borrowed from [https://www.i3detroit.org/wiki/Wiki_Wine_Workshop i3 Detroit])
+**connect with other members directly on Discord #wiki-love
 *Update equipment pages
-*Help inventory
+**Aid areas, hosts, and volunteers report status, best practices, etc
+*Account for all areas and volunteers - names, contact methods, handles
+**should use user pages in the wiki?
+*Help inventory all the equipment
+**Get master equipment list from each area host
 *Category and template creation
+*Document and describe the organization structure - [https://docs.google.com/drawings/d/10im8sXQ0jGZtr_cJzWHMRsNIsdyGFJkdXJuixoSQEzc/edit?usp=sharing Diagram]
+**Create an overarching plan/structure of wiki information
+**History of PS:One
+**Board, Officer, Committee, Area Host Procedures
+**New Member Onboarding
 *Introduce members to [[Special:SpecialPages]]
+*Networking Staging Page [[Networking Reorg Staging Page]]
-==General Wiki guidelines and etiquette will go here==
+==General Guidelines and Etiquette==
-*finding candidates for deletion
+Consider reading [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Simplified_ruleset<nowiki> Wikipedia's Simplified Ruleset]</nowiki>
-*linking orphans
+===add tags to pages that need updating===
-*deleting redirects
+'''<nowiki>{{NeedsUpdate|your reasons for deletion go here}}</nowiki>'''
-*locking pages
-*undeleting
+=== [[:Category:Pages with broken file links|Category:Pages_with_broken_file_links]] ===
-*commenting edits
+=== note that a piece of equipment has been removed ===
+* edit the source
+* in the "where:" type "Removed" (no quotations, capitalization matters)
+* you should see a banner at the top of the page that says the equipment is removed
+===finding candidates for deletion===
+Candidates for deletion are pages that haven't been updated in a long time, are incomplete, abandoned. A question you may ask yourself: is the deletion improving clarity or wiki structure?
+* Some equipment pages may be candidates for deletion, but if there is valuable information in them consider making them historical pages.
+* If there is some information that would be useful or historical in a page consider moving that content to a more appropriate page or making the page historical.
+* Do not delete pages in user namespaces.
+===linking orphans===
+===add redirects===
+* create redirects to single tool pages based on terms you would search to find that tool.
+** If there is more than one tool redirect to a disambiguation page or a subsection that lists all those tools.
+To add a redirect to an existing page (not another redirect) create a new page and add the following text
+*<nowiki>#REDIRECT [[the page you'd like to redirect to]]</nowiki>
+===change incorrect redirects===
+* all redirects should go to a specific page. If a redirect is relevant to another page or equipment make sure that is redirects there.
+===deleting redirects===
+*do no delete redirects in user namespaces
+*don't delete redirects unless the following are all true:
+**the redirect goes to another redirect or creates a loop or leads to a page or redirect that doesn't exist
+**and there are no pages linking to that redirect
+===locking pages===
+===undeleting pages===
+===commenting edits===
+* when edits are made you should can use the signature button (second button to the right in the edit)--[[User:Rtystgeeke|Rtystgeeke]] ([[User talk:Rtystgeeke|talk]]) 16:54, 19 November 2016 (CST)
+* you can also type <nowiki>~~~~</nowiki> characters together to insert a timestamped signature when typing [[User:Skm|Skm]] ([[User talk:Skm|talk]]) 14:40, 3 December 2016 (CST)
+===creating your own user page===
+*Log into the wiki
+*Typing wiki.pumpingstationone.org/user:your_user_name into your browser
+*Click the create button in the upper right corner
+*Edit your page with your info, tools you know, things you want to learn, and any applicable categories
+*Users who are interested in wiki maintenance can edit their user page and add this text to their User page: <nowiki>[[Category:WikiGnomes]]</nowiki>
+*If you want to be fancy you can create a redirect by making a new page (with your name or nickname) as the page title and then type REDIRECT#[[User:(your user name)]]
 ==Links to important pages==
 * [[Special:SpecialPages]]
-* [[User:Wikibot]]
+* [[User:Wikibot]] and [https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Wikibot Wikibot manual]
 *candidates for deletion
-*orphans: [[Special:LonelyPages]]
+*orphans: [[Special:LonelyPages]] - read this wiki [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Orphan#What_if_I_can.27t_de-orphan_it.3F article] about how to de-orphan. Do not de-orphan just for its own sake.
 * Oldest pages: [[Special:AncientPages]]
 * [[Special:BrokenRedirects]]
+* [[The Wiki]]
+* [[:Category:Broken Equipment]]
+* [[:Category:Candidates_for_deletion]] see category page for syntax - adds marked for deletion
+* [[:Category:Outdated_pages]]
+* [[:Category:NeedsUpdate]] - see category page for syntax - adds needs update banner
+* [[Spaceops]]
+*[https://www.semantic-mediawiki.org/wiki/Semantic_MediaWiki Documentation for Semantic Mediawiki Extension]
+*[[Wiki Editing]]
+* [https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLAPWFk6Q9aTdIusqKyCdErpuRe2WDgToz YouTube Tutorial Videos]
+==Infrastructure Editors==
+*who can edit the wiki infrastructure? [[User:Folf]]
+*who wants to get access to edit the infrastructure? [[User:Tachoknight]]
+*remove pages for deletion
+==Tasks to do==
+*Check out the [https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1E54AmJ98iLOgkueaHV0eI7Im9mhVM8eAxwAiWeshSdg/edit?gid=0#gid=0 punch list]!
+*all tools are categorized into each area.
+**create list for area hosts to audit - remove old equipment, add new equipment pages
+**any way to make area show a list of active machines only?
+*Fix links that point internally but use external links (/wiki/ problem with bad links)
+*develop strategy for determining orphan pages, and linking them. Lots of pages are categorized but not linked (any way to differentiate?)
+*come up with specific search queries for targeted actions
+*de-duplicating information: create a banner, roll duplicated information into less pages
+*orphaned pages should exclude pages that are linked via categories
+*figure out if [[Special:Wantedcategories]] that do not have category: pages should be removed from the linking pages or created
+*fix [[:Category:EquipmentPageErrorNoAreahost]] so that all equipment belongs to an area host or member
+*add [[:Category:Retired_Equipment]] Equipment to equipment that has wiki pages but is deprecated for some reason
+**I'd like to create a new template very similar to the candidates marked for deletion that has a reason or link to a new machine
+*add [[:Template:NeedsUpdate]] to pages with old, incorrect, or missing information
+==Ideas for improvement==
+*email digest to google groups/area host a list of broken tools automatically based on broken tool list
+*correlate member pages to list of current members, tag their user page as such
+==Wiki Overhaul==
+[[User:Carlfk/meeting_notes]]
+* Rename wiki to not have a colon in <code><nowiki>{{SITENAME}}</nowiki></code>
+[[Category:WikiGnomes]]
+[[Category:Interest Groups]]