Wiki Maintenance

This is the start of the Wiki Maintenance Group

Some ideas:

Goals

• Introduce new members to the process of editing the wiki
  • create machine equipment labels
  • add authorization details
  • navigation principles
  • basic syntax
• Have a monthly meeting to edit the wiki
• Update equipment pages
• Help inventory
• Category and template creation
• Introduce members to Special:SpecialPages

General Wiki guidelines and etiquette will go here

===finding candidates for deletion ===linking orphans ===add redirects

change incorrect redirects

• if a page

deleting redirects

• don't delete redirects unless the following are all true:
  • the redirect goes to another redirect or creates a loop
  • and there are no pages linking to that redirect

Creating your own user page

• Users who are interested in wiki maintenance can edit their user page and add this text to their User page: [[Category:WikiGnomes]]

Links to important pages

• Special:SpecialPages
• User:Wikibot and Wikibot manual
• candidates for deletion
• orphans: Special:LonelyPages
• Oldest pages: Special:AncientPages
• Special:BrokenRedirects
• The Wiki

Tasks to do

• develop strategy for determining orphan pages, and linking them.
• Talk to Dave about including categories and special pages bar, or coming up with a better search in general
• de-duplicating information
• who can edit the wiki infrastructure? Toba, Hef, Daniel P, Doorman Dave
• who wants to get access to edit the infrastructure? Ron O, Adriana
• remove pages for deletion