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This is our draft TODO list. Feel free to add items, leave comments, and whatever else you find useful.
Preparations
clean up templates
- Remove unused templates that are not useful and possibly update the ones that are useful.
- To facilitate page creation, each template should provide a sensible default category.
- Templates in the new wiki are named Template/Name
Set up some sample notice boxes
Wikipedia has warning boxes for outdated content, content that will be deleted, and so on. We will probably need similar boxes that we can copy and paste to the pages they apply to. They have been set up so you can copy and paste them.
First sweep
- check all pages
Go through TitleIndex and fix each page according to our standards.
- replace / in titles / is treated as a hierarchical separator, but sometimes, it is meant as an "or", so we need to determine which one it is in each case and then fix it accordingly. If it is not a hierarchical separator, it should be replaced and the following macrro should be added to the page:
#pragma title Rhein/Main
- put at least one category on every page You can add a new completely category for a page if you think this is useful (we will merge them later if necessary), but if you do, please set up the according category page as well.
- decide if a page should be a subpage
- add language tag to each page
- fix orphaned and abandoned pages
AbandonedPages These pages are most likely old cruft; if there is hardly any content, then they can be deleted right away. If they have useful content, try moving them to a more visible place. If they are orphaned/abandoned for other reasons, I suggest a three-step process: Put a notice box at the top that warns people that we think this page is outdated and that it will be deleted soon.
Also tell them that if they use this page regularly, they should leave a comment under the note. Also add a Category/DeletionCandidate to the page so we can find it again more easily. After 4 weeks, we move those pages to a separate area under DeletionCandidates and then, after another 4 weeks, we delete them for good.
- replace / in titles / is treated as a hierarchical separator, but sometimes, it is meant as an "or", so we need to determine which one it is in each case and then fix it accordingly. If it is not a hierarchical separator, it should be replaced and the following macrro should be added to the page:
- clean up categories
Category Now we should merge categories that are too similar and delete categories that should not exist. All categories need to be placed in the Category namespace.
- categories to merge
- Category/Events and Category/FellowshipEvents
Second sweep
- check all pages
- add/replace cleaned up categories
- set up Portal pages
- Which Portal pages are needed/useful?
There is a list in the section "standards".
- includes If a page has a comment that designates an abstract, we can work with include to make a pretty decent portal page.
<<Include(pagename, heading, level, from="regex", to="regex", sort=ascending|descending, items=n, skipitems=n, titlesonly, editlink)>>
- quotes?
<<RandomQuote(pagename)>>
- Which Portal pages are needed/useful?
Third sweep
- check all pages
- fix broken links We should check all links when we go through the pages. We can also find broken links with this special page:
WantedPages If it is really just a broken link, try to fix it. If that is not possible, please notify the person in charge of the page or remove the link. If it is a link to a page that should actually exist, leave it as is.
- improve content
- merge pages
- fix broken links We should check all links when we go through the pages. We can also find broken links with this special page:
Finish
- monitor recent changes and fix as appropriate
- do spring cleaning once a year