StrategyWiki:Cleanup project/Long term tasks

The StrategyWiki cleanup project aims to improve the quality of writing, templating, categorising and layout in every article in the wiki to attain better consistency throughout. A lot of our work stems from discussion of new ideas in community issues.

Current tasks

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Periodic tasks

 * Fix all pages with:
 * broken redirects (last done on 7/23/07)
 * double redirects (last done on 7/23/07)
 * Categorise:
 * all uncategorised categories — only the 10 core categories should remain; those are currently the categories: companies, dates, games, genres, guides by completion stage, maintenance, modes, official pages, series, and systems.
 * all uncategorised main pages (uncategorised pages list)/uncategorised main pages (pages needing categorisation category,  pages)
 * files in the file list (last done through letter "S") / uncategorised images (last done on 7/23/07)
 * all TODO lists without a priority.
 * Check for bad/duplicate:
 * unused categories
 * unused files
 * wanted categories, and create the other categories
 * wanted pages (5639 pages on 05/10/06)
 * redirects
 * Add:
 * links on dead-end pages (last done on 7/23/07)
 * links to lonely pages
 * rename template to images (last done through letter "S")
 * rename template to pages
 * boxart to pages needing box artwork (if the game never came in a box, a logo or screenshot will do,  pages)
 * transparency to all images needing transparency ( images)
 * Remove:
 * references to deprecated templates ( templates)
 * duplicates of general templates in guide-specific templates ( templates)
 * Rename:
 * templates to sensible, standard names in guide-specific templates ( templates)
 * any pages needing renaming ( pages)
 * Deal with:
 * pages with possible copyright violation ( pages)
 * Add sources to pages marked with copyvio with no source provided ( pages)
 * requests for deletion ( pages)
 * Clean up:
 * pages containing drivel ( pages)
 * pages lacking control images ( pages)
 * pages needing cleanup ( pages)
 * pages needing wikification ( pages)
 * pages to be merged ( pages)
 * pages containing spelling mistakes
 * Expand:
 * stubs ( pages)
 * works in progress ( pages)
 * pages needing an infobox ( pages)
 * Merge:
 * histories ( pages)

Ongoing tasks

 * Categorize pages: (All games)
 * according to multiplayer or single player
 * according to year and day of release, using years and days
 * according to developer, producer and hardware
 * according to genres
 * according to series
 * Categorize images (Uncategorized images)
 * Add infoboxes to every guide
 * Add HNs to every page
 * Add game art and images to pages where appropriate
 * Patrol every edit

Specific tasks

 * Write documentation in the StrategyWiki namespace and the guide:
 * [[Image:0004.svg]] Images
 * [[Image:0000.svg]] Templates
 * [[Image:0002.svg]] Categorisation
 * [[Image:0003.svg]] Layout
 * [[Image:0000.svg]] Bots
 * [[Image:0001.svg]] Naming
 * [[Image:0002.svg]] Guide
 * Clean up these guides and makes sure all are filled with the information imported from other wikis:
 * StarCraft
 * Super Mario World
 * America's Army
 * City of Heroes
 * Simply clean up these guides:
 * Ultimate Spider-Man/Bosses
 * Mario Kart 64
 * Super Mario 64 and Super Mario 64 DS (merge properly)
 * Dirge of Cerberus: Final Fantasy VII
 * Mario Adventure
 * Integrate information from a page dump into the other pages (please check whether the dumps are a copyvio first, then integrate via rewrite if need be):
 * Diablo II: Lord of Destruction/Tips
 * GoldenEye 007/Walkthrough
 * Star Wars Rogue Squadron II: Rogue Leader/Gold Medals
 * Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri and Sid Meier's Alien Crossfire
 * Half-Life Fact File
 * Replace all instances of All Game Nav with Header Nav (Assigned to User:Auto Prod Bot)
 * Replace all instances of "backpage," "backname," and "customback" with "prevpage," "prevname," and "customprev" in all pages using the Footer Nav (Assigned to User:Auto Prod Bot)
 * Rid the wiki of any company categories which include things like "inc.", "co." and "ltd."