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: 11/02/07)
 * double redirects (last done: 11/02/07)
 * Categorise:
 * all uncategorised categories &mdash; 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, systems, (last done: 11/02/07)
 * all uncategorised main pages (uncategorised pages list)/uncategorised main pages (pages needing categorisation category) (last done: 09/02/07)
 * files in the file list/uncategorised images (last done: 11/02/07, through letter "S")
 * Check for bad/duplicate:
 * unused categories (last done: 11/02/07)
 * unused files (last done: 11/02/07)
 * wanted categories, and create the other categories (last done: 11/02/07)
 * wanted pages (last done: 01/09/06, 5639 pages on 05/10/06)
 * redirects (last done: 11/02/07)
 * Add:
 * links on dead-end pages (last done: 07/10/06)
 * links to lonely pages (last done: 09/09/06)
 * rename template to images (last done: 11/08/06 through letter "S")
 * rename template to pages (last done: N/A)
 * boxart to pages needing box artwork (if the game never came in a box, a logo or screenshot will do)
 * Remove references to deprecated templates (last done: 25/07/06)
 * Remove duplicates of general templates in guide-specific templates (last done: 19/07/06)
 * Rename:
 * templates to sensible, standard names in guide-specific templates (last done: 19/07/06)
 * any pages needing renaming (last done: N/A)
 * Deal with:
 * pages with possible copyright violation (last done: 28/08/06)
 * Add sources to pages marked with copyvio with no source provided (last done: 28/08/06)
 * requests for deletion (last done: 12/03/07)
 * Clean up:
 * pages containing drivel (last done: 28/08/06)
 * pages lacking control images (last done: 11/02/07)
 * pages needing cleanup (last done: N/A)
 * pages needing wikification (last done: N/A)
 * pages to be merged (last done: 13/10/06)
 * pages containing spelling mistakes (last done: N/A)
 * Expand:
 * stubs (last done: N/A)
 * works in progress (last done: N/A)
 * pages needing an infobox (last done: 13/08/06)
 * Merge:
 * histories (last done: 21/10/06)

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 AGNs to every page
 * Add game art and images to pages where appropriate
 * Patrol every edit

Specific tasks

 * Write documentation in the StrategyWiki namespace:
 * [[Image:0004.svg]] Images
 * [[Image:0000.svg]] Templates
 * [[Image:0002.svg]] Categorisation
 * [[Image:0003.svg]] Layout
 * [[Image:0000.svg]] Bots
 * [[Image:0001.svg]] Sub-paging
 * [[Image:0001.svg]] Naming
 * Clean up these guides and makes sure all are filled with the information imported from Wikibooks.
 * Super Mario World
 * Super Smash Bros. Melee
 * Space Quest III: The Pirates of Pestulon
 * StarCraft
 * Simply Clean up these guides:
 * Ultimate Spider-Man/Bosses

Current members

 * DrBob
 * Mr Saeba
 * Dukeruckley
 * Mason11987 (Talk - Contributions)
 * Antaios
 * Prod (Talk)
 * 0-172 Talk to me
 * Ryan SchmidtTalk - Contribs