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.

Periodic tasks

 * Fix all pages with:
 * broken redirects (last done: 06/08/06)
 * double redirects (last done: 06/08/06)
 * Categorise:
 * all uncategorised categories &mdash; only the 7 core categories should remain; those are currently the categories: Companies, Dates, Genres, Maintenance, Modes, Series, Systems (last done: 06/08/06)
 * all uncategorised main pages (uncategorised pages list)/uncategorised main pages (pages needing categorisation category) (last done: 02/07/06)
 * files in the file list (last done: 07/08/06, through letter "C")
 * Check for bad/duplicate:
 * unused categories (last done: 06/08/06)
 * unused files (last done: 06/08/06)
 * wanted categories, and create the other categories (last done: 06/08/06)
 * wanted pages (last done: 06/08/06)
 * Add:
 * links on dead-end pages (last done: N/A)
 * links to lonely pages (last done: N/A)
 * rename template to images (last done: 07/08/06 through letter "C")
 * rename template to pages (last done: N/A)
 * 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: 06/08/06)
 * Add sources to pages marked with copyvio with no source provided (last done: 06/08/06)
 * requests for deletion (last done: 07/08/06)
 * Clean up:
 * pages containing drivel (last done: 07/08/06)
 * pages lacking control images (last done: N/A)
 * pages needing cleanup (last done: N/A)
 * pages needing wikification (last done: N/A)
 * Expand:
 * stubs (last done: N/A)
 * works in progress (last done: N/A)
 * pages needing an infobox (last done: 25/07/06)

Ongoing tasks

 * Categorise pages: (Uncategorized Pages)
 * 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
 * Categorise images (Getting a Special:Uncategorized Images page)
 * Add infoboxes to every article
 * Add game art and images to articles where appropriate

Specific tasks

 * Write documentation in the StrategyWiki namespace:
 * Images
 * Templates
 * Categorisation
 * Layout
 * Bots
 * Sub-paging
 * Naming
 * Sort out button and ensure consistent use of it
 * Write some boilerplate text for user pages:
 * Spam
 * Welcome to StrategyWiki
 * Feel free to base in part off of the sporewiki welcome even though some things don't apply. -- Mason11987 (Talk - Contributions) 02:24, 27 July 2006 (CDT)
 * Bad edit
 * Sandbox
 * Welcome to cleanup project
 * Make template for back, home, next links at bottom of pages: similar to Earthbound/Nav and superceding SD3Nav
 * Make use of "messagebox" CSS
 * Enable system requirements in infobox
 * I plan on getting this to work soon enough. -- Mason11987 (Talk - Contributions) 02:24, 27 July 2006 (CDT)
 * Move Earthbound to EarthBound
 * Create "title is incorrect due to technical limitations" template, and apply it to id Software

Current members

 * DrBob
 * Mr Saeba
 * Dukeruckley
 * Mason11987 (Talk - Contributions)
 * Antaios