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: 16/12/06)
 * double redirects (last done: 16/12/06)
 * 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: 16/12/06)
 * all uncategorised main pages (uncategorised pages list)/uncategorised main pages (pages needing categorisation category) (last done: 01/09/06)
 * files in the file list/uncategorised images (last done: 16/12/06, through letter "S")
 * Check for bad/duplicate:
 * unused categories (last done: 04/11/06)
 * unused files (last done: 16/12/06)
 * wanted categories, and create the other categories (last done: 04/11/06)
 * wanted pages (5639 pages on 05/10/06)) (last done: 01/09/06)
 * redirects (last done: 04/11/06)
 * 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 boxart (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: 28/08/06)
 * pages needing histories merged (last done: 21/10/06)
 * Clean up:
 * pages containing drivel (last done: 28/08/06)
 * pages lacking control images (last done: N/A)
 * pages needing cleanup (last done: N/A)
 * pages needing wikification (last done: N/A)
 * pages to be merged (last done: 13/10/06)
 * 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: N/A)

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 article
 * Add game art and images to articles where appropriate

Specific tasks

 * Write documentation in the StrategyWiki namespace:
 * [[Image:0004.png]]Images
 * [[Image:0000.png]]Templates
 * [[Image:0002.png]]Categorisation
 * [[Image:0003.png]]Layout
 * [[Image:0000.png]]Bots
 * [[Image:0001.png]]Sub-paging
 * [[Image:0001.png]]Naming
 * Merge new Final Fantasy book into main Final Fantasy guide.
 * Cleanup the Chrono Trigger, Super Mario World and Super Smash Bros. Melee guides.
 * Wikify the Shadowrun (Genesis) guide.
 * Rename all the Category:Final Fantasy IV images to start with FF4 rather than FF2.

Current members

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