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

Periodic tasks

• Fix all pages with:
  • broken redirects (last done: 16/07/06)
  • double redirects (last done: 16/07/06)
• Categorise:
  • all uncategorised categories — only core categories should remain (last done: 14/07/06)
  • all uncategorised main pages (last done: 02/07/06)
  • files in the file list (last done: 16/07/06, down to Zelda ALttp item Big Key.png)
• Check for bad/duplicate:
  • unused categories (last done: 02/07/06)
  • unused files (last done: 07/07/06)
  • wanted categories, and create the other categories (last done: 14/07/06)
  • wanted pages (last done: N/A)
• Add links on dead-end pages (last done: N/A)
• Add links to lonely pages (last done: N/A)
• Remove references to deprecated templates (last done: 14/07/06)
• Remove duplicates of general templates in guide-specific templates (last done: 07/07/06)
• Rename templates to sensible, standard names in guide-specific templates (last done: 07/07/06)
• Deal with:
  • pages with possible copyright violation (last done: N/A)
    • Add sources to pages marked with copyvio with no source provided (last done: N/A)
  • requests for deletion (last done: 16/07/06)
• Clean up:
  • pages containing drivel (last done: 02/07/06)
  • 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)

Ongoing tasks

• Categorise 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
• Categorise images
• Add infoboxes to every article
• Add game art and images to articles where appropriate

Specific tasks

• Write documentation in the StrategyWiki namespace:
  • StrategyWiki:Images
  • StrategyWiki:Templates
  • StrategyWiki:Categorisation
  • StrategyWiki:Layout
  • StrategyWiki:Bots
  • StrategyWiki:Sub-paging
• Sort out button and ensure consistent use of it
• Write some boilerplate text for user pages:
  • Spam
  • Welcome to StrategyWiki
  • Bad edit
  • Sandbox
  • Welcome to cleanup project
• Make use of "messagebox" CSS
• Enable system requirements in infobox

Current members

• DrBob
• Mr Saeba
• Dukeruckley