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 on the forums.

If you need an explanation on what to do with any of these links, simply ask on the talk page.

Periodic tasks

• Fix all pages with:
  • broken redirects (last done on April 5, 2009)
  • double redirects (last done on April 5, 2009)
  • missing nums (last done on April 5, 2009)
  • missing Header Navs (last done on April 5, 2009)
  • subpage nums (last done on April 5, 2009)

• Categorise:
  • all uncategorised categories — only the 11 core categories should remain; those are currently: Companies, Dates, Engines, Games, Genres, Guides by completion stage, Miscellaneous, Modes, Official pages, Series, Systems (last done on April 18, 2009)
  • all uncategorised main pages (uncategorised pages list)/uncategorised main pages (pages needing categorisation category, 135 pages)
  • files in the file list (last done through letter "S") / uncategorised images (last done on April 5, 2009)
  • all TODO lists without a priority (0 TODO lists)

• Check for bad/duplicate:
  • unused categories
  • unused files
  • wanted categories, and create the other categories (481 pages on April 18, 2009)
  • wanted pages (49529 pages on April 5, 2009)
  • redirects

• Add:
  • links on dead-end pages (last done on September 7, 2008)
  • links to lonely pages
  • rename template to images
  • rename template to pages
  • boxart to pages needing box artwork (if the game never came in a box, a logo or screenshot will do, 586 pages)
  • {{control selector}} and {{control}} templates to pages needing control selector (1 pages)
  • transparency to all images needing transparency (1 images or categories)

• Remove:
  • references to deprecated templates (0 templates)
  • deprecated template usages from pages (13 pages)
  • duplicates of general templates in guide-specific templates (520 templates)

• Rename:
  • templates to sensible, standard names in guide-specific templates (520 templates)
  • any pages needing renaming (1 pages)
    • Name given (9 pages)

• Deal with:
  • pages with possible copyright violation (1 pages)
    • Add sources to pages marked with copyvio with no source provided (1 pages)
  • requests for deletion (90 pages)
  • any images in Category:Guide-specific images

• Clean up:
  • pages containing drivel (180 pages)
  • any pages lacking control images (30 controller categories)
    • and pages with no system specified (27 pages)
  • pages needing cleanup (898 pages)
  • pages needing wikification (397 pages)
  • pages to be merged (27 pages)
  • pages needing copyedit (22 pages)
  • pages containing spelling mistakes

• Expand:
  • stubs (7,141 pages)
  • works in progress (29 pages)
  • pages needing an infobox (175 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)
• Re-categorize images in Category:Artwork with alternate categories or subcategories.
• Add infoboxes to every guide
• Add {{Header Nav}} to every guide page
• Add game art and images to pages where appropriate
• Patrol every edit

Specific tasks

• Ensure all policies and guidelines are documented in StrategyWiki:Guide
• Clean up these guides and makes sure all are filled with the information imported from other wikis:
  • America's Army
  • City of Heroes
  • Grand Theft Auto III
  • Super Mario World
  • .hack (fix all game names)
• Simply clean up these guides/pages:
  • Disney's Toontown Online
  • EverQuest
  • Fable/Walkthrough
  • Final Fantasy X
  • The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess (GameCube) (convert to {{Control selector}})
  • Mario Adventure
  • Ragnarok Online
  • Sid Meier's Colonization
  • Super Mario 64
  • Total Annihilation
• 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):
  • Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri and Sid Meier's Alien Crossfire
• Fix all misspellings noted on User:Green Fig/Log and add these misspellings to the misspellings list.