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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 January 11, 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 (516 pages on 04/16/09)
- 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)
- transparency to all images needing transparency (1 images)
- 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 (2 pages)
- Deal with:
- pages with possible copyright violation (2 pages)
- Add sources to pages marked with copyvio with no source provided (1 pages)
- requests for deletion (92 pages)
- any images in Category:Guide-specific images
- pages with possible copyright violation (2 pages)
- Clean up:
- pages containing drivel (180 pages)
- pages lacking control images (57 pages)
- pages needing cleanup (898 pages)
- pages needing wikification (397 pages)
- pages to be merged (27 pages)
- pages containing spelling mistakes
- Images uploaded as bitmaps
- 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)
- 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:
- 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):
- Fix all misspellings noted on User:Green Fig/Log and add these misspellings to the misspellings list.
- Re-categorize icon images in Category:Artwork with Category:Icons.
- Recatagorize images catch-all category artwork to alternate category or subcategories.