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==General Wiki guidelines and etiquette will go here== | ==General Wiki guidelines and etiquette will go here== | ||
| − | + | ===finding candidates for deletion | |
| − | + | ===linking orphans | |
| − | + | ===add redirects | |
| − | + | ===change incorrect redirects=== | |
| − | *locking pages | + | *if a page |
| − | + | * | |
| − | + | ===deleting redirects=== | |
| − | * Users who are interested in wiki maintenance can edit their user page and add this text to their User page: <nowiki>[[Category:WikiGnomes]]</nowiki> | + | *don't delete redirects unless the following are all true: |
| + | **the redirect goes to another redirect or creates a loop | ||
| + | **and there are no pages linking to that redirect | ||
| + | |||
| + | ===locking pages=== | ||
| + | ===undeleting pages=== | ||
| + | ===commenting edits=== | ||
| + | ===Creating your own user page=== | ||
| + | *Users who are interested in wiki maintenance can edit their user page and add this text to their User page: <nowiki>[[Category:WikiGnomes]]</nowiki> | ||
==Links to important pages== | ==Links to important pages== | ||
Revision as of 22:38, 19 November 2016
This is the start of the Wiki Maintenance Group
Some ideas:
Goals
- Introduce new members to the process of editing the wiki
- create machine equipment labels
- add authorization details
- navigation principles
- basic syntax
- Have a monthly meeting to edit the wiki
- Update equipment pages
- Help inventory
- Category and template creation
- Introduce members to Special:SpecialPages
General Wiki guidelines and etiquette will go here
===finding candidates for deletion ===linking orphans ===add redirects
change incorrect redirects
- if a page
deleting redirects
- don't delete redirects unless the following are all true:
- the redirect goes to another redirect or creates a loop
- and there are no pages linking to that redirect
locking pages
undeleting pages
commenting edits
Creating your own user page
- Users who are interested in wiki maintenance can edit their user page and add this text to their User page: [[Category:WikiGnomes]]
Links to important pages
- Special:SpecialPages
- User:Wikibot and Wikibot manual
- candidates for deletion
- orphans: Special:LonelyPages
- Oldest pages: Special:AncientPages
- Special:BrokenRedirects
- The Wiki
Tasks to do
- develop strategy for determining orphan pages, and linking them.
- Talk to Dave about including categories and special pages bar, or coming up with a better search in general
- de-duplicating information
- who can edit the wiki infrastructure? Toba, Hef, Daniel P, Doorman Dave
- who wants to get access to edit the infrastructure? Ron O, Adriana
- remove pages for deletion