MarioWiki:Maintenance

This article is under construction. Therefore, please excuse its informal appearance while it is being worked on. We hope to have it completed by Monday May 7th.

As a wiki, we have technical and gritty cleanup to do. Now that we are an established and ever-growing wiki with tens of active contributors, problems such as short pages, badly-written articles and unlicensed images, maintaining order is just as important as adding articles to the database – hence, this page. You'll find what's new recently with new images and new articles, and many pages that need fixing – whether it's licensing, expansion or adding images. There are sometimes 200+ pages with one single issue, which is quite intimidating, but here we only show 3 per cleanup point.

Continuous Maintenance

Using the extension DynamicPageList, three pages that match the problem listed below are shown randomly. If you are good at fixing one of these issues, repair the articles listed in the row, then refresh this page for another batch of three. The issues that cannot be represented by using DPL at the bottom have links to special pages which look much more intimidating than what it would be, but can still be done in small steps, one at a time. Look for more description of each problem below the table.

	Type	Description	Three Pages in Need
SB	Stubs	Articles that are short in size. A stub should be at most 1-1.5kB in size (1000B=1kB).	ordermethod=firstedit|category=Stubs¦Rewrite and Expansion Requested|mode=inline|inlinetext=, |randomcount=3|addpagesize=true}}
LI	Unlicensed Images	Images without one of these templates that excludes them from a sub-category of this.	namespace=Image|shownamespace=false|ordermethod=lastedit|mode=inline|inlinetext=, |notuses=Template:Album-cover¦Template:Art¦ Template:Attribution¦Template:Book-cover¦Template:Cc-by-nc-sa-2.5¦Template:Character-artwork¦Template:Comic-cover¦Template:Comic-scene¦ Template:Copyrighted free use¦Template:Dvd-cover¦Template:Fal¦Template:Film-screenshot¦Template:Game-cover¦Template:Game-logo¦ Template:Game-screenshot¦Template:Gfdl¦Template:Lgpl¦Template:Logo¦Template:Mag-cover¦Template:Pd¦Template:Pd-self¦Template:Permission¦ Template:Promophoto¦Template:Restricted use¦Template:Soundclip¦Template:Tv-screenshot¦Template:Vhs-cover¦Template:Video-screenshot¦ Template:Videoclip¦Template:Web-screenshot|randomcount=3}}
RW	Rewrite	Poorly-written articles (e.g. ridden with grammar mistakes) that need to be fixed, or articles dumped from Wikipedia that need originality here.	uses=Template:Rewrite¦Rewrite adn Expansion Requested|ordermethod=lastedit|mode=inline|inlinetext=, |randomcount=2}} Wikidump: {{#dpl:debug=1|category=Wikidumped|ordermethod=lastedit|mode=inline|inlinetext=, |randomcount=1}}
IM	Image requested	Articles that need an image(s) to illustrate the subject. Note: The queue is severely backed up.	category=Image requested|ordermethod=lastedit|mode=inline|inlinetext=, |randomcount=3}}
NT	Navigation Templates	1. Some big tems need <showhide> to hide sections. 2. Some color schemes are blinding or unreadable and need to be set to just 2-3 colors.	category=Navigation Templates|shownamespace=false|ordermethod=lastedit|mode=inline|inlinetext=, |randomcount=3}}
NC	No Category	Articles without a category, excluding the Main Page and the glitch "™ª Block"	categoriesminmax=0,0|ordermethod=lastedit|namespace=|nottitlematch=Main Page¦Â™ª Block|mode=inline|inlinetext=, |randomcount=3}}
WP	Wanted pages	Nonexistent articles that have the most red links to them. Most wanted in special page is at top.	Cannot be done with DPL. See Special:Wantedpages, Special:Lonelypages, Special:Deadendpages, Special:DoubleRedirects, Special:BrokenRedirects and Special:Unusedfiles respectively for full lists.
OR	Orphaned	Articles that have no links from anywhere else.
DE	Dead-end pages	Articles that have no links to anywhere else.
DR	Double redirects	Redirects that lead to another redirect. Should be edited so both redirect to the same target page.
BR	Broken redirects	Redirects that lead to a nonexistent page. Article should be created or redirect fixed to target page.
UN	Unused files	All files should be used in at least one page. Some are lying around waiting to be tagged with {{delete}} as well.

Stubs Stubs are an ongoing problem on this wiki. Category:Stubs is seriously backed up (though not noted above, and not as bad as image requested). A stub is basically an article that simply states the obvious (This is a character in this game) and has a navigation template to link it to related subjects, and a category or two. No real details that set apart from any other blank in the game. See Help:Article to make sure it has the seven required steps, then add the details about the subject in question to give it its own article. A lengthy, non-stub article is usually over 1kB in size. Note. The page size includes navigation templates and images. The actual text content of a 1kB page may be just one sentence.

Unlicensed Images