MarioWiki:Maintenance

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, and here you will find certain items to keep order around here.

Welcome Committee

The welcome committee is in charge of the following:

• Making sure every new user's talk page contains a form of a welcome template, personal or normal
• Providing extra help if the new user has any other questions not answered by the template.

Any user can still welcome a new user, but the members of this committee make sure that the user understands the expectations, style of writing and rules we have come to accept and follow here. If you are a new user reading this, click one of the "talk" links below to ask an additional question. Also, many of these members are active in the chat room.

Members are (under construction): Xzelion (talk), YellowYoshi398 (talk)

Maintenance Committee

The Maintenance Committee is run by democracy. The committee ensures that Orphaned pages will be linked, unused files will be tagged for deletion or used, unlabeled PIs will be deleted, and other maintenance work will be done. Anyone who is up for it can join the committee. (sign up here).

Members Are: MarioWiki:Maintenance/Sign up

Continuous Maintenance

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 section. You'll find 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.

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.

	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=size|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|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|mode=inline|inlinetext=, |randomcount=2}} You: {{#dpl:debug=1|uses=Template:Rewrite-you|mode=inline|inlinetext=, |randomcount=2}} Wikidump: {{#dpl:debug=1|category=Wikidumped|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|mode=inline|inlinetext=, |randomcount=3}}
NC	No Category	Articles without a category, excluding the Main Page and the glitches ™ª Block, Tiny Kong, Pit	categoriesminmax=0,0|namespace=|nottitlematch=Main Page¦Â™ª Block¦Tiny Kong¦Pit|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:Unusedimages 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.