Wikibooks:Maintenance

Maintenance work is vital to keeping Wikibooks running optimally. You can help with most of these tasks to make Wikibooks a better project!

Structural

For these tasks, see Wikibooks:CCO Resources.

• Pages, Categories, Templates, and Files that need to be organized. Only Category:Categories should be left uncategorized.
• Books to be Alphabetized and found by subject. See subject pages.
• Pages missing a reference section Pages with inline references but no <references/> or {{reflist}}.
• Category:Attention needed (allbooks) Pages that have detected problems interfering with the allbooks mechanism for finding books in sub-subjects of any given subject.
• Naming convention

Transwikis

• Pages to be transwikied to another wiki.
• Requests for import to Wikibooks. Only admins can do the actual import, but all Wikibookians are welcome to comment on requests.
• Transwikis needing a home may be useful to merge into an appropriate book.
• Pages needing to be dewikified - When appropriate these pages may be dewikified. Pages that do not meet our inclusion requirements may be marked for deletion.

Files

• Unused files - Look for duplicates, nonsense, and copyright violations, and tag them accordingly.
• Files now at Commons & Files now at Commons (different name) - Files now available on Commons that can be deleted from Wikibooks.
• Files with unknown copyright status - These will be deleted after a week if the author does not provide proper license information.
• Files with no non-free use rationale - These will be deleted after a week if the uploader does not provide a full non-free use rationale.
• Files lacking an author - These files need information on who created them in the first place.
• Files with unknown source - These files need information as to where they came from.

Content and Contributions

• Accuracy and NPOV disputes
• Books to be merged and History merge requests
• Broken and Double redirects
• Copyright violations - Check whether permission was granted by the copyright owner for works.
• New pages - Add category templates to pages, {{query}} to pages that might be in a transition stage to becoming real books, and add {{delete}} to very short pages that meet the speedy deletion criteria.
• Pages needing attention like fixing wikicode, spelling, layout, etc.
• Pending changes - Accept or reject edits to previously reviewed pages.
• Requests for deletion - Discussions about books that don't meet the speedy deletion criteria.
• Requests for edits to protected pages.
• Requests for expansion of books, pages, and sections.
• Speedy deletions - Read the Deletion policy first.
• Stubs, Orphans, Queries, and Short pages are often missing categories, links, explanations, and other elements books and pages are expected to include. They may be speedy deleted when abandoned and improves are unlikely.
• Recent changes by new and anonymous contributors. Verify edits. Welcome new and anonymous contributors who have made good contributions. See Wikibooks:Templates/User messages
• Requests for unblock - Requests by users to be unblocked.