Wikibooks:Maintenance
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Category:Wikibooks maintenance contains categorized list of all pages needing some work. |
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.
- Pages missing a reference section Pages with inline references but no <references/> or
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. - Category:Book:Wikibooks Stacks/Attention needed Pages that have detected problems interfering with the hierarchical shelving of pages in the Wikibooks Stacks.
- Naming convention
Transwikis
- Pages to be transwikied to another wiki.
- Requests for import to Wikibooks. Only admins and importers 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.
- Correct typos in one click
- New pages – Add category templates to pages,
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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.
- Requested books – Check for existing books, remove some of those already created.
- 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.