Wiki To Do

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A natural garden requires ongoing care to stay healthy - someone must water and fertilize, add new plants, remove unwanted plants, trim wanted plants, etc. Similarly, a community wiki requires ongoing care to stay healthy and useful. Community members must add new content, updated or remove old content, etc. This page lists things to do for the foss2serve wiki. Some are specific tasks that can be done once and removed from the list. Some are ongoing tasks that should be done regularly.

Ongoing Tasks

• Use Special:SpecialPages to identify potential problems.
  • Check and fix problems with redirects, where one page links to another. Redirects are used so that old links work when a page is renamed, or when there are several logical names for a page, but too many redirects can be confusing. Thus, when renaming pages it may be better in the long run to rename all links. Use nowiki>Special:WhatLinksHere</nowiki> to find links to a page.
    • Check and fix Special:BrokenRedirects, which are redirects to pages that don't exist. This can happen when a page is renamed several times (e.g. Name1 --> Name2 --> Name3), and an intermediate name (e.g. Name2) is deleted. The prior name (e.g. Name1) is now a broken redirect.
    • Check and fix Special:DoubleRedirects, which are chains of 2 or more redirects (e.g. Name1 --> Name2 --> Name3).
  • Check Special:DeadendPages, which are pages that do not link to other pages in the wiki. Deadend pages are not an error. However, they may be opportunities to expand the wiki or link other content.