OLPC:Cleanup

Intro

As information sprawls across the wiki, we're in constant need of help and efforts to keep it tame, trimmed, and usable - purging old/broken information and links, creating and updating portal pages for various user groups and topics, condensing screenfuls of discussion on talk pages into short, accurate, easy-to-read updates... I'm sure you can think of more.

If you'd like to help battle chaos, please join in - just edit pages, no need to ask permission. If you have a request for cleanup, post here. If you've cleaned up a page and want reviews/polishing final touches, post here. Go for it.

Also see Category:Cleanup for pages needing cleanup. Use Template:Cleanup to mark pages in need of revision by adding the words {{Cleanup}} to the top of the article.

General wiki text cleanup

Here are some common glitches you can look for when editing:

• Using h1 headings for sections: =First level heading = should be ==First level heading==
• Using http links to wiki pages: http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Wiki_cleanup should be [[Wiki cleanup]].
• Not using user-friendly wiki links: [[Wiki_cleanup]] should be [[Wiki cleanup]].
  • Some unfriendly links provide alternate text that's not needed once they're made user-friendly: [[Wiki_cleanup|Wiki cleanup]] should be [[Wiki cleanup]].
• Uncategorized pages.
• Pages with excessive <br> tags or <pre> that can be replaced with whitespace.
• Page Titles and Section Headings With Excessive Capitalization: normally just capitalize the first word (but first check "What links here" and/or set up a #REDIRECT).

Pages needing final touches

• Look over category:drafts pages, see if any are quick .

Areas needing attention

• Activity-summary template gone wonky
  • Something strange about Books, but it's not just that page. Something seems to have gone strange with Template:Project-summary or Template:Activity-summary templates. You can see other examples linked from this page Category:Activity_summary. Possibly a move of the template was handled badly.
• Glossary could use some thoughtful expansion. Jargon serves a useful purpose as shorthand for technical discussions, but it also poses a substantial barrier-to-entry for new contributors. A more extensive Glossary would be very helpful in allowing outsiders to become insiders.
• Accessibility
• Games
• Emulation
• Communities (including encouraging various communities to get organized enough to make a frontpage, similar to Community:Art)
• Pilots
• Table of Contents - Revise or Remove Katie 10:30, 29 January 2008 (EST)
  • or merge ideas into Site map (w/ redirect from one to another)

• Category:Software vs. Category:Activities vs. Category:Linux software
  • separate out wiki software pages into Activity vs Linux vs. other

• Category:Linux software
  • create standardized format for these pages for consistency, and remove duplication
  • find all standard linux software, tag w/template
  • search wiki for 'yum' and 'wget', likely they need this tag.

• Adobe Player, Adobe Flash, Flash Player, etc (or other pages with similar info)
  • Combine into one page, organize information

• Examine core wiki pages, (i.e. top pages, or ones in Site map ??)
  • Check for current/correct information
  • move any 'beta' or 'prelease' information else where.
  • Consistency: headers, format, structure, etc

• review all templates
  • check for duplication, merge if needed

• review User boxes
  • create consistency,
  • establish best order, if lots on same page

• review Headers (i.e. page headers)
  • create consistency,
  • establish best order, if lots on same page

• review Category:Articles_to_be_merged
  • Especially in areas of:
    • Licensing - combine smaller 'snipit' pages into this one. (Search for the word 'license' or 'licensing')
    • Bitfrost and OLPC Bitfrost pages should be merged, see Talk:Bitfrost.This will require the assistance of an admin because OLPC Bitfrost is protected.

• review Software, and sub-categories
  • Some pages cross over, separate into categories

Clean-up tasks requiring admin privileges

• Redirects for deletion
  • Category:Redirects_for_deletion

• Pages for deletion
  • Pages_for_deletion