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.

First Steps

Wiki Edit!

The first, easiest, and largest tasks on the wiki are really simple ones that anyone can do. If you would like to get involved and help cleanup the wiki, here are some suggestions:

There are several thousand pages on this wiki. Many of them were created in a hurry and need to be cleaned up. There is a page here on the wiki that contains a large list of pages that have been marked {{cleanup}}: Category:Cleanup. There are two tasks that can be done with this:

• Go to the Special:Allpages page, and look for pages that need the {{cleanup}} added to them.
  • When you find a wiki page that needs cleanup, click the 'Edit' tab and add the {{cleanup}} in the top of the edit box.

OR

• Go to the Category:Cleanup page and cleanup the pages that you find there using wiki markup.

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