Project:The Clockwork Wiki Project

The Clockwork Wiki Project is a project Dronian and others are currently working on to improve this wiki's condition.

What will happen
The old version of the Project was made to improve the wiki when it was featured on the ROBLOX Blog. However, it fell apart a few months back, and so did the wiki somewhat. There's a lot to do to get the wiki back into a better shape.

What will this project do?
 * 1) Improve the wiki's growing problem with vandalism
 * 2) Removing counterproductive edits to the wiki
 * 3) Rewriting lacking articles
 * 4) Shorten the maintenance reports
 * 5) Providing a better, more fun experience for users
 * 6) Adding more useful pages

(CURRENT) Step 1: Shortening maintenance reports.
This page right here contains the maintenance reports, daily reports on missing pages and so on. This step will shorten a lot of the more noticable reports so that the wiki will be easier to use.

These will be shortened;
 * Dead-end pages: We want to decrease some usage of the search bar by adding links to pages without them. To fix these, you must add links to pages where applicable.
 * Orphaned pages: We want to decrease a lot of usage of the search bar by having pages link to ones that haven't been linked. To fix these, you must link pages that aren't normally linked to.
 * Uncategorized pages: No page will be on this wiki without any sort of category.
 * Unused photos: It wasn't as big as it was, but this maintenance report needs to be shortened down as much as possible.

The amount of dead-end and orphaned pages are massive, so the goal is to shorten these lists down until the creator of this project says to stop. For uncategorized pages and unused photos, they should be shortened down to 50 incidents.

Step 2: Missing pages
There are over a thousand missing pages. That is entirely too many for this wiki. Most of these missing pages have two apostrophes around them, which are results of the user welcome template. The only way to end this problem is to edit the user talk pages so that the apostrophes are removed. If the page isn't a talk page red link, than you should either remove all references of it (if it's a non-celebrity thing), or make the page itself.

Like Step 1, the goal is unclear for this step, but it should be at least less than 500.

Step 3: Replacing infoboxes
Mark Otaris has created a new infobox system that is better and more advanced than the old one. This step is dedicated to removing the old infoboxes and replacing them with the new infoboxes. This will probably be the longest step of this project.

Go to "what links here" for these templates: If a page has one of these templates, replace it with the respective templates. Note that the templates cannot be replaced by just changing the template's name and some fields. The new templates are not compatible with the old ones and have some different fields; it is very recommended to read the documentation of the infoboxes to know how they work.
 * Template:PlaceInfo
 * Template:PlayerInfo
 * Template:FaceInfo
 * Template:Infobox place
 * Template:Infobox player
 * Template:Infobox face

Not all of the infoboxes are ready yet, but considering this is going to be one of the longest steps, there is plenty of time for them to be created until this step is over. Infoboxes that still need to be created include the package infobox and the face infobox.

All group infoboxes have already been replaced by the new group infoboxes, but not all group pages yet have an infobox. This step also includes adding infoboxes to the pages that should have one but do not have one yet. Such pages, while they can not be found on the what links here pages of the templates, can be found in the following categories:
 * Category:Places
 * Category:Players
 * Category:Faces

Step 4: Fixing the categories
The category system is unorganized. This step is entirely dedicated to fixing it. First, we need to delete the useless ones. If a category meets one requirement out of the lot; Mark it for deletion and remove it from any page that contains the category. However, if a page has a category that's deleted but a better category exists, add it. Also, if a category has anything wrong with the name, like wrong capitalization, grammar, or punctuation, rename it and change the category on its pages.
 * It's vandalism
 * It's useless
 * It's a duplicate category

Step 5: Antibias
This wiki has quite a lot of bias in it. It ranges from a tiny bit of bias (Stickmasterluke) to the whole page being biased (Vaktovian Empire/Vaktus). This step is dedicated to removing the bias.

What is bias?

Basically, bias are opinions that are either false or exaggerated. Wikis do not like bias, to say the least, and remove or slim it down when someone finds it. Whenever you see something with bias on it, follow this chart.


 * If it's a line, go and change the line if it's not that major or delete it if the whole line is bias.
 * If it's a paragraph, remove the bias from the lines or delete the ones that are fully biased.
 * If the entire page is bias, do the same as the paragraph. It's the hardest of the lot, but it will make the page more professional.

Step 6: Pages
Oh boy, this is a big one. Unlike the others, this step is truly the largest one! Basically, THIS PAGE contains every main space page on the wiki. Every. Single. One. And it's your job to pick through them and pick out the ones that need to be deleted. For the page to be considered deleted, it must be one or more of the following;


 * Vandalism
 * Non-celebrity user
 * Non-famous place
 * Non-famous group
 * Duplicate article
 * Useless article

Also, quite a few pages on this wiki have various misspellings and poorly-structured sentences. This step is about fixing those grammatical errors, as well as rewriting the poorly-structured sentences. If you find a page that's good to keep but has misspellings and/or poor sentencing, fix those errors to the best of your ability. Many of these pages can be found in the "Pages that need to be improved" category.

I'll tell everyone when we'll move to the next step.

Step 7: Merging some pages together
The amount of gear and hat pages on this wiki is enormous when compared to the players and places. To reduce the number, we need to merge the gear/hat series into a page of their own. For instance, all Bluesteel hats and gear would go into a page called Bluesteel (series). Remember to add the Series category.

Step 8: Restructuring the rules
As more and more wikis on Wikia enforce the rules with fancy templates, this wiki relies on typing the warnings out. Also, the rules are getting more outdated as features are added or removed. This step is the only step as of 2/21/13 that can only be done by administrators or moderators. Here's a list of what to do in this step.


 * First, we need to create templates for warnings. Since the Wiki relies on typing the warnings rather than using a template, warning a user on breaking the rules would take a long time if the user was a slow typer. Also, if there was a spelling mistake, the warned user would make fun of the error, causing him to be banned longer. Using templates would reduce the time it would take to warn a user.


 * Secondly, the ban times for breaking the rules is not set to a certain time. For instance, the ban times for vandals go from 1 day to infinity. If we want the wiki to be more organized, we have to fix the ban times. For example, to fix the vandalism rule, we would possibly need to ban users starting at 3 days, then a week, two weeks, a month, and so on. This step would make bans more fair.


 * Third, there's the rules page. It's quite disorganized. Not only does it not go in depth on the rules and their ban times, but it needs a lot of updating if this rule has to be completed. Doing this step would help inform new users on what rules you should not break unless you want a five-month ban, as well as help confused moderators on how long to ban users.


 * Finally, we come to new rules. Sometime after the rule page reformation, we need to run a forum on what rules the users would like to see in the wiki. After this, a poll is run on the front page. If the rule is one of top 3 or 5 liked, it gets added.

The only rule to have gone through this process is the NCU rule. There are two templates on warning the user not to create NCU pages, and the bans start from one day and multiply.

Step 9: Restructuring the adminship requests
DOING THIS LATER

The wiki is currently on
Note: The progession bar only counts uncategorized pages and unused photos, as they have a clear goal.
 * November 11th, 2013; 535 dead-end pages, 904 orphaned pages, 156 uncategorized pages, 98 unused photos
 * November 12th, 2013; 529 dead-end pages, 902 orphaned pages, 153 uncategorized pages, 95 unused photos

Can I join this project?
Of course!

Simply add your name to the list below. It's best advised that members of the project stick to what step we're on.
 * Dronian
 * Malcolt3
 * Aeothem