Project:General maintenance project

The general maintenance project aims to improve the condition of this wiki by defining and performing long-needed maintenance tasks. It runs in parallel to the Clockwork Wiki project, which handles non-maintenance tasks.

Maintenance tasks
The maintenance tasks described in this section will be executed concurrently, which means that they will all be worked on at the same time. Tasks may be prioritized if they are more important or more urgent than other tasks. To some of the tasks are associated categories or maintenance reports that are automatically updated which contains all the pages that are concerned by the task.

Warning: the aim of the project is to improve the overall condition of this wiki; maintenance tasks should not be accomplished with only the goal of being accomplished, but rather with the goal of improving the wiki. Adding one link in a dead-end page, for example, is sufficient to make it disappear from the maintenance report, but isn't sufficient to make it a good article. Good articles should contain many links to other articles.

Dead-end pages
Dead-end pages are pages that have no links in them to other pages. The addition of links to these pages will make the wiki easier to navigate. The aim of this task is to add links to other pages from all dead-end pages. The process of adding links to pages is detailed to a great extent in the section about linking of the Wikipedia manual of style.

See the associated maintenance report.

Orphaned pages
Orphaned pages are pages that no other page links to. Readers cannot find these pages without using a search engine (such as the wiki's internal search). This makes the wiki harder to navigate and makes these page less useful since less readers can find them. The aim of this task is to add links from other pages in the wiki to all orphaned pages. More information about orphaned pages.

See the associated maintenance report.