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
Basically, as you all know, this Wiki was featured on the ROBLOX Blog, which lead to an enslaught of editors, edits, page creations, and vandals. However, the Wiki is in a rather poor state. Sure, it could have been worse if Ajedi didn't adopt the wiki, but as the Wiki stands, there's a lot to do to get this thing back into working shape.

So...

What will this project do?
 * 1) Improve the Wiki's growing problem with unused photos
 * 2) Shorten the lists of the Maintenance reports so that the wiki is more professional
 * 3) Providing a better, more fun experience for users of this wiki.
 * 4) Adding more USEFUL pages to the wiki

Step 1: Shortening Maintenance reports. (DONE)
This page right here contains the Maintenance reports, a daily report on missing pages and such. This project will shorten a lot of the reports so that the Wiki will be easier to use.

These reports will be shortened, and why; To fix the Dead-end pages, you need to go into the article and add links to pages that exist on the wiki. For Orphaned pages, if the Orphaned page is mentioned in another page but has no link, add it.
 * Dead-end pages: Because we want to decrease some usage of the search bar by adding links to pages without them.
 * Orphaned pages: Because we want to decrease a lot of usage of the search bar by having pages link to ones that haven't been linked
 * Uncategorized pages: Because no page will be on this wiki without any sort of category
 * Unused photos: Because having a bunch of images on this wiki without them being used makes this wiki look amateur. Either mark them for deletion or make a page use one.

If we can shorten down the reports for Dead-end and Orphaned pages by 50 each, Step 2 shall commence.

Step 2: Missing pages (CURRENT STEP)
This page contains a list of all of the missing pages on this wiki. It's way, way, WAY too long. I mean, 657 missing pages is a little too much. So, there's two things you can do here. Shortening it to 125 or lower is the goal for this step.
 * Remove all links to the missing page, thereby removing the wanted page from existance
 * Make the page so that it gets off the list

Step 3: Infobox replacing
Mark Otaris (a user of this wiki) has created a new Infobox that is more improved over the old one. This step is dedicated to removing the old infobox and replacing it with the new userbox. This will probably be the longest step of this project.

Step 4: Fixing the categories.
The category system is screwed up. 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.

The biggest targets for this step are any pages dealing with the Vaktovian Empire. However, other pages need bias removal too!

Step 6: Categories 2: Electric Boogaloo
Remember when we deleted and renamed categories two steps ago? Now, we're adding new ones to pages. This step is mostly based on the Genre of items. There are two mini-steps to this step.


 * Putting the Genre in the templates for the items on this wiki
 * Adding the category for said Genre.

It's advised that 150 pages go through this process for the next step.

Step 7: Pages
Oh boy, this is a big one. Unlike the others, this step is truly the largest one! Basically, THIS PAGE contains every Mainspace 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. I'll tell everyone when we'll move to the next step.

Step 8: Creating categories
This page contains a list of all of the missing categories on the wiki. Many of them have one member. We need to get rid of a lot of these, down to around 100. There are two things you can do here.
 * Create the category with other categories
 * Remove all members of the category and mark it for deletion

Step 9 is coming soon.

The wiki is currently on:

 * 12/12/12: 589 pages
 * 12/14/12: 566 pages
 * 12/15/12: 562 pages
 * 12/16/12: 552 pages
 * 12/17/12: 452 pages
 * 12/18/12: 450 pages
 * 12/19/12: 377 pages
 * 12/20/12: 382 pages
 * 12/21/12: 385 pages
 * 12/22/12: 295 pages
 * 12/23/12: 276 pages
 * 12/24/12: 261 pages

Can I join this project?
OF COURSE!

Simply add your name to the comments, and I'll add you to the list. It's best advised that members of the Project stick to what Step we're on.

Members

 * Dronian
 * Marc122
 * Colgatecity
 * Dakota J. F.
 * Galaxen
 * Mark Otaris
 * The JoTS
 * RamDarre
 * Awesome444a444
 * Wookee8wikiperson
 * StarBase10
 * Epiccookie11
 * Joeh1999
 * Roscape