Project:Maintenance tasks

This page is a list of open tasks and backlog on the Roblox Wikia.

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, and these links should always be relevant or likely to be useful to readers.

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.

Pages with broken file links
Pages with broken file links are pages that contain links to images or other media that have been deleted (perhaps by mistake) or have never been uploaded to this wiki. Some of these broken links may be due to typos, others to various other reasons. Many are in the user namespace, in which case they are not too important. However, broken file links in the content namespaces make the wiki look bad. Fixing these broken links by undeleting the files, uploading them if that's possible, fixing the links or removing them altogether if that's the most adequate thing to do, can improve the quality of the pages on this wiki.

Since only administrators can undelete files and edit blog posts, comments and forum posts, it might be best to leave this task to them.

See the associated category.

Pages linking to disambiguation pages
When multiple topics share a given name, a disambiguation page is created that lists the page for each of these topics. This page should have the disambig template at its top. Sometimes, an editor will by mistake insert a link to a disambiguation page instead of linking to the page about the specific topic that is relevant. In these cases, the link should be modified to point to the appropriate page instead of the disambiguation page.

See the associated maintenance report.

Template problems
This section contains tasks related to problems with templates.

Pages with template errors
Some templates (mostly the infoboxes) display errors on pages where they are used incorrectly. These errors can vary from the ID of a catalog item or group not being given to an infobox to a genre given to an infobox for an item being invalid. Sometimes, there will be a visible error message on the page (generally in the infobox itself); in other cases, you will have to look at the source of the page to find the error with the way the template is used.

See the associated category.

Content tasks
The tasks in this section require some involvement with page content, but they are among the most useful.

Pages that do not meet the wiki's quality standards
Many pages on this wiki are badly formatted, contain grammar errors or have other major problems that make them not meet the wiki's quality standards. These pages are marked with the Multiple issues template. Sometimes, the specific problems with the page will be indicated in the notice at the top of the page added by the Multiple issues template. You can contribute substantially to this wiki by improving these pages.

See the associated category.

Candidates for merging
When multiple pages (generally two) exist about a given topic or related topics, users may suggest merging the pages together with the merge template. Merging pages requires determining which page has the most content and merging the content of the other page into that page manually so that all the information both pages used to contain is now contained in a single page. This requires working with the content, putting it in an adequate place in the final page and reworking it and the rest of the page so that it fits nicely in the final page. Once this is done, the histories of the two pages should be merged into the final page. If you are not an administrator, you can request an administrator for a history merge.

See the associated category.

Articles needing citations
Editors sometimes add surprising or questionable facts to articles. When this happens, other contributors can mark these with the cite or fact template to request verification and warn readers that the information is questionable. This wiki's policy on verifiability requires that statements that are challenged by another editor (for example by the addition of one of these templates, or on the talk page) be accompanied by a reference or explanation that proves that they are correct, so that readers can be confident that what they're reading is true and can verify it themselves. If no verification is provided after some time, the statements must be removed, and they must be removed immediately on articles about players or groups because of the harm they can cause.

This task consists in providing references for statements that have been marked with these templates (instructions) or removing them if no references can be found, which can be expected to be the more common case.

See the associated category.

Articles with trivia sections
These articles contain bloated trivia sections that may be integrated within the article's other sections.

See the associated category.

Tasks for administrators and content moderators
This section contains tasks that requires tools only administrators and content moderators have access to.

Candidates for deletion
Users can mark for deletion pages they think should be deleted from the wiki with the delete template. Administrators can review the list of these pages regularly and delete those that fit the deletion criteria.

See the guidelines about deletion and the associated category.

Unused templates
Keeping the templates on this wiki organized is difficult when there are too many of them. A large number of templates are unused either because they are no longer necessary, or because they never were. This task is about deleting these templates.

Note that not all unused templates should be deleted. Template documentation pages, for example, should only be deleted if the template they are supposed to document does not exist anymore. Many other templates could be useful in the future, or are test pages that are still in use.

See the associated maintenance report.

Unused categories
Some category pages exist for categories that have no pages in them. These categories are sometimes mistakes, or have been removed without their page being deleted. Many of them should be removed, but some, like Category:Pages with script errors or Category:Candidates for deletion, are supposed to be empty most of the time and should not be deleted.

See the associated maintenance report.