Wikibooks:Maintenance

Maintenance work is vital to keeping Wikibooks running optimally. You can help with most of these tasks to make Wikibooks a better project!

Structural

For these tasks, see Wikibooks:CCO Resources.

  • Pages, Categories, Templates, and Files that need to be organized. Only Category:Categories should be left uncategorized.
  • Books to be Alphabetized.
  • Pages missing a reference section Pages with inline references but no <references/> or {{reflist}}.
  • Category:Book:Wikibooks Stacks/Attention needed Pages that have detected problems interfering with the hierarchical shelving of pages in the Wikibooks Stacks.
  • Naming convention

Transwikis

  • Pages to be transwikied to another wiki.
  • Requests for import to Wikibooks. Only admins and importers can do the actual import, but all Wikibookians are welcome to comment on requests.
  • Transwikis needing a home may be useful to merge into an appropriate book.
  • Pages needing to be dewikified – When appropriate these pages may be dewikified. Pages that do not meet our inclusion requirements may be marked for deletion.

Files

  • Unused files – Look for duplicates, nonsense, and copyright violations, and tag them accordingly.
  • Files now at Commons & Files now at Commons (different name) – Files now available on Commons that can be deleted from Wikibooks.
  • Files with unknown copyright status – These will be deleted after a week if the author does not provide proper license information.
  • Files with no non-free use rationale – These will be deleted after a week if the uploader does not provide a full non-free use rationale.
  • Files lacking an author – These files need information on who created them in the first place.
  • Files with unknown source – These files need information as to where they came from.

Content and Contributions

  • Accuracy and NPOV disputes
  • Books to be merged and History merge requests
  • Broken and Double redirects
  • Copyright violations – Check whether permission was granted by the copyright owner for works.
  • Correct typos in one click
  • New pages – Add category templates to pages, {{query}} to pages that might be in a transition stage to becoming real books, and add {{delete}} to very short pages that meet the speedy deletion criteria.
  • Pages needing attention like fixing wikicode, spelling, layout, etc.
  • Pending changes – Accept or reject edits to previously reviewed pages.
  • Requests for deletion – Discussions about books that don't meet the speedy deletion criteria.
  • Requests for edits to protected pages.
  • Requests for expansion of books, pages, and sections.
  • Requested books – Check for existing books, remove some of those already created.
  • Speedy deletions – Read the Deletion policy first.
  • Stubs, Orphans, Queries, and Short pages are often missing categories, links, explanations, and other elements books and pages are expected to include. They may be speedy deleted when abandoned and improves are unlikely.
  • Recent changes by new and anonymous contributors. Verify edits. Welcome new and anonymous contributors who have made good contributions. See Wikibooks:Templates/User messages
  • Requests for unblock – Requests by users to be unblocked.