FamilySearch Wiki:Maintenance

Welcome to the Wiki Maintenance and Cleanup Project. Everyone is invited to help keep the wiki clean through doing maintenance tasks.

Maintenance work is a vital part of keeping the Research Wiki user friendly for its researchers. While helping with the maintenance tasks, remember two things:

• Take the appropriate tag(s) off the page when you have completed cleaning an article.
• Document what you have done on the article's talk page for the reference of other editors.

Be careful to avoid creating more maintenance work through instruction creep (bloating of instructions due to numerous edits/additions). Organize when you can, but always keep the big picture in sight: we are here to create a resource for family history researchers. If you wish to contribute to FamilySearch Wiki in ways other than maintenance, please consider some suggestions of things you can do.

See also:

• Maintenance Templates used to report some problems
• Maintenance Report that tracks the amount of work needing to be done over time.
• How to Prepare and send the Weekly Report This report shows where we stand on each of the maintenance pages.

General Maintenance and Cleanup

Work that can be done by anyone, regardless of their knowledge of the subject matter of the articles in question.

Resources for general maintenance and collaboration
Type	Title (click for report)	Priority	#	How to fix
Cleanup (About Cleanup)	Dead links	2	1	How to
	Ambiguous page title	2	1	How to
	Requested moves	2	0	How to
	Duplication/merging	3	2	How to
	External links that should be internal	4		How to
	Miscellaneous	2-4	84	How to
Redirects (About Redirects)	Broken redirects	2		How to
	Double redirects	2		How to
	All redirects	**	**	How to
Stub Sorting (About Stub Sorting)	Stub articles to sort	2	111	How to
	Short pages ("0 byte" pages - priority 2 All others - priority not set)	2/**	**	How to
	Pages with the fewest revisions	**	**	How to

Content Maintenance

Work that needs some knowledge about or research into the subject matter of the articles in question.

Administrative Maintenance

Work that needs additional rights or specialized knowledge to fix.

Resources for admininistrative maintenance & collaboration (requiring additional rights or specialized knowledge)
Type	Title (click for report)	Priority	#	How to fix
Governance	Patrolling new pages	1		How to
	Patrolling recent changes  (Talk page changes - priority 2; Other changes - priority 3)	2-3		How to
	Contributors looking for help	1	1
	Unresolved discussions	2	2
	Articles with content outside wiki scope	2	0	How to
	Neutrality disputes	2	1	How to
	Copyright problems	2	2	How to
Deletion (About Deletion)	Urgent requests	1	0	How to
	Deletion requests	3-4	164	How to
Other	Too many expensive parser function calls	?	116	How to