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[[Conservapedia:Community Portal/archive4|Archive 4]]

[[Conservapedia:Community Portal/archive4|Archive 4]]

== 5 maintenance tasks that need to be done ==

== 5 maintenance tasks that need to be done - some of which could be automated ==

Some editors like to do wiki maintenance tasks. I started a maintenance task, but I don't have the time to do it all myself.  

Some editors like to do wiki maintenance tasks. I started on two of these maintenance task, but I don't have the time to do it all myself.  

There are 5 maintenance task that need to be done and I started on two of them:  

There are 5 maintenance task that need to be done:  

'''1.''' De-orphan pages which have no category tags or links to them from other pages.  

'''1.''' De-orphan pages which have no category tags or links to them from other pages.  

'''2.''' Remove about 8% of the wiki pages which are ex-editors' user pages and user talk pages that have not edited in the last 3 years.  

'''2.''' Remove about 8% of the wiki pages which are ex-editors' user pages and user talk pages who have not edited in the last 3 years.''' And this task could probably be automated, but it could be done manually too.'''

There is a list of editors/users here: http://conservapedia.com/Special:ListUsers

There is a list of editors/users here: http://conservapedia.com/Special:ListUsers

'''4.''' Build up the 2 sentence stub articles so they have at least 500 words.  Using the random page search function, I estimate the stub articles are at least 30-40% of the wiki articles.  

'''4.''' Build up the 2 sentence stub articles so they have at least 500 words.  Using the random page search function, I estimate the stub articles are at least 30-40% of the wiki articles.  

'''5.''' Within 10 years, about 50% of links become broken links.  

'''5.''' Within 10 years, about 50% of links become broken links. Xenu's Link Sleuth can crawl your website and find these dead links plus make a report: http://home.snafu.de/tilman/xenulink.html

Using this Firefox tool https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/linkchecker/ or this chrome tool https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/link-checker/aibjbgmpmnidnmagaefhmcjhadpffaoi?hl=en these dead links can be found.  

Alternatively, using this Firefox tool https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/linkchecker/ or this chrome tool https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/link-checker/aibjbgmpmnidnmagaefhmcjhadpffaoi?hl=en these dead links can be found.  

I did this link maintenance already for the atheism, evolution and homosexuality articles.  

I did this link maintenance already for the atheism, evolution and homosexuality articles.  

I think these 5 maintenance tasks being done would enhance the user experience for the readers plus these are maintenance tasks that need to be done. [[User:Conservative|Conservative]] 13:12, 20 June 2014 (EDT)

I think these 5 maintenance tasks being done would enhance the user experience for the readers plus these are maintenance tasks that need to be done. [[User:Conservative|Conservative]] 12:37, 20 June 2014 (EDT)

 

 

I mentioned Xenu's Link Sleuth above in order to help automate spotting the dead links. I think that deleting the the inactive editors who have not edited for 3 years could be automated as well. Maybe using something like [[User:EdBot]].  [[User:Conservative|Conservative]] 13:36, 20 June 2014 (EDT)