Board Thread:News and Announcements/@comment-34601114-20181016023140

The Super Duper Wiki Cleanup Project
So if you have a look around, you'll notice a lot of things on this wiki are a bit, to put bluntly... messy. The Unfinished Category of cluttered with Abandoned pages, there are subpar one paragraph pastas everywhere, and there are tons of one time use Categories that are made once and never used again.

So... bring in the cleanup crew!

okok gimmie the details
There are three main things we will be targeting for the cleanup:


 * Category:Unfinished
 * Special:Categories
 * Cleaning up the Category:Suggested Reading, Category:Classics and Category:Good Creepypastas categories

If you want to help anywhere, you can tell us on this thread and get started straight away. If you have any questions feel free to ask here.

WIP Articles
There are tons of incomplete articles on the wiki, many of which are abandoned or haven't been edited in a very long time. If you want to help out with cleaning up this Category, here's what to do:


 * 1) Pick a page in Category:Unfinished.
 * 2) Go to the History of the page and check to see when it was last edited.
 * 3) *If it has been edited within the last month, you can leave it and move on to the next page.
 * 4) Determine the author of the article using the History(if it’s a collaboration pick any one of the authors)
 * 5) Move the page under the author’s namespace by Renaming it. To do this:
 * 6) *Go under Rename on the page(next to Edit)Example.png
 * 7) *Under the dropdown, change (Main) to User
 * 8) *Rename the page to . Make sure to untick ‘Leave a Redirect’ when renaming.
 * 9) *Click ‘Rename Page’
 * 10) Move onto the next one!

'''Do not delete the pages. Always move them under the user.'''

Category Cleanup
There are many categories that are only used once or twice on pages. This basically involves the deletion of Categories that are barely used and are just taking up namespace.


 * 1) Go into Special:Categories. Pick a Category that has five or less pages in it.
 * 2) *If the category is part of a series pasta or competition, or is a user category, leave it.
 * 3) Go into the category and delete the category from all the pages. You may have to go into Source Mode to do this.
 * 4) Rinse and repeat! If done correctly, the Category should disappear from the list.

Suggested Reading Cleanup
This one is more for the moderators and admins, but there are a few pastas in the Category:Suggested Reading, Category:Classics and Category:Good Creepypastas categories that aren’t supposed to be there. It’s simple - just remove the category. That’s it.

so um… do I get anything out of doing this?
Well, apart from a much nicer looking and far less messy wiki, not really at this stage. But any help is very, very much appreciated, as this is a huge job involving hundreds of pages to slowly sift through. Even sticking around to fix up one page is already a lot. 