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 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 or.
 * 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, to pages that might be in a transition stage to becoming real books, and add  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 Templates/User messages
 * Requests for unblock – Requests by users to be unblocked.

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