Project Maintenance
As well as editing, GaijinPot Wiki users can get involved in maintenance tasks. Most of these tasks can be done by any user, not just administrators.
Maintenance work is a vital part of keeping GaijinPot Wiki running optimally. Be careful to avoid creating more maintenance work through instruction creep. Organize when you can, but always keep the big picture in sight: we are here to create a useful resource.
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Collaborative cleanup projects
These are groups of people that get together to try to fix certain aspects of GaijiPot Wiki. Join them!
- GaijinPotWiki:Typo - GaijiPot Wiki Typo Department, fixing common spelling mistakes. Links to related lists.
- GaijinPotWiki:WikiProject Stub sorting - Classifying short articles to make them easier to find by interested parties
- GaijinPotWiki:Cleanup
Things to watch
- GaijinPotWiki:As of - Information that may be out of date
- Special:Recentchanges - Patrol for vandals and other bad edits
- New pages - Patrol for vandals and redundancy with existing articles
- GaijinPotWiki:List of controversial issues - A simple list of pages on controversial subjects, not a place to argue about them. Patrol for vandals, POV pushers, and disputes in progress
- GaijinPotWiki:Bots/Requests for approval and GaijiPotWiki:Bot requests - to ask for permission to run a bot
Foreign language pages
For pages listed on GaijinPotWiki:Pages needing translation into English, the GaijinPotWiki:Embassy member of the GaijiPot Wiki that relates to the language the article is in should be contacted and invited to move the page to their own GaijinPot Wiki or to help translate it. There is also a list of translators at GaijinPotWiki:translation. If you don't know what language the article is in you could use Language recognition chart and if that fails use some language recognition web site to find out. If a page remains untranslated after two weeks, or if someone who speaks the language it is written in states that it is not worth translating, then the article should be moved from pages needing translation to articles for deletion. The boilerplate text on the article should be changed from {{notenglish}} to {{subst:afd}}.
Main page
The Main Page needs regular updating. Only sysops can edit the page itself. See GaijiPotWiki:Editing the main page for links to the relevant templates and further guidance.
Vandalism
Anyone can revert vandalism. See GaijinPotWiki:revert for instructions. If you see any recurrent vandalism, you can list it at GaijinPotWiki:vandalism in progress. You can also check other listings on that page and follow them up by seeing if the users listed there have made any further vandalism since the listing. Do this typing the url http://wiki.gaijinpot.com/wiki/Special:Contributions/ followed by the username. Unreverted edits will still have (top) next to them. Sysops may choose to block recurrent vandals, following a warning on the user's talk page using Special:Blockip, or for unlogged-in users clicking the block link next to their IP on recent changes.
The pages linked to from the main page often see the most vandalism, so checking those pages via the links on Editing the Main Page can be a good place to look if you feel like vandal spotting.
See also: GaijiPotWiki:How to spot vandalism
Disputes
There are many pages in Category:GaijinPotWiki dispute resolution which could use help in resolving various kinds of disputes. Some disputes are easy to resolve - someone needs to propose or implement a compromise (check out the appropriate talk page), or the dispute is over and someone just needs to declare the problem solved. Many disputes between parties can be resolved after uninvolved strangers wander in, read the article in question and the debate so far, and just give common-sense opinions. In rare cases, delicate negotiating skills are needed to bring warring parties to a satisfactory agreement, or administrative powers are needed to ban vandals or uncooperative editors.
The main page to list disputes is GaijinPotWiki:Requests for comment. This is a static listing, and your help is needed to remove old requests, in addition to commenting on current requests.
There are lists of articles in dispute in:
See also
Some content adapted from Wikipedia.org.
