Help:Maintenance
Maintenance involves two things, screening bad content and ensuring consistency. Content is classified as bad if it violates the terms of GMATClub:Copyrights or GMATClub:Submission policy. As to consistency, content is consistent if:
- can be reached by navigating the site
- links properly to other content
- is not duplicated
- is properly formatted
Below the common wiki maintenance tools are listed. Note that if a maintenance task is simple and repetitive, it may be better to automate it. Contact User:Tino and describe the task in such cases.
Screening tools
- Special:Recentchanges - check to see the recent edits - what is happening on the Wiki;
- Special:Newpages - recent additions (less verbose than Special:Recentchanges);
- History tabs - to quickly review new edits, click on the history tab of the article in question and ask it to produce a diff of the most recent ant the previous version;
- Special:Newimages - newly uploaded images;
- Special:Contributions - to see what a user has done on the wiki;
Consistency tools
- Comprehensive listings:
- Special:Allpages - all articles (by namespace);
- Special:Listredirects - all redirects;
- Special:Categories - all categories;
- Special:Imagelist - all uploaded fules;
- Special:Properties - all properties;
- Inconsistency tracking:
- Special:Wantedpages - linked to but inexistent articles (detects broken links);
- Special:Wantedcategories - linked to but inexistent categories;
- Special:WantedProperties - linked to but inexistent properties;
- Special:Uncategorizedpages - may be hard to locate;
- Unused (possibly superfluous) stuff:
