Meta:MetaProject to overhaul Meta
The MetaProject to overhaul meta seeks to streamline Meta by eliminating irrelevant content, building infrastructure, rewriting documentation, policies and guidelines, and organising its content in an efficient, intuitive manner. The final goal is to reinvite users alienated by confusion and make Meta-Wiki useable and enjoyable to all contributors.
How to do cleanup on Meta-Wiki
editThere's a lot to clean up around here. These are some general objectives and tasks:
- Classification: organize categories and sort every article, file, and template in the right categories.
- Merging of old pages: unify pages with similar content and purpose
- Refactoring:
- Deletion: delete irrelevant content and merge pages as needed.
- Build infrastructure where missing.
- Move most images to Commons, delete copyvios (coordination page).
- Translation: using the translation extension to make Meta-Wiki friendly to non-English speakers.
- Lead initiative in policymaking at Meta-Wiki, by creating, modifying or abolishing policies, guidelines, and procedures.
- Summarize and archive old discussions.
- List pages not belonging on Meta-Wiki on Requests for deletion (add
{{Rfd}}on the page).
Active projects
edit- Image review
- File metadata cleanup drive (global)
Pending tasks
editPending tasks and ideas that we think would be worth developing (edit):
- Rewrite of Meta:Deletion policy.
- Creation of a local bot policy.
- Community desysop (and other rights) policy/procedure.
- A clear process for approving and modifying policies. We need:
- A central place where discussions and voting can take place.
- Clear rules as to when a proposal can be considered to be successful.
- Updating administrator, bureaucrat, etc. local policies to match current times.
Templates
editAn incomplete list of most-used templates for Meta-Wiki maintenance. See more on this category:
- Cleanup: If you find a page which should be kept but needs cleanup please put {{cleanup}} on top, use Category:Cleanup and see Meta:Cleanup
- Outdated: {{outdated}} and Category:Pages with unknown historical context for pages that need to be updated
- Historical: {{historical}} and Category:Archives for articles that are kept for historical purposes
- Looks useless: {{Looks useless}} and Category:Looks useless, slightly weaker than speedy
- Speedy delete: {{delete}} and Category:Deleteme
- Others to delete: {{rfd}} if they meet Meta:Deletion policy