User:MadMax/checklist

Checklist:

General maintenance (Daily)

1. Check NewPages. Cleanup and reformat as necessary.
2. Check DeadendPages. Add links to articles.
3. Check LonelyPages. Add links to other articles.
4. Check UncategorizedPages. Add categories to uncategorized articles.
5. Check UnusedCategories. Either add articles to, or delete, unused categories. When deleting an unused category please check Special:Whatlinkshere to confirm it is neither a maintenance category or used with <includeonly>.
6. Check BrokenRedirects. Fix broken redirects.
7. Check DoubleRedirects. Fix double redirects.
8. Check NewFiles. Delete duplicate and/or unused images.
9. Check ShortPages and add special text to get disambig pages off the list.
10. Check Special:WantedPages to remove links (e.g. Template:BUTT POOP) or create redirects (e.g. Catholic to Catholicism) as necessary.
11. Check Special:WantedCategories, Special:WantedFiles and Special:WantedTemplates and remove deleted or dubious entries. If linked to a forum, consider redirecting images to File:No image.PNG or File:Censored.jpg. Also consider using <nowiki> on certain userpages.
12. Check Special:WhatLinksHere/Template:Category diffuse and sort articles into more appropriate categories.

General maintenance (Weekly/Monthly)

1. Format articles in Category:ICU and Category:Cleanup
2. Delete expired articles in ICU and Under Construction
3. Merge articles in Category:Articles to be merged. May be necessary to remove merge notices from articles if they are of two different subjects or use conflicting styles of humor.
4. Update Uncyclopedia:DYK submissions and {{DYKimage}}.
5. Check Category:Pages with broken file links.

Misc.

1. Update UN:REQ by removing completed requests. Make sure to keep newer submissions around for a few days after creation in case submission is tagged with {{ICU}}
2. Update Where's Waldo? by replacing red links.
3. Update The Wilde Project by removing redlinks from A to Z. Also update the list with unused {{OWQL}} files from Special:UnusedTemplates.
4. Add images to articles listed on Category:Articles with insufficient images using Special:NewFiles and Special:UnusedFiles
5. Fix red links using Special:Random or the Special:WantedPages backlog.
6. Add {{IPjoin}} to anonymous editors who contribute articles, revert vandalism, etc.
7. Check and remove signatures from from mainspace articles.

• VFD:

1. Archive completed nominations.
2. If kept, remove VFD template from nominated article.
3. Add {{oldvfd}} to article talk page.
4. If deleted, move to userpage (if applicable; per significant keep votes, active user, etc.).
5. Remove links to article (if applicable; i.e. Slappy's Angels).
6. Delete images for article (if applicable; unused or would serve little satirical otherwise).

• The "Big" Projects

1. Go through Special:PrefixIndex for general cleanup. Page 1 Page 2
2. Go through Special:Categories for general cleanup.
3. Link every featured article. (see: User:MadMax/FA)
4. Make sure there is a DYK entry for every featured article. (see: User:MadMax/DYK)
5. Categorize UnNews articles.
6. Rebuild timeline using "official" sources (e.g. Feature articles). Scrap old work based on Uncyclopedia:Anniversaries and "regular articles". Possibly run as a contest or "conservation"-style week to add original one liners? Or as DYK submissions?

• Other

1. Title screen
2. "Sponsored by...?"
3. First page
4. First image
5. Extra page (shorter)
6. Extra image (shorter)
7. Second page
8. Second image

The Article Whisperer

1. Check to see if any writing competitions are being planned. TAW "traditionally" takes place in early-September, before the ATDB, though it has switched places with PLS (e.g. TAW 2011).
2. Start a forum to determine interest. Try to pick a time when most editors aren't busy with school, work, etc.
3. Notify when the contest starts on the site notice roughly a week before the competition starts.
4. Update the main contest page. This is how it should look on the first day of the competition. Also make sure all the links, especially the guide to UN:REQ, are up to date.
5. Update the award templates for the appropriate year (ex. {{TAWaward/2010}} to {{TAWaward/2011}})
6. Update the judges page. This is how it should look once the judge have been signed up.
7. The main contest page should be unprotected so new users can submit articles, however, everything else (judges, template pages, et. al.) should be fully protected from editing.
8. Update the contest page using User:MadMax/TAW/Winners1 once the judging has started. Note this on the site notice as well.
9. Keep the "Scoring" section updated via the Judge's page.
10. Remember to check in with judges during the final week in case they're unable to judge articles. If this happens, try asking active other editors (preferably not already involved in the competition) to act as substitutes. It might be worth asking judges if they are willing to judge a second article.
11. Award winners, participants, and judges as necessary. (see {{TAWaward}}, {{TAWparticipant}}, and {{TAWjudge}}; {{TAWcookie}} can also be used to award an editor for a miscellaneous contribution to the TAW)
12. Write a message thanking all the participants.