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=== Civcraft Wiki Importing ===
The original Civcraft wiki was imported to CivWiki under the [[Special:PrefixIndex?prefix=&namespace=3002|CivcraftImport]] and [[Special:PrefixIndex?prefix=&namespace=3004|Civcraft2Import]] namespaces. The original Civcraft wiki used a different software and format than CivWiki, so these articles will need to be cleaned up before being moved into the main namespace. The eventual goal is to move all of these articles into the main namespace.
You'll see there are lots of pages under <code>CivcraftImport:</code> or similar. These are all pages from the Civcraft wiki, originally maintained by the [[Maester Alliance]]. As the wiki is intended to document information about all these nations, we're hoping to update a good majority of them to keep them up to date to wiki standards. This is especially hard as the Civcraft wiki was written in a different format as the current CivWiki. Follow [[CivcraftImport:How to]] for more details on integrating them into the wiki.
See [[CivcraftImport:How to]] for more details on integrating these pages into the main CivWiki namespace.
=== Wanted pages ===
=== Maintenance Pages ===
The wiki maintains a curated list of wanted pages at [[CivWiki:Wanted Articles]]. Try to find information on these to help navigational and informational efforts.
Go through the maintenance special pages and clean them up. What needs to be done depends on the category.
=== Flags ===
* [[Special:WantedPages]] - research and create the wanted article. Only create the article if you have a decent quality start — don't create a blank or stub article here just to get it off the list.
Make table containing all Civ flags. (see: [[Flags]])
* [[Special:WantedFiles]] - figure out why the file is missing, and fix it. Many of these are because articles from the Civcraft wiki migration link to files that don't exist in the main namespace yet. These files will need to be moved from the Civcraft namespace to the main namespace.
* [[Special:BrokenRedirects]] - determine the correct redirect location.▼== Meta ==
* [[Special:DeadEndPages]] - these pages usually have some hyperlinks that can be added to a relevant page.
* [[Special:LonelyPages]] - there is usually some other page that should be linking to this page, but isn't.
=== Categories ===
* [[Special:DoubleRedirects]] - double redirects should almost always be replaced with the final, "true" redirect location.
* [[Special:RottenLinks]] - find a live link and replace it, or upload the relevant content into the wiki (replacing the link) so it doesn't rot again.
[[CivWiki:Navigation|Categories]] need a rework. It is not always clear when a category should be applied. Category names follow the Wikipedia style of using plural names for lists of similar things (e.g. [[:Category:Treaties]]), and singular for pages related to one thing (e.g. [[:Category:Civcraft]]).
* [[Special:UncategorizedPages]] - add the relevant categories to these pages.▼
Periodically check [[Special:UncategorizedPages]] for pages that lack a category. Categorizing pages is important as uncatagorized pages are likely to be hard to find and thus often ignored, regardless of the quality of their content.
== Technical ==
Any custom formatting possible on Wikipedia is possible on CivWiki, and sometimes can be imported in only a few clicks. Templates can greatly increase ease and speed of editing, navigating and reading. If you are unsure of where to find good templates or inspiration, use Wikipedia's [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Good_articles random good article] feature.
=== Special pages ===
It is worth periodically going through Maintenance special pages in order to keep the wiki clean and usable (Note: many of these lists are unhelpfully filled with CivcraftImport pages. Try to fix this if possible).
* [[Special:WantedPages]], [[Special:WantedFiles]]
- This is filled with templates and thus not particularly useful. Try to fix it to show only wanted pages linked by users.
▲* [[Special:BrokenRedirects]]
* [[Special:DeadEndPages]], [[Special:LonelyPages]]
- Almost all pages have some related pages that they should link to or be linked to.
* [[Special:DoubleRedirects]]
- Double redirects should be removed
* [[Special:RottenLinks]]
▲* [[Special:UncategorizedPages]]
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