Incubator:Maintenance

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This page describes what to do for some general maintenance tasks, to make it easier.

Contents 1 Tasks that will be completed 1.1 For admins 2 Maintenance 2.1 For admins 2.2 New wiki created 2.3 New test-admin 2.4 Wiki closed/locked 2.5 To be deleted per I:RFD

[edit] Tasks that will be completed

When these tasks are done, they won't need to be repeated (in contrast to real maintenance).

• Category:Incubator:All test languages → Category:Incubator:All test wikis
• {{test language}} on "Category:Wx/xx" → {{test wiki}} on all "Wx/xx"

[edit] For admins

• Delete Special:UnusedFiles (and on the long term: Special:ListFiles)

[edit] Maintenance

[edit] For admins

• Deleting
  • Category:Maintenance:Delete
  • Special:ShortPages - those with 0 bytes or so
  • I:LOUP
• Incubator:Administrators' noticeboard

[edit] New wiki created

What to do when a new wiki has been created? - mostly for these users

• Step 1: informing people
  • add a little notice to the sitenotice
  • send an e-mail to the mailing list
• Step 2: importing
• Step 3: test-sysops
  • removing their rights on this wiki
  • asking the test-sysops if they want to be a temporary admin on the new wiki (see User:SPQRobin/process for new created sites)
• Step 4: updating stats and other pages
  • m:Meta:Recentchanges/All projects
  • m:Wikimedia News
  • Incubator:Site creation log
  • update main page here on incubator
• Step 5: delete incubator pages (only if everything else has been done!)

See also bugzilla:12256 for better notification.

[edit] New test-admin

What to do to give a user test-admin rights? - for bureaucrats

• Step 1: go to Special:Userrights and give them the rights
• Step 2: update Incubator:Test-sysops

[edit] Wiki closed/locked

What to do when a wiki has been closed/locked? - mostly for these users

• Step 1: importing
• Step 2: leave a note on the appropriate subpage of m:Proposals for closing projects

[edit] To be deleted per I:RFD

What to do when a test has to be deleted per I:Requests for deletions?

• Step 1: Export all pages through Special:Export
• Step 2: Save the XML file somewhere safe (on your PC, later we hope to be able to put it on Incubator)
• Step 3: Delete it (by bot - manually, it's a lot of work!)