Forum:Operation: Overhaul

So here it is... [Drum Roll]



Foreword
This is, you could say, my 'masterplan' for the wiki, a sort of manifesto for the next few months, outlining priorities and policies. This is by no means an exhaustive list of ideas, and it is by no means complete. - Bondpedia (Talk) 16:00, May 28, 2010 (UTC)

Images
I recently gave up on the Image Review I had been conducting, but now it is back, this time for everyone to contribute to. Basically, category-by-category, every image must be checked to ensure it is properly tagged.


 * First priority throughout June is uncategorised images (list). Every image must be categorised. If you are the uploader of an uncategorised image, you will receive a message asking you to detail the image’s copyright background.


 * Then, categories requiring review will be picked, 2 per month, with the images again being subjected to a review of their copyright. Some images will be easy to correct, others will require uploader assistance, so uploaders will again get a message. The order of categories is as follows:
 * Category:Self Images – July
 * Category:Permitted images – July
 * Category:PD Images – August
 * Category:CC-BY-SA – August
 * Category:Other Free Images – September
 * Category:Wikimedia – September
 * Category:Images needing review – October
 * Category:Fair Use Images – October (this needs a major policy review, hopefully by October I’ll have sorted what is and what isn’t allowed)


 * Finally, all in-game screenshots must be tagged with  .

Policy

 * A main priority is a Battlefield Wiki:Discussions Policy. This should be drafted to basically be a policy controlling blogs, forums and discussion pages. It will unite Forum:Emergency Policy with a don’t delete/archive policy.


 * Another main policy priority is merging Battlefield Wiki:Standard Formatting with Battlefield Wiki:Manual of Style. Forum:English dialect must be completed in order to put into this new policy. Finally, it must be implemented across the wiki.

Articles
Priorities:
 * Correcting uncategorised pages and templates.
 * Orphaned and dead-end pages
 * Broken and double redirects
 * Completing DEath’s Operation:Reorganize
 * Creating and promoting Category:Featured Content
 * Moving articles to better titles, creating disambiguation pages and making redirects per Forum:Weapons and Vehicles Article Names

Featured

 * Priority will be given to replacing Template:Featured Game with either (or both of) a User-of-the-Month or Collaboration-of-the-Month. The user award, like on CoD wiki would award recently active editors, while the collaboration would involve advertising an imperfect page on the main page for improvement by the community. See Forum:Featured Content Merging.


 * We will also begin with Forum:Keeping Record

Users
Priorities:
 * Pete’s Vandal Patrol
 * A trusted user scheme, for people who are not admins to be given extra responsibility for looking after the wiki and helping new users.
 * Promoting user awards, eg. File:Award.png

Updates

 * I’ll be beginning Weekly Updates/Reports (not yet decided on a final total).

Comments
So, what do you think - Bondpedia (Talk) 16:00, May 28, 2010 (UTC)