Pikipedia:Maintenance

This article is about maintenance duties for the wiki. For other tasks, see Pikipedia:Helping out.

The wiki has some maintenance tasks that will never be complete. They are just tasks that constantly show up. Examples include minor tasks that improve an article, cleaning up poor documentation, or fixing page problems. If you don't want to undertake a massive project, but still want to help out the wiki, this is a great place to get ideas from. Pick a task, select an article, and start contributing!

If a task has further details, you can click its name to go to the section on this page that elaborates on what to do.

Tasks

Type	Task	Current article count (If applicable)
Pikmin info	Add more information to stubs.	101
	Follow the to do list of minor tasks.	170
	Upload images to articles that need them.	457
	Create wanted pages.
	Add knowledge about a specific game or version, if you have it.	19
Wiki structure; no Pikmin knowledge needed	Provide translations.	12
	Clean up articles or sections that need attention.	23
	Add missing sources.	27
	Update dead links.	2
	Fix duplicate arguments in templates.	2
	Fix templates that call themselves infinitely.	0
	Correct HTML tags that are incorrectly using auto-closure.	0
	Fix pages where the expansion depth is exceeded.	0
	Fix pages where the node count is exceeded.	0
	Fix pages where the template include size is exceeded.	0
	Fix pages with omitted template arguments.	0
	Fix pages with too many expensive parser function calls.	0
	Correct any reference errors.	0
	Fix unrecognized button icons.	1
	Find and add the license to files without one.	0
	Make use of unused files or mark them for deletion.
Discuss	Nominate new featured articles or vote on existing nominations.
	Nominate new polls or vote on existing nominations.
	Discuss the fate of articles to be deleted.	1,140
	Discuss the fate of articles to be merged.	9
	Discuss the fate of articles to be split.	4
	Discuss the fate of articles to be renamed.	16
Browse and find improvements	Find articles and sections that need improving.
	Find articles that don't follow guidelines.
	Find articles and files that are missing categories.
	Find low quality images.
	Find poor image descriptions.

Details

Find articles and sections that need improving

While reading, you may find an article, or section of an article, that desperately needs to be improved. You can edit it and improve it yourself, or leave a note for future editors to clean it up. For this, place one of the maintenance templates.

Find articles that don't follow guidelines

You can compare existing articles with our policies and guidelines, and if you spot something wrong, like a game name that's not italicized, go right ahead and fix it! Alternatively, you can leave a maintenance templates.

Find articles and files that are missing categories

Some articles or even files are not under the categories they should be in. If you find one, please categorize it. Remember to use the deepest category possible! (Example: Categorize an image of a Red Bulborb on Category:Red Bulborb images instead of Category:Enemy images.)

Find low quality images

If you spot any image that's particularly low quality, upload a replacement, or add the {{image}} tag to it.

Find poor image descriptions

For any images you see that have an unhelpful or missing descriptions, please edit them and improve them!