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1 Special pages and you
- 1.1 Important special pages
2 Naming consistency
3 Linking to a category
- 3.1 Capitalization
4 Talk Pages
5 User List
6 Operation: Threadscan
7 Other Wikis with Macintosh information

Special pages and you

There's this nifty little menu called 'toolbox', on the lower left. You should see a 'Special pages' link in it. Special pages are important. Special pages are your friend. Special pages help you clean things up on the wiki. Special pages are the first grand step toward the New World Order.

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Important special pages

Wanted pages: Pages that have inbound links, but do not exist. This does not necessarily mean they need to be created; for example, the nonexistant 'License' page should probably be a Category instead (I'll probably alter the template to point to Category:Software licenses if nobody objects).
Orphaned pages: Pages that have no inbound links
Unused images: Images that are not referenced in any article
Maintenance: Finding pages that are double redirects, et cetera.
Uncategorized pages: Pages that have no categories
Uncategorized categories: Categories that have no categories (wait, what?)

- wntd 13:58, 15 Apr 2005 (EDT)

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Naming consistency

Please try to name articles with the correct capitalization and spacing. Since all pages must begin with a capital letter, if the correct name of the article begins with something else, say, a lowercase letter or an octothorpe, please use the

{{wrongtitle|title=correctTitle}}

template at the beginning of the page. - wntd 15:20, 14 Apr 2005 (EDT)

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Linking to a category

To link to a category, prefix "Category" with a colon, as this:

[[:Category:Centris series]]

When redirecting, #REDIRECT doesn't work with categories (it redirects, but then omits the sub-category and child listings!). Use the "categoryredirect" template instead:

{{categoryredirect|category=Centris series}}

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Capitalization

Try to follow Wikipedia naming conventions--if it's just a phrase, not a proper term, only the first word should have initial capitalization. We're all over the board on this (you can see it on the Main Page).

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Talk Pages

Quick primer on discussion pages, assuming anyone actually reads this. The talk pages are really confusing to read because nobody signs their posts or indicates what they're replying to.

When you make a post on a talk page, sign your post with four tildes. MediaWiki will automatically convert this into your username plus a timestamp.

When you're replying to something directly above you, start your reply with a colon -- it'll be indented. Replying to a reply? Use two colons. And so on.

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User List

I've modified the user list page to sort by number of edits. It seems I've made the total majority of edits on this thing ;)

Special:Listusersedits

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Operation: Threadscan

We know the Mac Megathread contains tons of information, but it's there in the thread, and not here where it should be. Operation: Threadscan is the great effort to extract that information. Since there are nearly 700 pages, we need to break it up. Sign up here, and update your progress.

Quick-link to pages: http://archives.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?s=&threadid=1205021&pagenumber=999

Update: The Megathread is now in the Archives, and as such requires Archives to access it.

Name	Pages	Last finished page #	% complete
kalleboo	1 - 50	DONE	100%
yablo	51-58	DONE	100%
JayTay	59-99	63	10%
mroach	100 - 150	109	18%
kalleboo	201 - 250	DONE	100%
ChrisDKK	251 - 300	255	7%
airspiritx	301 - 350	301	1%