Wiki Maintenance
The purpose of this page is to direct users to articles that needs attention and improvement. Those articles may need more information, verification, or better organization. If you plan to create a new page, make sure it is relevant to the ReactOS project (pages dealing with testing, development, or documentation).
How to proceed
There is currently a need for volunteers to edit the wiki. This is a position where anyone wanting to contribute to the ReactOS community is welcome to join. All it takes to edit the wiki is to create an account. After creating an account, take the time to learn how to edit a page.
If you are not sure what to do, here are a few things to get you started:
- Mark articles needing changes with the appropriate Template flag (e.g., {{del}}, {{outdated}}, {{stub}}, etc.).
- Make sure pages have a similar style and layout -- similar use of headings, emphasis, code, and so on.
- Correct spelling, grammar, and language use; try to make it more professional sounding.
- Make the text concise and readable; remove irrelevant links and content.
General cleanup
If you do not have the time to do the cleanup yourself, simply marking articles as needing cleanup using one of the Templates can be helpful.
- Obsolete pages - Pages that are no longer needed.
- Outdated pages - Pages that need updated information to reflect the current status.
- Pages to expand - Pages that need more information.
- Orphaned pages - Pages that are not linked anywhere, making them inaccessible except through a search.
- Uncategorized pages - Pages that are not in any categories.
The Plan
The plan is to make the wiki to a place where you can find information about ReactOS development.
Phase 1
- Mark all pages that don't belong to the wiki as {{del}}
- merge articles that cover the same area together
- move structures, APIs, stuff for clean room reverse engineering to Techwiki
Phase 2
- Review existing articles.
- Link existing articles in articles where is makes sense, to present a flow in information search.
- use List of articles sorted by relevance to add notes about work that has to be done, you may also use the discussion page, but it maybe takes some time until someone takes notice about it
Phase 3
- finally get rid of orphaned pages
- add pages that are would be nice to have for a better understanding
List of articles sorted by relevance
Writing tests
article is based on CIS, which isn't used, we have buildbot, it would be more important to give a introduction on how to write tests, e.g. for Kernel APIs --DangerGround 09:17, 23 October 2008 (UTC)
Development Introduction
could be much more extended, needs a review --DangerGround 09:17, 23 October 2008 (UTC)
- I tried cleaning it up a bit. --RideBMX 23:44, 26 October 2009 (UTC)
Testing Introduction
the text from the last few headlines is outdated and doesn't help very much --DangerGround 09:17, 23 October 2008 (UTC)
Version Status
could get a more uniform look --DangerGround 09:17, 23 October 2008 (UTC)
Needs review after new Version Status page implemented. --RideBMX 23:44, 26 October 2009 (UTC)
Kernel
could be extended and merged to Techwiki --DangerGround 09:17, 23 October 2008 (UTC)
Moved information from several other pages into Kernel. Still needed to be fixed up. --RideBMX 23:44, 26 October 2009 (UTC)
ReactOS parts explained
too much headlines, maybe give only a small overview, adding a __NOTOC__ isn't a solution perhaps could break down into multiple pages, one for each subtree -- Lone Rifle 08:02, 23 October 2008 (UTC)
- I don't see a benefit from the current solution that the article doesn't really give an idea what this list really describes. --DangerGround 09:17, 23 October 2008 (UTC)
I didn't have the time to update the page. Yes it needs lots of stuff to be entered and removed. Can't even find time to update it. --Apal 06:03, 24 October 2008 (UTC)
- It doesn't need a detailed list, an overview would be much better. --DangerGround 07:14, 24 October 2008 (UTC)
ReactOS subsystems
most of them don't exist or not integrated into reactos, we should only document existing systems here --DangerGround 09:45, 23 October 2008 (UTC)
ReactOS ports
we need a page where we collect ports from ReactOS to other architectures than PC, some comments about current progress should be given there--DangerGround 09:45, 23 October 2008 (UTC)
- Page created with minor information about each port. Information needs to be merged from port pages -- AMD64, PowerPC/PowerPC-Old, Xen port(?) -- and it needs information from the port developer(s) about the current status. --RideBMX 04:11, 18 November 2009 (UTC)
Abbreviations
We could need a list of common abbreviations, that's probably the only useful information from ReactOS parts explained, it should be a Listing per Char --00:12, 18 November 2009 (UTC)
* translation pages
IMO they should go, not used for ages. Translators should be visible over svn commit messages. --DangerGround 17:01, 18 November 2009 (UTC)