Wiki Maintenance

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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:

  1. Mark articles needing changes with the appropriate Template flag (e.g., {{del}}, {{outdated}}, {{stub}}, etc.).
  2. Make sure pages have a similar style and layout -- similar use of headings, emphasis, code, and so on.
  3. Correct spelling, grammar, and language use; try to make it more professional sounding.
  4. 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.

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)

File Systems

The page should be recreated, merging its subpages into sections of the article. Each section should contain a brief overview of what it is and its current status (e.g. the ext2 article). --RideBMX 00:06, 18 November 2009 (UTC)