Archive:The Big Cleanup

Informal notes for testers

This is not a complete instruction page for The Big Cleanup (yet). It's mainly a set of instructions for people who want to help test out the notion behind The Big Cleanup and The Article Checklist.

If you want to help test the system, and give feedback, please "cleanup" and add the checklist to 5-10 articles and report back here about your experience.

Here's one way to do it:

• Pick an article, e.g., from Special:Allpages. Note, we'll go through our articles more systematically (probably alphabetically), but first let's do some informal testing.

• Complete these steps, which can be found at Citizendium Pilot:The Article Checklist:
  • Bold the article title, if necessary.
  • Remove all unused (red) templates, category tags, images, and interwiki links. It might be a good idea to copy the templates and images to the talk page for people to reinsert later.
  • Add workgroup category tag(s).
  • Add (or remove) CZ Live tag as appropriate.
  • Check the "Content is from Wikipedia?" box if the article is sourced from Wikipedia.
  • Add Template:Checklist to the article's talk page, and complete the Article Checklist. Instructions for doing so are on Citizendium Pilot:The Article Checklist. It's pretty easy.

Questions?

Please list any questions you have below, and Larry (or someone) will answer them.