FlightGear wiki:Notes to administrators

This is a collection of notes to administrators to help them with the maintenance that regular users can not do.

Common tasks

Deletion

See also {{delete}} and {{delete-sp}}.

• Before deletion check the page history.
• An old page with lot of edits and views should probably not be deleted, but instead be turned into a redirect to a page that have a similar subject. Also, deleting a well visited page can cause a lot of broken links on the forum.

Deleting spam and blocking spammers

• Newly registered users whose first and only contribution clearly and unambiguously was spam can safely be blocked indefinitely and have the contributions deleted.
• Make sure the edit summary does not contain the offending links and other content, just the word "Spam" and possibly a few words more.

Periodically recurring tasks

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Newsletter releases

• Proof reading & Cleanup (Does not have to be done by an administrator per se)
• Layout fixes (Does not have to be done by an administrator per se)
• Creating the next newsletter (Does not have to be done by an administrator per se)
• Edit protection (locking)
• redirects (next/last): http://wiki.flightgear.org/index.php?title=Last_newsletter&redirect=no

FlightGear releases

See also release plan.

• Updating development repository status templates

Maintenance categories

• Some of the maintenance categories, in particular Category:Considered for deletion and Category:Candidates for speedy deletion, should have a look regularly.