FlightGear wiki:Notes to administrators
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This is a collection of notes to administrators to help them with the maintenance that regular users can not do.
Common tasks
Deletion
- 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.