Wiki gardening

Open Food Facts wiki is dedicated to documentation and knowledge sharing. It can be also used for project information or other usages.

What?

Wiki gardening is a way to maintain the wiki up to date and efficient.

Why?

• The wiki helps people to better contribute to Open Food Facts.
• The wiki needs to present things that are not (still) well explained on Open Food Facts websites or tools.
• If the wiki is not presentable, it loses credibility.

Tasks

• Rewrite and refactor to improve readability:
  • typos, misspellings, ...
  • rearrange pages, split long pages into smaller ones, delete pages
  • add intro to pages to give context, make links between pages
  • make it easier for new-commers to find what they are searching for. Information most useful to a large number, should be simple to access from the front page.
• Categorize pages, to allow exploring things by categories
• Ensure information is up-to-date [use a category to identify perished contents]
• make wiki nicer (tip: use Wiki Icons)

Tools

• Long pages
• Short pages
• Orphaned pages
• Wiki Icons