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| [[#Quick tasks (under 1 minute)|Quick tasks (under 1 minute)]]
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| [[#About a minute|About a minute]]
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| [[#Under 5 minutes|Under 5 minutes]]
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| [[#5+ minutes|5+ minutes]]
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| [[#High use pages|High use pages]]
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| [[#Admin|Admin]]
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| [[#Table of Tasks|Table of Tasks]]
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| [[#Gardening with Bots|Gardening with Bots]]
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| [[#Other definitions|Other definitions]]
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| [[#Related Task Pages|Related Task Pages]]
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| [[#Copied from Gardener's Dashboard|Copied from Gardener's Dashboard]]
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A wiki is like a garden and individual pages and articles are like the plants in the garden. If the garden is not prepared and kept in good working order, no single plant can succeed.  The same applies to wikis.  The best article in the world cannot sustain itself within a wiki if the wiki as a whole isn't cared for.   

<blockquote>'''Gardening involves an active participation of all editors in the caring Saintapedia's content.'''</blockquote>

We, therefore, lovingly refer to anyone who has the proclivity, initiative, desire, and ability to care for a wiki (in whatever form) as a "Gardener".  This page is dedicated to the Gardeners of Saintapedia and provides a location where gardeners can identify and coordinate their actions. 

Any editor can become a gardener.  

Key characteristics of gardeners:
* Work on more than one page
* Seeks out information to fix errors or omissions in articles they didn't create
* Leaves comments on talk pages
* Helps users improve their pages by appropriate use of templates, wiki links, naming conventions and the like.
* Look at [[Special:Recentchanges|Recent Changes]]
* Attempts to connect articles together using {{tlx|Navbox}}es, [[Help:Categories|Categories]], and [[Wikification]]
* [[Help:Merging|Merges]] duplicate articles
* Seeks to continually improve their understanding of the wiki infrastructure from the overall [[Getting Started|wiki interface]] to templates, categories, and files.

== Quick tasks (under 1 minute) ==
[[File:Double_redirect.mp4|thumb|500px|right|Fixing a double redirect]]

=== Double redirects ===
Double redirects are pages which [[redirect]] to other redirect pages.  To fix a double redirect:

1. Review the list of [[Special:DoubleRedirects|Double redirects]]

2. Pick a double redirect to fix (see example below)
: [[Version history]] ([https://saintapedia.org/w/index.php?title=Version_history&action=edit edit]) →‎ [[Help:Version history]] →‎ [[Help:Article history]]

3. Copy the name of the final page to the right
: In our example, the would be [[Help:Article history]]

4. Click on the "(edit)" link after the left most item
: In our example, [[Version history]] ([https://saintapedia.org/w/index.php?title=Version_history&action=edit edit])

5. Paste the name of the final in between the <nowiki>[[ ]]</nowiki>
: In our example, you would change <nowiki>#Redirect [[Voluntary Leave Transfer]]</nowiki> to <nowiki>#Redirect [[Voluntary Leave Transfer]]</nowiki>

6. In the [[Edit summary]], say "fixed double redirect."

7. Return to step 1, as your time permits, to fix other double redirects

=== Create a redirect ===
{{#lst:Help:Redirect|Dashboard}}

=== Add categories to Uncategorized Files ===
Per Saintapedia file guidelines, each file on Saintapedia should have at least one category assigned to it. However, compliance on this front is limited. Many of the files on Saintapedia need categories added. 

'''To add categories to files:'''
# Go to the [[Special:UncategorizedFiles|uncategorized files]] list.
# Click on a file from the list.
# Determine what main category the file belongs:
#* [[:Category:Images]]
#* [[:Category:PDFs]]
#* [[:Category:Videos]]
# See if you can also identify a subcategory for each file from the list at the top of each Category list.  For [[:Category:PDFs | PDF]] and [[:Category:Microsoft Office documents | Microsoft Office]] files, you will probably need to click the file icon to see what is in the file before you can figure out its sub-category.
# On the file's page in Saintapedia, click the Edit tab, just as if you were [[Help:Editing|editing]] a regular Saintapedia article
# Add one or more categories using the format <code><nowiki>[[Category:<category name>]]</nowiki></code>. S

== About a minute ==
=== Add an acronym ===
* Acronyms needed adding
* Go to the [[Acronym|Acronyms]] page.  If an article exists, check if the redirect has been created.  If not, please create the [[redirect]].

=== Respond to a talk page ===
* Respond to a talk page

=== Wikify ===
'''Wikify''' refers to adding "internal links" to articles, which helps integrate the article into the whole of [[Saintapedia]]. Some of the places to start include:
*Any page you are viewing that you feel should have a link
* A [[Special:Random|Random]] page
* [[Dead end page]] that does not link to other pages in Saintapedia
[[File:Wikify.mp4|500px|left]]
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=== New pages ===
Review list of [[Special:NewPages|New Pages]] by:

* Look for redundancy with existing articles
* Ensure titles comply with [[naming convention]]s.
* Help connect these articles with other articles and add links to these pages from other appropriate articles
* Where applicable, add one or more [[Template:Navbox|navigation boxes]] to the bottom of the page.
* Add categories
** Note that making sure [[navigation box]]es that are going to be added to many pages are categorized might be a quick way to get lots of uncategorized pages categorized.

=== Recent changes ===
* Look over [https://Saintapedia.energy.gov/w/index.php?namespace=1&title=Special%3ARecentChanges recent comments] on [[Talk pages]] and provide your input on the situation.

== '''Under 5 minutes''' ==
=== Merge articles ===
{{Main|Help:Merging}}
* Merge two articles
* Merging one article into another
=== Stub ===
* Expand a [[stub]]
* Create a page, even a stub page, from the list of:
** [[Special:WantedPages|wanted pages]] 
** [[Special:BrokenRedirects|redirects to non-existing pages]]

=== Short pages ===
* Expand a [[Special:ShortPages|short page]].

=== Long pages ===
* [[Special:LongPages|Long pages]] - Look for content that can be broken out into its own page and other ways to shorten the page.

=== Orphaned pages ===
* Add a link to an [[Special:LonelyPages|Orphaned page]] on another related Saintapedia page.
* Review [[Special:RecentChanges|Recent Changes]], especially look a edits of users who have not yet created their [[Help:User page|User page]].

== High use pages ==
* [[Special:MostLinkedPages|Most linked-to pages]]
* [[Special:MostRevisions|Pages with the most revisions]]

== Admin ==
Review:
* Articles marked to be [[:Category:Delete|deleted]]
* Files marked to be [[:Category:Rename|renamed]]

== Table of Tasks ==
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!Task || General Description of what is needed 
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|[[Saintapedia:Wikiproject Welcoming committee|Welcoming committee]] ||
* Email a [[Special:Log/newusers|new user]] after they create an account.
* Add to the [[Saintapedia:Wikiproject Welcoming committee/Log|log of emailed new users]] after you email them.
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| Patrol the [[Special:NewPages]] ||
* Does the article follow our [[Saintapedia:Naming convention]]s?
* Take a look at the article...does it have wiki links?  If not, add some.  
* Does it generally follow good wiki article practices (an opening summary, then sections, logos/images on the right)?   If not, consider working with the original author to move it in that direction.  
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| Avoiding redirects || When you notice a wiki link that takes you to a page via a [[Redirect]], go back and fix the wiki link so it sends the user directly to the page instead of via the redirect. 
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|[[Special:WantedPages|Wanted Pages]] || Use the Wanted Pages special page to identify non-existent pages that have the most inbound links and start a short stub article.  Try to [[Help:Reference|source]] your material.  
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| Search || Use search list as a guide for ensuring most searched for terms have pages. 
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|Dead-End Pages || Connect [[Special:DeadendPages|Dead-end pages]] to other pages.
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|Merge Pages || Watch [[:Category:All articles to be merged]] and assist in [[Help:Merge|merges]] if no one offers any objections in the discussion.
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== Gardening Templates ==
See [[Saintapedia:Maintenance]] for a listing of templates.

==Other definitions==
* For a slightly humorous look at the role of gardening on a wiki, see Wikipedia's page called: {{W|Wikipedia:WikiGnome}}.
* [https://www.socialtext.net/exchange/wiki_gardening_tips Socialtext's wiki gardening tips]

==Related Task Pages==
* [[Saintapedia:Lists of common misspellings|Lists of common misspellings]]

== Copied from Gardener's Dashboard ==
===Pages that Need Wikification===
{{learn|Help:Cheat sheet#Internal Links (Wikify)|Wikification}}
* [[Special:DeadendPages|Dead-end pages]] do not link to other pages in Saintapedia.
* [[Special:LonelyPages|Orphaned pages]] are not linked from or transcluded into other pages in Saintapedia.

=== Checking recent changes ===
There are a few Gardeners should look for when checking [[Special:RecentChanges|Recent Changes]]:
* Review the edits of users who have not yet created their [[Help:User page|User page]].
* If someone has not created their user page, suggest in their user page's talk page, that they create their user page

===Special Pages===
* [[Special:ShortPages|Short Pages]]
* [[Special:LongPages|Long Pages]]
* [[Special:BrokenRedirects|Broken Redirects]]
* [[Special:DeadendPages|Deadend Pages]]

===Recent Talk===
* [https://saintapedia.org/wiki/Special:RecentChanges?hidebots=1&namespace=1&limit=500&days=7&urlversion=2 Talk]
* [https://saintapedia.org/wiki/Special:RecentChanges?hidebots=1&namespace=11&limit=500&days=7&urlversion=2 Template talk]
* [https://saintapedia.org/wiki/Special:RecentChanges?hidebots=1&namespace=13&limit=500&days=7&urlversion=2 Help talk]
* [https://saintapedia.org/wiki/Special:RecentChanges?hidebots=1&namespace=5&limit=500&days=7&urlversion=2 Saintapedia talk]

[[Category:Gardening Tasks]]
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