User blog comment:Xean/Clean Up Your Wiki (No Soap Necessary)/@comment-88.111.138.137-20110908110213/@comment-88.111.138.137-20110908200716

Part of the issue is when you start a wiki the structure is not obious unless basing it on experience from another wiki and then different users like to work differently.

But the Idea of a regular spring clean up is a very good point - the problem is we all tend to concentrate on one aspect of a wiki.

Good point though Xean to tell users about some of the special pages as they did get hidden abit when wikia update the skin in the past, but the new custom toolbar once suitably 'populated' became a good tool for admins to check out these specialpages on a regular basis to reduce the build up in some of them - i.e orphan articles and images plus uncategorised stuff

A growing wiki is never going to be totally clean unless editors/admins jump in after every new edit and that scares off new editors & they dont 'learn ' the wikis structure and methods - Look at wikipedia admins alienating a lot of potentialy good editors with content to contribute by slapping them with speedy delete tags on new articles as adverts or saying something not notable or unreferenced as a google search does not pick it up.

So a clean up to wikify is better than a clean up with the sweeping brush into the delete dustbin if possible.