User blog comment:Xean/Clean Up Your Wiki (No Soap Necessary)/@comment-1091639-20110907182140

Nice set of tips. All of these are pretty much what I do during my maintenance routine on every wiki I patrol. A word about Special:WantedPages though. This report is rather useless on most established wikis due to:

1. A page that's searched for by the ifexist parser function will show up in Special:WantedPages, regardless if it exists or not. So any wiki which uses this function often will have WantedPages cluttered with pages that are not necessarily wanted

2. The default welcome messages left by User:Wikia on talk pages include a link to the page edited by a new user. As time passes some of these pages get deleted, but the links stay, resulting in cluttering Special:WantedPages.