User blog comment:Rappy 4187/Technical Update: September 7, 2015/@comment-24473195-20150909130617/@comment-24473195-20150910095902

@Josephyr:

The main issue of having so many unmaintained pages is that it creates the appearance that this place is hugely disorganized. Not only that but links in old help pages probably sometimes become outdated or simply dead-ends leading to frustrated users not finding the information they want.

There are many examples of disarray:

1) Infoboxes are in fact used in pages that describe infoboxes. Beyond that, dev.wikia (staff maintained) does make use of a lot of classic infoboxes. So while you may make a valid point here, it is untrue in dev.wikia.

2)  Some help pages contain outdated info or may possibly contain dead links. Some of which can actually be updated automatically (see this.

3)  a)Despite staff reiterating hundreds of times that Mobile is important, it is not  really reflected that much in the pages here. The navigation tab doesn't contain a single link of mobile, there is no forum for mobile, no topic for mobile, and the only Mobile page has been deleted.

b) New incoming features such as Portable infoboxes, and Flags that may generate a lot of questions could probably make use of "Topics", which has already suggested to admins/staff here and forgotten or ignored.

c) There is a new feature for inserting infoboxes in VE, for example, that wasn't added to the help pages. It is causing confusion because some users believe it would include the "classic infoboxes" but it doesn't. This is part of the disarray, primarily because the technical notes don't always come with documentation, and even if somebody added a deadend link pointing to those pages. It wouldn't get seen or added.

It is easy enough to run a bot to quickly change all links that aren't in help or content namespace to [] thereby removing them from insights and special:wanted. Or simply change insights or special wanted pages to filter or ignore "links" from those namespaces.

The only report that probably doesn't need to be handled is "pages without images".