Kzinser517

Cleanup help

{{helpme}}

Is there a way to create one of those "This page needs to be Cleaned up" things? I know that there is a specific code for wikipedia, but I am working with wikimedia, a site that makes a wikipedia like website. How can I make a clean up this page box and code?

You can see the code used by {{cleanup}} in template:cleanup. Unfortunately, it does use other templates, so just copying it to another Wiki would not work. The gist of it is this;

<table class="plainlinks ombox  
ombox-style" style="">
<tr>
<td class="mbox-image">
  [[Image:Imbox style.png | 40x40px ]]</td>
<td class="mbox-text" style=""> This article '''may require [[Wikipedia:cleanup|cleanup]] to meet Wikipedia's [[Wikipedia:Manual of Style|quality standards]].''' Please [{{fullurl:{{FULLPAGENAME}}|action=edit}} improve this {{{1|{{#if:{{NAMESPACE}}|{{NAMESPACE}} page|article}}}}}] if you can. </td>
</tr>
</table>

The above code should work on pretty much any wiki - although the CSS might not have the classes "ombox" and/or "mbox", so it might need tweaking there. Of course, you'd need image:Imbox style.png too - which is OK, it's a GFDL picture. And of course you'll need to link to appropriate pages, instead of to Wikipedia:cleanup and Wikipedia:Manual of Style.

I just pasted that code into the page User:Chzz/test-cleanup, and consequently, if I put here, below, {{User:Chzz/test-cleanup}}, it'll look like this;

I've removed the complicated stuff from that, such as e.g. putting it into a category, and the stuff that makes it complain if it's not used in mainspace (ie on an article).

Hopefully this will point you in the right direction; if you put code like that into the template space of another wiki, as template:cleanup, and then on that wiki just put {{cleanup}}, it should do the trick.

To be honest, the question goes somewhat beyond the scope of 'help with editing the English Wikipedia' - but I hope this helps. Cheers,  Chzz  ►  17:59, 27 October 2009 (UTC)