User blog:DeviantSerpent/File clean-up

Hey!

I'm just going to announce this in a blog to avoid any sort of confusion, and for better understanding.

As we know, this wiki is currently a mess when it comes to images and their categorization. Users (even me!) just randomly throw images in to this wiki without even categorizing or using them.

So what I'm going to announce, is that I'm going to be on maintenance for this. I am going to be categorizing all our past images with the correct categorization. As well as deleting our unused ones.

Currently, from what I've heard around the air - a wiki is much cleaner, thus popular if everything is well categorized. If you take a look, most of the well attractive wikis have full-categorization. Images are just like pages, they should be categorized in their correct places.

This sounds painful, I know, and it will certainly take a long time to accomplish. So I'm just going to ask if anyone would like to volunteer in helping me maintain all this.. A bot would be better, but, we've been working on a bot for close to four-months now, and it still hasn't done anything. And I also wouldn't know about what it could do with the past images that were uploaded before the bots creation. I'd be pretty lazy to put someone through the difficult work of creating/operating a bot when I could just take time off and try to clean this up myself.

Please do not volunteer though just for the behalf of ameliorating your editcount, as this is extremely tedious work. Anyone can volunteer, but only patrollers/admins can volunteer for the deletion spree since users under these ranks cannot delete pages.

So I would also like to ask if we could add this to our image rules. To avoid all this cleanup and/or bot work in the future.

I have been correctly categorizing my images for at least two months now, so I just hope everyone can do the same. Thanks!