The wiki is where Star Army stores the knowledge of our vast shared universe. We want it to be interesting, fun, easy to use and navigate, and up-to-date. As part of these goals, Star Army has a wiki staff that is regularly conducting edits to maintain the wiki is good shape. This includes finding fixing or removing broken links, linking or removing orphan pages, correcting typos, quality issues, and more. One of the things I've been thinking about lately is how to streamline the wiki and make upkeep less work for players and GMs. Here's some ideas I've come up with that I've been working on:
Furthermore, it's really important to me that pages on the wiki are useful and awesome and I'm always trying to find old or under-detailed pages and improve them so they give readers more value. You have have noticed me asking for help lately and that's because I've only got a couple helpers. We need more people who will actively participate. This is a never-ending job so if you want to volunteer, talk to me and I'll assign you a do-able task you can do to help out (such as adding struct data to all planets starting with M or something).
Anyway, part of the wiki maintenance do is clearing out all the abandoned stuff that meets the wiki's criteria for deletion. In particular, I'm talking about old WIPs that no one has touched in forever. These types of cleanups are theoretically ongoing all the time but in practice we got to sit down and make time for them and the end of the year seems like a great time because finding year-old articles is going to be really easy. So this is the official alert that I plan to remove any WIP that hasn't be worked on in over a year once we start the new year. This means articles in the WIP namespace with edit dates of 2019 or earlier or articles where the last human edit is the same (not just the move plugin's link updates). I will also go through the wiki and prune unused media files like images that not used in any wiki page.
I'm also looking for extremely short wiki pages - pages of under 500 characters are now flagged 9 points for that on their Quality Score so they'll stand out on the list of pages with quality issues and I'm trying to find solutions for them on a case-by-case basis.
Also, on the IC side, I'm planning on creating a Star Army Reserve which we can transfer inactive SAoY characters to, where they can safely live their unattended lives (lol).
TLDR:
- Merging some topics that are spread out over many pages into comprehensive guides.
- This includes species pages, for example I've been merging various human subtypes into the human page such as Geshrins and slowly merging Nekovalkyrja stuff up
- When non-character pages (inventories, skills pages, etc) are found in the character folder, merge them back into the character bio
- Creating a lot of pages that automatically update themselves based on struct data
- Active plots list now pulls data from the actual plot pages and no longer needs to be edited
- List of Star Army Personnel, list of members of factions, lists of ranks and occupations on their pages, etc
- List of species (btw I need short descriptions for some species)
- Basically any sort of list that needed to be edited all the time, I hope to automate
Furthermore, it's really important to me that pages on the wiki are useful and awesome and I'm always trying to find old or under-detailed pages and improve them so they give readers more value. You have have noticed me asking for help lately and that's because I've only got a couple helpers. We need more people who will actively participate. This is a never-ending job so if you want to volunteer, talk to me and I'll assign you a do-able task you can do to help out (such as adding struct data to all planets starting with M or something).
Anyway, part of the wiki maintenance do is clearing out all the abandoned stuff that meets the wiki's criteria for deletion. In particular, I'm talking about old WIPs that no one has touched in forever. These types of cleanups are theoretically ongoing all the time but in practice we got to sit down and make time for them and the end of the year seems like a great time because finding year-old articles is going to be really easy. So this is the official alert that I plan to remove any WIP that hasn't be worked on in over a year once we start the new year. This means articles in the WIP namespace with edit dates of 2019 or earlier or articles where the last human edit is the same (not just the move plugin's link updates). I will also go through the wiki and prune unused media files like images that not used in any wiki page.
I'm also looking for extremely short wiki pages - pages of under 500 characters are now flagged 9 points for that on their Quality Score so they'll stand out on the list of pages with quality issues and I'm trying to find solutions for them on a case-by-case basis.
Also, on the IC side, I'm planning on creating a Star Army Reserve which we can transfer inactive SAoY characters to, where they can safely live their unattended lives (lol).
TLDR:
- We're starting to automate lists anywhere we can
- Some pages are getting merged to streamline the wiki
- WIPs from 2019 or earlier will be removed if not being worked on
- Still need some wiki helpers to manage the workload
