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A few kind people have recently asked what could be done to help the Wiki, this page is being set up to give information on main areas that need attention.
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'''Looking for things to do to help the Wiki?  Please see below!'''
  
This isn't meant to be particularly formal so people feel free to add things to the list - or delete / comment them when fixed.
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'''For general editing advice please visit the [[TWC Wiki:Help|help page]].'''
  
:''*Note when adding info to pages please only add things you have written yourself, unless you have original authors permission. Please don't copy content from other TW sites or Wikipedia'' 
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'''Please add yourself as a volunteer to anything you join so we can keep track. '''To keep things organized, you may also link the page you're using to work on, and if it's a larger project or something you want proofread, please put your work in a sandbox page either on the project or through your wiki name. Ex, [[TWC Wiki:Things to do/Makayanne]] or [[User:Makayanne/Sandbox]].
  
== Clean Up and Stubs Categories ==
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'''If you're overwhelmed, feel free to start with the Small Projects or Maintenance & Upkeep!'''
Look in [[:Category:Cleanup]] and [[:Category:Stubs]] for things that other people have marked as in need of work, and pick something that interests you to work on.  Also whilst viewing Wiki if you spot more things that should be in those categories for others to fix (there are probably a lot) add
 
'''<nowiki>{{Cleanup}}</nowiki>''' or '''<nowiki>{{stub}}</nowiki>''' to the article so it gets sent to the relevant category.
 
  
== Total War Information ==
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Questions and collaboration with regular contributors can be done through the [https://discordapp.com/invite/w6GRHFp discord], on the [https://www.twcenter.net/forums/showthread.php?788480-Discuss-the-TWC-Wiki-here! discussion] at TWC or through this [[TWC Wiki:Things to do talk|talk page]].
Some of these areas have a basic structure but not really any content yet - for example pages in [[RTW_Factions]] some have no info at all, others like [[Egypt (RTW Faction)]] have just some possible suggested headings, [[Carthage (RTW Faction)]] has been developed further but could still have more information added.  Some more content for those would be useful - (the strategy guides and AAR sections are likely to just be external links at moment).
 
  
BI needs faction pages making for most of the factions, use [[Celts (BI Faction)]] for the faction page and just plain [[Celts]] if required for disambiguation page to reference Celts factions in mods or for general / historical information about them. See [[Spain]] for example.
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== Small Projects ==
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'''Individual pages/areas to update. Anyone can add to this or volunteer.'''
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* '''[[Naval Battles]]''' - Either expand the page to offer more useful information about naval battles in the series, create a page for Rome 2 and other entries with naval battles in the same style as the existing pages, or both.
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* '''[[Hotseat]]''' - Flesh out and revise page contents.
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* '''[[SSHIP]]''' - Create a page for the [https://www.twcenter.net/forums/forumdisplay.php?2055-Stainless-Steel-Historical-Improvement-Project-(SSHIP) Stainless Steel Historical Improvement Project], based off layouts from pages in [[Category:M2TW Mods (Hosted)]]. Put down features, some screenshots, and useful information. Don't worry about being perfect, but if you need help, we're glad to offer it!
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* '''[[Eras Total Conquest]]''' - Put factions in tables, offer a little information on the campaigns, add pictures, summarize the information while adding more about the mod. An example of what can be done with other mod pages as well.
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* '''[[Custom Battle]]''' - Expand on this feature across the various games, as it never went past a very basic description for Medieval 2.
  
== People - Wanted Pages ==
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== Maintenance & Upkeep ==
There are lots of dead links to people from mod pages team lists and other lists of members, that doesn't matter too much but it is clogging up [[Special:Wantedpages]] which makes it harder to spot broken links etc. If we could make pages for these it would help tidy things. Page can just contain
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'''Things we should keep up on regularly. Anyone is free to help out. '''
'''<nowiki>[[Category:People]]
 
</nowiki>''' which is enough to create the page and add it to category. Also including '''<nowiki>{{DEFAULTSORT: {{PAGENAME}}}}</nowiki>''' at top might help, it won't have any affect at moment but these might get moved to a different namespace - if we can work out what to call it, see [[TWC_Wiki_talk:Namespaces]] - and that would make them stay in alphabetical order in category lists if moved. 
 
  
If you start from some of the mod pages like [[Wrath_of_the_Norsemen]] and make pages for their team members you can know to add info about them being team member as well.  If you get round to it you can try to look up their forum profile and add link to that (if you're sure its same person), you might spot other things to link to from their sig.  As an example [[Antagonist]].
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The [[Special:SpecialPages|Special Pages]] area gives access to a variety of Maintenance Reports that can be used to find things that need fixing on the Wiki.
  
== TWC Information ==
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=== Clean Up and Stubs Categories ===
Needs a general check through to make sure information is up-to-date, in line with current Constitution, Forum Names etc.  
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Look in [[:Category:Cleanup]] and [[:Category:Stubs]] for things that other people have marked as in need of work, and pick something that interests you to work on. Also whilst viewing the Wiki if you spot more things that should be in those categories for others to fix (there are probably a lot) add '''<nowiki>{{Cleanup}}</nowiki>''' or '''<nowiki>{{stub}}</nowiki>''' to the article so it gets sent to the relevant category. In the case of 'Cleanup' please also explain what you think needs to be done to the article on its discussion page.
References to Syntagma and any other defunct terminology should be updated, unless it is clearly used in 'historical' context.  
 
  
== Categories ==
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===Mod Finder Tables===
[[Simetrical]] has pointed out that information should normally be on articles rather than on category pages - unfortunately a lot of information is currently on category pages as that is how we started working. Category pages can't be moved into namespaces and aren't currently searchable. Information on them needs to migrate onto articles instead as areas are updated. Update; [[Tango]] has been working on correcting categories, they should now be sorted, but please beware of this problem for future reference.
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The [[:Category:Mod_Finder_Tables|Mod Finder Tables]] should be updated with the date of any new release or update, and new mods should be added to the tables.
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===Portals===
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The [[:Category:Portals|portal pages]] are all designed in the expectation of having some sorts of regular updates, such as changes to the mod-spotlights or the lists of 'recent' releases.  Please feel free to update the lists or change spotlights.  The only exception would be if there's a note in comments on the spotlight saying it should remain in place until 'x' date.
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== Longer Projects ==
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'''More ambitious projects for a longer period or that should be done with multiple people. If you want to add to these, please get in touch with the Wiki Team!'''
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===[[TWC Wiki:Tutorial Indexes Project|Total War Tutorial Indexes]]===
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Attempting to get up-to-date tutorial indexes for each game on the wiki, so that they can be updated in future instead of the forum versions.
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*Volunteer/s;
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===[[TWC Wiki:TWC Info Project|TWC Information Project]]===
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Trying to rationalise the way we organise information about TWC - and provide an easy path from the front page to information a new user would want to find about TWC (without dumping them into minor/dead-end pages).  
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===[[TWC Wiki:Mod Pages Project|Mod Pages Project]]===
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To add pages for active hosted mods that don't already have them. To improve the recommended template for the mod pages and improve the standardization across the existing mod pages.
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===[[TWC Wiki:Total War Players/Modders Information Project|Total War Players/Modders Information Project]]===
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To discuss and action ways the wiki could attempt to fill in the gaps in the information provided on the wiki and forum.  And/or to improve navigation and accessibility of existing information.
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== Technical & Design Projects ==
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'''Templates, skins and other technical wiki business. If you have skill in these areas, we'd love to have you!'''
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No current projects. Default skin has been switched to TWC colours, DarkVector skin has had link colours changed.  Please report any issues with these or other skins here: -
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== Wiki Team Projects ==
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'''Projects being managed by Wiki Staff. You're free to help out, but please get in touch with the Wiki Team first.'''
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*[[Total War: Rome II]] - Main Team Member: Welsh Dragon
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*[[Total War: Three Kingdoms]] - Main Team Member: zoner16
  
  
 
[[Category:Wiki Administration]]
 
[[Category:Wiki Administration]]

Revision as of 03:23, 24 August 2020

Looking for things to do to help the Wiki? Please see below!

For general editing advice please visit the help page.

Please add yourself as a volunteer to anything you join so we can keep track. To keep things organized, you may also link the page you're using to work on, and if it's a larger project or something you want proofread, please put your work in a sandbox page either on the project or through your wiki name. Ex, TWC Wiki:Things to do/Makayanne or User:Makayanne/Sandbox.

If you're overwhelmed, feel free to start with the Small Projects or Maintenance & Upkeep!

Questions and collaboration with regular contributors can be done through the discord, on the discussion at TWC or through this talk page.

Small Projects

Individual pages/areas to update. Anyone can add to this or volunteer.

  • Naval Battles - Either expand the page to offer more useful information about naval battles in the series, create a page for Rome 2 and other entries with naval battles in the same style as the existing pages, or both.
  • Hotseat - Flesh out and revise page contents.
  • SSHIP - Create a page for the Stainless Steel Historical Improvement Project, based off layouts from pages in. Put down features, some screenshots, and useful information. Don't worry about being perfect, but if you need help, we're glad to offer it!
  • Eras Total Conquest - Put factions in tables, offer a little information on the campaigns, add pictures, summarize the information while adding more about the mod. An example of what can be done with other mod pages as well.
  • Custom Battle - Expand on this feature across the various games, as it never went past a very basic description for Medieval 2.

Maintenance & Upkeep

Things we should keep up on regularly. Anyone is free to help out.

The Special Pages area gives access to a variety of Maintenance Reports that can be used to find things that need fixing on the Wiki.

Clean Up and Stubs Categories

Look in Category:Cleanup and Category:Stubs for things that other people have marked as in need of work, and pick something that interests you to work on. Also whilst viewing the Wiki if you spot more things that should be in those categories for others to fix (there are probably a lot) add {{Cleanup}} or {{stub}} to the article so it gets sent to the relevant category. In the case of 'Cleanup' please also explain what you think needs to be done to the article on its discussion page.

Mod Finder Tables

The Mod Finder Tables should be updated with the date of any new release or update, and new mods should be added to the tables.

Portals

The portal pages are all designed in the expectation of having some sorts of regular updates, such as changes to the mod-spotlights or the lists of 'recent' releases. Please feel free to update the lists or change spotlights. The only exception would be if there's a note in comments on the spotlight saying it should remain in place until 'x' date.


Longer Projects

More ambitious projects for a longer period or that should be done with multiple people. If you want to add to these, please get in touch with the Wiki Team!

Total War Tutorial Indexes

Attempting to get up-to-date tutorial indexes for each game on the wiki, so that they can be updated in future instead of the forum versions.

  • Volunteer/s;

TWC Information Project

Trying to rationalise the way we organise information about TWC - and provide an easy path from the front page to information a new user would want to find about TWC (without dumping them into minor/dead-end pages).

Mod Pages Project

To add pages for active hosted mods that don't already have them. To improve the recommended template for the mod pages and improve the standardization across the existing mod pages.

Total War Players/Modders Information Project

To discuss and action ways the wiki could attempt to fill in the gaps in the information provided on the wiki and forum. And/or to improve navigation and accessibility of existing information.

Technical & Design Projects

Templates, skins and other technical wiki business. If you have skill in these areas, we'd love to have you!

No current projects. Default skin has been switched to TWC colours, DarkVector skin has had link colours changed. Please report any issues with these or other skins here: -

Wiki Team Projects

Projects being managed by Wiki Staff. You're free to help out, but please get in touch with the Wiki Team first.