The last two months have been relatively slow on the wiki front, mostly coinciding with the crazy parts of the speech and debate season for me (all of the coaching!). Hopefully the former wasn’t a result of the latter demands on my time, and if so I’m hoping that we can get things moving again ASAP. But, in the meantime, onto the (short) report.

Wiki Competitions

If you’ve been around long enough to remember Horizons and the Dark Crusade, you might remember the various wiki article creation competitions that have been held in the past. Considering we might see some of these events in future Vendettas once more, I’m interested in gauging interest in the wiki staff hosting some of these competitions in the meantime. There are a few articles that could probably use creation or revision, and offering people competitive opportunities could be both fun and rewarding. So, if you have an opinion one way or another on the idea, feel free to chime in on the comment thread below or send me or the staff an email or Telegram message on the subject.

Featured Articles & Wikipedian of the Month

This month’s featured article is Celevon Edraven Erinos. This is a good example of a Brotherhood-focused character history that is well constructed. Additionally, it serves as a good example of an article that includes information that could have ended up as a bulleted list of trivia that is instead presented in standard prose format. Weapons, clothing, and combat styles are all contained within the article in paragraphs of descriptive text, exactly what the staff is looking for when reviewing articles for quality status.

As for our Wikipedian of the Month, the member who showed up the most this month making basic, maintenance edits is previous winner Darkblade. He does a lot of updates in various bookkeeping capacities around the wiki, really demonstrating the idea that the wiki is a user-generated system as opposed to something that is entirely updated by the staff. Unless it’s a protected page, if you see something that needs an update feel free to give it a go.

Projects

• Vong-ectomy: Lead: Andrelious. This change has been completed on the Brotherhood level as well as many of the Clan pages as well. No longer do the Vong scourge our wiki like they did the Legends continuity. If you do, however, find some remaining vestige of them feel free to let Andrelious know so he can wipe them out. All of them.
• Archivist: Lead: Rrogon Skar. Even with the new canon changes, the stories of the Brotherhood still need to be updated. Depending on how far we go with old events in the area of bringing them in line with new canon, this project’s responsibilities are somewhat in flux.
• Back In Time Lead: Bentre Stahoes. Completed. This project, much like the Vong-ectomy, is done at the level of Brotherhood and Clan events. If you see anything that still needs an update, feel free to bring it to Bentre (or make an edit on your own!).
• Accessibility: Lead: Kalon. The first phase of this project which will consist of developing the magazine style table of contents system for our Clan category pages. Once a tentative plan is in place for a standardized system, we’ll be working with the Clans to make sure their specific concerns aren’t steamrolled by the march of progress. A mockup of how the Clan page table of contents may be formatted can be seen here.