Wiki To Do List: Volunteers Wanted

[Flux]

As Risingred suggested, here's a list of stuff that needs to be done, great and small. all assistance is appreciated. This post will be updated over time as things are crossed off and others are added on. Anyone is free to suggest other things to add to this list; if there's something lacking, do bring it to our attention.


Navigation:

D2 monsters. New menu, listing every monster and related topic. Needs to be pasted into many, many pages.

Done by Flux, January 18, 2011.


D3 devs.
Most of them we don't know much about, so at minimum make a page with their title, image (I put all the images in the category.) and put in the nav box and categories at the bottom.

This is largely finished, thanks to Varquynn's amazing effort. Where did you even find these lesser-known ones? Sojin Hwang?



Also, there are a number of red pages in that nav box that could be updated. Other games especially. About the only one now present is this:
http://www.diablowiki.net/Diablo_clone

[Flux]

Almost caught up

Media Coverage page.
http://www.diablowiki.net/Media_Coverage

[Flux]

Reference page.
http://www.diablowiki.net/Reference

Massive page of acronyms, abbreviations, game terms, etc, specific to D3. Will grow greatly once the game's out and we start getting skill, item, etc abbreviations, BotD style. It's up to date now, barring the addition of some not yet real well known D3 abbreviations, but I'd like most/all of the abbreviations to have their own wiki pages.

There's no special formatting required. The pages are fairly short, in most cases. Examples:
http://www.diablowiki.net/Blue
http://www.diablowiki.net/Chain
http://www.diablowiki.net/Cool_down

Please be sure all such pages are put into the [[category:reference]] (and other cats, if applicable), and include a link back to the [[reference]] page as well. See examples above.


Jan 28, 2011: I recently added a number of pages for general RPG terms: grind, run, aggro, e-peen, and raid. Updates like those are always welcome, if you think of a word that's in common usage but that noobs (at least) won't know, feel free to put up a page for it. It only takes a paragraph or two to explain most things.

[Risingred]

Sounds good. My previous statement about having free time proved to be ultimately false, but I'll see if I can't crank some of these out soon.

[Flux]

This has been done by Varquynne.

Big chunks of skill descriptions can be quoted, or at least cited, to the appropriate skill pages, from my various Blizzcon char reports.

• http://diablo.incgamers.com/blog/com...-arena-report/
• http://diablo.incgamers.com/blog/com...-levels-report
• http://diablo.incgamers.com/blog/com...m-report-monk/
• http://diablo.incgamers.com/blog/com...-report-wizard
• http://diablo.incgamers.com/blog/com...port-barbarian
• http://diablo.incgamers.com/blog/com...t-witch-doctor
• http://diablo.incgamers.com/blog/com...t-demon-hunter

Updates and new pages for the various attribute changes detailed by Bashiok.
http://diablo.incgamers.com/blog/com...in-diablo-iii/

[Valhauros]

So, I saw the link in the main page and started to look at the wiki, created an account an read quickly most threads in this section; since I found no answer for what I was looking for, I've got to ask:

Why is there 2 wikis? Why not condensate it into one place?

[Flux]

Why is there 2 wikis? Why not condensate it into one place?

Mainly for searching convenience, since so many items, monsters, modifiers, characters, skills, and more have the same names in all of the diablo games. Finding the page with D1 or d2 info is useless if you're looking for d3 axes, runes, whirlwind, set items, fallen, potions, etc. When I've used wikia or other wikis that have multiple different games in the same series jammed into the same wiki, I've found that very annoying. And we didn't want to make disambiguation pages for every shared name between the games.

It's occasionally inconvenient at this point, but once D3 is out, traffic to the D2 wiki will slow down, and since Bliz will stop (has stopped?) patching in new D2 content, at some point we'll pretty much never need to update the D2 portion of the wiki again. (Aside from adding depth and content for the sake of completism.)

[Valhauros]

Thanks for the fast answer! I have another question, if you don't mind, also related, and the reason I asked about the info division...

I've been lurking around here since the beginning, a year after the DSF was closed, and I think this has to be the oldest and most concurred Diablo site in the Internet. Recently, in the new WoW page, they included "more info" links to wowhead (a database) and wowpedia (a wiki) for a lot of things.

Do you think that when the time comes, regarding D3, Blizzard will ask to link to this website (particularly the wiki, for informative purposes) and if so, would you (and/or Elly and Rushster) do modifications to the system, layout or content as a requirement for the linking?

[Flux]

Recently, in the new WoW page, they included "more info" links to wowhead (a database) and wowpedia (a wiki) for a lot of things.

Do you think that when the time comes, regarding D3, Blizzard will ask to link to this website (particularly the wiki, for informative purposes) and if so, would you (and/or Elly and Rushster) do modifications to the system, layout or content as a requirement for the linking?

That's something Elly and I were discussing the other day, when the Wowpedia thing happened. I don't see any way they'd link to the main news site, since we post about everything there, including controversies and arguments and criticisms of the game.

The wiki though, is a possibility. We'd be willing to make the wiki the "official" D3 wiki in some sort of linkage partnership, assuming we/the community maintained editorial control. If Bliz wanted us to whitewash things from it, or remove good info or strategies or pages about various controversies, that would be a problem. I haven't followed the WoWpedia issue closely enough to know if that's an issue there; if they had to remove some data mined info or other stuff Blizzard didn't approve of? Do they cover news controversies or other community issues?

We have a lot of that stuff in the wiki; the Art Controversy for instance, since it's interesting and relevant. If Blizzard required the wiki to be purely a game info resource, like an official strategy guide/manual, then no we wouldn't do that. Item stats are only a small portion of the diablo 3 world; the news and debates about features and other stuff are as or more important to the community than the game stats.

Would blizzard do some sort of official fansite wiki thing with D3? Highly unlikely, IMHO. They like to maintain control of their product and the PR aspects of it. Witness the lack of any links out to anything from their current D3 site (or Bashiok forum posts, or @Diablo tweets). They don't even link to interviews or mainstream gaming site Blizzcon coverage. I think they'll be doing an Arreat Summit style site for D3, and it will be a good source of game info, but a black hole of community content (links go in, but never come out), just as the D2 one was.

Also note that WoW was released in 2005, and that since almost day one wowwiki and thottbot have provided much more thorough game info than the official site, yet it's only now that Blizzard has decided to linking out to a wiki in an official way. I guess they figured all the fans were already using the wow wikis, so there was no point in ignoring them any longer. (Good news for our partnership in 2017...?)

Admittedly, my years of interactions with Bliz Irvine PR have given me a very dim view of their willingness to do any kind of community outlinking or partnerships, so I could be wrong...

[TheWanderer]

This is largely finished, thanks to Varquynn's amazing effort. Where did you even find these lesser-known ones? Sojin Hwang?

I'd like to know too. :shocked: