Thread:Late Rental/@comment-25245909-20150425050210

So, after a nice long day of thinking about the wiki, posting stuff on the steam forums and reddit, and actually making some progress on my personal writing (nothing yet to I want to show you before you ask, but I'm feeling good about the possibility of content I'm happy about being finished soon, maybe next week-month), It's now somewhat late and I'm in a bit of a strange mood and may soon be starting to need some sleep (usually I'm more of a night owl, but I've thinking 6 solid hours about Salt and my own projects, while writing many, many random things everywhere, and I'm feel a bit mentally exausted. Writing this post about Salt after so much work on my own projects is helping me focus and wake up a bit more though, somehow...[I really like footnotes]).



I looked at the main page recently and it seemed a bit off recently. Nothing major, I just got a sense it was diffrent, and emptier. I remeber noticing a thing in the wiki feed about it and I don't know what changed, but it got me thinking that maybe the front page might look weird on certain screen resultions (I use both a 16:9 laptop and a 4:3 desktop monitor from my new computer, laptops are nice for Salt map editing and podcasts/youtube without alt tab), and that perhaps the main page could be spruced up some now to look less empty and more like other successful/profesional wikias. I don't actually know if you changed the layout at all due to my aforementioned state of groginess that has temporarily drained my love for and ability to completely comprehend information, but making the front page really pretty is something that should be done, but could wait until you adopt the wiki and have more power to change things (I’m confident you’ll be accepted, the wiki is a pretty open and shut case like the one I adopted).



Another thing I’ve been thinking should be added is page with a more compressive and specific list/outline of what needs to be done for the wiki. I’m sure you have a good idea of what you’ll be doing and I have a mild idea what I’ll be focusing on, but I think writing everything down on an accessible place in the wiki could help us get it done, possibly by having a more thought out step-by-step plan, but mostly for allowing us to get straight who’s doing what so that we don’t try working on the same things.

I was thinking I would work on finishing adding pages for everything classified as armor, adding pages for locations like that ruins page and organizing the quest content i.e. making pages for each quest and transcribing the fluff on all the quests, especially the main quest content (Already have screenshots and ideas), and you seem to be doing the weapons, materials, infobox tweaks and lore books (If for some reason you don’t want to do the lore books I really have a passion for them myself and would happily transcribe them all from my own screenshots and screenshots from you and others. I really just like catching all the silly grammar mistakes that are a certainty with games and putting that “sick”(sic) thing next to all of them in the descriptions. I’m going to see about helping out the devs iron out all the not very important mistakes like that[I have terrible grammar myself, along with the belief that grammar mistakes don’t matter much but help make the game feel more polished]. I’ll see about reading the reddit and looking for threads like that and making when I make sure there isn’t one later tonight or tomarrow), which leaves figuring out how to get all the info on enemies for a decent article, along with other misc. unpolished topics (perhaps Default Seed specific related content, listing information about seed dependent things such as treasure caches which I’ve looked into with a small treasure hunt on the steam forums).

Another thing this would solve is guiding casual contributors for making any changes and perhaps dissuade them from editing the things we’re currently working on, probably by adding information about who’s working on what (maybe task priority?). It think adding such a page to that help needed section on the main page in larger, bold text could help minimize reediting, along with perhaps encourage any avid wiki editors in the community to join us.



Sorry about this wall of barely edited text (was even worse before I spaced out some of the paragraphs), but I still haven’t finished typing what I made this post for in the first place. I’ve looked into adding that kind of informal page type to the wiki and will likely try adding this page to the wiki myself either this night or tomarrow, along with some pages for speculation on mysterious stuff and a page for compiling testing results for said mysterious stuff along with anything else that needs clarification (Enemy health values for example). I mainly posted this to give you a heads up on that, maybe some input if anything comes to mind. I’ll be adding a few threads in the community for getting extra information we may need or inviting people to help us.



Also, we should probably discuss the template/consistency for page types before we add to many pages. We could do it on one of the pages or another page on this wiki, in the community forums/reddit or privately through steam or skype if you’d prefer a nice faster-paced brainstorming session/private discussion, depending on your preference. Sorry for typing you’re ear off (That does not translate well to posts), I’ll go ahead and finish up some much needed door loudness control and then dink around on the wiki and catch up on the reddit. –Bog Out  