Board Thread:News and Announcements/@comment-26219548-20160711102038

Hey there!

As you can see, our wiki is a good wiki, thanks to all the admins and users who have contributed and run it for the past few years. However, what it really lacks is standardisation and format. For example, the galleries are out of format and are extremely messy. I once tried to clean it up but no one really knew about it, so they started adding photos without placing them in the right order. Also, we need to reorganise some information oon the pages. The order of subheadings differ on many pages. Also, with the new infoboxes, some of the row titles are repeated and some are not functional, as such a lot of info is written in the wrong row. Also, there are many transcripts that are out of format or incomplete.

With so many problems, I proposed to Annabeth and Toothless that we should actually create this system that consists of small groups. Each pin pointing a problem in the wikia. Be it cleaning up galleries, or completing transcripts, it ensures that we stay on the right track. Every user here is determined and I see the effort put in by the community, but we lack focus. If every group works on the area assigned to them, the process will be much faster. And perhaps every month or so, all the groups report their progress to the admins on a blog post or something and discuss their problems and progress. It'll be really cool if we can have like teams called the 'Dragon Masters' that help clean up the dragon infoboxes, or like 'Transcript Tracker'. I suck at names >.<

This also helps make our community more bonded and we ca communicate better in our little groups. Needless to say, this grouping thig isn't a full-time commitment or anything. You can still contribute to other areas that need work, as long as you don't mess up the other group's format. This system may also be a temporary thing, once the wiki is considered free of errors and when all the necessary info from the new season is added.

While Annabeth and Toothless are fine with this idea and have guided me much on preparing this plan I really need help from YOU--my fellow dragonites. Yep. Please leave an suggestions or your opinions in the comments below. And also, I'll be leaving some possible catergories your group can choose down below. Do feel free to add any new groups or even volunteers to help out on it. Eventually, when enough people sign up for the catergories, a mini admin will be appointed by the admins to facilitate the group's progress and this system can finally take flight. Of course, thought his system has been approved, I thnk it's wiser to wait for the admins to confirm all the groupings and stuff. Also, we stll have to discuss the proper formatting with them so each group knows exactly what to do. Anyways, hope we can get as much support as possible! Thanks and have fun!

Possible groups:

-Transcripts (Complete them and standardise the format. Proper format tbc with admins)

-Dragon Infoboxes (The infoboxes are relatively ok, just that some info has been put into the wrong rows. For example, the dragon stats and color. Check out the last few dragons in alphabetical order to see the correct ones I've done up)

-Galleries (Too messy. Format, as discussed with Toothless earlier on is  Starting with: Concept Art, Statistics/Bio, Movies, Shorts, Series. Followed by In-Universe sources(try to follow this order too) like: Dragon Eye Projections, Drawings by character in the movies or series, Dragon Manual, Hiccup's Map. Followed by: Promo posters, Interviews, Art-Books, Spin-offs/Comics. Then games: Official online card game, wild skies, rise of berk, school of dragons. And for games, try to place the main poto as the first and other images like promos for the game, or eggs after that. Lastly, toys and action figures. Separate each catergor with captions. Alternatively, we can discuss with admins whether we can a page for every gallery with subheadings. I hear a lot of people wanting that)

 - Dragon Description (Perhaps the easiest but most tedious one. Convert all the official descriptions eg. from dragopedia or Rse of Berk, to the quote template. It's a lot neater)

 - RTTE Dragons (This may need more subgroups like Personality, Appearances whatsoever. But a lot of older dragons appeared once again int RTTE but snce we're all caught up on new ones, they are neglected. Touch up on these dragons)

 -RTTE Characters (Similar to that of RTTE Dragons)

 -Dragon Eggs (A lot of missing eggs that have to be uploaded from Rise of Berk)  