PZwiki:Project Navigation and Categories
Navigation and Categories
Category
Status
Finish date
2024-03-19
Welcome to Project Navigation and Categories, a PZwiki project aimed to undertake reorganizing/recategorizing the wiki.
Project Zomboid was first playable in 2011, and has since received numerous major updates. Since 2011, the wiki's categories haven't kept up with the game, often making it hard to navigate. This project aims to fix that, by completely reorganizing every part of the wiki. As this is such a massive project, the majority of changes will be completed by bots. Users are encouraged to make suggestions, as this will affect every part of the wiki.
Anyone is welcome to join by adding the contributor userbox to their profile from the contributors section below.
Proposed
Note, proposed is now more outdated that current.
▼ Main
- ▼ Modding
- ▼ Project Zomboid
- Challenges
- ▼ Development
- ▼ Game mechanics
- ▼ Items
- ▼ Clothing
- ▼ Electronics
- ▼ Equipment
- ▼ Food
- ▼ Literature
- ▼ Materials
- ▼ Miscellaneous items
- ▼ Weapons
- Multiplayer
- ▼ Tiles
- ▼ Vehicles
- ▼ World
- ▼ AI
- Environment
- ▼ Locations
- ▼ Lore
- ▼ PZwiki
- Archives
- ▼ Help
- ▼ Images
- Languages
- Policies
- Projects
- ▼ Site maintenance
- ▼ Templates
- Users
- The Indie Stone
Current
Job board
Retire and remove all unneeded Category:Version (including language ones)– will be done as part of general PZwiki:Project Build 41 Update and general PZwiki:Tasks.Maybe rename Category:Version to avoid any confusion for readers? E.g., "Version page updated"- may look at again in the future, outside of this project.
Identify all the required categories (in progress by User:Vaileasys and User:Faalagorn).Rename categories to follow sentence case.Decide what to do with Category:Guides and Category:Obsolete items (currently not included in the layout and proposed tree).
Clean up the Category:Skills.Clean up the Category:Locations--may need to be finished as part of the location projectDecide what to do with the Category:Best base locations (removed).Decide what to do with categories that describe business types Category:Liquor store for example.
- Clean up the Category:Images. Create missing categories, compare with the layout and proposed tree.
Categorize the locations screenshots and businesses logos from PZwiki:Project Locations and Maps.Categorize Vector interface images: File:Vector page tabs.png, File:Vector sidebar.png, File:Vector user links.png and File:Vector search results.png.
Clean up the Category:Templates.Add " templates" to each category name? Also compare with the layout and proposed tree.Categorize templates.
Header:
Utilize Template:Header to create the majority of categories, avoid using (and phase out) VersionNotice templateUpdate Template:Retrieved to categorize to minor versions and subpages.Thanks User:Vibrance!Update categories in regional pages using Template:Header to avoid creating wrong categories, see Special:WantedCategories.Thanks User:Vibrance!Deploy new Template:Header/sandbox2 and replace the Template:Header with it (WIP).Retire and remove incver usage in Template:Retrieved and Template:Header (WIP).
Navigation:
- Unify names, categories, and code for
Template:Tutorial nav, Template:Items nav, Template:Crafting nav, Template:Tiles nav and possibly more. Replace last uses of old Template:Navbox and their language equivalents with one of Template:Navbox see also, then remove the templates.-The template was repurposed.When done, possibly remove the Category:Deprecated templates, Template:Deprecated and Help:Deprecation if not needed?-Deprecated templates will slowly be worked through as a general maintenance task external to this project.Change navboxes to now use Template:Navbox instead of Template:Navbox/Core.- Create categories missing in Special:WantedCategories as needed.
Working on
Finalizing the best category layoutRolling out new categories
New categories rollout
Phase 1 - Images
Update image/file categories: Category:ImagesMove images to the most appropriate category
Phase 2 - PZwiki, The Indie Stone and Modding
Move Modding and Category:The Indie Stone out of Category:PZwiki and into Category:Main.This needs to cascade to all pages and categories inside these categories.
Phase 3 - Project Zomboid
Replace "The Game World" category with Category:Project Zomboid and cascade to all categories/pages
Phase 4 - World
Create Category:World to contain the following categories:- Change "NPC" to "AI", change "Weather" to "Environment"
Cascade changes
Phase 5 - Development
Create Category:Development to contain the following categories:Move/merge "Removed Items", "Removed Food" to Category:Removed featuresMove "Obsolete Items" to Category:Obsolete items which should be situated in Category:Items and Category:Removed featuresChange Template:Obsolete to add Category:Removed features insteadAdd boolean parameteritem. If "true" add to Category:Obsolete items.
Move/merge "Future" to Category:Future featuresDecide whether we need Category:Testing branch and if it should be moved to Category:Unstable featuresCascade changes
Phase 6 - Game mechanics
Create Category:Game mechanics to contain the following categories:Move "Player" to Category:CharacterCascade changes
Phase 7 - Vehicles
Rename vehicle type categories
Phase 8 - Tiles
Move tile pages into appropriate categories. See proposed category tree. (many pages are missing so not all categories will be used currently)Decide what to do about containers. We have Glove Box and Trunk, neither of which are bags or tiles. Same with corpses.Make use of containers and containers tiles instead of Category:Storage tiles.
Decide whether to keep water sources (moved to sentence case). Good for tiles that aren't plumbed such as water and well.Water sources is for tiles that can contain water, whereas plumbing tiles is for tiles that are considered to be a part of the 'plumbing' group.
Move pages out of Category:Furniture.Move pages out of Tiles (some will stay).
Phase 9 - Items
Phase 9a - Weapons
Category:Weapons Move weapons into appropriate categories and subcategories.- Category:Melee weapons
- Category:Firearms
Category:Explosives (remove "Ranged weapons") (move/merge from "Bomb and Throwing Items" and "Throwables")
Phase 9b - Literature & Electronics
Category:LiteratureCategory:Recipe magazinesCategory:Skill books--not created as no pages currently
Category:ElectronicsCategory:Entertainment (some electronics and literature will go here too)Category:VHS tapes (also goes in media)Category:CDs (also goes in media)--not created as no pages currently
Phase 9c - Miscellaneous items
Category:Miscellaneous items- Category:Instruments -separate to weapons. Instruments that are weapons will be here AND in weapons category.
- Category:Plush toys -should this just be "Toys" to include more junk items? Or should they all just be in junk?
- Category:Sports
- Category:Junk
- Category:Appearance -"items" appended to differentiate between the function (may look at an "Appearance" category later in "Game mechanics", in which this will also be situated)
Category:Household -some items may be multiple categories. This is based on their in-game category.s
Phase 9d - Food
Category:Food
Food related categories that will be in Category:Cooking
Food related categories that will be in Category:Foraging
Phase 9e - Equipment
Category:Equipment- Many categories will have "tools" appended. E.g. "Farming tools"
Category:Medical items & Category:Medical Items -> Category:First aid tools
Phase 9f - Materials
Category:Materials- Add categories like: Category:First aid materials, Category:Farming materials, etc.
Add categories like: Category:Metal, Category:Wood, Category:Fabric
Phase 9g - Clothing
Category:Clothing
Below are examples of potential clothing subcategory layouts. - Blended style deployed
Layout 1 - In-game body location and categories
▼ Items
- ▼ Clothing
- T-shirts
- Short sleeve shirts
- Shirts
- Sweaters
- Jackets
- Torso extra
- Suit
- Legs
- Under clothing
- Socks
- Feet
- Underwear
- ▼ Accessory
- Eyewear
- Masks
- Headwear
- Scarves
- Hands
- Belts
- ▼ Jewelry
- Neck
- Necklace
- Nose
- Ears
- Fingers
- Wrists
- Belly
Layout 2 - IRL body location (simplified)
▼ Clothing
- ▼ Head
- Eyes
- Face
- Headwear
- ▼ Torso
- Neck
- Jackets and sweaters
- Vests
- Shirts
- Legs
- Footwear
- Full body
- Underwear
- Gloves
- ▼ Accessory
- Belts
- Jewelry
Layout 3 - Blend of IRL and in-game (Calvy (Collaboration))
▼ Clothing
- ▼ Accessories
- Jewelry
- Full body
- ▼ Tops
- T-shirts
- Shirts
- Jackets
- Vests
- ▼ Bottoms
- Pants
- Shorts
- Skirts
- ▼ Underwear
- Bras
- Underpants
- Tank tops
- ▼ Headwear
- Hats
- Helmets
- Masks
- ▼ Footwear
- Socks
- Shoes
- Gloves
Layout 4 - In-game elaborated (Faalagorn)
▼ Apparel
- ▼ Clothing
- Long underwear (Torso1Legs1, Legs1)
- Tank tops (TankTop)
- T-shirts (Tshirt)
- Short sleeve shirts (ShortSleeveShirt)
- Shirts (Shirt)
- Sweaters (Sweater, SweaterHat)
- Jackets (Jacket, Jacket_Bulky, JacketHat_Bulky)
- Suit jackets (Jacket_Down, JacketHat, JacketSuit)
- Full tops (BathRobe, FullTop)
- Outer torso (TorsoExtra, TorsoExtraVest)
- Pants (Pants)
- Skirts (Skirt)
- Dresses (Dress)
- Boilersuits (Boilersuit)
- Full suits (FullSuit, FullSuitHead)
- Socks (Socks)
- Shoes (Shoes)
- Underwear (Underwear, UnderwearTop, UnderwearBottom, UnderwearExtra1, UnderwearExtra2, Tail)
- ▼ Accessory
- Eyewear (Eyes, LeftEye, RightEye)
- Masks (Mask, MaskEyes, MaskFull)
- Headwear (Hat, FullHat)
- Scarves (Scarf)
- Gloves (Hands)
- Belts (Belt, BeltExtra, AmmoStrap)
- Jewelry (Neck, Necklace, Necklace_Long, Nose, Ears, EarTop, Right_MiddleFinger, Left_MiddleFinger, Right_RingFinger, Left_RingFinger, RightWrist, LeftWrist, BellyButton)
Userboxes
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| Syntax | Userbox |
|---|---|
{{User project|Navigation and Categories|leader}} |
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{{User project|Navigation and Categories}} |
XXX is a contributor of Navigation and Categories. |
Contributors
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