PZwiki:Tasks

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PZwiki > Tasks

This page is about the general tasks to be performed on wiki, mostly able to be done single-handedly and often requiring admin intervention. For more targeted community projects that require coordination, see PZwiki:Community portal.

List updated 10 December 2024

Wiki tasks

🔵 = Not started. Feel free to start work on this task.
🟢 = Started. This task has been started, but is not finished.
🟠 = Stopped. This task is stopped, due to incomplete information or lack of editors.
🔴 = Complete. This task is complete, and is waiting to be verified and removed.

Editor tasks

Build 42 Preparation and projects Build 42 is fast approaching, and we now have the capacity to prepare for it.
🟢	Bring the Project Seat Yourself Furniture up to date and add missing pages (most notably missing furniture and categories left over by Project Navigation and Categories).
🟢	Prepare Project Lore to host the new content.
🟢	Focus on PZwiki:Project Build 42 Update and close it/change it to the Build 42 Update when build 42 arrives.

Infoboxes The new infoboxes are deployed, but parameters, tooltips, and translation might need some ironing out.
🔵	Finish the documentation of {{Infobox item}}, including linking to parameters from the Item Script Parameters (the pages might be renamed before, though, see bot tasks and Project Modding).
🔵	Retire and potentially remove obsolete/unused parameters.

Item and boilerplates Improve the heavily visited items page so it is accurate, up-to date, consistent, lightweight and mobile friendly, and update generic item pages.
🟢	Split item as needed, list obsolete items, see Category:Articles to be split.
🟠	Split item pages to further subpages so the pages on the main page are linked directly instead of subheaders.
🟢	Add legends for icons in tables, see Fallout wiki, see User:Vaileasys/sandbox.
🟠	Alternatively, make the list simpler to load faster, see User:Vaileasys/sandbox 3 for proof of contept, but it might be too basic.
🟢	Update Category:Navbox to add new split items.
🟠	Update boilerplates with the new {{Infobox item}}, and sections according to the Help:Style guide, figure out and make boilerplate for each item type.
🟢	Move all the models from gallery to infoboxes and remove galleries (unless they host unique items). In progress by User:Faalagorn and other editors.
🟢	Add all variants of food icons and models (Uncooked, Cooked, Rotten Uncooked, Rotten Cooked, Burnt where applicable) and change the order to the way.
🟢	Remove empty/unused infobox parameters (empty models, icons, 0 protections, unused parameters (also see #Bot tasks)).
🟢	Change the order of model→icon→icon_name and add missing fields when needed in infoboxes.

Images General images cleanups, categorizations, optimizations.
🟢	Rename location images and signs (in progress by PZwiki:Project Locations and Maps).
🟢	Decide on how to rename model images for clothing.
🟢	Optimize and clean up all logos and optimize and rename Category:Wiki admin images when appropriate.
🔵	Upload all missing models and ensure the existing ones are 400 × 400 px.
🔵	Upload and rename all (movable) tiles images.
🟢	Remove some of the unused images from the Unused files (mostly locations).

Templates General cleanup of templates, incorporating new features, translation and merging the sandboxes.
🔵	Change/split Template:Body location to Template:Body part (body part is the part being covered for the purpose of scratch/bite/bullet? protection as well as insulation and wind/rain protections, the body location is where the item is being put on; those are unrelated and often confused, these should be clarified ideally before updating clothing pages).
🟠	{{Consumables}} and {{EvolvedRecipesForItem}} improvements, maybe trying a different layout.
🔵	Taking a look at automatically parsing recipe files; relevant templates: {{Recipe}} and {{Recipe list}}.
🔵	Minor cleanups and polishing/standardization of formatting, categories and documentation for the existing templates.

Admin tasks

Wiki visual updates The wiki is undergoing some updates to its visual style. Most of this work can only be done by admins.
🟠	Fix any remaining issues in Citizen skin, then remove the non-essential tweaks for Vector and older skins, these were a temporary stopgap and will get harder and harder to maintain. Many users are still using vector22 skin. Wait until new vector22 skin is installed.
🟠	Currently collapsed navboxes and parts of infoboxes load for a brief second on page load; seems it's JavaScript being loaded late? Figure out what's causing that. It seems it's the same what causing the images in infobox not to load when the "Show preview without reloading the page" option is enabled in preferences.
🔵	Change toggle to use up/down arrow instead of ◥. Other wikis use a 2px border on 2 sides and rotate -45° then rotate 180° on toggle.

Server admin tasks

Technical work These require technical work to be done by a system admin, currently only done by Kirrus, and can't be done by a regular admin. These often require new extensions that might require other background work and add maintenance burned, so keep in mind these might take a longer while. There might be other more pressing server issues unrelated to wiki and life issues that may slow it down, so no ETA is given on these.
🟠	Test the Translate extension, which is a part of MLEB. This may aid in translations, but depends on how testing goes. Some initial local testing was done by Vaileasys and Vibrance, part of Project Translations.
🟠	Add a visual editor, currently only mw:Extension:WikiEditor is used. List of editors extensions used on Independent Fallout Wiki for reference. Visual editor extension requires MediaWiki >=1.42, and PZwiki uses LTS MediaWiki version, the next being 1.43 in December 2024. If things go as planned, PZwiki will update to it soon after.
🟠	Figure out an issue with WebP animations not working and APNG images not scaling down, enable SVG upload for vector images to allow uploading optimized images when needed. Also eyeing JPEG-XL (superior, but not supported natively by browsers).
🟠	Automatically parse blog news, maybe forum posts too, perhaps X or Bluesky The Indie Stone news feeds (requires new extensions).
🟠	Change category collation, also see MediaWiki documentation on sort key, so letters such as Turkish ones are properly categories (will require figuring out a good collation rules to cover each language and require some research; it may be worth waiting until after MLEB is installed just in case too.

Bot tasks

Repeatable bot tasks Tasks that technically can be performed by regular accounts on time, but due to the mundane nature are best performed by bots periodically.
🟠	Potentially replace typewriter characters with their proper counterparts in text, - to – or —, ' to ’ and quotation marks " and ' to “ ” and ‘ ’ (was discussed, not so straightforward, avoiding touching ' formatting marks).
🔴	Correct some common English (UK) spelling to English (US), as per Help:Style guide.
🔴	Automatically fill infoboxes based on the game data, adjust missing parameters, fix basic typos/errors, done by infobox script.
🔴	Remove extra white characters at the end of the line and extra double lines when not needed, also add extra line when needed as per Help:Style guide.
🔴	Remove == Summary == which is automatically added by new uploads and the File uploaded with MsUpload text.
🔴	Replace Image: to File: when needed, add File: to the galleries when missing and fix capitalizations.
🔴	Replace [[ to {{ll| and alphabetize all the links in the "See also" section.
🔴	Replace [[Category:]] to {{ll|Category:}} when possible, which should allow easier translations and hopefully prevent miscategorization of non-English pages to English. The space sort key has to be replaced to  . May change with MLEB. Also, important for PZwiki:Project Translations.
🔵	Add a period after Mbox reasons.

One-time bot tasks Tasks that technically can be done by regular accounts, but due to the mundane nature are best performed by bots.
🟢	Move Item Script Parameters and Category:Lua Events subpages to standalone pages, clean up the links and double redirects.
🔴	Do the same for Category:Lua Objects. Notify User:Aiteron once done so script can be updated.
🟢	Rename Moodles, Traits and Skills to Moodle, Trait and Skills respectively and update all the links respectively, including non-English versions.
🟠	Add images from the gallery also in infobox as alternative images for the locations.
🔴	Update image links to new files, so duplicates can be deleted. See table below and Category:Pages requested for deletion.

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