Halopedia:Projects/Overall

The Halopedia Improvement Project is a community project to help tidy, improve, and build the community of Halopedia in three main phases. Once this project makes it to Phase 3 it will be discontinued and fused with the Article Improvement Drive project due to the similar nature of Phase 3 and that project itself.


 * Phase 1: This is the tidy up section. This prepares our wiki.
 * Phase 2: This is the Community section. This sets up our wiki for the community we will be welcoming.
 * Phase 3: This is the Maintenance section. This makes sure we keep the previous Phases tidy and updated, and makes sure we dont fall behind on content.

Phase 1 Main Wiki stuff
This is the tidy up section. This prepares our wiki for most updates in the future. To discuss Phase 1 please use this forum.

Step 1 Tidy up
This step is getting the wiki in a usable state internally so we do not have any internal mess that could appear for editors and other users.


 * 1) Clear out old User profiles that have not posted since 2012.
 * 2) Clear out Project Userbox, and tidy up the mess it causes.
 * 3) Clear out old forums and other group related materials predating 2012. This allows us to have a clean slate.
 * 4) Tidy the wiki by getting majority of the pages in the Special Pages areas tidy.

Step 2 Policies and Rules
This step is getting the wiki rules, policies, guidelines, and other similar stuff up to date. This means we will be able to deal with situations accordingly or help users more efficiently.
 * 1) Get the Admin, Patroller, Rollbacker and other roles and ranks more defined.
 * 2) Fixed up navigation for the Help and Halopedia pages.
 * 3) Get the Policies more defined and updated.
 * 4) Get the Guidelines more defined and updated.
 * 5) Talk about maybe removing the Rollbacker rank and making it just Patroller.

Step 3 Improve the Main page
This step is improving the main page of the wiki and its navigation bar. This makes Halopedia slightly more appealing to users.
 * 1) Talk possible improvements with admins.
 * 2) Talk possible improvements with Patrollers and Rollbackers.
 * 3) Implement said improvements if possible.
 * 4) Ask for possible improvements from Halopedians and make a list.
 * 5) Keep list for future updates.
 * 6) Improve Existing Assets.
 * 7) Fix up Vector skin.
 * 8) Fix up Monobook skin.

Step 4 Conventions
This step is to improve and implement our Template/Category/File naming conventions we have. Also make better the source conventions. This will be defined in the Policies and Rules step but is something expanded upon here. This means that what specific stuff does instead of having to guess.
 * 1) Decide what will be used for sources and naming conventions.
 * 2) Start using the new conventions.
 * 3) Start updating old file names to suit the new conventions.
 * 4) Start updating the old sources to suit the new conventions.