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Feel free to contact me here. ⇒ Authades ⇔ Talk ⇐ 16:19, 3 December 2012 (EST)

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Wm Magill - Valamar - OTG/OTC - talk 14:10, 17 June 2014 (UTC)

The Great Documentation Project (and other stuff)

Aha! another sucker, er... Volunteer, for back-room work! :)

If you look at Projects you will see "the tip of the iceberg."
Myself and User:Sethladan have been attempting to "fill-in the blanks" here on LOTRO-wiki - to document (i.e. write down) what up to now has been a largely oral tradition.
The Wiki began along with LOTRO back in 2007. In the beginning much was discussed via IRC as the majority of the editors were based in Europe.
Now, most all of the original contributors have left and (amongst other things) the IRC "habit" was not particularly well entrenched in the current crop of Lotro-Wiki editors. Consequently a lot of "we have always done it this way" has been lost. (We also have a Mumble server, but it doesn't get used. And there is also a separate test-wiki available.)
This has been coupled with the fact that in the past 7 years MediaWiki itself has morphed and matured.
  • One area in particular where this has been a problem has been with Templates. Dan and I have (as time and mood present themselves) attempted to "organize" the various templates in use. We have a "conflicting" system called "Boilerplates" which were originally intended to allow people to copy and paste information instead of use a template. Consequently, the Boilerplates and template/doc files (if they existed) and actual template pages themselves have grown apart.
However, I can't say that we have been "organized" in what we have been doing. Every once in a while some "problem" will trigger a binge of editing :)
Some things, like the Article Management Tags are probably "more consistant" than not, and all?many now implement the "nocat=y parameter and have /doc pages.
  • At any rate, feel free to jump in and help out - and watch for questions. User: Neum is another template resource.
  • And lastly, I should mention -- botting. We don't have any consistant approach to botting at the moment. Sethladan has an API based bot as does [[User: ‎Matthew.zellmer]. I have one based on the PyWikipedia (python) code. I personally don't know Python, so I don't have any great confidence in my abilities in this area.
Anyway, so much for my droning on -- Welcome aboard.
Wm Magill - Valamar - OTG/OTC - talk 14:42, 17 June 2014 (UTC)

Law of the land

See: Quest Talk:Lay of the Land for the answer! It took a while to find it.5 Wm Magill - Valamar - OTG/OTC - talk 03:50, 1 August 2014 (UTC)