IRC Meeting 13.02.10

The following is a summary of the LOTRO-Wiki IRC Meeting on 13/02/10 (DD/MM/YY). The meeting took place within a three-hour time-frame. Among the attendants are (in no particular order): Skunark, Rogue, Ravanel and myself. A log of the channel was maintained for future reference to any who require it. If you would like to review it, please contact either Fedaykinx (who maintained the "official" log) or one of the other administrators.

Meeting Minutes

Handling Duplicates:

• Duplicates handled by adding (Region) after the name of the last one added. If they are in the same region, use (Area) instead.
• For 3+ of the same name, use the method above to differentiate and create a disambiguation page on the main article.

Projects Review:

Categorization - Mostly completed, all images have been categorized and article categorization is handled by each individual project.

Character - Most basic content has been entered, but needs to be updated to reflect more recent updates. Guides need to be added for every class, and the skills pages and others' layout needs to be re-done. Skills should have not only the in-game description but also a helpful description of its uses. Trait layout is good, but it might be useful to list some common and useful trait builds.

Crafting & Creatures - Already being worked on heavily. No discussion needed here.

Game Guides - As with the Class guides, there is a lot of work to be done here. Beginner guides and more advanced guides would be useful.

Gameplay - This project covers far too much and will be deleted. The various subsections will either be turned into separate projects if they aren't already, or left without a project if there is not enough content to warrant it.

Sub-categories:

• Conjunctions - No project needed. Just about completed, not really any work to be done here.
• Deeds - Separate project to be created. Plenty of work still to be done here, particularly on newer content, but the Deeds template is completed and should be used for all deeds.
• Effects - Separate project to be created. Effects template is complete, but the categorization will need to be reviewed and adjusted. Many effects still need to be entered, some still need to be moved from the Item namespace, and in the cases where skills etc. have the same name as the effect, (Effect) should be added after the name of the effect article. Need to figure out how to handle effects with the same name but different buff/damage types and levels. Not a high priority to get this done.
• Music - No project needed. Content is completed, though the songs listed could be organized more nicely according to a set standard.
• Quests - Project already exists. See below.
• Session Play - No project needed. Content here is pretty much completed and there isn't enough to warrant a project.
• Skirmish System - Project already exists and will remain. Still lots of content to be entered here.

Guidelines - The Help:Contents section needs to be improved, make sure templates and boilerplates are well-defined and easily accessible. Guidelines still need to be defined for numerous projects. This will be done on a per-project basis.

Images - Virtually all images have been categorized, and new additions should be categorized as well. Articles missing images should be stubbed with Stub/Image or the IN template for missing icons. Not a high priority to stub missing images, getting the actual images and including them when entering content in other projects is more important.

Instances - Most instance articles have been created and mostly completed. Still numerous walkthroughs and such left to do, but the guideline is present and completed, though it should be updated.

Items - Project is not necessary and will be deleted. Items of all sorts will be entered by the various different projects, such as vendor and crafting items by the NPC and Crafting projects. Help:Items page is present and available from Help:Contents for those who need to figure out how to add items.

Lore - Lore pages should not have just a single link to an external site. No lore-savvy editors present, so this was skipped.

Monster Play - Most content here was entered by Eleazaros. Some content is likely still missing. Skipped since none of the editors present were very familiar with monster play.

NPC - Completed with the exception of Eregion and Moria + Mirkwood. No issues to iron out here.

Quests - Quest template is complete. High priority is to finish entering all the Epic quest line and making sure that we have walkthroughs for all the quests. There are also a good number of other quests yet to be entered.

Skirmishes - Already covered earlier - lots of content yet to be created here. Moderate priority.

System Tools - Not much to discuss here, as all needed templates and such have been created already and changes can be made by various other projects to their respective templates as needed.

Uniformity - Project will be deleted. Everyone should work to make their respective project articles uniform anyways... any information on how to make them uniform can be included in the Help contents.

World - Locations need to have their Boilerplate revised. Region template still needs to be modified not to show Area when it is not used (when the "area" is actually its own region, such as Moria). Areas, settlements and point of interest articles should include a short description of the location and any Lore related to it. Areas and settlements should also include a list of NPCs, Quests and other things that can be found there.