Forum:Operation Concentrated Effort

I would first like to welcome you all to the first ever Mass Effect Wiki Project. This project is to overhaul many articles, do a general wiki-wide cleanup, and check content.

So with more than a few comments lately, and some other comments from other places, the wiki has really shifted away from its focus of building content and more towards the social side of the wiki. I do share this view

So I've been working for the past week or so on some projects to shift the wiki away from that and back to its official focus on building content. I've taken things from other wikis and what they have done in the past, and made some changes based on our situation.

Below is a list of the projects and their descriptions. Comments will be in each section and users can sign up below. Any user wishing to take part will need to be an auto-confirmed user. This means that you need to have an email account associated with Wikia. When you sign up, you are asked to provide an email. When you completed registration, an email from Wikia was sent to that account, and then you just click the link in the email, and there you have it, you are now an auto-confirmed user.

There are fifteen projects and each has its own focus. If you would like to possibly sign up for a section, then please leave your name under the section, and general comments at the end.

Once enough users have signed up, a group leader will be chosen to oversee the individual project. The number of users will be reflective on the amount of articles the project is to cover.

Please read, sign up, and let us all make this project a huge success! Lancer1289 (talk) 03:17, September 26, 2012 (UTC)

Project Chronicler
Name: Chronicler Focus: Characters Namespace Covered: Character namespace Description of Project: To go through various character articles and make sure they are in-universe, don’t have morality points listed, keep Shepard gender neutral except in romance sections, design a new character template for use on all character pages, and all are written from an in-universe POV. Group Leader: Group Members:

Project Arsenal
Name: Arsenal Focus: Weapons and associated guides Namespace Covered: Weapon Namespace Description of Project: To go over the various weapon pages and clean up player notes, clean up various weapon pages, look over and clean up weapon guide pages, testing information. Store inventory will be covered by Aegis. Group Leader: Group Members:

Project Aegis
Name: Aegis Focus: Equipment and associated guides Namespace Covered: Equipment Namespace (minus weapons) Description of Project: to go over the list of equipment pages and their associated guides, make sure descriptions are correct, prices are correct, store inventories are correct, discounts are accounted for, and guides give the correct information. Group Leader: Group Members:.

Project Integrity
Name: Integrity Focus: Morality and its consequences Namespace Covered: Morality Description of Project: Dealing solely with the Morality Guides and making sure they are up to date and correct, the interrupt articles and the mechanics of interrupts, and the morality article itself Group Leader: Group Members:

Project Trailblazer
Name: Trailblazer Focus: Walkthroughs Namespace Covered: Walkthrough namespace Description of Project: Going through all walkthrough articles on the wiki from ME to ME3 and cleaning them up, adding details, condensing information, keeping things up to date, adding additional walkthrough articles for Galaxy and Infiltrator, cleaning up associate templates, and possibly creating new templates. Group Leader: Group Members:

Project Trailblazer Signup

 * 1) Since this has always been my focus, I will happily assist in this in any way I can. Lancer1289 (talk) 03:17, September 26, 2012 (UTC)

Project Trainer
Name: Trainer Focus: Guides Namespace Covered: Class Guides Description of Project: Go over the class guides for all three games and clean them up and get them to abide by the standard set in the MoS Group Leader: Group Members:

Project Trainer Signup

 * 1) I volunteer to assist with this project. Lancer1289 (talk) 03:17, September 26, 2012 (UTC)

Project Screenshot
Name: Screenshot Focus: Images Namespace Covered: Wiki Wide Description of Project: Go over images to ensure they meet standards, marking personal images, get better images when necessary, get more images, work on images fitting into articles without image overload. Group Leader: Group Members:

Project Councilor
Name: Councilor Focus: Races Namespace Covered: Race Namespace Description of Project: Go over race pages to clean them up, put in or request appropriate images, eliminating redundancy, bring into line with MoS. Group Leader: Group Members:

Project Nemesis
Name: Assassin Focus: Adversary pages Namespace Covered: Enemy Namespace Description of Project: Cleaning up the various enemy pages, adding tactics, condensing information, eliminating redundancy, testing information Group Leader: Group Members:

Project Operations
Name: Operations Focus: Combat Namespace Covered: Combat Articles Description of Project: Cleaning up the three combat articles, bringing them into line with each other, making sure important game aspects are covered. Group Leader: Group Members:

Project Logos
Name: Logos Focus: Real World Namespace Covered: Real world based articles. Game and DLC articles, and anything else written from a real world POV Description of Project: Add content when necessary, making sure they all are identical in content or as close as possible with other applicable articles. Group Leader: Group Members:

Project Cartographer
Name: Cartographer Focus: Galaxy Map Namespace Covered: Galaxy Map, Planet, Cluster, System articles Description of Project: Attention focused on the navigation of the ME universe. This project will make sure planet descriptions are accurate to each associated game, system, cluster, and planet articles meet the MoS, make sure planet descriptions are accurate to each associated game, system, cluster, and planet articles meet the MoS. Group Leader: Group Members:

Project Redoubt
Name: Redoubt Focus: Administration and running of the site Namespace Covered: “Mass Effect Wiki:”, “MediaWiki:” Description of Project: Lookover and clarification of site policies, expanding and updating site policies, updating pages that deal with running the Wiki Group Leader: SpartHawg948 Group Members: Commdor, Lancer1289