WotG comes out in roughly 17 days...

[BRP]

Our wiki is still far from completion and greatly lacks the numbers to become viable before those the release of the new expansion which will bring a surge of information. It seems support for BG-Wiki diminishes once there isn't a FFXI-Wikia hate bangwagon thread. If you actually care about the BG-Wiki project, please assist by getting it ready for WotG.

You don't need to do a lot. You pledge yourself to do one major(as in: not your page or a single letter) edit a day. If 100 people make 100 edits, that's a lot getting done.

The BG-Wiki needs pictures of monsters and NPCs. Probably more importantly, it could use a lot of work on Quests. If you want to help, but don't know where to start or what you want to change is a good or bad idea, feel free to send me a PM personally or post something on my Talk page(PM is preferred).

EDIT: Remember, no FFXI-Wikia copypasta, but you are free to use that site or any site as something to check your information with, to be sure you are not posting something false.

[Gwynplaine]

I'm definitely going to do this with some npcs when I can. Started with AU but didn't get far. I agree it'd be great if some of the basics like npcs, and more common enemies are setup before the 20th. For the main 3 nations in particular.

[Apelila]

can the items template get a section with <pre> tags [like this] so its easy to copy/paste over without having to view the template source?

[aurik]

All Assault Missions now have a page, hoorah! (Supplies Recovery still needs a walkthrough though)
Next stop, work on the Limbus section?

[BRP]

Nyzul Isle Investigation needs an adjusted template. I wasn't able to get rid of the points part.

[aurik]

ftfy

[Ardrial]

I've been working on random areas.

So far I set up the following (without normal monsters inputted because I have no idea how):

Caedarva Mire
Bhaflau Thickets
Nyzul Isle
Alzadaal Undersea Ruins
Arrapago Reef (Still haven't done NMs yet)
Nyzul Isle Staging Point
Dvucca Isle Staging Point
Mamool Ja Staging Point
Ilrusi Atoll Staging Point
Halvung Staging Point

This is the first time I've ever done anything on a wiki. Is there anything I am forgetting to do? Does it look right at least? I will continue working on it whenever I can.

[Seraphise]

I'm not part of the official staff, but I'd love to help. So brp tell me anything you need help with, i havn't messed with a lot of wiki so formatting will not be my strong point, but i sure can write up anything and just have someone else place it in correct formats. Or i could just stop being a loser and learn to use wiki!

Either way tell me what needs to be done.

[Septimus]

Everyone was a wiki noob at some point, just like everyone was a PHPbb noob at some point. I think the biggest problem that we have is that there is so much to do that nobody knows where to start. But here is something that anyone can do to help.

Go to a zone, any zone, and find a normal monster with a red link name, that means that there is no information for that mob. Click on it to start a new page, then go to the template for monster species. Copy and paste the source of that text into your new monster page. Next you want to do a search for that mob to find all of the areas that it lives in, and if any of them drop any special items. You are going to want to repeat the following text for every instance of that mob:

|Level Range||Monster Name||Zone||No||Yes||
*Drop 
|
*Stealable items
|NUM of spawns
|-

Let's take the Amber Quadov as an example. Doing a search, I found that they live in Konschtat Highlands, North Gustaberg, South Gustaberg, and Palbourough Mines. I also found that they drop scrolls of bind, blind, and paralyze (except for the ones in Konschtat Highlands). I replaced the above table text with the following:

|3-8||Amber Quadov||[[North Gustaberg]]||Yes||Yes||
*[[Bind]]
*[[Blind]]
*[[Paralyze]]
|
*[[Beastcoin]]
| 16
|-
|3-8||Amber Quadov||[[South Gustaberg]]||Yes||Yes||
*[[Bind]]
*[[Blind]]
*[[Paralyze]]
|
*[[Beastcoin]]
| 13
|-
|3-10||Amber Quadov||[[Palborough Mines]]||Yes||Yes||
*[[Bind]]
*[[Blind]]
*[[Paralyze]]
|
*[[Beastcoin]]
| 38
|-
|8-10||Amber Quadov||[[Konschtat Highlands]]||Yes||Yes||
*[[Bind]]
*[[Blind]]
|
*[[Beastcoin]]
| {{verification}}
|-

I got the level range and number from the zone listing. If either one of those are missing, don't hesitate to put a {{verification}} tag in there. I noted the drops from the drop page into the ones from the appropriate zones. Please try to put them in order of lowest level, zone name, then highest level.

Next thing that I did was to change the tagging at the end.

<includeonly>[[category:Bestiary]]</includeonly>


[[Category:Templates]]
<noinclude>[[Category:Templates|Monster Species]]</noinclude>

becomes

[[category:Bestiary]]
[[category:Beastmen]]
[[category:Quadav]]

With the exception of a lovely image, the page is roughly done. Preivew the page to make sure that everything looks right, if it does, then submit it.

The only way to learn is to do it. Once you get used to wikicode, you will find that it is not much harder than PHPbb code. If you are having trouble with a page, don't feel embarrassed to ask for help. If you aren't sure of something, don't forget to put in a {{verification}} tag. If you feel that stuff is missing, put a {{stub}} tag at the top of the page. The only way our wiki is going to grow is if everyone pitches in to help. The more content that the users add in means that there is less content for the admins and mods to fill out leading us to tackle bigger issues. (I am currently working on a comprehensive key item listing.)

There are tons of things that you can do to help, take pictures of monsters, upload pictures of gear descriptions, put in NM spawn conditions, mark down what vendors sell what items. Everything that you do to help the wiki makes it that much nicer and that much of a better resource for the community. Now let's all get cracking.

[BRP]

I'm not part of the official staff, but I'd love to help. So brp tell me anything you need help with, i havn't messed with a lot of wiki so formatting will not be my strong point, but i sure can write up anything and just have someone else place it in correct formats. Or i could just stop being a loser and learn to use wiki!

Either way tell me what needs to be done.

Being apart of the "official staff" doesn't matter too much. Infact a lot of the moderator staff are rather inactive.

What really needs to be done are Assault walkthroughs and Quest pages. A lot of pictures need to be uploaded too, for basically everything. I'm not sure how developed the Battlefield templates are but those also need to be completed.

There are entire battle systems and events like Einherjar and Chocobo Raising that need a lot of work. I've been working on Besieged and Parnkation whenever I can.

[Seraphise]

I'm not part of the official staff, but I'd love to help. So brp tell me anything you need help with, i havn't messed with a lot of wiki so formatting will not be my strong point, but i sure can write up anything and just have someone else place it in correct formats. Or i could just stop being a loser and learn to use wiki!

Either way tell me what needs to be done.

Being apart of the "official staff" doesn't matter too much. Infact a lot of the moderator staff are rather inactive.

What really needs to be done are Assault walkthroughs and Quest pages. A lot of pictures need to be uploaded too, for basically everything. I'm not sure how developed the Battlefield templates are but those also need to be completed.

There are entire battle systems and events like Einherjar and Chocobo Raising that need a lot of work. I've been working on Besieged and Parnkation whenever I can.

Well i'm a captain rank, so i guess assault will probly be the best place for me to start. I'll begin working on those asap!

[aurik]

Most assault walkthroughs are pretty much written, but we could really use visual aids (annotated maps)

[Suiram]

When ever I have an urge to add stuff to the wiki, the main thing that stops me is the amount of effort required of me to format things properly, and to make it look presentable. I know that stuff comes second nature to a lot of people, but for me it takes 30 minutes just to change things in the table on my userpage lol There's a lot of info that's just sitting in my head that I could just dump into the wiki, but if I just wrote it out simply and let someone else come along later and format it properly, would that be acceptable, or just a "thanks but no thanks" kind of situation?

Talking here about new information, like salvage floors etc, not adding stuff to preexisting tables, I can do that

[aquelia]

Hello Suiram Yes please do go ahead and add your information, dont worry about formatting for right now. Just add this tag to the page: {{Stub-Formatting}} and one of the admins will see it! ty ty!