GuildWiki:Projects

Projects are focused efforts to improve or maintain a specific section of the GuildWiki. You do not need to be member of a project to work on the GuildWiki, nor are project members required to meet any expectations&mdash;projects are simply organizational tools to bring order to an otherwise chaotic medium.

Creating a project
Anybody can create a project.
 * 1) Create a new article in the GuildWiki namespace titled with the name of your project.
 * 2) * For example, Mesmer skills project could be a project to maintain the mesmer skill articles.
 * 3) Place this text at the bottom of the article, , to include the article in Category:Community projects.
 * 4) Add a row to the Active Projects table above, filling in the appropriate columns.
 * 5) Include in the project article the required sections (below).
 * 6) Add any appropriate recommended sections (also below).

Required sections
Include these sections for every project:
 * 1) Project description
 * At the top, before any section headers.
 * 1) Progress check list
 * The first section after the description. A table or bulleted list of goals for the project, allowing participants (and lurkers) to see how much has been done and what remains.
 * 1) Utility/Utilities
 * Generally, the final section of the article. A catch all section for things that help everyone to use consistent formatting, language and maintain a high level of quality. This can include:
 * 1) * Stub template specific to articles that fall under the project.
 * 2) * Links to relevant style and formatting guidelines
 * 3) * Templates that might be useful to editors contributing to the project

Recommended sections
These sections help others to join your project and track what is going on.


 * Participants
 * A userbox for members of the project
 * To-do lists

Related projects
Include these sections as applicable, under the umbrella header of related projects:
 * Parent projects (e.g.Mesmer skills project would list Skills project as its parent)
 * Sibling projects (e.g. Mesmer skills project would list Monk skills project as related)
 * Use parallel projects if there is no parent project.
 * Child projects (e.g.Skills project would list Mesmer skills project as its child)