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—projects are simply organizational tools to bring order to an otherwise chaotic medium.
Project directory[]
Active projects[]
| Project | Purpose | Status | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hidden Objects | Record all the locations of hidden objects via LoD while the code that hides them is removed for testing. | Active, Time-dependant | 1/16 checked |
| War in Kryta new items | Ensures that new items from the War in Kryta have been added to the wiki (and that appropriate other articles have been updated as needed). | Active | 80% complete |
| GWW article name correspondence | Ensure that "wikiswitch" will work even when the article naming conventions differ. | Needed | Work has started on this; without a formal project, we are likely to miss something. |
| Landmark standardization | Ensure that all landmarks have an article following a consistent style. | Active | Started |
| Dungeon chest contents | Complete conversion of dungeon chests to the {{Dungeon chest contents}} and update the associated dungeon pages. | Planning | Building consensus for design |
| Hearts of the North | Would ensure that we have articles covering all aspects of Hearts of the North. | Needed | Work has started on this; without a formal project, we are likely to miss something. |
| Guild Wars Beyond | Would ensure that we have articles covering all aspects of Guild Wars Beyond. | Needed | Work has started on this; without a formal project, we are likely to miss something. |
| Interlanguage de project | add missing German interlanguage links, examine existing links | active | If you use guildwiki.de, help out! |
| Item of the Week farming | would ensure that we update trophy (and other items) to reflect useful farming techniques learned from Guide to Item of the Week Farming. | Needed | Work has started on this; without a formal project, we are likely to miss something. |
| Portal jumping project | research portal jumping possibilities and benefits | Active | Long periods of little activity punctuated by frequent updates by experimenters. |
| Gallery completion project | Help improving GuildWiki's armor galleries by providing nohelmet screenshots for some armors | ? | |
| Armor galleries | is for coordinating the creation of image galleries for all sets of armor. | Active | |
| Improvement project | is for improving major wiki articles. | Perennial | Should be reviewed from time to time. |
| Image attribution | Ensure that images have proper attribution and license information. | Perennial | Several contributors handle day-to-day needs; might need the occasional review. |
| Stub categories | To organize & clean-up the stub categories. | Perennial | Needs to be reviewed. |
Inactive projects[]
| Project | Purpose | Status | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Armor crafting | for confirming the crafting costs, etc of armor following the May 24, 2007 update | Inactive | Last update was prior to 1 Jan 2009 |
| Dye charts | is for coordinating the creation and maintenance of dye charts. | Inactive | Last update was prior to 1 Jan 2009 |
| Interactive map | is for creating an interactive map of the Guild Wars world. | Inactive | Last update was prior to 1 Jan 2009 |
| Monster images | is for adding screenshots to all monster articles missing one. | Inactive | Last update was prior to 1 Jan 2009 |
| Skin rarity | is for assigning a rarity rating for the spawning of skins. | Inactive | Last update was prior to 1 Jan 2009 |
| Weapon quick references | is for cleaning up and maintaining weapon quick references. | Inactive | Last update was prior to 1 Jan 2009 |
| Weaponsmith Counterparts | is about adding weaponsmith counterparts to unique item articles | Inactive | Last update was prior to 1 Jan 2009 |
| Cleanup after Maybot | May 8th was a bad day | Obsolete | if things aren't cleaned up by now, it's unlikely that they need to be |
| to ensure that all of the new henchmen are added to GW. | Completed | Yay! |
Creating a project[]
Anybody can create a project.
- Create a new article in the GuildWiki namespace titled with the name of your project.
- For example, GuildWiki:Mesmer skills project could be a project to maintain the mesmer skill articles.
- Place this text at the bottom of the article, [[Category:Community projects]], to include the article in Category:Community projects.
- Add a row to the Active Projects table above, filling in the appropriate columns.
- Include in the project article the required sections (below).
- Add any appropriate recommended sections (also below).
Required sections[]
Include these sections for every project:
- Project description
- At the top, before any section headers.
- 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.
- 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:
- Stub template specific to articles that fall under the project.
- Links to relevant style and formatting guidelines
- 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.GuildWiki:Mesmer skills project would list GuildWiki:Skills project as its parent)
- Sibling projects (e.g. GuildWiki:Mesmer skills project would list GuildWiki:Monk skills project as related)
- Use parallel projects if there is no parent project.
- Child projects (e.g.GuildWiki:Skills project would list GuildWiki:Mesmer skills project as its child)