Halopedia:Halopedia Improvement Project

The Halopedia Improvement Project is a community project to help tidy, improve, and build the community of Halopedia in three main phases. Once this project makes it to Phase 3 it will be discontinued and fused with the Article Improvement Drive project due to the similar nature of Phase 3 and that project itself. If you have any improvements for this project please suggest them on the project's talk page. There is also a relevant forum discussion on the Halo Archive.

Overview

• Phase 1: This is the tidy up section. This prepares our wiki.
• Phase 2: This is the Community section. This sets up our wiki for the community we will be welcoming.
• Phase 3: This is the Maintenance section. This makes sure we keep the previous Phases tidy and updated, and makes sure we dont fall behind on content.

Phase 1 Main Wiki stuff

This is the tidy up section. This prepares our wiki for most updates in the future. To discuss Phase 1 please use this forum.

Step 1 Tidy up

This step is getting the wiki in a usable state internally so we do not have any internal mess that could appear for editors and other users.

1. Clear out old User profiles that have not posted since 2012.
2. Clear out Project Userbox, and tidy up the mess it causes.
3. Clear out old forums and other group related materials predating 2012. This allows us to have a clean slate.
4. Tidy the wiki by getting majority of the pages in the Special Pages areas tidy.

Step 2 Policies and Rules

This step is getting the wiki rules, policies, guidelines, and other similar stuff up to date. This means we will be able to deal with situations accordingly or help users more efficiently.

1. Get the Admin, Patroller, Rollbacker and other roles and ranks more defined.
2. Fixed up navigation for the Help and Halopedia pages.
3. Get the Policies more defined and updated.
4. Get the Guidelines more defined and updated.
5. Talk about maybe removing the Rollbacker rank and making it just Patroller.
6. Get active Rollbackers and make them Patrollers.
7. Remove Rollbacker Usergroup.

Step 3 Improve the Main page

This step is improving the main page of the wiki and its navigation bar. This makes Halopedia slightly more appealing to users.

1. Talk possible improvements with admins.
2. Talk possible improvements with Patrollers and Rollbackers.
3. Implement said improvements if possible.
4. Ask for possible improvements from Halopedians and make a list.
5. Keep list for future updates.
6. Improve Existing Assets.
7. Fix up Vector skin.
8. Fix up Monobook skin.

Step 4 Conventions

This step is to improve and implement our Template/Category/File naming conventions we have. Also make better the source conventions. This will be defined in the Policies and Rules step but is something expanded upon here. This means that what specific stuff does instead of having to guess.

1. Decide what will be used for source conventions.
2. Decide what will be used for file naming conventions.
3. Start using the new conventions.
4. Start updating old file names to suit the new conventions.
5. Start updating the old sources to suit the new conventions.
6. Fix pages that are listed in these categories.

Phase 2 Keeping us going

Step 5 Internal Community improvement

This step is getting the wiki community fun

1. Selective reset for featured content and Did you know content.
   1. Discuss the existing content and see what ones we keep or remove.
   2. Features articles ready to restart
2. Add community events on the wiki.
   1. (Example ideas) Monthly polls.
   2. (Example ideas) Weekly featured articles/pictures/videos for users to vote for.(rotate them monthly so the homepage is more dynamic)
   3. (Example ideas) Aprils fools day and other holiday celebrations.(we make a special Wiki skin for the holidays)
   4. (Example ideas) Start weekly discussions in the forums.
3. Make more dynamic news. More detailed.
   1. Start up news and build it up.
   2. HAVE FUN.
   3. Community Update on the Homepage.
4. Be welcoming to new members.

Step 6 External Community improvement

This step is to help build relations with other communities outside our internal wiki one.

1. Tidy and add to the Halopedia Community Portal using CIA391's other Community hubs as a example.
2. Use the Community portal to add communities to the Sidebar.
3. Get Twitter and Facebook more updated and up to scratch.
   1. Get more admins on the Twitter and Facebook.
   2. Add a bot to the Twitter and possibly Facebook so some automated posts are done to make life easier on the admins.
   3. Add posts on Featured stuff from step 5 on Twitter and Facebook.
   4. Add Admin and Patroller made projects on Twitter and Facebook.

Phase 3 Keeping our work looking great

Once this project makes it to Phase 3 it will be discontinued and fused with the Article Improvement Drive project and other projects due to the similar nature of Phase 3 and that project itself. But is outlined so fusion will be easier in the long run.

Step 7 Get more Patrollers

This step is to help encourage members to become Patrollers. Long term thing not expected to be completed straight away.

1. Look through active users and see if any are suitable to be Patrollers.
2. If none are currently ready keep an eye out in the long run.

Step 8 Content

This step is generally what already happens, but is here so people have stuff to work on.

1. Use the Halopedia:Projects/Improvement to improve pages or add pages we need based on new media.
2. Use the Special:WantedPages to add pages we need.
3. Use the Special:AncientPages to updated old pages to suit newer standards.

Step 9 Keeping an eye on stuff

This step is kinda just the stuff that needs to be kept an eye on so they dont go out of hand in the future.

1. Keep an eye on the Special:SpecialPages to make sure they are kept in check and dont get out of control. If a special page get into a list in the 300's then we need to do a clean out of it.
2. Keep the feedback forum open, and use it to improve the site as time goes on.
3. Update Old file naming conventions on pages to the new ones as done in Step 4.(Will link page when its ready)
4. Update Old source conventions on pages to the new ones as done in Step 4.(Will link page when its ready)
5. Keep updating the Community stuff we set up in step 5.(Will probably make a project page dedicated to keeping that set up)
6. Keep the twitter and Facebook active with content.
7. Keep up with 8 in general like we do already.