Forum:2007 "to do" list
If this thread's title doesn't specify it's spoilery, don't bring any up.
A forum for discussing how to make better articles, have better images, more consistent content and so forth and so on, and strategies to implement this. Discussions on how to recruit more members, and changes to the look (new logo, re-skinning, etc.) can go on in other forums. here, we talk about the actual articles and categories. --***Stardizzy*** 16:24, 31 January 2007 (UTC)
Stub
Well, if we can, first of all it might be a good idea to expand some of the stubs, especially those which can easily be made into longer articles... ~ Ghelæ -talk-contribs 16:27, 31 January 2007 (UTC)
- Well, I'll try my best, but as I've probably mentioned before I don't have access to a lot of episodes/books/audios and therefore can't really improve them. Azes13 18:39, 31 January 2007 (UTC)
Article Priority
I do think a list of priorities of what needs to be done in terms of articles would be a good idea. We need to at least get the basics sorted, which is what people would expect to see. To my mind, that means reasonably good pages on all the TV stories and all the Doctors, companions and major monsters and villains. A lot of work has been done on the TV story pages but ther are still some with that sad old table template stuck on them (and nothing else). I've been going through the stories in order and inserting the new infobox template along with a photo. As a result, evertying up to The Seeds of Doom has the correct infobox and an image. But a lot of these still need at least basic story and cast info adding. I do worry that we are creating a wiki that's 'off-balance' for want of a better description. By that I mean a wiki that has detailed information on fairly obscure or minor subjects but is missing the big ones. It would be rather like going to the Star Wars wiki only to find articles on an obscure robot that was mentioned on one page of a comic-strip, but no article on The Empire Strikes Back or The Phantom Menace.--Mantrid 18:59, 31 January 2007 (UTC)
- very much agree. best of all, this means we can add the links to Wikipedia once the entries look good enough to display. the big three (or big fourteen, if you could all the incarnations, plus general page on the Doctor):
- The Doctor (First Doctor through Tenth Doctor)
- Daleks
- Cybermen
- Torchwood regulars, not for their significance, simply because they need so much work; Jack Harkness entry and Rhys Williams already look mostly good, though short on photos, others do not at all
- TARDIS actually, though this would entail a lot of work, this could do this breaking down into the Doctor's TARDIS and general TARDIS information. hard to separate the two, but, eventually needs doing.
- others:
- sonic screwdriver?
- K-9?
- Rose Tyler, to please new fans? though her article looks good already, I just glanced at it, though)
- Sarah Jane Smith?
- work on those first and foremost, perhaps. Cybermen needs two articles, I believe, one for our universe, one for Cybus universe. (I would say more than three to accomodate David Banks' theory of various Cyber-factions, but unless it got mentioned in one of the novels, would consider that mere fanon.) I know where I can get some neat Dalek comparision charts. also, I can scan in pictures from the David Banks book and DW Technical Manual which has various blueprints. though it may take about a week because I do not own a scan and have no money to pay to pay to have it done for me. --***Stardizzy*** 20:11, 31 January 2007 (UTC)
Galleries
Galleries can also be used to help provide pics, as well as the new Image Request forum topic. So far we have at least a Gallery of Daleks, which I think I'll try to sort out... ~ Ghelæ -talk-contribs 17:22, 31 January 2007 (UTC)
