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 |
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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 |
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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)