User blog:HighJewElfKing/State of the Wiki - July 2018



Welcome to the July edition of the State of the Wiki. In this post, I will cover major events on the wiki from the end of June. I also will share what's to come here on South Park Archives for the rest of the month.


 * NOTABLE: SilasGreaves12 has chosen to retire from his admin position. I'd like to thank him for his hard work and he will be missed.


 * NOTABLE: As part of a recent wiki update, the wiki font has gotten a little messed up. I'm actively investigating this and will try to have a fix out by the start of the next season.


 * NOTABLE: FANDOM has launched announcements, a new feature that allows admins to get messages out faster to members of their community.


 * Our very own Technical58CZ and I are looking at making some changes to the templates for scripts. More on that soon.


 * State of The Wiki posts and other update posts will now be done with blog posts.


 * We are planning to add Featured Videos to the following pages: Stan Marsh, Kyle Broflovski, Wendy Testaburger, Butters Stotch , Randy Marsh , Gerald Broflovski , Sheila Broflovski , Tweek Tweak , Craig Tucker , You Have 0 Friends , Trapped in the Closet , Doubling Down and Kenny Dies bringing the total number of Featured Videos on the wiki from 2 to 15. The success of Featured Videos on SPA was mentioned by FANDOM staff in This blog post!


 * We are starting new projects next month, including a project to update old articles and clean up redundant files and legacy talk pages across the wiki.


 * Last November, we conducted a survey for South Park Archives and the Discord. The survey proved highly successful to us and allowed us to get lots of helpful data. Our plan this year is to conduct one of them in November. I'll be sharing more information about our newest one when we get closer to that date so stay tuned.


 * Want to help out with the Tabbed Infobox Project? See this page!


 * Want to keep up to date with Projects on South Park Archives? See this page!


 * July's Featured Article is Mysterion!


 * You can vote for August's Here.


 * Follow South Park Archives on Twitter!


 * South Park Archives is looking for Discussion mods and Discord mods! Do you meet the requirements and want to lend a helping hand? Then see this post!


 * Season 21 Reassurance Project (January to February) - In this project, we'll address anything missed during Season 21 on the wiki. Like Songs, Characters and Locations/ Objects.
 * Wiki Article Updating and Cleanup (In Progress) - In this project, we'll do phase one of a long overdue project to update grammar in articles as well as the content of articles. Phase 1 will include updating the following Character articles: All Main, Major, Significant, 5-9th graders, School Faculty, 1st-3rd graders, and 4th graders (A through L). We'll also expand any stubs and clean up some other areas of the wiki.


 * Video Game Project (IN PROGRESS) - In this project, we'll work on adding new Fractured But Whole and Phone Destroyer content to the wiki, including missions, characters, locations and much more!


 * Wiki Article Updating and Cleanup Part 2 (Summer 2018 -- July/August) - This project will cover the rest of the 4th graders and we also will give every character article from A-Z a look to see if anything needs to be updated, renamed, corrected or changed. We also will clean up/ fact check/ correct trivia pages, old talk pages, categories and other areas of the wiki (mostly behind the scene lines of code, sandbox pages, templates and forum posts). We will also make new articles during this time period if deemed necessary.
 * Behind The Scenes content (Summer 2018 -- July/August) - In the project, we'll add behind the scenes content to trivia pages and episode galleries (some BTS content may also be added to episode pages. The project also gives us a chance to see if any episode pages or content in them needs to be updated like episode plots.)
 * Episode Scripts Project/ Tabbed Infobox Project (Mid July to Late August) - We will finish long-standing projects on the wiki, like the Episode Scripts Project and Tabbed Infobox Project.
 * Season 22 Preparation Project (Late August to September) - By then, we'll be working on preparing the wiki for the NEXT season of South Park.
 * Keep in mind some of these projects may not exactly meet their due dates head on, but that's the goal here. These projects will cover a massive amount of pages, and the work may take longer than expected. (For example, both phases of our Wiki Article Updating and Cleanup project will cover over 1,174 articles and that's just character articles alone) so some delays are expected. All of these projects WILL be completed by the start of Season 22, however.
 * Have any questions on the projects planned or want to help? Feel free to send me a message on My Wall.

Thank you for reading South Park Archives' State of the Wiki for June 2018! Join us again next month! If there's something you'd like to see featured next month, let us know in a comment below! As always we truly apperciate your support!