Thread:Merrimack/@comment-28013530-20161123225835/@comment-32738051-20161129011601

Hi Diana!

First, I say - with utterly selfish, wicked glee - how wonderful it is to have a volunteer with SO much time to kill...umm, fill...doing all this! Simply incredible how much you have been able to accomplish in one day! 😊😊😊😊😊👏👏👏👏👏

So, looking at the images you uploaded, it looks like you have the same access to the source files that I do. Correct? And it also looks like you're on iOS. Right? I ask because, as long as you're willing to help, it would be awesome to have someone who will get future updates faster than me (I'm on Windows...ugh!). It's easy enough for me to set up pages with standard verbiage if I can then have someone with the update fill in all the update/event/room/collection specifics and add all the related files. 😉

I took a quick look at your collection work and it looks great so far. I would like to mention a couple of things that I probably should have mentioned before (sorry). The framed collections stub at the top of the pages I created contains good completed examples you can refer to but they're each different from each other in certain ways and I think I've found a thing or two they don't cover that would apply to some collections. And of course there are 5 of those samples to look through to be sure nothing is missing from the page. But there isn't a single reference that has every possible verbiage that might be needed. I've mentioned to AAA it would be good if I or someone created a one-stop-shop, copy-and-paste template for each type of page - update, event, room, collection - that could guide a person with the questions they need to answer about each first and then provide standard verbiage for each potential answer (kind of like a form to complete with removable help text). But that should wait until after the current event and AAA and the team will probably want to discuss it more in depth before any such work could be started.

Anyway, the verbiage I used to create the new pages is probably good for most of the collections with some tweaking but it might be good to leave the framed stub at the top at least while all the pages are being completed, if for no other reason than so you or someone else will have it for reference when going back and taking a second look to catch anything that might need to be corrected, tweaked, added, etc. (it also will enable us to get the basics in place quicker for all the eager eyes looking for something). Then when that second pass is done, you should be able to remove the framed stub plus also be sure to remove both the article stub at the bottom (above categories) and the Article Stub category. It's good to review the collection in game when completing the pages and I believe you did this but there is specific verbiage related to collections that build Artefacts and I believe there is also for Challenge Quest, Quest Only and Other Quest collections/items that should be included in addition to or in place of my verbiage. We should also include the Fair Use Rationale verbiage (so we C.O.A. - cover our you-know-what) and at least one category (whatever would be appropriate) for each upload (I think I may be missing that on a few of mine too from yesterday). The importance of the categories is more for the site team (AAA, MD, Lilac, etc.) and maybe also editors like you and me. By clicking on a category on a page, we are taken to a page that contains all page links with that category. Like the Article stub category page holds links to all pages still in progress. Another example: you and I can't delete uploads or pages so if we ever needed such deleted, we can mark it for deletion with the deletion category and then Lilac can simply go to that category page for links to all the content that needs to be removed.

All that said, Traveler's belongings and Radiotelegraph, for example, should be okay with the framed verbiage removed already but it would have been helpful to leave it in place for the second pass. And both of those collections build an Artefact but my standard verbiage is for collections that don't so that part will have to be fixed. And the Travel suitcase (upload page) from Traveler's belongings, again for example, is missing the Fair Use Rationale and the Collection Items and Collection Item Images categories ( is a good Foss reference, one I found quickly by going to her Contributions page Uploads list). Some of this may be a lot quicker to take care of on the first pass than to wait until the second pass. But definitely should be checked on the second pass.

For tonight, I'm going to try and get those 5 remaining collection pages set up for you but I probably won't be able to get more done until tomorrow. Maybe MD or another volunteer can take a crack at the second pass on anything you're ready for them to check (like Traveler's belongings and Radiotelegraph)? Or I can get to it when I can. It can probably wait, now that there is at least something for players to look at. 😉

As for other stuff that needs to be done, I think the glaring need of the moment is filling in the Quest tables with the 30 quest details on the Magic Tour Challenge Quest section and the Christmas 2016 Challenge Quest section. That is quite possibly a more immediate need as players are probably looking for that info now. But I don't know if that is something that can be built from the source files (it may be something that is locked in the xml files...I haven't looked that hard for it yet) and I don't know if Aaron Verdugo's YouTube videos cover the quests. The only other option for putting that info together, I think, would be to play through the quests and record it as you go (ugh!). Would you like to take a crack at it?

Again, what you've done so far is amazing and if you did nothing else, all that alone is extremely helpful. Thanks! 😎😎😎😎😎