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=Welcome to the Community Portal=
=Welcome to the Community Portal=

Do you like Looney Pyramids and can lend your time and skills? We have some tasks and projects that could really do with a little help.
Do you like Looney Pyramids and can lend your time and skills? We have some tasks and projects that could really do with a little help.

Any questions? Ask on the [[{{TALKPAGENAME}}|Discussion]] page, or add <code><nowiki>{{admin|what needs doing}}</nowiki></code> to a page.
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==Useful Pages for Contributors==
==Useful Pages for Contributors==
* [[Policies and Usage Conventions]]
* [[Looney_Pyramid_Games_Wiki:Policies_and_Usage_Conventions|Wiki Policies and Usage Conventions]]
* [[mediawikiwiki:Help:Editing_pages|Learn how to edit wiki pages]]
* [[mediawikiwiki:Help:Editing_pages|Learn how to edit wiki pages]]
* <span class="plainlinks">[{{fullurl:s:Special:AllPages|namespace=10&hideredirects=1}} List of All Templates]</span>
* <span class="plainlinks">[{{fullurl:Special:AllPages|namespace=10&hideredirects=1}} List of All Templates]</span>
* [[How to Use Pyramid Love Font]]
* [[Grids and Chessboards]]


==Things to Do==
==Things to Do==


===Tasks for Beginner Contributors===
===Tasks for Beginner Contributors===
"I've never used a wiki before?"
"I've never used a wiki before..."
* Add brief descriptions to all of the games, and add links to their rules
* Add brief descriptions to all of the games, and add links to their rules
** Focus on the games in [[Pyramid Arcade]] and from the [[Ice Game Design Competition]]
** Focus on the games in [[Pyramid Arcade]] and from the [[Ice Game Design Competition]]
* Write a requested [[Special:Wantedpages|wanted page]]
<!--* Write a requested [[Special:Wantedpages|wanted page]]-->
* Add to a [[Special:Shortpages|short page]]
* Add to a [[Special:Shortpages|short page]]
* Improve a [[:Category:pages needing improvement|page that needs improvement]]
* Improve a [[:Category:pages needing improvement|page that needs improvement]]
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* Add the [[Infobox]] to the [[Special:Whatlinkshere/Template:Reqinfobox|rest of the games]]
* Add the [[Infobox]] to the [[Special:Whatlinkshere/Template:Reqinfobox|rest of the games]]
* Check the Maintenance Special:SpecialPages
* Check the Maintenance Special:SpecialPages
* Clean up external links.
** There are many [[Special:LinkSearch/icehousegames.org|icehousegames.org]] links that need to be replaced with internal links.<br/>For example: <nowiki>[http://icehousegames.org/wiki/index.php?title=Blam] should instead be [[Blam!]]</nowiki>
** There are around 300 bad domains found by [[Special:RottenLinks]] (Check "Show rotten links only" and click "Search")<br/>Click the number in the "Page Usage" column to see what pages link to that domain. These links should be replaced by archive.org links at the least.


===Pyramid Arcade Project===
===Pyramid Arcade Project===
* Update the wiki for [[Pyramid Arcade]]
* [[Looney_Pyramid_Games_Wiki:Community_Portal/Projects/Pyramid_Arcade|Update the wiki to include Pyramid Arcade details]]
** <s>Write the page</s> Thanks [[User:Umjahwa|Umjahwa]]!
** <s>Add the games</s>
** <s>Create a listbox</s>
** Fill in more details on the games
*** [[Color Wheel]]
*** [[Give or Take]]
*** [[Looney Ludo]]
*** [[Lunar Invaders]]
*** [[Petal Battle]]
*** [[Petri Dish]]
*** [[Powerhouse]]
*** [[Pyramid Shambo]]
*** [[Verticality]]
** Add the components
** Update the various infoboxes/templates to include Pyramid Arcade info
** Update [[What Can I Play?]] for Pyramid Arcade
** Upload photos of Pyramid Arcade, add to the main page rotation


===Rules Project===
===Game Rules Project===
* [[Looney_Pyramid_Games_Wiki:Community_Portal/Projects/Game_Rules|Make sure every game has rules included.]]
* Find games without rules
** Obtain [[IcehouseOrg:Permissions|record permission]] to duplicate the rules on IcehouseGames
** Link to the official sources for the rules.
Even if the rules are available elsewhere online, it's nice to have a lot of them in a consistent format, it's good for instant gratification when people are looking for games here, and it can provide a backup in case the original rules go down.


===What Can I Play? Project===
===What Can I Play? Project===
* [[Looney_Pyramid_Games_Wiki:Community_Portal/Projects/What_Can_I_Play?|Improve the "What Can I Play?" page.]]
* Help new players [[What Can I Play?|choose games]] to play, by filling in some more games and adding more categories and criteria by which to choose games.
* Reorganise [[What Can I Play?]] to be more organised around Pyramid Arcade. Move the focus away from treehouse stashes and pyramid stashes.
* Maybe use wiki categories instead of hard-listing the games.


===Infobox Project===
===Infobox Project===
* [[Looney_Pyramid_Games_Wiki:Community_Portal/Projects/Infobox|Finish setting up the infobox used on game pages.]]
* Work on the [[Template:Infobox Game]] and [https://www.semantic-mediawiki.org/wiki/Semantic_MediaWiki Semantic MediaWiki] setup
** <s> Designer property should probably turn into multiple individual designers; not sure how to do that in the infobox </s>
** <s> Description currently has wikitext on many pages, but that doesn't seem to be supported by the current version of Semantic MediaWiki. We need to either find a way to make a property that contains a plain-text description that goes along with the wikitext description, figure out how to enable wikitext in a property, or make it not be a semantic property. </s>
** Add a search page that allows searching or browsing games by property
** <s> There is a work in progress of a new infobox at [[Template:Infobox Game Fancy]] </s> New inbox box is all loaded in and appears to be working! Please report any issue you encounter on the [[Template_talk:Infobox Game|Infobox talk page]]


===History Project===
===History Project===
* [[Looney_Pyramid_Games_Wiki:Community_Portal/Projects/History|Improve the historical information we have.]]
* Do work on the [[Icehouse in general]] section.
** Organize the table of contents better, and include more culture articles, stuff like [[generic gaming kit]]/[[icebox]], and so on.
** Write a [[history of Icehouse]] (or maybe [[history of Looney Pyramids]]). We already have a [[history timeline]], but it's incomplete (doesn't list when the first other game to be played when Icehouse pieces (Zarcana?) was invented, doesn't discuss piecenik-ing, etc), and a prose history would just be nice.
* <s>Figure out how to make infobox items (mechanics?) optional</s> It looks as if this isn't possible in the way we would like. But we can...


===Game Strategy Project===
===Game Strategy Project===
* [[Looney_Pyramid_Games_Wiki:Community_Portal/Projects/Game_Strategy|Add strategy pages for games.]]
* Help write [[strategy]] articles for the games you know how to play
** Some good candidates would be [[Pikemen strategy]], [[Martian Chess strategy]], [[Branches & Twigs & Thorns strategy]], and any game that you think you could write a good strategy article on
** [[Homeworlds strategy]] is a work in progress, and could use lots of improvement. Feel free to do copyediting, add advice, reorganize it to a better structure, or whatever you feel would make it better (although deleting the entire thing might be a little extreme)
** Also flesh out the generic [[strategy]] advice, perhaps explaining concepts like expected value, sente (Go term), pinning, playing where your opponent wants to play, putting yourself in a situation where you have two good moves and the opponent can only block one, and so on.


===Admin Tasks===
===Admin Tasks===
''Add tasks that only admins and sysops have permission to do here''
:'''Add tasks that only admins and sysops have permission to do here'''
* Fix pages marked with <code>{{tl|admin}}</code>
* Make the [[Main Page]] look nicer on mobile
* Make the [[Main Page]] look nicer on mobile
** We now have the [[mw:Extension:MobileFrontend|mobile extension]] installed. For the most part, this allows things to look good on mobile devices; but the image on the main page doesn't scale properly. We probably want to figure out a way to make it fit into the mobile layout better. There are some [[mw:Mobile Gateway/Mobile homepage formatting|notes on how to do this in the MediaWiki docs]]
** We now have the [[mw:Extension:MobileFrontend|mobile extension]] installed. For the most part, this allows things to look good on mobile devices; but the image on the main page doesn't scale properly. We probably want to figure out a way to make it fit into the mobile layout better. There are some [[mw:Mobile Gateway/Mobile homepage formatting|notes on how to do this in the MediaWiki docs]]
** It looks like the main issue is getting the front-page images scaled properly. A first step to that would be to replace all of the custom pages for each of the main page images, with one that uses [[Template:Weekly image]], so we can set parameters on these images globally rather than having to go through each one. I've done do on the first few already (for example [[Main_Page/Picture_for_week_1]]), just need to go through each of the later images ([[Main Page/Weekly images]]) and use the template.
** It looks like the main issue is getting the front-page images scaled properly. A first step to that would be to replace all of the custom pages for each of the main page images, with one that uses [[Template:Weekly image]], so we can set parameters on these images globally rather than having to go through each one. I've done do on the first few already (for example [[Main_Page/Picture_for_week_1]]), just need to go through each of the later images ([[Main Page/Weekly images]]) and use the template.
** Design <s>favicon</s> and mobile icons for the site.<br/> - Tested various favicons, currently using a green large pyramid as it shows up well in different color themes. --[[User:Dazeysan|Dazeysan]] ([[User talk:Dazeysan|talk]]) 00:49, 30 April 2024 (UTC)
** Design favicon and mobile icons for the site
** Remove [[Special:UnusedFiles|unused files]], especially images that look like they were uploaded by wiki spammers
* <s>Remove [[Special:UnusedFiles|unused files]], especially images that look like they were uploaded by wiki spammers</s><br/> - No unused images were imported during the 2023 migration. See [[List of files not imported]] for details. --[[User:Dazeysan|Dazeysan]] ([[User talk:Dazeysan|talk]]) 00:49, 30 April 2024 (UTC)
* <s>Add an extension for embedding videos from sites such as YouTube. Done, see [[mw:Extension:EmbedVideo|Extension:EmbedVideo]] for docs, [[{{TALKPAGENAME}}]] for example.</s><br/> - This extension was not enabled in the 2023 migration, do we need it? --[[User:Dazeysan|Dazeysan]] ([[User talk:Dazeysan|talk]]) 00:49, 30 April 2024 (UTC)

Latest revision as of 02:01, 30 April 2024

Welcome to the Community Portal[edit source]

Do you like Looney Pyramids and can lend your time and skills? We have some tasks and projects that could really do with a little help.

Any questions? Ask on the Discussion page, or add {{admin|what needs doing}} to a page.

Useful Pages for Contributors[edit source]

Things to Do[edit source]

Tasks for Beginner Contributors[edit source]

"I've never used a wiki before..."

Tasks for Experienced Contributors[edit source]

  • Upload requested images, especially for the Main Page
  • Add the Infobox to the rest of the games
  • Check the Maintenance Special:SpecialPages
  • Clean up external links.
    • There are many icehousegames.org links that need to be replaced with internal links.
      For example: [http://icehousegames.org/wiki/index.php?title=Blam] should instead be [[Blam!]]
    • There are around 300 bad domains found by Special:RottenLinks (Check "Show rotten links only" and click "Search")
      Click the number in the "Page Usage" column to see what pages link to that domain. These links should be replaced by archive.org links at the least.

Pyramid Arcade Project[edit source]

Game Rules Project[edit source]

What Can I Play? Project[edit source]

Infobox Project[edit source]

History Project[edit source]

Game Strategy Project[edit source]

Admin Tasks[edit source]

Add tasks that only admins and sysops have permission to do here
  • Fix pages marked with {{admin}}
  • Make the Main Page look nicer on mobile
    • We now have the mobile extension installed. For the most part, this allows things to look good on mobile devices; but the image on the main page doesn't scale properly. We probably want to figure out a way to make it fit into the mobile layout better. There are some notes on how to do this in the MediaWiki docs
    • It looks like the main issue is getting the front-page images scaled properly. A first step to that would be to replace all of the custom pages for each of the main page images, with one that uses Template:Weekly image, so we can set parameters on these images globally rather than having to go through each one. I've done do on the first few already (for example Main_Page/Picture_for_week_1), just need to go through each of the later images (Main Page/Weekly images) and use the template.
    • Design favicon and mobile icons for the site.
      - Tested various favicons, currently using a green large pyramid as it shows up well in different color themes. --Dazeysan (talk) 00:49, 30 April 2024 (UTC)
  • Remove unused files, especially images that look like they were uploaded by wiki spammers
    - No unused images were imported during the 2023 migration. See List of files not imported for details. --Dazeysan (talk) 00:49, 30 April 2024 (UTC)
  • Add an extension for embedding videos from sites such as YouTube. Done, see Extension:EmbedVideo for docs, Looney Pyramid Games Wiki talk:Community Portal for example.
    - This extension was not enabled in the 2023 migration, do we need it? --Dazeysan (talk) 00:49, 30 April 2024 (UTC)
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