IcehouseOrg: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.
Any questions? Ask on the Discussion page, or add {{admin|what needs doing}}
to a page.
Useful Pages for Contributors
- Wiki Policies and Usage Conventions
- Learn how to edit wiki pages
- List of All Templates
- How to Use Pyramid Love Font
- Grids and Chessboards
Things to Do
Tasks for Beginner Contributors
"I've never used a wiki before..."
- 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
- Write a requested wanted page
- Add to a short page
- Improve a page that needs improvement
Tasks for Experienced Contributors
- Upload requested images, especially for the Main Page
- Add the Infobox to the rest of the games
- Check the Maintenance Special:SpecialPages
Pyramid Arcade Project
- Update the wiki for Pyramid Arcade
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Write the pageThanks Umjahwa! -
Add the games -
Create a listbox - Fill in more details on the games
- 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
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Rules Project
- Find games without rules
- Obtain 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
- Help new players 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
- Work on the Template:Infobox Game and Semantic MediaWiki setup
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Designer property should probably turn into multiple individual designers; not sure how to do that in the infobox -
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. - Add a search page that allows searching or browsing games by property
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There is a work in progress of a new infobox at Template:Infobox Game FancyNew inbox box is all loaded in and appears to be working! Please report any issue you encounter on the Infobox talk page
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History Project
- 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.
Game Strategy Project
- 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
- 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
- Remove unused files, especially images that look like they were uploaded by wiki spammers
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Add an extension for embedding videos from sites such as YouTubeDone, see Extension:EmbedVideo for docs, IcehouseOrg talk:Community Portal for example.