Reach API Wiki:Community Portal

Welcome to the Halo: Reach API Wiki Community Portal! The Community Portal is where the wiki community comes together to discuss work done to the wiki and changes to be made. This also serves as a jumping off point for new members to get started helping work on the wiki. Community discussions take place on the Community Portal's discussion page.

If you want to know more about the Halo: Reach API wiki, check out the About page.

New to Wikis?

• If you are new to wikis, here is a list of help pages for common tasks.

How You Can Help

• If you want to help but you're not sure where to start, try improving the various stub articles by adding content.
• Another useful task is to check the list of wanted pages for frequently linked-to articles that don't exist yet.
• You can follow the changes to the wiki and look out for new users and edits with the recent changes page.

Want to Discuss Stuff?

• If you want to discuss the specifics of an article, you can use the article's talk page.
• For more general discussions, you can use the Community Portal talk page.
• Administrator discussions take place on the administrators' discussion board.

Getting Help

• If you have not edited a wiki before, you can learn how by visiting the the editing help page.
• If you need help with templates, learn more at the template help page.
• If you need help with utilizing syntax hightlighting, check out the Syntax Highlight help page.

Things To Do

Never Ending Activities

There's some jobs that never end and always need attention:

• Expand some article stubs.
• Locate and mark pages that need expanding as article stubs.
• Create links to some orphaned pages.
• Upload and add images to improve articles. (Images can be uploaded with the image upload form)
• Create and write an article that's on the wanted list.
• Fix any double redirects by redirecting the first page to the third page.
• Check for broken redirects and either mark them for deletion or find a more appropriate target.
• Consider splitting up very long pages into different pages or subpages.
• Create some links on dead end pages.
• Add/remove articles to/from the appropriate categories.

To Do list

[view tasks - edit tasks] A list of tasks that anyone can complete.

• Document Game API:
  • Game Details
  • Game Metadata

• Document Player API:
  • Player Details
    • By Map
    • By Playlist
    • No Stats
  • Game History

• Document Files API:
  • File Details
  • Screenshots
  • File Search
  • File Sets
  • File Shares
  • Videos

• Add code examples

Administrative Tasks

[view tasks - edit tasks] A list of tasks for administrators to complete.

• Find/create a favicon for the wiki and apply/upload it
• Layout the wiki and setup the various needed meta/internal pages
  • Update the sidebar links
  • Create Administrator hub page (for greater transparency) ^{(assigned to Ashfire908)}
  • Create pages for the different user groups (related to Administrator hub page task above) ^{(assigned to Ashfire908)} (Done for now)
• Missing project pages:
  • Privacy policy
  • General disclaimer
  • Copyrights page
  • Help pages (switched to using off-wiki MediaWiki documentation)
  • Wiki Policy page
• Project pages that need to be reviewed and/or updated: (Done for now, but work will continue)
  • About page
  • Community Portal
• Add SVG image support to the wiki ^{(assigned to ElusiveEagle)}
  • Improve SVG support for the wiki (eg transparency) ^{(assigned to ElusiveEagle)}
• Implement Ambox ^{(assigned to ElusiveEagle)}
• Implement image copyright messages (Imbox) ^{(assigned to ElusiveEagle)} (Imbox not needed; MediaWiki:Licenses were used instead)
• Implement Google Analytics ^{(assigned to ElusiveEagle)}
• Implement fix for long lines of preformatted code ^{(assigned to ElusiveEagle)}

Useful Resources

• You can look at what you've done so far at your contributions page.
• View wiki statistics and specs by visiting the wiki stats page or version page.
• A list of all current templates can be found here.

Useful Special Pages

• Special:BrokenRedirects - List of broken redirects.
• Special:DoubleRedirects - Double redirects that need to be fixed.
• Special:UncategorizedImages - Images that are not in a category.
• Special:UncategorizedPages - Articles and pages that lack a category.
• Special:UnusedImages - Images that do not appear on any articles or pages.
• Special:WantedPages - Nonexistent articles that are frequently linked to.
• Special:WantedCategories - Categories that have not been created but pages have been added to.
• The full list of special pages is located at Special:SpecialPages.