Project:To Do

Here is a list of stuff that needs doing on the wiki. Feel free to add anything you feel that needs to be done and move items that have been completed to the "Completed" section below.

Regular tasks

These are regular tasks. Please do not remove them or mark as complete, as they need to be checked regularly.

• Category:Wiki maintenance
  • 4 pages in Category:Deleteme
  • 1 pages in Category:Pages with deprecated config template parameters
  • -1 pages in Category:Pages with rating template issues (subtracted a few pages to properly "zero" this count)
  • -2 pages in Category:Pages with revision template errors (subtracted a few pages to properly "zero" this count)
  • 0 pages in Category:Pages with too many expensive parser function calls
• Special:DoubleRedirects

Pending

Misc

• Create page documenting the various current Wiki conventions (i.e. title naming, appropriate config entries, Version compatibility handling, rating templates use, revision template use, etc.). Expose the page in appropriate locations (main page, comment on list pages, etc).
• Fix "Random Page" page, it seems to always return the same page now or perhaps changes the page less frequently (i.e. per session, or per day).
  • Are others experiencing this? Random page used to return a different page with each click for me, but now returns the same page repeatedly.Kolano 05:33, 1 June 2011 (CEST)
  • It's working fine for me, every time that I click on "random page" it gives me a different page... Jhonn 22:40, 1 June 2011 (CEST)
  • Hrm, maybe it's a problem with Firefox 5, hopefully others can comment here.Kolano 04:32, 2 June 2011 (CEST)

I've also observed this issue across this wiki, where pages remain cached when they shouldn't. I frequently end up refreshing my browser after performing edits. I'm using Firefox 4.0.1, for what it's worth. LobStoR (talk | contribs) 04:10, 5 June 2011 (CEST)

• Correct maximum file size indicator on upload page. It says 2Mb files are accepted, but 1Mb seems to be the actual cut-off.Kolano 18:33, 4 June 2011 (CEST)
• Work out how to better integrate Game IDs, as these seem to frequently be ignored/missed when moving pages around.

  Just check Special:DoubleRedirects occasionally. LobStoR (talk | contribs) 19:12, 8 June 2011 (CEST)

• DSP-LLE is mentioned throughout the wiki, but there isn't a page to explain how to set it up. The procedure involved is far more complex then just enabling the option, and the only solution at present is an awkward note in pages, directing users to a forum post that itself is not very clear. Having a dedicated page on the wiki about how to setup DSP-LLE is prudent. MaJoR 18:37, 30 July 2011 (CEST)
  • I agree with this assessment. The current config/performance guides are definitely a bit lacking, and probably deserve better coverage here generally.Kolano 19:50, 30 July 2011 (CEST)

Ratings

• Flesh out ratings sub-pages

List

• Clean up lists by adding missing information
• Add orphaned or games not in the lists into the list pages.
• Better system for managing the Gamecube games lists need to be done as finding games like Zelda could be under (The legend of / Legend of / Zelda)
  • I'm fairly sure existing naming conventions ensure this isn't the case, though we may need to do a better job of documenting them:Kolano 01:27, 2 April 2011 (CEST)
    • Page names should align with the localized English title or, when Japan-exclusive, their rōmaji transliterations
      • Unclear if there are any Euro exclusive titles that aren't accounted for by this, I seem to recall a French only game or two.
      • On the lists I believe we should remove the "aka 'foreign game title'" since we are focusing more towards the American titles. ThatLuciano 07:56, 28 April 2011 (CEST)
        • I don't think we should be "focusing" toward American titles. I'd much prefer if we fleshed the AKAs out more/integrated such into game pages to better cover that the titles have multiple names. Not doing so makes it difficult for non-US wiki users to find info on titles relevant to them, as the names they may be familiar with can significantly deviate from the US titles (i.e. Spirits & Spells vs Castleween).Kolano 15:53, 28 April 2011 (CEST)
    • Page names should start with "The" if the title does
    • List entries should move "The" to the end of their title section (i.e. "The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker" becomes "Legend of Zelda, The: The Wind Waker")

Config

• Clean up config entries post Config template revisions to include an up to date list of parameters. Recent Config template changed strings to be as is in current Dolphin revision:
  • |realxfb=on must be changed to the new |xfb=real (now both real and virtual XFB options are radio buttons on emulator). (relevant pages, currently 441)
  • |mmuhack=on must be changed to the new |mmu=On. (relevant pages, currently 3)
    • No, MMU and MMU speed hack are two different things, we need to revert current changes. Jhonn 01:49, 15 April 2011 (CEST)
    • Sorry for my confusion, since no entry included both I had presumed they were the same. Kolano 18:30, 15 April 2011 (CEST)
• Improve config documentation on Template page and update config sections to only use filled parameters.
• Clean blank entries and add only the used ones. Please provide feedback here.
  • I'd be OK with such if: we can provide some documentation of the settings used by the config template somewhere;we reference that location from each config entry.Kolano 05:58, 5 April 2011 (CEST)
• Update to generate additional error categories (non-on/off values, missing notes, etc.)Kolano 09:18, 3 July 2011 (CEST)
• DSP-LLE is recommended and not recommended at random throughout numerous pages with sound issues. Often, this is because many games have only minor sound problems with DSP-HLE, and it may not be worth it to take the performance hit. However, if the Config is setup to reflect a best possible set of options ignoring performance, then LLE should be listed. Should it be changed? MaJoR 18:37, 30 July 2011 (CEST)
  • The current goal for the config sections is to provide settings that will provide problem free emulation. Performance/graphics improvements are not relevant as typically such are covered generically in the performance/config guides (though each of those could use updates). Each suggested config should also include a note regarding why such is being suggested. So the minor issues should be listed besides the suggestion to use LLE, but such should be kept brief with longer description in the Problems section. I'd like to avoid statements like "slower machines should user HLE" in the Problems section though, as such is an inexact statement and likely to skew over time (i.e. today's fast machine is tomorrow's slow one). I presume an intelligent user when presented with the specific issues addressed by use of LLE should be able to decide if it's worth taking the performance hit themselves.Kolano 19:50, 30 July 2011 (CEST)

Infobox

• Clean up publisher/release date info to indicate differing region releases more appropriately (see Fragile Dreams : Farewell Ruins Of The Moon)
• Consider purging emulation irrelevant details.
• Clean up Input methods related to other platforms not emulated by Dolphin.
• Consider cleaning up info for developers (such as FPS, Rel modules, DTK ADPCM, Size, FPS...) Provide feedback here
  • I think it would be good if such useless information is removed as it could differ from user to user. --Endres 17:12, 31 July 2011 (CEST)

Categories

• Add developer/publisher categories
• Add more complete set of genre categories
  • Replace genres with genre category links

Navigation Templates

• The template handle series it doesn't address by providing a notice to update the relevant navigation template.
  • The template parameter be Title rather than Series based. Such could allow a default template to be included on every page (i.e. outputting nothing if there was no relevant navigation). Unfortunately that's not compatible with my prior suggestion, so we probably need some further discussion.
• Revise the following in the navigation template(s):
  • Revise German variables to English
  • Correct handling so final list item isn't displayed on it's own line. This is currently addressed by including a   as a final entry, but that's a less than ideal solution.
  • Make a navigation entry template.
    • This will need to consider the total count of templates used within this template. As we want to avoid hitting the too many templates issues seen in list pages.
  • Document conventions:
    • Entries listed in chronological order.
    • <Title> (<Platform>, <Year>)
      • Alternately, we might consider a format where Wii and GameCube titles occupy separate rows. Not sure if/how we'd handle Wii sub-categories (i.e. WiiWare, etc.). Please discuss.
    • Entries should be separated with a "&nbsp;| " (This may be a mute point, if a separate entry template is implemented)
• Query regarding recent navigation migration to sub-pages: Is this functional in any way? Per, http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:Subpages, "By default, MediaWiki's subpage feature is turned off in the main namespace, but can be used on talk pages and user pages."
  • I think that it's OK, Templates aren't part of the main namespace, so they probably have this enabled by default. Jhonn 01:11, 19 May 2011 (CEST)

Performance Guide

• Update Performance guide to align with 3.0 release.

Completed

Below is listed only what was done last month. You can search the archive for what was done since To Do list was created.

Ratings

• Revise ratings template to make sub-page ratings take effect (Done by Kolano, LobStoR and Jhonn - 29 May 2011 / 3 Jul 2011).
• Flesh out ratings sub-pages (Done by Kolano - 3 Jul 2011)

List

• Work out means of fixing issue requiring list pages to be split into multiple templates. This is due to use of the ratings template, the current Wiki server can't handle compiling the large number of templates used on the list pages.
  • I think we might work around this by migrating most of the list page content into a bigger version of the ratings template. Then revise the ratings template to either output a detail of a requested game or a complete list of it's included games. Each list page would include the template in list mode, while each game page would include it (possibly a few times) to reference it's rating, genre, region details. I'm hoping that since each game page would only need to call the template a few times and the list list pages would display just a single template, such would enable a consolidated list for each platform. This would also ensure alignment with shared game details beyond rating.Kolano 07:39, 4 April 2011 (CEST)
  • Fixed by moving to Ratings sub-pages (Done by Kolano - 3 Jul 2011)