Hi all users, I have an important announcement to make. Please read the following carefully.
Currently, this wiki has been mostly just my work, with Nickarmstrong84 helping me out with framework work that he can use a bot for. I must say that it is a huge commitment, and certainly not one I can keep up forever. So I am looking for somebody willing to devote their time and effort into Rodeo Stampedia, and succeed my role in the future.
I must admit that I am still a high school student myself. I am in my final two years of school and I am studying subjects a year early, meaning that I have exams approaching this year that will determine my university course, and I have to spend my time on that. Rodeo Stampedia, and Rodeo Stampede, unfortunately, is not a life, or a career, and my exams will take priority, as will my university course and work later on. I will still be a member of the wiki, seeing as I built it from scratch, but I need people to take the load, and eventually take over, with myself not featuring so heavily anymore.
The wiki is extremely complex, there are many many facets to manage, which I had no idea of when I started about a year and a half ago. I had to experiment, learn, ask admins of other wikis with more coding experience than me, research the game in depth, write descriptions, edit images, edit templates, design the main page, design infoboxes and build a community from nothing. So I am asking for any candidate who is willing, to first assist me, experiment with code, work their way around the wiki, before eventually taking over as main admin and possibly become a bureaucrat.
Here are some of the things that currently need work. If you are interested in a few (not all, it’s heaps and heaps of work), comment below.
- Baby animal images: currently Nickarmstrong84 works on those, however, these require great care. PowerPoint is a really easy, fast way to crop the images, and you can ask other users to send you images by adding them to the Dropbox folder immediately (which should make the quality of the image higher) or to get them to email them to you. I tend to use PowerPoint if the animal isn’t too detailed, because it is so fast and easy, however, for more detailed animals or animals with small limbs/parts that are easy to accidentally miss and crop out, I use an iPad app called PhotoShop Mix, where you can edit down to the pixel.
- Animal pages: descriptions may be the hardest thing to write, having to be detailed, formal and fairly long. Not many people have the motivation to write these. Currently I write all of these, occasionally Aitchfactor will too.
- Vandalism protection: all pages are open to editing, however, if vandalism occurs, that is not a reason to protect the page. Simply give the user a warning, if they do it again, you can block them for as long as you believe is fair. More details about this will be received when you apply.
- Animal page colours: the colours on the headers of the infoboxes and navboxes are all on a template: rodeo-stampede.wikia.com/wiki/Template:Animal_Header These require you to use a colour picker to find appropriate colours which are based on the animal, and put them in as a hex code.
- Animal icons: I will continue with these, but the icons on the Animals page still need to be done.
- Hats images: currently these have been ignored, but check out the Hats page on the wiki.
- Other templates: Nickarmstrong84 tends to work on these, and I believe that he still will in his free time.
- Other page information: Pretty much, I need someone who can write and is willing to research the game. I will be unable to do this all the time, so I need assistance with this.
- Design choices: I think I’ve finalised all the design choices, but if anyone has any improvements, they can change it up.
- Zone colours: Zone colours are based on the mission stars in the Sky Zoo and the text colour of Space Zoo zones in the Progress menu.
- Discussion moderation: self explanatory
- News blogs
- Polls: these let users decide what they want in the game, or allow for wiki improvement
- Any other things you can come up with that you’d like implemented in the wiki for the community
Most of the things on the wiki work systematically, but I don’t expect anyone at all to be able to pick this all up first go. It took me a year to get to this stage of dedication and versatility, pretty much doing all facets alone. More information will be given to those who are interested.
If you are interested, I will require a time of 3 weeks of consistent work on the wiki where you will learn about how things work, in order for you to be considered as eligible and willing to put the time in. It doesn’t have to be much, just a contribution a day, and more than just a comment. I will take a back seat in order to allow for this, and watch over this.
However, please note that I will still remain on the wiki, however, I will not feature so heavily as I don’t have the time for it, and for a top 400 wiki to not have a proper admin is suicidal due to vandalism and maintenance requirements.
If you are interested or you have any questions, please comment below.
CollectorMania