Thread:Eveaustria/@comment-32558267-20170712193938/@comment-2048628-20170712230351

Hello, Randall!

Thanks for your kind words and offer! :)

Sure, the  Creativerse Wikia  is  definitely in need of help, since it's actually in a pretty bad shape  right now... It's a miracle that it can be of help to players nonetheless :D

Is there anything you would LIKE to do on the Wiki?

As for what I think has to be done... Warning: WALL OF TEXT COMING IN!

Julia ( moderator  on the official Creativerse  forums) and me are already working on revising the whole thing  currently   (yes, all the nearly 1000 articles), but there are so many "construction zones" that we're a bit overtasked...

1. our number one priority right now is to correct wrong information, which mainly applies to dozens of articles with outdated unlocking requirements. We're already in the middle of this task, while also providing these articles with new images and more information, so no need to help us out with that - even though it might still take a while...

2. our next task will then be to reverse-revise all the unlocking requirements and crafting ingrediences to add lists, maybe together with a redesign of all the articles with crafting recipes (tables & subheadings, maybe info-boxes, icons... we'll see), natural blocks and crafting materials. However it wouldn't make much sense to even start with this task before we have corrected all the concerned outdated articles first...

3. as soon as we'll be done with that, we can create a bunch of much needed overview articles and tutorials/guides with spreadsheets, infoboxes, links, icons etc. and also posh up the existing category pages. All of that will be based on the articles that we will have corrected and updated during step 1 and 2.

Again, starting this task will only make sense after the articles will have been revised properly, otherwise we'd work with outdated (= wrong) information which is a no-go for a Wiki... Oh, and when the urgent corrections/updates are done, we'll also have to add a small info-box to the main page with all the "important" links, replacing the current "this Wiki is outdated" info :)

These are the 3 top priority tasks  that Julia and I are working on right now.

4. however there are unrelated tasks that should be taken care of - if possible -  too. At this rate, Julia and I might not be able to address those before autumn or winter, even if we'd work for hours on the Wiki every day (including "behind the scenes" testing ingame, creating screenshots and cutting windows to be uploaded, etc.)...

For example all the articles about creatures are a mess. These are giving me a real headache right now, and I have no idea when to take care of them and how exactly :(

a) first of all, ALL the images of Creatures and pet-windows are outdated (except for Warmworms I think) ever since their textures and animations have been overhauled

b) secondly, players keep on asking how many hits with all kinds of swords it will need to kill all the creatures and how long it will need to tame them.  The numbers listed in the "Creatures" overview article are outdated by now, so we can't rely on them.   But who'd have the time it would need to test all that?

c) thirdly, Heavylemon has started to add spreadsheets lately right at the top of many creatures' articles while shoving the basic "this is a (peaceful/aggressive) creature" information and images aside. Sadly he didn't bother to attend to every creature (yet?), and to top it off he added an "health"-array that he often had to leave empty - of course, since only the developers know for certain how many health points all the creatures really have, while we players can only guess... But since some of the information that Heavylemon has added is useful, I really do not want to discourage him by messing with his contributions too soon... Hm, maybe Julia can ask the developers about all the HPs...

d) and I think we'll have to add paragraphs about general strategies to kill and tame creatures (maybe even about how to "keep" them as pets too) to each creature's article, since players ask about that in comments below the articles of single creatures while ignoring the overview articles...

e) last but not least, the articles about Creatures could need some restructuring too in order to be more legible and to unify their look. But to be honest I haven't put much thought into this part of the revision work yet. 5. some other articles are also rather chaotic, like about cold, heat, drowning and such. Wouldn't be bad to re-check their "facts" and to update them, maybe even rewrite them from scratch, and add some images too. Machines and Adventures could also need more testing and examples with detailled descriptions... or maybe we should just watch some YouTube videos about complex machineries made by technically versed players and simply put them into written form? :D 6. I am still thinking about how to put information together (into 1 article perhaps?) that new players might never find out while just casually playing the game, since there are no hints about some "systems"  like how to call Rockzilla, create coal from tar and diamond from coal, use the plow on several natural blocks ... well, things like that. But how to even call such an article, and what else should it contain?

7. judging from the forums I think we might need an article about "pay to win?" worries too... Since some premium recipes are not only part of the "premium" section of the crafting menu ingame, but have also been duplicated into other sections, F2P players might get the impression that they have to pay money to play the game "properly". How should they even know that all the purchasable swords are a lot weaker than the (free) best sword in the game (Lumite)? I read on the forums that some new players firmly believed that they could only get the best equipment when paying money...

8. well, and of course a lot more articles COULD be created, in case anyone might deem them necessary... Like about the new Steam cards, backgrounds, badges and emoticons for Creativerse, about technical stuff (requirements to play the game, local subdirectories and files and the like), about downloadable artwork and music files offered by Playful (where to find them and an overview), maybe a small article about the official Creativerse YouTube channel by Playful, perhaps an article about the past building competitions and their winners, maybe an article about the Creativerse live-stream, perhaps some more information about Playful (the developers) themselves?



9 . other than it might be useful to duplicate (NOT cut out) sections from the Beginners guide, Release Notes, Admin Commands, maybe even the main page and other loooong articles in order to create short articles from each paragraph, so players can find all this stuff more easily by searching the Wiki or Google (or by using other search machines).

Haha, it's all quite a mess, isn't it? Is there anything of this "to do" list that has sparked your interest perhaps? If you feel overwhelmed now and/or just want to play the game some more to dig deeper into it and just enjoy playing, I won't be disappointed. Wiki work can be quite ungrateful, and there's nothing I could reward you with for contributing :( Other than my deep gratitude and some heartfelt praise of course ;)

Well, take your time to think about it ;) I hope to hear from you again :D

Eve