>It would be nice if there were a link to the quest category on the main page. I'm not quite sure how to edit the main page; my Wiki-fu is underlevelled.
ooh, you know what would be even nicer? If the quest category was linked on the sidebar, like special pages!

>>365
Ooh. I like that. Is there any way we can do this? <3

>>367
Don't know. It'd be a Dylan-level task, though.

>No wonder; there's no obvious link to it from the site.

Yeah, it's not like it's in the sidebar, at plain sight, under the radio or anything.

>>369
If you browse with frames. :V It's not on the frameless version.

>>369
No one browses with the frame thing. It kills your address bar copypasta abilities.

When I have the time, I'll make a page for Fury Rising. It's a good place to infodump...

Adept!!MvMGOwL2H3 2009/10/25(Sun)23:13 No. 394 ID: f4963f
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Hey there, Adept again. Two things.

First of all, I'm beginning to create and categorize pages for quest authors. The tag for this is ((Category:Quest Authors)), with the parenthesis replaced with brackets. Any help with this would be greatly appreciated.

Second, I'm creating a Running Quests category! This is for quests that're active, and have neither gone on hiatus nor died out from inactivity. There is no hard-and-fast rule for toggling from one category to the other; just use common sense. In particular, nothing on the graveyard board should be listed as a running quest unless it's specifically revived by the author.

Also, completed quests do not count as running quests, but I'm sure you know that.

There is also an 'On Hiatus' tag, but I would reserve those for quests where the author has /specifically/ stated the quest is on hiatus, rather than every little quest which simply hasn't updated since the dawn of time. The list should remain relatively small, thusly.

I've noticed that someone's begun classifying images! I didn't even know that was possible, and I think it's pretty cool. I've been doing a bit of that as well.

There's also, like, a zillion quest article stubs if anyone feels like doing a job that has very low wiki-fu requirements. Find article, click edit, type, save changes. Don't even worry about dividers and tags and stuff if you don't want to, someone else can pretty it up if there's content there.

Do the categories help any? I'm thinking of linking directly to them from a few different pages, because I find them pretty nifty, but I'm not sure how less-wiki-familiar people cope with them.

>>394
>classifying images
It's tons of fun, everyone should do it when they upload images.

>>394

http://pastebin.com/f2521b32

It is a list of every tgchan quest ever, and their respective statuses as far as I can tell.

It is probably not 100% accurate but hopefully will still prove useful.

I'm gonna go lie down now.

>>375
I browse with the bar. In the rare instance where I need an address, I am fully capable of opening a link in a new tab to get the URL.
The bar makes me feel safe.

CF 2009/11/01(Sun)05:25 No. 459 ID: eda57e
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I updated my quest and alpaca quest's pages.
For the former I used AfterQuest's as a template, it's a pretty good example of what a more developed page can look like, so I suggest using that if you're lazy :p

>>459
In particular, I'm fond of the little image + archive links table AQ has in the upper right. I stole the table's code for NicQuest's article as well, and later, I intend to pretty up other articles with little side-image-table things and such as well.

In a little while, I intend to put up some guidelines for de-stubbing quest pages, since quest pages are the meat of the wiki, as well as tgchan itself.

I guess I'll just mention right now that the most helpful contribution that requires minimal writing and wiki-fu would just be dang archive links. There's a lot of different quests, and some of them have several chapters. I've been seeing people putting up archive links on their own, and this makes me very, very happy. It means that one of the most important bits of info is there, and that we won't have to spend hours digging back when we decide to finally pretty up the articles.

It's also very useful. I find it much easier to type a name into the wiki and click an archive link than I find it to scroll back through howevermany pages of quest archives we have. Which is, I suppose, the entire point. Love you guys for contributing. <3

Hey this seems kind of relevant.

So I've noticed a bunch of people lamenting lately that TGchan has been slower than it used to be, say, a month ago. Certainly, some portion of this can be attributed to the unexpected downtimes (y'know, with peripheral users seeing an error and not coming back), but it still got me thinking about how I found this place to begin with.

And I remembered that the whole reason I wound up on TGchan is because while browsing TV Tropes I found the link to the Ruby Quest 1d4chan article, which led me to #rubyquest.

So I guess what I'm wondering is, does anyone think it would be worth it to write TV Tropes articles for (at least) the longer TGchan quests? Obviously these things would take a while, but if anybody else thinks it would be worth it I could at least start throwing up skeletal articles on there.

Also I have been neglecting the TGchan Wiki. :< I will get right on going through my HUEG LIST O' QUESTS as soon as I'm not being smothered by midterms, I promise.

So earlier today, I was asked on #tgchan what would best help the wiki right now.

Let me just repost the answer here, in case anyone else is interested. The answer is QUESTS. They're the meat of tgchan, and having fleshed-out quest articles would be a great boon.

In particular, archive links are very useful. I've noticed a few people stuffing archive links into articles, and the efforts are very much appreciated. The links are one of the most important bits of info in the wiki (it saves a lot of time archive spelunking, for one), and any archive link additions are greatly appreciated.

In the future, what I may begin doing is declaring an 'Article of the week' to focus our efforts on, in an attempt to stomp out stubs one by one.

Oh, and as a side note, Dylan's recently appointed me as a wiki admin; if anyone needs an image nuked, or if there's reason to believe a page should be protected, just let me know. We haven't had anything but light vandalism in the past, but...

>>563
So I should start up some heavy vandalism so you have something to do? Can do.

Begin: PAGE OF THE WEEK Adept!!MvMGOwL2H3 2009/11/09(Mon)00:31 No. 935 ID: f4963f
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Alright, wikifags. Earlier, I mentioned the possibility of a 'Page of the Week' type deal to flesh out the wiki. In particular our quest pages, the meat of the tgchan community, are fairly thin.

So this week, we are going to begin with The End. The End is probably one of the best-known quests on tgchan: It's the first one in the archives, it's got a kickin' robot butler and an eccentric astronomer who's trying to save the world, and it's spawned a great deal of fanart to boot.

Despite all this, The End's wiki page is looking rather anorexic. We should do something about this.

Here's the wiki link: http://www2.tgchan.org/wiki/The_End

>>935
Alright. Thanks to the awesome work of Ashs, we now have a Featured Article page on the front. Which, contrary to conventional featured article things, actually shows articles we're targeting for improvement, rather than 'this is an example of what an awesome article is'.

If we get big enough, I might consider adding an 'Article of the Month' or whatever to showcase particularly interesting pages.

I have gone ahead and added a basic layout to The End's page, to make the prospect of filling in details less intimidating to those with low wiki-fu. Those who are talented in wiki-fu are free to screw around with the formatting as they please, but those that don't know the first thing about categorizing or tables of contents can rest easy knowing that all they have to do is type around the little divider things.

Here's the link again:

http://www2.tgchan.org/wiki/The_End

Anonymous 2009/11/10(Tue)07:53 No. 969 ID: 7f4e82
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So...

The Ends setting is fairly detailed and Anti-Sex is set there too, should Caelum get its own article or should it just be part of The End page?

This might be a good idea for a few other quests....

>>969
Hmm. I think the best approach would be to have Caelum be its own article, and then to just describe it briefly for the The End article with a link to the full one.

We could also link to the Caelum article from ASQ's, then, and avoid being redundant. <3

This is a good idea, thank you for bringing it up.

>>971
Separate Setting and Quest articles, maybe?

I'd say put the Caelum stuff in The End. If it gets too large and unwieldy, THEN put it in its own article.

Do it like you're growing a tree, not building a house, where you have to lay out the foundations ahead of time and so forth.

>>975
Righto. We'll make this the plan for now.

Hey guys! Just wanted to say, the entry's looking great. Thanks to everyone who helped.

There's really only one major bit remaining, and that's the galleries at the bottom. In paticular, Official Art and Fanart.

There's a lot of Fanart for The End (particularly in the second and third threads).

http://www2.tgchan.org/wiki/Fanart_Thread

And the official art is easy to find in The End's own threads, as well as in the discussion thread. All of those are linked to from The End's article.

Really, all that remains is a few aesthetical gripes, but content-wise, it's all there, and that's mainly what we're looking for at this point. Thanks, guys. <3

Adept!!MvMGOwL2H3 2009/11/15(Sun)21:55 No. 1170 ID: f4963f
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Wow, The End is looking gread. Thanks for the contributions, guys. <3

This week, we're going to focus our efforts on Deep. Awesome quest, immersive, and as of the time I made it Page of the Week, had maybe one sentence in the wiki. I know we can do better than that.

http://www2.tgchan.org/wiki/Deep

Adept!!MvMGOwL2H3 2009/11/22(Sun)18:05 No. 1394 ID: f4963f
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It's beginning to occur to me that some of these articles will take more than a week to flesh out in full, and fa/tg/uy energy may wane based on the time of the year and what D&D supplements have come out recently.

As such, I'll be renaming the concept 'Project Page' or somesuch. Deep in particular is going to take longer than a week to do, as will future pages like Dive, Journey, and ... Mudy. Man, there's so much the Mudy article's going to need.

Anyway, in light of it being 4 hours til midnight here, and the Deep article (I keep typing Dive, damnit) being only about ~60% complete, I think I'm going to keep it up.

In the meantime, though, I'd be curious to hearing a vote as to what you guys would like the next project page to be.

>>1394
Well you just suggested Dive, Journey and Mudy in your post there. :V

All of them sound like good candidates, given that they're all very well-regarded and yet none of the three has a decent wiki article yet, but I have no idea which one ought to be written first.

Related to the Mudy Quest topic, I am trying to find the links to the chapters between ch 31 and act 2 part 2 for the archival links. Any one got the lost links?

As well, Romanticar 2 or parts of Romanticar Underground would need archival links as well, since my google-fu is too low.

>>1481
As I recall, Mudy Arc 2 Part 1 had a fake-out intro. It's one of the nine thousand indistinct ones with the protagonist waking up. I'd find it, but I honestly have to finish packing up for a family trip.

At the moment, the most useful thing for the Mudy article would be an archive link dump. Between that and upgrading the DiveQuest article, we should be good.

AlienQuest article would really profit from getting a little more than just links to the threads.

>>1482

I am updating Mudy quest little by little.

Also, does anyone have the links to Romanticar 2 or 3?

That is all that is lacking in the Romanticar pages.

Also, I would like to request, if possible, for the authors to update the wiki page with links.

>>1613
The archive link dump in the Mudy article is AWESOME. And makes it freaky to realize just how huge the quest was. Many thanks for that bit.

I should have some free time tomorrow. Perhaps I'll dig up some old Romanticar links then. <3

Lurked archives instead of finnishing Deep Anonymous 2009/11/29(Sun)21:59 No. 1618 ID: bec2a7
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Sorry already did all the Romanticar links too :3

As for possible next featured quests I'd suggest:
BiteQuest
Alien Quest
After Quest
Connection Lost
Dive Quest
Ant Quest (though I haven't really followed this)

Mudy Quest should defiantly wait until we're all more experienced at this and can make the article it deserves.
Id also suggest making Journey low priority as it has its own wiki, likewise for Joan as there's an article on 1d4chan.

Also are featured articles staying featured articles for as long as it takes?
If so by what measure is an article considered finished ?
Personally I think The End article could have done with a little more, or is the aim just to turn stubs into articles?

>>1618
The main goal is to turn stubs into articles. More could be done with The End, to be sure, but at the moment, The End is actually probably the second best article on the wiki.

The best, of course, is John's. http://www2.tgchan.org/wiki/John_%28Joandventure%29

Currently, the featured article / project page / whatever is going to stay the focus until it's sufficiently de-stubbed. Deep was a hard target, perhaps I should have chosen something easier.

You do make a good point about Journey. That being the case, we should probably throw a link to the Journey wiki up on Journey's page.

Right now, I'm aiming for long-running quests that don't seem likely to die, but that are under-reported on the wiki. Alien's sort of a zombie quest in that it almost died, then returned, but fits the bill nicely.

Mudy is important, but should probably wait until not-anywhere-near-finals-week time.

And I know Numbers wants his article's page fleshed out.

Based on this input, I'm thinking Alien and Dive should be our next two priorities. Dive will be trickier to update because there's 13ish threads to cover, and we'll have to design it in a way that doesn't make new updates too hard; it's one of the more frequently-updating quests.

Thank you for adding the Romanticar links. <3

In that case, I will direct tomorrow's energy towards improving the Deep article instead.

So yeah. Thank you guys. <3

>>1619
Assuming the link to a "Journey Quest Wiki" currently on our JQ page is accurate, the JQ wiki kind of consists of one page with three sentences and a picture on it at the moment.

Just sayin'.

My sincere thanks to whoever updated the wiki for Romanticar and Mudy.

Please clarify for me, but I thought one main point for the wiki is easy access to archived threads? Or a brief description of the quest for readers to be interested?

>>1639
Both of these, more or less. Archive Links are particularly important, they save a lot of time for people who want to read or reference past threads.

Hey, Mind if I add in Castaway Quest?

>>1662
By all means, please do. There's a few new quests that don't have wiki articles yet, creating pages for them is very helpful. :)

>>1664
alright Just a quick question how do I create a new page? I've never done that before I have edited plenty of articles just never had to create an entire page.

>>1665
Never mind I now have a page going! I'm not sure how well built it is though...>>''

I changed the Feature Article this week since Deep has had 3 weeks of it running. Adept, whenever you get around to IRC again, we ought to devise up an ordered list of articles so we can truly make the "Weekly" features Weekly.

How about randomizing the article so any one could appear? It requires less maintenance.

>>1719
The point of the Weekly Features (for the moment) is "this article should be better," as opposed to Wikipedia-style "this article is great."

In other news, I threw up a whole bunch of stub articles to cover hopefully all or at least most of the quests that have started or updated lately that didn't already have articles. They are quite minimal but do have archive links; feel free to make them longer if you find the time and drive.

And I still say Journey should be the next feature after Dive. I probably said it before, but it only has its own wiki in the most nominal sense (i.e. there is exactly one page with three sentences on it, plus an image).

And some more stubs~

Honestly I really probably ought to make these longer and more descriptive, but I'm having trouble finding focus right now. :/

Anonymous 2009/12/12(Sat)21:24 No. 1903 ID: ac8bac
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So during my archive lurking for various link dumps i also made a list of every archived quest without an article on the wiki...

Are there any prerequisites (length, quality etc.) before a quest gets an article, or is the plan to record every quest?

>>1903
Ideally, every quest should have a stub.

>>1903
Why is Rurouni on that list? It has an article.

http://www2.tgchan.org/wiki/Rurouni

The one-shot quests are kept in a separate category from the other quests:

http://www2.tgchan.org/wiki/Category:One-Shot_Quests

Otherwise, quest article stubs would be awesome.

Anything that's one-shot or graveyarded doesn't need to be marked as a stub; just categorize it as ((Dead Quest)) or ((One-Shot Quest)) appropriately.

Thanks, man. :>

>>1903
>>1912
>>1914

Ok I *think* thats it

Every archived quest *should* now have a stub somewhere in the wiki with the following four exceptions:

These 3 because they need title confirmation

Guy with shades
http://tgchan.org/kusaba/questarch/res/62332.html

Sliouette girl with hatch
http://tgchan.org/kusaba/questarch/res/65742.html

Somekind of blob
http://tgchan.org/kusaba/questarch/res/67974.html


and...

Displacement
http://tgchan.org/kusaba/questarch/res/71690.html

...because I know it relates to one of Trips other quests but i don't know which

I'll try and do the same for the graveyard at some point...

(Apologies if ive fucked up anything, my wiki-fu is very bad)

The Alien Quest Wiki page has been untouched for a long time. I think it's time to move on to a different quest.

I suggest:
http://www2.tgchan.org/wiki/Hat_Quest

Actually, I was thinking... since JourneyQuest ended recently, it might make a good target article.

Yeah, I think that Journey Quest deserves to be the article of the week.

AlienQuest entry is solid gold right now. Except for adding images it looks pretty nice.

I vote for Journey to be the next upgraded entry.

Can I just confirm that I need an acount to upload images to the wiki?

>>2114

Yeah you do

Is sul's ass really what we want hesitant new readers to see first? It's been on the front page for quite some time.

>>2125
It's a test of endurance - if they can read past Sul's ass, they're worthy of reading all the murrier, purrier adventures that circulate our beloved quest board.

>>2125
Yes.

I'm trying to update the featured article and will attempt to remember it every week, but I can't upload any files. Anything I try ends in an error:

Internal error
Could not rename file "/tmp/phpOIByWF" to "public/3/3d/MyFile.png".

The objects in quotes change every time I try to upload, so I've no idea what the problem is. Other attempts yielded the following.

Could not rename file "/tmp/phplrpRBN" to "public/e/eb/AnotherTry.jpg"

Could not rename file "/tmp/phpvnfJtG" to "public/1/1c/Filename.jpg".

Help?

>>2129
you're doing it wrong probably...
are you just uploading the object, and attempting to put it in under another name?

Speaking of, what should be the featured after Journey Quest? We really should make a proper listing of what needs improvement.

>>2135
It was the same image every time, but I changed it to png after jpg failed twice. Once that failed, I stopped.

>>2222
There should be a list of what was already a featured article.

As far as I remember (no particular order):

- Deep
- The End
- Alien Quest
- Bite Quest (?)
- Journey
- Dive Quest

But, if I may add, Journey Quest page is still a bit... empty? It's definitly worth to work on it a bit more.

Also, suggesting Kara Quest.

>>2223

Hmm, I don't think Bitequest has been featured yet.

And going to quote Typo here coz I'm lazy

>The point of the Weekly Features (for the moment) is "this article should be better," as opposed to Wikipedia-style "this article is great."

And there are a lot of quests that need more work on their articles than Kara Quest, which only needs a proper gallery.

I added a chapter summary to Knight Blades. I hope it is satisfactory.

Thanks to Dylan, all thread links to /quest/ (e.g. http://tgchan.org/kusaba/quest/res/42587.html) will now automatically redirect to either /questarch/ or /graveyard/ if necessary. While I'm sure this will be useful for when threads get moved, I'm not sure if we should try and keep links consistent to the actual location, or have them be to /quest/ across the board.

okay, since im bored as shit and i really have nothing else to do, ill do work on the wiki for whatever people ask me to do. Anyways, im usually on IRC (both #rubyquest and #tgchan) so if you need something done, just hit me up.

Threw up another pile of stubs.

Wish I wasn't the only one doing this.

HEY LEV GUY IF YOU READ THIS

Seriously, nice work on all of that stuff that you did. 'spretty cool and whatnot.

Lev 2010/02/08(Mon)04:26 No. 2919 ID: e921b3
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>>2916
YOU REALLY LIKE YOUR TEMPLATE DO YOU :D


Eh, not sure where else to ask this:
The categories are a bit obscure to me. Could somebody give more info on what belongs where?

Four things I want to ask specifically:

1. The inital purpose of the rule to not add One-Shots to the [Category:Quests] seems to be that One-Shots would cluster up the [Category:Quests]. But atm there are 200+ entries in [Category:Quests] and ~20 in [Category:One-Shot Quests]. Would it really be that bad to add One-Shots to [Category:Quests] ?

2. Does a One-Shot Quest with images belong into [Category:Image Quests] ?

3. Are One-Shots unique enough to warrant their category?

4. Does an Image Quest also belong to [Category:Quest] or only to [Category:Image Quest} ?

(pic semi-related)

The thing is, some few quests seem to be incorrectly categorised, but before anybody tries to correct stuff, it would nice to know more about the system.

>>2919
From my understanding, the reason One-Shots have their own category is so readers who want to read something shorter and quicker have those options.

I don't think they need to be separate from the comprehensive list of quests, however.

>>3051
This was the original reasoning, yes. However, you're right - one-shots wouldn't really cluster up the main quest list as much as I thought, since there's so many damn quests to begin with. I'd be cool with adding them to the main Quests category.

Lev, you are a goddamn champion. I would like to say that you have edited the fuck out of the wiki. I only wish you would update more ;_;

>>3250
I'm mostly adding stubs and doing framework. What the articles really need would be some fleshing out.

Incidentally, let me mention that the new featured article is MUDYQUEST (yes, that one. Get writin' stuff!).

>>3262
Did you take over the wiki in a coup when nobody was looking or something?

Lev 2010/02/25(Thu)14:14 No. 3279 ID: fc8259
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>>3276
Un coup? Moi!? Mais non!

Well, the wiki is a collaborative effort and I can't help but think that the image that is created here tends to be somewhat onesided...

So, back to topic n' stuff.

>>3262
GOSH you're such a slave driver! D:<

Just kidding. I'm peckin' away at it.

Alright so hey guys.

I dunno where Lev or Adept are at but with neither of them especially active on the wiki as of late it could sure use some help.

I've been trying to make a habit of throwing up barebones articles that have a (laughable) description of the quest plus some relevant threadlinks; I might try fleshing out some of these later, but the point is this thing really needs more than a couple of people working on it to really be a good resource. :O

So, uh, I guess what I'm saying is, let's get some wiki done!

>>4083
http://tgchan.org/wiki/Typo/Minimum_Standard_Template

On a related note, this might prove useful ???

!TEEDashxDA 2010/05/09(Sun)22:36 No. 4099 ID: e973f4
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OKAY GUYS

SO I JUST WIKIFIED ALL OF /questarch/, /quest/... AND /graveyard/

COULD YOU GUYS DO SOME WORK NOW I'M BURNED OUT I THINK

>>4099
You are a god among disembodied voices.

>>4099

Holy crap.

>>4099
Truly awesome, man! Our wikifags don't get the love and attention they deserve.

HEY.

Can someone please change the Featured Article? The Nanquest article got plenty of lovin', and it looks great. So, switch it to something else.

>>5080
Pick something and I will make it happen!

How about Gobbo Quest? It's looking pretty stubby.

I request someone make a list of previously featured quests.

>>5095
- Deep
- The End
- Alien Quest
- Journey Quest
- Dive Quest
- Nan Quest
- Mudy Quest

As far as I remember and not in chronological order. Completeness of this list is not guaranteed.

>>5097
That sounds about right.

Don't forget to gather up all the fanart.

We need all the stray pieces.

I've started to add some more completed quests to the Completed /tg/ Quests section and a couple running quests to the running /tg/ quests section. I'll try to work on creating the dead /tg/ quest index and adding to it later, but that's going to be a huge section. Honestly the state of those sections is terrible it seems like no one here has been to /tg/ in ages. It still had Bad Guy Quest as active, that one stopped six months ago.

>>5185
More power to you. I considered doing this at one point but the threads seem to have been archived rather incoherently. :V

Disable anonymous editing. The spam has to go.

>>5641
spam?

>>5649
Some bots constantly try to add random garbage or links filled with internet-aids.

>>5641
I'm starting to think this is a good idea.

>>5641
I agree. I mean, IPs are recorded so there's no need for anonymity.

>>5661
I don't understand what you were trying to say. While I have no influence over the wiki, and thus my understanding is irrelevant, your post may well seem meaningless to others as well.

Alright, anonymous editing is now disabled.

Since it's not like it's difficult to get an account or anything.

HI MY NAME IS QUEST.LV/WIKI

AND I NEED LOVE ;_;