Brighter Shores:Maintenance/Ongoing tasks
This page is a list of tasks that need performing regularly.
Maintenance categories[edit source]
Files or articles in the following categories are in need of improvement for various reasons: you can help by editing them to fix any issues which have been identified. You can add pages and images to these categories by editing them and adding the relevant maintenance templates.
- Pages which need expanding
- Articles under construction (Size: 1)
- Incomplete articles (Size: 121) - see Brighter_Shores:Maintenance/Incomplete articles for a detailed list about pages in this category
- Incomplete references (Size: 1)
- Stubs (Size: 1,004)
- Pages which need improvement
- Articles in need of cleanup (Size: 0) - see Brighter_Shores:Maintenance/Articles in need of clean up for a detailed list about pages in this category
- Obsolete (Size: 0) - see Brighter_Shores:Maintenance/Obsolete articles for a detailed list about pages in this category
- Pages containing obsolete templates (Size: 0)
- Pages with unsourced statements (Size: 1)
- Possibly biased articles (Size: 0)
- References that need verification (Size: 7)
- Pages with eq infotables using values that differ from SMW (Size: 0)
- Pages with eq infotables having incorrect totals (Size: 0)
- Files which need cleanup
See Help:Editing/Introduction to GIMP and Help:Editing/Image transparency
- Images in need of cleanup (Size: 0)
- Images needing translucency (Size: 0)
- Images needing transparency (Size: 34)
- Files which need retaking
See here for a guide on taking images
- Animations needing to be retaken (Size: 0)
- Audio files needing to be retaken (Size: 0)
- Images needing to be retaken (Size: 50)
- Needs image (Size: 693)
- Pages missing information
- Missing destroy text (Size: 0)
- Missing immunity information (Size: 0)
- Missing Invention data
- Needs dialogue (Size: 0)
- Needs drop quantity added (Size: 0)
- Needs drop rarity added (Size: 0)
- Needs examine added (Size: 0)
- Needs options added (Size: 0)
- Needs weight added (Size: 0)
- Needs ID (Size: 0)
- Needs members status (Size: 0)
- Needs monster stats added (Size: 0)
- Needs release date (Size: 6)
- Needs update added (Size: 0)
- Pages with errors
- Erroneous parameter (Size: 0)
- Pages with broken file links (Size: 766)
- Pages with script errors (Size: 2)
- Parser function errors (Size: 0)
- Pages with a duplicate subobject name (Size: 0)
- Money making guides with a failed GE lookup (Size: 0)
- Pages with template loops (Size: 0)
- Pages using duplicate arguments in template calls (Size: 0)
- Pages with non-numeric formatnum arguments (Size: 0)
- Processing error list (SMW) (Size: 0)
- Citations which need archival
- Unarchived forum references (Size: 0)
- Unarchived Twitter references (Size: 71)
- Unarchived web references (Size: 0)
- Unarchived Reddit references (Size: 0)
- Special
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Reacting to game updates[edit source]
Brighter Shores is a game that is constantly updated: perhaps the most essential thing to be done on the wiki is documenting each update that occurs. Following game updates the most important thing to do is to write up any information that is found out about new content on relevant pages on the wiki.
- Be bold and add any information that you can! You do not need to be an experienced editor to help with this; this kind of editing can be done easily in the default editor, which you can find a guide on how to use here. Special:Newpages may be helpful for finding pages relating to the latest released game updates.
- If there is not an existing page for the content you want to write about then you may need to create a new page.
- As pages are developed their contents should be formatted using templates.
- Take images and add them to pages.
- Patch Notes can affect game content and the wiki needs updating to reflect this.
Documenting future updates[edit source]
Information about planned future updates that are in development can be documented on the wiki. This information is both interesting to Brighter_Shores players and helpful in preparing the wiki for the release of new updates.
- Any facts about future content which are revealed through Jagex sources should be added to the wiki; however any speculation about future updates is not allowed (see our future content policy for more information).
- When writing about future content you should use the future tense and use references to show the source of any information you add. A guide on referencing can be found here.
- The main place where future content information is collected is the upcoming updates page. This page is used to list all future updates with their planned release dates, if these are known.
- If a significant amount of information about a piece of future content is known and its name is confirmed then you may create a new page for it. Pages written about future content should have the template
{{future content}}
placed at the top of them.
Transcription[edit source]
Transcripts are pages dedicated to providing an exact copy of in-game texts or dialogues with NPCs. Transcripts are then linked to on pages which they are created for, You can find out how to add to or create transcripts by looking at this guide as well as the style guidelines for transcripts.
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Searching the wiki can be unreliable. You can help users find the pages they are looking for by creating redirects. You may also edit and create navboxes.
Update money making guides[edit source]
To maintain the quality of the money making guide we need to gather information about new money making methods and create guides on them. Gather data about a potential method and submit it to the money making guide's Talk:Money making guide or use it to create a new money making guide. Use the style guide to help with writing new guides.