UDWiki talk:Open Discussion/Project?

Working on a few gnome-y things over the past while (and noticing the stress most of us place on these things, especially in the number of times it's been mentioned on A/PM recently), I've come to a realisation - there's a lot less game info sitting on this wiki than you'd expect. There's a lot of events, groups, personal projects, etc - but things like history or mechanics are often overlooked. As such, I'm hoping to get a project organised (possibly with shiny templates), to boost one of these areas. Areas I'm thinking could do with work are:

• Location stubs
• Game history
  • Past events
  • Timeline?
• Skills and game mechanics
  • More number-crunching/specifics worked out?

Personally I'm leaning towards something based on the game history - to begin with, perhaps creating a Timeline of In-Game Events page that sorts these things in order and provides a nice index, from which to look at things like the Big Bashes, the Malton Murder Awards, Bashing Back: The Battle of Pitneybank, Silent Night Slaughter, etc etc; followed by a movement to clean up and expand these pages when and if necessary. Of course, there's plenty of other things that could be done, but essentially I'm looking to get half a dozen of us, or more if more are interested, all gnoming in the same direction so as to help flesh out the game-relevance of the wiki some more. Suggestions? Ideas? Volunteers? 20:40, 7 February 2011 (UTC)

I like the idea of a timeline, and resources like the zombie imbalance thing would be good. One thing I would say is that there should be separate timelines for both in-game and metagame events - it would be a bit odd to see Big Bash 3 and the Second Mayor of Malton election on the same timeline.--Yonnua Koponen ^{Talk ! Contribs} 20:42, 7 February 2011 (UTC)

Three timelines, maybe (Updates/In-Game/Meta-Game), with a central Timeline page to disambig the three? 20:45, 7 February 2011 (UTC)

I'd be on board, though I'm not the best source for historical stuff. I'd be willing to flesh out some of the Skills and Game Mechanics stuff. Make this place more of a wiki and less of one big fucking group advert/meta gaming hub. ~ 20:45, 7 February 2011 (UTC)

Don't we already have an updates one? Ask Ross, he's the one who updates it if it does exist.--Yonnua Koponen ^{Talk ! Contribs} 20:49, 7 February 2011 (UTC)

You mean the game updates? They're always posted in news. --Rosslessness^{Want a Location Image?} 21:15, 7 February 2011 (UTC)

News --Rosslessness^{Want a Location Image?} 21:16, 7 February 2011 (UTC)

Do you mean the impact of game updates on the game in a historical sense? ~ 21:53, 7 February 2011 (UTC)

Might be worth looking at. Things like ruins, interference, the headshot changes, etc, could all have paragraphs or more written about their impact. 21:54, 7 February 2011 (UTC)

This is the page I was thinking of.--Yonnua Koponen ^{Talk ! Contribs} 21:56, 7 February 2011 (UTC)

Random Stuff

Zombie skills. Both me and Mis have started attempts at it. Thats a big area. Also, do we have a page on all the stuff binoculars do? Might be worth adding. --Rosslessness^{Want a Location Image?} 21:22, 7 February 2011 (UTC)

Strategy

Any look at mechanics and their strategical implications should probably tie heavily into Guides and Tactics. In particular, I've been eyeing AP efficiency for a while. APs are the key resource in UD that needs to be wisely spent, yet there isn't a single good resource on that, just scattered views on isolated topics as headshotting zombies outside or resetting ghost towns. Aichon had once started something, but now that he has withdrawn from the wiki withdraws from the wiki is less around, it should probably be picked up by someone else. I could definitively work on a good portion of that (especially on the death-cultist AP efficiency angle, on which I already spent a lot of thought in my guide), but would welcome help on such a broad topic. -- Spiderzed▋ 22:05, 7 February 2011 (UTC)

Mechanics Article Expansion

I think a good way to go about this is to assemble a list of pages (categorize maybe) that need to be expanded. I'm looking at Action Points, Searching, Repair...articles which could clearly use some expansion. Category:Glossary might be a good place to start. ~ 22:27, 7 February 2011 (UTC)

I'm starting to see how this might all come together. I just made a somewhat hefty expansion to Action Points, making sure to include points about the history and tactics involved. I see this project tapping the historians, the tacticians and the gnomes to improve on and create new articles that tie together game history, tactics and the mechanics that drive them. I can see where a historical overview of game updates would be useful since finding the history in News was a little difficult. And we're lacking in guides that really deal specifically with Action Points (I found exactly one guide). I'm sure this is true with a lot of game mechanics. Is this along the same idea you had Mis? ~ 07:43, 8 February 2011 (UTC)

I had a similar idea years ago...

...as a n00b, to research and create a resource of the game's history (NPOV and all.) Basically make it an "Urban Dead Wikipedia."

That said, I never really had the drive, or the knowledge to actually do this. If you go ahead with something like a "UD History section" or a "UD History timeline," I'll lend a hand, as it's an area where the Wiki could really use some more content. Linkthewindow  Talk  12:33, 8 February 2011 (UTC)