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image localization is done except for geyser's copious hosted images, which are left for him to deal with; removed one redundant item; updated/reworded PS2 section

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 :''If you're not familiar with wikis, see [[OniGalore:About]]. If you're not confident about editing a wiki, see [[Help:Editing]].''
-Here are some ongoing projects, and ideas for projects, on the wiki. Whatever in this list looks interesting to you, feel free to tackle it, even if you only have a little time here and there. However, if you are leaving a project half-done until you can resume it, please note that under the item in this list. Thanks for whatever you can do to contribute.
+Here are some ongoing projects, and ideas for projects, on the wiki. Whatever in this list looks interesting to you, feel free to tackle it, even if you only have a little time here and there. However, if you are leaving a project half-done until you can resume it, please note this under the item in the list. Thanks for whatever you can do to contribute.
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 ==General wiki work==
-*Look at the list of [[:Category:Flagged articles|flagged articles]] and see if there's anything you can help out with. There are a number of articles which need to be updated or finished.
+* Look at [[:Category:Flagged articles]] and see if there's anything you can help out with. There are a number of articles which need to be updated or finished, including ones about characters and settings in Oni.
-*Just browse [[Special:Wantedpages]], and pick an interesting topic to write about!
+* Just browse [[Special:Wantedpages]] and pick an interesting topic to write about! There are many interesting parts of Oni's world which do not have a dedicated article yet.
-*Images hosted on other domains should be localized (uploaded to this wiki, and the external links changed to point to our local copies) to protect against the external sites going down. As a secondary priority we should also copy over images that are currently hosted on other subdomains of oni2.net; though these are less likely to go away, there is no way for the subdomain owner to know whether their images are being linked to if they suddenly get the urge to do some spring cleaning on their account.
 ==PlayStation 2 port==
-The community has always tended to overlook the PlayStation 2 port of the game, for fairly obvious reasons – it doesn't play as well, and it's impractical to mod a disc-based console game. Nevertheless, we ought to have a page like [[PS2 Oni vs. PC Oni]], modeled on [[Windows Oni vs. Mac Oni]], which explains the differences in PS2 Oni from Win/Mac Oni. We should also devote at least a tiny amount of research to the contents of the game data. Might some unexpected resources be in there? First we need to know how to read the game data. Based on a cursory examination, resources were moved around and re-packed, but one would expect that the basic binary format of the tags has not changed. Thus, it would be nice to have a page like [[OBD:PS2]] that gives at least a high-level view of the binary data (e.g., how the .dat files are now packed).
+Let's expand on the [[PS2 vs PC|documentation of the PS2 version]], including how it differs from Win/Mac Oni. Besides gameplay or content differences, we might also want to check the game data for unexpected resources. First we'll probably need an [[OBD:PS2]] page for documenting the data format, since it has changed a bit from the PC version.
-==Cancelled sequel==
+==Angel Studios sequel==
 If you have some hacking skills, please look at [[Talk:Oni 2 (Angel Studios)]] and [[OBD:Oni2AS]] to see if you can answer any outstanding questions or contribute new information.
-==Technical documentation==
+==BSL tutorials==
-In general you should peruse the category for [[:Category:Articles_that_need_finishing|articles that need finishing]], though note the halted BSL project below.
+The revamp of the BSL docs that was originally laid out here is on hold because the system we were using is too rickety and hacked together. The proper approach to interlinked pages that read from the same central pool of data is the [[mw:Extension:Semantic MediaWiki|Semantic MediaWiki]] extension, so we'll focus on implementing that at some point in the future.
-===BSL tutorials===
-The revamp of the BSL docs that was originally laid out here is on hold because the system we were using is too rickety and hacked together. The proper approach to interlinked pages that read from the same central pool of data is the [[mw:Extension:Semantic_MediaWiki|Semantic MediaWiki]] extension, so we'll focus on implementing that at some point in the future.
 ==Oni 2 and beyond...==