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Latest revision as of 20:08, 13 July 2023

WIKI WORK IS FUN!

ENOUGH FOR A JOKE OR TWO THEN IT GETS BORING

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 this under the item in the list. Thanks for whatever you can do to contribute.

General wiki work

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! There are many interesting parts of Oni's world which do not have a dedicated article yet.

PlayStation 2 port

Let's expand on the 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.

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.

BSL documentation

The revamp of the BSL docs that was originally laid out in this section 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 Semantic MediaWiki extension, so we'll focus on implementing that at some point in the future.

Oni 2 and beyond...

Some fans use the wiki to write sequels, prequels, interquels (what may have happened to Konoko in the time gaps between the original chapters, e.g., between Chapter 12 and Chapter 13) or even paraquels (e.g., what was happening on the Syndicate side during Oni?). You can then list your work HERE. Just be aware of the rights issues surrounding fan fiction posted on the Internet. Also, plagiarism is not nice, but "Oni 2" can still be influenced by anime/cyberpunk/other references. See HERE to review the influences so far, elaborate on them some more, or point out new ones.

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+{{Hatnote|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 this under the item in the list. Thanks for whatever you can do to contribute.
-These are only suggestions, although some are more obviously needed than others.
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-Whatever in this list looks interesting to you, feel free to tackle it, even if you only have a little time here and there.
+==General wiki work==
-:However, if you are leaving a project half-done until you can resume it, please note that under the item in this list.
+* 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! There are many interesting parts of Oni's world which do not have a dedicated article yet.
-Thanks for whatever you can do to contribute.
+==PlayStation 2 port==
-:If you've not confident about editing a wiki, check out our [[Help:Contents|Help]] page, and [http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Help:Wikitext meta.wikimedia.org] for further reference.
+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.
-===General wiki maintenance===
+==Angel Studios sequel==
-# Just browse [[Special:Wantedpages]], and pick an interesting topic to write about!
+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.
-# [[wikipedia:Royal_we|We]] are in the process of replacing the system of subpages under Images with categories. So, for instance, the [[Images/In-Game/Talking Heads]] should all be in the category [[:Category:Talking heads]]. Then we can delete the Talking Heads subpage. Image categories will be listed on [[Images]] for convenience.
-# If an image is neither used to illustrate a page [[Special:Uncategorizedimages|nor categorized]] (not used as an article of its own right, which can be justified in some cases), then maybe it's not getting the attention it deserves, or maybe it's useless/redundant. Feel free to do something about such "out-of-the loop" images or just point them out.
-# Categorize [[Special:Categories|categories]]. We don't want to go nuts here, of course. Wikipedia has a crazy-complex tree of categories. We don't want that. All we want are a second level of categories that separate the base level of categories. So, when we look at the main Categories page, we don't see categories like "Art by Guido" next to "Tables". Unless you have a good grasp of what each template does, you can just leave this to me ([[User:Iritscen|Iritscen]]).
-# Set up handy [[wikipedia:Redirect|redirects]]. These can be great time savers.
-===Coverage of Oni content===
+==BSL documentation==
-# The canonical version of Oni is English, so if your language version mistranslated something important, we'd like to know about it. Check out the canonical quotes [[Quotes|HERE]] and point out discrepancies [[Talk:Quotes#Discrepancies|HERE]].
+The revamp of the BSL docs that was originally laid out in this section 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.
-# Some characters pages are stubs and/or feature inaccurate/incomplete information: [[Kerr]], [[Hasegawa]], [[Griffin]]... Try to objectively present the content actually present ingame. Most of these characters appear in the [[Character]] category. You can speculate and elaborate in the [[:Category:Added value|Added value]] section (typically the second half of a page). See [[Muro]] for an example.
-# Some [[Chapters|chapter]] pages may have incorrect/incomplete plot summaries: they're also supposed to be concise, linking to other pages whenever the summary or the [[:Category:Added value|Added value]] section starts growing out of shape.
-# Places (like [[Regional State Building]]) and entities (like [[BGI]]) typically deserve a page of their own, meant to take some load off the Chapter summaries, both in terms of "facts" and "added value", while providing more or less technical trivia.
-# It would be nice to have a frame-by-frame overview/analysis of the following: [[1998#Trailer]], [[1999#Trailer]], [[Intro AMV]], [[Outro AMV]]. Please name the representative screenshots of [[Intro AMV]] and [[Outro AMV]] in accordance with [[CHAPTER_00_._COMBAT_TRAINING|THESE]] [[CHAPTER_14_._DAWN_OF_THE_CHRYSALIS|TWO]] pages.
-====and beyond...====
-# Use [[Lost Chapters]] to elaborate on what may have happened to Konoko in the time gaps between the original chapters (e.g., between {{C|12}} and {{C|13}}). You can also elaborate on sequels/prequels/interquels/paraquels, which may fit under a general philosophy (to be detailed [[Oni2|HERE]]). Depending on the nature of your stuff, it may end up as more than fan fiction, either by being implemented in the [[Anniversary Edition]] or by inspiring dôjinshi-oriented artwork.
-# Plagiarism is not nice, but "Oni 2" can still be influenced by anime/cyberpunk/other references. See [[Oni2:Influences|HERE]] to review the influences so far, elaborate on them some more, or point out new ones.
-===Adding to the databases===
+==Oni 2 and beyond...==
-# Despite its relative simplicity, [[BSL]] is vastly underdocumented. Most of the stuff is well-known to experts, but designing a comprehensive guide that will get novice scripters started and keep them going requires didactic skills and ''lots'' of patience. There are a few programming language basics that someone ought to say a few words of wisdom (like [[BSL:Functions|functions]] or [[BSL:Operators|operators]]). Long-term goals are: a cross-referenced set of mini-tutorials that document the [[BSL:Preset|preset]] functions and variables in a standalone way (see, e.g., [[ai2_allpassive]]); maybe a functional breakdown of the original scripts (see, e.g., [[BSL:Tutorial/airport1_level_logic.bsl|HERE]])
+Some fans use the wiki to write sequels, prequels, interquels (what may have happened to Konoko in the time gaps between the original chapters, e.g., between Chapter 12 and Chapter 13) or even paraquels (e.g., what was happening on the Syndicate side during Oni?). You can then list your work [[Oni2|HERE]]. Just be aware of the [[OniGalore:Copyrights|rights issues]] surrounding fan fiction posted on the Internet. Also, plagiarism is not nice, but "Oni 2" can still be influenced by anime/cyberpunk/other references. See [[:Category:Oni 2 influences|HERE]] to review the influences so far, elaborate on them some more, or point out new ones.
-# There's still progress to be made in the field of [[OBD|binary hacking]]. Note the "OK?" column on [[OBD:File_types]]. Any page not marked with a happy face still has data stored within that file type that is not understood.
-# Aside from doing actual research on Oni's binaries, you can also make sure that each [[OBD:File_types|file type's page]] in the [[OBD]] namespace actually explains what that file type is for, to help out newbies. An overview at the top of each page will make things much more user-friendly.
+[[Category:Policies and documentation]]