OniGalore:Current events

WIKI WORK IS FUN!
...OR IS IT?

These are only suggestions, although some are more obviously needed than others.

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.

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General wiki maintenance

1. Just browse Special:Wantedpages, and pick an interesting topic to write about!
2. 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.
3. If an image is neither used to illustrate a page 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.
4. Categorize 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 (Iritscen).
5. Set up handy redirects. These can be great time savers.

Coverage of Oni content

1. 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 HERE and point out discrepancies HERE.
2. Some characters pages are stubs and/or feature inaccurate/incomplete information: Kerr, Hasegawa, Griffin... Try to objectively present the content actually present ingame. You can speculate and elaborate in the Added value section (typically the second half of a page). See Muro for an example.
3. Some chapter pages may have incorrect/incomplete plot summaries: they're also supposed to be concise, linking to other pages whenever the summary or the Added value section starts growing out of shape.
4. 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.
5. 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 THESE TWO pages.

and beyond...

1. Use Lost Chapters to elaborate on what may have happened to Konoko in the time gaps between the original chapters (e.g., between CHAPTER 12 . SINS OF THE FATHER and CHAPTER 13 . PHOENIX RISING). You can also elaborate on sequels/prequels/interquels/paraquels, which may fit under a general philosophy (to be detailed 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.
2. 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.

Adding to the databases

1. 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 functions or operators). Long-term goals are: a cross-referenced set of mini-tutorials that document the preset functions and variables in a standalone way (see, e.g., ai2_allpassive); maybe a functional breakdown of the original scripts (see, e.g., HERE)
2. There's still progress to be made in the field of 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.
3. Aside from doing actual research on Oni's binaries, you can also make sure that each 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.