Aether Mod Wiki:Wiki.gg Move
The Aether Wiki is now on wiki.gg, and our goal is to use this move to finally cleanup this wiki to get it to have up-to-date information instead of information from varying years of development.
Important Pages
- Special:AllPages: A list of all pages on the wiki, with different namespaces.
- Special:Statistics: Statistics of the wiki.
- MediaWiki Namespace: All MediaWiki pages.
- Special:RecentChanges: Log of recent changes.
- Special:Log/delete: Log of recent deletions.
- Commons Wiki: The wiki.gg Commons wiki; may contain useful information.
- Template:License GG
- Special:SpecialPages: All special pages.
TODO
- Styling Finalization on Mobile and PC
- Front Page Layout
- Templates
- Community Portal w/ Editors & Important Links & Guidelines
- Admin Noticeboard
- Example Reference Pages
- Todo Page for Community Contributors
- Basic Content Directory Pages
- Misc Remaining Cleanup
Cleanup
The plan is to make it so this wiki is only relevant to Aether I for the current time, in preparation for Aether I's port release, as well as lore on the side. Any other Aether II-relevant information will return at a later date and shouldn't exist on the wiki at the moment.
All information on the wiki before the cleanup is contained in a backup file and also still exists on https://aether.fandom.com/ (deprecating that wiki has not begun yet).
The order plans to be:
- Page deletion (basically complete)
- Fixing the wiki's CSS style and figuring out how to setup the new layout for the main page.
- Fixing up the wiki's templates, rulesets, all that meta stuff in preparation for page creation.
- Determining how we want to format new pages before starting to create them again for Aether I content.
1. Page Deletion
- Many outdated assets and files like those from Aether II should probably be deleted if possible.
2. Formatting/Styling/Layout
- The name of the wiki needs updating if possible (hopefully this wouldn't be a hassle for the wiki.gg staff). However a new name is undecided; it may make more sense for it to be the Official Aether Project Wiki, or just the Official Aether Wiki, since this wiki will be hosting more than what is just in the mods, and it'll be for multiple mods so the singular "Aether Mod Wiki" title isn't the most accurate. It is technically possible to do through editing something like MediaWiki:Pagetitle and MediaWiki:Pagetitle-view-mainpage but it seems to be partially tied to {{SITENAME}} as well.
- Amboxes are broken https://aether.wiki.gg/wiki/Template:Ambox
| Users | Proposals |
|---|---|
| User:Bconlon | One idea for the main page specifically could involve dividing the page by having a top row which is for the wiki title and meta-information like contributing guides and special pages, social media, other links, etc.
Then below it are two page columns: The Aether, and The Aether II. Each would be split into sections for their content, downloads, etc. Then there can be a bottom row for any additional info that may be worth linking that's unrelated to a specific project but still deserves to be on the front page like the lore. Things the front page needs in general: Header, Description of Project, Social Media/Feed, Content Columns, Section for Misc Content, Contributing Info, Important Videos, Downloads, Some way to put announcement headers at top. |
| User:OscarPayn |
https://i.imgur.com/A019jFa.png (wiki style) https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/1079649952441044992/1080829747061330010/QcmIyDp.png (wiki main page layout) |
3. Page Review/Cleanup/Updating
- There's a lot of pages regarding the wiki itself like rules and contributing and stuff that need review and updating.
- Filename standards guide
- Categories need cleanup and verifying whether all the remaining ones are useful or not; some may still need deleting.
- The wiki needs a lot of new renders and assets due to Aether I's retexture.
- Eventually the plan is to format our separation of mod-based content by either having pages prefixed with "The Aether/" or "The Aether II/". Lore pages will likely have something similar done to them, and should probably also be marked as protected. Something like this can be seen in action on the Terraria Mods Wiki: (Accessories Search), (Clicker Class/Accessories). This apparently depends on some custom template implementation though: https://terrariamods.wiki.gg/wiki/Template:Mod_sub-page.
- Need to allow for sprites to exist for different mods with the same names.
- Need a Book of Lore quote template; needs a style outline made.
- Getting Started for mod gameplay.
- Community stuff ideas: https://terraria.wiki.gg/wiki/Terraria_Wiki, https://noita.wiki.gg/wiki/Noita_Wiki, https://aether.fandom.com/wiki/Aether_Wiki
- Disambig pages for items to link to Aether I or Aether II pages; if an item doesn't have different variants then they'd just have redirects instead.
- Global announcements support like as seen at the top of this page https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/973672209606393876/1087395487507812392/image.png
- Get rid of Gilded Games references, switch to The Aether Team
