What Needs Doing

== So what DOES need doing? ==
At this stage, pretty much everything, but please see the list of main tasks below. This is a new wiki and we're still working on some simple templates which will allow us to maintain a consistent feel throughout.
Possibly the most complex part of any game, from the players point of view anyway, is the quest system so that's where we're concentrating our efforts at present.
Please do use the templates when provided. Simply copy the text from the appropriate template, paste it into the new article you're working on and edit the fields. If you're working on an existing page, please take a look at other similar pages to ensure a consistent layout, etc.
== 2022 'Archive' Project Main Tasks == 
There is a lot to do to make this wiki a good archive and documentation of the game, if anyone played and can help contribute to this huge project we would be incredibly appreciative! Check the list below and current main tasks for areas help is needed!
===General===
Task 	Description 	
Otherland MMO Wikia 	Update landing page to reflect the games current status - Completed by Gwylen (talk) 17:55, 17 May 2022 (UTC) Updated again 25.05.2022 to add navigation to most areas of the game/link boxes/a bit more polish Gwylen 	
Template:Quest_Navbar 	Create a new template for easy navigation of quests - Gwylen (talk) 14:40, May 16, 2022 (UTC) 	
Dropdowns and Navigation 	Make the games features and information easier to find through dropdowns/Add a community section for fan archives/lets plays - Completed by Gwylen (talk) 17:55, 17 May 2022 (UTC) 	
Otherland MMO Wikia 	Update the news article sidebar for a more complete history (as long as it doesn't exceed current page length) - Completed by Gwylen (talk) 03:30, 25 May 2022 (UTC) 	
Template:Infobox_oth-quest 	Update to allow video and extra images so pages are cleaner - Remove 'rewards' section as it's part of the regular page template already Completed by Gwylen (talk) 17:55, 17 May 2022 (UTC) 	
Quests / Main Storyline / Tutorial / Collector's Edition Quests 	Split Quest Pages into individual sections based on tutorial/main story etc and add questnav table so it's easy to navigate Completed by Gwylen (talk) 06:12, 21 May 2022 (UTC) 	
Update Quest Pages with a video, quest nav and remove the rewards from the info box (Possibly make a bot using AWB for this?) 	User:Gwylen working on 	
Crafting Guide/Travelling Vendors 	Bring my crafting guide and hidden vendor guides over from steam and add them to the 'Community Content' dropdown Just added external links to all the Otherland steam guides but Crafting will still be needed, just a more wiki written one with less smileys in it haha Gwylen (talk) 03:30, 25 May 2022 (UTC) 	
Special:SpecialPages 	Clean up Special:UncategorizedFiles, Special:UncategorizedPages, Special:WantedCategories etc Done by Gwylen Uncategorized Files 968 > 0, Uncategorized Pages 300+ > 3, Wanted Categories 130 > 0. Got a Category Tree for Otherland sorted too, but please let me know if you think anything should be moved or renamed and my bot can sort it! Gwylen (talk) 02:00, 28 May 2022 (UTC) 	
Basic templates that fit the wiki :Category:OL_Templates 	Sort some basic useful templates out (SIC, Stub, Quote, Fairuse, and Permission Completed by Gwylen (talk) 02:00, 28 May 2022 (UTC) Need to write a short documentation for a couple of the OL ones and SIC. :Category:OL_Templates completed by Gwylen (talk) 00:13, 29 May 2022 (UTC) 	
Image Licensing 	Add licensing templates to all Otherland images using the Permission and Fairuse templates Completed by Gwylen (talk) 02:00, 28 May 2022 (UTC) via User:Gwyl-b0t 	
Historical Tutorial Quests 	bring them up to the current format, add them to Historical Quests and add in any Special:UnusedFiles that belong to them Completed by Gwylen (talk) 18:50, 30 May 2022 (UTC) 	
Missing Bug World quests 	Got all info, just need to get it on the wiki 
User:Gwylen working on 	
Collector's Edition Quests 	Gonna take a long time, but I've got all the info and can chip away at it slowly!
User:Gwylen working on 	
Unifying Help Articles 	Possibly merge some of the wiki help articles so there's one easy guide to point people who run across this and want to help out at? Currently we have Wiki Guidelines, About the Wiki, Templates, How to Help and Page Standards which could probably be unified into one or two pages (about the wiki/how to help/wiki guidelines and then Page Standards/Templates maybe?) 	
Area Navbox/Area Infobox templates/Page templates 	
Something to clean up area pages, come up with a layout for information/quests/images/videos 	
Zone Descriptions/Zone Pages 	
Almost all missing! This needs a lot of work, could do with screenshots, and more info on the ones we do have 	
Missing Dungeon/Club/User Interface Pages 	
Also needs a lot of work 	
:Category:Trailers_%26_Promotional_Videos 	See if we can get in touch with Drago about possibly having the privatized videos that User:Akio Drago and others uploaded that are no longer accessible due to the visibility change, so we can host them elsewhere for archival
Possibly ask on the Drago discord?/contact Redex? 	
Allies/Adversaries/Factions/Organizations on the front page 	
All could do with better descriptions/lore/screenshots/etc (probably better to start these once infoboxes for them are sorted) 	
More detailed image categorization 	
Right now I've only added :Category:Otherland_Image and :Category:User_Images when sorting out the licensing, but if someone has some free time and wants a super tedious job that is hard to do with a bot, it'd be amazing to have a subcategories for Otherland Images with Category:Screenshots > Category:NPC Screenshots + Category:Location Screenshots + Category:Interface Screenshots + Category:Item Screenshots and then Category:Official Images > Category:Promotional Images + Category:Interface Icons (for the skill icons Lucjan gave the wiki) + Category:Concept Art 
Categories made and User:Vernillet and User:Gwylen working on	
Add more images! 	
The game has lots of concept art and promotional images out there and once the basic wiki tasks of templates/organization are sorted, it'd be nice to do a roll call on the Steam Community/Discord/Twitter to see if we can get people to upload some of theirs for memories/archival! Maybe a gallery at the bottom of each location page or something? 	
News & Updates, Updates, Otherland News, Patch Notes, :Category:Update Should probably be looked at 	
Maybe bring all patch notes onto the wiki just incase steam is removed one day? and flesh these pages out so they are more complete 	
Otherland Articles as an extension of Template:Media_News ridiculously huge task, but a fun one imo! Gather up articles from Video Game press sites from 2008 until now, sorted by year! Can probably learn more about the game that could help the wiki during this and it'll help people find archival links to search if sites go down eventually/let them learn more about the game!	
User:Gwylen is nosy and working on this and it's been super interesting, but welcomes the help 😄 	
The Deathless Prince and the Peach Maiden 	was a snippet of a new Otherland novella that players could get access to by creating a social character or running through the quest The lost code on a normal character. I never got screenshots :C But the full book is releasing this year! In October a good few years after the snippet was in game. It's inspired by the 5-isles which were in the game first as far as I know? It would be cool to get this page updated, maybe put it on the front page for a bit nearing the release, as I'm sure it'd be cool for MMO fans who also enjoyed the books to see places like the 5isles in the new book	
The Otherland Facebook Page has some awesome snippets of lore, work in progress screenshots and a bunch of other really good stuff that it'd be nice to integrate somewhere, either as references or something else! 	
For example boggarts, 'The Crew', 'Metal Isle', the classes and others have great write ups that could be used to inform those pages on the wiki 	
Christmas Seasonal Quests 	Found through youtube, a couple have small stub areas but mostly complete Gwylen (talk) 18:50, 30 May 2022 (UTC) 	
The Making of Otherland 	Would love to get a page made up for these eventually, possibly on the front page too? 	
:Category:Vendor + Shops + Vanity Shop (the cash shop) 	Missing SO much info, this would be really useful if people had screenshots of any items shops offered/shop names etc! I've got 'That's Lucked Up!' 's inventory only atm 	
Quests 	needs changing now that Main Storyline is sorted, to instead show the types of quests available in Otherland, linking to Tutorial/Main Storyline/Collector's Edition/Hidden Quests/Daily Quests/World Quests/Seasonal Quests/Historical Quests with short descriptions of each 
User:Gwylen working on 	
Memories of Otherland? 	I'd love to get a page for memories of Otherland going, So people can post screenshots of fond memories they have in a gallery or something and they can silly, involving other people (like the clan meets we used to have) etc without needing to conform to the 'clean' wiki style screens you usually see. Could make it a gallery or something like that and put it in the community section? Let me know what people think! 	
We are in the process of making the Quest pages a lot nicer, easier to navigate, and most importantly, factually correct. Here are the tasks that we need to complete for this goal:
===Quests===
Task 	Description
Change next/previous links 	The current links are inconsistent when it comes to forking quests. The plan is to change them according to the following rules:
*Just clicking on "next" should allow you to traverse every single quest.
*"Previous" should point to the quest, who's "next" is the current quest.
*On quests that fork into multiple sub-quests, "next" should point to the beginning of the "first" sub-quest.
*At the end of a sub-quest chain, "next" should point the start of the next sub-quest.
*On quests that fork into multiple sub-quests, "nextskipsubs" should point to the quest unlocked after completing all the sub-quests.
*At the end of sub-quest chain, "prevskipsubs" should point to the quest that initially forked.
Some links might also be incorrect, so those should be corrected as well.
User:DRKV Done, the Main Storyline and Tutorial quests should be correct now.
Add all the missing quests 	In the Main Storyline, for starters. At this point the description, level, location, start, end, rewards would be the most important.
User:DRKV The Main Storyline is done now, working on the Collector's Edition quests currently. There are also a few missing dailies. The historical quests section needs a bit of cleanup, and maybe some extra clarification on the individual quest pages. I'll also need to go through all the seasonal and hidden quests, some of these we don't have videos for, some of them are not even on any of the main quest listing pages.
Spellcheck all the quest titles 	Against the localization sqlite, with some kind of bot. This would involve a lot of page moving, so it would also be nice to have a bot that can move the page, and automatically correct any links to that page.
Add video embeds to every quest 	It's best to do this once the rest of these things are taken care of. Also, this would again involve some custom botting. We already have a spreadsheet with links and timestamps for the videos, so at least that part is done. The videos would also be really useful for the upcoming tasks.
Replace the next/previous links with diagrams	The links are actually still not that easy to navigate, but they are simple to parse for a bot. This still requires some planning, cause fandom might not like us uploading a thousand very similar looking PNG files. Maybe a bit of custom JavaScript?
Check all the Quest Dialog 	Spellcheck them against the localization sqlite with a bot. A better option would be to have people put some comment with the dialog ID on the quest page, then ask the bot to copy-paste the actual text. Before this we should also make absolutely sure the game client doesn't somehow contain the quest dialog sequences. It's unlikely, but would save a lot of work.
Parse all the things 	Turn the entire quest section of the wiki into a single, machine readable document, with QuestText/DialogText IDs.
==Main Tasks==
===Wiki Templates===
Template Needed 	Progress
Consumable Items 	
Clothing/Disguise Items/Armour/Schematics/Weapons	
Zones/Areas 	Gwylen working on
Quest Articles 	DoneLunawisp (talk) 09:41, September 27, 2015 (UTC)
Characters (npc's) 	DoneLunawisp (talk) 09:41, September 27, 2015 (UTC)
Quest Navbox 	Done Gwylen (talk) 17:55, 17 May 2022 (UTC)
Zone/Area Navbox 	
===Quests===
Quest Chain 	What's left to do 	
Hints (Tutorial) 	Working on Beyondwords_uk 	
Bug World 	almost completed - just need details for the trust, Insects or bugs and Angry bugs.	
Lambda Mall Hackers 	Beyondwords_uk working on 	
Water Isle Faction Quests	Beyondwords_uk working on 	
Wood Isle Faction Quests 	Beyondwords_uk working on 	
Hidden Quests 	Needs to be updated as we find them
Beyondwords_uk working on 	
Christmas Quests 	
 Christmas is completely missing, needs to be added by watching youtube playthroughs or by someone who played and has screenshots completed by Gwylen (talk) 18:50, 30 May 2022 (UTC)	
===User Interface===
Where 	What Needs Doing
Chat Window 	needs more detail - explanation of icons, etc. Completed by User:Gwylen May 29th 2021
Social Pane 	Dialog and details for use
Clan Window 	Dialog and details for use
Battleground Queue 	Changed to Group Finder and completed by User:Gwylen May 29th 2021
Map 	Dialog and details for use
Mail Interface 	Dialog and details for use
Action Keys 	Needs its own page explaining how to change keymapping, etc. Completed by User:Gwylen May 29th 2021
inventory 	Dialog and details for use - completedLunawisp (talk) 09:58, September 27, 2015 (UTC)
Paperdoll or Character Screen	Dialog and details for use - completedLunawisp (talk) 09:58, September 27, 2015 (UTC)
Skill Book 	Dialog and details for use - completedLunawisp (talk) 19:09, September 27, 2015 (UTC)
System Menu 	Dialog and details for use - completedLunawisp (talk) 19:10, September 27, 2015 (UTC)
Quest Log 	completed Lunawisp (talk) 15:18, October 3, 2015 (UTC)
===Other Important Pages ===
Where 	What Remains to be Done
Zones 	Almost everything
Crafting 	No data on recipes at all
Classes 	Not much there at present
Clans 	We need to do a bit more with that page!
Updates 	Version updates need adding to
World Quests 	Everything (I have some data on these, Beyondwords_uk) Started by User:Gwylen Wood Isle and Water Isle world quests are complete, more to find for Bug World and 8Squared
Add stuff from Discord	Look through Discord and see if there's any links worth adding
Factions & Reputation 	Everything, working on - Beyondwords_uk
Lore 	Get info from Devs, need a page. The Otherland FB page has some interesting lore tidbits that could be added.
Stores 	Add all the shops & stores, mainly Lambda Mall but there are others
Dungeon 	Isle of Forgotten. User:Gwylen working on.
Battlegrounds 	Battle 91 & Mars Oasis. Completed by User:Gwylen May 29th 2021. More information is needed on how points are calculated for the main page.
Challenges 	Various. Completed by User:Gwylen May 29th 2021
Clubs 	Started, need more pics, mainly Lambda Mall
Suggestions? 	I was thinking of doing a page for ideas on stuff to add!
==Completed Tasks==
Click the above link to see what we've achieved so far! 
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