Updateproject

Wiki Update Project

My short tracking page for the wiki update project. Actual work orders and discussion threads can be found here, though unauthorized members won't be able to view that link. This wiki page will necessarily lag somewhat behind the development goals we achieve, but it's useful for tracking the project's progress and exposing to the rest of the community what we've accomplished so far.

Goals

That we have a wiki with the content it contains is remarkable in itself! Few other worlds in the NWN community have attempted this, and none on the scale of Avlis. Unfortunately, in its current form the wiki is a shambles. There's no graphic convention, no structure, navigation is horrid, we've made poor decisions in how we organize our information and the info we do have is sometimes hard to find, it's page titles make many important sections unsearchable (try searching for the login ports!), and it's generally chaotic.

Our goal is to unify and impose some structure on the wiki, reduce duplicate pages, beautify it, recategorize many subjects, and rethink the pathways we take for navigating it. As an iterative process driven by volunteers, it's necessarily going to take some time and happen a little haphazardly but with effort and a good PM we can reduce the work into manageable chunks and digest it bit by bit.

As we go forward, we'll also be migrating much of the static content on the Avlis forums to the wiki. By static, I mean threads (such as the Rules threads) where the community (and often the Team as well) do not comment and the thread of discussion doesn't need to be referenced in order to understand the rule.