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Do you like Looney Pyramids and can lend your time and skills? We have some tasks and projects that could really do with a little help.
==Tasks for Beginner Contributors==
"I've never used a wiki before?"
* Add brief descriptions to all of the games, and add links to their rules
** Focus on the games in [[Pyramid Arcade]] and from the [[Ice Game Design Competition]]
* Write a requested [[Special:Wantedpages|wanted page]]
* Add to a [[Special:Shortpages|short page]]
* Improve a [[:Category:pages needing improvement|page that needs improvement]]
==Tasks for Experienced Contributors==
* Upload [[Special:Whatlinkshere/Template:Reqimage|requested]] images, especially for the [[Talk:Main Page#Need photos|Main Page]]
* Add the [[Infobox]] to the [[Special:Whatlinkshere/Template:Reqinfobox|rest of the games]]
==Pyramid Arcade Project==
* Update the wiki for [[Pyramid Arcade]]
** <s>Write the page</s> Thanks [[User:Umjahwa|Umjahwa]]!
** <s>Add the games</s>
** <s>Create a listbox</s>
** Fill in more details on the games
*** [[Color Wheel]]
*** [[Give or Take]]
*** [[Looney Ludo]]
*** [[Lunar Invaders]]
*** [[Petal Battle]]
*** [[Petri Dish]]
*** [[Powerhouse]]
*** [[Pyramid Shambo]]
*** [[Verticality]]
** Add the components
** Update the various infoboxes/templates to include Pyramid Arcade info
** Update [[What Can I Play?]] for Pyramid Arcade
** Upload photos of Pyramid Arcade, add to the main page rotation
==Rules Project==
* Find games without rules
** Obtain [[IcehouseOrg:Permissions|record permission]] to duplicate the rules on IcehouseGames
** Link to the official sources for the rules.
Even if the rules are available elsewhere online, it's nice to have a lot of them in a consistent format, it's good for instant gratification when people are looking for games here, and it can provide a backup in case the original rules go down.
==What Can I Play? Project==
* Help new players [[What Can I Play?|choose games]] to play, by filling in some more games and adding more categories and criteria by which to choose games.
* Reorganise [[What Can I Play?]] to be more organised around Pyramid Arcade. Move the focus away from treehouse stashes and pyramid stashes.
* Maybe use wiki categories instead of hard-listing the games.
==Infobox Project==
* Work on the [[Template:Infobox Game]] and [https://www.semantic-mediawiki.org/wiki/Semantic_MediaWiki Semantic MediaWiki] setup
** <s> Designer property should probably turn into multiple individual designers; not sure how to do that in the infobox </s>
** <s> Description currently has wikitext on many pages, but that doesn't seem to be supported by the current version of Semantic MediaWiki. We need to either find a way to make a property that contains a plain-text description that goes along with the wikitext description, figure out how to enable wikitext in a property, or make it not be a semantic property. </s>
** Add a search page that allows searching or browsing games by property
** <s> There is a work in progress of a new infobox at [[Template:Infobox Game Fancy]] </s> New inbox box is all loaded in and appears to be working! Please report any issue you encounter on the [[Template_talk:Infobox Game|Infobox talk page]]
==History Project==
* Do work on the [[Icehouse in general]] section.
** Organize the table of contents better, and include more culture articles, stuff like [[generic gaming kit]]/[[icebox]], and so on.
** Write a [[history of Icehouse]] (or maybe [[history of Looney Pyramids]]). We already have a [[history timeline]], but it's incomplete (doesn't list when the first other game to be played when Icehouse pieces (Zarcana?) was invented, doesn't discuss piecenik-ing, etc), and a prose history would just be nice.
* <s>Figure out how to make infobox items (mechanics?) optional</s> It looks as if this isn't possible in the way we would like. But we can...
==Game Strategy Project==
* Help write [[strategy]] articles for the games you know how to play
** Some good candidates would be [[Pikemen strategy]], [[Martian Chess strategy]], [[Branches & Twigs & Thorns strategy]], and any game that you think you could write a good strategy article on
** [[Homeworlds strategy]] is a work in progress, and could use lots of improvement. Feel free to do copyediting, add advice, reorganize it to a better structure, or whatever you feel would make it better (although deleting the entire thing might be a little extreme)
** Also flesh out the generic [[strategy]] advice, perhaps explaining concepts like expected value, sente (Go term), pinning, playing where your opponent wants to play, putting yourself in a situation where you have two good moves and the opponent can only block one, and so on.
==Admin Tasks==
''Add tasks that only admins and sysops have permission to do here''
* Make the [[Main Page]] look nicer on mobile
** We now have the [[mw:Extension:MobileFrontend|mobile extension]] installed. For the most part, this allows things to look good on mobile devices; but the image on the main page doesn't scale properly. We probably want to figure out a way to make it fit into the mobile layout better. There are some [[mw:Mobile Gateway/Mobile homepage formatting|notes on how to do this in the MediaWiki docs]]
** It looks like the main issue is getting the front-page images scaled properly. A first step to that would be to replace all of the custom pages for each of the main page images, with one that uses [[Template:Weekly image]], so we can set parameters on these images globally rather than having to go through each one. I've done do on the first few already (for example [[Main_Page/Picture_for_week_1]]), just need to go through each of the later images ([[Main Page/Weekly images]]) and use the template.
** Design favicon and mobile icons for the site
** Remove [[Special:UnusedFiles|unused files]], especially images that look like they were uploaded by wiki spammers
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