User:Inquisitor S.
Contents
- 1 Awards
- 2 Differences between the Lexicanum and the Warhammer 40,000 Wikia
- 3 Interesting blogs or webpages
- 4 Useful (and free) tools
- 5 Wiki codes (WIP)
- 6 Image categories (WIP)
- 7 Cleanup op bookmarks
- 8 Ideas for next completely ludicrous undertakings (after cleanup op above)
- 9 Help articles to write
- 10 Found templates
- 11 Suggested templates or lost templates
- 12 Found code
- 13 Mass delete combos
- 14 Things for Larry to fix
- 15 Temporary storage
- 16 Temporary galleries
Awards
- My personal article on 1d4chan - So I am doing a good job, thanks guys :)
Differences between the Lexicanum and the Warhammer 40,000 Wikia
In a nutshell: we, the Lexicanum, allow only officially published material. The Wikia allows also fan-made information and artwork. These are different approaches, the reader/ user has to choose what he wants to have before joining either project. Below the official statement of Montonius from the Wikia, talking about the Wikia:
I am aware of the fan-made art on this wiki; I authorised it. This wiki has always made use of and patronised fan art and will continue to do so. I am aware some dislike fan-made art and I understand your point of view on the matter; however, I do not share it, nor do most of our editors or administrators. Most of the pictures you highlighted I and many others like, including of the Imperial Guardswoman which I specifically allowed to remain in place to showcase a completely different style of art work for the universe, in this case anime. I have now removed that picture and replaced it with one of the ones you offered, as it has proven more controversial than I had hoped. However, we long ago made the decision to use fan-made art as we believe that "canon" does not include only official art. If you find this too deviant from what you define as canon, I perfectly understand that view, but again do not share it. Multiple artistic interpretations of the Warhammer 40,000 universe have always been a lively part of the hobby and we have chosen to showcase some of this artistic expression here. We can agree to disagree on whether the use of only official art is canon, but we have chosen to use fan-made art as well as fan-made models and miniatures to display certain aspects of the world and that will not be changing. In the case of certain alien species or other artefacts of the universe, when there is no official art for them, I am happy to make use of the artistic license and creations of others if such exist to serve as place holders or to display certain concepts with the fresh eyes of a different style than the standard Gothic works of official art; if those creations are later superseded by an official rendering or determined to not be within the realm of possibility even within the bounds of artistic license, they will be replaced. As to the wiki "being made better through concerted effort" frankly, this wiki was resurrected from the dead by the already quite concerted efforts of people who have dedicated hundreds of hours of their time free of charge to bring it to its current state. While certainly I agree there is always room for improvement, and we are always engaged in such an effort as is the nature of all wikis, I do not agree with your suggestion as being an improvement and find this wiki, in my admittedly biased opinion, to be already simply the best repository for Warhammer 40k information on the Internet and one that will only grow better with time using our current policies. My suggestion would be if if you find this unpalatable, then you should patronise the Lexicanum, as they are a wonderful wiki that is more well-established and has many more pages than this effort and whose guidelines may be more in line with your own vision for a Warhammer 40k wiki. Thanks for taking the time to raise your concerns. Montonius 10:07, November 7, 2011 (UTC) |
Interesting blogs or webpages
Purely subjective and personal opinion:
Fluff and Oldschool
- El Descanso del Escriba: Interesting blog that sometimes picks apart intriguing aspects of Warhammer 40,000 and actually relies on good sources to do so. Note: written in Spanish.
- Realm of Chaos 80s: Oldschool Warhammer (both Fantasy and 40K) with fascinating interviews with "legendary" people and nice insights into what the hobby was like in the 1980s. Highly recommended for any Oldhammer aficionado.
- Tales from the Maelstrom - An old school sci-fi and fantasy wargaming blog: The name says it all, see for example an interview with Rick Priestley
- Roebeast's Magical House of Sunshine - Classic Games Workshop Schematics by "H": Ten Questions for Nicholas Coleman
- The Stuff of Legends: "reference for lists and catalog pictures of Fantasy and Science Fiction miniatures"
- Collecting Citadel Miniatures (CCM): The indispensable wiki about collecting Citadel miniatures
- Pete's 'Eavy Metal Image Gallery: Oldschool 'Eavy Metal miniatures
- Jack Doud's The Unofficial Warhammer 40K Costume and Prop archive
- The Art of Paul Bonner
Painting and modelling
- Dakka Painting & Modeling (Forum) - an ever-expanding treasure chest of tips and tricks for the painter and modeler
- Acrylic paint - An more detailed look at Citadel, Vallejo, P3 and more (Forum)
- Goobertown Hobbies - Painting Handles: Use magnets to help hold your minis while you prime and paint (Youtube)
- Black Magic Craft - Essential Equipment (Homepage), see also his Youtube channel
- Luke's APS - Custom Terrain and Tutorials (Youtube)
- Tabletop Minions: Tutorials and other stuff (Youtube)
- Miniac: Tutorials, reviews and other entertaining things (Youtube)
- The Terrain Tutor: Making Wargames terrain (Youtube)
- Vallejo Colors: "learning tips, tricks and advanced techniques" (Youtube)
- Green Stuff World: their products but also sometimes interesting ideas how to work with Green Stuff (Youtube)
- Games Workshop's Warhammer TV: Check the painting tutorials (Youtube)
- Vince Venturella: Check the "Hobby Cheating" playlist for interesting stuff on painting and modelling (Youtube)
- Next Level Painting: Tutorials (Youtube)
Identifying miniatures
(Advanced) Dungeons & Dragons (AD&D)
- DnD Lead: comprehensive history and overview of miniatures produced for AD&D by Citadel Miniatures and other companies
- Stuff of Legends (SoLegends) - Otherworld: overview of miniatures produced for AD&D only by Citadel Miniatures
Useful (and free) tools
Purely subjective and personal opinion:
- Convert Case: Sick of having to retype something just because somebody wrote again in CAPSLOCK? This will help you out.
- Stripe Generator 2.0: Because everything looks better with warning stripes.
- Share X: for (among other things) rolling screenshots
- MW Snap: for diverse screenshots
- Adobe Express png-to-jpg converter: Because images in png format are very big and for most Lexicanum purposes jpg format is sufficient.
Wiki codes (WIP)
- Display code as text:
<nowiki>text</nowiki>
- Signature with date:
--~~~~
- Signature without date:
--~~~
- Signature without date:
- Internal link:
[[article]]
or with a different title displayed instead of the actual article name:[[article|New title]]
- External link:
[http://www.example.com Name of website]
- Redirects:
#REDIRECT[[article]]
- Interlexicanum links:
- To the English 40K Lexicanum:
[[lex_en_wh40k:Ezekyle Abaddon|Ezekyle Abaddon]]
- To the German 40K Lexicanum:
[[lex_de_wh40k:Ezekyle Abaddon|Ezekyle Abaddon]]
- To the French 40K Lexicanum:
[[lex_fr_wh40k:Ezekyle Abaddon|Ezekyle Abaddon]]
- To the English 40K Lexicanum:
- To the English WFB Lexicanum:
[[lex_de_whfb:Sigmar Heldenhammer|Sigmar Heldenhammer]]
- To the German WFB Lexicanum:
[[lex_en_whfb:Sigmar Heldenhammer|Sigmar Heldenhammer]]
- To the French WFB Lexicanum:
[[lex_fr_whfb:Sigmar Heldenhammer|Sigmar Heldenhammer]]
- To the English WFB Lexicanum:
- Insert empty lines:
<br>
- Citation template:
{{cite}}
- Missing summary template:
{{ImSum}}
Attention adept of the Lexicanum!
This Image needs a summary or it needs to be improved!
Please add one for clarity on the image.- Trivia:
{{trivia}}
- Insert empty lines in tables:
{{Void|Remove template when inserting information}}
Image categories (WIP)
Non-exhaustive and incomplete list of categories for uploaded images. Each subcategory can be categorized in multiple higher categories, e.g. the subcategory containing the images pertaining to the history of Chaos is a subcategory of both "Images (History)" and "Images (Chaos)". Looks more complicated than it actually is, really ;) Basically the images go into three main categories:
1.) Background: in here goes everything which is not a physical GW product (miniature, book, magazine...), not a Lexicanum system image (=image used for Lexicanum templates...). This category is subdivided into a myriad subcategories, most of them them with multiple subcategories.
2.) Lexicanum: in here go all system images (like images used for Lexicanum templates, tutorials, images used on user pages, images that have to be replaced...)
3.) Other: in here goes everything else (mainly images of actual GW products but also of events, stores, in short photos as opposed to artwork)
Why on Terra would someone try to do this, you will ask. Well, in order to find specific images and in order to eliminate multiple uploads of the same image, mainly. And because of some inherent bureaucratical madness I guess.
Example:- Background
- Wargear/ tech items
- Wargear/ tech items Chaos
- Wargear/ tech items Chaos Space Marines
- Wargear/ tech items Death Guard
- Wargear/ tech items Iron Warriors
- Wargear/ tech items World Eaters
- ...
- Wargear/ tech items Demons
- Wargear/ tech items Khorne
- Wargear/ tech items Nurgle
- Wargear/ tech items Slaanesh
- Wargear/ tech itemsTzeentch
- Wargear/ tech items Chaos cults
- ...
- Wargear/ tech items Chaos Space Marines
- Wargear/ tech items Imperium
- Wargear/ tech items Adeptus Arbites
- Wargear/ tech items Adeptus Mechanicus
- Wargear/ tech items Imperial Guard and PDF
- Wargear/ tech items Inquisition
- Wargear/ tech items Officio Assassinorum
- Wargear/ tech items Space Marines
- Wargear/ tech items Grey Knights
- Wargear/ tech items Ultramarines
- ...
- ...
- Orks
- Tau
- ...
- Wargear/ tech items Chaos
- Galaxy
- Flora and fauna (plants and animals)
- Maps
- Places (~pictures of landscapes, cities, buildings...)
- Planets (~seen from space)
- History (~pictures of battles, events...)
- History Chaos
- History Great Crusade and Horus Heresy
- ...
- History Imperium
- History Third War for Armaggedon
- History Great Crusade and Horus Heresy
- ...
- History Orks
- History Third War for Armaggedon
- ...
- History Chaos
- Races and factions
- Chaos
- Aeronautica Imperialis miniatures - Chaos
- Wargear/ tech items Chaos
- with all subcategories, see above
- Chaos Space Marines
- Chaos Squats
- Chaos fleet
- Chaos cults and mutants
- Chaos titans
- Dark Millennium - Chaos
- History - Chaos
- Khorne
- Nurgle
- Slaanesh
- Tzeentch
- Warhammer 40.000 miniatures - Chaos
- Eldar
- Imperium
- Abhumans and mutants
- Necrons and C'tan
- Orks
- Squats
- Tau
- Tyranids
- Other aliens
- Chaos
- Wargear/ tech items
- Lexicanum
- Other
Cleanup op bookmarks
- 11/05/2019 done:
- 12/05/2019 done:
- 18/05/2019 done:
- Eduhkar
- Tuseok
- Salamanders (AH edits)
- Lhorgath
- Justici Ghunfried
- Alpha Legion (AH edits)
- Archontas Origo
- Krahzen
- 19/05/2019 done:
- 20/05/2019 done:
- 21/05/2019 done:
- Adelard
- The Glorious Tomb (Audio Drama)
- Black Templars (notable member section)
- Alessio Cortez
- Har Skrinn
- Thousand Sons (Heresy era characters)
- 22/05/2019 done:
- 23/05/2019 done:
- Davian Thule
- Jarold (deleted because several pieces of information were made up)
- Murderfang
- ... delete ... remove ... delete ...
- Azael Konenos
- ... delete ... remove ... delete ...
- 24/05/2019 done:
- ... burn ... burn ... burn ...
- 25/05/2019 & 26/05/2019:
- ... Promethium reserves running low ... Put in request order for bulk supply ...
Continue at: 06:53, 8 March 2019 (diff | hist) . . (+119) . . Serob Kargul DOWN
Ideas for next completely ludicrous undertakings (after cleanup op above)
- Weed out all "notable" lists and check up on "known" lists:
- Checke and change between 500-1,000 links to "Company" to make sure every link points where it should link to.
Help articles to write
- Editor
- History
- Portal
- Community portal
- Navigation
- Main Page
- Categories
- Recent Changes
- Random Page
- Help
- Sister sites
- Search
- Tools
- Upload file
- Special Pages
- Lead section
...
Found templates
- {{Cite}}: This article needs thorough work on its citations Is this really necessary?
- {{ImageNeeded}}: This article needs images
- {{ImageRename}}: This image needs to be renamed
- {{ImSum}}: This image needs a summary should be renamed to fit in with others, nobody likes cryptic abbreviations
- {{ImSource}}: This image needs a source should be renamed to fit in with others, nobody likes cryptic abbreviations
- {{ImCopy}}: : This image needs the correct Copyright disclaimer should be renamed to fit in with others, nobody likes cryptic abbreviations
- {{delete}}: This article or image should be deleted Template has to be overhauled and it has to be decided if the voting system will be kept
- {{incomplete}}: This article is incomplete Template has to be overhauled and include that it must be specified what elements are missing
- {{stub}}: This article is a stub The difference between Stub and incomplete must be worked out; it must be clearly defined what a stub actually is
- {{Attention|Problem=xyz}}: This article has a problem with xyz and somebody should check out the source.
- {{Spamsuspect}}
- {{Welcome}} needs thorough overhaul
- {{howtosource}} needs thorough overhaul
- {{SourcesWarning}}
- ...
Suggested templates or lost templates
- MapNeeded: This article needs a map (see Category:Missing Maps)
- LeadNeeded: This article needs a Lead section/ introductory paragraph (see Category:Lexicanum articles needing a Lead section
- CategoryNeeded: This article does not have a category (see Category:Lexicanum pages needing categorization
- ...
Found code
- <pre>...</pre>: light grey long box
- <nowiki>...</nowiki>: Nowiki
Mass delete combos
[alt]+[shift]+[d] --> delete
--> [enter] --> delete conformation
--> [ctrl]+[pg down] --> next tabThings for Larry to fix
- Change the Navigation button "Forum" link to the proper Namespace article.
- Better coordination/ input from Lex to BoLS social media.
Temporary storage
- Original Fanatic Games webpage
- Black Library Open Day webpages
- http://www.battlefleetgothic.com
- Old Fanatic Games forums
Temporary galleries
Unsourced and/ or unused, but potentially rare/ usable material
Other
Inquisitor scale weapons pack
Elysian Drop-troops 40K scale miniatures from Forgeworld
- Insert empty lines in tables:
- Missing summary template: