MarioWiki:Pipe Plaza

1 Notices
2 To Do
3 Collaborations
4 Help & Resources

Notices

Post your Mario Wiki related news and announcements here! New portals, collaborations, PipeProjects
seeking contributors, new initiatives, proposals, discussions, and current maintenance backlogs.

News

• The 2^nd Anniversary of the Mario Wiki is approaching. Put on your best!
• The wiki needs your help on a few proposals.

Maintenance

• The Wanted Pages List is full of back-flow with over 1000 wanted articles.
• A small number of orphaned pages have emerged. Help them out.

Pages Seeking Contributors

• The Thwomp article needs a major rewrite, as well as an expansion.
• Super Paper Mario just came out. Related pages will be going through a lot of changes, and you should help!
• The man behind Mario, Shigeru Miyamoto, has a surprisingly short page. Quite a bit more of this great man's past can be dredged up.
• Mario Kart 64 is horribly written and short. Some helpful user could rewrite the page.

Projects Seeking Contributors

• Articles pertaining to the Mario cartoons could use some work. See PP:TOON.
• SPM articles are needed! Join PP:SPM.

Add a notice or project to this section

Collaborations

To improve the quality of articles which are short or lacking in detail, the Super Mario Wiki has decided to have a collaboration in addition to MarioWiki:PipeProjects

Main Collaboration

A collaboration is when contributors come together to improve an existent article into one of higher quality than when the improving began. The wiki is starting out with a collaboration once a fortnight. Sometimes collaborations will work with PipeProjects.

It has been decided that there should be more information pertaining to Cameos. Ergo:

This fortnight's collaboration is List of Topsy-Turvy Spirits.

It currently has little text – expand it today!

To Do List

The Super Mario Wiki is attempting to become the largest and greatest Marioverse knowledge-base to ever exist. Unfortunately, this wiki needs a lot of help in reaching that goal. Here are some things to do that we would appreciate:

Add to Articles

• Create a most wanted article.
• Expand a short page or a stub.
• Upload or create a requested image.
• Update older articles with new information.

Minor Edits

• Provide categories to articles without any (we can't stress this enough).
• Create redirects and fix double redirects.
• Copyedit articles, fixing spelling, grammar, and punctuation (See PP:SMW).
• Verify the accuracy of an article with research.

Guidelines, help, and resources

The Super Mario Wiki has tens of departments staffed by a small army of volunteers.
Here are some of the most general departments for help that we currently have.

Help

• MarioWiki help - Browse help pages
  • Templates
  • Tables
  • Images (Media)
  • Licenses
  • Color codes
  • Technical naming restrictions
  • Userboxes (list of them)
• FAQ

Policies and guidelines

The Super Mario Wiki has many established policies, guidelines, conventions, and traditions. This is a very brief sampling of some of the most important guidelines. Policies and guidelines apply both to articles and how to work with fellow editors.

Article standards

Working with others

Resources

New user information

Welcome! · About the wiki (about sysops, bureaucrats) · User preferences · Sandbox · Signatures · Help · New user log · Account benefits · User Space

Common Procedures

Blocking Users · Articles to be deleted (full policy) · Protecting a page · Reverting a page

Editing

• Wikisyntax
• Formatting
• The list of images that have been uploaded to the Super Mario Wiki
• The list of categories created
• What special pages are available (all pages, all messages)

Tip of the Month

Here's a terrific tip to help you in your editing: