MarioWiki:PipeProject

''Mariowiki's PipeProjects are similar to Wikipedia's WikiProjects. Therefore, Wikipedia's standards for WikiProjects are roughly equivalent to ours (except that ours is almost all Mario-related!) and external links to those guidelines are included on this page for help.''

A PipeProject is a portal for a major project that often branches out into multiple articles. With the Super Mario Wiki growing day by day and more Mario games coming out in the next few months, such as Yoshi's Island 2, Mario vs. Donkey Kong 2: March of the Minis, Super Mario Galaxy, and Mario Kart Wii (tenative), articles about and relating to those games could use some organization to be completed, hence PipeProjects.

Origin
Luigi's Mansion and its talk page and two side templates, ghosts and rooms was the first project worked on and inspired the idea behind PipeProjects. A total of 99 articles (49 ghosts, 49 rooms, and 1 main article), the talk page became cluttered and ideas on how to create some of the ghosts and rooms were split between the template talk pages and the main talk page, meaning the message was very hard to deliver. PipeProjects is meant to keep everything related to such a project into one page, with its talk page being a forum and the organizer of the project. It took 25 days to create all 99 articles, and hopefully PipeProjects will cut that time at least in half.

See PipeProjects' own talk page for more details on the origin from one of Super Mario Wiki's contributors.

Should I?
Before creating a PipeProject, be sure that it will involve more than one article, since you can communciate with other members on a single article's talk page instead. Please see Wikipedia's guidelines for more details.

Coming soon is a sub-page that will allow users to add their PipeProjects to a list if they are unsure whether the topic deserves a PipeProject. If enough people are interested, a PipeProject can be formed at any time. 22:17, 14 August 2006 (EDT)

''For more on how to create and lead a PipeProject, refer to Wikipedia's best practices for WikiProjects. Also refer to the equivalent of this page''

Contents of the Portal
A PipeProject should be created at Mariowiki:PipeProject _____.

On the main page the following is included, but not limited to:
 * So users can bookmark the page, a shortcut can be made that redirects to the PipeProject (MW:PP__)
 * What it hopes to get accomplished in a set of goals
 * A sign-up section (where you can join by using ).
 * Structure: How to create and/or edit the articles the project applies to
 * Templates and/or Categories to add for each article
 * A link to a good article as an example, if necessary
 * A userbox users can add saying they are part of the specific PipeProject