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Hi there

One of the issues on the wiki is the large numbers of images that are missing their fair use rationale and license metadata. By default, all images used on the wiki require this information so as to comply with the required fair use laws.

While we have had an image policy on the wiki, it was never a proper policy and didn't cover the legal aspect of uploading pictures, so it's understandable that most images don't contain the required data. I applaud our recent editors for uploading through Special:Upload and ensuring all images contain the appropriate metadata.

This thread is to let the community know of a project that any editor can assist with. We would like ALL images to be updated with the required fair use rationale and license metadata. This is how it'll work:

• If you go to any article with images on them, check the images themselves for a fair use rationale and license template. If they're missing, you can do one of two things:
  • Add {{File Information}} and {{Gamescreenshot}} to any images on the wiki (under the headings Summary and Licensing respectively). Usage instructions provided on each template
  • Tag the images with {{No license}} and {{No rationale}} for another editor to correct.
• If the image isn't in use on articles, tag it with {{Unused}} so that extra attention is paid to make it usable on the wiki. You can check if an image isn't being used on articles with Special:UnusedFiles
• Images with poor filenames should be tagged with {{Poor filename}}. A poor filename would be something like 2013-11-21 04-42-28-76: this describes nothing about the file and is of no help to the wiki.

Got any questions? Great! Ask them below and I'll try to help :)

Thanks! :)

Hello.

As many of you are probably aware, we've not really had any real style guidelines and articles were all in a jumble with no clear standard for articles to be written. I am pleased to say we now have a Manual of Style, which you can read here: Manual of Style

Not all article types have yet been covered. Some article types may not even need a stated standard (such as planets, as there are only a few named planets in the series), but you'll see the style guidelines updated over time.

If you have anything to suggest for the articles not covered under the guidelines, feel free to post below with your suggestion for a standard on a specific article and I'll look into it

Thanks! :)

Hey

I'm going to do update threads like this to give everyone an insight into changes being made to the wiki.

• Some new policies have been introduced. These are the Naming policy and the Image policy. The former is still being debated by the community, but the image policy was recently introduced to coincide with some other changes that are mentioned below. It is important to read the image policy before uploading files to the wiki.
• In line with the new image policy, I have included some new templates and an improved uploading interface. It is highly advised to upload ALL files via Special:Upload. The interface will now ask you for some important details, which will make your image upload compliant to the policy and usable in the project.
• The fanon custom namespace will be implemented by the end of week. I will post a later announcement when Wikia has enabled this for the wiki.

Feel free to discuss below and let me know if I missed anything!

PS: With the introduction of an image policy, I will be posting a thread for the community to get involved in updating our older images to follow policy and will actively work in removing unused files. The wiki is not an image dump/repository and should not be treated like one, so we have many files that aren't in use anywhere and don't have any indications of being used. More on this in another thread.

Hello all

You are all likely aware now that Homeworld Remastered is here and available to the public. It is now very important that we work together to improve the wiki. I'll give you some statistics about the page views we got on the wiki leading up to (and including) release day.

For the past month or so, we've only been hitting around 9-10k pageviews on average, which is respectable considering how long we've gone without a release. On 22nd February, the views reached a high of 14.8k pageviews, which is pretty good going: since that point, our views only went up. Hell, on release day, we got a whopping 50000 page views!

I want to thank everyone for making the wiki what it is. With Remastered here, it is now very important to remove ALL information that we cannot source in any way and to keep things completely factual, as people will absolutely be coming here for nothing but information. Nobody will want to come here if we have any fanon/theories in articles! :)

I will be around very often to help out as much as I can, and you can help as well!

• Please check through our articles and remove anything that doesn't make sense, is contentious or cannot be sourced in any way.
• Upload pictures for ANYTHING from Remastered and add them to articles!
• Add new information that came from Remastered (if necessary, reference it!)

Thanks for your help and we could not be here without you, the community. :)

Thanks!
- Sajuuk