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This is a list of potential projects and goals for the QBWiki.

Here is the QBWiki:Style Guide (WIP) - try to be consistent with formatting and style choices.

Maintaining the main page

WikiProject Maintain Main Page‎ exists to organize any future edits to the main page and the content of its boxes.

Recent tournament results

The Recent tournament results page exists to organize updates to the "Recent tournament results" section of the main page. A direct link to this week's results can be found here.

Quips

Both the lingo and in-jokes portions of the "Quick links" section have quips which rotate daily. Add to the lists here:

Featured picture

The Featured picture page organizes the rotating pictures featured in the "Featured picture" section of the main page.

Projects

Main page: QBWiki:Projects

Bounties
Overview
Active: 6

Projects for the current season

Short description	Status
Create page for the 2023-2024 season	Incomplete
Create pages for all 2023-2024 tournaments	QBWiki:WikiProject Bounties/7
Update the "Getting started" section on the Main Page with that year's tournaments	Mostly done

Long term projects

Short description	Status
Creating missing articles	In early stages
Format War superpage	Unstarted
College directory	Ongoing, neverending
Standardize school articles	Unstarted
Fleshing out individual pages	Not started in earnest
Year pages	Template created, pages not
Fleshing out categories	Unstarted
Create question part pages	Unstarted, though some already exists
Create "Quizbowl in the United Kingdom"	QBWiki:WikiProject Bounties/3
Improve editing tutorial	Unstarted
Add field data to tournaments	Unstarted, though some already exists
Incorporate known recordings of matches into pages	Unstarted

Guidelines

Establishing and Observing Notability Standards and Guidelines

See this talk page for notability guidelines discussion. Creating clear guidelines for notability standards will help us direct future articles and cleanup.

Establishing the Editorial Tone

Although the previous good vs. bad quizbowl conflicts that used to rage on the quizbowl forums are now pretty much settled, how specifically the QBWiki should address these disputes and existing areas of bad quizbowl should be discussed.

Suggestion for Focusing on School Pages

I would recommend in general for more of a focus on adding details to the pages on schools rather than individuals. Some reasons: 1) it will save time by reducing the overall number of articles out there that require maintenance, updates, etc. 2) it reduces the need to debate notability guidelines for an individual player by instead keeping the focus on the program itself 3) it can reduce the need to repeat the same information over and over again (e.g. about a good nationals performance by a team in one year) on multiple pages 4) it places the emphasis on quizbowl as a team competition and emphasizes the importance of the team as an institution over time with a unique history and 5) it avoids some of the issues with QBwiki pages for individuals showing up very high in search results. I'll work more on fleshing out some of the pages in the college team directory in the next few months, but I think more generally it would be good direction to work. -Chris C. (talk) 18:12, 21 June 2021 (CDT)

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 This is a list of potential projects and goals for the QBWiki.
-== Creating New Needed Pages ==
+Here is the [[QBWiki:Style Guide]] (WIP) - try to be consistent with formatting and style choices.
-If there are any new pages that need to be created, please list them at this link and/or take on a page that needs to still be created. [[Special:WantedPages |This page]] may be useful in identifying some of those.
-I'd like to see a large sort of "superpage" on the history of the Format Wars specifically with lots of examples from actual posts to show what kind of arguments were being made and how over time the principles of good quizbowl began to spread but also evolve themselves into what we see today.
+== Maintaining the main page ==
+[[QBWiki:WikiProject Maintain Main Page‎|WikiProject Maintain Main Page‎]] exists to organize any future edits to the main page and the content of its boxes.
-== Standardizing School Articles ==
+===Recent tournament results===
-While there are already templates that can be used, there are still a number of schools whose entries are just stubs. Updating all of those school pages to the standard template and updating current contact/roster information would be helpful.
+The [[QBWiki:Recent tournament results|Recent tournament results]] page exists to organize updates to the "Recent tournament results" section of the main page. A direct link to this week's results can be found [[QBWiki:Recent tournament results/{{currentweek}}|here]].
-== Establishing and Observing Notability Standards and Guidelines==
+===Quips===
-See [[QBWiki_talk:Notability_guidelines| this talk page]] for notability guidelines discussion. Creating clear guidelines for notability standards will help us direct future articles and cleanup.
+Both the lingo and in-jokes portions of the "Quick links" section have quips which rotate daily. Add to the lists here:
+*[[QBWiki:Quick links/lingo]]
+*[[QBWiki:Quick links/in-jokes]]
-== Establishing the Editorial Tone ==
+===Featured picture===
-Although the previous good vs. bad quizbowl conflicts that used to rage on the quizbowl forums are now pretty much settled, how specifically the QBWiki should address these disputes and existing areas of bad quizbowl should be discussed.
+The [[QBWiki:Featured picture|Featured picture]] page organizes the rotating pictures featured in the "Featured picture" section of the main page.
-==Specific Projects==
+==Projects==
-===Creating set pages===
+:''Main page: [[QBWiki:Projects]]
-Many question sets do not have pages. This is particularly egregious for academic sets from the past few years - for instance, at the time of writing the 2016 set [[stanford housewrite]] does not have a page, nor do many instances of [[ACF Regionals]].
+{{Bounties}}{{:QBWiki:Projects}}
-Part of this effort has been the expansion of the [[Side events]] page to provide a centralized index for side events and the creation of pages for as many of those sets as possible.
+==Guidelines==
+=== Establishing and Observing Notability Standards and Guidelines===
+See [[QBWiki_talk:Notability_guidelines| this talk page]] for notability guidelines discussion. Creating clear guidelines for notability standards will help us direct future articles and cleanup.
-===College directory===
+=== Establishing the Editorial Tone ===
-Outside of whatever resources exist within the quiz bowl companies, there is no public, centralized directory of contact information for collegiate clubs. The "[[Quizbowl directory of four-year colleges in North America]]" page exists, but has not been updated since 2017 and not in earnest potentially ever. This (or other resources like it) could serve as useful resources for the community, but would require upkeep and involvement from all clubs involved.
+Although the previous good vs. bad quizbowl conflicts that used to rage on the quizbowl forums are now pretty much settled, how specifically the QBWiki should address these disputes and existing areas of bad quizbowl should be discussed.
-===Fleshing out individuals' pages===
+===Suggestion for Focusing on School Pages===
-With a [[User talk:Ophir Lifshitz|few exceptions]], all player pages can make good use of an [[:Template:Infobox|infobox]] to display their past affiliations and provide a convenient link to their stats. It is recommended to fill out the ''firstname'' and ''lastname'' fields in the infobox, which will auto-generate links to [[NAQT]] and [[HDWhite]] pages. If one stumbles upon a page without an infobox, or without stats links, adding these in can be an easy and convenient way to improve the functionality of this Wiki.
+I would recommend in general for more of a focus on adding details to the pages on schools rather than individuals. Some reasons: 1) it will save time by reducing the overall number of articles out there that require maintenance, updates, etc. 2) it reduces the need to debate notability guidelines for an individual player by instead keeping the focus on the program itself 3) it can reduce the need to repeat the same information over and over again (e.g. about a good nationals performance by a team in one year) on multiple pages 4) it places the emphasis on quizbowl as a team competition and emphasizes the importance of the team as an institution over time with a unique history and 5) it avoids some of the issues with QBwiki pages for individuals showing up very high in search results. I'll work more on fleshing out some of the pages in the college team directory in the next few months, but I think more generally it would be good direction to work. -[[User:Chris Chiego|Chris C.]] ([[User talk:Chris Chiego|talk]]) 18:12, 21 June 2021 (CDT)