User:Rayc/Wikiquest
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[edit] Newbie Quests
[edit] Quest: First edit
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- Description: The first quest any wikipedian goes on. Simple gain one edit that is not reverted.
- Requirements: None
- Skills gained: Access to the normal quest list, Edit skill
- Edit count: Minor
- Wikitrust gain: Minor
- Wikipedia benefit: Gains new users
[edit] Quest:”User account”
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- Description: The RC and Newpage patrols scan all anon activity for vandals. Creating an account take you off RC's list, as well as giving you new skills
- Required Skills: None
- Required Quests: None
- Wikiskills gained: minor Edit, Newpage
- Knowledge Gain: none
- Edit count gain: none
- Wikitrust gain: Some
- Wikipedia benefit: none
[edit] Quest:”User page”
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- Description: While gaining a user account give you access to all the skills of the user, making a user page will allow you to be taken off of the Newpage patrol's list as well. Construction of the user page also is the first quest in the wiki social branch and is needed for some other quests
- Required Skills: Edit
- Required Quests: User account
- Wikiskills gained: None
- Knowledge Gain: None
- Edit count gain: minor
- Wikitrust gain: Some
- Wikipedia benefit: Allows Wikipedia to point to the types of users, allows wikistatistitions to study users.
[edit] Quest:”First new page”
- Description:This quest is to show other users that you have unique *Knowledge to share, as well as gaining your first new page
- Required Skills: Newpage
- Required Quests: User account
- Wikiskills gained: none
- Knowledge Gain: + in area of page topic
- Edit count gain: minor
- Wikitrust gain: minor
- Wikipedia benefit: Majority of new articles are started this way
[edit] Quest:”First move”
- Description: Moving pages is common on wikipeida. If you mess up on your first newpage's name or find one that needs to be moved later on, use the move tab at the top of the page. Remember to move any thing that links to it as well!
- Required Skills: none
- Required Quests: User account
- Wikiskills gained: Move, what links here
- Knowledge Gain: none
- Edit count gain: minor
- Wikitrust gain: none
- Wikipedia benefit: Allows pages to be moved or renamed
[edit] *Edit count quests
[edit] Quest:”Double Trouble”
- Description: The help deskers are perpetually receiving complaints about double redirects, or redirects directing to redirects. The software can't handle this, and it causes a load on the servers as well as complaints from the readers. A wikicoder has created a double redirect scanner and turns it on once and a while. If your lucky, it was just recently. Help clean up all of the double redirect on the list.
- Required Skills: minor edit
- Required Quests: First edit, user account
- Wikiskills gained: Redirect, Firefox speed tab edit
- Knowledge Gain: none
- Edit count gain: Major!
- Wikitrust gain: Minor
- Wikipedia benefit: Cleanup, server load decrease, fixes errors
[edit] Quest:”Link rot”
- Description: The number of external links in wikipedia is approaching 1 million. While page movers know to fix their links, when an external link is moved outside of wikipedia, the link turns to link rot. The link farmers came to the wikicoders to see if they could be of help. The wikicoders came up with a scanner that scans for dead links. If you are lucky, the scan will have just happened. Find the linkrot page and fix a good chunk of rotten links.
- Required Skills: minor edit
- Required Quests: First edit, user account
- Wikiskills gained: Internet linking
- Knowledge Gain: Random info on links correcting
- Edit count gain: Some
- Wikitrust gain: Some
- Wikipedia benefit: Reduces link rot
[edit] Quest:”Splel problems”
[edit] Quest:”Random pager”
[edit] Quest:”Orphan finder”
[edit] Stubland quests
[edit] Quest: “Stub sort”
- Description: The stub sorters of Stubland are perpetually sorting stubs, or small articles, in to progressively more precise stubs. Help them complete one of their sub-stub category sorts.
- Required skills: Edit, minor edit
- Required quests: None
Skills gained: Stubify, Sub-stubify
- Knowledge Gain: Minor in area of sort
- Edit count gain: High
- Wikitrust gain: Minor
- Wikipedia benefit: Helps the stub writers find articles
[edit] Quest:”Stub find”
- Description:The stub sorters of stubland are looking new or improperly named stub templates. Find one, list it on the stub discovery page, and follow it through to it's eventual demise
- Required Skills:
- Required Quests: Stub sort
- Wikiskills gained:
- Knowledge Gain:
- Edit count gain: Minor
- Wikitrust gain: Good
- Wikipedia benefit: Gets rid of
[edit] Quest:”Stub create”
- Description: The stub sorters of stubland are the masters of the stubs in wikipedia. A wikiproject guild leader approaches you to go to them to create a stub for him, since you have had dealings with them before. Create a new stub type and make sure it survives.
- Required Skills:
- Required Quests: Stub sort
- Wikiskills gained: Stub template creation
- Knowledge Gain: none
- Edit count gain: Minor
- Wikitrust gain: + if through proper channels, - if not
- Wikipedia benefit: Helps keep the stub categories manageable sized
[edit] Wikisentry quests
[edit] Quest:”RC patrol”
- Description: When a Wikipedian is board, or wants to become a wikisentry, they go to the recent changes page and scans the “diffs”, or the changes made, by anon editors. Complete a total of 1 hour worth of scanning changes.
- Required Skills: Edit
- Required Quests: First edit
- Wikiskills gained: RV, diff scan
- Knowledge Gain: Vandal recognition level 1
- Edit count gain: Some
- Wikitrust gain: Some, unless RVing good edits
- Wikipedia benefit: This is the main source of review for edits so, quality and vandal squashing
[edit] Quest:”RC patrol 2”
- Description: Now that you are a skilled RC patroler, it is time to learn the tricks of the trade. Pick a known vandal while RC patroling and tail him using the recent contributions button. Check all edits marked “top”. Any vandal, place a test template on his talk page. Place a test2 temple for those that have a test template, a 3 for 2 and a 4 for 3. Do this until you find a really active vandal, a.k.a. One that is marked with the test4 template. Find the vandalism in progress page and report the test4 for banning.
- Required Skills: RV, diff scaning
- Required Quests: RC patrol
- Wikiskills gained: Recent changes, test
- Knowledge Gain: Vandal recognition level 2
- Edit count gain: Minor
- Wikitrust gain: Some, unless contested
- Wikipedia benefit: Main source of wikipedia vandal bans. Cuts down on the repeat offenders and helps out other RC patrolers know who is who
[edit] Quest:”Newpage patrol”
- Description: New pages are created all the time, at a rate of about 2000 a day. The newpage patrol is a bunch of RC patrolers that also have deletion and clean up skills. This elite force is the only thing that stands between wikipedia and a massive glut of orphaned and vandal pages.
- Required Skills: ??
- Required Quests: RC patrol 2, ??
- Wikiskills gained: speedy delete tagging, ???
- Knowledge Gain: Vandal recognition level 3, ???
- Edit count gain: Some
- Wikitrust gain: Negative ??
- Wikipedia benefit:
[edit] Wikimages quests
[edit] Quest:”Black out”
- Description: One of the simplest quests for beginning wikimages is to learn how to use the bold function. Goto the wikify backlog and pick a letter. Preceded to find the first mention of the subject of the article and place three semiquotes around it if needed. Place four if is a book or a movie, and add a brief intro if the name isn't mentioned. Complete the entire letter to gain the layout skill.
- Required Skills: Edit
- Required Quests: none
- Wikiskills gained: Bold, italic, bold and italic
- Knowledge Gain: Layout skill +
- Edit count gain: Good
- Wikitrust gain: none
- Wikipedia benefit: minor help to the wikifiers and cleanup-ers
[edit] Quest:”Cat got your tongue”
- Description: The set-theorists of wikipedia are always busy trying to classify the categorization process here. They have discovered that it is some combination of loops and trees. Goto the cat monks of catneeded and train with them to learn the proper categories that pages need. Complete a good chunk of there backlog and gain the layout skill
- Required Skills: Edit,
- Required Quests: none
- Wikiskills gained: cat, template catneeded
- Knowledge Gain: Layout skill +
- Edit count gain: Some
- Wikitrust gain: none
- Wikipedia benefit: Helps to group alike articles
[edit] Quest:”Catch a cat by the tail”
- Description:You happen upon large and unorganized categories on your questing around wikipedia. You return to the cat monks of catneeded for help. They teach you the proper division and naming of new cats. Your final test to become one of them is to organize a major cat and create the subcats properly in order to deter the wrath of the deletion-its.
- Required Skills: Cat
- Required Quests: Cat got your tongue
- Wikiskills gained: New Cat
- Knowledge Gain: Layout skill +, minor info in the major cat's topic
- Edit count gain: Some
- Wikitrust gain: minor
- Wikipedia benefit: Cleans up the cats
[edit] Quest:”A death of a cat”
- Description: One of the easiest categorization skills needed by wikimages is the by year cats. The timeliners need this information to properly create their timelines. Have 100 edits that organize articles by year, like category:1812 deaths, to gain this layout skill
- Required Skills: Cat
- Required Quests: Cat got your tongue, (timeline)
- Wikiskills gained: Cat-year
- Knowledge Gain: Layout skill +
- Edit count gain: some
- Wikitrust gain: none
- Wikipedia benefit: Helps timeliners
[edit] Wikify quests
Quest: “stub wikify”
- Description: The wikifiers are one of the two founding races of wikipedia. Their skill is to interlink articles together so that readers can instantaneously jump from one to the other. Train with them in the wikify backlog. Find short stub artciles in the backlog, stubify them, add categories and interlink all the proper words. Learn how much linking is too much. Remove 50 wikify tags to gain this layout skill.
- Required Skills: Stub, substub, cat
- Required Quests: Stub sort, Cat got your tongue
- Wikiskills gained: wikilink
- Knowledge Gain: Layout skill +
- Edit count gain: Some
- Wikitrust gain: minor
- Wikipedia benefit: Cuts into the wikify backlog and allow readers of stubs to get to better written articles
Quest:”Wikify and copy vio”
- Description: Vandals and newbies place copyrighted material in wikipedia all the time. One of the founding races of wikipedia, the GDFLers, come to you for help. They say that the copyrighted material is strune throughout the wikify backlog and they need to find it before lawyers do. They will teach you the google copyvio search function if you then use it to find 10 copyright violation in the backlog and place it on the possible copyvio page.
- Required Skills: wikify
- Required Quests: stub wikify
- Wikiskills gained: copyvio, google copyvio search
- Knowledge Gain: Layout skill +, ablilty to find copyvios in other nonwikipedia works
- Edit count gain: minor
- Wikitrust gain: some
- Wikipedia benefit: Keeps copyright violations out of wikipedia
Quest:”Disambiguation”
- Description: The wikifyers have a problem. It would seem that on occasion more than one article is being writen with the same name. The splitters have taken care of most of the problem by splitting up the pages and making them accessible by articles known as disambiguation pages, but the word hasn't gotten out and people still link to them. Your job is simple. Find the disambiguation pages with links and, using the wikifyer's pipe technique, sort one disamb page's what links here to gain this skill
- Required Skills: wikify, what links here
- Required Quests: stub wikify, First move
- Wikiskills gained: Inline pipe
- Knowledge Gain: minor in area of sort
- Edit count gain: Some
- Wikitrust gain: none
- Wikipedia benefit: Helps readers by fixing wikilinks
Quest: “Major wikify”
[edit] Cleanup quests
Quest:”Cleanup on aisle 2!”
- Description: Upon questing around wikipedia, you happen upon seriously messed up pages, but don't know what to do with them. The wikimages tell you to add the cleanup tag to them, and list them on the cleanup page. Find 10 and gain this layout skill.
- Required Skills: Edit
- Required Quests: none
- Wikiskills gained: cleanup
- Knowledge Gain: none
- Edit count gain: minor
- Wikitrust gain: negative
- Wikipedia benefit: Alerts cleaners to potential problems
Quest: “Cleanup sorting”
- Description: Your final skill needed before becoming a cleanup master, cleanup sorting is like stub sorting for cleanup types. The newpage patrol and random pagers place the template cleanup on articles without indicating why or when. Date undated tags and indicate with another temple tag what is wrong with the article. Do this to 20 articles to gain this layout skill.
- Required Skills: Cleanup
- Required Quests: Cleanup on aisle 2!
- Wikiskills gained: cleanupdate
- Knowledge Gain: Layout skill +
- Edit count gain: minor
- Wikitrust gain: minor
- Wikipedia benefit: Quantifies the cleanup tags and fixes the mess caused by inattentive cleanup tagers
Quest: “Cleanup master”
[edit] Wikicleric quests
[edit] Quest:”NPOV finder”
- Description: The first step in becoming a wikicleric of the church of the NPOV is to know what NPOV is. The wikimages have come up with a template called NPOV to place on any article that represents an article that conforms to a specific point of view. Find 10 of these while questing to gain this arbitration skill.
- Required Skills: Edit
- Required Quests: none
- Wikiskills gained: NPOV tagging
- Knowledge Gain: Recognition of NPOV in everyday life
- Edit count gain: minor
- Wikitrust gain: Negative
- Wikipedia benefit: Helps to identify POV articles
[edit] Quest:”NPOV corrector”
- Description: The second task in becoming a wikicleric is knowing how to fix NPOV. Learn how to use the talk pages and to neutralize POV. Goto the NPOV backlog and fix ten conflicts permenantly.
- Required Skills: none
- Required Quests: none
- Wikiskills gained: Talk page creation
- Knowledge Gain: NPOV writing
- Edit count gain: minor
- Wikitrust gain: Depends
- Wikipedia benefit: Helps correct POV articles
[edit] Quest: “RfC”
- Description: Now that you are a seasoned wikicleric, trained in the ways of healing NPOV, your skills are in high demand. Occasionally you find wikipedians fighting over POV that even you cannot resolve. Your elders teach you the skill called RfC, or request for comment, to use in times like this. It draws other wikipedians to your aid. Use it once correctly to gain the skill.
- Required Skills: NPOV writing, Vandal recognition level 1
- Required Quests: NPOV corrector, RC patrol 1
- Wikiskills gained: RfC
- Knowledge Gain: none
- Edit count gain: minor
- Wikitrust gain: Depends
- Wikipedia benefit: Alert other editors to a problem
[edit] Quest: The mediator
[edit] Quest: Abatration helper
[edit] Quest: Arbitration member
[edit] Wikifighter quests
[edit] Quest: “Home base”
[edit] Quest: ”Stub writer”
[edit] Quest: “Stub expander”
[edit] Quest: “Stub destroyer”
[edit] Quest: “Missing pruner”
[edit] Quest: “Missing Writer”
[edit] Quest: “Missing master”
[edit] Wikisocial-ist
[edit] Quest: “User categorization”
[edit] Quest:”Barnstar”
- Description: Barntars have been part of the wikipedian culture for ages. They are given when one member of the community sees that another has or is making great advances in some field. Barnstars are also highly recommended when requesting an adminship. Have one person give you a barn star to complete this quest.
- Required Skills: none
- Required Quests: Many repeated quests in one area
- Wikiskills gained: none
- Knowledge Gain: none
- Edit count gain: none
- Wikitrust gain: Great
- Wikipedia benefit: Helps to identify valued members of the community
[edit] Quest: “Barnstar giver”
[edit] Quest: “Village pump”
[edit] Quest: “IRC”
[edit] Quest:”Signpost tipster”
[edit] Quest:”Signpost writer”
[edit] Quest:”Wikimania”
Deletionists:
[edit] Quest: “AfD 1”
[edit] Quest: “AfD 2”
[edit] Quest: “Odd deletes”
[edit] Quest: “Reg dregs”
==Photgraphers==:
[edit] Quest:”Photo sleuth”
- Description: The first step in becoming a wikiarcher is to learn where images come from. The wikipedians use pictures from the creative commons, a vast separate wiki full of pictures. Those pictures come from various sores. The GDFLers, the lawyers of wikipedia, want to know where those images came from and their copyright status. Find and tag 10 pictures in the commons to gain the photo tagging skill
- Required Skills: none
- Required Quests: none
- Wikiskills gained: Phototagging
- Knowledge Gain: Picture copyright law
- Edit count gain: minor
- Wikitrust gain: minor
- Wikipedia benefit: Helps keep copyrighted pictures out of wikipedia
[edit] Quest:”Photo finder”
[edit] Quest: ”Photo quester”
[edit] Quest: “Photo maker”
Wikicoder quests:
[edit] Quest: “Basic bot”
[edit] Quest “Atono-bot”
[edit] Quest “Offline report”
[edit] Quest “New Scanner”
Featured quests:
