User blog:Haldarn/Current Editing Projects

Been a while posting, but I thought I'd make sure that after I'd taken on the bureaucrat admin role here, that I was definitely here to stay. I am.

It's my firm (and possibly deluded) belief that, although FFXI as we know it seems to be in its fading years, Square-Enix will never dump one of it's 'main series' titles and we will, eventually, get an HD/mobile/single player/full corpus immersion version of the game - be that in five or ten years as it may (not to mention the private servers, fan efforts and *ahem* tabletop conversions that still utilise the information that is held in these pages).

To that end, an FFXI encyclopedia remains relevant for the future. There are a couple of FFXI wikis out there, and from talking to users and editors of both, it seems like neither have any intention of going anywhere.

Rather than directly compete, I want to encourage editors over here to ensure that this wiki has its own feel and relevance. Past the underlying data, I'm hoping we can concentrate on improved layouts, taking into account not just the Oasis default skin, but the mobile (and hence Fandom app) and Monobook (for those who don't like the Fandom links) appearances. I want to encourage UserPages to be used as a linked-up customizable character record sheet via checklist templates. I want to ensure data content pages are not taking up space with default blank information spaces. I want guides to receive an update.

That's a lot for me to do. Even with the half-dozen other regular editors (who have their own goals and preferences), it's a big job. I've tried reaching out to the community with Comments on articles (caused more problems than it solved), Chat (I've chatted to one person) and Discussions (no interaction there!), and been unsuccessful so far. I'm hopefully going to be linking through to a Discord channel soon in the hopes that a lot of FFXI players already have a presence there via reddit/BG/Guildwork and their own linkshells.

So if you're reading this and you have any requests, thoughts or anything *at all*, drop a comment or come speak to us and we'll get things moving. It was from seeing a user's comment in the reddit Discord channel today that I've put the 'New Adventurer's Guide' on the list to be updated (I contacted Korvana a while back to check that it was ok to update it, but it hasn't been a priority).

Anyhow, you can see the top of my UserPage for ffxiclopedia projects I want to give priority. Let me know if there's anything you want me to add!