Author: tekmosis
Date: (PT)
Subject: Gears of War 2 Giveaway - Winners Picked!
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Congrats to our two winners: Lord Awesome and Trojanman
The contest
To participate in this contest all you need to do is contribute to the Gears of War Wiki. The winner will be picked based on their quality and volume of their submissions.Winners will be picked on December 15th, 2008
Prizes
We have TWO copies to give away!- 1 copy of Gears of War 2
- Bonus: 5 free downloadable maps
Rules
- Plagiarism is not to be tolerated. Do not attempt to claim someone else's work as your.
- Spelling and grammar must be good. We can put up with the odd mistakes but pages written in text talk will be deleted.
- Leave a summary with your edit please. It helps us understand what you have contributed, so we can credit you correctly.
- Wiki staff may participate in this contets
Getting started
quote RedemptionPersonally I believe the easiest way to get started is to browse the wikis to get a feel for them.
Learn the basic markup by clicking on the edit tags so you know some basic editing. This page here on Naruto has some nice basic markup that you can check out to get an idea.
When you feel you are ready, find some small pages and see if there's anything you can help add to them. Or perhaps find a page that has some grammar or spelling errors that you can correct. You can find small pages using a special page called the "Short Pages". (Check out the Short Pages for Metal Gear and Smackdown). These special pages list all the pages from shortest to longest, and are a great place to start.
If you are more brave you can find "Wanted" pages. These are pages that other contributors or Wiki Staff have linked from other pages but have not been created yet. Try to do more than create a page with one short sentence - write as much as you can think of to create a healthy start to the page. If you can only remember 3 sentences that's already FAR BETTER than a placeholder like "New page." If you are going to do that I would suggest you don't bother since it prevents another person from coming along and creating a proper page. To see wanted pages, check out the Wanted Pages for Zelda.
Another way you can help is to flesh out the 'hub' pages. We need linked lists of characters, missions, etc from those pages. In this way you can help build up the Wikis by generating "Wanted" pages.
Remember, every little bit helps to improve the Wikis! So if you aren't up yet to creating new pages try to help improve existing ones or even roam around finding small things to tweak.Ask the Wiki Staff and Others for Help
Many Wiki Staff are experienced in editing portals, and are familiar with what we're looking for. Also, many of our members have experience editing Wikis and can help out with editing markup and other questions, so don't be afraid to ask! That's what the Best Practices and Help forum is here for.
What to Contribute
- Check the following pages for some other pages to work on.
- Short Pages
- Wanted Pages
- Lore on GoW / GoW2
- Walkthrough style guides
- Longer written pages are more highly desired. One sentence pages aren't what we are looking for.
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Author: Lifesapper
Date: (PT)
Subject: re: Gears of War 2 Giveaway - Winners Picked!
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Another great competition, time to get researching I guess.
Author: Redemption
Date: (PT)
Subject: re: Want Gears of War 2? We
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Just a warning to members that if you haven't already played GOW2 the Wiki may already contain some spoilers. There are plenty of GOW1 related pages if you are worried about this, or just generally try to be cautious.
As with our other contests, all games are BRAND NEW sealed in their plastic shrink wrap.
This message was edited by Redemption on Nov 22 2008.
Author: Sodachugger0
Date: (PT)
Subject: re: Gears of War 2 Giveaway - Winners Picked!
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Damn, I want to win the game, but I already bought a copy.
Author: Incinarater
Date: (PT)
Subject: re: Gears of War 2 Giveaway - Winners Picked!
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Ive submitted to the locust page can you check it.
Author: GoUnderTaker
Date: (PT)
Subject: re: Gears of War 2 Giveaway - Winners Picked!
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i want this game sooo bad!!
but idk how the wiki works. can someone please give me the basic info on how to submit, and what it should be about?
Author: K Chop King
Date: (PT)
Subject: re: Gears of War 2 Giveaway - Winners Picked!
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It's quite annoying that most of these contests are about submiting to a neowiki about a game that you more than likely don't have because you're trying to win it.
Author: Sodachugger0
Date: (PT)
Subject: re: Gears of War 2 Giveaway - Winners Picked!
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Can you explain further how we prove what we contributed? I'm still not getting that.
Author: thom675
Date: (PT)
Subject: re: Want Gears of War 2? We
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hey everyone, just so you know i submitted the whole page on the centaur tank of the gow wikia. damn i really want to win this... http://gearsofwar.neoseeker.com/wiki/Centaur
Author: Mishtram
Date: (PT)
Subject: re: Gears of War 2 Giveaway - Winners Picked!
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quote Sodachugger0All your edits are recorded on the Wiki and all edits can be viewed in a list. So if there's 100 edits, someone can come through and view who edited what, what they changed and how much they added or removed from there. This includes the exact lettering and code which was added or removed.Can you explain further how we prove what we contributed? I'm still not getting that.
For example, the edit history for the main page of the Gears of War wiki allows you to compare history and edits between each version.
Author: calvin1100
Date: (PT)
Subject: re: Gears of War 2 Giveaway - Winners Picked!
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quote thom675Ok... I myself made a couple of pages and a good amount of information on other pages thom. No need to explain what you posted.hey everyone, just so you know i submitted the whole page on the centaur tank of the gow wikia. damn i really want to win this... http://gearsofwar.neoseeker.com/wiki/Centaur
Author: Spiritual
Date: (PT)
Subject: re: Gears of War 2 Giveaway - Winners Picked!
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- Many games o:. I guess it's much more easier to win the game here on neoseeker than making enough money to buy it xD. Neoseeker has been extremely generous this month xD
Author: Linkin Park Fan
Date: (PT)
Subject: re: Gears of War 2 Giveaway - Winners Picked!
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Ahh the season of giving. And Neos doing it best
Author: Unity
Date: (PT)
Subject: re: Gears of War 2 Giveaway - Winners Picked!
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There's little to nothing to contribute, especially if you've never played either of the games.
Author: Redemption
Date: (PT)
Subject: re: Gears of War 2 Giveaway - Winners Picked!
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Unity: this is far from true. You run the risk of spoilers if you have not played either game, but if you want to contribute there is PLENTY to do.
For someone who does not know the game:
Achievements
The Achievements page does not contain any of the icons for the Achievements.http://gearsofwar.neoseeker.com/wiki/Gears_of_War_Achievements
There are literally 50+ images to upload in there alone.
Missing Maps
The Maps page doesn't have overhead or map like images for all maps.http://gearsofwar.neoseeker.com/wiki/Maps
It also has tons of text which is not linked to any pages.
Link to more pages from main page
There are many pages that could be added to the main page, perhaps organized to help people find which ones need more work.http://gearsofwar.neoseeker.com/wiki/Main_Page
Images!
Many of the pages lack images. Many of the character pages only have an image cropped from a drawing, there are no ingame pics of almost all the characters.Organisation
Many of the pages are just a dash of text. Using simple tags like bolding, splitting out info, and sorting it to look nice will greatly improve how the site looks. Even a short page like this one:http://gta.neoseeker.com/wiki/The_Fastest_Boat
can look very clean and organized if done properly.
Link back and forward between pages
http://disgaea.neoseeker.com/wiki/Axes_(Disgaea_2)Notice how the team behind the Disgaea Wiki are interlinking pages, someone could do that. There's a LOT of organising that can be done.
For someone who knows the game
Take this page for example:http://gearsofwar.neoseeker.com/wiki/Hammer_of_Dawn
It is missing:
- An image of the weapon
- screenshots of the weapon in use (I can think of 3 totally distinct phases that could be captured in 3 screenshots)
- Perhaps descriptions of where it is found/used.