Salamangkero

This user has been on UESPWiki for 13 years, 5 months, and 8 days.

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This user is knowledgeable about Morrowind.

This user is knowledgeable about Tribunal.

This user is knowledgeable about Bloodmoon.

This user is knowledgeable about the Morrowind Construction Set.

This user uses cslist.uesp.net.

This user plays on a Windows PC.

This user is an outlander in Vvardenfell.

This user took The Limeware Platter.

This user worships Azura.

This user worships Vivec.

This user is a proud member of the LGBT community.

This user knows much, tells some.

These are what I'm currently working on (or on-and-off):

Adopt-a-typoEdit

Inspired by the Adopt-a-typo project on Wikipedia, this keeps track of recurring typos in the wiki as well as persistent but easily-searchable grammatical errors. Corrections for these mistakes are usually tagged as minor edits.

For more information on the project, see the main article on Wikipedia.

For the list of errors "adopted" by this user, see the associated subpage.

BrevityEdit

The Brevity project is an offshoot of the Adopt-a-typo project. While its parent keeps track of recurring grammatical and typographical errors, this project searches for phrases known to be needlessly wordy. It is not an exact science so all corrections are made on a case-to-case basis; however, they are still usually tagged as minor edits.

For the list of phrases tracked by this user, see the associated subpage.

Cleaning up "Hints" pagesEdit

Yes DONE

• Ambiguous / vaguely-defined pages for "special" magic items.
  • Merged "special" magic armor, clothing and weapons generic or unique counterparts; see the corresponding discussion.
• Switch to {{MW Spell}}.
  • Cleaned up Diseases, Powers and Shrines as well as lists of spells for Alteration, Conjuration, Destruction, Illusion, Mysticism and Restoration.
• Switch to {{MW Spell Effect}}.
  • Cleaned up Artifacts ^{TR BM} and Quest Items ^{TR BM} as well as unique armor, clothing, weapons ^{TR BM}
• Clean up Spell Merchants ^{TR BM} pages.
  • Added text to icon-only table headers.
  • Linked merchant locations to newly-created location pages.
  • Removed from -Hints categories; they're reference pages.
  • Removed visual clutter (eg. extra-wordy notes, unnecessary check marks).
  • Used consistent intro blurb across namespaces.

• Moving misplaced info into their appropriate section / pages
• Removing original research, redundant info and unnecessary / unrelated commentary
• Rewriting sections for consistent voice (eg. some are written in 2nd-person POV, others in 3rd-person)

Page	Status	Notes
Morrowind-Hints
Alchemy
Character Creation	done	Created missing page, based on its DF, OB and SR counterparts.
Commerce	done
Containers		Cleanup, like its OB counterpart.
Enchant
Hints	in progress
Making Money	done
Myths	no work needed
Quest Timing	in progress	Fixed for mobile, but check out its OB, SR and ON counterparts.
Spell Effects	no work needed
Spells
Starting Out	done	See sandbox page.
Useful Enchantments
Useful Spells

Page	Status	Notes
Tribunal-Hints
Hints
Bloodmoon-Hints
Hints
Other pages outside Hints (category)
Combat	in progress	see sandbox page
Generic Magic Armor	in progress	Fix notes re: column headers.
Generic Magic Clothing	in progress
Generic Magic Weapons	in progress
Magic	in progress	see sandbox page
Services MW
Services TR
Services BM
Stealth	in progress	see sandbox page
Trainers

Standardizing the "Availability" of Spell EffectsEdit

Yes DONE

• Some have "Custom Potions", which just link to Alchemy; kinda redundant since there's already an "Alchemy Ingredients" section.
  • Removed "Custom Potions" links.
• Paralyze lists creatures from which it can be received (not learned)
  • Removed NPC-initiated sources of paralyze (diseases, enemies, etc.)

• Some link to artifacts / unique items in Tribunal and Bloodmoon; others don't, even if applicable
• Some link to birthsigns, quest items, racial powers, shrines and/or vampirism; others don't, even if applicable
  • Some list specific birthsigns or racial powers
  • Others list and link to just "Birthsigns" or "Races"
• Some have "Beverages" vs. "Built-in Potions" vs. "Potions" vs. "Spoiled Potions"
• Some link to magic apparel or weapons
  • Some list to "Magic Apparel" or "Magic Weapons"
  • Others list "Generic Magic Apparel"
  • Others don't, even if applicable
• Some link to unique armor, clothing or weapon
  • Some list or link to the PAGES for unique items
  • Others list and link to specific, unique items
  • Others don't, even if applicable

Standardizing other pages/sectionsEdit

Yes DONE

• The Attacks and Abilities section of {{Creature Summary}} are displayed inconsistently.
  • For Attacks, used {{MW Spell}} with mode=creature instead of {{Effect Link}} with redundant and hardcoded values.
  • For Abilities (including Diseases), used {{MW Spell Effect}} instead of {{Effect Link}}.
• The Character Creation, Books, Factions and Trainers sections of skill pages could benefit from better side-by-side behaviour on mobile.
• The Factions column of pages in Services should use the nocat option.
• The Notes section for NPCs is sometimes missing the "... is a part of the ... family, which has their own ancestral tomb." info.
  • Fixed by {{MW Ancestral Tomb Note}}; see corresponding section on sandbox page.
• The Spells section of Spell Merchants have inconsistently-worded (or even missing) notes.
  • Fixed by {{Spell Merchant Note}}; see corresponding section on sandbox page.
• The NPCs' Wares are "squeezed" when viewed on mobile browsers and the UESP app.
  • Fixed by {{MW Wares}}; see corresponding section on sandbox page.
• All bound items have a Bound Battleaxe icon; all summons have a Summon Ancestral Ghost icon.
  • Fixed by adding the correct icon via {{Effect Summary}} to Bound <Item> and Summon <Creature> spell effects.
  • Fixed by removing explicit link from {{Effect Link}} and {{MW Spell Effect}} transclusions.
  • Fixed by removing effectNLink from {{Spell Definition}} transclusions.
• Absorb / Damage / Drain / Fortify / Restore Attribute effects are not always in Category:Redirects to Broader Subjects.
  • Audited 5 spell effects × 8 attributes and added category as needed.
  • Also applied the same fixes as bound items and summons above.
• Drain Skill effects are not always in Category:Redirects to Broader Subjects.
  • Audited 1 spell effect × 27 skills and added category as needed.

• The Alchemy Ingredients section for Spell Effects sometimes read differently (see sandbox page):
  • "The following alchemical ingredients can be used to make a potion of ???"
  • "The following alchemy ingredients will create ??? effects when mixed into a potion"
  • "The following ingredients can be used to make a potion of ???"
  • "The following ingredients will cause ??? if mixed into a potion"
  • "The following ingredients will make a potion of ???"
  • "The following ingredients will produce a ??? effect if used together in potions"
  • "The following ingredients will result in a ??? effect if mixed into a potion"
• For Birthsigns, there really is no reason to display the info in tables, is there? Switch to a format closer to its OB counterpart.
• The Combinations section for Ingredients sometimes has an incomplete {{Effect Link}} for Damage, Drain, Fortify and Restore spell effects.
• The Related Quests section for items, NPCs and places lists quests inconsistently; see corresponding section on sandbox page.
• Some places are variably referred to as cities or towns; check out generic dialogue.
  • Dropping this; too tricky. There are inconsistencies across books, dialogue and journal entries.
• For Fortify Skills, add the redirects to Category:Redirects to Broader Subjects.
• The spell effects that redirect to MW:Drain Attribute have already been fixed, there's no need to link to it directly.
  • See Pages that link to "Morrowind:Drain Attribute".
  • See also, Damage, Fortify and Restore effects.

Minor fixes in other pagesEdit

Yes DONE

• Info duplicated on multiple pages
  • Grand soul gem locations in Enchant and Soul Gems
  • Lockpicking success rate in Security and Thieves Tools
• Missing / improper usage of {{Merc}} on pages that list NPCs and their Mercantile skill level
• {{Small}} is slower and results in more HTML, use <small> instead.
  • Fixed by updating the template itself to use <small>.

• {{Hide}} (or worse, invisible <span>) has been deprecated, use {{Sort}} instead.
• Eliminating (or reducing the amount of) redundant info; examples include:
  • Spellcasting success rate in Spells and Spellmakers
  • Spell cost in Spells and Spellmakers
  • A place, its hostile trainers, which skills they train and to what level... the info unrelated to the place should just be moved to the (linked) NPC page for the trainer/s concerned
• Some spells are unavailable to the player (eg. Hand of Tureynul, Hand of Uthol, Hand of Vemyn, etc.)
  • Like player-available spells, their data is stored in redirects (then used by other pages / templates)
  • Unlike player-available spells, however, the pages they redirect to (eg. Destruction Spells, Mysticism Spells, etc.) do not contain their anchors, let alone their info.
  • I think their redirects should point to the NPC page of whomever does have that spell, instead of the school of magic to which it arguably belongs. See talk page.
  • On second thought, some spells (eg. Ghost Snake) are used by more than one NPC. So that kills the "point to the NPC page" idea; I wonder if there's a better solution than "redirect to a page that doesn't mention this".
• Rewriting Western-centric idioms into more accessible phrases (eg. break the mold, more often than not, pay through the nose, running for the hills)
• Create {{SortMax}} template to sort damage ranges of Weapons; see also {{SortMid}}.

Minor fixes in other namespacesEdit

Yes DONE

• For Arena Artifacts and Artifact Quests, optimized transclusion and reduced redundancy by creating transclusion subpages.
• For Arena and Daggerfall weapons, fixed sorting of number ranges with {{SortMid}}

• All done! ^_^

See AlsoEdit

This is a list of projects and task lists I check out from time to time, helping out if/when I can.

Image Cleanup ProjectEdit

• Files Needing Cleanup
• Files Needing Renaming
• Images needing color adjustment
• Images with improper file format
• Images with improper resolution
• Images with incorrect aspect ratio
• Images with other issues
• Images with UI elements
• Placeholder Images

Incomplete PagesEdit

• Bloodmoon Incomplete Pages
• Books Incomplete Pages
• Lore Incomplete Pages
• Morrowind Incomplete Pages
• Tribunal Incomplete Pages

Morrowind Overhaul ProjectEdit

• NPC Dialogue Missing
• NPC Dialogue Unchecked
• NPC House Missing
• NPC House Unchecked
• NPC Inventory Missing
• NPC Inventory Unchecked
• NPC Quests Missing
• NPC Quests Unchecked
• NPC Services Missing
• NPC Services Unchecked
• NPC Spells Missing
• NPC Spells Unchecked
• Place Exterior Images Missing
• Place Exterior Images Unchecked
• Place Interior Images Missing
• Place Interior Images Unchecked
• Place Walkthrough Missing
• Place Walkthrough Unchecked
• Quest Objectives Unchecked
• Quest Reward Missing
• Quest Reward Unchecked
• Quest Walkthrough Missing
• Quest Walkthrough Unchecked

OthersEdit

• Broken redirects
• Double redirects
• Orphaned images / unused files
• Template loop detected

Pages Needing CleanupEdit

• Bloodmoon Pages Needing Cleanup
• Books Pages Needing Cleanup
• Morrowind Pages Needing Cleanup
• Tribunal Pages Needing Cleanup
• UESPWiki Pages Needing Cleanup
• Pages of Dubious Quality

Pages Needing VerificationEdit

• Bloodmoon Pages Needing Verification
• Morrowind Pages Needing Verification
• Tribunal Pages Needing Verification