Wikihack:How to help

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Because this is a wiki, anyone can edit and change almost any page. However, to help make Wikihack a useful and interesting place for NetHack players, we ask for you to:

1. Be a NetHack player
2. Read the wiki editing tutorial
   • Optionally, practice editing in our sandbox
3. Create an account
4. Read our style guide

That is all! Step 4 is important, as a consistent look and feel helps other readers use the wiki.

Contents 1 TODO list 1.1 General tasks 1.2 Specific tasks 1.3 Automatable tasks 2 Other wiki help

[edit] TODO list

If you want something done and won't or can't do it yourself, try adding it to one of the following lists, or mark the relevant page with a {{todo}} notice.

[edit] General tasks

• Fix typos
• Turn awkward grammar into beautiful prose
• Do something from the Todo list
• Create a page that doesn't exist yet
• Browse the category tree and find a place for uncategorised pages, images and categories
• Fix double redirects, if any
• Choose a stub article and expand it
• Add source code footnotes for specific NetHack facts
• If you are a source diver, annotate some source code
• Welcome anonymous users by placing "{{subst:welcome}} --~~~~" on their talk page
• Participate in discussions at the Community Portal

[edit] Specific tasks

• There are still many ring/wand/potion/scroll/spellbook articles which are either non-existent or very short stubs. Expand them!
• We have "best" solutions for sokoban (those leaving no boulders immobile); we should also have fastest solutions.
• There are many special levels yet to be mapped, like in the Gazetteer.
• The role articles need more structure and a lot more detail.
• We (and, in fact, the net in general) have very few articles about SLASH'EM, though see the style guide on this.
• We have no/stubby articles about past tournaments and winners.
• We lack screenshots of NetHack running on exotic platforms.
• There are many properties with no/stubby articles.

[edit] Automatable tasks

If you're good with scripts, or just have a thing for mind-numbing repetitive chores, you can do something on this list:

• The pages for weapon, armor, comestible, monster etc. are currently just lists. They could at least be tables showing some basic stats, and possibly even a series of tables ordered by different properties, e.g.:
  • Weapons (by damage to large monsters)
  • Weapons (by weight)
  • Monsters (by difficulty)
  • Monsters (by speed)

[edit] Other wiki help

• Wikia:Category:Help has some general help pages
• MediaWiki Handbook has technical documentation about the wiki software