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This is a list of potential projects and goals for the QBWiki.

Here is the QBWiki:Style Guide (WIP) - try to be consistent with formatting and style choices.

Maintaining the main page

WikiProject Maintain Main Page‎ exists to organize any future edits to the main page and the content of its boxes.

Recent tournament results

The Recent tournament results page exists to organize updates to the "Recent tournament results" section of the main page. A direct link to this week's results can be found here.

Quips

Both the lingo and in-jokes portions of the "Quick links" section have quips which rotate daily. Add to the lists here: QBWiki:Quick links/lingo and QBWiki:Quick links/in-jokes.

Projects

Main page: QBWiki:Projects

Projects for the current season

Short description	Status
Create page for the 2023-2024 season	Incomplete
Create pages for all 2023-2024 tournaments	QBWiki:WikiProject Bounties/7
Update the "Getting started" section on the Main Page with that year's tournaments	Mostly done

Long term projects

Short description	Status
Creating missing articles	In early stages
Format War superpage	Unstarted
College directory	Ongoing, neverending
Standardize school articles	Unstarted
Fleshing out individual pages	Not started in earnest
Year pages	Template created, pages not
Fleshing out categories	Unstarted
Create question part pages	Unstarted, though some already exists
Create "Quizbowl in the United Kingdom"	QBWiki:WikiProject Bounties/3
Improve editing tutorial	Unstarted
Add field data to tournaments	Unstarted, though some already exists
Incorporate known recordings of matches into pages	Unstarted

Guidelines

Establishing and Observing Notability Standards and Guidelines

See this talk page for notability guidelines discussion. Creating clear guidelines for notability standards will help us direct future articles and cleanup.

Establishing the Editorial Tone

Although the previous good vs. bad quizbowl conflicts that used to rage on the quizbowl forums are now pretty much settled, how specifically the QBWiki should address these disputes and existing areas of bad quizbowl should be discussed.

Suggestion for Focusing on School Pages

I would recommend in general for more of a focus on adding details to the pages on schools rather than individuals. Some reasons: 1) it will save time by reducing the overall number of articles out there that require maintenance, updates, etc. 2) it reduces the need to debate notability guidelines for an individual player by instead keeping the focus on the program itself 3) it can reduce the need to repeat the same information over and over again (e.g. about a good nationals performance by a team in one year) on multiple pages 4) it places the emphasis on quizbowl as a team competition and emphasizes the importance of the team as an institution over time with a unique history and 5) it avoids some of the issues with QBwiki pages for individuals showing up very high in search results. I'll work more on fleshing out some of the pages in the college team directory in the next few months, but I think more generally it would be good direction to work. -Chris C. (talk) 18:12, 21 June 2021 (CDT)

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 Both the lingo and in-jokes portions of the "Quick links" section have quips which rotate daily. Add to the lists here: [[QBWiki:Quick links/lingo]] and [[QBWiki:Quick links/in-jokes]].
-== Creating New Needed Pages ==
+==Projects==
-{{Project missing articles}}
+:''Main page: [[QBWiki:Projects]]
-If there are any new pages that need to be created, please list them at this link and/or take on a page that needs to still be created. [[Special:WantedPages |This page]] may be useful in identifying some of those.
+{{:QBWiki:Projects}}
-[[QBWiki:WikiProject Missing Articles|WikiProject Missing Articles]] is meant to fill in a lot of historical data about teams, players, and sets of the past and present.
-*I'd like to see a large sort of "superpage" on the history of the Format Wars specifically with lots of examples from actual posts to show what kind of arguments were being made and how over time the principles of good quizbowl began to spread but also evolve themselves into what we see today.
-{{-}}
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 ===Suggestion for Focusing on School Pages===
 I would recommend in general for more of a focus on adding details to the pages on schools rather than individuals. Some reasons: 1) it will save time by reducing the overall number of articles out there that require maintenance, updates, etc. 2) it reduces the need to debate notability guidelines for an individual player by instead keeping the focus on the program itself 3) it can reduce the need to repeat the same information over and over again (e.g. about a good nationals performance by a team in one year) on multiple pages 4) it places the emphasis on quizbowl as a team competition and emphasizes the importance of the team as an institution over time with a unique history and 5) it avoids some of the issues with QBwiki pages for individuals showing up very high in search results. I'll work more on fleshing out some of the pages in the college team directory in the next few months, but I think more generally it would be good direction to work. -[[User:Chris Chiego|Chris C.]] ([[User talk:Chris Chiego|talk]]) 18:12, 21 June 2021 (CDT)
-==Specific Projects==
-===Creating set pages===
-Many question sets do not have pages. This is particularly egregious for academic sets from the past few years - for instance, at the time of writing the 2016 set [[stanford housewrite]] does not have a page, nor do many instances of [[ACF Regionals]]. I recommend using the [https://collegequizbowlcalendar.com/ College Quizbowl Calendar] as a resource for tournaments of the last few years.
-Part of this effort has been the expansion of the [[Side events]] page to provide a centralized index for side events and the creation of pages for as many of those sets as possible.
-===College directory===
-Outside of whatever resources exist within the quiz bowl companies, there are few public, centralized directories of contact information for collegiate clubs. The "[[Quizbowl directory of four-year colleges in North America]]" page is an attempt on accomplishing this purpose on the wiki, but requires upkeep and involvement from all clubs involved. The directory also has a link to the [[ACF]]'s page with club info.
-=== Standardizing School Articles ===
-While there are already templates that can be used, there are still a number of schools whose entries are just stubs. Updating all of those school pages to the standard template and updating current contact/roster information would be helpful.
-===Fleshing out individuals' pages===
-With a [[User talk:Ophir Lifshitz|few exceptions]], all player pages can make good use of an [[:Template:Infobox|infobox]] to display their past affiliations and provide a convenient link to their stats. So long as a name is provided to the infobox, it will auto-generate links to [[NAQT]] and [[HDWhite]] pages. If one stumbles upon a page without an infobox, adding these in can be an easy and convenient way to improve the functionality of this Wiki.
-===Year Pages===
-Would it be a good idea to have pages for, e.g., "the 2016-2017 academic year" that can be browsed to get a sense of chronology? Each page could contain information such as a list of national tournaments and their winners, a list of that year's high school state champions, a list of packet sets produced, a list of which states ran at least 1 good-quality high school tournament, links to the "players active in ___" pages, and perhaps a list of which colleges played at least 1 tournament that year. This could be paired with any interesting firsts or other events. I've created a sample skeleton here: https://www.qbwiki.com/wiki/2016-2017\
-:I think this would be a good idea - I can see if I can't get some templates put together that would simplify the more rote parts of this (like the linking to specific categories, etc.) -[[User:Kevin Wang|Kevin Wang]] ([[User talk:Kevin Wang|talk]])
-===Categories===
-Right now each category has a very bare description of what fits inside it. They could use fleshing out to discuss the history of those categories: how they've been written over time, community perceptions of them, etc. It would also be good to have a sidebox, similar to what Introduction to Quizbowl has, to aid users in navigating between different categories and presenting a cohesive idea of what a quizbowl distribution is.