Project Redcap:Sub-Projects
Here are some of the sub-projects we at Project: Redcap are working on.
Getting Started
If you would like to contribute, you are more than welcome to jump in and start editing pages to help with any or all of these, or to start a sub-project of your own.
If you have not already done so, please see our contributing page before you get started. You may also find Help:Style Guide useful since it explains how to name and format pages.
Sub-Projects
New Links
One of the main goals of Project: Redcap is to link to as much Ars Magica material as possible, in any language, regardless of their age, specific content, or perceived quality. We want to be a one-stop entry point that lists all Ars Magica sites on the Web, period.
If you have an Ars Magica Web site of your own, or you know of one that is not listed, please edit this wiki to add the link, or contact us and we will add the link for you.
Depending on the nature of the site you've found, its link might best fit on any of the following. You can add the new link in more than one place, if you like.
- our Internet Site Index
- Regional Tribunal pages are best for sites about a specific Saga
Product Pages
Our list of products by edition has many missing entries. You can help us greatly by creating new pages for products you have.
The best product pages go beyond what the sales literature says about the product and tells readers what the product is like, what useful or interesting information it contains, or even what shortcomings it has. Some examples of good product pages are Houses of Hermes: True Lineages, The Sundered Eagle, and of course Ars Magica Fifth Eodition (though that last one is probably more detailed than the page for a supplement needs to be).
Some of our product pages exist, but can be improved by adding information and insights.
Foreign Languages
Project: Redcap has always been a multi-lingual site. We encourage fans to write about Ars Magica in their own language and to use Project: Redcap as a center for the online Ars Magica community in their language. Probably the most useful information you can write would be what Ars Magica books are available in your language, and information about the Fan Community that speaks your language.
New Pages
See our list of wanted pages and go ahead and start creating some!
Sister Site
There is another Ars Magica wiki on the Internet: it's called Mythic Europe. It started a few months before Project: Redcap became a wiki. The two projects are aware of each other and the maintainers have exchanged friendly e-mail messages.
What we don't have, yet, is a good connection between our two sites. It would be very useful to add links to pages in Project: Redcap that point to the Mythic Europe. So, for example, our article on House Bonisagus might benefit from a link like this:
"For additional information on House Bonisagus, see the article at Mythic Europe."
or better yet, "the Mythic Europe wiki has a list of Bonisagus magi."
Please don't copy-and-paste text directly from the Mythic Europe wiki to here. We want to co-exist on a friendly basis with them, and stealing their text is not a good way to do that. Let the two wikis remain complimentary and separate, even while we strengthen the times between them.
Strengthen In-Depth Articles
We can always use new or expanded articles on aspects of the game, like our Welcome to Ars Magica introduction, character generation, and the like.
We could also use help in making key reference pages like our FAQ, Peripheral Code page, Creature Index, etc. as complete and up-to-date as possible.
General Cleanup
Finally, we have a lot of cleaning up to do. It's not glamorous, but it's necessary, and help is much appreciated.
In August 2012, we used an automated process to import all the content from our previous wiki, PageWork, to this one. The conversion process was more than 90% accurate but that still leaves us with some pages that have garbled formatting or worse. Look for pages authored by User:Redcap Automation that have only one revision. Pleas check those for errors and correct them manually.
We also have a lot of unnecessary pages: pages that are duplicates or that have very little useful content. If you find such a page, use the Discussion link at the top of the page to tell the maintainers what you think should be done with it. It is fine to recommend a page for deletion if it consists of little more than a page reference to a spell or a Virtue. In the past we used an automatic program to generate a lot of those pages, but we now believe they clutter the site. We want to either expand them into something something useful or get rid of them.