SmashWiki:Project

A project is an organized effort to direct attention towards particular substandard areas of the wiki that need improvement. This page features every ongoing wiki project for editors looking for something to help out with.

Current projects

Project name	Relevant links	Description	Status
Cleanup of the Notable Players sections	SmashWiki:Cleanup of the Notable Players sections	Any remaining "Notable players" sections on character articles need to be overhauled to comply with our new standards, go to the dedicated project page for full details. Additionally, there are "Most historically significant players" sections that are updated to the proper format, but have substandard blurbs written for the players, which need to be rewritten as well-written summaries that actually explain how the player is historically significant, and not just be a banal list of results and contextless wins.	Ultimate has been completed and some characters just need an update. Every Smash 64 character article has the proper format and been trimmed down, but most of the blurbs are overly basic and need to be elaborated on. Every Project M character article is listed as complete, but many of the character articles still do not have the proper formatting. Most Brawl pages, plus a few Melee and Smash 4 pages, are still not complete.
Adding rankings sections to Smasher pages	SmashWiki:Smasher article guidelines#Rankings	Every smasher who has ever been ranked on a notable power ranking should have a section listing every notable power ranking they have been on. The section should be split into subsections by game and farther subsections by each type of ranking, while the data should be in table form, formatted as shown in the linked guidelines.	Currently in progress, as this is a recent update
Reformatting tournament results on Smasher pages	SmashWiki:Smasher article guidelines#Tournament results	On results tables in Smasher articles, use bold text to highlight all majors, and bold + italic text to highlight all supermajors. Refer to our List of majors page to see what tournaments the wiki consider to be majors and supermajors. List the number of entrants in the "placement" column, in accordance to the formatting in the guidelines. If the results table is excessively large, split the results into a linked subpage, and only keep the most important tournaments on the main article. See M2K's Melee results for an example of how this should be done.	Currently in progress, as this is a recent update.
Smash region articles	List of superregions + regions needing articles	Create articles for all major Smash regions, detailing their competitive history, significant players, and tournaments hosted. Add additional links to region pages from other competitive articles, to improve their integration into the wiki.	Most larger regions in the US + Japan have their own articles, but some smaller regions in the US, plus international regions, still need their own articles. Non-English-speaking regions may require additional attention from residents of those countries.
Reevaluating players rated as "Top level" in their infobox	Template:Infobox Smasher/doc#Skill and results information + Search results for all players currently labelled as "Top level" for at least one game within their infobox	SmashWiki has significantly tightened its standards for what is considered "Top level" after being way too loose with the label before, so most players labelled as such for any game within their infobox need to be reviewed and accordingly downgraded to the newly added "Upper high level" rating or even the "High level" rating. Refer to our guidelines for how the skill ratings should be applied.	This is a recent update so there is still much work to be done. When this first went in effect, there were nearly 1200 players labelled "Top level" in at least one game, that number is now a bit below 1000 but should be much lower. The majority of Ultimate players labelled as "Top level" have been reviewed, but other games have had a minority of their players reviewed so far.
Cleanup of History sections on Smasher pages	SmashWiki:Smasher article guidelines	Rewrite the History section of Smasher articles to be less like a news report of all the player's tournament results.	In progress
Cleanup of tournament articles	SW:TRIVIA (1), Talk page discussion (2)	Add a "Summary of events" section to important tournaments (majors and supermajors, etc.) that provides details of important events in bracket, and facts regarding the tournament's historical significance. Trim down trivia sections that are excessively long, and move trivia points to other sections of the article if applicable. EVO 2013 is an example of a tournament page that meets these criteria.	In progress
Recategorizing old tournament pages in the National and Regional tournaments categories	Category:National tournaments + Category:Regional tournaments	The "National" tournament designation has been obsoleted in favor of "Major" and "Supermajor", though most remaining pages in the National category are more befitting of the "Regional" and "Superregional" designations. We now categorize tournaments by game, so tournaments in the "Regional" category need to have the appropriate game-specific categories (e.g. Category:Regional tournaments (SSBM)), and the general "Regional" category should have nothing left in it other than the game-specific categories. Many of the pages are also more fitting in the newly added Superregional categories instead, so be sure to add the game-specific Superregional categories when appropriate.	In progress
Cleanup of bloated trivia sections	SmashWiki:Trivia + Category:Articles with excessively long trivia (Note that most violating articles are not in this category at this moment)	Many articles, especially character articles, have bloated trivia sections that are full of bad "trivia" that clearly violates our guidelines, while trivia sections are often poorly written too. Bad trivia needs to be removed, while any poorly written but salvageable trivia needs to be rewritten to meet our standards. Some trivia may additionally be legitimate information but is better incorporated into somewhere appropriate in the main article text. If editors come across violating trivia sections but are unable to clean it up at that time, they should tag the sections with {{Trivia}} to alert other editors of the violating section.	In progress
Cleanup of bloated galleries and character categories on images	SmashWiki:Images	Many articles, particularly character and stage articles, have bloated galleries full of excessive images that do not show anything uniquely noteworthy from other images already on the page. These excessive images that do not have an explicit informative purpose should be removed, galleries should not be treated as a dumping ground for every image on the wiki that features the article's subject. Many images have the categories of every character that happens to appear in the image, when character categories should only be applied to images when the character is the direct focus of the image. Images should have any such misplaced character categories removed.	In progress
Updating files with deprecated licensing	SmashWiki:Image copyrights + Category:Public domain files	While the licensing templates from the repealed image copyright tags policy have long been obsoleted by those from the newer image copyrights policy, several older files on the wiki continue to use them. These files should be updated to use the newer templates. Several files have outdated or incomplete categorization, or only have the category automatically included by the licensing template. In the latter case, only replacing the template risks putting the file in Special:UncategorizedFiles. Follow the "recommended categories" table here when dealing with such files. Some files are in the protected image list, meaning that they cannot be edited by regular users. These files will require administrator intervention.	All files except for those in Category:Public domain files and protected images have been updated.
List of glitches articles	Forum:Glitch pages	Create List of glitches articles for all five Super Smash Bros. titles. These articles should contain brief descriptions about all glitches with their own SmashWiki articles, as well as minor glitches that don't have their own pages or are included in other articles.	The List of glitches article for Melee has been created, but more minor glitches can be added to the list. The list articles for the other four main games still need to be created.

Also see Category:Projects.