User:Rkaneus

For now, please don't delete this page until it hasn't been edited )preferably by me) in a while. Please also don't edit sections I haven't flagged

"I will let this stay for now, but we should not be making extraneous pages. Also for you: Your To Do compile list of missing images/icons - This should be done on each page individually. I beleive most Icons are accounted for. Maybe not the beacon and home. Images are needed in a lot of places.  find out how to do page redirection/deletion requests - You can message me. I have been cleaning up as well. Also redirects can be done by editing a page and in the settings menu on the top right you can type in a redirect page.  find out how to setup/add to categories - Not sure what you mean by this. like vehicles? its just a keyword link. Look at vehicles for now.  continue consistency updates to atomic page groups -  Not sure what you mean by this either

I will give you a week on this page. If you are aiming to update the main page with the information you compile below; great, but everyone on this wiki should not be making workspaces like this. " - Crychair

@Crychair "Ta for the pointers. I explore, gather data and process it into actual usable information and try and put it somewhere where people can see it. Id work to some plan if there was one but have asked in the community and gotten no response. There is no 'indeed' or 'plan' pages or links anywhere I can see. This page was my response to not hearing from anyone. It has a name almost guaranteed to get peoples attention but only if they look at the index of all pages which normal users almost never do.

To clarify some things: Saying on the planets page "we need an icon for the moon" then on another place "we need this" does no good in terms of getting stuff done unless one goes page to page looking for what is needed and only does that. When Im playing and I see something on the list i can snag it, upload it and tick it off. It was copied to here because its part of my notes. Im less worried about like bullet point icons since those are steadily being done by someone working heavily in those pages. but like there are not yet images of what many of the different materials look like in 'nature'.

By categories I mean the alphabetized lists of pages. Vehicles is a standard content page that talks about the different vehicles, but or whatever it is, is a page that just lists "T Truck Truck/fr" etc.

By atomic pages I mean Coal, Hydrazine etc or Truck - these cant be broken down anymore. Cramming all info about all planets into one page is bad, so its broken down into Arid Terran etc and Planets just describes planets in general and links to all the atomic pages. You put everything where it goes so the data for it is in one place and you then reference it rather than duplicate it all over. These atomic pages especially need to all be consistent (within their groups at least) - to have the same kinds of data under the same headings in the same layout. Specifically the materials pages ARE mostly consistent, they just lack specific images and stuff - so Im adding them where others don't beat me to it. I have been specifically rewriting the vehicle pages to add in images and other info that has been lacking.

My hope would be that yes, the proposed hierarchy below would be implemented on the front page. It would look terrible until its at least complete in the top levels though, and as mentioned Im not a coder so most of what I see in the source for those pages is lost on me. If people can see where they can go for the info they want and that there is a lot of info available they might just be enticed into the game more or be less grumpy because they dont understand something.

Now, you haven't identified yourself, although you act as if you own the place. This information is only here as courtesy for edification of others, I work from my own local copy. If you would get some satisfaction from deleting it, do so.

I asked the community for help with the accepted names for things and was deafened by silence. After much digging and reading, I found the most popular name for the random things you put in the research table was "Artifacts" so I looked, found the page called that, also found other pages about the same things but with different names and set to cleaning up and merging all known data into Artifacts. Then I found the Research page and found it was already doing some of what I had hoped to do *so I moved the atomic data from that page and merged it into where it is supposed to be so that people fan find it*. I then reorganized the RESEARCH page so it actually talked about what it was there for and the machine that did it, since it is where you are sent when looking for the Research Module of a base, and felt all good. Anotehr step to having a complet heirarchy.

Nekminut this crazy person called Crychair rides in on his high horse, leaves me a 'thou should play nice before editing someone elses page' then promptly reverts a page that isnt his because he is friends with the original writer or likes how pretty it looks, without looking past the pictures to the content of the page or asking why it was changed, then graciously tells me 'I will give you a week'. The documentation said this was a community, open-to-the public resource and if you didnt want things to be edited dont put them up. I am doing so. Since even if your an admin your not the only one and I havent done anything against the rules please leave me out of your politics and let me get on with helping to generate good consistent accurate navigable documentation for what is shaping up to be an awesome game. If you think I cn somehow do it all in a week your crazy. If the other regs were all pulling in the same direction and communicated, perhaps but not if stuff is reverted to add corruption and duplication of data in on a whim.

@Rkanes You got me! I haven't introduced myself. I am Crychair I am a mod on this wiki. You were right about Artifacts seeming like the right place, but this is mostly because of the fact that this is a very new wiki and not everything is in place yet. If you feel like your edit should be put back write that in the talk page for research. I did remove every trace of artifacts though because we were having redundant naming conventions for things. It seems no one has a "correct" name for them and I felt along with the other mods that the name Research was the best option. I kept your edits in there even just moved the page. I actually don't know the creator and he is not a mod, but he is doing good edits on this wiki, and I am trying to monitor most of the wiki as changes get added. I agree we should have a list of what is missing in the wiki. If you would like to assist with that, that would be very helpful and we can add it to the main page. "I asked the community for help with the accepted names for things and was deafened by silence" This as well we need a talk page for just the general user. I currently use the discord for astroneer to talk to people. I would suggest joining that and I will add it to the main page. "Since even if your an admin your not the only one and I havent done anything against the rules please leave me out of your politics and let me get on with helping to generate good consistent accurate navigable documentation for what is shaping up to be an awesome game." Don't worry its not politics it was just a name change. Don't get mad cause I edited your stuff too ok :) Also finally this technically shouldn't be a page on the wiki, but I realize why you made it. You did get my attention with it and start discussion so good job. I just don't want every user creating their on workspaces now. Make sense? Link to Discord - https://discord.gg/sbPPb8r Contact any admin there and they will add you to the astro-wiki channel. I will also add this to the main page so everyone can have a place to talk.

-- I have created this page to give myself a work space to use for a number of things:
 * I can create a basic indented tree type structure and display it without disturbing anyone else's work while I try and makes sense of how everything connects together and what is missing etc
 * I can collate/link what seems to be bits of at least three wikis all spaghetioed into one. Presumably this is from different authors making pages with different names about the same things and then just extending their own branches from there rather than growing from the same central trunk.
 * Since I haven't heard from other people so Ill put some of my notes and plannings here so that as I build things people can see more easily what Im trying to do

If you wish to poke me, Im Rkaneus on the Astroneer forums and this wiki, Rkane in steam and can be reached via astroneerstuff@starbourne.info if all else fails. and Im almost permanently connected to my Ventrilo server.

Goals
What Im hoping to achieve is to cherry pick the best of what pages exist already, upload images for stuff that seems to be missing such as a thumbnail of Oxygen in its fragmented form in cave walls or grassy hills, collect this and upload them and impose a little more structure and a lot of consistency to pages in the same groupings (I have already been doing this to the Rover and Truck pages.

To Do
compile list of missing images/icons find out how to do page redirection/deletion requests find out how to setup/add to categories continue consistency updates to atomic page groups