Webkinz Guide:We're back!: Difference between revisions

On November 16, 2022, our wiki host, Miraheze, had one of their databases crash, and the Webkinz Guide text content was stored on that database. We paused making wiki edits while we waited for an announcement on data recovery. Luckily, on December 31, 2022, the wiki was fully restored. For the nuts-and-bolts technical and historical breakdown, have a read of the [https://meta.miraheze.org/wiki/Tech:SRE_noticeboard| Server Reliability Engineering noticeboard] at Miraheze Meta.

We knock wood and continue as normal, but we have to catch up on about 45 days of missed items, pets, and events.

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* '''Updating:''' Update the [[Webkinz Picture Guide]] and [[Webkinz Item Guide]] pages for major events such as floaty-clickysclickies, holidays, mystery boxes, etc. This is the largest and most labor-intensive task, but divided by section, many hands would make light work.

* '''Archival:''' Mirror the in-game updates in the [[Archives]], then update the [[Webkinz Picture Guide]] and [[Webkinz Item Guide]] portions accordingly.

* '''Back-filling:''' Look through old WKN pages or fansites to fill out the missing [[ArchiveArchives]] entries, or update stub or long-dormant [[CollectionItem Collections]] pages to current standard.

* '''Explanation:''' Flesh out barebones pages with more text, like Addadding or editediting ledes or new columns to [[Webkinz Item Guide]] pages that explain how they're obtainedfor in-game mechanism of availability, or adding new columns to [[CollectionItem Collections]] pageswith to explain theirin-game functionality.

* '''Expansion:''' Create new [[CollectionItem Collections]] pages, either with robot help or by manually browsing the [[Webkinz Picture Guide]] for items that fit.

* '''Deep-diving:''' Reverse-engineer or own a page in [[Information and fullyGuides]], own[[Item Collections]], theor pageselsewhere aboutfor a specific game mechanism that interests you.

* '''Polishing:''' Beautify or standardize formatting, copyedit for readability, sweep for small but repeated errors.