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Looking for something to do? You're in luck. Below is a list of projects the wiki community is currently engaged in. You should be able to find something in here to keep you busy.

Standardizing Pages

Though most of the pages from the old wiki have been moved here, many of them haven't been brought up to our new level of standardization, which can be found on the HRWiki:Standards page. Below are standardization projects that are still in need of special attention.

Filmography Categories

All of the main characters now have a Filmography Category. To add a toon to a character's filmography, you put a category link at the bottom of the toon's page, e.g. if Strong Bad is in Toon X, then on the Toon X page you put this at the bottom: [[Category:Strong Bad Filmography]]. That will make Toon X appear on the Strong Bad Filmography category page. The "Project" here is that many of the Toons currently don't have complete filmography links.

Cast (in order of appearance)

We'd like to standardize the way appearing characters are listed on toon pages. Many of them currently say "Featuring:" followed by a list of characters that appear in that toon. Instead, this should say something like this:

Cast (in order of appearance): Strong Bad, The Cheat

Notice that only the left part (up to and including the colon) is bold and the character names are not. And, of course, the characters should be in the order in which they appear in the toon. This is a project that may be most convenient if done in concert with the Filmography Categories project.

All the Strong Bad Emails are done, along with Toons from Full-length to Holidays. Not sure about the rest.

Thumbnails

When we first installed MediaWiki we did not have the ability to create thumbnails. Thumbnails are now enabled, and we need to comb the entire wiki changing full-sized images to thumbnails. Note: external images can't be thumbnailed, so links to external images should be removed and a interwiki image used in its place.

Most pages now have on-site thumbnails. Flag any pages that still need an image.

Wiki Cleanup

Ongoing cleanup tasks can be found at HRWiki:Cleanup

Links to be fixed

Any Homestar Runner link that in context discusses the flash cartoon as a whole and not the actual character Homestar can be changed to Homestar Runner (flash cartoon)

Kobe Problem

Figure out a way to fix the Kobe problem discussed here.

Fixed as of 17:28, 5 May 2005 (UTC). The solution is explained on the talk page.

TBC G4techTV Interview - 01 Aug 2003

Due to the succes of pages like TMBG Concert - 25 Sep 2004 and Screen Savers Interview - 24 Jan 2005, we bring you Pulse Interview - 1 Aug 2003, a new page for the "Pulse" video interview available for download on the Links page.

It would be brilliant if somebody would do this.

P.S. Please sign your posts. — InterruptorJones[[]] 14:00, 9 Feb 2005 (MST)

I have since completed the entire transcript of this interview - so this can probably be "refactored" or removed entirely from Projects. Right now, I would appreciate if others would check my work for accuracy as a few more eyes will catch the errors that I most inevitably made. For the record, I intentionally omitted many instances of the word "Uh" spoken by Matt and Mike as they don't contribute to the interview. However, there likely are some "on the record" types who insist transcripts be as accurate a possible - feel free to include them if you feel compelled to. --The Paper 16:15, 2 Mar 2005 (MST)

Splitting Fun Facts

Any toon, game- any article with many fun facts needs to be split into the categories found in HRWiki:Standards.

Release Dates

I've noticed that a lot of Toons and E-mails now have 'release date' in bold at the top of the page, with an accompanying date. I really like this feature, but it only goes back so far. Until now. With the recent use of the Live Journal website, I have managed to compile a mostly complete list of updates, going back until late 2001. (It gets sketchy there.) So anyways, if anyone wants to go over those new past updates pages, and add the release dates to the many Toons, emails, etc., that would be much appreciated. Thanks. [[User:Thunderbird L17|⇔Thunderbird⇔]] 02:59, 25 Feb 2005 (MST)

Tying Updates Together

I'm kinda afriad to do this, because they all have some kinda notoc thing or something on the pages, I don't know what they do, and am too scared I'll mess it up. So can somebody, somehow, tie all the updates pages, (2005, 2004, 2003, 2002, and 2001) all together? Either just expand the disclaimers at the tops of all of them, or maybe even make a new page with all of them on there or something? I dunno, it's up to you, but they really should be linked to somehow, now that they're all doneish. [[User:Thunderbird L17|⇔Thunderbird⇔]] 18:05, 25 Feb 2005 (MST)

I made a template that we could use; what do you guys think? —Kilroy/_talk[[]] 18:54, 25 Feb 2005 (MST)

I like it.—StrongstarRunbad 18:58, 25 Feb 2005 (MST)

So do I, it's always annoying when I try to add a new 2005 update, I have to go into the code to find the other page that I CAN edit and everything. If we add this to all 4 pages, It'll be way easier to add an update, and navigate. Count this a vote for yes.

[[User:Thunderbird L17|⇔Thunderbird⇔]] 11:54, 27 Feb 2005 (MST)

That template rocks. Most certainly yes. →[[User:FireBird|FireBird]]

Running Times

It appears that at least tomstiff, possibly others, have begun adding 'Running Time' to many toons, expanding on the section that includes Date. I think this feature is almost as important and useful as date, so if anyone would like to add running times to the various e-mails and toons, I think they would apprecate a bit of help. [[User:Thunderbird L17|⇔Thunderbird⇔]] 20:37, 7 Mar 2005 (MST)

TBC at SxSW

Page: SXSW Panel - 14 Mar 2005
The guys from HomestarRunner.com talk about their cartoons, their five years on the Internet, and show you a bunch of stuff you have never seen; including footage that they just shot at SXSW, like, today even. Puppet versions of their characters will no doubt stop by and insult you or your family. You can ask the boys questions and they will do their best to provide informative and clever answers. High fives for everyone!

The Brothers Chaps made an appearance at SxSW. There is tons and tons of info out there on this, since the kind of people who attend blogger conferences are typically bloggers. See Google and Technorati for many writeups. There are also a bunch of photos at Flickr. (Though be sure to get permission for any photos used.)

Note that there seems to be a bit of content from NYU Talk - 1 Mar 2005.

Jones found some video links for us too! hsruncut, hsrfansart, homestarkisses, and Amanda Congdon's video. There's a bit of overlap, so we should be able to get a great transcript.

Introducing a new Interwiki link

I just set up a new interwiki link that I think will make things super-easy around here (though I shant take the credit, it was Jones' idea). From now on, when you want to build a link to the official Homestar Runner site, use

[[HR:sbemail.htm|Strong Bad Email]]

instead of

[http://www.homestarrunner.com/sbemail.htm Strong Bad Email]

It's that simple. —JoeyDay (Talk) 15:23, 21 Mar 2005 (MST)

All links to homestarrunner.com should be changed to the new interwiki-type shortcut format, since now with MediaWiki 1.4 all external links have a rel="nofollow" attribute. For information on "nofollow", please see this Google article. -- Tom 14:19, 3 Apr 2005 (MDT)

Actually, that was my idea when we were moving to MediaWiki :P - furrykef (Talk at me) 08:21, 26 Apr 2005 (UTC)

I think you had a similar idea. -- Tom 20:42, 26 Apr 2005 (UTC)

That's not what I was talking about at all. I was talking about Interwiki, exactly the way Joey did it. I don't know if that discussion actually took place on this wiki or not, though. Of course, it's not important anyway. :) - furrykef (Talk at me) 12:53, 27 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Fan Stuff List

I'm trying to get all the Fan Stuff Items onto the Fan Stuff page. #1 - 10 are already there, if anybody could do a few I'd appreciate it. --Gafaddict 13:10, 29 Mar 2005 (MST)

Sightings

The Sightings page has some terrible grammar and spelling and is altogether very cluttered. The whole page needs to be cleared out. →FireBird

I think Sightings should be split into various page like TV Sightings, Comic Sightings etc. That nobody has to sift through a million "this webcomic made a reference" sightings to get to interesting ones. Aurora the Homestar Coder 16:59, 29 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Food

I recently added a new article, Food , because there are something like 30 different food articles which aren't connected. I didn't have enough time, though, to write much or make a very extensive list. Please help out. I also added a Cuisine section to the Free Country, USA page.

- Anonymous

Lists like you are thinking of making are generated by our category system. See Category:Food and drinks. Also, I left a comment on the talk page regarding the merits of that article. -- Tom 15:44, 4 May 2005 (UTC)

Things to Merge

Parrot / Possum -> The Dregs
Army-Style Mayo / Awwww Gratin Potates / Good Gravy -> King of Town Select Food or similar. See discussion here.

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 ==Kobe Problem==
 Figure out a way to fix the [[Kobe]] problem discussed [[Talk:Kobe|here]].
+:Fixed as of 17:28, 5 May 2005 (UTC). The solution is explained on the talk page.
 ==TBC G4techTV Interview - 01 Aug 2003==