Welcome readers to the "anniversary blog". The previous year will be remember most notably by the "Dungeon update" and war between Russia and Ukraine, which punished the developers (among other people who live in either country) and might caused some development delays.
The update on 1st November really boosted the activity on the wiki. The number of page views per month got multiplied by 4 from ~30k to ~120k, but has fallen a little and is now moving around 100k.
Statistics[]
The internal top searches were taken over by Dungeon related pages, with Dungeon being the top one with over 3 times as many views as the second one (Airship). The only page on this list that is not related to the update is Caravan on the 8th place.
The wiki also got a boost in users by more than a multiple of 2 from ~180 to ~440. I think they were mostly unregistered users. I have discovered that I have checked the wrong box when creating a wiki, which only allowed registered users to comment and edit (oops...). Anyway... welcome!
A huge help to new players was the addition of Tavern. I would just like to thank everyone who answered any question in there and a special thanks goes to Gynny, who answered a lot of questions, especially those in Russian.
Future plans[]
The main big project we have been working on for weeks is auto updating the item's pages. This will work by having a database (or multiple of them) of where each item can be used and acquired and a script (a piece of code) that would read the database and put that information on the correct page. This is the main reason why the item's pages were not updated for the most part. Although updating item's pages may feel redundant at this time, it is still welcomed as there is no date when the script will be ready.
The other project is categorizing images. Although I don't value this as important, finding an image by looking through a category is faster and having everything in order is always nice to have (or as we in Slovenia like to say "po predalčkano" - everything in drawers). If anyone wants to do this, please start with the first image uploaded and continue forward (see Special:NewFiles). This is done by going to that image, clicking "Edit" and inserting [[Category:Category_name]]. Here are some of the categories I have come up with:
- Category:Image/nonogram - for images of solved or unsolved nonograms.
- Category:Image/item - for images of items.
- Category:Image/building - for images of buildings.
- Category:Image/legacy - for outdated images that are no longer on any page.
- Category:Image/other - for images that don't fit in any of categories above or don't know where to put them.
- Other categories, which I might need to be created (yet to be determined).
While I was looking through the "special" pages I found something interesting: a special page called "Uncategorized categories". My first thoughts were: "Why do I need to categorize categories, do I have to make new categories so I can categorize old categories and would I need to categorize those new categories as well? How deep does this rabbit hole go?" Later I have asked around Fandom and they told me that some people like to put everything in one category so that it displays a nested list of all categories (like I did on the Navigation page). That's kind of neat. Although that makes the top category uncategorized, so I put the "Nonograms Katana wiki" in the "Nonograms Katana wiki" category. :D
A category that contains itself. Now no category is uncategorized.
BTW, does anyone use the Navigation page? I use it constantly and I like having every page only 2 clicks away. Especially when I am editing I just have one tab opened with the page. I have a strange feeling that nobody uses it...
Happy new year to everyone!