Warcraft Wiki:Community Portal/Collaborations/COTW

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Collaborations of The Week are community projects created by the Community teams. Week is used as an unspecified amount of time. The collaborations change when one has gotten enough attention and there is a new idea for a collaboration.

Previous Collaborations of the Week are archived to previous collaborations.

Current Collaboration

This collaboration will be focused on item creation and improvement. While Wowhead and WoWDB have excellent databases of items (and will prove useful in creating articles), internal links are always preferred over external links. Since many articles link to items having internal links will keep a user from having to go off-site to get to additional information. Most items pages have links to external pages, which allow the reader to go to one of the database sites if they want more information.


Items should be imported to Warcraft Wiki in a priority consistent with the likelihood of the item being linked to and the demand in likely readership for a particular item. This means that popular items than many people use or try to get, quest items, and end game epics and rares should get priority. Most vendor trash, on the other hand, is unlikely to ever be linked to by anything and isn't as needed. The priority is just a suggestion, however, and importing any items will help. Some suggestions to creating item articles or extending articles on existing items.

Choosing item articles to improve or create

With so many items in the game it can be hard to decide what item articles to create. Here are some suggestions.

  • Choose an item your character is already wearing. Most articles don't have a picture of the item in use and a picture of the item helps complete an item article, if you take a screen shot of your character wearing certain items you can create an article and use the screen shot to as a picture of the item in use. If the article already exists then you can add the picture to the article.
  • Choose a favorite item. Most of the popular items are already in Warcraft Wiki, but search for your favorite items and see if they exist. If it doesn't exist create it. If it does exist see if you can improve on it.
  • Category:Item stubs - A list of articles on items which have been created, but have no (or little) content.
  • Category:Items - Item articles, just start browsing and see which ones you can improve on.
  • Special:Wantedpages - List of pages that need to be created, look for items on this list.

Tips on creating item articles

  • Search for the item you want to add first and make sure it doesn't already exist
  • Use the item boilerplate as a starting point for creating articles.
  • Use Wowhead or WoWDB to get all the information needed for the article.
  • To find the name of an item's icon, navigate to the item on Wowhead, click its icon, and copy the name from the window that pops up (for example, inv_10_skinning_dragonscales_red for  [Infurious Scales]). Note that icons are often uploaded in batches, so newer ones may not exist on the wiki yet.
  • Once you have created an item article search for that item again. Change any references to that item into internal links.

Tips on improving articles

List of useful links

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