User blog:Baziel/SR2 Enemies G-S, Images, More Crew, Expanded Locations, the House of the Dollmaker, Kain Background and bots

Another deluge of updates this time.

By far the most numerous work has been in Images with a multitiude of new shots and files, that will eventually be added to pages (and in some cases already have). Most of these are in four major categories: SR1 weapon Icons, BO1 overland maps, SR2 bonus materials and Defiance bonus materials.

On the completed pages front, I've been continuing on through SR2 Enemies and have completed, referenced and added pictures for Greater Sluagh, Greater Thralls, Groundlings, Lightning Demons and Mutants, and begun work on the Sarafan Warrior Pikemen page. On top of this, Dubiel has completed and referenced the House of the Dollmaker page (including new indoor maps), as well as working on some major updates to the Kain page - filling in some Background details, including sections on Character development, Voice acting and audio, Appearance, Personality and Real-World reception.

Continuing on from last time's crew updates, Dubiel has also been putting up a load of new stub pages, mostly around the crew involved in The Dark Prophecy, including new stubs on Ritual Entertainment, Ranjeet Singhal, Aaron Hausmann, David Demaret, Jason Muck, Richard Gray, Anderson Gaston and Andez Gaston, as well as other real-world related stubs in GlyphX, Boyd Lake, Jon Curry and Sheatiel Sarao.

The Main Locations Category has also been updated, with many locations now sub-divided into areas and sub-areas, rooms, landmarks and regions, and with new stub pages for the Subterranean Ruins in SR2 and Underworld in Defiance.

And finally, with ongoing unification and housekeeping drives still occasionally upsetting links and other bits, I've elected to finally get around to learning bots - For those not in the know, bots are essentially a 'simulated user' run from an external program that can find and 'correct' info en masse in a short amount of time - they are incredibly useful, but complicated to run and could potentially be incredibly damaging to any site. After looking into it, I've learnt how to use them semi-automatically and have now commissioned a bot - User:Guardian Construct- to help out with clean-up and housekeeping issues; it's now been flagged as a bot, so it shouldn't show up in records (unless you go looking for it), but it is there being sent out every so often to help me.

Until next time, Vae Wikitis Baziel 17:53, May 31, 2012 (UTC)