TibiaWiki:Proposal for Info Task Force

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Purpose and Reason
Sometimes a user will add information to the wiki that is of questionable accuracy, and is difficult to verify or disprove.

The task force would be responsible for testing or otherwise verifying assertions made on the wiki that are unproven, cannot be substantiated outside of the game, or come from questionable sources.

Organization
The task force organization would be comprised of one or more teams of Tibia players.

Each team will be lead by one of the wiki Administrators who will be ultimately responsible for the accuracy of the outcome of each investigation. The reason for this, is to lend credence to the findings of the investigations, and remove doubt as to the accuracy of information. The wiki administrators are already responsible for the accuracy and relevance of wiki articles, so it is a clear translation to the role of team leader.

Team members may or may not all play on the same gameworld. Some requests may require testing in different types of gameworlds (PvP, Non-PvP, PvP-Enforced, Test Server, etc.), but other requests may be easier to investigate if all team members are able to connect to the same gameworld for testing and investigations.

____________       |            |        | Task Force | |____________|     _________|________ ________ ____ ___ __ _  _     |                  |        |  ___|__              __|___   __|___ |      |            |      | |      | | Team |            | Team | | Team | |_ ____|           |______| |______|   |   |-{Team Leader   } '-{Investigators }

Requests
Requests will be made by posting a message on the main task force talk page. Not all requests can or will be investigated, at the discretion of the team leaders.

Investigations
Requests will be selected by a task force team to be investigated. Once selected, the team leader will write a detailed plan for verifying or disproving the information in question, optionally including the expected outcome.

If the investigation will take more than one session to complete, then progress of the investigation will be posted to the wiki as it is known.

Wiki Articles
The task force pages will be placed in the project namespace ("TibiaWiki:").

There will be one primary task force page that will contain the following information:
 * Description of the task force and its purpose
 * List of task force groups, leaders, and members
 * Instructions for submitting an item to be investigated
 * List of accepted requests that have not begun investigation yet
 * List of items currently under investigation
 * List of items with completed investigations

The talk page for the primary task force page will be used to make requests for items to be investigated.

Each item that is investigated will have a separate sub-page (for easy reference from the rest of the wiki, archiving and reducing clutter on the main project page). This sub-page will include:
 * Complete description of the item in question, including links to relevant wiki articles.
 * Which task force group is investigating it
 * The full detailed plan of investigation and testing
 * Progress of the investigation before it is completed, including all intermediate findings, data, timing, etc.
 * The final outcome of the investigation and verdict of the item in question