User blog:NoGround/3 Days into editing the KumoDesu Wiki

So, the Kumo Desu community is growing rapidly with the announcement of the Anime, the PV release, and more. I'm one of those members, participating in both the reddit and wikia communities.

Actually, it was from the Discord that someone had the idea to start editing the fandom wiki, I saw it, and now here I am, 500+ edits later. When I first launched the homepage my initial thought was "this is a wreck." The navbar (still) needs work, the homepage looked ugly and was difficult to read. Things were all over the place... and this was just the start!

I rolled up my sleeves, and with the help of several others on Kumo Desu Discord team, we set to work. This is my first fandom.wikia project, so I was essentially blind at the start, but thankfully I have a solid background in User Experience Design and Web Development. My first task for myself was to reorganize the homepage a bit. I changed some CSS and fixed some templates, while at the same time I learned template pathing, the result of which is the Universe Template and all its pieces. The homepage is cleaned up, now, with appropriate credits given to Okina Baba and Tsukasa Kiryuu, and the Universe Portal is clean and easy to add things to. It's bare-bones, but at least it looks clean.

From there it was more of a hit-and-run operation than anything else. See something that needs editing? Work on it. Templates need consistency? Change all the character pages to match. Monsters need images, skills, whatever? Get on it. Need new templates? Make them. Categories need reorganizing? Do it.

It's been hectic, and only today have we gotten to the point where we can organize editing rules and tasks to individuals. Now I'm not running so blind in regards to Wikia editing, either.

Beyond that, I've also added a ton of images to the site, from mini profile pictures for characters to cutting and editing character full-body shots for their profiles. I'm quite proud of how they look on their pages.

Three days of constant work later and the site is really starting to pull itself together both looks and information wise. There's still much to be done, but I thought it was about time I posted a progress report. I've done so much editing that without the archives I wouldn't be able to recall everything. I've been having fun though.