With the new game being announced and on the horizon, I felt that I should make a recap of stuff that I feel should be done, hopefully before the whole bunch of new stuff need to be added after Rebirth is released!
I want to make it clear that this is not supposed to be read as any sort of *Final Word* on stuff that need to be changed on here. A lot of these are my personal opinion, and if you disagree with me and have a different vision regarding anything, please don't be afraid to bring it up for discussion in a reply to this or elsewhere on the wiki. This goes for all readers, and not only the wiki staff! The beauty of free online encyclopaedias such as this one, is that they are inherently collaborative projects, for fans and by fans, and not personal pet projects made to fulfill a specific vision of a single individual. Collaborate, discuss, and talk!
- Page structure - I feel like a lot of pages are structured inconsistently, with content that sometimes vary wildly, even within the same category. For instance, the content on the Daniel page is structured like Past > Appearances > Quotes > Trivia > Video, while the structure of the Oswald Mandus page goes Information > Storyline > Trivia > Quotes > Gallery. This issue is present throughout the entire wiki, and ideally, all pages within the same category should be standardised so they are structured somewhat similarly.
Following are suggestions regarding how I feel like pages could be structured to follow a mould better, inspired by how it's done on Wikipedia and other Fandom wikis:
Characters - Hit Expand on the right >
- Early life - Describes place of birth, childhood, general backstory. For Daniel, this would explain his bully at school, his abusive father, his nyctophobia, his sister, and his studies.
- Events of [Game, important event, or Short Story A] - Describes the events leading up to and that occurred in the game or short story they are a part of.
- Further subheadings might be required in these parts, to break the characters exploits into more easily digestible chunks - for example, on Daniel's page, this might be: "Arrival in Brennenburg", followed by "Kidnappings", followed by "Waking up with amnesia", followed by "Capture" - Something like that)
- Events of [Game, important event, or Short Story B] - This is repeated for every piece of official Amnesia-universe game, story, or important event the character is a part of. In Daniel's case, this could be "Trip to Algeria", which would include the events of Old Friends, and everything up until embarking on the ship back to England, followed by "Examining the Orb", which would detail the events up until Daniel decides to travel to Brennenburg; followed by "Events of The Outrider", followed by "Events of Amnesia: The Dark Descent", which is a section that would probably, as stated before, be split into several subheadings.
- Death and/or legacy - Would describe the characters demise, if they are dead, and explain how their actions and life might have affected other in-universe stuff. For instance, in Daniel's case his relation to Oswald Mandus would be mentioned here.
- Personality and characteristics - Describes the characters personality, motivations, characteristics, etc.
- Quotes
- Trivia - You know what this is. Fun facts and alike.
- Gallery
- Video
- References
Monsters - Hit Expand on the right >
- Description - Describes the monster's appearance, behaviour, and effects on the player character & gameplay.
- Origins - Describes how the monster came to be in-universe. Includes folklore, and how the monsters are described by characters in-game.
- Appearances - Describes the various encounters with the monster in-game and in-universe.
- Sound - Describes the monster's theme music (with playable audio), and sound effects.
- Design - Retells Frictional Games' descriptions on creating the monster in question, if applicable.
- Trivia
- Gallery
- Video
- References
Locations - Hit Expand on the right >
- Information - General info about how the area looks, how it is built, its atmosphere, how dangerous it is, etc.
- Points of Interest - Lists interesting or important features of the location, such as NPC's, unique structures, story-related stuff.
- Walkthrough - Explains how to traverse the area safely, while gathering the necessary items and solving the puzzles.
- Collectibles - Lists all items in the locale. Tinderboxes, oil, notes, etc.
- Trivia
- Gallery
- Video
- References
Real people - Hit Expand on the right >
- Early life
- Career
- Involvment with game
- Personal life
- Works - Games or other forms of entertainment they've had a hand in creating.
- Awards - Awards gained from their art
- References
This issue of course exist outside of these categories of pages, but I think this serves as an example.
Issue is that this is very difficult to fix without rewriting large parts of the wiki and restructuring a whole lot.
- Using references - Claims made on a page should be backed up using a citation. Citations related to lore should point to a source text located on the wiki itself. Citations related to game development or meta stuff should point to a relevant blog post or other. There are a lot of pages on this site that lack these citations! To create a citation, go to where you want to add the citation, and add "<ref>", followed by a link to the page (as well as the section of the page) you want to reference, and follow this with "</ref>". At the end of the page, beneath the "References" subheading, you simply need to add the text "{{Reflist}}", and all citations will appear by themselves there.
- Stubs and short pages - Here's a list of short pages on the wiki, and here are pages considered Stubs. Many of the pages that need special attention are the ones that are related to Remember - Amnesia: The Dark Descent - Specifically the locales and characters. Furthermore, several pages need to be updated to reflect their involvement in the Remember short stories. Also, many pages regarding real life people need more attention.
- The HPL Engine need to be updated with the new features that are being added to the new version along with an expanded history. I hope someone who is knowledgeable in this stuff will add to that page!
- Hard Mode page is shamefully short. I remember going through the game, trying to find out what tinderboxes spawn on Hard Mode, and I finished the list before I found out the amount and where they spawn is actually random. Bummer. Well, some more information about how this system works and alike would be nice on this page.
- This is a weird one - I know there are a lot of information related to VALVe's Potato Sack ARG of which Amnesia: Justine was a part of, that is completely missing from this wiki. Information regarding it and Justine's involvement in it can be found here and here.
- Major locations such as England, London, Algiers, Algeria, Mexico, Prussia, Königsberg, still have little to no information on them, and some of them don't even exist!
- Wanted Pages!! These are articles that should be written but haven't yet.
- Locations:
- Characters:
- Baki - Nephew of Herbert's friend Faraj, from Old Friends
- Anna Koch - Elderly lady from Altstadt, living in Königsberg, featured in House of Gerich.
- Dorothea Stoss - Mother of Anna Koch who lived at Altstadt during the barn fire explored in House of Gerich.
- Agathe Zimmermann - Mother of Elise Zimmermann, featured in Waiting for the Rain. Has voice lines in The Dark Descent, she is the mother helping her daughter escape from the Prison.
- Margarethe Zimmermann - Agathe's daughter and Elise's older sister, from Waiting for the Rain.
- Sokal - French soldier who is given a star-shaped soap stone in With the Blessing of a King
- Herr Zell - Inhabitant of Altstadt, working as a cooper.
- Stoss Family - The family that previously owned the Zimmermann Farm.
- Real People:
- Thomas Grip - Co-founder and creative director at Frictional Games.
- Jens Nilsson - Co-founder and producer at Frictional Games.
- Mikael Hedberg - Writer on TDD and Remember.
- Marcus Johansson - 3D Artist at Frictional.
- Marc Nicander - 3D Artist at Frictional.
- Luis Rodero Morales - Programmer at Frictional.
- Dan Pinchbeck - Director at The Chinese Room.
- Mikko Tarmia - Composer for TDD.
- Mark Roper - Voice for The Engineer.
- Wesley Tack - Artist for AMfP.
- Scotty Campbell - Voice of Aloïs Racine
- Rasmus Gunnarsson - Did the Remember - Amnesia: The Dark Descent illustrations.
- Peter Wester - Programmer for AMfP.
- Peter Howell - Designer for AMfP.
- Patrik Dekhla - Designer for AMfP.
- Maarten Demeyer - Programmer for AMfP.
- Lani Minella - Voice actress for Clarice and Elise Zimmermann.
- Eric Newsome - Voice actor for Herbert and Hector David.
- Brady Jones - Artist for AMfP.
- Andrew Crawshaw - Designer for AMfP.
- Aaron Clifford - Artist for AMfP.
- Zak Craig - Voice actor for Enoch and Edwin Mandus.
- Toby Longworth - Voice actor for Oswald Mandus.
- Sindre Grønvoll - Artist for Amnesia: Collection.
- Marc Biagi - Voice actor for Felix Marot.
- Emily Corkery - Voice actress for Justine Florbelle.
- Bill Corkery - Voice actor for Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa.
- Achievements: These should all have a short page with a description and a guide for them.
- Illuminatus
- Master Archivist
- Masochist
- Insanity
- Vacillator
- The Throat
- The Teeth
- The Heart
- The Gut
- The Entrails
- Survivor
- Still Alive
- Sacrifice
- Restorer
- Quitter
- Pipeworker
- NOPE
- Escape Artist
- Egotist
- Descendant
- Benefactor
- Altruist
- Alchemist
- The Achievements page should probably be remade into a disambiguation page and be split up into Amnesia: The Dark Descent/Achievements, Amnesia: A Machine for Pigs/Achievements, and Amnesia: Collection/Achievements.
- A Quotes page for each of the characters from Remember, as well as adding the dialogue from Remember to the quote pages of the characters that already have dialogue in the games.
- Items:
- Keys (The Dark Descent) - A page for the keys from The Dark Descent (Wine cellar key, Machine room key, Rusty key)
- Ingredient Jars - A page for the ingredients found in the Wine Cellar (Calamine, Aqua Regia, Cuprite, Orpiment)
- Crowbar - Found in the Guest Room.
- Rods - The Machine Room rods from the Storage and Study (Flow cycle rod, Trinity steam rod, Four-phase amplitude rod).
- Hammer and Chipper - Combined from the Hammer and the Chipper found in the Prison.
- Wooden Crank - Found in Control Room.
- Syringe - Combined from the Copper Tube and Hollow Needle.
- Pipe - Broken off in Sewer.
- Meat - Found on table in Nave.
- String - Found on upper area of Transept.
- Iron Bar - Broken off cell in Cells.
- Wooden Bucket - Found in Cells.
- Agrippa's Head - Gotten after feeding Weyer's Tonic to Agrippa and using the Bone Saw on him.
- Bucket of Tar - Found in Chancel.
- Broken Ladder - Found in Cells (Justine).
- Wax Cylinder - Found on scaffolding in the Cells in Justine.
- Slide - The four slides found in the Library.
- Lever - Found in the Dungeon.
- Other:
- Orgone Monad Dispersal Fluid - Fluid mixed with Vitae to create Compound X.
- Weyer's Map - The map given to Herbert by Faraj, showing the location to the Tomb of Tin Hinan.
- Star-shaped Soapstone - Should probably get its own page.
- Inventory - Description of the inventory from TDD.
- Damascus Rose - Summary of the rose which is the main ingredient in the Amnesia Drink.
- Penumbra (series) - A page about the Penumbra games, maybe a page for each game as well, along with a summary of the similarities between them and the Amnesia games.
- SOMA - The same with this.
- Rebirth ARG - Leading up to the announcement of Amnesia: Rebirth, FG ran an ARG to promote it. Summaries can be found here and here.
- Tin Hinan - Should probably get a minor page, explaining her real world counterpart and significance to the game.
- Clean up pages! These pages are weirdly formatted, contain faulty information, have errors or misspellings, etc. and should be cleaned up! Some of the most egregious ones include:
- Amnesia: A Machine for Pigs - The "Marketing" section should probably be made into its own page - perhaps titles "Amnesia: A Machine for Pigs/Marketing" or "A Machine for Pigs ARG" or something like that. The entire page should probably be extended and cleaned up a bunch as well.
- Olof Strand and Jonas Steinick Berlin currently just summarises some blog posts on the FG blog instead of being actual biographies of the individuals.
- Many pages lack the right categories! If you see a page that lack the proper categorisation, please add it!
- Regarding the news section on the FP - so far I've updated it manually but it would probably be nice to get an RSS feed up!
It would be nice to have the Eraicons be placed automatically, based on the pages categories. I don't know how this is done though! :/The wonderful Lewis made this happen!
These are things I could think of right now, but I'm probably going to add more to this later. Also, if you come up with something yourself, feel free to add a comment! :O