User:ByteBard/TM checklist

The Talks Machina project is pretty big, so I wanted to write up the individual steps that each article needs to go through or pass to count as complete. Example completed article is.

Question components
The heart of Talks Machina is the questions and answers portion, formatted using the Talks Machina question template. The parts are:


 * askee = who is being asked the question?
 * question = the content of the question, minus the askee
 * asker = who asked the question, if known. sometimes it isn't shown or stated
 * ep = the episode number, usually written in the style of the episode it references, such as TM1x77 referencing.
 * timecode = either HH:MM:SS or MM:SS, the timestamp when the question starts
 * answer = a non-verbatim summary of the response

Other content
Winner: Name (username on service); [Link_to_art Description of artwork] Prize: Description of prize won
 * Brian's introduction: formatted using the Quotebox template
 * Gif/Cosplay/Fan art of the week: formatted as

Page structure

 * Synopsis
 * Introduction
 * Cold open quotebox
 * Part 1
 * Questions
 * Gif/Cosplay of the Week
 * Part 2
 * Questions
 * Fan art of the Week
 * Part 3
 * Questions
 * After Dark
 * Questions
 * Quotations

What's been done
For every article with questions, they have been automatically formatted using the template. Whenever possible, I've also retrieved questions and/or timestamps using YouTube comments when they were missing. (Unfortunately, Geek & Sundry has comments disabled on Campaign 1 and the beginning of Campaign 2 Talks Machina, or I'm sure people would have added them already.) I've also gone through and copyedited most of the Campaign 2 TM pages so they should be fairly accurate.

For Campaign 2, most 'of the Week' winners and links to their artwork were already there. Not as many include the prize and the timestamp at which the segment happens.

My goals

 * To fully fill out episodes of Campaign 1 Talks Machina episodes as I watch them (this is taking a while and I'm at .)
 * To get every article synopsis with questions kitted out with everything except for the actual answers.
 * To fill out articles with blank synopses with all the questions.
 * For TM articles with answers, making sure useful info there is cited in any relevant wiki articles. I see this whole project as primarily a service to other wiki editors to help fill out the articles people will actually read; I don't think there's a huge amount of interest in Talks Machina episodes in and of themselves.
 * I also hope that this content could eventually exist in another more flexible, searchable form, like a database. Using the structured template for questions helps with this goal.