Wikipedia:WikiProject Alternate Reality Gaming

Welcome to WikiProject Alternate Reality Gaming. A WikiProject is a group of pages specifically about managing a certain topic within the "Wikipedia" namespace; and, simultaneously, a group of editors committed to using those pages to create new articles, carry out editorial tasks, and improve the quality of information available to Wikipedia users. We are not here to write articles directly, but a gather together and organize the writing and editing of articles. This group focuses on articles about Alternate Reality Gaming and Alternate Reality Games.

Getting Started
Right off the bat, there are a few things you can do to get your feet wet:
 * Add yourself to the Roster.
 * Read and watchlist our general discussion.

Scope and Goals
The scope of WikiProject Alternate Reality Gaming is all articles related to the field and industry of Alternate reality games.

In general, we are attempting to find and identify notable people, companies, projects, games, and ideas related to the topic of alternate reality games. Using this knowledge, we want to create accessible, informative, well-written articles describing these things, to improve understanding of alternate reality games and create a resource for readers to look back at the history of ARG as a genre, or specific ARGs. To this end, we will work to

improve the quality and scope of articles about ARG topics.
 * Create articles for major game projects.
 * Edit and improve the writing style of existing articles.
 * Add references and factual information to existing articles.
 * Add media content, where appropriate and available, to better illustrate articles.

develop consistent and understandable article structures for ARG-related articles.
 * Add articles to and manage Category:Alternate reality games, Category:WikiProject Alternate Reality Gaming.
 * Create a standards for notability of ARGs.

Guidelines

 * 1) All articles about games should be written out of game, except sections about plot, which can be written in game.
 * 2) Spoilers for puzzles should not be written while a game is in progress
 * 3) All explanations should use past tense (not "There is a puzzle to solve", use "There was a puzzle to solve")

News and Updates

 * 09/01/2024 - Just joined up! Got any questions, check out #10 on the roster! Happy editing
 * 4/25/2018 - This group is most certainly dead. I even made my own arg. Look, if we can revive this group that would be awesome. I bet there are tons of people willing to contribute their time to do this.
 * 2/6/2010 - Anybody out there? Feel free to join in -- there have been a lot of changes since '07.
 * 4/15/2007 - Please join in on our discussion to help develop notability standards for ARG articles.
 * 3/8/2007 - The ARG Wikiproject is one of the starting initiatives on the newly launched IonARG Alternate Reality Gaming Initiative

New articles
Please feel free to list your new Alternate Reality Gaming-related articles here (newer articles at the top, please). Any new articles that have an interesting or unusual fact in them should be suggested for the Did you know? box on the Main Page.


 * Perplex City Stories

Review
If there is an ARG related article that you would like reviewed separate from the Peer review process, please put it below.


 * Perplex City - Made some majory edits to this recently. I did a major expansion of the plot section. Firstly, there's probably a bunch of minor errors. I'm considering adding some relevant pictures in the Plot section just to break it up. Also, I'm concerned that the Receda Trail section may be too long. I'm working on finishing up the plot, but for now, I'd like some feedback on how it looks. Thanks. -AtionSong 23:08, 20 February 2007 (UTC)
 * Nice job! I don't know enough about the game to be any help with checking for accuracy, but I did proof, edit, and slightly condense the Receda Trail section.  All the original info is still there; I just made it a bit less wordy.  :-) Phaedra777 20:05, 21 February 2007 (UTC)

Request for New Articles
If there is an ARG related article that does not currently exist that you feel should, post link to the article below.

Templates

 * Template:WikiProject ARG
 * INFO: General project notice template
 * USE: Talk pages of articles in scope of project

Categories

 * Category:Alternate reality games

Userboxes

 * User WP Alternate Reality Gaming - WikiProject ARG Contributor Userbox

Resources

 * www.idga.org/arg/
 * Unfiction
 * ARGNet
 * IonARG