Hello there, <insert name here>, and welcome to my page!
My name is DKS_MaXoO, but most Wookieepedians seem to call me DKS for short, which originally was the acronym for a team of video game players known as the Dark Shadows. I have been an active contributor since 2013 and I am exclusively interested in Legends material.
The first Star Wars film I saw was The Phantom Menace after it came out on VHS in 2000. I later saw Attack of the Clones and Revenge of the Sith in movie theaters. I did not see the original trilogy until its release on DVD in 2004.
I grew up with Star Wars video games such as the Rogue Squadron series, The Clone Wars, Jedi Outcast and Jedi Academy. I also loved reading the original Clone Wars series of comics.
My interest in the Expanded Universe really took off with the release of Empire at War and its expansion Forces of Corruption. I joined a modding team for this game in 2007, which required me to spend a lot of time reading articles on Wookieepedia. Eventually, I became an active contributor in 2013.
My contributions are usually centered around battles, planets and sectors. Whenever possible, I try to add an infobox, an image, a quote, and a complete list of sources.
March 2024
I often lose myself on Wookieepedia. I start a series of edits on a particular subject and I stumble upon something else that also needs some improvement. It usually starts with something small that eventually ends up being very time-consuming. Here is the trail of "small" projects that I have started to work on (so that I don't forget to finish them):
January 2024
For several years now, I have been categorizing battles by conflict and by location.
Main categories remaining:
- Category:Battles by system
- Category:Clone Wars
- Category:Galactic Civil War
- Category:Early Imperial campaigns → Move to:
- Category:Xer's Campaigns
- Category:Military campaigns
- Category:Disasters
- Occupations
- At some point, I will insert a {{DEFAULTSORT:}} template in all categories that are within Category:Conflicts.
- At some point, I will insert a {{RelatedCategories}} template in all planets, systems and sectors that have a category for their battles.
December 22, 2023
- I regularly review the new battles to make sure that they are correctly categorized.
January 2024
After years of categorizing battles by conflict and by location, I will (soon) start categorizing them by era, by faction, and by year.
Main categories involved:
Here are the projects that I will work on in the future, or from time to time:
Categories
- Add more precise categories to battles that are labeled as "Local conflicts" in sectorinfoboxes.
- Go through Category:Stubs and put events into the right categories.
- Category:Unidentified events → Populate with events
- Categorize starshipsby type and by affiliation.
- Populate Category:Space station classes by affiliation.
- Populate Category:Locations by planet.
- Populate Category:Governments by region.
Disambiguation pages
- It would be very time-consuming, and impossible to do on my own, but I would like to create more disambiguation pages by using the formidable DPLTitleSearch. I believe that creating exhaustive lists and displaying them on top of articles, like here or here, would really help connecting whole chains of articles together. These lists would give users a chance to stumble upon rarely-viewed articles. I might start with Featured articles, Good articles and Comprehensive articles in hopes of setting a new trend, or I might just begin with starship names.
Images
- Add these maps in the sources (and sometimes infoboxes) of the planets they show:
- Add images of battles, especially those featured in The Essential Atlas and The Essential Guide to Warfare.
- Add images of star systems, especially those featured in comic books, The Essential Atlas, The Essential Atlas Online Companion and The Essential Guide to Warfare.
Battles
- Create articles on battles that were mentioned in The Essential Atlas.
- Improve the chronology of the Clone Wars by using The New Essential Chronology.
- Create an article on the between The Empire Strikes Back and Return of the Jedi.
- Create articles on battles that I have come across over the years:
July 12, 2024
Here are the 390 pages that I have created:
Here are some Star Wars YouTube channels that I think are worth watching:
Lore videos
Reviews
Fan films