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Welcome to the Star Wars 420
A Star Wars Wiki for the 90s

Featuring

New categories have been created to track and showcase the progress and transformation from Wookiepedia into SW420. The following icons appear at the tops of articles to indicate categories they belong to relating to SW420:

• dewook - Category:SW420 Partial articles
• sw420 - Category:SW420 Canon articles
• sw420o - Category:SW420 Original articles

They're pretty self-explanatory but unfortunately incomplete as I did not start with all 3 of these in place.

Progress Towards Go Live (click to expand): 40% complete
Initial Build and Import: 100% complete   Build list SW420 Canon sources * Result: Manually built list of ~3000 sources Import all articles of sources that are SW420 Canon * Result: ~3000 Content articles Imported Build list of all articles that link to SW420 Canon sources * Result: Wrote a script to pull 'WhatLinksHere' provided a list Import all articles that link to SW420 Canon Sources * Result: ~113,000 total Imported Rush to 50k: 100% complete   After the initial import, I set a goal of getting down to 50k content articles. This was somewhat arbitrary, but due to the way Wookieepedia encourages unrelated linking and referencing, many imported articles were for wholly non-canonical material. This process was mostly done by articles that included a link to a non-canon source followed by the 1stm template. Then, additionally by searching for the routine way this is often described in the Behind the Scenes section of articles. I additionally went through the orphaned pages list, and categories for things like Vong and Gungan cultures that would certainly be non-canonical. At ~51k articles, I stopped being able to come up with searches that would get more than a few pages at a time. The effort on this continues as I find such non-canonical articles to delete. Site Apparatus: 5% complete     Build Main Page * That's this that you're reading, it's not complete yet. Build SW420:About * Still in progress as well Build SW420:Retcons Build a set of 'featured articles'. These should work to clearly demonstrate the differences between SW420 and Wookieepedia in Sources, sourcing, style, and method. Build a comprehensive description of the Canon. I have not yet decided policies on things like Star Wars Insider Magazine, Toys, the Special Editions, childrens books, etc Subject Purges: 10% complete     These are focused around large scale subjects that came into being after SW420. Species, Planets, and Organizations will form the majority of these. The idea is to search for all articles that reference such topics, and either delete the article or excise the references to the offending content. Typically while there I try to see if I can generally remove other non-canon references. Gungans * Result: Only a few Real-world articles of people whose credits involve Gungans. Haven't decided how to handle such things. Possibly make all real-world people external? Yuuzhan Vong * Starting as next focused subject. Had already taken time removing various big swaths (vong ships, vong tech, etc). The Guides: 15% complete     This project is to review and rewrite all references to all the 'Guides' (A Guide to the Star Wars Universe, the Second Edition, the Essential Guides, and the Star Wars Encyclopedia). These are all entry-based, indexed, reference works that contain a minimal amount of new content. To satisfy my goal of better citations, linking to these for references or Sources should happen based on the individual entries being referenced and not the book as a whole. Additionally, as reference material, these should only be cited for content original to them. Create citation templates * Result: Template:EGCite, Template:GSWUCite, and Template:SWECite created. A Guide to the Star Wars Universe * Only done incidentally so far. the Second Edition * Only done incidentally so far. The Essential Guide to Characters * No action taken. The Essential Guide to Vehicles and Vessels * No action taken. The Essential Guide to Weapons and Technology * No action taken. The Essential Guide to Planets and Moons * No action taken. The Essential Guide to Droids * Results: All references corrected to point to individual entries. Star Wars Encyclopedia * Only done incidentally so far.

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