Site Contribution Roadmap

The Site Contribution Roadmap details the current progress of the wiki and where contributors can go to improve the site.

Site Progress (4/25/23)
Since the site's creation in November of 2021, and its public contributions opening up on July 14, 2022, progress has been steadily made as the wiki now reaches up to 800 articles. Even with over a year of constant work however the site is far from being even complete in article drafts. Likely that number will be achieved around the 4000-5000 article mark, in which work can begin to polish and thoroughly cite each page. While a few articles are just currently dumping grounds for images to later be expanded upon, pages are being continually updated for quality rather than quantity by the community. Categories are usually worked on by a few dedicated users for a while before people move on to other areas.

Currently the most worked on sections are Stores, Showtapes, and Stage Variations.

Store List
While the Store List is the most worked on category in the entire site, it also is the most incomplete, alongside needing to be maintained constantly. While having a comparable selection of 1000+ entries like the Showtapes section, documenting store histories needs more sources and research. The most critical area that all contributors should work towards however is adding images and links to videos for each store's galleries. Finding old photos, alongside visiting current stores to capture their current state, will help create a complete timeline of each location's history.

Merchandise
Merchandise is the largest category on the wiki. The list itself however is only around 600 entries, as the proper documentation and dating of most merchandise products has only barely begun. While most of ShowBiz merchandise and CEC official products are accounted for, PTT and CEC merchandise is only a fraction of the total needed to be listed. Thankfully, unlike other categories, Merchandise only needs a general info and a gallery of pictures. Completing this section will mostly be tedium of finding and uploading pictures to the correct pages.

Showtapes
The Showtapes section was the first section worked on for the wiki, and as such is generally complete for playing dates and segment lists. Its also the most complete selection of showtape label pictures, with every publicly known image accounted for. ShowBiz, Pizza Time Theatre, and Creative Engineering shows however are severely lacking, as even most major shows still do not have even a basic page created. Most work was put towards later CEC shows as none of them were documented on showbizpizza.com, so most older content is neglected. Proper credits lists in the infoboxes and transcriptions for every single showtape are also only currently in the single digits.

Menu Items
Menu Items are similar to the Merchandise section in that most entries aren't even listed, but researching and comparing menus is much more complicated than checking for manufacturing dates. Generally, menu items are dated by the year they were added to the menu, and even if the recipe changes, a new page isn't made. This becomes complicated when there's no way to confirm what a menu looked like between two years. Combo selections, coupons, and custom meals complicate things further.

Acquiring pictures of older menu items is also difficult, as this requires searching though countless home videos or old photographs. Menu item advertising is done by ad agencies, and look nothing like the actual product, so those pictures are only useful for the gallery. CEC's menu is mostly thorough going back to 2007. Pizza Time Theatre and early ShowBiz have also mostly been figured out. 1985-2006 however is a massive gap that still needs tons of research.

Image Contributions
One of the most time consuming contributions that can be made to the site is finding and adding images to the galleries of pages. All pages require a gallery, and per wiki rules it is fine to create the first draft of a page simply to dump images. Store pages are the largest sources for gallery images, and contributing to their image library, with correct dating and order, can help with the page's usefulness and future citations.

The fastest way of creating a page gallery is to use Edit Source over Edit. Edit Source has a media upload option on the toolbar that allows multiple files to be uploaded at the same time. After images are uploaded there's a Create Gallery button that automatically fills the gallery with all uploaded images. Image names still need to be checked before upload to ensure no previous images get overwritten.