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Welcome
Welcome to the Harry Potter Wiki! I started this Wiki with the hope of constructing a huge encyclopedia of the magical world of Witches and Wizards described in J.K. Rowling's famous books, as well as the popular feature films they have spawned. I hope there are other potential Wikipedians out there with an equal love for the books, and that together we can make this the most comprehensive Harry Potter encyclopedia on the Internet. SeanR 11:06, 5 Jul 2005 (UTC)

To-do
1. Expand:
 * These articles have little or no text in them. Since we cannot build an encyclopedia out of infoboxes, I believe this is what we have to do first.


 * Minerva McGonagall
 * Severus Snape
 * Ron Weasley
 * Hermione Granger
 * Neville Longbottom
 * Luna Lovegood
 * Albus Dumbledore
 * Lord Voldemort
 * James Potter

2. Upload
 * There are many file paths leading to nonexisting pictures. This is the next step to comprehensive reading material.

Check
 * Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince

for starters.

3. Write
 * The writing of completely new articles is necessary for the existence of this Wiki - it should not (may I repeat, NOT) be an exact copy of En articles, lest people take this to be an unnecessary carbon copy of the orig. articles. I myself have been frustrated many times when I searched for a topic on different pages, only to find that they contained the same text.

That's all for now. I'm sure this will keep us occupied for a couple of weeks or so. 18:00, 26 Jul 2005 (UTC)

The list of wanted pages should give everyone an idea of pages that are desperately needed but don't exist yet :) --Batiu-Drami 09:16, 5 Aug 2005 (UTC)


 * Fixed link above. - Vostok 09:39, 5 Aug 2005 (UTC)

Inferius
I was wondering how I should categorize Inferius - it's not a magical creature, nor is it a spell. Any suggestions? Chosen One 10:44, 27 Jul 2005 (UTC)

Priorities...
Let's work to expand the major articles before we get into too much detail on other topics. I just saw that The Quibbler had an article but Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban did not. This is the kind of thing we need to remedy. --Lord Voldemort (Dark Mark) 15:12, 1 Aug 2005 (UTC)

Stub categories
I added a bunch of stub categories. I'm not even sure this is necessary yet, but I figured that it might be down the road. New templates include:
 * for stubs relating to a place.


 * for stubs relating to a specific character.


 * for stubs relating to magical animals.


 * for stubs relating to magical objects.

I hope this doesn't get too confusing. If it does, we don't have to use them. I just thought they might be nice to have. You know, just in case. --Lord Voldemort (Dark Mark) 19:58, 1 Aug 2005 (UTC)

And Brand New:
 * for Quidditch related stubs.

Just adds a little something, ya know? I also made it easier with the "expanding it" link on the rest of the stubs. --Lord Voldemort (Dark Mark) 19:36, 3 Aug 2005 (UTC)

Movie links
I have seen both Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (movie) and Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (film), which one should be used? --Dragonclaws 17:40, 8 Aug 2005 (UTC)


 * Film. It is used more often than movie... could be wrong though.  Actually this gives me an idea... - Vostok 08:05, 9 Aug 2005 (UTC)


 * I think we should go with Film. That's what's in use at Wikipedia, anyway. 11:14, 9 Aug 2005 (UTC)

Book, Film, Game...
Following on from my above thought, what should be the purpose of those pages that end in (film) and (game)? I'd like to suggest that whereas the link to Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone goes to the story of the book, Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (film) goes to information on the film itself. That means rather than repeating the story again, the film page really just contains information such as the date it was released, who directed it, and other things usually associated with films. Somewhere on the page could be listed "Main differences to the book", but apart from that it should not go too deeply into the story.

Similarly with the game pages, these should provide details like date of release, platforms it is on, etc.

This could also open up a third type of page which would be Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (book), which provides details on the publication itself, rather than the story. So again, date released, copies sold, etc. - Vostok 08:12, 9 Aug 2005 (UTC)