Wookieepedia:WookieeProject Knights of the Old Republic

The premise of WookieeProject Knights of the Old Republic is coordinating the efforts of Wookieepedians maintaining articles related to the Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic (KotOR) metaseries, which includes two video games, miniatures and role-playing scenarios, and an ongoing comic series.

Current WookieeProject Focus

 * "Organizational phase" &mdash; currently the project is in an organizational phase. But this does not mean we aren't writing or improving articles. All project participants are encouraged to edit any and all articles that catch their eye.

Notice
Because a large percentage of our information comes from the video games, Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic and Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic II: The Sith Lords, there are certain factors that writers and editors must be aware of. The following guidelines will explain these issues in greater detail. If anyone has any questions or comments, please feel free to start a new thread in our forum.

Writing and editing

 * 1) Make sure all articles follow the Manual of Style and Layout Guide. For more infromation, please see policies on Wookieepedia.
 * 2) Articles are written with a neutral point of view, without adding original research and speculation.
 * 3) Make sure all information follows canon. This has been determined as always being the light side choice in regards to the video games. Any dark side missions or player choices are to be placed in the Behind the scenes section of an article.
 * 4) Please be aware that quite often it will be necessary to add the and/or  templates to sections of an article. Although all LS player choices are canon, not all character interactions have been confirmed.
 * 5) Do not add "fate unknown" to articles.

Sourcing

 * 1) All information in articles must be sourced with either reference tags or self-sourcing paragraphs. For more information, please see Sourcing. Do not assume that any sourcing already present is correct. Double check all references yourself, or if unable to do so, add the article to the "Articles that need sourcing" section.
 * 2) Information must be cited by individual comic issue and novel. Please do not cite simply using the story arc and/or TPB.
 * 3) When citing specific dialog or cut content, it is recommended to use the StrRefs from the game dialog files. Please see the Dialog.tlk files section for more details.

Tasks
The primary goal of this WookieeProject is to bring articles related to Knights of the Old Republic to Feature article and Good article status. While it is understood that this will not be possible for every article, we wish for those other articles to be complete and reliable sources of information.

Below, you will find links to the Master lists of articles that fall under the KotOR era. The master lists will be updated regularly, as new information is released. If you happen to find and article that is not listed, but you feel that it should be added to our project, please add it to the list or start a new thread in the forum. Once an article from one of these lists has been brought up to standard, please strike it so that other members will be aware of what is already finished.

Articles up for GA

 * Darth Malak
 * Darth Nihilus
 * Bek-Vulkar War
 * HK-47
 * Little Bivoli

Articles up for FA

 * T1-LB
 * Telos IV
 * Visas Marr
 * Brianna

Articles under review

 * Force cage &mdash; details

Articles that need updating

 * Zayne Carrick
 * Rohlan Dyre
 * Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic (comics) index

Master lists
Characters Creatures Droid models Events Locations Organizations and titles Vehicles and vessels Weapons and technology Miscellanea Out of Universe

Articles we need to get re-GA'ed

 * Taris &mdash; details
 * Korriban &mdash; details
 * Mandalorian Wars &mdash; details

Articles we need to get re-FA'ed

 * Atris &mdash; details
 * Kreia &mdash; details
 * Revan &mdash; details
 * Selkath &mdash; details
 * Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic (comics) &mdash; details

Results page
Here's a list of successful FAs and GAs for KOTOR metaseries-related articles.

Current Featured Articles

 * Battle of Taris (Jedi Civil War)
 * Zayne Carrick
 * Citadel Station
 * The Drunk Side
 * Ebon Hawk
 * Equipment Emporium
 * Cassus Fett
 * Force cage
 * Dhagon Ghent
 * Dol Grenn
 * Harbinger
 * Marn Hierogryph
 * Jarael
 * Jedi Civil War
 * Shel Jelavan
 * Jon
 * Laigrek
 * Manaan
 * Mark VII experimental prototype assassin droid
 * Carth Onasi
 * Raid on the Sith Embassy
 * Atton Rand
 * Ravager
 * Rescue of Bastila Shan
 * Restoration Zone
 * Bastila Shan
 * Darth Sion
 * S-100 Stinger-class starfighter
 * Skirmish aboard the Leviathan
 * Star Map
 * Star Saber XC-01 starfighter
 * Telosian Jedi Academy
 * Raana Tey
 * Undercity sewers
 * Upper City Cantina

Current Good Articles

 * Battle of Rakata Prime
 * Black Vulkars
 * Brianna
 * Cannok
 * Dillan
 * Samhan Dobo
 * Gerevick
 * Greeta Holda
 * Iziz defense tower
 * Ja'Gatcha
 * Kolto
 * Visas Marr
 * Celeste Morne
 * Riiken
 * Rukil
 * Sith trooper armor
 * Taris dueling ring
 * Trask Ulgo

Discussion area
For advanced users a special IRC channel has been set up for this project  irc.freenode.net #WP:KOTOR irc://irc.freenode.net/WP:KOTOR For others:


 * Wikia has a CGI:IRC gateway for the #wp:kotor channel on the Wookieepedia gateway that lets you join the chat room from a normal web page. Just put in your username and choose "#wp:kotor"  from the drop-down list.


 * Mibbit is also an option, select Freenode as server, enter your nickname in the left box and #wp:kotor in the right box.

Jedi Exile's Companions
The following characters have been confirmed as companions of the Exile: Brianna, G0-T0, HK-47, Kreia, Visas Marr, Mira, Mical, Canderous Ordo, Atton Rand, and T3-M4.

Ancestry and other familial speculation
It is likely that character articles about those whose last names are seen in other Star Wars storylines (e.g., Bastila Shan and Deena Shan) are going to be plagued by speculation saying that "so and so is possibly an ancestor of such and such." These are to be deleted on sight unless sources are provided that explicitly state otherwise. Do what must be done, Show no mercy.

Dialog.tlk files
In game engines derived from BioWare's Infinity and Aurora engines (including KOTOR and TSL's Odyssey engine), all strings used in the game are stored in a file named dialog.tlk in the root game directory, uncompressed and unencrypted. These files can be used to search for exact quotes and/or correct them.

There is no way to identify the source of a particular quote based on dialog.tlk alone. You will still need the game for that.

If you don't have the games, or have non-English versions, dialog.tlk files from both games can be downloaded from here (tar.gz, 3.1 MB).

Opening
Dialog.tlk files are technically binary files, but as they contain unmodified text, they can be opened in any text editor. Windows Notepad has issues with opening large files, so you can use another editor, such as Notepad++, instead. The file begins with binary data, and then the text follows. You can search for the text you need.

Alternatively, you can use TalkEd (rar, 223 KB), a dialog.tlk editor. It was developed for Windows, but works fine in Wine.

Another is the FindRefs program which can be used to search all dialog quickly by including TLK references when using. Not all lines in the dialog.tlk file will show up when specific words are searched but all dialog that is accessible in-game are.

Fanon watch
Many KOTOR articles are prone to fanon. It especially concerns Darths (such as Revan, Darth Malak, or Kreia), the Jedi Exile, and, to a lesser extent, the Jedi Masters. Here are some things you should keep in mind.

NEC
This is all the NEC has to say about KOTOR. If someone makes a dubious claim and cites the NEC and it's not there, remove it.

NEGD
T3, HK and G0-T0 have NEGD pages. It is there that the Exile is confirmed to be female.

Lightsaber forms
Nothing is said about lightsaber forms in the first game or the comics. It is unknown who used which form.

In The Sith Lords, the only differences between forms are in gameplay mechanics, not aesthetics. It is impossible to distinguish forms any of the characters used based on the visuals; the engine always uses the same animations.

The Exile always learns the forms in the order they're canonically numbered: Shii-Cho, Makashi, Soresu, Ataru, Shien, Niman/Juyo*. The first three forms are learned as the player levels up, regardless of the class. The other four are not available to Consulars, and are taught by the three Jedi Masters always in the same order, regardless of the order the Masters are visited, so any form can be taught by any Master.

(*)The final form depends on the player's class: Sentinels learn Niman, while Guardians learn Juyo.

Vaapad does not exist at this point. Any references to Vaapad in Darth Bane: Path of Destruction are erroneous, and Drew Karpyshyn has said that readers should pretend it says Juyo.

Double identity or suspected identity theories
Should be always treated as speculation and constrained to Bts at best, unless explicitly confirmed by JJM or another official.

TSL cut content
Refer to, or ask the question on the Team Gizka forums. Keep in mind that TSL has a lot of obscure content that is sometimes mistakenly believed to be cut, but is actually canon (or ambiguous canon, such as Atton's Easter egg lines).

Tagging articles
To identify KOTOR articles as belonging to this WookieeProject, use the WKOTORtalk template on the talk page, which will produce the following result:

Participants

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 * 2) Jedi Kasra (talk)
 * 3)  Redemption [[Image:Redemptionusersymbol.png|25px]] (Talk)
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 * 5) Darthan the destroyer
 * 6) Devan2
 * 7)  Madclaw Shyriiwook!
 * 8) Ajeanette
 * 9) Darth tom  (talk)
 * 10) Nayayen [[Image:Old Republic military symbol.png|18px]] Talk
 * 11) G B 57
 * 12) Graestan ( Talk )
 * 1) Graestan ( Talk )
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