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Game Guide Curation

Becoming a Step Game Guide Curator

by: Step Modifications

Aside from our original Skyrim Guides, we now offer guide-creation support for any Bethesda-derived game with the capacity to add others (e.g., No Man's Sky). Guide Curators can maintain either or both 'official' and 'unofficial' guides. Adherence to the Step Mandate is not a requirement for unofficial guides (e.g., NSFW guides are allowed).

Anyone interested in creating and maintaining a Game Guide can do so using the framework provided on the Step wiki. As described in that article, doing so has many advantages both to the Step community and all other guide Curators. Most notably ...

Increased exposure of guide(s) vs them "buried" on User pages
- Dedicated Guide Wiki Page that is a template of the current official Guides
- Nexus Mods Page, which Curators have authorship over (along with Step staff for 'official' Guides)
- Dedicated Step Forum or Forum Topic maintained by Curator for development, info consolidation, and Q&A from users (moderator-level authorship).
- Guide Link on the Game Home page
Wiki Mod Pages store guide-specific instructions and are reusable across all guides for a specific game (they only need to be created once).
E.g., No need for all the wiki markup associated with manually created guides, the Mod Page/ModList infrastructure handles this more simply by utilizing easy to use forms.
Consistent theme across guides, with capacity to include Curator-specific "branding" elements

Anyone interested, please DM: z929669 and/or TechAngel85

Current Curators[edit | edit source]

To date, we have one new Curators keeping these games relevant (aside from Step Staff, who work on Skyrim SE and No Man's Sky):

Majorman - Fallout:New Vegas

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-Aside from our original Skyrim guides, we now offer guide-creation support for any Bethesda-derived game with the capacity to add others (e.g., [[NomansSky:Landing Page|No Man's Sky]]).
+Aside from our original Skyrim Guides, we now offer guide-creation support for any Bethesda-derived game with the capacity to add others (e.g., [[NomansSky:Landing Page|No Man's Sky]]). Guide {{fc|purple|Curators}} can maintain either or both 'official' and 'unofficial' guides. Adherence to the [[STEP:Mandate|Step Mandate]] is '''''not''''' a requirement for '''''unofficial''''' guides (e.g., NSFW guides are allowed).
-Anyone interested in creating and maintaining a mod-build guide can do so using the [[STEP:Mod-Build_Guide_Framework|framework provided on the Step wiki]]. As described in that article, doing so has many advantages both to the Step community and all other so-called Guide Curators. Most notably ...
+Anyone interested in creating and maintaining a Game Guide can do so using the [[STEP:Mod-Build_Guide_Framework|framework provided on the Step wiki]]. As described in that article, doing so has many advantages both to the Step community and all other guide Curators. Most notably ...
-* Increased exposure of your guide(s) (instead of 'buried' on your User pages)
+* Increased exposure of guide(s) vs them ''"buried"'' on User pages
-** Nexus Page over which you have authority (along with Step staff for 'official' guides)
+** '''Dedicated Guide Wiki Page''' that is a template of the current official Guides
-** Dedicated Step forum or forum topic (your choice) maintained by Curator to consolidate info and Q&A from users (basically, this is staff-level auth over that forum/topic).
+** '''Nexus Mods Page''', which {{fc|purple|Curators}} have authorship over (along with Step staff for 'official' Guides)
-** Link to guide from wiki [[STEP:Main#Creating_Mod-Build_Guides|Game Home page]]
+** '''Dedicated Step Forum''' or '''Forum Topic''' maintained by {{fc|purple|Curator}} for development, info consolidation, and Q&A from users (moderator-level authorship).
-* Guide Curators can maintain either or both 'official' and 'unofficial' guides
+** '''Guide Link''' on the [[STEP:Main#Creating_Mod-Build_Guides|Game Home page]]
-*: Adherance to the [[STEP:Mandate|Step Mandate]] is NOT a requirement for unofficial guides (e.g., NSFW guides are allowed)
+* Wiki Mod Pages store guide-specific instructions and are reusable across all guides for a specific game (they only need to be created ''once'').
-* Reusable across guides within the same game, mod pages store guide-specific instructions (so they only need to be created ONCE).
+*: ''E.g., No need for all the wiki markup associated with manually created guides, the Mod Page/ModList infrastructure handles this more simply by utilizing easy to use forms.''
-*: I.e., no need to manage all of the wiki markup associated with mod lists containing links and all kinds of formatting. The infrastructure does it for you.
+* Consistent theme across guides, with capacity to include Curator-specific "branding" elements
-* Consistent look/feel across guides (with capacity to include Curator-specific 'branding' elements)
-To date, we have two new Curators keeping these games relevant (aside from core staff, who work on Skyrim SE and No Man's Sky):
+Anyone interested, please DM: [https://stepmodifications.org/forum/profile/8-z929669/ z929669] and/or [https://stepmodifications.org/forum/profile/326-techangel85/ TechAngel85]
+=== Current Curators ===
+To date, we have one new {{fc|purple|Curators}} keeping these games relevant (aside from Step Staff, who work on Skyrim SE and No Man's Sky):
 * [https://stepmodifications.org/forum/profile/10945-majorman/ Majorman] - Fallout:New Vegas
-Anyone interested, please PM [https://stepmodifications.org/forum/profile/8-z929669/ z929669] and/or [https://stepmodifications.org/forum/profile/326-techangel85/ TechAngel85]