Make Contests section more organized and complete

[AncuL001]

A reminder that there are a lot of mapping contests now (and in the past), but listing all of them is hard because they are so scattered out (there's not really a consensus to where to post contest announcements in the forum, i've been wanting a dedicated contests subforum for so long) and most of them gets forgotten. i guess feel free to link any contests not yet in the article down in the reply section

The current organization of contest listing is also inconsistent. NPC and PDC gets their winner listing on the main Contests article while others like OBWC and FBC is on a separate article (which just indexes their announcement link)

[peppy]

Are you looking for a filter on the contests page here? Never mind, thought this was an osu-web feature request.

[AncuL001]

i would also like to suggest having a Contest subforum (like Tournament suforum, but for mapping and such) but it's probably out of scope of wiki

[Nivalyx]

yeah, unfortunately this has been the case for more than a year now i'm afraid :(

both the Contests and the Tournaments article have been reported to be in a dire need of an update/overhaul multiple times before actually (#3029, #3064, etc.) iirc. generally speaking i'm actually interested in taking care of both tho, but as it's something that would obv require a considerable of time and effort i'll see what i can do ;~;

[AncuL001]

@Bazzadwarf @Nivalyx you see, the tournaments wiki page is starting to become colossal, and there's no denying that the contest page will follow. i'm proposing a new structure for the entire tournament/contest wiki section. it goes like this for tournament

• the main tournaments page will only link to the home page of each tournaments
• the home page of the tournament will link to each of the tournament iterations (using the already existing tables)

this eliminates the need to update the tournaments section every time there's a new iteration of a tournament, reducing update conflicts.

the same applies for contests, except that there's no wiki page to each of the iterations.

i should've posted this earlier ;w;

[Bazzadwarf]

My two cents, I'm only going to speak for tournaments since I am not in the loop with contests.

I agree with the sentiment that the tournament page could eventually become too unwieldy for anyone to reasonably use. Still, I'm not entirely convinced that turning it into a glossary-like page is the correct direction to go in.

In an ideal situation, I'd love to see https://osu.ppy.sh/community/tournaments expanded to handle everything the wiki pages currently do and more, as well as opening it up to community ran tournaments. Still, I understand that it would be a lot of work in osu-web for something that a small section of users would use.

I don't have a problem with how the main page is handled, but it is worth keeping in mind for the future.

[Nivalyx]

Yeah I second @Bazzadwarf's statement above.

I think given how disorganized those two pages are before the focus for now should be in making the article to be "organized", "complete", and "coherent" if any (which took us months already to finish the task, as you can see). As with Bazzadwarf : I'm not entirely convinced that turning it into a glossary-like page is the correct direction to go in. but (the suggestion) may be worth keeping in mind for the future.