The Vault:Document conversion project

The  is a project which aims to make two sets of source documents fully available for reading at the wiki: the Fallout Bible and the Van Buren design documents.

The design documents were previously not available at the wiki at all. The Fallout Bible installments, while available, are not 100% complete and often with broken formatting, so we decided to start anew, this time using an automated conversion first.

Scope

 * Converting all 10 Fallout Bible installments.
 * Converting all 16 leaked Van Buren design documents.

Necessary tasks

 * 1) Convert the documents from Word/PDF documents to wiki syntax.
 * 2) Upload images from original documents.
 * 3) * Re-add images to converted docs. See for details.
 * 4) Fix formatting issues caused by conversion.
 * 5) * See for a list of things to look out for.
 * 6) Create links from converted documents to wiki articles.
 * 7) (Van Buren design documents only) Each design document needs to be split into multiple pages to make them suitable for reading at the wiki.

Frequent conversion issues
This is basically a collection of common issues people should look out for when checking/fixing the formatting of the converted documents.


 * 1) Headlines:
 * 2) * Headline levels (,  etc) are assigned somewhat arbitrarily (depends on how thorough the respective author was with his formatting in Word) and need to checked/fixed.
 * 3) * ALL-CAPS headlines need to be properly formatted.
 * 4) Tables:
 * 5) * Headers need to be formatted: Replace normal cells with proper header cells.
 * 6) * Remove superfluous empty lines in between table rows
 * 7) Numbered lists : The converter likes to put empty lines between the list items, which then causes the numbering not to work as the wiki considers each list item to be a list of its own. Empty lines in between need to be removed.
 * 8) Indents : The converter removes pretty much all indents; these need to be reapplied for better structuring.
 * 9) Special formatting: Things like coloured text, strikethrough markup etc are usually lost in the conversion and need to be reapplied/replaced with something appropriate.

Images

 * 1) Images are usually replaced with   placeholders in the conversion, which makes it easy to identify the places where they need to be readded.
 * 2) The images can be found in subcategories of:
 * 3) * Category:Fallout Bible images
 * 4) * Category:Van Buren design document images

Fallout Bible: Docs, images

 * Original docs: e.g. here.
 * Newly converted docs: See.
 * Images: Category:Fallout Bible images
 * "Old" wiki articles: Category:Fallout Bible.

Van Buren design docs: Docs, images

 * Original docs: e.g. here.
 * The new converted versions can be found on subpages of this project page. See for links.
 * Images: Category:Van Buren design document images
 * The "old" wiki articles (where the conversions will be moved once done) can be found in Category:Van Buren design documents.

Participants
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Progress

 * Add your name to the tasks you are currently working on (simply insert, this adds your signature without date)
 * Mark tasks you have completed with