Bulbapedia:Cross-Wiki Week

The NIWA logo

The Cross-Wiki Week is an annual event hosted by the Nintendo Independent Wiki Alliance (NIWA), held to celebrate Nintendo's birthday. The purpose of the event is to promote cooperation by inviting editors to contribute to wikis they don't regularly edit. At the end of the event, two winners will receive a $20/€20 Nintendo eShop gift card for participating! The 2024 Cross-Wiki Week will take place from September 20 - 30, 2024.

To sign up to the event, and for full terms, please visit the NIWA website.

Feel free to join our Discord chat if you need help or want to discuss something!

Getting started

If you don't have a Bulbapedia account already, here's how to get started!

1. In the top right corner, find the "Create account" button or sign up here.
2. Though not required, it's recommended to have the same username across NIWA so we can recognize you!
3. Fill in the form giving the necessary information, and the optional information if you feel like doing so.

After creating an account, find an article you want to edit (there's a general list below), and get to editing! You can find the edit button above the article's content.

When saving an edit, add #cww to your edit summary to be counted for the event.

General

Check out the Bulletin Board for more ways to help out!

• Fix broken file links.
• Adopt a stub!
• Replace images in articles that need better ones.

Games

See Bulbapedia: Project Games for more info

• Help expand and improve some game-related stubs.
• Add or expand geographical descriptions of in-game locations, especially Sword and Shield locations and Scarlet and Violet locations.
• Expand coverage of Learn with Pokémon: Typing Adventure such as by creating and expanding Typing Adventure location articles.
• Clean up the Pokémon Ranger, Pokémon UNITE, and Pokémon Rumble U pages.

Anime

See Bulbapedia: Project Anime for more info

• Add content to and spruce up anime-related stubs.
• Add the plot summary for Chasing the Moon.

Manga

See Bulbapedia: Project Manga for more info

• Add missing plot summaries and other info to manga stubs.
• Modernize the formatting for our chapter pages. Pages for certain manga series such as Pokémon Diamond and Pearl Adventure!, Magical Pokémon Journey, and Pokémon Horizon need navigation bars and updated infoboxes. If you'd like to see an example of what that should look like, check out pages like this one and this one!
• Add images to enhance manga pages, especially the Pokémon Adventures Sun, Moon, Ultra Sun & Ultra Moon arc and Sword & Shield arc pages.

Trading Card Game

See Bulbapedia: Project TCG for more info

• Fill in missing coverage & start articles:
  • Stellar Crown Build & Battle Box
  • ex Battle Decks—Tapu Koko & Iron Leaves
  • Surging Sparks Build & Battle Box
  • Charizard ex League Battle Deck
• Improve the Scarlet & Violet Era article by bringing it up to date.

Other projects

See Category:Bulbapedia projects for a list of Bulbapedia Projects

• Project CharacterDex: Clean up the following character pages so they conform with Bulbapedia norms and conventions: Alder, Wattson, Bill, Caty, Dia (Pocket Monsters DP), Peanut, Haruka (CCP), Haidoru, Tokio, Dr. Ann Laurent, Dr. Takeda, Mr. Stone, Scott, Raleigh, Karl, Katsuya.
• Project Merchandise: Create the Squishmallows article, covering the official Pokémon Squishmallow products.
• Project Globe: Expand Pokémon in South Africa, create Pokémon in Slovenia, add needed information to Pokémon in the Arab world, Pokémon in Canada, Pokémon in Italy, Pokémon in South Korea.
• Project Fandom: Many fan site pages are in need of expansion and/or improvement.

See also

• Category:Pages needing attention - a list of wiki upkeep categories including high-level areas to improve.
• 2024 Cross-Wiki Week on NIWA.