Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-25956839-20150811193129

I was recently asked what pages need editing, which gave me the idea for a RR3 Wiki:Pages That Need Editing page, as race pages are updated this sheet can be too. Contributors can see pages that need updating and pick a race series page they would like to update.

This site is gaining allot of new, keen contributors, which must be a good thing. If a group of contributors updated the data in the race pages, the pages will be done in no time :)

Table description
The headings for the table are:
 * Series No: The race series number of the race series, see Race Series
 * Event Name: The race series event name, see Race Series
 * No. Events: The number of events in the race series.
 * No. Complete: How many have been filled in. Note: Endurance and Time Trials are now allowed to have data, more later.
 * % Complete: Percentage of event data that has been entered, this is a good column to sort and choose events that need allot or a little editing, depending on your schedule.
 * Pre-version 3.3.1: In version 3.3.1 (June 2015) FM updated the race data, many of the race pages need the new data. See comments on June update coming soon and New values - How we doin?
 * Data Updated?: If the event is pre version 3.3.1 has the event data been updated to post 3.3.1 data.
 * Introduction: Is anything missing from the event introduction, do the number of events in the introduction match the number of events in the events table? Is introduction complete?
 * Description: Has the in-game quote been entered?
 * Car Data: Is the car data completed?
 * Comments: Any comments.
 * Version: Original version number of the race event, if known.

Who can edit?
Anyone can update the RR3 Wiki:Pages That Need Editing table, including anonymous contributors, so if anyone notices missing content, this table can be updated.

Only signed in contributors can edit the race series templates. Once a race series is updated please also update the RR3 Wiki:Pages That Need Editing table so other contributors do not duplicate work.

It free to join this wikia, feel free to join and help editing

How to check the history?
There is a drop down button next to the edit button, or on the bottom of the page - My Tools has a menu with history, the history includes who added the data, or more importantly when:

e.g. http://rr3.wikia.com/wiki/Track_Aces?action=history

The original data was entered before June, (April and May) so is the old FM model for R$, CRB and Fame was used. Any new data will show at the top of the page. Therefore any variation seen while paying the game should be updated to the latest game data.

Editing Advice
All events should be for coming first, except Time Trials, of course, this is just for setting a time.

Only events of 2 laps or more need the L=lap number. Autocross, drag races etc are less than one lap, but the standard is to leave it blank, the table automatically puts in a lap of one.

Endurance Events
Endurance evens are now allowed, the method is best advised by Mr. Procrastinator:

Mr. Procrastinator wrote: As the person who first started putting in R$/lap values, what I did was to take the distance travelled (not bothering to keep the car on-track) and divide by lap distance from here. This gives the effective laps travelled. Then divide rewards by this number to get rewards/lap.

Regarding rounding, I think when you finish a race, the fame reward shown is rounded to the nearest 10 and the R$ reward is rounded to the nearest 5. I did the same rounding when calculating R$/lap values.

I also didn't include the R$50 'bonus' in the calculations, since that is a lump sum reward and not based on distance travelled. If you multiply your CRB by 4 that should give your base R$ reward without the R$ 'bonus'.

If you are measuring lap lengths yourself, make sure you're measuring from the same place every lap. On some tracks, where you start and the start/finish line (where your time is increased) are quite far apart.

Time Trial Events
For some time Time Trial events were considered to differ, so for the data value Differs was entered, they have recently been proven to be consistent, see post Do time trial rewards actually differ? by Mr. Procrastinator

Although it would be tempting to copy any old time trial values back in, as they are are pre-version 3.3.1, they need to be re-run anyway.

Therefore As Time Trial evens are now allowed, R$ and fame can be entered, but any bonus values should not be included, sometimes the time trial need to be run twice to confirm.

Further Information

 * Lets talk Policy – Rules for this wiki.
 * How do I edit pages for Racing series? - Racing pages.
 * Creating race series pages - help for editors - Info on creating new race pages with gsheet
 * New way of reporting comments! - How to report problems to Kuzz.

Future Plans
If the race series table works, as a concept, the 118 car pages could be added as a separate table too.

Feedback
Comments can be left below or on the RR3 Wiki:Pages That Need Editing page. Let me know, is this a good idea? Or a duplication of work? If it helps I'll add the car pages in the future. 