[split] Ideas for what to work on in the wiki

[Mervi]

I hope to help contribute to the wiki's here as I go. I noticed there isn't much in the way of plot summaries, something I sorely needed waiting a year between each book. Is there any rule against detailed plot summaries on the wiki?

So I wanted to talk about this a bit. Anyone, please feel free to add your thoughts.

First of all, yay! Summaries would be pretty cool! I've avoided writing them, mostly because English isn't my first language so I'd be making lots of awkward mistakes. And second, because I'm scared about spoiling the books for anyone. 

The spoiler warning on the main page of the wiki currently implies that the encyclopaedia articles (anything under "characters", "animals", "places", "items" etc) could contain spoilers. I've been thinking about placing an additional warning (this would be a template) on the top of the pages about major characters, just to be on the safe side. On the other hand, that same main page warning states that book articles (basically anything under the top category "Books" (which I'm meaning to rename btw) should be safe to visit even before reading the book in question. This is because I've wanted to make sure that people visiting a book article for publishing/translation etc info do not get spoiled by accident.

So far, if I've written summaries, they've been pretty vague (the Liavek ones for example). It's easier to be short and vague about short stories, not so much about the novels perhaps.   

Previously, my idea of a summary has been sort of like "a short reminder of what the book is about", so for those who have read the books several years ago, could read the summary and go "oh, THIS is the one where we first meet Nighteyes, not the other one". But would people also want to read summaries beforehand? To decide whether or not read a book? Or for some other reasons?

I'm willing to amend the spoiler policy but I'd still be against chapter-by-chapter summaries, or mentioning major events (deaths/revelations etc) in the summaries. I _think_ it should be possible to circumvent around a character's death by mentioning something like "their lives are in danger" or if it's at the conclusion of the story, just to leave it out altogether. What do you folks think?