User:Soprano

Hello! I'm Soprano, formerly called Botanist. I'm an active editor and administrator here on Pikipedia, and I manage the wiki's section. I edit articles about all the games, and also do more technical stuff like keeping the Main Page templates updated. If you need to ask me a question about the wiki, feel free to ask on my talk page, or join Pikipedia's Discord server and ask there.

Me and the wiki
I first learned about Pikmin when came out. I didn't know about Pikipedia or any game wiki at the time. I got for my Wii, but it was too hard for me and I stopped playing halfway through. In mid-2014 I got a Wii U and Pikmin 3, and that game was much more doable. I got in early 2016, and it was also too difficult, mainly because I didn't want to lose any Purple Pikmin.

In late 2016, I found Pikipedia, through Bulbapedia. I started reading the wiki, and for the first few months of 2017 it was one of my favorite websites. I was eventually able to beat Pikmin 2 with some help from the wiki, and later Pikmin as well. (When I say "I" in this paragraph and the last, I really mean "I and the person I live with"; until 2019, they played a lot more Pikmin than I did, and I mostly watched.) Throughout this time, I read the wiki a lot, eventually reading pretty much every article on the site, but I never thought of editing it. I got when it came out, but by then I wasn't reading the wiki much.

A few years later, I finally decided to join Pikipedia in January 2020. At first I didn't edit very much, doing a few small edits and projects. But in August, was announced. On the Pikmin Discord server (Pikcord), I became one of the most active theorists about the new game, looking at promotional material and discussing it with others. And on Pikipedia, I started uploading lots of promotional images and screenshots from trailers about this game. This led me to start editing more things. In particular, I noticed that the Menu article was getting very large and was lacking a lot of Pikmin 3 and ''Hey! Pikmin'' information. I proposed to split the article into smaller articles about each menu screen to allow this extra information to be documented, and the resulting project to split the article and document more menu screens was my first major Pikipedia project. When Pikmin 3 Deluxe came out, I uploaded a lot of screenshots to the wiki, mostly of the Side Stories stages, while documenting its new and updated features as well.

In 2021, I started making more diverse edits to the wiki. I did various small projects throughout the year, such as researching hints and objectives, making Pikmin 3 Deluxe area maps, and rewriting some notable pages, including Pikipedia:About, Help:Editing, and Pikmin family. On 21, my username was changed from Botanist to Soprano to match the name I use on the Pikcord. When was released, I became the most active contributor of information about the new game, creating several articles, doing research with others, and documenting community findings.

In 2022, I continued to document the frequent changes to Pikmin Bloom (which became rather annoying to do after a while), as well as do other wiki projects. I wrote an article on weight, looked through every file on the wiki to revive the featured image system, and analyzed the entire Hey! Pikmin soundtrack. On 4, I was promoted to patroller on the wiki, and a year later on 15, I was promoted to administrator. Now that has come out, I'm really looking forward to documenting all its new features, and I'd encourage others to join this great wiki to help out!

Plans
These are some projects I planned to do at some point, but now that Pikmin 4 is out, it'll likely be a while before I get to any of these. Feel free to work on them if you want – a wiki is never complete, and when there are more people helping out, it's a better resource for everyone.
 * Clean up every treasure and ship part article, to standardize the format and improve the treatment of regional differences.
 * Play Hey! Pikmin again very thoroughly to expand all the articles about it.
 * Add thorough layout descriptions to areas and stages in all game modes.
 * Make detailed SVG maps of areas.

Obstacles and tools in Pikmin 4
This is just a temporary list for working out how to create these articles.
 * Clay bridge
 * Climbing wall
 * Clay mound
 * Clay valve
 * Sprinkler
 * Hydro jelly
 * Breakable pot (Jar) *
 * Spotcap *
 * Kingcap *
 * Poison Spotcap *
 * Poison Kingcap *
 * Dried plant **
 * Ice block *
 * Bonfire altar **
 * Cold air
 * Dirt-mound
 * Egg *
 * Burgeoning Spiderwort
 * Hazard generator (fire, water, electricity, poison, ice, bubble) *
 * Sizzling floor
 * Sticky mold
 * Clipboard
 * Paper bag
 * Box (Cardboard box, Metal box)
 * Potted plant
 * Climbing rope
 * Fishing rope
 * Geyser
 * Tunnel
 * Narrow tunnel
 * Pup tunnel *
 * Bouncy Mushroom *
 * Potted mushroom *
 * Floating platform *
 * Moving walkway
 * Fan
 * Exit fan *
 * Iron fence
 * Switch *
 * Clog (Drain) *
 * Red gate
 * Blue gate
 * White gate
 * Numbered gate
 * Dirt wall
 * Reinforced wall
 * Electric gate
 * Ice wall
 * Crystal wall
 * Bag

* Not named in-game ** Only named in dialog

Subpages

 * Gallery – A list of the images I've uploaded to the wiki. (Warning: lots of images, may take a while to load.)
 * Pikmin 3 Area Design Analysis – An analysis of area design in Pikmin 3.
 * Pikmin 3 Fruit Table – A list of fruits in Pikmin 3 for comparing juice and weight.
 * A Pikmin 4 Prediction – A prediction for Pikmin 4 based on its first 2 trailers.