Soprano

Soprano
Games
	Don't own
	Completed with all ship parts
	Don't own
	Don't own
	Completed with all treasures
	Don't own
	Completed with all fruits
	Completed with all fruits
	Completed with all areas 100%
	Beat the game
	Past level 60
	Don't own
	This user can capture Wii U footage.
	This user can capture long Nintendo Switch footage.
	This user knows advanced MediaWiki markup.

This user is an administrator on this wiki. In addition to the powers of a patroller, this user can protect pages from being edited, delete bad pages, and block misbehaving users from editing.

Hello! I'm Soprano, formerly called Botanist. I'm an active editor and administrator here on Pikipedia. 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 Pikmin 3 came out. I didn't know about Pikipedia or any game wiki at the time. I got New Play Control! Pikmin 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 New Play Control! Pikmin 2 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 Hey! Pikmin 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, Pikmin 3 Deluxe 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 ar ea ma ps, and rewriting some notable pages, including Pikipedia:About, Help:Editing, and Pikmin family. On August 21^st, 2021, my username was changed from Botanist to Soprano to match the name I use on the Pikcord. When Pikmin Bloom 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 April 4^th, 2022, I was promoted to patroller on the wiki, and a year later on May 15^th, 2023, I was promoted to administrator.

When Pikmin 4 came out in 2023, I helped coordinate the documentation of the new game in the Discord channel, and mostly worked on cleanup and technical changes on the wiki. It was fantastic to see articles gradually get created, with so many people helping the wiki to steadily document information. While there's still a lot to do, it's great that the wiki has documented so much about Pikmin 4 in the first few months after its release.

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

Pikmin 3 obstacle icons

This is just a temporary list to see all the icons as a group.

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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.