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Series Three Overhaul Project - Loose Notes (01/07/2023) These are some loose notes concerning the Series Three Overhaul Project (STOP) and other recent stuff on the wiki, as of July 1st 2023.

Due to circumstances at present, both on and off the wiki, these notes will not be particularly well sorted for now, very rough and rushed.

Opening Notes

 * Wiki currently log-in-only due to persistent anonymous vandalism during the early part of last year, and will remain so until further notice.
 * Such vandalism will not be tolerated and offenders are liable to be blocked.
 * The wiki was recently updated to MediaWiki 1.39. There shouldn't be any problems, but if you see any issues that might be connected to the upgrade, leave a note in the comments below.

Reminders
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 * Remember to include references when adding in new information (be it in sentences or paragraphs) to articles.
 * If you are inserting new parts into existing sentences/paragraphs or rewriting them, make sure that the existing references are correctly positioned/applied afterwards.
 * There have been a lot of messy additions recently - at the very least, please do a grammatical check on additions before you add them.

Images

 * When uploading a new image, name it appropriately, according to its subject matter.
 * When uploading a new image, please remember to include the appropriate Summary, Licensing and category framework. Remember to include the appropriate information (including Description, Source and Purpose in Summary) where possible, and if not possible, use the appropriate ImageReqInfo sub-tags so they can be processed later.
 * When uploading a new version of an image, if the image's source differs from the previous version (e.g. a different volume/chapter/episode, a different website in the case of a cover etc), remember to update the Source information.
 * When uploading a new version of an image, avoid unnecessary size expansion - the image just has to be big enough to fulfill its purpose, not be ginormous (if it has little details that can be picked out besides the main one, fair enough, but otherwise...).
 * Refrain from unnecessary image uploading.
 * When processing the unprocessed content below TrackTag30 into the standard image information structure, don't forget to remove the TT30 structure after the stuff has been properly processed.
 * Please refrain from risky images for the time being.
 * Please bear in mind that inserting categories during Special:Upload means that they won't be at the bottom of the image page - which will cause problems later on. If possible, reposition any categories added during Special:Upload or add the categories at the bottom after Special:Upload.
 * Please also bear in mind that when the Summary/Licensing inputs in Special:Upload are used, the resultant headers have spaces in them either side of the entry. This has the potential to disrupt some of the processing sweeps, so if the Special:Upload Summary/Licensing inputs are used, the removal of those spaces afterwards would be appreciated.
 * In order to support the result transclusion experiments and accompanying tasks, noinclude tags have recently been added immediately before the first categories on image pages (preventing categorization of drafts/posts/etc where the image pages have been transcluded to (with the exception of the categorization under Category:Images requiring information caused by the ImageReqInfo tracking tag), with TclTrack tracking tags immediately before them to keep track of them. It would be appreciated if TclTrack and noinclude are included before the first categories in future uploads, in order to prevent disruption of the ongoing tasks. An expanded explanation will be written in due course, less up-to-date notes are present on May's STOP Notes post.

Recent and Upcoming Releases
Recent:
 * Light Novel and Manga Volumes:
 * Monthly Manga Chapters:
 * Toaru Majutsu no Index: Imaginary Fest:
 * Toaru Gensou no Fourth Anniversary
 * Original Story Chapter 1
 * Toaru Majutsu no Index: Imaginary Fest:
 * Toaru Gensou no Fourth Anniversary
 * Original Story Chapter 1
 * Toaru Majutsu no Index: Imaginary Fest:
 * Toaru Gensou no Fourth Anniversary
 * Original Story Chapter 1

Upcoming:
 * OT Omnibus (YP) - August 2023 (delayed from June)
 * - August 2023
 * Monthly Manga Chapters:
 * Index Ch183
 * Railgun Ch147
 * Mental Out Ch20
 * Toaru IF Original Story Chapter 2

Regarding Below Notes
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Assorted Carried Forward Notes
Tweaking still in progress (11/07/2023)
 * A number of points in the previous notes batch still apply, further details to be written.
 * The Reflist problem seems to have stopped for the time being, but this will need to be checked further.
 * Experimentation regarding the Light Mode underlining has been delayed for now, but will be resumed at a later date.
 * Notes on the Tcl experiments are still being written.
 * Some separate, more specialized posts might be made in the near-future regarding certain information aggregation, verification and processing tasks.
 * A lot of the notes for a number of projects and topics which I've wanted to include in the monthly STOP Notes posts have annoyingly ended up being derailed, delayed or otherwise impeded due to various factors, so given the circumstances, they may or may not being detailed on separate posts.

Quick Assorted Tasks

 * Check the Sources for images associated with chapters which have been renumbered in volume releases (a pair were noticed with Railgun Ch97 Sources - for what was Ch97 in the magazine but Ch96 in the tankobon).
 * Perhaps get a quick access list for chapters affected by renumbering.
 * Mental Out Ch18, Major Events, point 1's wording may need a little tweaking at some point.
 * , identify and double-check the Virtuaroids in the Virtual-On manga chapter images.
 * , verify character appearance-naming gap tables up-to-date

NeedNihongo-related
Recent Volumes:
 * Kouzaku Mitori: Drone knives (Note: Need to verify that the assumed kana are the ones used in the source text)
 * School District 23: Science Tower
 * Alice Anotherbible: Wonders
 * Souyaku Toaru Majutsu no Index Light Novel Volume 08/Chapter 1: Samurai Street
 * Souyaku Toaru Majutsu no Index Light Novel Volume 08/Chapter 2: Shunta, Scype, Children’s Q&A Advice Show
 * Souyaku Toaru Majutsu no Index Light Novel Volume 08/Epilogue: Theosophical Society (Note: Have come across a Japanese term by which the real-life Theosophical Society is referred, but haven't ascertained whether the exact same term is used in the raw text where Kingsford's past membership was mentioned.)
 * Snakehead (Note: Need to verify that the assumed kana are the ones used in the source text)

Other:
 * Exterior: Activation command (quoted in Trivia, verify romaji)
 * Sakibasu Yuri: Witch & Psychic
 * Stativarius: Almati, Guarnari
 * Toaru Kagaku no Accelerator Episode 08: Cryptids
 * Club Psychedelic Beach: Club Psychedelic Beach
 * L.S.S.: Street Corner Kitten Show, Animal Protection Fund

Assorted Newer Notes (1)
Tweaking still in progress (11/07/2023)
 * A minor point for checking (though I believe there won't be any 'hit's) - check the previous manga chapters (i.e. not the anime) for Railgun, Astral Buddy and Mental Out, and verify that there are no other references and cases of contact that Kuroko has had with the Kihara name at the chapter's point in time.
 * As many already know, there has been trouble with Twitter recently and as a result, most of the Twitter link targets and referenced posts are currently non-accessible to those not logged in to Twitter. This has also knocked out Template:Twitter and as such, it has been temporarily removed from the main page.
 * The Slider was recently updated with some new slides derived from Toaru IF's 4th anniversary.
 * There were a couple of major operations which were conducted in late June - more information on them will be written and presented in due course.
 * Separately but slightly related, the watermarked anime image manual identification on SD286 was completed late last month and the Shared Draft reassigned to the Item V2 tasklist. The identified selection was transferred elsewhere, and will be processed for a long-term minor odd job with a separate post.
 * A couple of minor visibility/display issues have been noted for mobiles:
 * The more important of the two is that OneRow Volume isn't displaying properly. This is being looked into (though initial experimental tweaks didn't go as hoped).
 * The much less important is that if certain mobile browsers are commanded to use the FandomDesktop skin, the displays for character infoboxes (at least) are off from intended settings - mainly the size and color of the headers.

QuoteTrack, Header-to-Quote Processing Remainder
As part of a larger operation, quotes in the Quotes sections on articles have gradually been put into the temporary QuoteTrack template. This is to aid future processing and information monitoring tasks.

Earlier this year, the relevant sections, which had previously been tagged and tracked using a generic TrackTag in their headers, had that generic TrackTag switched over to the QuoteTrack template. With this initial tracking structure in place, after logging the state of those sections, the plan was to gradually go through them and move the templates from the header to around the individual quotes in those sections. In each case, QuoteTrack would surround the quote, any Character: or bracket notes associated with it, and any references at the end of them, but not the bullet point.

This transfer has steadily been progressing. The remaining articles to be processed are listed below.

The template has multiple purposes, including tracking which articles have quotes in place, allowing quick identification of how many quotes article(s) have, and acting as an anchor or guide to facilitate further processing operations - in bulk and automatically.

Toaru IF Character Release Placeholders

 * These are the character release images which have temporary placeholders in place, as of the time of posting. Carried forward from June 23rd's Quick Image Notes post.
 * While it would be good to deal with all of these, it would be particularly good to get the four 2022 ones done and dusted.

Replacing, Required Summary Changes
At present, the placeholders have the following in their Summary sections, below their Description entry; a temporary link to the source of the placeholder, a tracking tag which is being used to track the current placeholders, and a 'Replaceable' note. Source: Toaru Majutsu no Index: Imaginary Fest, Boom-App Wiki (Temporary Placeholder)

Purpose: To illustrate how the character in question appears in the mobile game.

Replaceable: When another image becomes available which fulfils the same purpose that the temporary placeholder is currently carrying out to a better extent (i.e. clear of text and labels)

When the placeholder is replaced with a version without the text or labels that the placeholders have, after uploading the new version, remove the 'Replaceable' part, remove the temporary link (as the placeholder is no longer being used)(unless the new image also comes from the same place - though I don't think that will be likely) and remove the tracking tag. For the above example, it would leave something like this: Source: Toaru Majutsu no Index: Imaginary Fest

Purpose: To illustrate how the character in question appears in the mobile game.

Other

 * Note (11/07/2023): No existing non-IF images with tasks currently ready for putting in the table below, but keeping the table just in case. As mentioned above, the watermark cases will be getting their own long-term odd jobs post.

Image Notes (New Image Candidates)

 * Various items below have been carried forward from the above and previous posts.
 * Note: File endings not finalized (hence initial omission from links), table links will be updated after respective uploads.

Item Manga Designs

 * A series of design images pertaining to the upcoming manga for Toaru Anbu no Item were uploaded on the mangaka's Twitter on June 13th: hh_strelka. Several of them might not be up to par, but it might be an idea to get a few of them on for planning purposes, and as a placeholder/precursor.
 * Might not be possible for a while, given the Twitter log-in-only phase and other issues in early July.

Assorted Newer Notes (2)
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Temporary Storage

 * Unsorted/unprocessed notes
 * Empty table sample

Links

 * STOP Notes (01/06/2023)
 * Quick Image Notes (23/06/2023)

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Series Three Overhaul Project - Loose Notes (01/07/2023) These are some loose notes concerning the Series Three Overhaul Project (STOP) and other recent stuff on the wiki, as of July 1st 2023.

Due to circumstances at present, both on and off the wiki, these notes will not be particularly well sorted for now, very rough and rushed.