User blog:Inept Wiki User/Quick Activity Notes (09/12/2022)

Series Three Overhaul Project - Quick Activity Notes (09/12/2022) These are some rapid loose notes concerning the Series Three Overhaul Project (STOP) and other recent stuff on the wiki, as of December 9th 2022. Specifically, these notes concern recent circumstances, activity and issues.

Due to circumstances at present, both on and off the wiki, these notes will not be well sorted for now, even more rough and rushed than usual (so that further circumstances don't prevent its completion before it is time for the next one, again).

Opening Notes

 * Wiki currently log-in-only due to persistent anonymous vandalism, and will remain so until further notice.
 * Such vandalism will not be tolerated and offenders are liable to be blocked.
 * All GT7 edit/upload embargos have been lifted. Arc article (New Year's Arc) and link infrastructure implemented following closure of arc name poll in late November.
 * Regarding online release of Toaru Kagaku no Mental Out in Comic Newtype, for Chapters 7 onward, only the two most recent releases will be available on the site.
 * The Special:Statistics database dump was last updated in early December.
 * November's notes were largely unfinished at time of this post was written, having been delayed and derailed due to various circumstances. These notes (and the other quick notes accompanying it) are going to be bare-bones in order to ensure a repeat doesn't occur this time.
 * Edit (13/12/2022): Confounded again. Will likely lack a lot on launch.

Recent and Upcoming Releases
Recent:
 * Volume processed, standard edit/upload restrictions lifted. Arc article created.
 * Part 1
 * (No chapter in November, Volume 2 preparation)
 * Toaru Majutsu no Index: Imaginary Fest: Christmas 2022
 * Toaru Majutsu no Index: Imaginary Fest: Christmas 2022

Upcoming:
 * Index:
 * OT Omnibus (YP) - June 2023
 * GT8 not yet announced (March at the earliest)
 * Railgun:
 * Part 2
 * English localization (Mid-December)
 * Mental Out:
 * January 2023
 * Mental Out:
 * January 2023
 * January 2023

Recent and Upcoming Release-related Work

 * New Year's Arc: GT7 article implemented in November following poll closure (although hardly anyone voted) and the appropriate Main links added to respective articles.
 * Trismegistus: Moved on November 25th after consideration/assessment of character's unique circumstances, long notice and no objections.
 * Omnibus directed to sub-section 'Localized Equivalent' on respective All-in-One release due to circumstances (almost exactly the same thing, just lacking the bonuses and the potential physical release)
 * November, ad-hoc First Year Arc summary additions in temporary positions on arc-introduced character articles (and several others) - image tasks assigned and additional images added around this time.

Jailbreaker Arc-related

 * Having finished reading the Jailbreaker Arc, Herald returned and added multiple synopses and other bits to the arc's chapter articles (Ch98-107 - November 28th-29th, Ch108-117 - December 1st, Ch118-130 - December 2nd, Arc 'Trial' - December 4th).
 * These still need a bit of reviewing and fine-tuning.
 * The information on the private juvenile hall was split off from the Jailbreaker Arc, under Second Reformatory, following assessment of circumstances (but not the sole exclusive reference). Links adjusted appropriately.
 * Temporary placeholder later found for the top image.
 * Several related images were noticed to have previously slipped through the processing net.
 * There were a number of edits involving Mariophany on the 30th. Still need to check up on some of the details.
 * A related minor spacing sweep has also occurred.

Connected Structure-based Operations

 * As mentioned in previous STOP Notes posts, preparations had been made to implement a temporary solution to the Light/Dark Mode visibility problems on the navboxes (entailing switching the observable cases onto temporary templates). The plan, which I've taken to calling 'Operation Cheaps Specs', was fully implemented around the middle of November, with manual checks afterward.
 * Operation New Year's Eve, the plan to update the wiki's story year referral structure as the story entered a new year, was restarted in a semi ad-hoc manner around the middle of last month, moving and adjusting the tagged cases onto a coordinated link structure (partly to get it going, partly to free up the tags). Given the ad-hoc nature of the restart, notes still have to be written up and some tweaking will be carried out a bit later. Related contingency preparations have also been considered.
 * A specific tracking tag for design sections missing entries (EmptyDesign) was created in the middle of November, with a similar EmptyQuotes tag for a similar task (self-explanatory, working on additional task, notes later). EmptyDesign was redirected to Template:EmptySection/Design and retained, following a realization about how a mix of EmptySection, sub-templates and redirects to them could be utilized to additional effect.
 * While the future approach is undecided, the existing "No X in this chapter/episode" cases in chapter and episode articles have been tagged, catalogued and synchronized for monitoring and convenience of work later, using a combined structure of 'None/type' tracking/display templates - these are not to be tampered with or placed elsewhere for now.

Other

 * Artificial Intelligence page creation, following previous TTX9 locator plan
 * Qcl conversion checks and sweeps conducted recently for Manga Debut fields (related to a long-term odd job - ).
 * Top-bar mediawiki functions appear to be displaying faulty data (includes Top Users and Most Visited). Doesn't match Special:Analytics, or recent/previous readings. Several bits are quite suspect, removing until the problem can be verified.
 * Seen at least one case (jjba/jojo) where another wiki on the platform has changed its address name or dispensed with a redirect address, and rendered the previous w:c: links to it on here non-functional.
 * Spotted and adjusted several cases of sections out-of-order on older chapter/episode articles.