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Series Three Overhaul Project - Loose Notes (28/10/2022) These are some loose notes concerning the Series Three Overhaul Project (STOP) and other recent stuff on the wiki, as of October 28th 2022.

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=

Notices

 * 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.
 * The GT7 edit/upload embargo has been lifted, however the arc article is not to be made. The arc headers currently in place are using a temporary placeholder with a support structure for rapid implementation when the time arrives.
 * Suggestions for the arc name are being gathered in the comments of the plan post, GT7 Plans. Once we've finished gathering suggestions, a manual poll will be held in the comments over there. Once people have had time to make their choices known and the poll is concluded, the arc name will be finalized and I will implement headers/links etc via auto-sweep.
 * 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 near the end of October.

Recent Releases

 * Volume processed, standard edit/upload restrictions lifted.
 * Arc name not yet finalized, temporary placeholder in place. Arc article and links not to be made until arc name finalized through manual poll in the plan thread.
 * Part 2
 * Toaru Majutsu no Index: Imaginary Fest
 * Toaru Majutsu no Index: Imaginary Fest
 * Toaru Majutsu no Index: Imaginary Fest
 * Toaru Majutsu no Index: Imaginary Fest

=Assorted Notes=

Given overall circumstances, this is intended to be a quick post (not one to take up a lot of time developing), a trimmed down and slightly updated version of above's notes.

GT7-related
As per standard procedure, most of the plan and task notes for the new volume are on its plan thread and the assigned Shared Drafts. However, a few notes were included in the last STOP Notes post, given the circumstances at the time. Several of the plans there have been executed since the time of writing, while others are still being considered and prepared - see the link for further details.

Given that there have been no further suggestions for a week, I'm going to initiate the manual arc name poll in the comments of the GT7 Plans post on October 28th. See the notes on October 1st's post for further details concerning the arc this time around. The arc article embargo remains until the poll is completed.

Data Collection/Assembly
These are a few of the ongoing tasks mentioned last time, involving collecting and assembling information throughout the series involving specific subjects.
 * - Accelerator Ch38-52 unfinished.
 * - Unnamed-to-Named Character Intervals, need to add missing recently named characters.
 * - Transcription from GT design image blue sections (the text at the bottom of the images, which would have normally been recorded on the webpage itself when design images were posted first on Rainbow Spectrum), for quick reference purposes and as a base for potential Character Art Designs entries.
 * Scientific field search - Verify all scientific fields/divisions etc that have been referred to by term in the series.

Image Tasklist
This is a trimmed-down and hastily carried forward version of the image tasklist made at the start of the month and expanded over its course, partially updated with some new items (mostly concerning the recent manga chapter releases). Somewhat rushed to avoid spending a long time over it and given the quick, tide-over nature of this post in general.

Toaru IF Image Placeholders

 * Toaru IF 3-Star character release, recent temporary placeholders. Placed to prevent certain problems. To be replaced once better/clearer image becomes available. TT84 is being used for tracking, to be removed once upgraded.

Image Source Verification
This is the left-over stuff from an odd job on the last two posts, involving verifing the Source links for flag images. See the two links above for further specifics.

In the end, I ended up doing most of the task, however there are several images which are not straight-forward cases, which have been left until last. For example, one of them was a different shade from the Wikimedia version and the previous iteration had not yet been found in that external file's history.

New Images
For convenience, only the reasonably, relatively higher-priority candidates have been included this time. Considering doing a backburner post later for lower-priority ones.
 * New uploads relating to current Railgun/Mental Out arcs to be added to the galleries on the respective Shared Drafts; and.

Already Completed
The following items were being included while the draft was being written on October 27th, but were dealt with in the middle of writing.

Templates and Technical

 * Preparations are still ongoing regarding some of the new technical developments that have rolled out in recent weeks, including the FandomMobile skin option. Tackling the Dark Mode problem below is a part of these preparations.
 * An update regarding the Dark Mode navbox visibility problem (see above link for more details).
 * Options for template mode-based parameter switching have not been found, neither have any special scripts or anchor plans. Potential processing criteria has not been fully explored.
 * However, it has been noted that a lot of the navboxes' Light-Dark visibility problems come down to the Link color template, which has the normally blue links display as black.
 * While we may not be able to implement switching parameters into the template at present, it is possible to temporarily disable the template by adjusting the code to merely link/display the text it is around.
 * Alternatively, rather than disabling all cases, we can switch some of the cases over to another template (so one does the above while the other carries out the templates normally function) - however this would require manual work or careful sweep criteria consideration to make sure there isn't any omission of intended targets or any accidental switching.
 * Edit (28/10/2022): Template:Link color/SD has been created for the purpose. At present it is identical. Once the items have been switched over, one of the templates will be adjusted according for the tide-over measure.
 * Another potential problem to be considered relating to the above point are cases where the background that the text affected by the template is set to a color that would create visibility problems if the template were disabled (e.g. blue).
 * One other point relating to the possibility of applying a background change rather than a text change - problems would arise as a result with unformatted text, which would switch colors with the mode.
 * While this isn't ideal and brings back the minor viewing comfort problems that the implementation in the navboxes was meant to deal with, it should deal with the Mode visibility issues for the time being and should tide things over until we can find a more permanent solution.
 * Edit (28/10/2022): Locator sweeps are currently in progress to collect data for assessment and narrow down the lists of articles and templates which are potentially affected by the issue.
 * A similar yet different visibility problem was noted with Template:Spoiler text (which highlights normally black text in black to obscure it unless clicked, Dark Mode's text is white - defeating the purpose), though this one is barely used.
 * It might be an idea to devise sweep criteria that can pick up on cases where it can occur.
 * So far as is known, the load delay/size problem with Template:Twitter has not yet been resolved.

=End Notes=

Temporary Storage

 * Combined results from locator sweeps searching for color parameters/template.
 * Have verified via test that putting a TrackTag in the middle of a table parameter or the Link color template code does not disrupt its function. Considering coordinated sweep cycle.

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Series Three Overhaul Project - Loose Notes (28/10/2022) These are some loose notes concerning the Series Three Overhaul Project (STOP) and other recent stuff on the wiki, as of October 28th 2022.

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.