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Series Three Overhaul Project - Loose Notes (01/02/2022) These are some loose notes, tasks and instructions concerning the Series Three Overhaul Project (STOP) and other recent stuff on the wiki, as of February 1st 2022.

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

Opening Notes
Most of the previous notes are still ongoing, and have been described or linked in some way (be it a direct link to the section in question or to the batches holding them) in the previous batches, linked above.

The reason for a rushed, barebones post is to notify and highlight some things in a hurry, given an assessment of current circumstances. The previous one was somewhat thwarted, hopefully not this time.
 * Edit (03/02/22): So much for that...

Toaru Series, Current Status
Latest:
 * Manga Releases:, , (No chapter during January)
 * LN Volume:

Upcoming:
 * LN Volume: (April)
 * Toaru IF: 2022's Valentine event

Other
The manual poll for GT5's arc name was concluded last week, with Post-Handcuffs Arc being the possibility that was selected, and implemented via auto-sweep. GT6 was announced yesterday and will be released in April (in one of the two release points either side of Walpurgis Night - somewhat fitting given what might be coming up).

The period to be covered by the next Progress Log post will be closing on the 4th, with the preliminary data assembly and posting not long afterwards, though I doubt full completion will be accomplished.

Recent events here and elsewhere have reinforced the feeling and understanding of the need for keeping backups. As such, besides my own backup and contingency work, I requested the wiki's database dump (found on Special:Statistics) be updated - it was updated on January 21st and is up-to-date up to that point.

Assorted Notes

 * Possible Structure: Notifications, Plan Notes, Odd Jobs and Instructions
 * Minor thing with article edits for certain articles not appearing in the Recent Wiki Activity side-box is a site platform-related issue. Will be resolved in time, not a problem.
 * Number of recent edits with grammatical errors in the past few weeks that need to be trailed and fixed on top of the ones which have been trailed and fixed already.
 * Need to improve method of getting notes posts done quickly so as not to slip into the trap of extra detailing.
 * Need to keep better user notes to keep track of user actions and related problems without being indiscrete.
 * Need to devise and improve contingencies.
 * Technical problems, depression spikes and aggravating events/individuals bringing mood down to despondency recently.

Regular Sweep Tasks and Missing Quick-Link Elements
As mentioned previously, I had been meaning to assemble an updated list of regular MassEdit auto-sweep tasks that the bot can be set to run on a regular basis (for example, removing spacing/line-breaking errors introduced by the visual editor, removing non-visible elements introduced by certain edits, removing accidental triple line breaks, tackling common errors introduced by newcomers etc) to keep it useful and make progress while manual work is being focused in other areas, online and offline. Not much progress has been made on that front.

During an edit a week ago, I accidentally missed an 'E' from a quick-link reference. After being notified of it and adding the missing 'E', I considered the possibility of other such cases existing in articles, be it the 'E' in Qal cases, 'L' or 'M' in Qvl cases, or something similar. I also considered that these would be cases that could be systematically identified by auto-sweep, a task for the bot like the ones I had been hoping to list and carry out.

I've carried out a couple of auto-sweeps for Qal cases with 1 and 2s immediately after Railgun but without an E in-between, and similar sweeps might be to follow. However, in order to cover the whole area in the usual way, a large number of sweeps would need to be carried out (for all series (7) and for each potential number (1-9) immediately afterwards - 63 sweeps total, with 14 cases likely having more potential targets (1 and 2s also affecting 1X and 2Xs)), more than I had initially considered. This has led me to wonder about the possibility of quicker alternatives utilizing Regex (a field which I had been previously considering, but for which learning and progress had been delayed).

Target Criteria Example: {{Qal|Series|#

to

{{Qal|Series|E|#

where # is a number between 1 and 9

Featured Articles
As mentioned in previous notes posts, have been working to making selections for the Featured Articles in the upcoming months, taking into account article state and whether any necessary improvements can be made in the time available.

Have also been working to try to get a balance between positions in the story (i.e. not too many subjects with a main appearance in one particular part of the story too close together (e.g. three subjects mainly featured in one particular volume in a four slot period)) and similary for the type of subject matter (e.g. not too of one sort consecutively similar to the above - be it magic, science (esper, technology, AC, non-AC), normal, mixture etc).

Given the possibility for GT5 suggested by the end of GT4, and the fact that Walpurgis Night will be happening just beforehand, I had been considering having Witch for May, though it would need a bit of work beforehand. Given the Kremlin Report is the one for January/February (Non-AC Tech, Normalish?), I was wondering about a Normal Non-Tech or AC Science one for the March/April slot, but options are somewhat restricted in that area.

On an unrelated note, briefly wondered about the possibility of an image to be used in Featured Article entries for Featured Articles which lack images, potentially opening up new options.

Cleanup Template Line-Breaking
This is a demonstration of the little spacing issue with the Cleanup (and derivative Overhaul) template being used in certain places, mentioned a few posts ago which prompted wondering and experiment (without progress so far) concerning a variant for early sections (which behaves similar to Expand sizewise). Magic top-nav used but applies near infoboxes too.

Have used the Cleanup template's code (positioned under section "Test Section Header 1") rather than the template itself in this case (to avoid categorization), but the results are the same.

Test Section Header 4

 * Edit (14/02/2022): An apparent solution has been verified. The style parameters width and clear-both are the ones responsible for the clear/line-break effect.

Experiments and Impromptu Stuff
During December and January (and a little bit in the months before then), there was a number of ad-hoc technical and set-up adjustments and similar experiments which were carried out. A number of these had problems accompanying them, being products of hastiness, and as such had to be reverted back, some with a bit of cleanup required.

On the non-technical side though, as I've mentioned before, I might be carrying out a number of impromptu operations in the near future (assuming that such plans are not scuppered again). These particular ones won't involve templates, codes or functions like MassEdit - those require more careful planning.

Plan Notes and Odd Jobs

 * Plan Notes, Odd Jobs and Instructions
 * Construction mostly concluded as of 05/02/2022, but there might be the odd tweak or addition in the following week.
 * Not sorted in order of priority (or sorted much within the tables for that matter)

Plan Notes
These are some quick notes regarding some (but not all) of the various plans I've got in mind, at the front or on the backburner.

Reference Assembly
There are a number of areas for which help will be needed in gathering the right references.

End Notes
User/Personal processing incomplete:
 * Frustration, exasperation, cross, gloom

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Series Three Overhaul Project - Loose Notes (01/02/2022) These are some loose notes, tasks and instructions concerning the Series Three Overhaul Project (STOP) and other recent stuff on the wiki, as of February 1st 2022.

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