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Series Three Overhaul Project - Loose Notes (18/02/2022) 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 18th 2022.

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

Opening Notes
The reason for a rushed, barebones post is to notify and highlight some things in a hurry, given an assessment of current circumstances.

Many of the notices and tasks from the recent batches (past couple of months) are still ongoing. Rather than a load of Main links in this one, see the Link Table Experiment near the bottom for links. Carrying forward of notes will be minimal this time.

Reminder for anyone taking backups that the wiki's database dump was updated on January 21st and is up-to-date up to that point.

Upcoming Releases

 * Manga: Railgun Ch138, Mental Out Ch7
 * LN Volume: Souyaku Toaru Majutsu no Index Light Novel Volume 06 (April), Railgun SS (15th Anniversary Project)
 * Toaru IF: Railgun 15th Anniversary Collab (name not yet known)
 * Railgun 15th Anniversary Project, Other: Dengeki Daioh April issue cover (February 26th), figurine

Image Tasklist Extract
Toaru Kagaku no Mental Out, Unnamed Characters (SD32/SD217 work)
 * The spy in Shokuhou's clique
 * The unnamed adversaries faced at the start of the story
 * The girls in the broadcast room
 * The 'victim'

Toaru Kagaku no Railgun, First Year Arc (SD202 work)
 * Sha Danshan's Psychometry (Ch137)
 * Misaka Mikoto and Shin'enkouji Rurikakesu in the arcade and the arcade coin (Ch137)

, Illustration
 * Fuse Kazakiri eliminating Kihara Hasuu (Ch4)

Vandals and Troublemakers
Given events in the last few days, I'll repeat my previous warning. Vandalism and similar troublemaking will NOT be tolerated. We have enough work and problems as it is without rotters adding to them. Any cases will be dealt with promptly and the offenders blocked, as will attempts to circumvent.

Operation New Year's Eve
A large-scale sweep operation is currently underway as part of preparations for an approaching event in the Toaru series - the beginning of a new year in-story.

At the moment, most of the timing references across the wiki are based on the current year of the story timeline and the fact that the events of the main story have, for the most part, taken place solely in this one year. As such, once we enter Main Story Year 2, a number of changes will need to be made. The objective of this project is to review the current state of such references on the wiki and plan adjustments for when the time comes (Note: This is not going to be subject to the rush-forward-on-own approach that has been independently applied to certain other things).

TT63 is being used for this operation, sweeps have been ongoing for several days and will be for several more days to come. Information collection is also proceeding but won't be complete for a while yet. It will probably be a few days once the locator sweeps are complete for the minimum processing to be completed before de-tagging is carried out.

The sweep approach is not particularly optimized, mainly relying on successive sweeps for certain phrases that are liable to crop up in such references. Aside from taking a considerable amount of time (although not as much as it would have been without the optimized non-redirect article sweep aid list), this leaves a bit of a gap for some possibilities to slip through, and a few cases which have been caught up accidentally (for example, a sweep for "Year" as might catch multiple phrases at the start of a sentence would also tag instances of say, First Year Arc or Kamachi 10th Year Anniversary, etc).

Current considered criteria: Done (TT64 then transferred to TT63, due to circumstances): "Year", "Years" (e.g. "Current Year", "Previous Year", "Present Year", "Years Ago", "Years before", "Years previously")

Done: "current year", "Current year", "previous year", "Previous year", "years ago", "present year", "years before", "year before"

Ongoing at time of writing: "last year"

Not Done: "Present year", "timeline", "story timeline", "years previously", "Last year"

Would appreciated it if anyone who sees any missed possibilities or oversights for sweep criteria let me know.

Edit (20/02/2022): Missed example "year(s) prior" done. Timeline cases done using TT64. Main data processing phase about to begin.

Cleanup/Topbox Proximity
As noted in the February 1st's notes, I was going to run a few tests regarding a minor spacing problem resulting when a Cleanup (and the derivative Overhaul) template is passed under a section header in close proximity to an infobox or similar such template - namely that it stays at full width and goes to the bottom of the infobox, leaving a substantial gap between it and the section header.

As noted in an ammendment to the notes in the previous week, the parameters responsible for this excess gap have been confirmed as both "width:99%" and "clear-both". However, given overall circumstances (number of cases, practicality etc), I'm not completely sure about the approach I will take (be it making a sub-type, adding a 'switch', or adding the cases in raw - slightly leaning towards the first but not certain).

Other
These are somewhat unsorted and not fully processed.
 * It has been noted before, but there may be some ad-hoc operations in the near-future (previously referred to by the acronym OSER - on-spot edit rush), for various reasons previously noted (e.g. breaking out of a stall, change of pace, catalyzing mind etc).
 * Something which has been taking up attention recently is an expansion and overhaul of one of the subpages, prompted by activity in December and done in order to avoid certain problems. This is nearing its conclusion, though referencing still needs fine-tuning.
 * Addition of temporary summary placeholders (TSPs) to recent release-related subjects is continuing in a somewhat sporadic manner.
 * There was an ad-hoc addition of Source data to Category:Film Images on the 15th/16th. While most of it was done, there were a number of issues that were not fully recorded and may need consideration ahead of further actions.
 * A task that has been on the backburner for a while is sorting threads in Discuss (formerly the Forums). One thing that has also been considered are possibilities for threads that can be made to gather data or volunteers, or if the need arises for displacement from the recent thread displays.
 * There may well be a number of times where the bot could be set to run a sweep in the background while manual focus is on other tasks - however, the supply of tasks to run in the background could do with restock, given that many of the tasks have already been run recently (including reference checks and Qal-missing letter checks) and used up in a way.
 * The front page Twitter template has not been fixed - might need to consider a potential temporary solution or substitute.

Link Table Experiment
Most of the previous notes from the past couple of months 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. This is especially true of February 1st and 10th's note batches.

The table below is an experiment for potential future storage and presentation for previous post links.

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Series Three Overhaul Project - Loose Notes (18/02/2022) 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 18th 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.