User blog:Inept Wiki User/STOP Notes (01/10/2022)

Series Three Overhaul Project - Loose Notes (01/10/2022) These are some loose notes concerning the Series Three Overhaul Project (STOP) and other recent stuff on the wiki, as of October 1st 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 at the start of September.

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.
 * Toaru Majutsu no Index: Imaginary Fest: Durarara!!x2 collaboration conclusion uncertain.
 * Toaru Majutsu no Index: Imaginary Fest: Durarara!!x2 collaboration conclusion uncertain.
 * Toaru Majutsu no Index: Imaginary Fest: Durarara!!x2 collaboration conclusion uncertain.
 * Toaru Majutsu no Index: Imaginary Fest: Durarara!!x2 collaboration conclusion uncertain.
 * Toaru Majutsu no Index: Imaginary Fest: Durarara!!x2 collaboration conclusion uncertain.

Images
The image-related notes will be on a separate post this time; see Image Task Notes.

Given circumstances part-way through last month, an image reminder post was made (though not completed due to other circumstances scuppering work on it); see Quick Image Notes and Reminders.

Some of the latter may be carried forward to the former.

Bits of Image Tasks and Reminders (12/04/2022) were being reworked for the reminder post and the previous Image Tasklist was in STOP Notes (28/08/2022).

=Assorted Notes=

GT7 Notes
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 will also be placed here, given circumstances.
 * Story Arc: As mentioned before, as per standard procedure, although the editing/upload embargo has been lifted, the arc article is not to be made and arc name links are not to be made yet.
 * Arc headers with temporary placeholders are currently in place, along with a support structure which tracks all of the cases, informs about the situation and enable rapid implementation via bot auto-sweep once the time arrives.
 * As per standard procedure, suggestions for the arc name are being gathered in the comments of the plan post (linked above). Once we've finished gathering suggestions, a manual poll will be held in the comments over there (expected time, one or two weeks). Once people have had time to properly make their choices known and the poll is concluded successfully, the arc name will be finalized and I will implemented headers/links etc via auto-sweep.
 * Candidates considered at time of writing were; New Year's Arc, New Year Arc and Consulate Arc.
 * There are several factors which should be considered this time around - including the possibility that this might be a multi-volume arc.
 * There won't be any GT7-related design images until GT8, as apparently there weren't all that many for this particular volume.
 * Edit (21/10/2022): A last reminder for suggestions has been made in GT7 Plans. If there are no more within a few days, the manual poll will be initiated.
 * Chapter status
 * Prologue: Abilities and Quotes empty, Trivia unfinished (also check for missing items), problems connected to the TV drama
 * Chapter 1: Quotes empty, Trivia unfinished (also check for missing items), uncertainty regarding the tracing magic circle
 * Chapter 2: Abilities and Quotes empty, Character order unfinished, Trivia unfinished (also check for missing items), minor Locations bullet point tweak
 * Chapter 3: New Abilities, Trivia and Quotes empty, Trivia unfinished (also check for missing items)
 * Chapter 4: Characters, Abilities and Quotes empty, Locations unfinished, Trivia unfinished (also check for missing items)
 * Epilogue: Abilities unfinished, Trivia unfinished (also check for missing items)
 * Trismegistus: His article is currently H. T. Trismegistus at the time of writing. Given the circumstances in the volume (including the fact that he switches his initials according to which pair of deities he is invoking), I have been considering whether or not to chop the initials of his article name.
 * Bridge Builders Cabal: Regarding the Known Members table, the plan is to trim down some of the entries from the initial time (when it was storing the information for members until it reached a level justifying an article) and switch the note structure slightly according to the information acquired so far.
 * Transcendents: Regarding the Transcendent's seal releases and their methods of departing human territory (note regarding term, NeedNihongo is currently in place besides the Nihongo cases to indicate the need to double-check and verify the romaji), there was a bit of uncertainty as to how to proceed. For now, these bits have been placed into their own sub-sections, using the section header 'Transcendence' as a temporary placeholder. The ones which haven't had this aspect elaborated in the same way just have a paragraph note rather than a sub-section.
 * There was a bit of uncertainty regarding this, but I had been considering assembling a list of references to the story in the Toaru series under Alice's Trivia section. With the recent increase, I've been considering the use of a collapsible table.
 * New Year's: During the end of September and the beginning of October, a few cursory locator sweeps were conducted to find "new year" and "New Year"/"New Year's" cases (while also trying to avoid the New Year's Eve Arc and New Year's Arc cases), some of which were tagged.
 * The course of action concerning them is not yet decided - they might be linked via redirects to sections on Unified Story Timeline, the respective New Year's story arcs, or an article for New Year's in a similar manner to Christmas, or a mixture according to circumstances.
 * Several temporary redirects may be created prior to plan finalization.
 * A sub-section on might be used to assemble all of the information available to see how much there is and to assess the viability of the plans.
 * Edit (15/10/2022): I've ended up creating an article with the name New Year, after assessing the circumstances and conducting sweep operations.
 * Sisters: One of the ideas on the backburner is the conversion of the column bullet list to a collapsible table.
 * One thought was for the table to include certain minor tidbits for which quite a number of Sisters only have those tidbits to their name (and mitigate the creation of new articles, similar to how certain minor characters, locations and other subjects are restricted to tables and kept as redirects until enough information has been released to justify an article (though the majority of those Sisters have had articles created for them already)).
 * Similar cases have been done in the past for the Kamisato Faction and the Bridge Builders Cabal for GT5 (in this case, dropping gradually when transitioning into GT6 then GT7 as the members received enough info for articles).
 * "Every man and every woman is a star": While GT7 Chronology TSPs are in place in articles at time of writing, a bit of Principles expansion and NT Chronology tweaks are needed in some articles for subjects connected to this phrase. Relevant subjects are the Book of the Law, the Aeon of Horus and Thelema.
 * Quotes: There are a number of quotes associated with the volume which are currently under consideration as potential candidates for certain character and chapter articles. However, these are not to be implemented just yet, given preparations and complications concerning another Quotes-related project. Additionally, there are not to be many of them (i.e. careful selection, not excessive).

Regular Manga Release Notes
These are notes concerning recent releases from the monthly mangas that are currently running; Index, Railgun and Mental Out, primarily the latter two.
 * Asato Kisa, Mibuki Kazan and Nenohi Wakana have now all been named (thank goodness).
 * There are still a few uncertainties with regards to positions in the lists in the Characters sections on chapter/episode articles, but they should be cleared soon.
 * There are a few other unnamed characters which are being monitored but are not at article level yet. Information (and images where they are available) is being assembled on the respective Shared Drafts ( for Railgun's First Year Arc and for Mental Out).
 * There are a number of temporary placeholders which are in place for certain characters and abilities which have yet to be properly named, for the purpose of easing work later with quick conversion, keeping track of where things are, and other stuff like that. Certain aspects of those placeholders, such as temporary names, are not to be carried forward to other articles.
 * There will be a wait until after the next Railgun chapter to further verify details, but if information on the experimental prototype weapon/suit is assembled on the main articles, it will likely be on Montgolfier's page.

One other note regarding something which won't be coming up for a while yet:
 * Although it will be months and likely be more than a year until the British Royal Family Arc concludes in the Index manga, the possibility that Skogsfru might get a picture has been considered.

Templates and Technical

 * One problem which has been noticed for a while (and has recently been pointed out again by a passing representative) is a viewability problem with the navboxes on Dark Mode. This arises from the use of black text on see-through sections on navboxes, which see through to a light grey background on Light Mode and a dark background on Dark Mode.
 * There are a number of problems with just switching the text colour on the templates themselves. Aside from the difficulties in automation and the likely necessity of manual tweaking for a large volume of targets, there are problems with just switching the color of the text within the templates themselves. If the text was merely switched to white, it would merely create the same problem in Light Mode. Changing the text colour for both would also lead to 'fitting; problems.
 * Other potential things to consider are scripts and anchors, and the possibility of having to switch any initial adjustments later in light of future technical developments.
 * A similar problem was noted with the infoboxes at an earlier point in the Fandom Desktop and Light/Dark implementation, which was subsequently fixed via a tweak. I've forgotten whether it was a tweak to the template itself or a tweak to the wiki's script code. This tweak needs to be revisited and checked to determine whether a similar tweak (which would have dark text in light mode and light text in dark mode, thereby bypassing the problem mentioned before) would be applicable in this case.
 * A similar problem has been noted with Template:Spoiler text, though this one is barely used.
 * It might be an idea to devise sweep criteria that can automatically pick up on cases where it can occur.
 * A cursory look and recall of recent weeks (including the need for solutions (Regex, template, and otherwise), imagined and then forgotten while juggling the taskloads and then recalled then forgotten etc) suggest that a Technical Backburner, Technical Odd Jobs, or similar tasklist might be needed.
 * One related item - need to recall a method for listing templates via their current template types (including unclassified).
 * It would also be an idea to get similar, pre-existing measures back on track.
 * A functional issue with Template:Twitter was detected at the end of August involving load delay and size problem - this problem is present on other wikis as well. The issue is still present and after a period where it eased, it worsened.
 * There have been posts on CC in recent weeks regarding some upcoming technical developments, including the FandomMobile skin. Some associated preparations will be necessary, for this particular one at the very least.

Data Collection/Assembly
These are a few ongoing tasks involving collecting and assembling information throughout the series involving specific subjects.
 * - Merchandise, general information collection (including figurine data).
 * Voice Cast, Covid-19 status list - update July-October
 * In-universe entertainment - general information collection/processing
 * Firearm information/images (Note: To minimize hassle in having to face-check certain user edits in the future)
 * - 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.
 * - Flora and Fauna, general information collection/processing
 * - Food and Drink, general information collection/processing
 * Scientific field search - Verify all scientific fields/divisions etc that have been referred to by term in the series.
 * Halloween - Verify all non-"British Halloween" cases in the main volumes
 * Historical Popes mentioned in the series
 * Historical Popes mentioned in the series

Note: There have previously been a few doubts regarding the presentation of these data collection tasks in the STOP Notes posts, involving concerns over potential problems resulting from not communicating the tasks properly.

Unsorted

 * British Royal Family: This received a bit of development in early September, including expansion of its Background section and a collapsible table to collect information on Historical Monarchs.
 * Most of the monarchs mentioned in the series (William I to Victoria) have an adequate description, though Elizabeth I's one is fairly minimal. The descriptions for James IV and James VI/I have not been done yet.
 * There are plans to make a note somewhere on the page regarding the Lord Chamberlain mentioned in Volume 16. However, before that is done, a check of Volume 16's Japanese source text needs to be carried out, in order to verify what was said and completely eliminate an unlikely possibility. Chamberlain is a surname as well as a title. It must be made absolutely certain that it is the "Lord Chamberlain" X or a "Chamberlain" X rather than a Lord X "Chamberlain".
 * A check was conducted on October 8th. Unfortunately, the result was not enough to completely eliminate the possibility.
 * Regarding Frillsand #G, no need to change from Frillsand to Frillsand #G, the redirect method still works fine
 * A number of Toaru IF image sub-categories were created early in the month, given the circumstances surrounding them, including the increase since the main category's creation and for supporting repeated processing. The arrangement is not finalized, the overall category setup and the category names are not finalized.
 * A number of operations and reorganization similarly connected to Toaru IF were attempted in early September (a section was planned on a previous post but was delayed by multiple workloads until progress on that particular past post was no longer practical).
 * priorities for checking in Japanese source text (most mentioned on previous posts, likely long-term)
 * Stativarius - Almati, Guarnari
 * Club Psychedelic Beach - Club Psychedelic Beach
 * L.S.S. - Street Corner Kitten Show, Animal Protection Fund
 * Grapple - MilliPhone 15 High End
 * Alice Anotherbible - "wonders" (GT7-related), adventure, Bridge Building/linking


 * Had been considering doing a lite version of Exploring Bases (perhaps Background Tidbits, given that a full one would need too much time and effort) as a mild stress-reliever, but had some doubts.
 * There are a few problems with readying some of the previously considered candidates and balancing factors. Might need to consider assembling a list of low-effort backup candidates which don't need much of an overhaul, in case the other ones are not ready in time and so time needn't be spent closer to switch-over time.

=End Notes=

Links

 * User blog:Inept Wiki User/Image Task Notes (01/10/2022)

September:
 * User blog:Inept Wiki User/Quick Image Notes and Reminders (20/09/2022)

August:
 * User blog:Inept Wiki User/STOP Notes (28/08/2022)
 * User blog:Inept Wiki User/STOP Notes (01/08/2022)

July:
 * User blog:Inept Wiki User/STOP Notes (01/07/2022)
 * User blog:Inept Wiki User/STOP Notes (22/07/2022)
 * July 13th Odd Jobs
 * Anime Image Sources (task complete)
 * Images with Categories above Licensing
 * List Assembly, Pages with Railgun T Images
 * Mid-Paragraph Images

June 2022's posts
 * User blog:Inept Wiki User/STOP Notes (24/06/2022)
 * User blog:Inept Wiki User/Image Tasklist (10/06/2022)
 * User blog:Inept Wiki User/Odd Jobs (10/06/2022)

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Series Three Overhaul Project - Loose Notes (01/10/2022) These are some loose notes concerning the Series Three Overhaul Project (STOP) and other recent stuff on the wiki, as of October 1st 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.