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Series Three Overhaul Project - Loose Notes (04/08/2023) These are some loose notes concerning the Series Three Overhaul Project (STOP) and other recent stuff on the wiki, as of August 4th 2023.

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

 * Wiki currently log-in-only due to persistent anonymous vandalism during the early part of last year, and will remain so until further notice.
 * Such vandalism will not be tolerated and offenders are liable to be blocked.
 * The wiki was recently updated to MediaWiki 1.39. There shouldn't be any problems, but if you see any issues that might be connected to the upgrade, leave a note in the comments below.
 * See Editing Reminders section (am getting a bit sick of having to repeat the reminders).

Recent and Upcoming Releases
Recent:
 * Light Novel and Manga Volumes:
 * Monthly Manga Chapters:
 * Toaru Majutsu no Index: Imaginary Fest:
 * Toaru Gensou no Fourth Anniversary
 * Original Story Chapter 1
 * Toaru Majutsu no Index: Imaginary Fest:
 * Toaru Gensou no Fourth Anniversary
 * Original Story Chapter 1
 * Toaru Majutsu no Index: Imaginary Fest:
 * Toaru Gensou no Fourth Anniversary
 * Original Story Chapter 1

Upcoming:
 * Light Novel Volumes: No GT9 in October
 * - August 10th 2023
 * OT Omnibus (YP) - August 8th 2023
 * Shinyaku Toaru Majutsu no Index Light Novel Volume 01 (YP) - December 2023
 * Monthly Manga Chapters:
 * Index Ch184
 * Railgun Ch148
 * Mental Out Ch20
 * Toaru IF Original Story Chapter 2

Toaru Anbu no Item, New Volume Restrictions
The of Toaru Anbu no Item will be released in less than a week's time, with a preview on Bookwalker.

'''As per new volume protocol, page edits and image uploads pertaining to the volume's content are restricted until the volume's content has been fully processed. Article comments pertaining to the volume's content are also to be avoided.'''

In the meantime, as per new volume protocol, the plans relating to the volume are to be developed and discussed on the plans post linked above.

Editing Reminders
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 * Remember to include references when adding in new information (be it in sentences or paragraphs) to articles.
 * If you are inserting new parts into existing sentences/paragraphs or rewriting them, make sure that the existing references are correctly positioned/applied afterwards.
 * There have been a lot of messy additions recently - at the very least, please do a grammatical check on additions before you add them.

Image Reminders

 * When uploading a new image, name it appropriately, according to its subject matter.
 * When uploading a new image, please remember to include the appropriate Summary, Licensing and category framework. Remember to include the appropriate information (including Description, Source and Purpose in Summary) where possible, and if not possible, use the appropriate ImageReqInfo sub-tags so they can be processed later.
 * When uploading a new version of an image, if the image's source differs from the previous version (e.g. a different volume/chapter/episode, a different website in the case of a cover etc), remember to update the Source information.
 * When uploading a new version of an image, avoid unnecessary size expansion - the image just has to be big enough to fulfill its purpose, not be ginormous (if it has little details that can be picked out besides the main one, fair enough, but otherwise...).
 * Refrain from unnecessary image uploading.
 * When processing the unprocessed content below TrackTag30 into the standard image information structure, don't forget to remove the TT30 structure after the stuff has been properly processed.
 * Please refrain from risky images for the time being.
 * Please bear in mind that inserting categories during Special:Upload means that they won't be at the bottom of the image page - which will cause problems later on. If possible, reposition any categories added during Special:Upload or add the categories at the bottom after Special:Upload.
 * Please also bear in mind that when the Summary/Licensing inputs in Special:Upload are used, the resultant headers have spaces in them either side of the entry. This has the potential to disrupt some of the processing sweeps, so if the Special:Upload Summary/Licensing inputs are used, the removal of those spaces afterwards would be appreciated.
 * In order to support the result transclusion experiments and accompanying tasks, noinclude tags have recently been added immediately before the first categories on image pages (preventing categorization of drafts/posts/etc where the image pages have been transcluded to (with the exception of the categorization under Category:Images requiring information caused by the ImageReqInfo tracking tag), with TclTrack tracking tags immediately before them to keep track of them. It would be appreciated if TclTrack and noinclude are included before the first categories in future uploads, in order to prevent disruption of the ongoing tasks. An expanded explanation will be written in due course, less up-to-date notes are present on May's STOP Notes post.

Notices and Updates regarding Recent Circumstances and Projects
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 * Most of the numerous projects which have been ongoing or in the works have been hampered by various problems due to internal and external circumstances.
 * There are other major operations that have been in motion/planning or disrupted besides the ones noted in sub-sections of this section, but notes regarding them are currently incomplete.
 * Several of the stuff from the previous STOP Notes posts are still relevant. For more information about them, see the respective links above.
 * Given Yen Press's recent NT localization annoucement and the likely implications, there are numerous operations that have been adjusted accordingly, disrupted, initiated, or are being planned or expected. More details will follow once the associated notes have been fully written.
 * The Light Mode visual issue mentioned previously (see those notes for further details) is still present. Other tasks are being prioritized at the moment, but there will be experiments to resolve it in a manner which doesn't create further problems.

Operation Decap
Operation Decap is a project which has been on the backburner for a long time (though not named until now), but was recently brought back towards the front in light of overall circumstances (including the release of Toaru Anbu no Item) and initiated in a hurry last month due to considered circumstances at that time (including the imminent release of Item Volume 2, a certain preview, associated time limits and consequences, and others). As such, the work for it has been a bit chaotic.

As the name suggests, it involves the decapitalization of several terms (Note: Several specific ones, but not all of them) on the wiki which were previously widely rendered all in capitals, as well as supplementary data acquisition and tweaking in areas related to them. This is due to a re-assessment of the circumstances surrounding their capitalization. This has been considered for many years now, but information/evidence collection, preparations and other work towards it has been repeatedly hampered and left on the backburner, due to problems and other pressing tasks. In addition, there were concerns of potential cascading problems if the subject was poorly handled or poorly communicated. However, the current circumstances have prompted it being rushed into action.

In order to ensure the project achieves as much of its intended goals as possible, the associated changes need to be performed (and recorded) in order and carefully - as such, much of it needs to be done and is being done via coordinated bot sweeps. Irregular manual edits may risk derailing the project, so it is hoped that they will be kept to a minimum (such as for dealing with unplanned errors and side-effects).

Initial tagging of some of the targets (as well as associated items, included the decapitalized instances of those terms currently on the wiki) took place in late July, with some side-effects, potential snags/oversights/side-effects and potential opportunities being noted. On August 4th, given the circumstances and timing, the OT15 dark side quintet and the Norse Gremlin were decapitalized. The encompassing tags DCp and TrackTagX5 are to remain in place even after decapitalization for additional steps of the operation and to aid any potential manipulations which need to be made.

In both sessions, the sweep data and RecentChanges logs were recorded in order to extrapolate additional data for the project's objectives, though it hasn't been fully processed as of the time of writing (and had to be offloaded from the usual data log to avoid reaching the upper size limit in its unprocessed state).

Further notes regarding associated circumstances, instructions and upcoming actions will be compiled when possible, but might be posted on their own separate specialized post.

Short Volume Redirects
Late last month, a user started creating shortened redirects for the light novel volume articles due to the inconvenience of typing the full name into the search bar.

Shortly afterwards, in order to prevent a number of problems (including the non-bot creations clogging RecentChanges, protocol deviations and others), a whole bunch of similar redirects were created en-masse by the bot.

At the time, the format which should be followed was not finalized, as such surplus redirects were created, and it was planned that the specifics of the short-volume redirect format would be decided upon later and the selection trimmed down.

So far, one batch of deletions has occurred, and more will follow as the details are finalized.

Twitter
As many already know, there has been trouble with Twitter recently and as a result, most of the Twitter link targets and referenced posts were rendered non-accessible to those not logged in to Twitter (many still are). This also knocked out Template:Twitter, resulting in its temporary removal from the main page.

Template:Twitter is now functional again and has been returned to the main page, but there is still a problem with loading times and date sorting.

There may be another potential issue coming up with the whole X-rebranding, the situation will be monitored and assessed, but in the meantime, as long as the Twitter links still work, they will remain as they are. However, it is even more important that Template:TwTrack remains placed in front of any and all Twitter links, so that rapid automated processing can be conducted if the need arises.

On a separate Twitter-related note, Toaru Anbu no Item's Nilitsu has a new account.

Edit (09/08/2023): Ollerus switched over the wiki's front page Twitter logo to the X logo earlier this morning.

Toaru IF Placeholder Images for Updating
For the time being, given present circumstances and problems, I'm only carrying forward the current list of Toaru IF placeholder images and a few accompanying notes from the post in the middle of July, rather than the usual monthly section for image notes/tasks in general.

The placeholders are to be replaced with textless/labelless versions when the opportunity arises, the 2022 remainder in particular. At the same time, the edits described in the section below will be applied to the image pages in question.

Replacing, Required Summary Changes
At present, the placeholders have the following in their Summary sections, below their Description entry; a temporary link to the source of the placeholder, a tracking tag which is being used to track the current placeholders, and a 'Replaceable' note. Source: Toaru Majutsu no Index: Imaginary Fest, Boom-App Wiki (Temporary Placeholder)

Purpose: To illustrate how the character in question appears in the mobile game.

Replaceable: When another image becomes available which fulfils the same purpose that the temporary placeholder is currently carrying out to a better extent (i.e. clear of text and labels) (XXX being the page number on the website)

When the placeholder is replaced with a version without the text or labels that the placeholders have, after uploading the new version, remove the 'Replaceable' part, remove the temporary link (as the placeholder is no longer being used)(unless the new image also comes from the same place - though I don't think that will be likely) and remove the tracking tag. For the above example, it would leave something like this: Source: Toaru Majutsu no Index: Imaginary Fest

Purpose: To illustrate how the character in question appears in the mobile game.

QuoteTrack, Header-to-Quote Processing Remainder
As part of a larger operation, quotes in the Quotes sections on articles have gradually been put into the temporary QuoteTrack template. This is to aid future processing and information monitoring tasks.

Earlier this year, the relevant sections, which had previously been tagged and tracked using a generic TrackTag in their headers, had that generic TrackTag switched over to the QuoteTrack template. With this initial tracking structure in place, after logging the state of those sections, the plan was to gradually go through them and move the templates from the header to around the individual quotes in those sections. In each case, QuoteTrack would surround the quote, any Character: or bracket notes associated with it, and any references at the end of them, but not the bullet point.

This transfer has steadily been progressing. The remaining articles to be processed are listed below.

The template has multiple purposes, including tracking which articles have quotes in place, allowing quick identification of how many quotes article(s) have, and acting as an anchor or guide to facilitate further processing operations - in bulk and automatically.

Rapid Unsorted Notes Experiment
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Given problems in writing proper notes in the past monthly STOP Notes (often still being incomplete when it is time to get the next one ready), I'm going to run an experiment involving cascade jotting.

Over the course of the month, unsorted rough notes will be rapidly jotted down below without being processed into a neater form, to see whether it has any effect on the overall processes and progress.

Some of them might be rough repeats of things which have been previously mentioned.

Rapid Unsorted Notes

 * Check for any items under Category:Referenced-only which are no longer referenced-only, and check for any items which are not under Category:Referenced-only which should be (i.e. are currently referenced-only)
 * Bring (Chapter Start/End Text) and  (Afterword Collection) up to date with the most recent releases.
 * : Identify and double-check the Virtuaroids in the Virtual-On manga chapter images.
 * Verify character appearance-naming gap tables up-to-date

Temporary Storage

 * Unsorted/unprocessed notes
 * Empty table sample

Links

 * STOP Notes (01/07/2023)
 * Quick Image Notes (27/07/2023)

Preview Override
Series Three Overhaul Project - Loose Notes (04/08/2023) These are some loose notes concerning the Series Three Overhaul Project (STOP) and other recent stuff on the wiki, as of August 4th 2023.

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.