User blog:Inept Wiki User/STOP Notes (20/01/2021)

Series Three Overhaul Project - Loose Notes (20/01/2021)

These are some loose notes concerning the Series Three Overhaul Project (STOP), as of Jaunary 20th 2021.

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

Assorted Rough Notes
January 1st and January 15th's rough notes are still active.
 * New TrackTags: In anticipation of future work, 20 more track tags have been created. Added with the existing 30 tags (but excluding the specialized ones), that brings the total number of standard track tags up to 50. Ten of these have been used in the below IF Image Review, with several of them still in use.
 * Image-related: A number of image-related tasks are ongoing, upcoming or have been carried out in the past few days.
 * Tasklist and Support Clean-Up: I've recently been trying to clean up and sort out SD25 and its supporting Shared Drafts, SD85 and SD113. The clean-up and updating process is not yet complete.
 * IF Image Offload and Review: While sorting out the images on SD113, the images connected to Toaru IF were offloaded to SD178 for separate and further processing. The processing and review notes covering the known lot (work done from January 17th-20th) have been placed on STOP Notes post IF Image Review (20/01/2021).
 * SD151 - Redirect Images: Need to bring this collection of images used for article redirects up-to-date. Have put the latest addition (for Pao-Pei, from Toaru IF) at the bottom for the time being.
 * SD56-related: A few recent uploads have been connected to articles being considered for future featuring (see below for further details).
 * Cannibalization: File:Ni r54 (right).jpg‎ uploaded as representative image for potential Featured Article entry. Adjustments not made to SD158/SD171/SD172. Added temporarily to the bottom of SD171, not properly sorted yet. File page might be tweaked a little (includes Source-related stuff).
 * Six Wings: Article needs some revision beforehand. Additional images illustrating weaponry requested as part of this planned update. File:Six Wings - Missile Launch.png, File:Flame Crash.png, File:Toaru Majutsu no Index III E15 20m 06s.png uploaded.
 * Other: Railgun T OP/ED/DC images recently uploaded and added to SD50 (intend to check File:Dual existence Title Card.png again to verify change), File:Sisters cloning tank - Railgun Ch37.jpg (planning to use for Cloning), File:Thermal Hand Railgun anime.png (considering possible name tweak), File:Hydrazine.png‎ (only category is Images, any others?)
 * Index Episodes, Adapted From: UltraBV64 has been involved in recent additions to the Adapted From sections on Index I episode articles, with Kaysuami making tweaks. Intend to review additions and existing format.
 * SD27 - Odd Jobs: I was previously considering making a large-scale Odd Jobs post for people to work on while planning and reorganization work was being done, for progress purposes. I recalled that SD27 had previously been used to list some odd jobs a while back (and as such was considerably outdated) and have been considering bringing it up-to-date to use in this plan.
 * SD56 - Featured Article Draft Stock: No further suggestions from others. Have been trying to build up a 'stock' in advance, to save time/effort later and shorten the cycle a bit. Have tried to identify articles which won't need much work doing to them, while trying to maintain a balance in the stock (subject - e.g. science, magic, tech, normal, otherwise, timeline - OT/NT/GT/SS etc) or balance imbalances in the existing selection of previously featured articles, though this latter bit is somewhat difficult.
 * Featured Article entry drafts have been made for Divine Mixture (Magic, NT20), Cannibalization (Magic, NT14, see above for image-related notes), Bunny Grey (Normal, NT17-), Kremlin Report (Non-AC tech (OT20-22), though timing might not be good). Drafts being constructed for Ceremony of Ba Moun (Magic, Agnese SS) and HsAFH-11 (AC-Tech, ~OT15-, see above for image-related notes)
 * Have considered the possibility of multiple articles in one go, but not really sure about it.
 * SD69 - Space: Have added notes to SD69 (Space-related) for working on an expansion to Alien's Principles/Background/Chronology sections. Have been considering the possibility of making a section for draft work on a potential Sun and Moon article.
 * SD93 - Albert Dying: Have been gathering information in SD93 for additions and fine-tuning of Albert Dying's Personality section and the addition of a Quotes section (which would need to take the operation in SD160 (below) into account). Have gathered quite a number of quotes to select candidates from and trim to fit (mainly to illustrate his traits). A bit indecisive at the moment. Had added Description/Purpose to Albert's infobox image
 * SD160 - Quotes: The Quotes review in SD160 has been on hold for a number of weeks. Need to retrace steps, remember place and restart.
 * SD93 - Saint: Another SD93-related subject. Have carried out considerable expansion for Principles for Saints in the non-Toaru sense, with the Patron Saints part being repositioned and getting its own header. Partial Chronology expansion. Table revision and expansion not yet complete.
 * Related Redirects: Redirects have been made to Saint's Patron Saints section. Temporary redirects have also been made for Cross and Church, in anticipation of future work, with links made on the Saint article.
 * SD17 - Cross: Following the creation of the temporary redirect, draft work has been done on SD17 for the opening of a future article, with a few notes also being made for Principles. Have added Purpose/category to the Calvary Cross image.
 * SD177 - Atwiki Article List Comparison: Ollerus has assembled a list of articles and the like on the Toaru atwiki, and compared it to our wiki's article/redirect list, to see if there were any subjects they had articles/links in place for which we don't have articles/redirects yet. Having finished going through the list, Ollerus has tagged the items and manually assembled them in a separate list (see below for time-saving method and related circumstances).
 * SD179 - Wanted Page Red-Links: The Thread red-links have been temporarily redirected to SD179 temporarily, while the previous destinations are identified and new thread links found/implemented. The instances which have previous had nowiki tags applied to them have also been listed so the ones for those can be found as well.
 * Have applied nowiki tags to the previous thread links on my notepad, prior to link updating.
 * Comment Clean-Up: Recent comments have reinforced the previous notion that a clean-up operation is necessary.
 * Biohacker SS-related: About a week ago, PirateQueen-desu made a number of Biohacker SS-related additions, some reverted by Kaysuami. Have been meaning to review them. Glimpses suggest some fit, some not. However, the edits have been disregarding referencing protocol (either not adding references to the new sentences or inserting parts into existing sentences while disregarding the references already in place) - have been considering making an announcement (last one having expired on the 10th) linking the Image/Referencing Reminder from last year to remind people about references.


 * Other: SD38 (Misc), Fairy (Table), Jewel (Notes), Laveze Squadron (revision/verification), Toaru Kagaku no Railgun・Toaru Majutsu no Index Fuyukawa Motoi Illustrations/Kamachi Kazuma‎‎ (Ruby-related tweaks), Electromaster (Member-related - misunderstanding/assumption), People-Clearing Field (Coronozon's variant), 168 (Coin of Nicholas - UncertainPositioning), SD32 (Atwiki Example), Unified Story Timeline (Level Upper-related Event Point), EYES/HANDS (Volunteering Idea)

Method of extracting many tagged items from a long list (21/01/2021)
Earlier, Ollerus and I were faced with extracting a long list of tagged items from an even longer list, a task which takes a long time manually. The tags were not positioned in front of the items, so A to Z sorting by itself would not have helped. I recalled something I'd done during the I2S work and did an experiment to confirm it could be applied here, but by that time Ollerus had already spent a long time extracting them manually and had finished. To save time later, I'm noting this method down, so that we can recall and apply it later.
 * 1) Make sure that the list is ready and the tagged items are done.
 * 2) Carry out a FindAndReplace edit, set to target the tags. Make sure that it only targets the tag (for example, if "_NO_" in "NO ARTICLE/REDIRECT" is the target, make sure that MatchCase is set to on so that it doesn't target the "_no_" in "Toaru Majutsu no Index" for instance). Make sure that the FindAndReplace stuff is the only thing done in the edit and that no line-spaces are added.
 * 3) Via Special:RecentChanges or History, bring up the article difference screen, comparing before and after the edit. With no line-spaces added anywhere, the items before should be on a line with a minus in front of them and the items after should be on a line with a plus in front of them.
 * 4) Highlight all of the comparison and copy to a notepad file and then copy that copy to a blank section on the wiki, ideally without any other stuff nearby which could be caught up in the subsequent steps.
 * 5) There should be some spaces and a line-space between the items and their respective plus/minuses. Using MassEdit's multi-line FindAndReplace to deal with this. That way the items should have their respective plus or minus in front of them - now they are in a state suitable for alphabetical sorting.
 * 6) Sort the extract alphabetically using an external sorting application (e.g. Word, sortmylist.com etc).
 * 7) Remove the items from the extract which don't have a minus in front of them, leaving just the items with the minus in front of them (i.e. the target items as they were before that edit).
 * 8) Tidy up the resulting list as appropriate.

Other

 * User blog:Inept Wiki User/STOP Notes (01/01/2021)
 * User blog:Inept Wiki User/STOP Notes (15/01/2021)
 * User blog:Inept Wiki User/IF Image Review (20/01/2021)