Thread:EpicMatt16/@comment-5275759-20200907114500/@comment-5275759-20200910230134

Thanks, EpicMatt.

Regarding current operations, there are multiple plans in motion as part of the Series Three Overhaul Project, including both new material updates and revision of existing material. Some of these plans entail major overhauls and need a lot of information to be gathered beforehand.

Recent Large-Scale Image Operation

One particular plan I've been focusing on over the past few days involves a series of large-scale automatic bot sweeps across the wiki's files using tracking tags, in order to locate, identify and log specific pieces of information which they currently have. It is an attempted restart of my earlier and repeatedly interrupted Image Information Survey.

In the past, certain people have been somewhat negligent when uploading files, often missing out details and steps, and as a result, quite a lot of files are lacking information they should have. The objective of this plan is to eventually sort this out, however going through all of the files manually would take a considerable amount of time and effort. The aim of the auto-sweeps is to locate files which have or lack the relevant sections/categories, and make lists of them so there is a slightly clearer picture of how things currently are. Then after a few sweeps to tweak the target areas slightly, the files in the now reduced list can be tackled with a bit less time and effort required.

The recent plan is using an all-file list extracted several days ago, with files uploaded since then being tackled separately (with an all-file auto-sweep typically taking several hours). Today's set of sweeps was aimed at verifying the images which have Licensing sections. Tomorrow's sweeps are going to be aimed at identifying Summary sections, with subsequent sweeps aimed at the section content and their format.

Help with the post-sweep stage is one of the things I have in mind when I made the initial request, however the task cannot begin until the sweeps are done, the lists in order and we have a clear picture of what needs to be done where. Given the circumstances, it'll probably be several more days before that point.