User blog:Inept Wiki User/STOP Notes (01/04/2021)

Series Three Overhaul Project - Loose Notes (01/04/2021) These are some loose notes concerning the Series Three Overhaul Project (STOP), as of April 1st 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

 * Jump Link for Odd Jobs

Bear in mind that the notes from March 28th are generally still applicable. Similar circumstances for these as well (a bit rushed, largely unsorted, and partially incomplete - still reviewing data from the log). Quite a few are connected to odd jobs listed below.

Batch 1

 * Desktop/Mobile Upgrade Preparations (SD205): Information concerning the upgrades to the site's desktop and mobile skins have come to attention. There are several areas in which preparations need to made beforehand.
 * One important thing to consider is the wiki's background - in relation to the upcoming option for Light and Dark Modes. One possibility which came to mind is to have an image of Academy City in day for the Light Mode, and an image of the city at night (such as the one used before the current background and used in Community) for the Dark Mode.
 * Changes to the wiki's top-navigation had previously been considered - these will need to take the skin changes into account.
 * With the fluid width controls, need to check for potential image problems with the existing images within articles.
 * References
 * Articles needing citations (SD46): The list was last updated in January and might need another one.
 * Some of the instances of Cite being used are where no references are present for a particular thing, while others have at least one reference but could do with some more. Some instances are connected to references nearby which require chapters and parts, or splitting connected to them. With any luck, the notes included with the Cites should indicate which case is which.
 * There are still a number of instances of paragraphs and sections lacking references. One odd job is to go through existing articles, find such instances and if not referencing them right there and then, tag them with Cite and any necessary notes for later.
 * Light Novel Chapter References: Following the incident with the manga chapters, I am going to carry out a sweep to check the light novel chapter pages for any instances of reference sections being absent (which would have caused the Navigation section implementation sweep to miss).
 * Locations: A Locations navbox was being drafted, somewhat on the borderline, though not in agreement with what appears to be being planned by others.
 * Having every single Location in the navbox (even if it were just the Academy City locations) would not be a good idea and would prefer to avoid this.
 * A number of Location-type categories were created during drafting - there are to be no more new ones for the time being.
 * One of the stalled sub-projects which needs to be restarted is the location table plan, particularly the non-AC location table plan in SD158, given that GT4 is taking place in Los Angeles.
 * On a similar note, the tech table plan (SD64) also needs rebooting.
 * Navboxes
 * Navigation Headers: The implementation sweeps a few days ago mostly went well, but there were a number of oversights, resulting in some tags/headers being placed in spots they shouldn't have gone (e.g. between infobox and opening Nihongo on some pages, which matched the bracket criteria, or in front of DISPLAYTITLE instead of the navbox). As mentioned previously, most of these have been rectified, but there is still a possibility that there might be some that have not been found yet.
 * One odd job will be to check the articles listed in the previous post's data log section, which has records of stuff which was done and articles which were involved, for other potential oversights, but this will have to wait until the reference sweep for the light novel chapter articles is completed.
 * No Additional Story Arc Navboxes: No more navboxes are to be created for specific story arcs for now. The ones which already exist are anomalies which still need to be dealt with, and any future ones will need to be planned very, very carefully.
 * Documentation: The documentation for both the recent navboxes and many previous templates will need some work doing to it.
 * Other: As mentioned previously, a navbox image review and catalogue has been attempted before, though not completed. Future adjustments and overhauls of existing navboxes are very likely (notes regarding some of my plans and OH&S's intentions were mentioned in the previous post). I also need to check the case of some navboxes being placed on category pages. Experiment on SD206 also needs resolving.
 * Galleries: There have been a number of recent tweaks to the galleries, but there are some things which will need to be done before any more can be done.
 * As mentioned previously, one of the recent gallery-related tweaks was a mass addition of the "Hide Add Button" parameter to novel and manga volume pages (and a few others). There was a corrective sweep as well, and there might still be some stuff on the novel side, but other stuff needs to be done beforehand.
 * Gallery Instance Checks: With the plan in mind, a check was carried out for articles with galleries to verify if any added and missed during the gap since the last check and the stalled logging project. Items have been added to the TT44 and TT50 selections (both automatically and manually, following respective logging steps). A few non-standard items and exceptions still need a look.
 * Gallery Status Extract: Before any more tweaks are carried out, the status of all galleries on the wiki needs to be recorded. The plan for this is to utilize the previous implemented TrackTags to carry out a series of coordinated sweeps in order to identify all items with a particular setting variation and at the same time, identify the remaining items to be processed, continuing until all are categorized. At the basic level, this will be done automatically to catalogue the galleries as they are at present. At a more advanced level (not as important at this point), the items on initial article list will be checked manually, with the histories analyzed in sequence, in order to record the changes in the past (the purpose of this would be to identify past tendencies and errors/assumptions carried forward).
 * First Year Arc (SD202): A number of edits relating to the new Railgun have been done and there are more to be done, however there are some things which need to be settled beforehand.
 * There has been some room for a few assumptions to take root, and at least one messy summary attempt (RF again) concerning Ch131 still needs to be cleaned up on Ruri's page (and possibly re-positioned, see below)
 * Flashback and Past Events, Background/Chronology: Following a number of other articles, the initial plan was to have the paragraphs covering the events of the arc on the Background of the characters in question. However, circumstances suggest that it would be a good idea to review the current cases of this type.
 * An odd job to be done is to gather a list of articles connected to subjects involved in flashbacks within arcs or in arcs set in the past. This will be need in order to record the current and previous statuses of the target sections, and to have a list of all subjects/articles involved in the matter.
 * Flashback Character Personalities: The Personality sections for most of the characters introduced in this arc have not been written at the time of writing. For quite a few of us, Personalities are not our forte, so we might need to work together to refine these.
 * Other: There was a bit in my notes regarding 'Tokiwadai flashback character possibilities', but there isn't enough to recall the intended meaning or whether it was an unintentional note duplication/mutation.
 * Chapter Articles: There have been a number of chapter edits, which have required or will require subsequent adjustment (and cleaning up to some extent). This connects to certain carry-forward errors and assumptions which have needed to be identified and tackled for a while, for which plans have previously been made but not carried out.
 * Light Novel Chapter References: As mentioned previously, a sweep will be carried out to identify chapter articles missing reference sections.
 * The following notes were prompted by Darkmonger's recent edits, recent edits to Railgun Ch130/131/132 (Rei Furuya, Kaysuami, Ollerus, OH&S), and past edits to chapter/episode articles by various users (including the ones mentioned just before and others), which have involved a certain amount of deviation, unintentional obfuscation, and errors/assumptions carried forward (not speaking or explaining the matter hasn't helped things).
 * Characters/Abilities/Locations - Layout, Formatting and Tag Review: I will need to carry out an extensive review of the characters/abilities/locations sections to identify practices, tendencies, deviations and spread, regarding layouts, format and tagging. Unlike with the galleries, going into the histories will be necessary for this review. And if people change things and aggravate the problem while I'm doing it, I will be quite cross.
 * Other: Some of the other sections will also need a proper look due to grammatical errors, similar problems to the above, and other stuff. Will likely detail in future posts. There are a number of things related to the Adapted From and Trivia sections as well - these will also likely be dealt with in future posts.
 * Spacing: There are a number of spacing-related tweaks, which might need additional attention.
 * Section End Spacing: As mentioned previously, there have been a number of space tweaks, adding spaces at the end of a section before the next section. This is generally OK, though in cases where the sub-sections are empty it isn't quite as urgent, and in some cases, one needs to check the surroundings to make sure that the extra spaces doesn't disrupt the pre-existing arrangements. A small few cases were somewhat unnecessary (with a hint of farming).
 * Mobile Uncommanded Spacing: A problem in mobile editing is that extra empty lines are being added, without commands from the editor and not able to be removed while in the same editor. Examples can be found in some of the recent novel chapter page edits.
 * Infobox Tweaks: There have been a couple of spacing tweaks to infobox in areas where things might have been laid out in a way to avoid spacing problems when the template is used in articles (e.g. between the template and the documentation code - might result in excessive space above the subsequent paragraph). Need to check this to make sure that there aren't any problems.

Batch 2

 * Sweep Hook: This is an idea for a special TrackTag which incorporates the function of a hidden note to 'hook' onto search sweeps (i.e. for identifying the presence of a word (such as for a subject) in relation to an article (perhaps in cases where things wouldn't quite fit normally)) and a tracking tag to track such instances. This is to aid with tracking and expansion.
 * Redirects
 * Redirect Images (SD151)
 * Need to confirm that this log and collection of images currently used on redirect pages is up-to-date. If there were any methods that were used to check this quicker, need to remember, recover and record them.
 * Recalled this matter with recent image upload. Intend to use the upside-down triangle with Abracadabra for the respective redirect. Another recent upload prompted consideration for possibilities for the Serpent of Wisdom and the Flaming Sword, one of the Sephiroth images, perhaps a full one or perhaps the one focusing on Keter (could also use that one for Keter's redirect).
 * Article and Image Redirects (SD173)
 * Empty Lists and Potential Missed Items: The sweep aid lists in SD173 have gradually been updated with new articles and files, however the areas for the lists of article and image redirects are still empty. In theory, all of the relevant redirects should be categorized under Category:Article Redirects and Category:Image Redirects, however I cannot be completely certain that that is still the case - there is the possibility of oversights during the creation, de-directing and logging processes, since the time that the redirects were categorized en masse, and new items could have slipped through the net.
 * Article/Image Redirect Checks: There is the possibility that certain items may be absent from the sweep aid lists. The items which are on the lists however can be checked via auto-sweep using MassEdit, the bot and the TrackTags (a task to place in the 'Sweep Stock').
 * One thing that might need to be done beforehand is to check for instances of #REDIRECT[[ (where there is no empty between REDIRECT and link brackets) and add in the space, so that the checks above can be done with all the items together in one batch (as the criteria for the checks will likely involve #REDIRECT [[ ).
 * There may be a few differences with regards to the Article Redirect Check and the Image Redirect Check.
 * The Special page which lists all redirects only covers 1000, and as such isn't suited for the task of logging the far over 1000 here, but I vaguely recall another one or a variant which could - need to try and rediscover this one.
 * Comments: As mentioned before, there is a large backlog of comments which need to be looked through and potentially moderated.
 * Potential hot spots might be found in the comments for notable characters (e.g. Kamijou Touma, Index Librorum Prohibitorum, Misaka Mikoto, Accelerator etc).
 * Anime Image Collections
 * Pre-2014 Anime Image Collections (SD162-SD165): Kaysuami has been working on assembling these. Need to verify that all present and correct, then process the items present, then lift restrictions.
 * Index-tan (161) & MMR 166: Assembly currently ongoing, being done by Kaysuami
 * Accelerator: Might need to tweak the Serpent of Wisdom image's placement on here, depending on circumstances.
 * Sun and Moon (SD69 - Space): I've been assembling information relating to the Sun and the Moon in a section on the Space-related Shared Draft, for a potential article (Sun and Moon), however there are few points of uncertainty and areas where I might need a little assistance (what with everything that's on the go).
 * Image-related: One possibility for an odd job might be to check for potential images amongst existing on-wiki stock - images involving the Sun, the Moon or both (not including the respective planetary symbols, which are already there).
 * Section-related: One point of uncertainty is the layout for the Principles section. I had been thinking of having the initial part followed by sub-sections for the Sun and the Moon respectively. However, I vaguely recalled something similar, either an article, a plan of one, or some brainstorming, which may have involved sub-sections for the individuals and the group, or a sub-section split for magic, science and others. Unfortunately, at the moment, I can't recall where that might have been.
 * Restarting Stalled Projects: One of the stalled sub-projects I'm aiming to restart involves Quotes sections and records pertaining to them. Need to consider if recent space tweaks might disrupt the sweep operations. Various overhauls (as well as the tags for them), including Interim (rename?), and the IF Image Review are also among them.

Batch 3 (Minor)

 * Ruby Tweak: There was a recent tweak to the template by Damage. I haven't verified the nature of this tweak yet, but a check will be needed to see if there might be unforeseen consequences.
 * Arthurian Legends & Carolingian Legends: Have been considering switching these from Legends to Mythology. Need to recall the original reasons beforehand though.
 * Achievement Badges (SD74): Not important at all and not urgent at all, but recently recalled the idea of using Golden Dawn-style ranks and positions in customization for some of these (there isn't enough range for 0 to 9 but practically no one gets up to the Third Order). Astrological and elemental symbols have also been considered.
 * Symbol Size: A few font size tweaks in tables recently prompted thoughts regarding options/possibilities for astrological symbols and runes (for which text symbols and size controls have been used, and for some of which image files are present).
 * Magic Sub-Pages: Have been considering splitting Magic into three pages, in anticipation of expansion - the main one, one for the Magic Side and a 'Magic/Other' one for magic-related stuff that doesn't fully fit the other articles.
 * Orphism and Mithraism: Planning to put notes of these mystery-types on Greek Mythology and Roman Mythology respectively. Former currently redirects to Trivia section of Agnese SS Ch5. Latter doesn't redirect at the moment - only had a brief reference in a Toaru IF Christmas event. On a similar note, was considering putting minor mythologies not at the level for an article in a table on Magic/Other.
 * Liber 777: Have been assembling information from Liber 777 in SD77 (and considered making an article), though have been uncertain about exact table structure for containing it, given the volume and structure of the book's correspondence table.
 * Toaru IF: As mentioned before, need to get the sub-projects for this back on track, including processing the images, NPC image possibilities, event details, general information and structures, and implementation approaches for IF-type sections/images/work.
 * Nichijou/4-Koma Plans: Have previously mentioned the plan for Toaru Nichijou no Index-san and the other 4-komas (written in SD37). Considering bringing the matter up again in detail.
 * Sickle of Saturn: Certain spiritual items have there own page and others are part of other pages, depending on the circumstances surrounding them. Given the situation regarding the Sickle of Saturn, a stolen artifact with considerable information surrounding it and at the heart of a major incident, I was considering splitting it off from Albert Dying's Abilities section and giving it an article of its own, with the incident also incorporated into it.
 * Cross: Slightly uncertain whether to have the Latin cross or the Anglican cross for the first image (currently the former).
 * Church and Bible: Have redirected these to Christianity. Plan to have sub-sections under Principles rather than articles for them (for now at least).
 * SD: Have been wondering about a template to shorten the repeated links to the Shared Drafts.
 * Other: There is some stuff which I'll have to elaborate on some other time (images tweak/upload/type/alignment/size assumptions, SD25 update, DM-YRA-SD38, Enoch, Roman Mythology, Guild, Temples, Tomb, Death, Worship/Rites, Shrines/building dedication, SD50-76 caption monitor restart from scratch?, drugs to the AC tech table? non-canon sections, Chronology orders, infobox image assumptions).

Odd Jobs

 * Jump Link for Assorted Rough Notes

These are a selection of odd jobs which I've got lined up to be done, which others can help out with and for which help would be much appreciated. Quite a few are connected to the above rough notes. There will be more, but they will likely be in a future batch and some will need stuff done beforehand - here's what I can present for now:


 * Sweep Stock Suggestions: Have previously mentioned about assembling a list of auto-sweep tasks (usually connected to MassEdit) which can be carried out by the bot, so it can be useful and get through tasks, while I'm working on other tasks - which will allow for more to be done overall in a set time frame. At the moment, the 'stock' of sweep tasks is practically empty - suggestions for such tasks in order to build up the stock would be appreciated. These can be simple (singular sweeps to achieve a simple result) or complex (a series of coordinated and specifically ordered sweeps to achieve a less simple result).

Primary Batch

 * Desktop/Mobile Skin:
 * Need to keep an eye out for areas where potential problems may arise (as noted above).
 * Think of ideas for necessary preparation and possible changes for when the site-wide upgrades are implemented (e.g. background, top-nav etc).
 * References:
 * Need to update the list of articles needing citation on SD46. (Done by Ollerus)
 * Look for unreferenced sections and either reference them or mark them with Cite.
 * Need to add references or make relevant reference tweaks in areas marked with Cite, following the notes listed besides Cite as appropriate.
 * Navigation:
 * Once the novel chapter reference check (in progress) is complete, need to check the articles involved in Navigation header implementation (using the lists recorded in the previous post) for oversights and errors.
 * Need to review and upgrade navbox documentation.
 * Need to resume and update the SD catalogue of navbox images.
 * First Year Arc:
 * Need to assemble a list of subjects involved in flashbacks within arcs or arcs set in the past (i.e. before start of series). Then need to verify positions of Backgrounds and Chronology in the respective articles (without tampering). The situation will then be assessed.
 * Need to brainstorm the Personality sections for the flashback characters.
 * Need to clean up the messy addition to Ruri's page.
 * Infobox Spacing Tweak Check: Need to check recent infobox space tweak to verify that it won't introduce spacing problems on use elsewhere.
 * Article/Image Redirects:
 * Need to check for items missed from the respective categories.
 * Need to assemble the sweep aid lists.
 * Need to rediscover the Special page relevant for checking over 1000 redirects.
 * Redirect Images:
 * Need to verify that the detail log and collection of images used on redirects SD151 is up to date.
 * Need to find or recall if there was a quicker method for the checks.
 * Comment Review: Need help going through the masses of comments on the wiki and flagging potential items for moderation (either through noting them down or via Report)(potential hotspots noted previously.
 * C/A/L Tag/Format Review, Gallery Status Review: Need to review these - have considered help but also considered the possibility that doing so might inadvertently aggravate the problem. Will be cross if tampered while mid-review.

Subject Information Collection

 * Information Collection: Need help with finding and assembling information and gathering data on numerous subjects for the purposes of article construction and revision, as well as other work.
 * Sun and Moon:
 * Need to check for potential images amongst the existing on-wiki stock, involving the Sun, Moon or both (excluding the respective astrological symbols), and assemble them in the draft section on SD69.
 * Need to assemble information on the subjects.
 * Need to search for the vaguely recalled plan (mentioned before) used elsewhere (this will likely be something only I can do).
 * Cloning:
 * Need referencing help for the article draft on SD180.
 * Human Body:
 * Wish to assemble information pertaining to the Human Body and its components on SD201.
 * Merchandise:
 * Need to bring the merchandise articles (List of Toaru Majutsu no Index Merchandise, List of Toaru Kagaku no Railgun Merchandise, List of Toaru Kagaku no Accelerator Merchandise) up to date.
 * As part of the work to update these, need to assemble the following in SD15:
 * Merchandise Information
 * Merchandise Images
 * Chapter Start/End Text: Need help completing the collection of start/end text found in magazine releases for manga chapters, on SD153.
 * Notarikon: Need help verifying that the collection of Notarikon incantations used in the series on SD47 is complete.
 * Non AC-Locations and AC Technology, Tables: Need to plan and assemble tables for non-AC locations (for respective location pages, within reason) and AC technology (for AC/Technology) on SD158 and SD64 respectively.
 * Soundtrack: Still need to identify and log the soundtracks for many episodes within the tables on their respective articles.
 * Cross: Drafted in SD17. Article needs referencing help in Principles and NT2 Chronology sections.
 * Jewel: Article needs Principles referencing.
 * Incense: Article needs considerable Principles expansion.
 * Android: Article needs several volume-only references converted to chapter (and part) format.

Image-Only
These ones only involve images, without other stuff being involved as well at the same time.
 * Accelerator, Black Wings (Manga): Involves images File:Black Wings (Index Manga).jpg and File:Accelerator Awakening Temp.jpg. Both are near-duplicates, but the later does not have the page misalignment that the former has. If no detriments found in latter in comparison, upload the latter again as a new version of the former. The copy will then be deleted.
 * Image Collection Status Verification
 * Pre-2014 Anime Image Collections (SD162-165): Need to double-check to make sure that these are complete with all of the relevant images currently on the wiki.
 * Novel Illustration Collections: Need to make sure that the novel illustration-related SD collections are up to date with all of the relevant images currently on the wiki.
 * Manga Illustration Collections: Need to make sure that the manga image-related SD collections are up to date with all of the relevant images currently on the wiki.

Personal Tasks

 * Jump Links for Assorted Rough Notes and Odd Jobs

These are some tasks which I'm going to need to do soon, on top of everything else that is already being worked on:
 * Need to correct typos in March 28th STOP Notes
 * Explore additional tools, options etc on the dashboard (Pages without Images (817 items))
 * Need to get some explanations regarding certain matters done and conveyed to the relevant individuals.
 * Need to carry out tag, comment and vandalism reviews, so have clear picture of these areas and for support when further problems arise.
 * Compose drafts for default messages to send out to users concerning regulations and conventions (as mentioned in the last post).
 * Clean up notepad

Recent STOP-Related Links

 * Reminders: Images and References (11/07/2020)
 * STOP Notes: 01/01/21 • 15/01/21 • 20/01/21 • 24/01/21 • 10/02/21 • 10/03/21 • 20/03/21 • 28/03/21
 * IF Image Reviews: 20/01/21 • 24/01/21

Inter-Wiki Stuff

 * Bug Smashing (Discuss)
 * Wiki Rules and Blocking Policy (Post, Help)
 * FandomDesktop