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Series Three Overhaul Project - Loose Notes (01/04/2023) These are some loose notes concerning the Series Three Overhaul Project (STOP) and other recent stuff on the wiki, as of April 1st 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.

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.
 * Regarding online release of Toaru Kagaku no Mental Out in Comic Newtype, only the two most recent releases will be available on the site.

Reminders
Compilation incomplete (20/03/2023)
 * Points below carried forward from previous post.

Images:
 * When uploading a new image, name it appropriately, according to its subject matter.
 * When uploading a new image, 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 fulfil 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.

Other:
 * When you add information to an article or move information around, remember to include the appropriate references along with it.
 * When adding information from source material to an article, avoid copying entire sentences/paragraphs one-to-one.
 * Template:TwTrack was recently implemented to track the wiki's Twitter links. If you are adding in new ones, don't forget the tag as well.
 * This wiki does not use "Male Characters" or "Female Characters" categories. Do not add these in. Additionally, given past and present circumstances, repeated attempts to do so regardless may be considered attempted vandalism.

Recent and Upcoming Releases
Recent:
 * Toaru Majutsu no Index: Imaginary Fest: Toaru Kyousou no Salvage
 * Toaru Anbu no Item
 * Toaru Majutsu no Index: Imaginary Fest: Toaru Kyousou no Salvage
 * Toaru Anbu no Item
 * Toaru Majutsu no Index: Imaginary Fest: Toaru Kyousou no Salvage
 * Toaru Anbu no Item

Upcoming:
 * Index:
 * OT Omnibus (YP) - August 2023 (delayed from June)
 * GT8: May 2023
 * Railgun:
 * Mental Out:
 * Toaru IF:
 * Toaru Idol no Missing Search
 * Original Scenario (June 2023)
 * Toaru IF:
 * Toaru Idol no Missing Search
 * Original Scenario (June 2023)

Toaru Anbu no Item
The of Toaru Anbu no Item has been released and fully processed. Most of the new volume protocol restricts have been lifted (and information implementation work is ongoing), however the arc name restrictions remain in place, as of the time of writing. No further word yet regarding the manga.

Regarding the letter-case discrepancy (carried forward):
 * This is something which arose at some point prior to 2013 (and addressed elsewhere since at least that time). The exact origin of the discrepancy has not been fully determined, though a few likely candidates have been considered.
 * This is something which I have been planning to tackle for years, though various factors had forced it onto the backburner (along with multiple other long-considered plans). Now, given the timing and certain circumstances which might mitigate the potential problems which may result from not doing this carefully and without certain preparations, I am planning to execute the plan once the new volume restrictions are lifted.
 * The bulk of the adjustments will not been done by auto-sweep rather than regular manual user edits, and for follow-up purposes, it will be better if there are minimal deviations from this plan.

Summaries and detailed information regarding the story of the audio drama and the bonus side stories has not yet been assembled. It would be good to acquire this information as soon as possible.

Edit (08/04/2023): Following some time for any last minute suggestions, the manual poll for the arc name has been initiated in the comments section of plan post linked above. Planning to run it for approximately ten days.

GT8
is due to be released in May. The usual Bookwalker preview will likely appear at the end of the month.

As per new volume protocol, page edits and image uploads pertaining to the volume's content will be 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 will be developed and discussed on the plans post.

The GT8 Plans post will be launched around the time that the volume's usual preview emerges.

Unsorted Notes
Construction Incomplete (12/04/2023)

Carried Forward Non-Image Odd Jobs
These are odd jobs carried forward from the previous post (and for some, the post before that), some with a few extra bits added. The image-related odd jobs are down in the Image Tasklist section this time.

NeedNihongo-related
Required Nihongo to be verified in the respective source volume text (as in, look in the book itself, rather than a second-hand reference).
 * Alice Anotherbible: Wonders
 * Club Psychedelic Beach: Club Psychedelic Beach
 * L.S.S.: Street Corner Kitten Show, Animal Protection Fund
 * Sakibasu Yuri: Witch & Psychic
 * Stativarius: Almati, Guarnari

Chronology-related
The following items require Chronology arc sub-section division checks (i.e. make sure that headers and main links for all of the arcs which properly featured the subject are present in the respective Chronology sub-sections). Particularly for OT/NT for the below:
 * Imaginary Number District
 * Urban Legend
 * Bank

The following need general work to their Chronology sections, including arc division checks:
 * School District 5
 * School District 8
 * School District 14
 * School District 16
 * School District 18
 * School District 20
 * School District 21
 * School District 23

Table-related
Articles:
 * Science: This is a general information aggregation task. There is a table which includes various fields of science mentioned in the series - if there are any scientific fields which have been mentioned by name in the series and they are not on the table in some form, add them in.
 * Note that the approach for applied sciences is not yet finalized.
 * Urban Legend:
 * Several table entries under the 'General' table are not yet completed.
 * Make sure that all entries under Academy City Urban Legends are definitely AC-exclusive (e.g. Sandal Granny)
 * Heaven Canceller's Hospital: Verify that the patient/hospitalization table details are up-to-date.
 * Alice Anotherbible, Trivia: Several table descriptions are not yet complete.

Shared Drafts: Updating and information collection
 *  - Characters, Debut-Name Long Gap: Review of past examples and data recording.

Unsorted

 * Infobox Debut Entries, Quick-Link Conversion (TT23)(list not carried forward from February)
 * UQ Verification List (TT65 /TT95 )(list not carried forward from February)
 * QuoteTrack (lists not carried forward from February)
 * Information verification
 * Yasu: Hand gesture (are there any references outside of recent fiction and popular culture (e.g. Naruto)? i.e. make certain there is no background or history before then)
 * Asai: Definitely a rope in his weapon? Exact weapon term?

Experimental Transcluding for Review
If you saw a plan/task post or a Shared Draft appearing in categories they shouldn't normally in over the past month or so, this is most likely the reason.

One thing which has been experimented with over the past month or so is the transclusion of certain pages to Shared Drafts, notes posts and sandboxes (nowhere else) for monitoring, quick access and review of their contents, to assist and accelerate certain tasks which are being performed.

Examples
One example of this approach, at the time of writing being utilized in (to aid identifying the Virtuaroids in the Virtual-On manga chapter images - also present on Quick Image Notes (20/03/2023)) is a table with a set of images, the file name and then the transcluded information for that file (i.e. it's Summary and Licensing entries). As one can imagine, this approach would aid quick-reviewing a particular set of file pages without having repeatedly to jump between pages/files/tabs - useful considering we've still got a large number of files requiring information or tweaking. Additionally, there is a method which can quickly prepare such a table through rear bullet-tag processing.

In the case of the SD274 case included in the Quick Image Notes posts, the table is something like this (just the first two items here):

This produces something like this (although the content has been copy-pasted, and the headers and categorizing templates neutralized rather than transcluding from the file page):

Downsides
However, there are a few downsides to utilizing transclusions in this way, which at the moment can only be mitigated but not entirely eliminated.
 * One is that the categories in the target pages will also be applied to the destination (i.e. the draft template or the post) - putting them where they are not necessarily wanted.
 * These could be potentially be neutralized by placing a noinclude tag (with additional tracking) before the first category on the page (at the bottom), however this won't affect categories applied by templates above it on the page (such as the IRI templates) and applying the noinclude further up would defeat the purpose of the transclusion, as it would also prevent the content which was meant to be transcluded in the first place from being transcluded. Additionally, applying this to a large number of pages can be a bit problematic.
 * An alternative method, which provides a slight amount of mitigation but not completely fixing the problem, is to apply the category to the destination page, but also include a positional override part (e.g. ) to move it to one side for the time being.
 * If plan/task/work blog posts or Shared Draft templates are appearing in categories they shouldn't normally be, this is most likely the cause, and if this is the case, it likely won't be there for very long.
 * Another issue is that the section headers of the transcluded content are applied to the table of contents of the transclusion destination - while this can be utilized in the case of article transclusions (for navigation and in cases where the task is to quickly log the section structure of those pages), in the case of file page transclusions to a table - it results in a lot of Summary/Licensing clustering up the table of contents, in which case it may be better to cut the destination page's table of contents entirely with NOTOC.
 * Another thing to bear in mind is that there is an upper limit after which the transclusions fail.

Unfortunately, partial transclusions (e.g. of a specific section of a page (e.g. just an article's infobox, the opening paragraph, the Quotes section etc)), which only require modifications on the destination page (where the stuff is being displayed) rather than the original target for transclusion, have not been achieved - so unfortunately, applications for stuff like reviewing the characters' opening paragraphs en masse in one spot are not possible at present. Additionally, certain template based transclusion experiments (to apply transclusion criteria, or transclude what the template encompasses) have been unsuccessful.

Other

 * : This Shared Draft has been re-assigned to produce an updated version of the table which had been used to carry information on Toaru IF events in . At the time of writing, the basic table framework is in place, and the extracted images from the Toaru IF Banners category have been transferred to the tables. The next step is adding in the respective information, including the respective event names and time frames.
 * A row 'unfolding' method was used in the table work on the above - this will be noted and utilized for future table bulk work.
 * A temporary image collection for Toaru IF images between 2019 and 2022 is being made as a viewing tide-over while work on the tables is still ongoing.
 * Edit (07/04/2023): The event names and original release periods are largely done, with a few entries to be verified and double-checked. The current tables have been logged, in case of potential multiple variant work.
 * : A character draft is being developed for 'Thirteen Death' on here (given that it has been assigned to Toaru IF's upcoming original story) - note that this draft is not to be implemented for the time being.

Image Tasklist

 * As mentioned many times previously, the below are generally suggested candidates as opposed to strict necessities.
 * A fair number of these have been carried forward from the previous notes post.
 * Various specifics are still being calculated, so the contents of the tables will likely be subject to change with additional candidates and specifics being added.

Toaru IF Placeholders

 * These are the character release images which have temporary placeholders in place, as of the time of posting. The placeholders added during this month may or may not be added, depending on the circumstances.
 * Decided to add, see below.


 * This month's ones.

Image Odd Job-related
Construction incomplete (12/04/2023) There are a number of odd jobs relating to images which have been described in previous posts and will be carried forward to this one (given that not much progress has been made with them).

Temporary access list: Placeholder while proper section description being written.
 * Previous STOP Notes
 * STOP Notes (03/02/2023)
 * Mid-Paragraph Images
 * Identifying Anime Images with Channel Watermarks
 * STOP Notes (03/03/2023) (carried forward from February)
 * Mid-Paragraph Images (SD269)
 * Identifying Anime Images with Channel Watermarks (SD286) (carried forward to below)
 * Quick Image Notes (20/03/2023)
 * Image-related Odd Jobs (1)
 * Virtuaroids in Cover Images
 * Profile Pictures (IRI/L), Needing Licensing Tags
 * Image-related Odd Jobs (2): Identifying Anime Images with Channel Watermarks
 *  (Category:Artwork by Hibipon): Verifying Virtuaroids in respective chapter images and note on respective Descriptions. Would like to get this one done and dusted as soon as possible, due to the slight downsides of the monitoring/check method (see 'Experimental Transcluding for Review' above).
 *  was assigned to collecting and monitoring images with difficult-to-remove parts, in light of uploads around January/February. Still in the general collection phase.

Temporary Storage

 * Unsorted/unprocessed notes
 * Empty table sample


 * 6-9th: Arms problem
 * 9-12th: Depressive episode
 * 12th: April-May, will need to check for any snags during the MediaWiki 1.39 update around this time

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Series Three Overhaul Project - Loose Notes (01/04/2023) These are some loose notes concerning the Series Three Overhaul Project (STOP) and other recent stuff on the wiki, as of April 1st 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.