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Series Three Overhaul Project - Loose Notes (01/05/2023) These are some loose notes concerning the Series Three Overhaul Project (STOP) and other recent stuff on the wiki, as of May 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.

Opening Notes
'''Section incomplete. Writing in progress (11/05/2023)'''

Notices

 * 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.
 * Following a failed attempt to fix a minor underlining problem on Light Mode last month, which resulted in visual discomfort for users, there may be follow-up experimentation with the color settings to find an alternative solution without this problem. Similar visual discomfort might arise temporarily on Light Mode during such experimentation, but it will likely only be present for a brief period of time (for anything lasting for more than an hour, alert via comment below).
 * With GT8 coming out on the 10th, for the weeks before and after the release, standard new volume restrictions are in effect. See the relevant section below or GT8 Plans for further details.

Reminders

 * 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.

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 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.

Recent and Upcoming Releases
Recent:
 * Toaru Majutsu no Index: Imaginary Fest: Toaru Giwaku no Private
 * Toaru Anbu no Item
 * Toaru Majutsu no Index: Imaginary Fest: Toaru Giwaku no Private
 * Toaru Anbu no Item
 * Toaru Majutsu no Index: Imaginary Fest: Toaru Giwaku no Private
 * Toaru Anbu no Item

Upcoming:
 * Index:
 * OT Omnibus (YP) - August 2023 (delayed from June)
 * GT8: May 10th
 * Railgun:
 * Mental Out:
 * Toaru IF:
 * Original Scenario (June 2023)
 * Toaru IF:
 * Original Scenario (June 2023)
 * Original Scenario (June 2023)

GT8
is due to be released in May. The usual Bookwalker preview emerged near the end of April, with the usual plans post being launched shortly afterwards.

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.

Toaru Anbu no Item
The of Toaru Anbu no Item has been released and fully processed. The new volume protocol restricts have been lifted for the book and information implementation work is ongoing. The arc name poll concluded a couple of weeks ago, with Enemy Item Arc being selected and implemented. A few days ago, a little more information concerning the manga was revealed - it is going to start in Autumn 2023.

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 be 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 bonus side stories has not yet been assembled. It would be good to acquire this information as soon as possible.

Also, regarding the Item Liaison or "Hanano Choubi", please DO NOT rename or move any links or mentions of her as the Item liaison to her assumed name for the time being.

Edit (06/05/2023): Additional note - would like to verify as soon as able that what is thought to have been used for drone knives was definitely what was used in the volume via source text verification, to get this minor uncertainty out of the way.

Other
Regarding the most recent volume for the Railgun manga, , the last chapter in the volume,, which was split into three parts during the magazine release, does not have its concluding part in this volume. Presumably it will be at the start of the next one, and might be renumbered (a relatively minor headache).

Light Mode Issue
This is an explanation of the notification above and a problem which occurred on April 18th (which also prompted the last Quick STOP Notes post on the same day). It concerns a minor problem on the wiki's Light Mode and a worse problem which arose during attempts to neutralize it.

The instigating problem is a minor one which occurs on Light Mode on certain browsers (Edge is confirmed affected) and in certain states (sometimes Firefox is affected, other times it isn't) as a result of the color selections (it wasn't an issue prior to the UCP and Light/Dark Mode switch). The contrast from the link color compared to the text color and background color causes links in main text to become permanently underlined rather than underlining just on hover. The issue had been noted before and similar problems to this time (see below) had been encountered while trying to overcome it. As a result, it had gone on the backburner and been left there for quite a while. Following prodding on the 18th, an attempt was made to overcome it by changing the color settings, using an external contrast comparison tool to compare link, text and background colors to find a selection which wouldn't cause continous underlining on the affected browsers. A link color which didn't cause the problem was found and implemented, however it quickly had to be switched back due to another problem (which had been encountered when the issue was tackled before, but had been forgotten about over the time the issue had been left on the backburner).

Preliminary observation of the placeholder colors in use provoked a feeling of visual discomfort and on confirming that this was the case with other users (and not an isolated case due to not being used to it), the coloration was switched back to the previous colors. April 18th's Quick STOP Notes was in part compiled to notify users of this issue and confirm the problem, though the reports and switch-back happened before the post was completed. The switch-back means the underlining problem will have returned for the affected browsers, but while this might not be entirely visually pleasant, it is still better than the visual discomfort experienced with the altered colors. Users of the affected browsers will just have to put up with the underlines for now. There may still be some theme experiments to come - if the visual discomfort resurfaces during these tests, leave a note in the comments.

Unsorted Notes
'''Section incomplete. Writing in progress (18/05/2023)''' Previous Cases (for reference while section incomplete):
 * STOP Notes (01/04/2023):
 * Carried Forward Non-Image Odd Jobs: NeedNihongo-related, Chronology-related, Table-related, Unsorted
 * Experimental Transcluding for Review: Examples, Downsides
 * Other
 * Quick STOP Notes (18/04/2023)

Unsorted Notes:
 * Currently trying to get multiple projects and endeavours reorganized and back on track, as well as processing information from most recent releases. Would greatly appreciate it if people don't do things which force a diversion of time, effort and focus from this work.
 * A certain someone has recently been going through the late NT to present GT chapter articles and adding in/tweaking the Characters/Abilities/Locations lists, as well as uploading some of the absent illustrations. While the expansion of the Characters/Abilities/Locations is for the most part quite appreciated, there are a few omissions and minor problems (some mistakes arising from assumption/carry-forward errors), so a brief review of the articles in question will be carried out once they've reached the end (which shouldn't be too far).
 * On that note, there is an explanation to be completed which is related to this. I am going to try to get it done as soon as possible.
 * A record of the current status of the wiki's Quotes sections, including extracts, was done a few days ago. A similar extract had been previously done for the TT65/TT95-tagged UQ cases. As such, there should be minimal impediment to the conversion tasks for both proceeding (i.e. movement of QuoteTrack from the headers to the individual Quotes in the respective sections, the verification of answer status for the UQs).
 * There have a number of switches from galleries to single images on chapters which were released in multiple parts in the magazine and compiled into one for the tankobon release. These are to be switched back.

Experimental Transcluding for Review (01/04/2023)
The following is directly transcribed from the April 1st STOP Notes, due to a lack of time and other tasks taking priority, but still needing to repeat the information

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, the below 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.

Reluctant New SD/TT Creation (17/05/2023)
Due to problems and delays in reorganizing and freeing up Shared Drafts and TrackTags for new tasks, as well as a load of tasks coming up which will need Shared Drafts and TrackTags of their own, as well as problems associated with doubling-up, there isn't much 'breathing room' (so to speak) with the current near-fully-in-use standard Shared Drafts and TrackTag collection.

One option which would create more 'breathing room' would be to create more Shared Drafts and TrackTags, but I have been reluctant to do so given how many of them there are already (300 standard Shared Drafts and 99 standard TrackTags (plus 9 enclosable X-class TrackTags and multiple other specially-calibrated ones). I've tried my best to reorganize and free up SD/TTs among the existing ones, and any other alternative approaches, but the 'pressure' has not been alleviated much. After months of this and given assessment of the current/future circumstances, I've ultimately decided (very reluctantly) to temporarily expand the wiki's current collection of standard Shared Drafts and TrackTags (going to 400 and 150/X30 respectively). With any luck, this will alleviate the pressure and create more 'breathing room' while the current/upcoming tasks/problems are tackled and the previous SD/TTs are reorganized and sorted out.

I hope eventually that the tasks and problems which necessitate them will lessen to the point the extra ones are no longer required, and the numbers can be brought down to the previous amount. However, rather than straight-up deleting them, when they are decommissioned, instead of being deleted, they (including TrackTag/docs) will be redirected to the Shared Draft Overview and TrackTag Overviews, in case they need to be reactivated and for access to their respective history logs.

Image Tasklist
'''Section incomplete. Writing in progress (18/05/2023)'''

Toaru IF Placeholders

 * These are the character release images which have temporary placeholders in place, as of the time of posting. The placeholders added later this month may or may not be added, depending on the circumstances.
 * It would be good to get the four 2022 ones done and dusted.

New Images
A large portion of these candidates have been temporarily carried forward from the 18th's Quick Image Notes post (which in turn carried forward from April 1st) - the entries which have been directly carried forward for the non-April Monthly Manga Releases are placeholders (and might not be entirely up-to-date) while more comprehensive information is being properly processed for the tables (circumstances and sod's law permitting). Details may be changed and new entries may be added in due course.
 * Red link file endings are not finalized. Suggested file names are not final, just possibilities.

April Monthly Manga Releases
Potential image candidates from and.

Toaru IF
Candidates from the late May event and the monthly gacha update will be added here later, when they are revealed, providing no newer STOP Notes or Image Notes/Tasks posts have been made by then.

Carried Forward SD-Assigned Image Odd Jobs

 * Identifying Anime Images with Channel Watermarks
 * : 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 on April's post(s))
 * 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

Links

 * STOP Notes (01/04/2023)
 * Quick STOP Notes (18/04/2023)

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Series Three Overhaul Project - Loose Notes (01/05/2023) These are some loose notes concerning the Series Three Overhaul Project (STOP) and other recent stuff on the wiki, as of May 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.