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Series Three Overhaul Project - Loose Notes (17/04/2021)

These are some loose notes concerning the Series Three Overhaul Project (STOP), as of April 17th 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
Currently compiling (17/04/2021)
 * Activity Recap: Having been thrown off-track by an offline situation which occupied much earlier than anticipation and required the majority of my time, effort and attention, and being rendered quite stressed and tired by both online and offline circumstances, I am trying to get back on track, starting by regaining a clear view as to everything that has been going on during the past fortnight. This is necessary in order to revise and restart, but the volume for processing means it might take some time - time enough for other impediments and derailing situations. I might have to ask the most active users to recap their own actions to quicken the process.
 * Tasks for Others: Had been meaning to get some tasks ready for the others to tackle while I was occupied or trying to get reorganized and back on track, only the lack of time and impeding circumstances were preventing me from doing so. Need to get a list of these done as soon as possible. A number of information assembly tasks will be among them.
 * Communication Problems: Have been meaning to communicate a few things to a few users, but been having trouble deciding how best to word and communicate them. I might be over-analyzing things, but was worried about certain possible misunderstandings or undesirable consequences.
 * Contingencies: Need to plan a number of contingencies, in case of certain bad potential situations.
 * GT4: This is fast approaching, need to deal with some things beforehand.

Recent Activity
Currently compiling (17/04/2021)
 * New TrackTags: While trying to get the existing tracks using the TrackTags back on track and back underway, new tasks and situations have arisen which require the TrackTags. I have tried to free up the other ones or improvise a temporary solution, however this wasn't sufficient. As such, although I didn't plan to make any more general TrackTags for now (I was however considering the specialized SweepHook), I have created TrackTags 51 to 60 to cope with the circumstances.
 * Language Cover Images: On the 16th, Ollerus created categories for Alternative Cover Images by language and re-categorized the images under Category:Alternative Cover Image under those categories.
 * Navbox-related Edits: Ollerus and Damage have carried out a number of navbox-related edits, including manual additions of the "variable=1" parameter, en masse.
 * Space Tweaks: Damage has been going through chapters and episodes (and a couple of other pages) and adding in line-spaces, in bulk. A fair number of these are not vitally important, being in empty sections. A few cases were not necessary, though I've lost track of those ones. Have pondered a few potential additional reasons behind the edits.
 * RecentChanges Clogging: Some of the activities noted above have caused a bit of clogging in RecentChanges, and inadvertently complicated tracking, reviewing and logging work as a result.
 * Reflist, Two Columns, Low Number of References: A number of cases observed with Reflist being switched to two columns. A large number of these are ones with a low number of references.
 * SD161 - Index-tan Images: Kaysuami has been assembling the Index-tan related images in the collection on SD161.
 * FandomDesktop: There have been further developments on Community Central regarding the new Desktop skin. I need to look at these, provide Ursuul with feedback and adjust our own plans accordingly.
 * Assumptions/Errors Carried Forward: There have been a number of edits which are potentially a case of this and some which are definitely a case of this. Need to do some work to mitigate the problem.
 * Auto-Sweep Operations: A number of these are ongoing but hampered.
 * Gallery status check (SD208) was being carried out earlier in the month but progress slowed partially due to sweep criteria circumstances (not finding and using a parameter set with a very big amount of instances (one of these would reduce the sweep list by a fair amount)) and the external situation getting in the way. TrackTags 44, 50 and 11 are used, and gallery parameter edits avoided until done.
 * A long series of sweeps using TT51 is underway to locate images within paragraphs (and thus affected by a spacing problem resulting for the UCP shift, where the paragraph splits rather than wraps around the thumbnail - this problem is NOT to be edited upon immediately, am going to explore a number of possibilities before proceeding, will detail later). Currently limited to using "]]A", "]]a", "]]B" etc as locating criteria.
 * Notifications: Username spaces are underlined on Notifications. Need to check if this is a localized issue.

Raw Data Log
Currently compiling (17/04/2021) Locator sweeps for DISPLAYTITLE and "see also" were logged on the 10th's post. Might be logging the data from the mid-paragraph image locator sweeps and gallery status checks here if they are done in time.

Articles with >X References (18/04/2021)
The method for this one will involve tagging a certain instance (above a set value) of (as <ref would result in duplicate instances being included rather than covering the number of distinct individual references). Each set of results will be used as the initial list for the next sweep with the set value rising.

Currently excluding locked items from ones above 20

100
5/8

90
8/13

80
13/17

40
85/139

20
De-Sweep Successes (non-protected): 250

De-Sweep Errors: 42

Empty Field Locator Sweep Attempt (19/04/2021)
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 * Note: At least one instance of an item (PSP game) being tagged but being recorded as 'Error: No instances' in MassEdit's log. Remember WLH comparison checks.

Gallery Status Check Explanation
The objective of the operation is to get a clear picture of:
 * What gallery variations (in terms of parameters) are currently in use across the wiki
 * Where those specific variations are used (i.e. what pages, and what sections)

This is to give us a clear idea of where things are at in terms of galleries, to support future gallery cleanup, overhaul and reorganization efforts.

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The first step was to identify where the galleries in use at the moment were. This was done via a locator sweep and track tags. They were separate into two main groups, one for galleries with no additional parameters in the opening tag (i.e. just ) (tagged using TT50), and one for galleries with additional parameters (tagged using TT44). The infobox galleries were also removed from the group tagged by TT50, to verify the articles with non-infobox galleries.

The sweeps to verify the natures of the TT50 items was completed, which involved switching the tagged galleries which fit criteria from TT50 to TT11 in sequence to verify the situation concerning them (see SD208 for full details).

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The current set of sweeps is focused on the TT44 items, and is aimed at identifying what parameter variants are currently in use, and where they are in use.

The basic method is as follows:
 * 1) Use the WLH list for TT44 to obtain the list of articles with galleries tagged with TT44 (i.e. the ones yet to be verified).
 * 2) Set a MassEdit auto-sweep to find instances of TT44 (positioned in front of the gallery opening tag) and a gallery opening tag with a certain set of parameters, and convert the TT44 in front of those galleries to TT11 (signifying that they have been identified, but also allowing them to still be tracked and aid potential further sweeps).
 * 3) Record the log from the MassEdit sweep and separate out the Successes and the Errors, comparing with the newer version of TT44's WLH list to make certain. This will show which articles possess instances of galleries with the target parameters.
 * 4) Return to step 1 and repeat. If all of the tagged galleries on an article have been verified via the sweeps, the TT44s will have been converted to TT11s, and subsequently the article will be removed from the WLH list. The cycle continues until the number of articles in TT44's WLH list hits 0, when all of the galleries will have been verified.

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With regards to step 2 of the above, the procedure for selecting target parameters has been as follows:
 * Open an article in TT44's WLH list.
 * Find an instance of TT44 in the article.
 * Copy the parameters of the gallery it is tagging.
 * Put it into the MassEdit criteria together with the tag (i.e. to  ).

In obtaining the variants to use for the sweeps, I've been looking for ones which look as though there will be a lot of them (for example, a variant used on all the volume pages), meaning that the sweeps will convert the more numerous variants sooner, and thus the list will be reduced quicker and the later sweeps will take up even less time.

Unfortunately, I haven't had as much success with picking out the more numerous variants sooner as I would have liked.

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There are a few problems which can arise from editors changing the parameters of the tagged galleries while the sweeps have not been completed.
 * By changing the parameters of a few galleries of a variant and not necessarily the whole lot, they won't be picked up by the same sweep, thus increasing the amount of time and sweeps needed to get through the list.
 * By changing the parameters of a gallery, there is a change that they might change it from a variant that hasn't been done to one which has already been done, which risks overlaps, errors, and items falling through the net.