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Series Three Overhaul Project - Loose Notes (01/10/2023) These are some loose notes concerning the Series Three Overhaul Project (STOP) and other recent stuff on the wiki, as of October 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
Refer to Quick Notes (22/09/2023) until construction of this post is completed to launch level.
 * 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.
 * There shouldn't be any problems pertaining to the MediaWiki 1.39 update a while back, but if you see any issues that might be connected to the upgrade, leave a note in the comments below.
 * See Editing Reminders section (carried forward from August 4th) (I am getting a bit sick of having to repeat the reminders and will be completing an entire separate post for it at some point (with any luck)).
 * Remember to include references when adding in new information to articles. When rewriting existing sentences/paragraphs or inserting new parts into them, make sure that the existing references are correctly positioned/applied afterwards.
 * When uploading, name appropriately according to subject and remember to include Summary/Licensing/category framework.

Recent and Upcoming Releases
Recent:
 * Light Novel and Manga Volumes:
 * Monthly Manga Chapters:
 * Toaru Majutsu no Index: Imaginary Fest:
 * Original Story Chapter 2
 * Toaru Usagi-tachi no Moon Gazer
 * Toaru Majutsu no Index: Imaginary Fest:
 * Original Story Chapter 2
 * Toaru Usagi-tachi no Moon Gazer
 * Toaru Majutsu no Index: Imaginary Fest:
 * Original Story Chapter 2
 * Toaru Usagi-tachi no Moon Gazer

Upcoming:
 * Light Novel Volumes:
 * Souyaku Toaru Majutsu no Index Light Novel Volume 09 - December 2023
 * Shinyaku Toaru Majutsu no Index Light Novel Volume 01 (YP) - December 2023
 * Monthly Manga Chapters:
 * , Railgun Ch150
 * Mental Out Ch22 (November)
 * Toaru Majutsu no Index: Imaginary Fest:
 * Toaru IF Original Story Chapter 3 (October)
 * Toaru Konton no Miracle Fortune
 * Toaru IF Original Story Chapter 3 (October)
 * Toaru Konton no Miracle Fortune

New Volume Restrictions
During the Toaru IF livestream at the end of September, GT9 was announced for release in December 2023. As with any new volume release, there will be restrictions on related edits/uploads until the volume is released and fully processed, with preparations limited to a specific post/Shared Draft (currently preparing candidates for the task).

The previous restrictions regarding Item Volume 2 and GT8 have been fully lifted for a while now. As for NT1 in December, the volume is over ten years old, so there likely won't be restrictions in the same way as the Japanese releases.

Other

 * September's proper STOP Notes post ended up not being completed before the end of the month, with a Quick Notes post improvised to handle the interim.
 * There was a brief wiki tool failure early last month. Since another failure might affect data retrieval, a number of contingency logs were taken to mitigate any inconvenience from being unable to retrieve certain samples for a while.
 * While there were delays over the course of last month, Operation Decap is steadily progressing and will continue over coming weeks.
 * The below notes are not complete, and will be expanded further when possible over the next few weeks (hopefully before the end of the month). Among the tasks are some pertaining to Item V2, GT8, recent manga releases, Toaru IF and STOP in general.

Regarding Image Tasks (1)
Notes concerning image tasks have been done in a separate post this month. See the above link.
 * Updating the Toaru IF placeholders with textless/labelless versions takes priority.
 * Other tasks on the post, except those involving processing of existing images, are potential candidates only and not absolutely essential.

Recent Template Work
There was a lot of template-related work last month, continuing into this month. The four main new template variants will be covered in the sub-sections below (if any issues are spotted, note them in the comments section on this post), with other template-related notes below this sentence (more to come later):
 * There is a mobile spacing issue associated with some of the TrackTags - I'm going to be investigating this in due course. In the meantime, do not remove the tags from their current locations.
 * I suspect it might be connected to the Template Types - there isn't currently a way to customize the Template Type selection, so depending on the situation, if the related types are causing the formatting issue, the templates might have to be set to a type which isn't quite applicable to it or unassigned from the types completely.
 * Template:Shared Draft Overview is about to undergo reorganization as its Type/Code columns had become quite disorganized. There is likely to be a fair amount of shuffling around during the process.

School District Infoboxes
This is fairly self-explanatory. Infoboxes for Academy City's School Districts are being drafted in, similar to the ones for countries. This development has its roots in an image task to acquire Academy City maps with respective districts highlighted (prompted by certain pics popping up besides the links in the category page, or on the bulky selection at the very bottom from time to time, which aren't quite representatitve of the districts).

However, certain specifics aren't fully finalized yet. We are working to settle them prior to implementing the infoboxes, so as to avoid certain problems and hassle later. These include assessing certain field entries, as well as checking our current image repertoire for images which properly fit the district and if there aren't any on here, seeing if there are some that exist which might fit the purpose.

Non-map images are being selected carefully according to an assessment of the overall circumstances. Some will have a composite image, others a single image and some will have none at all for now (for some districts, none of the images from the district fit the purpose of illustrating the district - for example, the only images currently available from District 1 are in the middle of an office and do not illustrate the district itself, so that one will be map-only for now). For some cases, some items will be excluded. A lot of the images which are being used are ones which illustrate the look and landscape of the districts themselves. Minimal non-discussed tampering post-launch would be appreciated.

With regards to field entries, the borders will be listed from north clockwise in the manner illustrated in the example on the right. The entries under 'Role(s)' are not going to be as listed on Subete - we've tried to keep them in a concise one-line form though there are a few uncertainties for a couple of them and in a few cases, we've used a short bullet-point list. With regards to Key Location(s), we are not going to be listing just any location from the district which we know about willy-nilly - the number and nature of selections have been chosen carefully according to an assessment of the district's circumstances, some items have been excluded and some field entries have been left empty on purpose.

The infoboxes will not be implemented until all of the details are finalized. Anchors for an auto-sweep are currently in place, though there will likely be a degree of manual implementation. Associated map images have also been uploaded.

Main/Arc
Variation of Template:Main set to a specific story arc (where Main|X Arc before, now Main/X Arc, rest as before). Designed for both linking and tracking purposes (enables quick access to a list of linked articles, mostly pages with Chronology sections for that arc, via WLH or GPL). Created and largely implemented on 21st. Follow-up operations continuing. Only going to made for the main arcs of the series (i.e. none for overarching arcs, redirects, volumes, events etc - the numbers are pushing it already and these would be way too much).

RefNotes and Documentation/Override
In a similar manner to the Main/Arc variants (and Template:Reflist to a certain extent), Template:RefNotes was created carry out both display and tracking purposes - to display the references under the group 'Notes' that are displayed in the 'Notes' sections of some articles (with the function of  ) and to keep track of the articles which currently have Notes sections (with a quick list obtainable through Special:WhatLinksHere on the template).

One problem realized during the devising of the Main/Arc sub-templates was that using the conventional Template:Documentation would necessitate the creation of individual template documentation for all of them (and redirects in this particular situation would have problems of their own), a problem which had been encountered previously in other situations and various cases could be imagined in which it would be encountered. To overcome this problem, Template:Documentation/Override was created - a variant of Template:Documentation which gives the same display but for a specific documentation page (rather than the one tied to the template). Through this, the Main/Arc sub-templates can share one set of documentation (Main/Arc/doc), avoiding the need to make loads of them.

Carried Forward Odd Jobs
Odd Jobs posts finished last month (others to come eventually):
 * Odd Job - Watermarked Anime Images (01/09/2023) (Task Incomplete)
 * Odd Job - QuoteTrack Header-to-Quote Remainder (06/09/2023)

Odd Jobs post launched this month:
 * Odd Job - Quotes for Referencing (24/10/2023) (identified cases to be referenced will be tagged with QuoteRef beforehand - provided I can get the tagging sweeps working properly )

Odd Jobs with posts pending:

NeedNihongo
Note: Make sure that the Nihongo is checked using the source text.

Item V2-related
 * School District 15
 * Hoshiyama Girls High School
 * Muraki
 * School District 6
 * "Princess Suite"
 * Hula Hoop
 * Repurposed SDI
 * Brilliant Pebbles
 * Tachiuo Mary
 * Lang Ya Bang
 * Chang Bing Dao
 * Bijiacha
 * Sheng Biao
 * Shen Huo Fei Ya
 * Zhen Tian Lei
 * Zhuazi Ban
 * Xian Qiang
 * Toaru Anbu no Item Light Novel Volume 02/Epilogue
 * Demeter & Aphrodite

Other:
 * Alice Anotherbible
 * Wonders
 * Souyaku Toaru Majutsu no Index Light Novel Volume 08/Chapter 2
 * Shunta
 * Children’s Q&A Advice Show
 * Jack-o'-Special (verify that kana are correct, particularly the horizontal line)
 * Jack-o'-Special (verify that kana are correct, particularly the horizontal line)

Rapid Unsorted Notes (Semi-Experimental)
Carried forward directly from August's STOP Notes (to save a small amount of time):
 * Given problems in writing proper notes in the past monthly STOP Notes (often still being incomplete when it is time to get the next one ready), I'm going to run an experiment involving cascade jotting.
 * Over the course of the month, unsorted rough notes will be rapidly jotted down below without being processed into a neater form, to see whether it has any effect on the overall processes and progress.
 * Some of them might be rough repeats of things which have been previously mentioned.

Carry Forward Unsorted Notes

 * Check for any items under Category:Referenced-only which are no longer referenced-only, and check for any items which are not under Category:Referenced-only which should be (i.e. are currently referenced-only)
 * Bring  (Chapter Start/End Text) (mid-start cases) and  (Afterword Collection) up to date with the most recent releases.
 * Verify that the character appearance-naming gap tables up-to-date
 * Gather quick access list of manga chapters which have been renumbered in volume releases.
 * Toaru Majutsu no Index Manga Chapter 184: Adapted From, Parts adapted from the light novel chapter in this manga chapter

Rapid Unsorted Notes

 * Recently uploaded images from anime, addition to related image collections and addition of Summary/Licensing/category structure
 * Update Template:Franchise Overview before the end of the month (in light of Toaru Anbu no Item manga start)
 * Verify if Toaru IF has internal card numbering system and if the Japanese wikis (and other aggregation sites) are using it.
 * : Design Image Note Collection, update the tables with the more recent images, cursory image kana extraction method involving external OCR devised early-mid month (rapid extraction with manual fine-tuning).
 * : Chapter Start/End Text, update with Railgun Ch149 and Mental Out Ch20/21, update with Index chapter entries (there are definitely cases in the most recent chapters and likely some time beforehand).
 * Plan to use a transclusion in a temporary post to circumvent the displacement problem
 * Section on this post with notes connected to recent releases (novel, manga, game)?
 * Verify that School District 16 has no appearances or mentions in the main series.
 * Find out how Seiin High School ended up under District 16 on several episode articles.
 * Possible record of previously-used and now-defunct links for future reference.

Unsorted Notes
'''Offloaded to enable post launch. Will be worked on off-post rather than on-post to mitigate premature/assumptive action before the notes are in a ready condition. Will be added once ready, if ready before the end of the month.'''

Regarding Image Tasks (2)

 * (Virtual-On Manga Chapters (Virtuaroids)): Verify Virtuaroids in respective images on respective image pages. See past posts for further details
 * Odd Job - Watermarked Anime Images (01/09/2023)
 * Template:TrackTag60 being used to track images within paragraphs, also assigned to Mid-Image Paragraphs
 * Check the Sources for images associated with chapters which have been renumbered in volume releases (a pair were noticed with Railgun Ch97 Sources - for what was Ch97 in the magazine but Ch96 in the tankobon).

Image-Existing-On-Wiki Assembly
For below, check only the images currently on the wiki. Do not upload any new ones yet.
 * Check existing images on the wiki and add any images involving the below subjects to their respective galleries on the linked Shared Draft.
 * Computers, IT etc
 * Robots
 * Holograms
 * Metal Shipping Containers
 * Brands and Brand Parodies
 * Esper/Magic-AIM/Magic Rejection Reaction
 * Similar aggregation of existing images, but for ones pertinant to subjects associated with Life and/or Death.

Editing Reminders
'''SECTION BEING WRITTEN. TEMPORARY PLACEHOLDER CARRIED FORWARD FROM PREVIOUS NOTES (25/08/2023)'''
 * 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 relatively recently - at the very least, please do a grammatical check on additions before you add them.

Image Reminders

 * When uploading a new image, name it appropriately, according to its subject matter.
 * When uploading a new image, please 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.
 * Please bear in mind that inserting categories during Special:Upload means that they won't be at the bottom of the image page - which will cause problems later on. If possible, reposition any categories added during Special:Upload or add the categories at the bottom after Special:Upload.
 * Please also bear in mind that when the Summary/Licensing inputs in Special:Upload are used, the resultant headers have spaces in them either side of the entry. This has the potential to disrupt some of the processing sweeps, so if the Special:Upload Summary/Licensing inputs are used, the removal of those spaces afterwards would be appreciated.
 * In order to support the result transclusion experiments and accompanying tasks, noinclude tags have recently been added immediately before the first categories on image pages (preventing categorization of drafts/posts/etc where the image pages have been transcluded to (with the exception of the categorization under Category:Images requiring information caused by the ImageReqInfo tracking tag), with TclTrack tracking tags immediately before them to keep track of them. It would be appreciated if TclTrack and noinclude are included before the first categories in future uploads, in order to prevent disruption of the ongoing tasks. An expanded explanation will be written in due course, less up-to-date notes are present on May's STOP Notes post.

Temporary Storage

 * Unsorted/unprocessed notes
 * Empty table sample

Links

 * Quick Notes (22/09/2023)
 * Quick Image Notes (01/09/2023)
 * STOP Notes (04/08/2023)
 * STOP Notes (01/07/2023)
 * Quick Image Notes (27/07/2023)

Preview Override
Series Three Overhaul Project - Loose Notes (01/10/2023) These are some loose notes concerning the Series Three Overhaul Project (STOP) and other recent stuff on the wiki, as of October 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.