User blog:Inept Wiki User/STOP Notes (28/03/2021)

Series Three Overhaul Project - Loose Notes (28/03/2021) These are some loose notes concerning the Series Three Overhaul Project (STOP), as of March 28th 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
These are a bit rushed, largely unsorted, and partially incomplete (still reviewing data from the log):
 * New and Upcoming Releases
 * GT4: The synopsis and cover were recently released, with the volume itself coming on May 8th.
 * Railgun Ch132: Released late March, have got a number of related edits to be done. Several things need to be settled beforehand though and there has been some room for assumptions to take route. At least one messy summary attempt from Ch131 still to be cleaned up on Ruri's page.
 * Toaru IF, Idol: Following a batch of new characters from the Railgun side, an event and character variants connected to Toaru Idol no Accelerator-sama are coming soon.
 * Side/Short Stories: Several new pages have recently been drafted/launched from new/recent/upcoming side-stories.
 * Odd Jobs and Explanations: Need to get the next batch of odd jobs described and ready, and need to get some explanations regarding certain matters done and conveyed to the relevant individuals.
 * SD173 New Items: These two lists have been gradually updated with new articles and files
 * Comments Review: Still need to review comments. Volunteer option considered.
 * Stalled Plan Restarting: Multiple plans which stalled as a result of events earlier in the month need to be recapped and restarted.
 * Section End Space Tweaks: 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.
 * Category Redirects: Category created by Ollerus and respective items added with search sweep assistance.
 * Sweep Hook: 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.
 * Regulation/Conventions, Default Message Template: Considering the idea of making a draft for a default message to send to newcomers, the unaware and the ignoring, who disregard regulations/conventions in their edits, requiring others to fix and clean, and cause headaches (perhaps keeping some notes on these as well), rather than trying to compose one from scratch each time (particularly with the new stuff coming in).
 * Site-wide Stuff: Blocking policy change mentioned in March 20th post coming into effect on April 1st. Have asked others to let know if they find an oversight or issue. Desktop-related change, FandomDesktop, which needs to be looked into. Links with the others at the bottom.
 * Wiki Manager: Ursuul is once again this wiki's Wiki Manager, with TyA having apparently left.
 * Vandalism: A few cases of vandalism recently. False information regarding Russia in the series was planted late 14th and early 15th, and promptly dealt with. Case of someone making and adding irrelevant/gibberish categories on early 14th. Both blocked for two weeks but it seems the latter came back on a different IP the next week to try something similar. New IP blocked for two weeks.
 * Minor Schools/Universities, Redirects: We had been previously considering the approach for minor schools/universities which don't have articles and don't warrant them, with some information extracted from atwiki's list. Had previously been considering a table on AC's article to hold the minor ones. Ollerus has now redirected the minor ones without articles to the respective chapter and episode pages where they were featured or referenced, with Nihongo noted.
 * Galleries
 * "Hide Add Button": On 23rd, Damage and Ollerus started adding "Hide Add Button" to galleries on novel/manga volume pages en masse. Began an auto-sweep to add them part-way through, partially tied into the stuff below. Had to carry out another sweep and manual tweaks later as there was a quotation mark in the wrong place for some of them.
 * Instance Checks: Carried out a check for articles with galleries to verify if any added and missed during the gap since the last check and the stalled logging project. TT11 used for tagging sweep then removed in sequence (with respective logging steps), some automatically and some manually for non-TT44/TT50 items, non-standard items and exceptions.
 * Tag Review: Need to review some of the tags.
 * Sweep Stock: Still need to make a stock of sweep tasks which can be set to run while working on other stuff.

Navboxes and Related Stuff

 * Navigation Headers
 * After carrying out the necessary preparations and adjustments, and gathering the necessary data and opinions, the implementation of Navigation headers was started a few days ago.
 * TT11 was used to mark the gaps between references and navboxes beforehand, so that the headers could be placed by sweep without much hassle and in minimal goes.
 * A search sweep was carried out beforehand to make sure that there weren't any pre-Reflist reference lists.
 * The tags were placed in stages, with sweeps according to the different expected gaps and surroundings. An oversight with one of the sweeps meant that the header implementation had to be started a little early.
 * There were a number of other oversights which meant some tags/headers were 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). Most of these oversights have been rectified, but the lists in the data log below are to aid checking to make sure that there are not any others.
 * Navboxes and Categories
 * A few additional categories were created, connected to the plan for a Locations navbox. Categories included Hospitals, Airports and Cities (later adjusted to Settlements). Was a bit concerned that people might get a bit carried away with making images for different location types and make ones inappropriate for current circumstances.
 * Category:Settlements was renamed from Cities as at least one town was included and so that it could cover multiple types of human settlements (as things stand at the moment, it would be best to have one category for human settlements rather than one for each different type).
 * Category:Locations being drafted, borderline, don't completely agree with what appears to be being planned.
 * Category:Anthology Manga was also created a couple of weeks ago.
 * Future
 * Did have a bit of a concern that they might get a bit carried away with the navboxes. Was reviewing, revising and adjusting stuff before any more are implemented.
 * Had previously been considering cataloguing and reviewing the navbox images currently in use before tweaking the selection, with navbox-specific versions and adjustments a possibility.
 * OH&S intends to edit and adjust the new navboxes, and feels strongly about overhauling navboxes in general here, possibly dispensing with the images entirely.
 * Margin and Parameter Tweaks: Damage and Ollerus have carried out a number of parameter tweaks to some of the navboxes recently. Need to check to see what they involved.
 * Edit: Ollerus has told me what they are for - minimizing the gap between each of the navboxes.

Note from the 10th:
 * Recent Navboxes: A week or so ago, Damage made a navbox for the Story Arcs (having previously started a draft a few months ago and not expanded further up to that point), a task which was on the backburner. This was followed by ones for the Anime, Light Novels and Manga, with assistance from Ollerus. It resulted in some disruption of ongoing and pre-existing plans, partly due to spontaneity. Some things surrounding them still need tweaking.
 * Note: 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.

SD207, Other
March 27th, 14:00 Notes:
 * Reflist - 3 column check (Done - Only Magic God Othinus Arc had one)
 * Scroll box target sweeps
 * Think of potential oversights
 * TT11
 * Two line gap sweep at Frenda at 16:22, Shiguma at 17:03, Windsor at 17:46
 * Protected Items

Step 5 conversion sweep done at 14:16

Recent STOP-Related Links

 * Reminders: Images and References (11/07/2020)
 * User blog:Inept Wiki User/STOP Notes (01/01/2021)
 * User blog:Inept Wiki User/STOP Notes (15/01/2021)
 * User blog:Inept Wiki User/STOP Notes (20/01/2021)
 * User blog:Inept Wiki User/STOP Notes (24/01/2021)
 * User blog:Inept Wiki User/STOP Notes (10/02/2021)
 * User blog:Inept Wiki User/STOP Notes (10/03/2021)
 * User blog:Inept Wiki User/STOP Notes (20/03/2021)
 * User blog:Inept Wiki User/IF Image Review (20/01/2021)
 * User blog:Inept Wiki User/IF Image Review (24/01/2021)

Inter-Wiki Stuff

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