User blog:Inept Wiki User/Quick Reminders (15/12/2021)

This post has been hastily compiled in order to inform or remind users about certain procedures and practices which we carry out, following a number of times recently where users did not know or forgot about them, or disregarded them. These things accumulate and can cause major headaches, so I'd be obliged if people would follow the below reminders.

Apologies for any unintentional problems arising from hasty writing and annoyance.

New Volume Releases, Editing Restrictions
When a new light novel volume is released in Japan, we do not begin article edits or image uploads for that volume right from the moment of release. Until the volume is fully processed, article edits and image uploads regarding newly released novel content are prohibited.

As we have done since the mid-NTs, we have a plan thread which is used to help discuss and plan our actions ahead of the start time. These regular threads were long held in the Forums, however because Discuss is ill-suited to the purpose and lacks the functional support required for certain elements, the plan threads have been moved to blog posts. The current one is in the main link above.

As mentioned below, a number of the spoiler mitigation templates have not been functioning at full capacity or at all within comments or Discuss since the UCP-FD switch-over, limiting the ability to conceal spoiler content on there. Additionally, they will not conceal it on the preview that appears in Social Activity. Please bear this in mind and write/structure with care to minimize spoilers leaking outside the plan thread and through Social Activity - possible approaches include cryptic writing or having some non-spoiler writing or waffle at the front of the message/comment etc to occupy the preview (approximately 101 characters worth).

There are also going to be a few things which we will not be doing immediately after the all-clear is given for article edits. As usual, the arc article will not be created until we've determined the circumstances surrounding the arc, had time to gather suggestions in the plan thread and had the appropriate time to vote on them in a manual poll (as in, comment-based votes, autoconfirm-only - as it has been ever since a certain debacle a number of years back). Until the time the arc name is finalized and the article created, a temporary placeholder (in this case, Alice Arc) will be used for the relevant Chronology section headers, with the NewVolumeArc tracking tag and hidden note reminder in place of the usual main link. Also, there are several images which we will be omitting from uploads due to content-related stuff.

Reminder regarding use of Spoiler block and Spoiler text Templates
Two templates which have commonly been used in spoiler mitigation in discussions in the past are "Spoiler text" and "Spoiler block".

The former is used like this:

which produces:

Note: This template was made long before the Light/Dark modes were implemented, and as such, its functionality is almost completely reduced on dark mode due to the text and background colour changes.

Spoiler block, used in the plan thread (given that it still functions on Templates and User blog posts), is used like this:

which produces:

Note that since the switch to FD, general functionality of these two templates has been greatly reduced in various places, including comments and Discuss. Be aware of the fact that these measures may no longer work there.

Information with Uploads
In the past, uploaders to the Toaru Wiki have been negligent in adding information about the images they have uploaded, or writing it properly - resulting in major disorganization and a ton of other issues with maintenance and more. In order to remedy the problem, I wrote an uploading guide shortly before Index III aired, and late last year I undertook a massive and complex sweep operation, the Image Information Survey, the main phase of which took a week of not-stop work and manoveuring, to identify the current state of all images currently on the wiki and process their pages into a common framework (which aids search and maintenance procedures). Follow-up operations are still ongoing.

To prevent a repeat of this problem (particularly when I'm still trying to sort out the previous one), I'd be quite grateful if people add in the proper information when they upload images to the wiki (which some people have been neglecting recently), along with proper descriptive names. In addition to having images properly detailed and organized, this also helps with other purposes, such as image maintenance, searching, and WLH tracking for images from a particular source or images relating to a particular subject.

Summary and Licensing
When a person is adding an image via the standard Upload option, there is an input box and a drop-down menu. When the image is uploaded, the typed-in details and drop-down selection are added to the file's page under the sub-sections Summary and Licensing (the former before the latter). The categories come at the end, after the Licensing section. The sections can be amended after uploading through conventional editing.

As described on the uploading guide, the general format being followed is to have the information following bolded section fronts, with the minimum information including the image's source, a rough description of the images, and the image's purpose.

For example, for a character profile image for Mikagami Nagisa from Toaru Kagaku no Railgun, the Summary and Licensing might be like this:

Summary
Description: Mikagami Nagisa, as she appears in Toaru Kagaku no Railgun

Source:

Purpose: To illustrate what the character in question looks like on articles

Licensing

 * Description: What subjects and/or events are depicted in the image.
 * Source: Where does the image come from. If the image originates from Toaru media, such as a light novel illustration, an anime episode, a manga chapter etc, insert a link to the relevant wiki article. If the image comes from a website, insert a link to the website in question.
 * Purpose: What the image is intended to be used for on the wiki.

Other optional parts (placed below the minimum three) may be included depending on the circumstances of the image, and include:
 * Portion used: What part of the original image has been used.
 * Replaceable?: The circumstances under which the image can be replaced.
 * Artist's Comments: Any comments from the artist connected to the image. This is usually restricted to design images.

If Really Nothing
Supposing that there is absolutely no information either ready for input, able to be input or certain for input (though it is extremely unlikely that everything would be out), you may use the following:

Summary
Description:

Source:

Purpose:

Licensing
Template:ImageReqInfo (Image requiring information) is a specialized tracking tag which is being used to keep track of parts of file pages which have not been written and need the right information added. Category:Images requiring categories fulfils a similar function in terms of categories.

Note that the above is not an excuse for laziness, and is only to be used if you are really unable to add in the relevant information at that time.

A number of pre-existing cases of IRI-DSPs are marked with additional tracking tags in order to keep track of which sections on each page are the ones needing the information, but I've omitted them from this particular description due to potential problems that might arise.

Other
For quite a while now, we've had a lot on our plate, tonnes of work to get through, unfavorable circumstances and slow progress. Some problems may have arisen due to instructural information having gaps or being out-of-date, format changes being actively underway, or problems in conveying the relevant information properly. However, be assured that guide updates and overhauls are definitely in the works.

There have been various cases of vandalism within the past few months, which have annoyingly wasted our time and energy. This will not be tolerated, and the offenders will be blocked accordingly. One individual in particular has been making a nuisance of themselves in at least the past three months, repeatedly removing and falsifying information, disregarding numerous warnings and trying to bypass their block. This is our final warning - if you do it again, a permanent block awaits you on all routes that you have used and may attempt to use.