User blog:Inept Wiki User/STOP Notes (28/08/2022)

Series Three Overhaul Project - Loose Notes (28/08/2022) These are some loose notes concerning the Series Three Overhaul Project (STOP) and other recent stuff on the wiki, as of August 28th 2022.

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=

Notices

 * Wiki currently log-in-only due to persistent anonymous vandalism, and will remain so until further notice.
 * Such vandalism will not be tolerated and offenders are liable to be blocked.
 * Regarding online release of Toaru Kagaku no Mental Out in Comic Newtype, for Chapters 7 onward, only the two most recent releases will be available on the site.
 * The Slider is back in operation, thanks to a fix applied by OH&S on August 15th.
 * Will be requesting an update for the Special:Statistics database dump a short way into September. If you wish to download the current version, you've only got a short amount of time to do it.
 * Edit (02/09/2022): The database dump was updated early on the morning of September 1st

Recent and Upcoming Releases:
 * September 9th (new volume restrictions in place, see GT7 Plans below)
 * August 26th
 * August 30th
 * August 12th
 * Toaru Majutsu no Index: Imaginary Fest: Durarara!!x2 collaboration, Toaru Durarara no Urban Legend

GT7 Plans
 is due to come out on September 9th, twelve days from the time of writing. At the time of writing, the usual written preview has not been released, however the opening illustrations have been previewed.

As per standard procedure, information and image implementation will be off-limits until the time when the volume is fully processed after release. Also, per standard procedure when a new light novel volume is released, a plans thread has been made (linked above) and two Shared Drafts have been assigned to the work (SD254/255), one for the tasklist and one for draft work and other notes. For the most part, discussions regarding the work are limited to the plan thread, however a few brief notes will be recorded in a collapsed table below.

The numerous impediments to progress over the past couple of months have been even more frustrating, because among other things, I need to review and resume Operation New Year's Eve before GT7 is fully processed.

Edit (01/09/2022): The regular Bookwalker preview has been released. Standard restrictions still apply.

=Assorted Notes= '''Large sections of this notes batch are still being compiled and written off-post as of 05/09/2022. Due to the current circumstances, the de-direct of this STOP Notes post is being hurried and the in-progress sections won't be ready in time for launch. They will be transferred to this post once they have been completed to a satisfactory degree.'''

Image Tasklist
As mentioned in writing before in previous posts but not carried forward in full to this one, most of the new image candidates are ideas and possibilities rather than necessities. As with last time, I'm not going to have separate 'Done' tables this time, though I might make notes on stuff which has been done within the existing tables. This time however, I'm going to split the image-related notes over two sections, with the one higher up the page being for ones with relatively higher assigned priority and the ones lower down the page being relatively lower priority and not very urgent. This section is the higher priority one.

As mentioned before, GT7-related stuff is omitted from this lot. Mental Out Ch12 stuff might be added on the 30th or afterwards depending on what it is in the chapter. Stuff involving the image sourcing odd jobs will be in a separate section.

Image Sourcing
One of the Odd Job tasks set going in the July experiment (more on that below and previous) was for adding in Sources for Anime Images which lacked them. That was completed by UltraBV4 a couple of weeks ago (thanks). Following this, some of the Shared Drafts involved have been re-assigned to several similar image sourcing tasks - something which others can potentially have a go at while we are focused on tasks requiring a bit more care and attention, or recovering from incidents/fatigue.

The images involved in the below tasks could potentially be sourced through coordinated auto-sweeps, however the effort and focus that would require is currently needed elsewhere.

Type 1
A selection of images from the overall list of images requiring sources have been collected in the below Shared Drafts for appropriate sourcing:
 * Flags
 * Chapter Covers
 * Toaru IF Designs

Type 2
was already assigned and have been similarly assigned, for Alternative Volume Covers and Anime Website Design Images respectively, however these tasks are being conducted by Ollerus (SD262) and myself (SD263).

SD262 was assigned around the time the July odd job tasks were composed - upon realization that most of the images were originally uploaded by Ollerus, it was felt that it would be best left to them as they had data on where the images originally came from, and at present, have done most of the images originally gathered there (with just the Chinese and Korean covers left). I am conducting specific sweep operations on the images in SD263 rather than leaving it for anyone to have a go at, due to potential factors observed during task assessment.

Edit (30/08/2022): I have completed processing of SD263's taskload and have de-assigned it from the task.

Semi-Carried Forward Notes
These are notes involving subjects mentioned in the previous pot, partially carried forward but reprocessed to reflect current circumstances.

Asato, Mibuki and the Spy
This follows on from a section in the last batch of notes, surrounding the recent creation of character articles for three Shokuhou clique members, for a long time unnamed; Asato Kisa and Mibuki Kazan, unnamed for 11 years until recently, and the currently unnamed spy.

There are still a few minor things which need to be done concerning them. For Asato and Mibuki, the chapters and episodes in which they appear (Railgun, Astral Buddy and Mental Out) need to be checked to make sure that they've been placed in the respective articles' Characters sections and that they are in the right positions on the lists (with appropriate tagging/labels). A cursory implementation has been done, but this needs to be double-checked to make sure that no oversights or mistakes have occurred.
 * Characters sections for Railgun Ch48-53 and the associated Railgun T episodes are known for certain not to have them in yet.
 * So far as is known, Mibuki hasn't appeared for certain in Mental Out (just some glimpses that could just as easily be of clique members seen previously with a similar rear appearance).

Personality placeholder entries have been added for Asato and Mibuki, though they may need a bit of fine-tuning (similarly for Chronology TSPs). Profile image notes are in the lower-priority Image Tasklist section.

NeedNihongo
Terms relating to 2019-2020 releases tagged as needing Nihongo, noted due to circumstances: (might be long-term backburner tasks, depending on circumstances)
 * L.S.S.: Street Corner Kitten Show, Animal Protection Fund
 * Club Psychedelic Beach: Club Psychedelic Beach
 * Stativarius: Almati, Guarnari

Nihongo to be verified in source text:
 * Sakibasu Yuri: Witch & Psychic
 * Grapple: MilliPhone 15 High End

July Odd Jobs
Due to circumstances on July 13th, a set of Odd Job posts were created, connected to assigned Shared Drafts and threads as part of an experiment, for people to do while the primary contributors are busy on tasks requiring much more focus, concentration, care, attention and work overall. Below are links to the ready and ongoing posts in that batch:
 * Images with Categories above Licensing
 * List Assembly, Pages with Railgun T Images
 * Mid-Paragraph Images

The thread was created a month afterwards, following considerable delay and hesitation, with several considered aspects having not worked out. This may have had an impact on the overall results of the experiment. While some of the suspected problems haven't cropped up, this may have been due to low participation. Progress was generally limited to the anime image sourcing task (done by UltraBV4).

A few days prior to writing, it was discovered that some images had been erroneously placed under the Image with Categories above Licensing task, possibly due to an unseen connection loss during a detection pseudo-sweep. A series of auto-sweeps were subsequently conducted to verify and remove those images from the list. Other auto-sweeps were then conducted on several identified items with likely pattern occurrences elsewhere, resulting in a significant reduction in the number of images remaining on the list.

Note Section Placeholder (1)
Notes still being written (08/09/2022)

UQs
Previously, during Template:UQ's implementation in the Unanswered Questions section, two batches of cases for which the hover-display status (defaulting to "Current Unanswered", with "Answered in" such-and-such for cases where it had been answered, see July posts) had not been added were tagged (one for episodes and one for chapters, both novel or manga).

For odd job-related purposes, I rapidly went through all of them between August 12th-13th (possibly another day as well) and from a cursory glance tweaked the tag to roughly sort the ones which haven't been fully checked/done into likely answered (TT65) and likely unanswered (TT95), pending proper assessment and entries in the formats described in previous post(s).
 * Several cases were given a little extra tweak in the form of a dash or question mark - these are likely cases where things aren't straight forward, however due to the circumstances at the time, thorough notes could not be taken.
 * was assigned to 'Likely Answered' and was assigned to 'Likely Unanswered'

Below are the unsorced lists of articles currently tagged (for lists divided into novel/manga chapters and anime episodes etc, see the respective Shared Drafts).


 * Likely answered, 29/08/2022 Status, 251 articles, monitoring in


 * Likely unanswered, 29/08/2022 Status, 80 articles, monitoring in

Note Section Placeholder (2)
Notes still being written (08/09/2022)

Image Tasklist (Lower Priority)
Still being compiled/written (08/09/2022) As mentioned in writing before in previous posts but not carried forward in full to this one, most of the new image candidates are ideas and possibilities rather than necessities. This section is the lower priority one, relatively lower priority in comparison to the one above, and not very urgent/vital.

Toaru IF x Mahouka Reloaded Memory
The following might be collected in some of the drafts relating to the collab, but are not vital or urgent.

Note Section Placeholder (3)
Notes still being written (08/09/2022)

=End Notes=

Temporary Post-Launch Storage

 * A new wiki representative has been assigned to the Toaru Majutsu no Index Wiki, Nightsilver.

Links
August:
 * User blog:Inept Wiki User/STOP Notes (01/08/2022)

July:
 * User blog:Inept Wiki User/STOP Notes (01/07/2022)
 * User blog:Inept Wiki User/STOP Notes (22/07/2022)
 * July 13th Odd Jobs
 * Anime Image Sources (task complete)
 * Images with Categories above Licensing
 * List Assembly, Pages with Railgun T Images
 * Mid-Paragraph Images

June 2022's posts
 * User blog:Inept Wiki User/STOP Notes (24/06/2022)
 * User blog:Inept Wiki User/Image Tasklist (10/06/2022)
 * User blog:Inept Wiki User/Odd Jobs (10/06/2022)

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Series Three Overhaul Project - Loose Notes (28/08/2022) These are some loose notes concerning the Series Three Overhaul Project (STOP) and other recent stuff on the wiki, as of August 28th 2022.

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.