The ADTRWiki: Series synopses, suggestions

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Pierson: Oct 31, 2004; College Slice

ADTRWiki

ADTRWIKI.com is an open-source collaborative effort between all members of SA who have maybe at some point in the past enjoyed a show about anime and think that other people might enjoy it too. If someone's looking for a good show and don't perhaps know exactly what they're looking for, this is the place to browse. It's a repository of the good shows we've watched over the years and has opinions, links where you can find more information, and opinions of SA members of the shows they've watched.

Notes

You must be approved to do basically anything that isn't looking at pages. Post in this thread so Nate RFB or I can approve you and you can start making and editing.
This isn't meant to be a comprehensible encyclopedia of anime. We want writeups and (most importantly) opinions on series that people have enjoyed and/or think others would enjoy, not just a volumous recording of all the bad shows we've subjected ourselves to over the years.
No porn.
It isn't as hard as it looks. There is an editing guideline linked on the front page of the wiki that details all the different formatting, none of it is any more complex than using the tags here. Take a shot at it!
Joke/parody pages. Unless they're really funny.
Don't just make stub pages. If you don't like a series enough to make a full page on it, opinion and all, you probably shouldn't.
If the wiki goes down then one of us is just loving with code. Pay no attention to the goon behind the curtain, it'll be back up shortly.

Pierson fucked around with this message at 12:58 on Jul 18, 2012

# ¿ Jan 15, 2007 16:38

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# ¿ Apr 19, 2024 21:20

Pierson: Oct 31, 2004; College Slice

Nate RFB posted:

I can't find you when I search for "XboxPants" (EDIT: Or I could look at the user list... )

I made a Haibane Renmei entry as a quick test, and noticed:

1. "Licensed" is spelled wrong in the info box.
2. We should add a field for "Format," stating whether the entry is an Anime(TV/OVA/Movie) or Manga.
3. Is current status referring to whether the show is licensed, or whether it's finished?
4. Maybe, for manga, we should change the "Number of Episodes" to "Number of Episodes/Volumes:" That way either format has an option. "Episode Length" would just be set to "N/A" for Manga.
5. Eventually we should set up an index that shows all of the entries entered thus far.

All good points, changes have been made. I also removed the 'Anime Name' from the template since it was entirely redundant as page names display it anyway.

# ¿ Jan 15, 2007 19:27

Pierson: Oct 31, 2004; College Slice

nil! posted:

Is there any clean way to list multiple opening/ending songs? I'm attempting a Honey & Clover entry which has 5 songs total and it looks like hell. Even worse, think of a series like Bleach that has upwards of a dozen or more. Maybe Op/Eds should be in the body instead of the info box.

Oh God I never thought of that. Good idea, implemented.

VVV You've got a point there. I think we should keep episode length/# of episodes and the company/director that made them at least because that gives a general idea of how long the series is and the creators because everyone likes that kind of thing. Should we keep those four and get rid of the others?

Pierson fucked around with this message at 20:29 on Jan 15, 2007

# ¿ Jan 15, 2007 20:21

Pierson: Oct 31, 2004; College Slice

XboxPants posted:

Maybe this can be a case by case basis - when there's a director who's pretty much doing the whole show, like Satoshi Kon or Miyazaki, then you would list a director, but if it's Naruto or something where there's a random director for every episode, that's not very important, and you don't list any director information.

Also, "format" doesn't need to say "anime/manga" on the final page, that's redundant; same thing for "status".

The thing about the Template:Infobox page is, you can have dozens of lines in the template page, and then only use the ones you think are neccessary in the series page. Any you choose not to add info for won't be shown.

Edit: no, it appears I'm dead wrong. You can add new fields to the infobox template but you can't not show ones currently there. Oh well.

Pierson fucked around with this message at 21:15 on Jan 15, 2007

# ¿ Jan 15, 2007 20:37

Pierson: Oct 31, 2004; College Slice

Nate, take a look at the :hr:

page. If you don't have a problem with it shall we use that as the standard template so we can stop messing around with layouts? Basically eveything that isn't the short synopsis (i.e. music, character bios, website links etc) can go into sub-headings under Main Description as the writer feels the need to add them, and the infobox kept to the bare minimum of info?

# ¿ Jan 15, 2007 21:21

Pierson: Oct 31, 2004; College Slice

Nate RFB posted:

All approved.
It's up to everyone, but honestly I'd rather keep it simple and just have it be for shows. There could be a section for stuff like Melty Blood and the like though, so it's not out of the question.

One question I have is making an index...couldn't we just make a "Recommendation Index" page, and update it with each new entry? Seems to my primitive wiki mind that that might be the best way to organize it. Since if you go to "All Page" you'll get some repeated entries, and some pages which aren't related.

This crossed my mind when I looked at All Pages and saw about six of them were redirects for Yu-Gi-Oh. I've got no problems with it. We'd just need to go through the pages every so often and update it.

# ¿ Jan 17, 2007 02:27

Pierson: Oct 31, 2004; College Slice

Nate RFB posted:

I know about as much as you do for customizing mediawiki, but that certainly sounds good. The Format link should probably stay in the infobox (since that's entry-specific), and Index and All Pages could fit somewhere in the sidebar.

Pretty easy actually. If you go to the page MediaWiki:Sidebar you can edit it there. I mixed it around a little and got rid of a few of the ones we find redundant (donations for one) but stuff can be added there any time.

# ¿ Jan 20, 2007 22:33

Pierson: Oct 31, 2004; College Slice

Nate RFB posted:

Why is it that some categories (Anime (TV), Manga, etc.) have the updated sidebar, but the others (including actual pages) don't? Or is my browser just going crazy?

Force-refresh and it will appear as-new. Objection denied. :colbert:

# ¿ Jan 20, 2007 23:12

Pierson: Oct 31, 2004; College Slice

Nate RFB posted:

How did my YKK page get changed The infobox now looks ugly!

This is what I see when I load the page:

Is that what it's supposed to look like?

# ¿ Jan 23, 2007 13:08

Pierson: Oct 31, 2004; College Slice

There's nothing stopping people from making their own infoboxes so long as they get used. They're mostly there because a lot of people (including me up until a few months ago) have no idea how wikicode works.

Also Pr there's not really an 'if' about it, all posters get approved.

Unless you are a total jerk I guess. :colbert:

Pierson fucked around with this message at 14:24 on Jan 24, 2007

# ¿ Jan 24, 2007 14:13

Pierson: Oct 31, 2004; College Slice

I think what would also help is if there were also Incomplete-style entries for those shows currently linked to via 'if you like this'. Less dead links is always a good thing.

# ¿ Feb 19, 2007 07:38

Pierson: Oct 31, 2004; College Slice

Dan a man posted:

Wow, I just checked the stubs page... 79 unfinished articles. Well I guess we all have something to work towards for the next couple months. Actually, it would be pretty cool if we could get them all filled in before the Spring season ends.

I would note that most of these are literally the Template copy/pasted onto the page and nothing else. I think if we're going to make stubs we should at least put in the basic details of the show so people aren't following links to shows and finding themselves with no info and a picture of Musashi staring at them. :v:

This, to me at least, looks like a basic Stub article. It's got all the neccessary info for someone looking to find out what the series is about, and all it needs adding is opinions, an expanded description and external links, both of which can be added by someone who's seen/likes the show.

# ¿ Mar 5, 2007 09:59

Pierson: Oct 31, 2004; College Slice

https://www.adtrwiki.com :havlat:

We now have a shiny new URL thanks to Nulani, who also lent us our webspace gratis. Thanks Nul!

:nyoron:

# ¿ Mar 5, 2007 19:16

Pierson: Oct 31, 2004; College Slice

Honestly I have to agree with BBM here. The Big O page is awesome and exactly the kind of article that gives a viewer a lot of information about the show without actually revealing anything that might ruin enjoyment of it (needs more Personal Opinion though :v:

). I think we can all look at a page and see whether or not it is being spoiled overmuch.

# ¿ Mar 5, 2007 20:48

Pierson: Oct 31, 2004; College Slice

Yeah I'm on Nate's side on this one. Really, what we had covered pretty much the entirety of what's up so far (and remember we don't actually have as many pages as we think we do, most of them are just templates and links). We can always edit them back in but right now they're just adding more dead pages to a wiki already cluttered with them.

# ¿ Mar 12, 2007 09:57

Pierson: Oct 31, 2004; College Slice

Nate RFB posted:

Idea: What if we really just did have it called "Sum It Up In One Sentence" instead of "Short Outline" to really get the point across?

That's a much better idea, I'll get on that right now, I have some spare time this morning.

edit; and done. My copy-paste no jutsu cannot be defeated. :colbert:

Pierson fucked around with this message at 10:45 on Mar 13, 2007

# ¿ Mar 13, 2007 10:00

Pierson: Oct 31, 2004; College Slice

Dan a man posted:

On an unrelated note, I almost changed GITS:SAC, from a stub to a regular article, but I figured I'd ask here before I do it, because it looks done to me, but I wasn't the one who worked on it. So I'm not sure if it actually does need more attention.

An article is pretty much 'done' as soon as it has entries for everything except Opinions (which we can't really force people to give), so yeah go ahead and remove 'em if it has everything else.

# ¿ Mar 18, 2007 22:50

Pierson: Oct 31, 2004; College Slice

Dan a man posted:

If Pierson is reading this: is there a reason why you removed [[Category:Stubs]] from the Stub template or was that an accident? Because right now it says there are 0 pages in the Stubs category.

Yes that one's my fault, unfortunately right now since the {{FULLPAGENAME}} command directs to the old url (pierson.nulani.net) when used I edited it to be more generic, but this like you say removes pages from Category:Stubs. Right now I'm damned either way until I can get Nulani to have a look at it, it's probably something simple I missed when we bought adtrw.com and redirected it. I changed it back for now since at least this way we get a nice category. v :shobon:

v

Sorry I don't post in this thread so much. Most of the week day if I'm not looking for work I'm at class or the gym, so I haven't got as much time as I'd like. Nate is doing a fantastic job keeping on top of users though. :glomp:

Pierson fucked around with this message at 16:52 on Apr 25, 2007

# ¿ Apr 25, 2007 16:50

Pierson: Oct 31, 2004; College Slice

sakesniper posted:

With my papers finally nearing completion and me being back from study abroad I have rectified this I've registered as Sakesniper. I'm going to have a lot more free time soon so I might as well write about anime

Not about Eiken, though. Please God, not about Eiken.

But who else has the balls to undertake such a huge job. :3:

Approved.

# ¿ Apr 26, 2007 08:42

Pierson: Oct 31, 2004; College Slice

No, it isn't. Unfortunately the server-change has borked the databases a little more than we thought it did, wiped our settings and locked me out. Trying to fix it now.

# ¿ May 31, 2007 17:41

Pierson: Oct 31, 2004; College Slice

Don't worry mate it's not a problem you're approved now and let's never speak of this again. -_-

Databases and usergroups have been fixed. Approved people once again are the only dudes who can edit/create stuff.

# ¿ Jun 6, 2007 08:30

Pierson: Oct 31, 2004; College Slice

Dan a man posted:

It says that uploading files is disabled. http://adtrwiki.com/index.php?title=Special:Upload

I'm sure I do not know to what you are referring. :colbert:

# ¿ Jun 6, 2007 16:12

Pierson: Oct 31, 2004; College Slice

Liar posted:

In as Liar.... Goddamnit it's my life's dream to write up a good page about the rear end kickingest of Hokuto no Ken!

I'll hold you to that. :colbert:

# ¿ Jul 16, 2007 12:39

Pierson: Oct 31, 2004; College Slice

Sorry I've not been working on this as much as I probably should've been. I've just finished moving house, getting a new job/college/internet connection and basically rearranging my life. Soon as I get the chance I'm going to have another bash at the rating system and (like raezr suggested earlier) reskinning for something other than the vanilla mediawiki skin.

Pierson fucked around with this message at 03:36 on Dec 1, 2007

# ¿ Dec 1, 2007 03:31

Pierson: Oct 31, 2004; College Slice

Service may be temporarily interrupted while I get in an argument over exactly how much money I owe 1-2-3 Reg. I'll have it back up soon.

# ¿ Jan 10, 2009 23:31

Pierson: Oct 31, 2004; College Slice

Also there are still a lot of pages that have been created with a name and signature image and nothing but title headings. If people are going to pad out the wiki with pages could you at least slap down some basic details, even if it's only copy-and-pasted from somewhere?

Example: Neia_7 vs Outlaw Star.

Also Zorak I'll take you up on that title change sometime.

# ¿ Jan 20, 2009 16:05

Pierson: Oct 31, 2004; College Slice

Make them puns on really bad shounen jump stereotype dialogue. I (or you if mods can edit posts) can put something in the first post about the competition.

The ADTRWiki: Whatever you do...don't edit...'that' page

The ADTRWiki: Next edit: The amazing free avatar giveaway continues?! Who will be victorious?!?!!?

I just love puns what can I say.

Pierson fucked around with this message at 04:29 on Feb 7, 2009

# ¿ Feb 7, 2009 04:27

Pierson: Oct 31, 2004; College Slice

Site may be down temporarily because 123reg is being a bastard about credit cards.

# ¿ Mar 3, 2010 08:41

Pierson: Oct 31, 2004; College Slice

There's been an update to Mediawiki and it's interfered with our old settings. We're fixing it now, bear with us.

# ¿ May 26, 2010 18:53

Pierson: Oct 31, 2004; College Slice

Fixed. Everything is back the way it was, there are no problems, ADTRW has always been at war with SAS.

# ¿ May 27, 2010 10:41

Pierson: Oct 31, 2004; College Slice

I've cleaned up the op a bit and made a snazzy new logo to take us into the next decade. Anything else I should stick in there while I'm at it?

Pierson fucked around with this message at 00:26 on May 31, 2010

# ¿ May 31, 2010 00:23

Pierson: Oct 31, 2004; College Slice

Are you sure that's the name you signed up as? User list can't find you at all mate.

# ¿ May 31, 2010 16:43

Pierson: Oct 31, 2004; College Slice

There's no problem with adding live-action or VN shows. The wiki is meant for the forum as a whole rather than strictly animation, and we do talk about those a lot.

TLDR: If we discuss it on the forums it's fine to make a page about it on the wiki.

If you're going to add a VN though please make it a seperate entry from the anime. For example if someone wants to write a page on F/SN would start by make a new page for the anime, copy the old page into that, and turn the old page into a disambiguation page (example).

So for F/SN we'd end up with three pages:

Fate/Stay Night (empty apart from links to the two below)
Fate/Stay Night (Anime)
Fate/Stay Night (Visual Novel)

# ¿ Jun 29, 2010 23:40

Pierson: Oct 31, 2004; College Slice

As an aside the User List page is looking pretty hilarious right now.

A big welcome to our 100,000th user, 774 buy calming chews large dogs.

If you didn't have to be approved to make pages I'm certain by now we'd have a thousand pages about the revolutionary anime series Buy Di$count Meds Online Now.

# ¿ Jul 11, 2010 13:30

Pierson: Oct 31, 2004; College Slice

We tried to give you permissions to edit but we couldn't find you in the database.

Nate has been turned invisible and dispatched to solve the problem.

# ¿ Mar 15, 2011 10:06

Pierson: Oct 31, 2004; College Slice

Zorak posted:

More on point, there's something wrong with the Wiki's sidebar, it's no longer aligning properly.

Mind taking a screenshot and saying which browser you're on? It's working fine for Firefox.

# ¿ Feb 9, 2012 21:00

Pierson: Oct 31, 2004; College Slice

Yeah there's unfortunately very little can be done to stop them signing up, but they can't actually do anything once they have so the damage is minimal.

# ¿ Feb 27, 2012 10:20

Pierson: Oct 31, 2004; College Slice

That's a good point actually, I'll get on it.

Virgin are giving me some grief over ports but there'll be an account captcha on creation soon enough.

Edit; It's up. Nothing that an SA forums member won't know.

Pierson fucked around with this message at 16:31 on Mar 2, 2012

# ¿ Feb 29, 2012 16:58

Pierson: Oct 31, 2004; College Slice

Site will be down for a few days while I wrangle with 123reg.

# ¿ Mar 3, 2012 18:16

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# ¿ Apr 19, 2024 21:20

Pierson: Oct 31, 2004; College Slice

You can reach the site via http://adtrwiki.neko.co.im while I wrestle with hosting.

# ¿ Mar 7, 2012 17:35

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