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This is the News section of the website, it is for… news. It includes an RSS feed that you can subscribe to so you don’t have to manually check. Correction, I thought it did, dunno what to do now.

All of these seem like minor updates

This is a very early kind of update. I decided to share some kind of progress.
There are two goals with this article. The first is to outline to myself what I have to do, because I honestly doubt there’s anyone actually reading anything on this wiki. The second I forgot while writing this, but there is a second reason.

English-7 isn't happening

I’ve decided to abandon this project. Instead, I’ve decided to rely on trial and error. One thing I might work on is a pronunciation guide, but that’s for way later down the line.

Toaru Project

I’ll be adding characters, locations, worldbuilding stuff and speculation.
I had the idea of making an Academy City map. Specifically an interactive one. Kinda like what the index wiki has but a bit different.
Images are something I’d like to add to the article. So I’ll be experimenting with stuff like my own drawings and the like.
The first stuff I’ll add might be traces of screencaps. Why? Because, for some reason, the quality of my screencaps is really bad a lot of the time. But I don’t know for sure.

What specifically with Key stuff

This is a list and basic explanation.

  • Key
    • An article for them specifically, which I guess I’ve teased for a while? I’ll explain who they are, what articles they’re connected to and some other stuff I guess?
    • Just a small re-write. I’ve decided to turn “Kazamatsuri” into a term for all Key related stuff.
    • Will redo the review. Add the character and worldbuilding stuff. I considered making a chart showing every possible choice in the game, but I don’t think I’ll be making that for a while. Some speculah will probably be in here at some point.
    • Well, the whole thing will be made at some point.
    • Same as Little Busters.

I should have probably made a lot of these as independent reviews since I can’t remember what I wanted to add to many of them.

OS-tan

The first version of the article should just be a short explanation, list of tans and an adaptation of stuff on the collections wiki. Images are a wildcard right now.

/azu/, Channel4, Chanverse stuff

I’ll fix up my /azu/ article along with the Channel4 article. I’ll include screenshots of the main pages, links to the boards, impressions of the cultures and that’s it I think.
As for Chanverse stuff in general, I’m not sure how to deal with it. I have a feeling I should probably give up on it entirely (with the exception of those two mentioned above) because I’m not all that familiar with the Chanverse. However…
I did say I was interested in making my own board, I decided to take this idea to a bit more of an extreme though. I’m wondering if I could successfully create boards around a lot of the topics I like (Toaru, OS-tan, Kazamatsuri, the rest). I’m leaning towards “no, I could not do it” and I doubt I’d even be able to run a lot of it.
That being said, this is likely something I will try. But how long until I do I’m not sure.
That will likely be my “full” entry into the Chanverse. I have no intention of being special in the Chanverse space, I don’t want any kind of gimmick, I don’t want to supplant any big boards or sites… I just want a place where I can discuss the things I’m interested in, which I’ve failed to find.

Guides

There are about 3 guides on this wiki. I will rewrite all of them, I think.
The big one is Guide to Japanese Media, which I’ll change since it’s just a list of content I like. It’s also a really poor article and I really don’t like it.
The second one, which is a lower priority, would be Guide to Danganronpa. How I’ll change it I’m not sure at all.
The third one is “Windows Ricing Guide” which can be confused for “Windows Ricing” and yet is closer to “Windows Themeing” - I’ll just merge all of them. What it’ll look like when finished I have no idea.

Hydrus, Retroshare and other Software articles

I will change all of these at some point. I thought I liked my Retroshare article, but then I actually looked at it. Hydrus has a poor article as well.
I don’t like any of my software articles so I’ll be rewriting them. I’ll start with Hydrus and then use it as a template for others.

Philosophy

I have no idea what the philosophy section has changed into, but I’ll be changing it.
One thing I will add soon is an article about “Clans”. It will just be an explanation of how I think clans work.

Media Articles

Although I’ll be focusing my effort on the Toaru Project and then Kazamatsuri stuff… I will eventually move onto the other media articles that have been neglected.
The ones that’ll be worked on first will probably be KamiNomi and Cross Ange: Tenshi to Ryū no Rondo. After that I’ll move onto SAO and ΛLDNOΛH.ZERO. I might get to The Final Station.

Story stuff

I will start working on “Hi, I'm Dave”. When I will start and when I’ll be done I don’t know.
Besides that, I’ll restart work on “birth_of_the_marines”. The way I wrote the prologue thing really irks me so I’ll change it.
Queen of the Caliphate is unlikely to be done anytime soon.
One thing I think I’ll start working on is SAO R\R and I’ll publish the first chapter… sometime.

Images

Wiki

I’ll change the logo and favicon. I’ll be redesigning the logo as well, because I don’t like the current version at all.

Articles

Some articles lack images. Actually, most articles lack images. I’ll be adding banners to all media articles. I’ll be adding character portraits once I bother to draw them. I’ll be adding… some kind of other images too.
It’ll be great… maybe.

Universals

I wrote an article called “Universal Magic System”… it got lost. So I’ll start writing it again.
Another article that will be worked on is “Universal Character Descriptor” which probably won’t actually exist.

Start

I’ll be changing the starts of all the various sub-sections because I don’t like any of them. They’re typically long, have no colour (besides red heh) and have awkwardly written sentences.

Alt-Wikis

Fan wikis for certain things are a hit or miss kind of deal. Several times I had the idea of making my own versions of them… I will not obviously.
Instead, I’ll probably try to emulate a lot of wikis but with my own twists.
Something that’s always puzzled me is how character articles will sometimes explain almost the entire story in a “History” or “Chronology” section and yet leave the rest of the article barren. Personalities? Relationships? Trivia? Appearances? Description? - nah, those are all secondary.
This kinda pisses me off a little, so that’s basically what I’ll be doing… I think.

General stuff

I suck at descriptions of Characters

I am ridiculously bad at describing people beyond extremely simple descriptions. While I let this hold me back on actually describing people, I’ve decided to fuckit. I’ll be adding personality descriptions and I won’t really care how accurate they are. If I can’t describe what they’re like, I’ll try to describe how they act. With time, I’ll get better at it.

I'm very lazy

I am terrible at getting to work. I’m also really bad at committing to something, choosing instead to bounce from one thing to another. No idea how to solve this, but I’ll do my best.
Hell, getting myself to write this article took a lot.

Reviews on hold

I originally started writing all the reviews on here because it was quick and easy. This meant I could fill up the wiki really quickly with a lot of content. As a result though, this is what the description of the wiki is on Rumia's wiki:

A personal wiki by “Ninjasr”. It’s mostly reviews.

Although a completely accurate description, I really don’t like it. So I’ll stop myself from writing reviews for a while. For Toaru, I’ll ignore writing them until I have either:

  1. Split the article into multiple articles.
  2. Finished writing everything besides the reviews. (Unlikely)

Once I’m satisfied enough with the rest of what I promised in this update, I’ll start writing reviews again. But I’ll first rewrite… most of them I think.

Footnotes

I used footnotes for… well footnotes. I’d add some extra information I thought people might be interested in. Then I realised people don’t actually read them. So there’s a bit of a change now, I’ll be using either (brackets) or I’ll work whatever I want to say into the article. You’ll notice the Toaru article has only 1 footnote and I’m considering getting rid of it.

Minimal Swears

I’ll be minimizing the amount I swear on this website.
Readers should not assume it’s because I want to be “child-friendly” or that I dislike swears. IRL, I don’t swear that much. Most of the time, I have to “force” it out. By default, I don’t really swear that much.
A lot of the swearing on here was honestly there because I tried mimicking 0037's wiki. I find it kinda unnatural and unnecessary now so I’ll put it to a stop.

Side-Projects

One reason I’m focusing so much on this wiki now is that I’m starting off a few other projects. As part of that, I decided to turn this place into a sort of “core” that all the other projects stem from. Logically then, it makes sense to make the core as healthy as possible.
I won’t yet reveal what those side-projects are, since I don’t even know if I’ll get them up and running.

That's it

This update turned out to be much longer than I expected. It’s only been a day since the last one too, but I kinda had to write this.
So yeah, next update in a week. Yes, I’ll hold back.

Ninja… out!

2021-09-10 14:42:40 · ninjasr

Early-ish minor update

So some time has passed and the fruits of my labour…
Well, let’s just say I’m still working on it.
Obviously I’m still working on (I think?) what I said I’d work on last time. What I mean specifically is the Toaru Project and English-7. I honestly forgot about the images though. Let’s just say that I don’t have a specific due date, but I will work on getting it done ASAP.
So anyway…

Kazamtsuri

I decided to work on Kazamtsuri stuff as well, since I said I’d do that ages ago. I’m placing Angel Beats! under this category as well, so finishing the article for it is part of this priority as well.
That being said, there really isn’t much I think is worth saving from the main site. I wasn’t a regular there however.
Also, Toaru Project is still a higher priority.

OS-tan

Adding onto what I’m gonna work on is this. I noticed the OS-tan collections wiki hasn’t been updated in… I don’t even know how long. So now I’m gonna be adding some OS-tan content here in a desperate attempt to get it going again.
Exactly what I’ll be adding I don’t know just yet and since it’s a lower priority than the rest, I won’t know for a while.

/azu/

I will fix up the article for /azu/. I have no idea what it’ll be like yet, but I’ll be using the 4-ch article from the tanasinn wiki as inspiration.

Guide to Japanese Media

It’s probably time for me to remake the whole thing. It’s a garbage article.

Hydrus

Fixing up the Hydrus article maybe.

Possible board of some kind?

I was thinking of setting up a textboard, I’m still not sure if making one is a good idea or not.
Although I’m constantly leaning towards setting one up, the chance of that actually happening is small since I’m very lazy.

Another small update

I’ll be writing an article about clans, but exactly when I’m not sure.

The rest

I’ll try my best to add content to articles that have been lacking it for a while.
It might sound strange, but I like reading back my own stuff… but this wiki is barren and what is there isn’t all that good. I’ll try my best to add as much as I can while keeping it good.

Ninja… out!

2021-09-09 17:09:18 · ninjasr

Outline of Work… thing

Considering the state of this wiki, I’ve decided to outline a few things that I will be doing in a poor attempt to motivate myself to do them.
I previously attempted a to-do list, but this is a little different.

Toaru Project

There will likely be an article for the Toaru Project written sometime after this news thing gets published.
Alongside that I will attempt to focus my efforts on writing about the project specifically. Hopefully it will be more than just reviews and gushing.

Hi, I'm Dave

Unfortunately, the original is lost and I have no way of recovering it. So instead, I’ll try to write a longer, better version when I have time. Once that’s done, this link will actually point to somewhere.

English-7

I think the grammar portion of English-7 is complete so I’m moving onto writing a style guide1) as well as a dictionary. There will be an article for that here, once it’s semi-usable. I’ll also have to write a guide2).

Images

I will finally get around to fixing the images on the Review Collection article. I’ll also replace the dokuwiki logo and, if I can figure it out, have a proper favicon.
Since I’m also experimenting with my own drawing ideas, I’ll be putting my own drawings/pictures on here when I get around to it.

Angel Beats!

I will fix up the Angel Beats article as I’ve finished all the main routes.
I still don’t know what else to add to it so meh…

That's it

That’s it for this update, chaos is still occurring unfortunately, but that’s honestly just an excuse because I’m too lazy to actually work.

Minor Update: KamiNomi

I’ve decided to actually write the reviews for KamiNomi at some point in the (hopefully) near future. Whether I actually do or not is another thing.

Second Minor Update: Universal Character Descriptor

I forgot another thing… Well anyway, this will be an article3) that will describe how to describe the personalities of characters. This is something I suck at, so I’m gonna focus my efforts on it.

Ninja… Out!


1) ^ a For the wiki articles, stories and some other misc stuff.
2) ^ a For others and myself…
3) ^ a Mostly for me.
2021-09-04 16:54:22 · ninjasr

Current Update

Although I forgot to mention stuff, the chaos I was going through1) is gone and we’ve entered a calm again. That being said…

Not much actual updating

While there is a calm, the amount of time I actually have is fairly small… so updates will still largely be limited.
On top of that, I’m focusing the time I do have on several other projects of mine2). One that I’m willing to mention is English-7 and that’s only because I mentioned it previously and because it’s probably the most important of them.

Those concerned should know though that I did do some minor updates, which you will see in the recent changes thing3).

That's basically it

Ninja… out!


1) ^ a The chaos that prevented me from doing anything of note on here for a while.
2) ^ a Which you might learn of if I end up getting somewhere with them.
3) ^ a If you can see it that is.
2021-08-28 14:24:37 · ninjasr

Back, maybe

My IP has not been unbanned, but I have changed locations for a currently still unclear amount of time. Articles will start to be written again soon-ish.

2021-08-20 18:01:06 · ninjasr
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