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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.

Big whoops

Guess who forgot about the wiki again?
Was I busy? No. I was just lazy.

Changes

I rewrote the ΛLDNOΛH.ZERO, Frozen and Prší articles. They are far better than before, but still a little lacking.
I added a couple of smaller articles such as:

Most of these are “small” and simple articles, similar to Review Collection. Hangul Supremacy is the only real exception and I don’t know when I’ll actually start working on it properly.
Will I start working more regularly on the wiki now? Perhaps. I hope so.

Ninja… out!

2021-11-06 14:09:06 · ninjasr

Whoops

So I may have forgotten to do any work.
However, I will give an excuse…
I realised that I may have been far too ambitious. The amount of planned work was just too much. So I redid my priority list a bit, now it’s a bit more reasonable so I’ll start going through it.

What was actually done

I don’t remember most of what I did… what I do remember is the creation of some kind of dictionary, which is just a little bit of fun.
Besides that, there was the addition of Hangul Supremacy which is just a mirror of a few blog articles.
Not much else

What I will do now

I’m not completely sure, but I’ll work on getting through the redone priority list.
So I lost the priority list, now I’m not sure what to do.

Ninja… out!

2021-10-08 17:42:46 · ninjasr

Not much to Report

Unfortunately, I have not actually done all that much work over the past week. I will try to get some stuff done today, tomorrow and next week. I will also leave some stuff out for next time.

2021-09-25 06:53:28 · ninjasr

Results and Minor Announcement

As promised, a week has passed and I surprisingly have results. Unfortunately, I didn’t achieve everything I promised within that week…
However, I decided I’d focus on what I did do rather than what I didn’t.

Changes

I will proceed to list everything that I have changed… or at least the things I remembered I changed. Listed in no particular order.

Additions

What have I added? Well, not as much as I hoped to.

とある Article

The とある article has been added. Not only that, but it’s in a state where I consider it “decent enough to be read”. It still isn’t as complete as I hoped it would have been.
What I will do with it now is fairly simple… I’ll continue working on it. However, it’s gotten pretty big already, so I’m probably gonna split it into several other articles. I’ve decided to do this only when the individual sections get too large (the character section and the descriptions of characters go too far, the worldbuilding section gets too big (the one most likely to happen soon)).

Media Analysis

I added an “index” for Media Analysis. It’s only a place to list analyses that have no media article dedicated to them.

Rounge Textboard

As I said I would, I added a textboard. I’ll keep it as one for now. I decided I’d only split it (create boards for specific topics) if a topic keeps coming up too frequently.
I plan to add my own stylesheet at some point and I’m also gonna try to get the mobile script from 4-ch working.

Key

I added an article for Key although it’s very bare-bones. It’s only a small explanation of who they are and what content they created. It might expand in the future but I can’t promise anything.

Images

Probably the largest change. I added a bunch of Images… like an insane amount. It started with a small idea and then another and suddenly I had them all made.
The number of images will only grow as I get better and better at making them.

Little Busters! and Charlotte

I’ve created bare-bones articles for both Little Busters! and Charlotte. Only because I wanted to create banners for them. When I’ll fill them with content, I can’t be sure as they’re fairly low in the priority list.

Clans

I made an article on Clans which I will work on improving after some time has passed. You might find it interesting, I can’t be sure.

AA Support

I copied the styling for Ꜳ from Rumia’s wiki. I have no idea what I’ll use it for… but I got it.

Construction and Rewrite Banners

I added two extra images to mark articles as under construction or to rewrite. I’ll explain what that means in a little bit.

Updates

What things were updated or changed in this week?

General Things

I think I’ve basically figured out my writing style. The /azu/ and Channel4 articles basically made it clear to me and I tried to perfect it in the とある article. From now on, that’s the way I’ll write most things… just that my grammar may improve… along with other things.

Crying Game

I only changed the name of this page to Nakigē. I’ll rewrite it at some point.

Windows

I merged the 3 previous articles on Windows ricing into a single article. Now it should be more clear. I’ll be putting all ricing related stuff into there from now on.

Wiki Branding (heh)

I finally got around to changing the logo and favicon. Whether the favicon is working properly I don’t really know though. The change also coincides with me changing my “logo” in general… I think it expresses me better than the previous ones.

Starts

I changed start, Essarr LoreBook and Stories. I removed the banner from start (as there was no point to it), I rewrote and rearranged lb and rearranged st.

About

I changed the entire article on me and now it actually represents an “about” thing.

Chanverse Articles

I rewrote both /azu/ and Channel4 so they’re actually good now.
I may make some minor changes to Channel4… but nothing too drastic.

Tags

I changed the names of several tags although I’ve forgotten what those changes were.

Hydrus

The Hydrus article has been rewritten and it’s fairly decent now I think.

RetroShare

This is one of the only things I’m not sure about. While I prefer it over the previous version… it still doesn’t fully agree with me. Rewrite may come sometime in the future… or full-on deletion.

Angel Beats!

I rewrote the reviews so they are both clearer (maybe) and fuller.
I didn’t get to add information about the characters and worldbuilding yet unfortunately.

Franchise

I changed the franchise “index”; I removed most tags and rewrote it in general.

"Indexes"

The pages for the types of media are now listed as “indexes” which are meant to aide navigation.
Hopefully, they’ll become better than the tags (which I intend to have mostly to help me).

Spoilers

I fixed the styling for spoilers so they actually look decent and you don’t have to select text to see them.

Deletions

Believe it or not, I have deleted a few things.

Multich

I got rid of the multich article as I realised a few things.

  1. I didn’t actually care about multich at all.
  2. It didn’t get anywhere and the original site is dead.

Innovative new textboard my ass.

Name TBD/Modern Myth

This I removed for two reasons.

  1. I didn’t write enough to justify it existing.
  2. I lost motivation to write about it.
  3. I developed religious beliefs, making the whole point moot.

It was originally intended as just a set of “myths” and “legends” I’d make up and tell people for fun, because I was agnostic at the time. Since I’ve since started adopting an actual religion, this point is quickly going away.
Instead, I promise to write about my current beliefs in the (hopefully) near future.

Deleted tags

I deleted a few tags, although not many.

  • Finished
  • Category
  • Despair
  • Fandom
  • Language
  • Project R\R (Temporary)

I saw no point in marking articles specifically as finished… because the construction/rewrite banner is more useful.
Just assume that if neither of those is present, the article is done.
The category tag was basically just replaced with the tag tag. As I found tagging tag pages as categories instead of tags was a needless complication just because I preferred the word category over tag. So now I’m using tag to tag tag pages instead of tagging tag pages as the category tag.
Despair was removed because it served no particular purpose. I’ll be rewriting the despair article anyways so it’s a minor loss.
Fandom I decided to just replace with the internet tag. It’s also entirely possible I’ll not write any fandom-related articles.
Language is maybe a temporary removal? There are currently only 2 articles dedicated to languages so there’s no point in keeping this.
Project R\R only has a passing mention in a single article. I hope to get to R\R by the time I get to the SAO article in my priority list.

"To Be Rewritten" VS "Construction"

So… I added a “to_rewrite” tag. This is not something a regular reader should concern themselves with, as it’s a tag intended for me only. You can ignore it if you want.
It’s there to mark any articles I think don’t conform to my writing style or are just bad. These articles are below my existing list… but they’ll be high-priority when I’m through the list (the list isn’t that long). I don’t recommend reading most of these… because I think they’re bad.
“Construction” is now used to mark articles that are not quite finished. So same as before. I considered deleting this as well… but it’s still fairly useful.

Minor Announcement

With the changes out of the way…

YouTube

I’ll start adapting some of my (finished) articles into YouTube videos. Exactly what this means I’m not completely sure yet… but I can say I’m thinking of doing two right now and two in the near future.

  • Clans - Why do you think it was so high in the priority list?
  • Emoji - This I just for fun and it might not even be made. The fact the article isn’t written is kinda dumb too.

Alongside that, I’m thinking of making one for とある and one for the Final Station. Yes, two things that are not on anyone’s mind right now.
However… for that…

Patreon?

I have the mind of a capitalist. I’m setting up a patreon and planning to have it work for… anything and everything I do in the future (which includes the channel, the wiki and some of my other side-projects). It’s not up yet and I’m not planning to put it up until the first video is published… if it’s ever published.
I’ll be blunt and say my primary motivation is money… not passion or anything like that. That being said, I wouldn’t be trying to monetise this stuff if I wasn’t interested in it… but at the same time, I probably wouldn’t be working on any of this if I didn’t see myself getting some money out of it. Money is my primary motivation… but it isn’t my only one.
Many members of the chanverse (if any are reading this) may be disgusted by me wanting to earn some money off of what I do (especially when it isn’t that good)… to that I say… well, whatever.

One other thing

To make the Patreon announcement far less shitty sounding… I will reveal next week, when I have an article detailing it written.
For now, just keep in mind it’s related to copyright.

What next?

Putting it simply… I’ll continue working through my priority list. The next five in the list are…

The list is a little longer of course.
I’ll simultaneously be working on the videos.
What else? Well… maybe a Cowboy Bebop article? But that’s not gonna be soon.

2021-09-17 14:22:58 · ninjasr

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.

    • 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 “Angel Beats! - Wild Heaven - 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
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