User:Octofan/Sandbox

Six Months of Wiki Work Includes (in no particular order)

Information input from:

1. Original Sin Story -Act 2- 2. The Lunacy of Duke Venomania Novel (ongoing) 3. Evil Food Eater Conchita Novel (ongoing) 4. Waltz of Evil (ongoing) 5. Her Reason
 * This in particular caused a huge amount of changes on Elluka and Irina's backstory, as well as expanding the minor character sections/character pages/Location pages for those involved.
 * Country information
 * Character info
 * Sin info
 * Joseph's page finally deserves to be a page as Carlos :3
 * Huge changes to involved parties, renames.
 * Many changes and images
 * Elluka/Gumillia character histories

6. Story of Evil Illustrative Stories 7. Praeludium of Red (Ongoing) 8. Fanbook (ongoing-ish) 9. The Lunacy of Duke Venomania Manga
 * New pages
 * Additions to character pages (histories, character connections)
 * Country information
 * Additional sources and tidbits
 * Character info on those involved.

Names Changes:

1. Sateriajis = Sateriasis

2. Lilien Tarner = Turner

3. Meilis = Maylis

4. Mikulia Greonio = Greeonio

5. Minor Character name changes

6. Joseph Crim = Joseph = Carlos Marlon

7. Eldoh = Held

8. Wicked Maid = Arte

9. Stupid Butler = Pollo

10. Kirill = Kiril (CD)

11. Elluka Chirkrassia = Chirclatia (CD)

12. Li Lee = Ly Li (CD)

13. Milki = Milky (CD)

Revamps done:

1. Revamp of the Series pages (ongoing)
 * Terminology change (ex. Removal of "Sinner) (ongoing)

2. Revamp of Character Traits (ongoing) 3. Revamp of Character histories (ongoing) 4. Revamp of technical character information 4. Categorization Revamp 5. Gallery Revamp
 * Removal of Appearance section and expansion of Skills and Personality sections. Inclusion on character pages lacking
 * Expanded information, title changes, input of quotes (more)
 * Removal of Featured in section, replace with Appearances
 * Sectioned and reworked infoboxes
 * Avatar changes (see Story of Evil avatars)
 * Categorization for all Seven Deadly Sins
 * Rename of Story of Evil category to Daughter of Evil
 * Creation of "pages" for categories
 * Consistency, restraint, and order

6. Revamp of Mothy's page

7. Song page revamp (ongoing) 8. Book/Short story page revamp (ongoing-ish) 9. Locations Revamp 10. Trivia reformatting
 * Composition section
 * Infobox
 * Summaries
 * Improved summaries
 * Inmproving infoboxes
 * Combing over residents
 * Additional information

11. Increased linking
 * Linking to minor characters on other pages
 * Linking to specific locations within a location page on other pages
 * Linking in general :P

Additions:

1. Creation of Events pages and Events category
 * Levianta Catastrophe, Reign of Evil, etc. (ongoing)

2. Creation of Family pages and Families subcategory. Creation of family sub-subcategories

3. Rearrangement of categories (check)

4. Additional Locations: 5. Info from Mothy's blog/interviews
 * Snakeland
 * Tasan
 * Lioness
 * Freesis Mansion
 * Venomania Mansion
 * Lucifenian
 * Retasan
 * Adding and sourcing what was already added (ongoing)

6. New minor characters/minor characters pages 7. Character pages added 8. New Organizations: 9. HER page
 * Lunacy of Duke Venomania
 * Evil Food Eater Conchita
 * Adding Story of Evil Characters (ongoing)
 * Clockwork Lullaby characters (ongoing)
 * Rajih
 * Platonic
 * Character pages planned, needing image:
 * Arth
 * Ein
 * Asan
 * Bruno
 * Chelsea
 * Gaston
 * George Ausdin
 * Margaret
 * York
 * Yufina
 * Minis
 * Many more probably <.<
 * Association
 * Five Dukes
 * Espionage Task Force
 * Venom Mercenary Group

10. New images.

11. Magic guide-page (upcoming)

Removals

1. Unsupported assertion that Ma is Irina and Elluka combined

2. Unsupported(?) assertion that HER is Elluka and Irina combined

3. Tenuous "Deadly Sinner" assertion

4. Kept Waiting for a Response (from canon, not wiki)

Policies/Technical Stuff:

1. Admin change

2. Revamp for "Chat" policy

3. "Consultation of admin" policy

4. Referencing (again)

5. Increased use of discussion threads

6. Increased community messages

7. Quote of the day problems (ongoing)

8. "Fluid Layout" editing

9. Blogpost policies (upcoming)

Tiny Things

1.Spelling and Linking errors

Policies
As some of you may have noticed, a lot has been happening in the last few months.

Those of you who pay marginal attention to the Recent Activity page will have seen the discussion threads dedicated to incorporating major information and format changes on the wiki. These have overseen the changes that occurred from The Lunacy of Duke Venomania and Evil Food Eater Conchita novels, Original Sin Story Act 2, and the recently released Waltz of Evil guidebook; the threads have also overseen transitions on character pages that are expanding Personality and Skills sections while removing Featured in and Appearances All discussions on these threads are ongoing, and users are continually encouraged to visit and bring up their own concerns or add their own input if they have anything to say. Waltz of Evil, in particular, is still very active and its wealth of information has yet to be fully updated to the wiki.

Categorization for all this new info has received a major overhaul and multiple pages have been added to accomodate it. The Family and Events project, in particular, was achieved with contributions from multiple users: The former was a means of more firmly establishing the familial connections between characters that doesn't clutter up an infobox, creating a Families subcategory and sub-subcategories for each family in the Evillious Chronicles

The Lunacy of Duke Venomania novel and manga caused a major update of wiki pages over the last six months, inaddition to clearing up prior misconceptions and ambiguities on the nature of the Venomania Event. History sections for all characters involved have been expanded, and Minor character sections have been added for all listed women in Venomania's harem, Rajih from the manga has received his own page, as well as pages being added for new and more elaborated on locations such as the country of Lioness and the Venomania mansion. (...)

From the Original Sin Story -Act 2- Album, Elluka and Irina's relationship has been completely reevaluated, while the past of Levianta and details of Project Ma have been made much clearer and less vulnerable to fanon assumption. (…)

The Evil Food Eater Conchita novel has also given cause for expansion into the Conchita event, contributing to the new character Platonic receiving a page as well as pages being created for the Five Dukes and the newly discovered country of Tasan. (more.) Most noticeably, the characters of Joseph, the Wicked Maid, and the Stupid Butler were given much more elaboration and their real names for their pages. This is a good lead in to something that has garnered the most reaction among readers (:P): Name changes.

Previously in this wiki, effort to determine mothy's intention for name and object translations was minimal while official word on the matter was nonexistant. The name Sateriajis, for example, was examined more closely with comparisons to words that contained the same romaji but had been translated differently (its inspirational word Satyriasis, for example.) The end result is a retranslation to Sateriasis. Millions of voices cried out in pain and then were silenced. This close examination has also retranslated Lilien Tarner's last name to Turner, Mikulia's last name to Greeonio, the town Mystic's name to Mystica, and multiple retranslations have occurred for Minor Characters in Lunacy and other pages.

Aside from closer translations achieved by precedent, official word has come in for several main characters. The Conchita novel's short story listing, with English translations included, is responsible for the unofficial translation Eldoh being replaced with Held. The CD from Original Sin Story -Act 2- was also discovered to have official spellings for Elluka's (maiden) name as well as Ly Li, Milky, and Kiril's. As already seen with the past discussion threads, deciding on appropriate spellings for a name is something being handled with more care for the future.

More projects to improve on preexisting pages have also been enacted in the last few months. Minor Character pages have been filled out more thoroughly, referenced, and characters missing or glossed over in the past have been given their own section. Linkage from other pages to these sections has also been implemented where appropriate,

[Octo is trying to fill that part in > <]

As a result, a harsher look at information has been taken. After the release of Act 2 to confirm some suspicions about information, a wide range of speculatory information was removed from the wiki due to lack of proper sourcing. Some of this information was restored was returned once a solid source was found, but other information (such as Hellish as an awakened vessel of sin) will remain off the actual article until a more solid confirmation or strong indication can be cited. Currently, the only information that hasn't been properly filtered is the Sloth and Envy eras of the Seven Deadly Sins Series. As it currently stands, information said to be in the Fanbook has yet to be found after firsthand inspections. Therefore, some information related to these articles is being heavily looked at to determine whether or not it should be supported or if the assumption is reasonable enough to be deemed "safe". Some information also directly affects articles (such as Freesis Foundation) overall in a large manner so this will be handled with extreme caution.

On another note, the new fluid layout implimented by wikia has greatly affected articles. While page width used to be a constant, it is now adjustable to browser size or tablet/smartphone orientation. To adjust to this, we have changed galleries so they will adjust with the article. That said, unintended errors like pictures bridging into other sections, paragraphs becoming significantly shorter (with wider widths), among other oversights are now being looked at and we will adjust as needed to provide the best quality appearance for this wiki's readers. That said, for those bothered by how the new layout presents articles, we encourage use to orient your tablet vertically or adjust your web browsers acordingly for the original experience.