Board Thread:News and Announcements/@comment-6192846-20130914024957

Well, despite being a little undermanned, a lot was able to get a lot of Original Sin Story -Act 2- discussed and inputed into articles. By tomorrow, nearly everything should hopefully be inputted. We'll keep our eyes open for the Japanese booklet text to crop up and have our translators take their time to confirm the Chinese source.

More importantly, there is this beautiful little feature I discovered in search that let's me see what pages you all are looking at the most often. The stats for this traffic will be well remembered and quite helpful for me (teehee).

Important for all users:

Moving on. Anyone who has seen the news knows the website for the Conchita novel is up. There have also been a few wild edits that we purposefully were trying to avoid. Take some green tea and try a Gift everyone; we're all excited but let's try to avoid the twitchy fingers, especially since it has caused the problem we are trying to move away from.

Moving on, I will be reiterate the fact that I am sweeping around pages. If I find something too tenuous, I will remove it. I am cracking down on a lot of aspects that need to be looked at. Because of the success of the experiment, I will be saying the policy now:

If you are going to edit, then consult an admin for permission. Now, this isn't blanketed for everything. If there is a typo in anything or a spelling and grammar mistake, then by all means, fix that sucker. My favorite edits are from our anons and our lurkers who make the small fixes we miss even when 2-3 of us go through a page. This is extremely helpful and it would be arbitrary to put them through loops for that. But, if you are going to be adding, changing, or renaming pages, you have to speak with another admin.

I don't care how simple or obvious you think this edit of yours is. If you think it is so important, it shouldn't be a problem to ask for the green light first. Also, a thread has now been opened for the Conchita novel and one will soon be made for the Venomania novel. These discussion threads are open to everyone and are a place for the community to help decide on things so we don't just have one or two people deciding what a character's name is, especially if that name is wrong. Please don't take chances with me; I understand mistakes and we all mess up repeatedly.

Important for translators:

To all our wonderful translators who have made blogposts and assisted in supplying information from sources both large and small, thank you. You guys make EC more than just a gibberish of foreign text and synthetic sound to the average fan. However, to ease the fact-checking and exchange of translations for all users, I am now going to ask that the source of translation is linked or (preferably) the Japanese text is posted with your translations.

It makes it a lot easier when a sentence or phrase can be copy/pasted so a word can be defined or a blurb of text can be more easily given to a translator to use. On top of that, I would like translators to go back and look at the original text for these sources:


 * Evils Kingdom Booklet


 * Original Sin Story -Act 1- Booklet


 * Evils Court Booklet

There have been some contradictions or inaccuracies with either a newer source or another person's translation. As a result, some more debated information has been removed from pages until we get a confirmation. Your help in looking at these would be greatly appreciated.

Important for coders:

For all those skilled in coding who have helped or would like to help on the wiki, please message me on my wall or talk to me on chat so we can discuss templates and ideas for future changes that have been planned. I would like more communication between you guys since some templates have been in the works for months with little progress, even if it was said it would be done X months ago.

Important for everyone:

One of my biggest priorities is get everything in an organized and more open fashion. While we've already begun working towards that, it's going to take a little time because making sure we have quality has its own little process.

Among the ideas though include a suggestion forum for users to post ideas, especially if it involved adding or reworking sections to certain pages, adding new categories, or something similar. Some of those suggestions I received for song pages have actually been my pet project for the last few months. If you got an idea, share it.

I am also looking into adding more admins to help streamline the process since some users are more readily available during certain times of the day than others, including myself. Policies are going to be updated and more projects are going to be added. New information is coming in after practically having an information drought for months. Be exicted! Be patient! Be Evil(lious)! 