User talk:Sxerks

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Hi, welcome to Animanga Wiki! Thanks for your edit to the Gakuen Alice page.

Please leave a message on my talk page if I can help with anything! -- Dantman (Talk) 20:28, July 15, 2009


 * Your welcome, automated message.--Sxerks 20:37, 15 July 2009 (UTC)


 * Heh, hilarious. Just so you know the delete template has a mode for mistakes and obvious deletions like the one you marked. ~ NOTASTAFF Dantman(Local Talk &#8285; Animanga Talk)


 * Sxerks, after you've copied an article for a base, could you try cleaning up the article. Sections like the character list can be removed, you can use the template to help link wiki relevant pages to the wiki, and trim the page to what's relevant to just the series. Like the intro and plot summary. ~ NOTASTAFF Dantman(Local Talk &#8285; Animanga Talk)


 * Animanga Wiki serves as a hub, with common articles as you mentioned, as well I plan to emphasize the social community a bit more. Draw users here to find other wiki by setting up general forums and user profiles later.
 * Series that don't currently have a wiki get the same treatment as other pages, the box suggests the creation of a wiki for any series without one. (Of course people can create wiki that combine relevant series together).
 * As for anime.wikia and manga.wikia I dunno, ideally those would just die off later. I've added a sitenotice to anime, added animanga to Anime, and in the future I'll probably tweak Wikia's hub and suggest a sitenotice on manga.wikia. ~ NOTASTAFF Dantman(Local Talk &#8285; Animanga Talk)
 * Btw you can ignore missing templates like the book cite. I don't have the main sync que here, I'm slowly creating a new one. ~ NOTASTAFF Dantman(Local Talk &#8285; Animanga Talk)

Template:Animangafooter
can we add this animanga hub to the footer, as part of the reverse promotion requirement? see w:Template:Animangafooter Gin-san (Talk) 13:32, September 9, 2009 (UTC)

delete blog post?
can I request for help to delete the 'testing blog post' I made? didn't expect it to turn up on the animanga main page, sorry! Gin-san (Talk) 11:54, September 15, 2009 (UTC)

Logos
Just a small note but, adding logos to articles isn't really necessary. If you want that I can get the series template to do that automatically later, you can pull those manual logos out. ~ NOTASTAFF Dantman(Local Talk &#8285; Animanga Talk)

RE: logos and series template and xml
Aye, they are not categories, they are semantic annotations. Categories are limited, they only group pages at a flat level and you have to create a new page for each category (they aren't flexible). Semantic annotations associate a page (subject), by a property (what is the data about), and a value (the data for that property). This is a much more flexible methodology where we can do things like associate a series (page), by genre (property), with the "Action" genre (value). I can add a search icon up top like I did in the infoboxes on souleater.

Rather than XML semantics we annotate the page with can actually be extracted, used to browse the wiki, and used to generate lists on-wiki. As for the xml itself, I don't think that kind of data is particularly helpful. ANN and various other sources already have that kind of info, and that kind of info itself doesn't make for good starting info for wiki. ~ NOTASTAFF Dantman(Local Talk &#8285; Animanga Talk)


 * My preference is "Slice of Life" and "Science Fiction" (all lower is good for page text, but in lists up there title case is nicer). In any case Semantic MediaWiki normalizes by redirect, So if you create Slice of Life and redirect Slice of life, Slice-of-life, and Slice-of-Life to it then whatever people uses they will all properly normalize to Slice of Life.
 * Edit with Form, is part of Semantic Forms which is an extension to Semantic MediaWiki. To do those kind of things we'd need to create pages here which sorta voids the purpose. Also I really don't like the idea of mandating that kind of format. Wikis can do a lot better job than that, just take a look at w:c:souleater:Soul Resonance: Soul Eater, Becoming a Death Scythe?. External tools are never a nice way to create interleaving links, if you aren't going to do that manually the system should be built into the wiki. ~ NOTASTAFF Dantman(Local Talk &#8285; Animanga Talk)