Forum:What is the scope of Animanga?

Before I go off on a tangent totally LOL, I would like to find out what exactly is the scope that this animanga hub intend to cover. Is it only providing intro to wikis already on the wikia? Or is it going to be the-all-encompassing encyclopedia gateway including series/movies that no one may ever start on wiki on wikia (hint: super old series like Kochikame, Doraemon, Sazae-chan etc)? Because I suspect some like Moribito: Guardian of the Spirit may never get their own wiki on wikia, and if animanga only features existing wikis or wikis that will likely be set up (read: new series), then no point in me creating articles for all these 'old stuff' LOL Gin-san (Talk) 20:41, September 18, 2009 (UTC)


 * That was my question to Dantman and his reply. Basically I would leave the articles short for anime/manga for now.  In the future the community might decide to use subpages(or something) to expand on the topics.  Of course, artists, actors, terminology would get full pages here.  In the end it is meant to cover everything anime/manga related, and act as a (hub/common reference) to other wikis, so no problem adding the oldies.--Sxerks 21:17, September 18, 2009 (UTC)


 * A summary of older series should be fine (perhaps an external link to Wikipedia in the External links section), even if it may never get a wiki the big "This series has no wiki, ..." message at the top is a great reminder to someone that they can start a new wiki for a series if it doesn't exist. ~ NOTASTAFF Dantman(Local Talk &#8285; Animanga Talk)


 * if no wikipedia link, official web site links tend to be in, surprise! Japanese. Do you want these official web link included in that case? Gin-san (Talk) 17:10, September 19, 2009 (UTC)


 * A Wikipedia link, and links to all the official sites both English and Japanese, anime and manga, etc... would be good. If a site is in Japanese put after the link after a space, this is our more flexible equivalent of Wikipedia's  . ~ NOTASTAFF Dantman(Local Talk &#8285; Animanga Talk)

I'll sum up a better explanation. Under the topic of series (leaving the other things asside), the wiki's scope is summaries of series pointing to wiki here on Wikia (I'd avoid external wiki unless they are really, really, good, comprehensive, and recognized as the de-facto wiki to go to for the series). That means all character info and anything other than a quick overview of the series doesn't fit here. However while I say pointing to wiki, over our job of pointing to existing wiki we also want to promote the creation of new ones. So that does not preclude the creation of series articles on series without wiki. We don't document characters and whatnot ourselves whether there is a wiki or not. But for series without wiki we promote the creation of one. Thus we put up summaries for all series. Ideally I might actually use SMW to generate a "List of Series without Wiki" page people can go and check if anything they are interested in is there. ~ NOTASTAFF Dantman(Local Talk &#8285; Animanga Talk)

going into details like categories ...
okayyy, so the scope is wee bit clearer now, then perhaps I can ask a bit about the details like categories for say, directors, genre etc. Do we manually create them or will there be a template? I went through this exercise at another one of my site where I had to append a new template with auto categorisation to more than 100 characters and more than 100 birthdays which were done before I learnt how to handle templates properly, it was a VERY PAINFUL exercise, :) The short articles will generally highlight author/creator, genre, director/anime studio, but very rarely actors, so how do the voice actors and their links fit in, since no characters will be mentioned? do I have to include infobox? some terminology like omake etc seem to stand alone, and no relation to any article? basically, I just want to have an idea of what to turn into internal links and what to leave as plain text Gin-san (Talk) 08:46, September 21, 2009 (UTC)


 * There will only be a few core categories. Likely Category:Series, Category:People, Category:Companies, Category:Terminology, . Genre and terms will probably just be added to pages. People and Companies will probably have infoboxes which will populate semantics (like occupation as a Mangaka, Director, etc...).
 * For voice actor articles the list should probably note both series (internal link to the series article here) and character(s) which can be interwiki linked if a wiki exists (Link Naruto Uzumaki's voice actor to .)
 * Side-note: Why are your paragraphs being separated by  ? ~ NOTASTAFF Dantman(Local Talk &#8285; Animanga Talk)


 * LOL, forgot, force of habit. hmmm, still a bit hazy of how they will be implemented. To play safe, I think I will only create internal links for the authot and director for now, and the leave the rest status quo, as what I have been doing? Gin-san (Talk) 14:20, September 22, 2009 (UTC)