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:::::While I agree that some things to the main page were added, my idea of sprucing up would not fall under the same kind of stylistic additions as the fairies. I'm aiming for keeping a relatively consistent style. Compare to the addition of lightly coloured headers/backgrounds. [[User:Kiefmaster99|- Kiefmaster99]] ([[User talk:Kiefmaster99|talk]]) 23:55, 9 February 2013 (UTC)
:::::While I agree that some things to the main page were added, my idea of sprucing up would not fall under the same kind of stylistic additions as the fairies. I'm aiming for keeping a relatively consistent style. Compare to the addition of lightly coloured headers/backgrounds. [[User:Kiefmaster99|- Kiefmaster99]] ([[User talk:Kiefmaster99|talk]]) 23:55, 9 February 2013 (UTC)
::::::Also with this remake, I was wondering if the pictures I commissioned from the artist abstractcatus aka makku would be any interest to the community. I know Leo was working on some as well. They can be found on [https://www.dropbox.com/sh/o9507drmacshyll/5YSqJTnQQo here] and come complete with favicons. [[User:Nazeo|♥★♦]] ([[User talk:Nazeo|talk]]) 01:29, 10 February 2013 (UTC)
::::::Also with this remake, I was wondering if the pictures I commissioned from the artist abstractcatus aka makku would be any interest to the community. I know Leo was working on some as well. They can be found on [https://www.dropbox.com/sh/o9507drmacshyll/5YSqJTnQQo here] and come complete with favicons. [[User:Nazeo|♥★♦]] ([[User talk:Nazeo|talk]]) 01:29, 10 February 2013 (UTC)
::::::: Whatever other language wikis decide for themselves, Russian wiki is pretty OK with its current logo. --[[User:Coyc|Coyc]] ([[User talk:Coyc|talk]]) 04:07, 10 February 2013 (UTC)
I could possibly agree to new logos (I think we do not own our current logo's source, if I remember correctly) and favicons, but not necessarily new main color schemes, and do not even get me started on backgrounds.  If we are going to use the logos from that Dropbox... makes me wish that the German Wiki's new logo was our new logo, lol.  (What >.> <.<?  I like Aya.) [[User:Code Slasher|Code Slasher]] ([[User talk:Code Slasher|talk]]) 02:39, 10 February 2013 (UTC)
I could possibly agree to new logos (I think we do not own our current logo's source, if I remember correctly) and favicons, but not necessarily new main color schemes, and do not even get me started on backgrounds.  If we are going to use the logos from that Dropbox... makes me wish that the German Wiki's new logo was our new logo, lol.  (What >.> <.<?  I like Aya.) [[User:Code Slasher|Code Slasher]] ([[User talk:Code Slasher|talk]]) 02:39, 10 February 2013 (UTC)



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Server Statistics Page Updated

I updated the Server Statistics page at User:Suzuran/Server_Statistics. If anyone wants something added to this, now would be the time to ask for it. --Suzuran (talk) 17:51, 1 September 2012 (EDT)

This month's status page update has been posted. --Suzuran (talk) 00:04, 1 October 2012 (EDT)

Re:Yousei Daisensou ~ Wiki Mainpage Restyling and Fairy Invasion

This got archived within minutes of me wanting to write a reply :'(

That aside, if people are suggesting to color the entire infoboxes their respective colors, I am all against it. That might create an eyesore for visitors on certain monitors. I know I've had people complain on a website that I used to be an administrator for about fully-colored textboxes before. Code Slasher (talk) 01:43, 4 September 2012 (EDT)

Ah sorry about that. Anyway, the intro header, news box, and encyclopedia box were intended to stay blue, so they'd box in the other three sections. That way it's visually easier to separate the informational sections from the three main category boxes in one's mind. Momiji (talk) 09:01, 4 September 2012 (EDT)
I don't think he's talking about that, but my suggestion for game/music/book infoboxes on article pages to match the fairies' colors. But if a solid block is too much, the body could be left the same with just the header colors changed. Again, not of major importance, but is still one of those slight touches that adds something different. UTW 22:53, 4 September 2012 (EDT)
A solid block is exactly what I'm talking about. I can't support it unless it has a high degree of transparency and/or the color is extremely faded. Code Slasher (talk) 16:01, 6 September 2012 (EDT)

Lyrics_page_ideas

At Talk:Touhou_Wiki/Editor_Corner#Lyrics_page_ideas, I have made a few suggestions for our lyrics pages:

I'm trying to see if I can get more opinions on these ideas right now. --Sbluen (talk) 23:38, 12 September 2012 (EDT)

Do we really need to ask for permission from http://unk0495.blog33.fc2.com? They don't exactly own the lyrics to the songs posted on there. Code Slasher (talk) 01:44, 16 September 2012 (EDT)
You're right. I would probably agree that you don't need their permission. But it may be best to include a link to any external website where the lyrics come from, and give credit to the transcriber. I'll have to see the the Touhou Wiki staff think about it though.--Sbluen (talk) 03:47, 16 September 2012 (EDT)

One important tool that might be useful is a database dump download link. That way, I won't have to worry about the effect of examining 1500 lyrics pages online several times.--Sbluen (talk) 03:47, 16 September 2012 (EDT)

Lua and WikiEditor

In case you're not aware, MediaWiki is working to move template scripting away from it's current hacked-up form. Instead, templates can now use Lua, which allows some pretty powerful scripting possibilities. I've gone ahead and installed the Lua enabling extension, the wiki now supports Lua 5.1. See here for more info on Lua scriping for MediaWiki.

My intention is to set up some skeleton template scripts on Pool that can be loaded and styled as needed by other wikis, possibly allowing for example a fully localized Lyrics template and whatnot.

I've also re-enabled WikiEditor, since it now includes code highlighting and indexing to help in Lua coding. If you see odd things on the wiki, make sure to clear your browser cache. Let me know if you have any issues. Momiji (talk) 15:18, 20 September 2012 (EDT)

One more thing, you can enable the Code Editor extensions to WikiEditor here. Momiji (talk) 15:27, 20 September 2012 (EDT)
Spoilers: Scribunto requires MW 1.20, which we're currently not running. Attempting to use the {{#invoke}} parser function right now will just get you a nice error to the face. With exception details enabled, it reads something like "Scribunto needs MediaWiki 1.20 or later (Preprocessor::SUPPORTS_INDEX_OFFSET)". For the time being, no Lua, at least until we test 1.20 internally. K (talk) 15:49, 20 September 2012 (EDT)
Alright, I whipped up a preliminary version of Module:Lyrics. Check out the following 3 test pages: User:K/LuaLyrics, User:K/LuaLyrics2, and User:K/LuaLyrics3. Additional testing and cleaning of module code is a work in progress. K (talk) 01:09, 24 September 2012 (EDT)
See User:K/Template:LyricsLua for the wrapper template that would replace Template:Lyrics. K (talk) 14:54, 24 September 2012 (EDT)
I've rewritten the Module:Lyrics to make the code a bit cleaner (at least for me) and fix the skipped params problem. More info and links here.
• DennouNeko–[ 08:41, 30 September 2012 (EDT)
Well, just wanted to add that lua version of Template:Navbox with few modifications is also ready as Module:Navbox. It would be good idea to do a bit more testing before changing the original template into a wrapper. A bit more info and few test cases are available at its talk page. • DennouNeko–[ 06:14, 26 September 2012 (EDT)
Update: Currently comparing the lua and template versions of navboxes at Navbox Compare. So far, so good. Suggestions and noticed bugs please report at its talk page.
BTW, I really wanted to thank for installing the Scribunto extension. Now it's possible to do tasks like automatic indexing and transclusions of subpages (example here, uses sclist).
• DennouNeko–[ 19:10, 28 September 2012 (EDT)

Not sure if it wasn't noticed, but just in case gonna mention it here. The Navbox template is locked, so wanted to ask someone with proper rights to switch the content with Lua wrapper for both {{Navbox}} and {{Navbox subgroup}} (guess it's better to do it simultaneously). New content and few notes are available at Navbox talk page.

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06:46, 7 January 2013 (EST)

Something that should make it a bit easier to browse through archived conversations: Module:Index (and wrapper, {{Index}}). Tested in on general page's archives in Talk:Touhou Wiki/Archive index. For now I'll add the index param to {{Archives}} template on this page, but feel free to remove it and delete that subpage if you don't like the idea.

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09:23, 21 January 2013 (EST)

Sorry about the delay, but the new Lua code for Navbox been rolled out onto the template. I'm looking at color changes to Infoboxes now, to match the Navbox type. Momiji (talk) 00:22, 28 January 2013 (EST)
For these it's probably best to use title color (from color table) in headerstyle and abovestyle, and background color in bodystyle (at least that's how it's used here and here), but feel free to play around with it.
• DennouNeko–[ 06:50, 28 January 2013 (EST)

collapsible and autocollapse

If I may, I'd like to request adding the support for "collapsible" and "autocollapse" classes, as described at MediaWiki page. It has the functionality of automatic collapsing the content when there are at least 2 (by default) elements with "autocollapse" class at one page, so for main pages (like The Grimoire of Marisa), that usually have more than one navbox and links to content, all navboxes would be collapsed, while for subpages the single navbox would be expanded by default. The built-in "mw-collapsible" doesn't support the autocollapse functionality.

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17:58, 28 September 2012 (EDT)

Yeah, I had removed that functionality previously. Momiji (talk) 13:29, 2 October 2012 (EDT)
Hm... Not sure why. It seems that leaving it doesn't collide with the built-in "mw-collapsible". Oh well, no autocollapse then :p
Thanks for the info • DennouNeko–[ 13:42, 2 October 2012 (EDT)
I'm going to just assume any previous functionality we'd need now we can just implement with the new Lua-based templates. Momiji (talk) 15:16, 2 October 2012 (EDT)
Well, gotta admit that the Lua is going to be serious improvement and it allows to do many tasks that were impossible for the MediaWiki templates, like parsing some existing pages or unlimited number of arguments, but there are still some limitations. For example, it's still impossible to browse a category from a script, parse a special page like Special:PrefixIndex or detect another script. In case of lists of archives and similar tasks it means that the presence of subpages has to be checked one by one. In case of navboxes it would mean that all navboxes on one page would have to be generated by a single {{#invoke}} to simulate the autocollapse (note that we're generating the page that would have to be parsed to check how many navboxes there are).
Though I wouldn't mind if someone proved me wrong...
• DennouNeko–[ 15:42, 2 October 2012 (EDT)

Top icon css styles

I'd like to request an addition to our default CSS files of the top icon style I have at User:Sbluen/vector.css. This is so that our top icon template can function and work like the one on Wikipedia. This will allow for further userpage customization and, if we eventually decide to have it, small featured article stars. --Sbluen (talk) 18:37, 6 October 2012 (EDT)

Done. --WGH (talk) 05:51, 7 October 2012 (EDT)
Try to use touhou related images. For example, I use this image for Good Articles on the Dutch wiki.

Duplicates

I'm new to editing and forgot to check that there was already a version of Psyc-0006 banner200x40.png here already so I tried to delete the version I uploaded (because both are exactly the same) but instead I apparently reuploaded it so now there are three versions that are exactly the same and I have been stuck on what to do.

FS's title

is Suzunaan (すずなあん). Could someone who has the privilege fix it on the top page please? Thanks in advance. --Doncot (talk) 09:27, 25 October 2012 (EDT)

Category Intersections

It looks like we can't use the category intersection here that works on Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Category_intersection#Using_MediaWiki_search_to_find_category_intersections as you can see from the results at http://en.touhouwiki.net/index.php?search=incategory%3A%22Embodiment+of+Scarlet+Devil%22+incategory%3A%22Official+Games%22&title=Special%3ASearch. However, Wikipedia also discusses another way of getting it to work: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Category_intersection#Semantic_Mediawiki. How well is that working out for us? --Sbluen (talk) 04:07, 7 December 2012 (EST)

uk spelling

OK so one spelling is only chosen by the original editor? OK I can accept that but why no switch-over like we got at Chinese wiki? VistaXP (talk) 21:56, 29 December 2012 (EST)

The Chinese language switch may specify completely different characters and whatnot. For English having a switch just to change 'favor/favour', 'color/colour', etc. would be unnecessarily complicated for a small change. What about Canadian English too? And don't get me started on Simple English and Cockney.
It was something I didn't exactly want to have to specify, but some people didn't exactly realize when issues should've been left alone. Please use en_US for English spelling, thanks. Momiji (talk) 22:23, 29 December 2012 (EST)
I have to add something: Don't change an English spelling if it has existed in one correct form for years. Refer to this for a better explanation. Code Slasher (talk) 02:53, 30 December 2012 (EST)
I'm wondering why you saying Cockney? Did I do wrong? VistaXP (talk) 08:19, 30 December 2012 (EST)
No, it wasn't you, it was someone else in the past. Momiji (talk) 10:09, 30 December 2012 (EST)

Name for Kanipan.

I believe the name of the A-One vocalist known as かにぱん。 or (V)·∀·(V), romanized as Kanipan., meaning "Sweet bun of crab figure" should have her name rewritten wherever it appears in this wiki. This way, we can remove the confusion and make it easier to search for her name. I would prefer using the name Kanipan., and perhaps creating an article under that name.

There is more information about this vocalist on her nicovideo accounts: main and announcements. --Sbluen (talk) 01:42, 4 January 2013 (EST)

Well I wouldn't say unifying her name as "Kanipan." on this wiki will work much since 1.) Using romaji is an alternation (compared to using the original wording). 2.) Because of (1), it's hard to keep the consistency of names being written on the pages on the wiki (we're even struggling on canon works about this matter, let alone fanwork pages...). At least, I'd agree to make her page as a portal though. Also if you really think you should write Jpn names in romaji for certain benefits (because this is not a matter of just Kanipan's name but for many other foreign names. I mean, if you want to talk about readability, don't you think ALL names in Japanese scripts should be converted into romaji?), I think there's a need to add the rule in the guidelines, to make us all follow the same rule (Touhou Wiki:Guidelines#Music_Article_Guidelines).--Doncot (talk) 02:41, 4 January 2013 (EST)
EDIT: This is a trivial thing but I think she's not a member of A-one (her blog). She is a solo-vocalist who occasionally joins in other doujin circle's works as far as I know.--Doncot (talk) 02:52, 4 January 2013 (EST)
I agree. I hope we can eventually do so and use that to link from songs Endless, Sleepless Night and Anything for You. And in her page, there should be links to NND accounts, her youtube account, and some other information from the Utaite Wiki page, as well as that page itself. --Sbluen (talk) 02:44, 7 January 2013 (EST)
Adamantly opposed. Her stage name is (V)·∀·(V), and forever will be (V)·∀·(V). Just look at the A-One websites. Also, trying to unify this is like trying to unify T. Stebbins with Odyssey. It isn't possible. Code Slasher (talk) 03:22, 10 January 2013 (EST)
The fact that we can't unify T. Stebbins with Odyssey doesn't mean we can't make one or two articles on the singer explaining the connections and purposes of the different names. It would be nice to clear up any confusion that way. --Sbluen (talk) 17:01, 15 January 2013 (EST)
My only solution is to use "(V)·∀·(V)" across the wiki and add a note on her page that she is usually known as Kanipan or something like that. As an avid fan of the eurobeat subgenre of Touhou (Touhou is basically a macrogenre in my book), I am not willing to budge much further than that. Code Slasher (talk) 15:03, 15 January 2013 (EST)
She does use "かにぱん" elsewhere as a username, like her Nicovideo, Twitter, and Youtube accounts. I'd rather keep the romanized form of her name as the article name, to ease in finding the article in the first place, otherwise you'll be forcing people to search for ASCII art article names. The Guidelines should be updated to reflect that. Momiji (talk) 01:06, 28 January 2013 (EST)

That still does not satisfy me. What would you do about T. Stebbins/Odyssey/Odyssey Music/Mortimer/...? Kannipan chose (V)·∀·(V) for a reason. Code Slasher (talk) 16:05, 30 January 2013 (EST)

Would you prefer to write her entries this way? (V)·∀·(V) (Kanipan.) and かにぱん (Kanipan.) depending on what the song's press release says. And as for this other person, how about Odyssey (T. Stebbins) and Mortimer (T. Stebbins).--Sbluen (talk) 12:13, 1 February 2013 (EST)
I suppose a redirect would work. Just please don't change the styled names to something that they aren't on the songs' pages. Code Slasher (talk) 13:39, 4 February 2013 (EST)
I'm sorry, but I'm still not quite convinced that any change is necessary. Perhaps you can give an additional reason? --Sbluen (talk) 03:55, 10 February 2013 (UTC)

Touhou Wiki Projects

I've started a Wiki Project sort of plan with one or two people in the IRC chat. Right now we're working on Touhou Wiki:Project Characters, so leave your thoughts here or join us in IRC to talk about it! We're using the Characters project as a test run to see what we can do. Most of this came from Bulbapedia's way of doing it. ― Darkslime 16:03, 8 February 2013 (UTC)

So, Projects have come to Touhou Wiki? I would suggest one for the official music, although it seems like most of the pages covering the official music have been completed. Code Slasher (talk) 20:10, 9 February 2013 (UTC)
I disagree with that. The only thing the official cd's have are tracklists. I think it needs some more, deeper information. For example, a concept or something. For Trojan Green Asteroid some stuff could be written about all that Torifune stuff. ☢ Quwanti 22:57, 9 February 2013 (UTC)
Wait, I'm confused. I was talking about music pages like Touhou Hisoutensoku/Music‎. Code Slasher (talk) 02:39, 10 February 2013 (UTC)

Theme of the Wiki

Hey everyone, I know some of us in IRC have talked about this in the past, but I think the wiki is long overdue for a bit of sprucing up. I'm not talking anything major - just a nice background and header would do. I figured I'd get some opinions, since I'm no designer, and the more I think about it the more I have no idea what to do! So I'd like to open this discussion again. ― Darkslime 18:29, 8 February 2013 (UTC)

I think something red-white as main colours could work. Of course, the red shouldn't be too present. The background could be small yin-yang orbs or something? I'm not a designer either but I will try to work something out.
EDIT: Something like this. Of course, colours could change 'n stuff. And then made by an actual designer. ☢ Quwanti 01:18, 9 February 2013 (UTC)
I think medium-sized watermarked yin-yangs on the background would look okay. Maybe some sort of colour scheme? Can't really tell until we see it. I don't have any ideas for a header. - Kiefmaster99 (talk) 03:26, 9 February 2013 (UTC)
This wiki needs "sprucing up"? Not in my opinion. We already added some things to the main page. I would hate to see this wiki go much further than that. It would ruin the professionalism in my opinion. For example, Bulbapedia is pushing it. Code Slasher (talk) 20:10, 9 February 2013 (UTC)
My example would be the Kingdom Hearts wiki. They personalized it a lot, but still has a professional look, imo. ☢ Quwanti 23:00, 9 February 2013 (UTC)
While I agree that some things to the main page were added, my idea of sprucing up would not fall under the same kind of stylistic additions as the fairies. I'm aiming for keeping a relatively consistent style. Compare to the addition of lightly coloured headers/backgrounds. - Kiefmaster99 (talk) 23:55, 9 February 2013 (UTC)
Also with this remake, I was wondering if the pictures I commissioned from the artist abstractcatus aka makku would be any interest to the community. I know Leo was working on some as well. They can be found on here and come complete with favicons. ♥★♦ (talk) 01:29, 10 February 2013 (UTC)
Whatever other language wikis decide for themselves, Russian wiki is pretty OK with its current logo. --Coyc (talk) 04:07, 10 February 2013 (UTC)

I could possibly agree to new logos (I think we do not own our current logo's source, if I remember correctly) and favicons, but not necessarily new main color schemes, and do not even get me started on backgrounds. If we are going to use the logos from that Dropbox... makes me wish that the German Wiki's new logo was our new logo, lol. (What >.> <.<? I like Aya.) Code Slasher (talk) 02:39, 10 February 2013 (UTC)

Spoilers in articles

So much to talk about today! I wanted to talk about spoilers in articles. I'm of the opinion that, at this point, if it's not something regarding Hopeless Masquerade or *maybe* the ending to Oriental Sacred Place, it shouldn't be using the spoiler tags. The articles look horrible with them in there. I understand that a lot of them detail what happens in the endings in the games, but some of these games are a decade old. I think it's time to fix this. ― Darkslime 18:57, 8 February 2013 (UTC)

I'm also of the opinion that spoilers need to go, though mostly because a wiki is supposed to be a place to look up information. For example, in character page articles, anybody wanting to look up relationships, whether for producing fanworks or debating, is likely to want to know the whole jist about it anyways, including endings. The information is under subheadings anyways, so obviously you also don't look up the story/plot if you don't want to be spoiled by it.
As DS also noted, many of the details are also very old. Most people already know for example, that the Hakurei Shrine gets torn down twice in SWR. I would be in favour of removing spoilers up to material less than 1 year old. - Kiefmaster99 (talk) 04:46, 9 February 2013 (UTC)
Sorry to be condescending again, but maybe we should keep some of these spoiler tags, especially ones that do not contain essential information for other games. Think about it: what if a person wants to look up general information about a character before they start playing the game that they get introduced in? Code Slasher (talk) 20:10, 9 February 2013 (UTC)
I counter that you're already spoiling yourself by looking up the characters in the first place. For example, at the time of TD's demo release, both Yuyuko's appearance as stage 1 boss and Kogasa's reappearance as stage 3 midboss could be considered spoiler material. Forums don't seem to dispute this. On Miko's article, information on Byakuren's true intent could be considered spoilers too. Neither are spoilered on the wiki itself. What kind of information are you suggesting is important enough that warrants spoilers?
In all seriousness, anyone who doesn't want to spoil him or herself shouldn't be actively searching up information in the first place. - Kiefmaster99 (talk) 00:00, 10 February 2013 (UTC)
I am referring to looking up general statistics. One spoiler that maybe should not be spoiled could be as follows: "Byakuren liked Marisa's direct personality, and in thanks for Marisa's help in breaking the seal, instructed Minamitsu Murasa to take Marisa to and from Makai whenever Marisa wanted." Code Slasher (talk) 02:47, 10 February 2013 (UTC)