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So it's been a while, but it's probably time to clean up the Series Assignment for the Wiki. It seems like people have dropped off, disappeared, or never started in the first place. Maybe it's because people are busy with school, but it's probably time to ask for new writer's again.

Also, next month will celebrate the wiki being about a year old. Hurray for us.

In celebration, let's create a bunch of Wiki related threads

Basic wiki editing thread Just listing several useful code stuff for editing the wiki

Useful templates thread For the more advanced editor. Kind of delves into programming?

Questions about wiki editing thread Ask your questions here. Might as well keep all this in one place, like a FAQ

I'm also looking for someone to upload my image archive to the wiki. It's not that hard, just time consuming since I want the pictures properly tagged. What I like to do is have two upload links open in tabs and I would just bounce between the two, hitting backspace to go back so that I don't have to enter the Category tag again.

If you're interested in doing this for me, send me an e-mail, write me a PM, or answer in this thread here.

If you want to apply to be a writer for specific series, please post in this thread:

Series Assignment for the Wiki.

Megaupload Stuff

Hey, does anyone want to try adding our files to the new Megaupload incarnation?

https://mega.co.nz/

When you've done that, put the link in the Submit Links forum. And let us know how it's working out for you somewhere. Feedback forum?

Images on Wiki Stuff

By the way, it'd be really great if we had more people adding pictures to our wiki. I know the new Requeset Account feature seems really dumb, so feel free to make up stuff for the part where it asks for your real name. For the biography section, just write down something to prove you're not a spam bot. (I think it requires a lot of words so feel free to copy and paste it a few times)

Remember a wiki is made by a community. Not just one, two, or three people!

http://wiki.tvnihon.com/wiki/Special:RequestAccount

If you need help, e-mail me or ask a question on the forums 

Take a look and see what we've got going so far. Wiki Image Galleries

(Note, you can always edit the text without logging in. So if you see a fix, you should mistake it.)

RSS Feeds / Tracker Stuff

Thank Q, because we've got RSS feeds again for the tracker:

http://tracker.tvnihon.com/rssinfo.php

Let us know if it's working okay.

Capture Stuff

We just replaced our tuner. Hopefully this week we'll be able to capture the video as it airs. I'm sure I don't need to tell you how hard it is to do this work if we're tripping up the very first step in the process.

http://wiki.tvnihon.com/wiki/GranSazer_Gallery

So the new wiki server can support image uploading. That's been a feature that I've wanted for a long time.

Not sure what the user permissions is currently, but people who have the right to upload should have a link on their left menu bar (Alt+Shift+U also works). Looks like there's an error when trying to edit currently, but hopefully that'll sort itself out.

I created a thread to discuss policies and potential issues that this new function brings up:

http://forums.tvnihon.com/viewtopic.php?f=202&t=12040

As usual, we can always use some good writers and editors for our wiki. Content creation is pretty easy, just write about what you're interested in.

The Monster Hunter wiki has a good beginner's guide.

If you want to goof around and try stuff, please do it on our sandbox page. Just hit edit and try it out.

See what people are currently editing with the Recent Changes page.

Fill out our Show pages or our People pages.

Something that I'd really like is if people who are watching our old series filled in information about those episodes. If you don't see an individual page for the episode, just create it and an editor will come by and fix it if it needs adjusting. Wiki's have a robust backup system so it's pretty easy to undo most errors and vandalism.

http://wiki.tvnihon.com/

• Fourze 31
• Fourze 32
• Mega 32
• Mega 33
• Mega 34
• Mega 35
• Zyu 20

So yesterdayish I said that there was a major dip in Shinkenger episode 44. Someone on the forums pointed out that kids tend to be visiting temples on New Year's weekend. So I looked at the numbers for other series, and yup, series that air an episode on that weekend tended to be really low. (That probably explains why they skip broadcasting on those days or tend to make those episodes throwaway ones.)

That's what I love about finding out new stuff like that. One new fact can totally change how you perceive something. I genuinely think that the more you know, the more closer you come to seeing the world for how it really is.

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So have a picture of Optimus Prime with a billion guns across his chest.

So I've been adding the viewer numbers to the chronology category for the different series. Sometimes, an interesting thing is revealed. But in practical terms, it mostly means being disappointed in Japanese children.

Now before I get into this, I feel like it's important to remind people that a higher viewership doesn't mean that the show is better. All it really means is that for that time slot, this many people watched this show compared to other shows occurring at the same time.

(There's a summary of the viewer numbers at the bottom showing average, highest viewed episode, and lowest viewed episode)

• Goseiger had more viewers than Gokaiger. Bizarre right? 5.4% average for Goseiger while Gokaiger had just 5%.
• Shinkenger's lowest episode was 44, the one where they had that awesome reveal. What? Kids don't know from good, clearly.
• W's lowest episode was the second part of the two parter, after that long winter break with the movie inbetween. Just because you do a two-parter, doesn't mean people will tune in to see how it turns out, apparently.

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Now working to display actor's past roles as invisible text on the wiki.

Try highlighting the space past the red arrow after Nao's name in this link:

http://www.wolfinspace.com/wiki/Kamen_Rider_Fourze_21#Guest_Stars

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So our list is a bit better. There's roles and stuff, names are bolded to make them easier to see, and people with the same birth dates are grouped together to see who share birthdays.

And I see that it's Kitagawa Keiko's birthday, who's now 26. Happy birthday!

But our list isn't complete, so if you have a favorite actor or actress, do add him or her to the list! http://www.wolfinspace.com/wiki/Calendar_of_Birthdays

Food comes up, and not everyone can know every Japanese food that's out there. So here's this as a quick dictionary for foods that show up:

http://www.wolfinspace.com/wiki/List_of_Japanese_Foods

Definitely not a complete list, so please continue adding to it as you think of things.

Seriously who goes to a Wiki not looking to be Spoiled.
The entire point of a Wiki is to have all the info about said shows.

Trying not spoil people on a wiki is kinda retarded.

To answer that well-thought out bit of criticism... We're not trying to not have spoilers on the wiki. Yes, it would be retarded to have no spoilers on a wiki.

What I meant was trying to organize the information so that people didn't unintentionally spoil themselves on content. To use a silly example, someone reading the article on Dr. Jekyll may not know that it turns out that he's Mr. Hyde. As creators of a wiki, it is within our power to organize the information so that major plot reveals aren't just blatantly out there.

Caring about not spoiling someone is simply respecting that person's values. Maybe it's not something that you care about, but this kind of stuff isn't for you? It's important as an adult to respect the values of people besides your own, after all.

Categories are Useful.

So I didn't know much about the Category sections for Wiki until I started working on ours. Apparently the concept is pretty similar to the way our blog posts are tagged. It's just a way of organizing similar topics in the same place.

Used practically, that means if you find a subject you're interested in, you can look at the bottom of the wiki page and find the Categories that it belongs to. Of course, Link hopping always works too.

For example, here's our Fourze category:

http://www.wolfinspace.com/wiki/Category:Kamen_Rider_Fourze

You can see all the pages tagged as being part of the Kamen Rider Fourze category here. Generally the code for this would be {{category: Kamen Rider Fourze}} somewhere on the page.

You might notice that the episodes aren't filed alphabetically. That's because those pages are tagged {category: Kamen Rider Fourze|31}}. The 31 can be anything else, but basically that means that page will get filed under 31 instead of whatever that page is named. Since most pages aren't numbers, it seemed like a good policy to implement, that way all the episode numbers are at the front of the category.

This link is in the side bar, but here's a list of our current Categories:

http://www.wolfinspace.com/wiki/Special:Categories

About Spoilers.

By the way, I was looking at this wiki article and liked the way they tagged their spoiler sections:

http://catherinethegame.wikia.com/wiki/Erica_Anderson

I'd be okay with just lifting that template and using it to mark spoilers on our wiki.

http://www.wolfinspace.com/wiki/Sentai_Ranger_Chart

So I turned the names of the Rangers' into links. Unfortunately, the links don't go anywhere!

We could definitely use some people going through and writing up profiles for those characters. The chart's a bit ugly at the moment, we'll probably need to add color overrides at some point as well. But right now it's really easy to see which characters have pages and which don't.

http://www.wolfinspace.com/wiki/Toei_English_Mistakes

Don't get me wrong, I'm just doing this for fun and because it's an interesting thing to note. Anyway, add them if you think of any.

Edit: Oh hey, I spelled "about" wrong initially. Now that's ironic!

So I've been thinking that it'd be really good if we handed out assignments. People like work, right?

But seriously, it'll take a lot of people to fill in the gaps in our wiki. If you're a smart dude and good at the writing thingy, please join up and help out!

List of series here

Oh yeah, and here's the wiki link for Mega 27. It's kind of sparse since I just created it just now:

http://www.wolfinspace.com/wiki/MegaRanger_Episode_27

Pages will tend to be more thorough when created while I'm translating them or going over the QC for an episode.

If you happen to be rewatching an episode, please do help and fill in the blanks. I don't have the time to rewatch old stuff, but if you're rewatching it for the fun, why not take a moment and fill in the basic info or trivia parts.

So progress is being made on the T-N Wiki, but there's still a lot of work to be done. So far, the majority of the work on it is being done by the current fansubbing staff. A lot of people have expressed interest, but I'm not seeing a lot of actual writing being done.

So here are some other positions that I'd like to find and fill:

It'd be really good if we had an editor who goes through the pages and makes sure things are consistent, accurate, and well-written. If we're going to present this to people, the writing needs to be flawless. Plus, it would be nice if the formatting was the same from page to page. Let me know if this is something that you think you have an interest in doing.

Some content that I think would be good for the wiki:

-Music lyrics

-A catalogue of merchandise per series. Like information about the toys and stuff

-DVD releases

Also, what kind of content would people want to see on our wiki? If you have ideas for this, please msg or e-mail me to let me know.

Are you a writer? Can you make with the info and the intelligent writing and good grammar and nice lady? If so, send me a PM or an e-mail and let's build the TN Wiki together.

So... any Oreimo parody covers starring Youko yet? I can totally see it working with either Hiromu or Ryuuji. Anyone want to make one?