User:Chao

I write templates, do translations, and help out where I can.

10th Anniversary!

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  BlazBlue Anniversary

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  Day of Iron, Day of Movies

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  Twin's Day

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  Christmas

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  New Year's Eve

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  New Year's Day

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  Day of Color (a pun)

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  Day to perform Kagami biraki

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  Half-Collar Day

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  Valentine's Day

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  Cat Day

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  Leap Day

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  Hinamatsuri

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  White Day

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  White Day

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  April Fool's

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Project Progress

Completed | In Progress | In Backlog | On Hold | Not Started (needs further conversation/consideration)

High priority:

• Blue Radio (newest season)
• Character Quotes (BBCF material collection)
• Command Lists (BBTAG, backlog)
• Concept Art notes
• Locations/stages (BBTAG)
• Birthdays (current)
• BBTAG updates
• BBDW updates, BlazBlue Walker
• Dark Theme (Cathedral)
• Birthdays (backlog)
• What's wrong with mobile? (Minerva dark theme)
• Challenge Mode Combos
• Arcade Mode Transcripts

Low(er) priority:

• Merchandise (trying to stay up to date)
• Collaborations

Backburner:

• Events (i.e. tournaments, live events, concerts)
• BlazBlue Mobile (it's defunct so this is more for trivia purposes)

General Organization, Missing Pages, etc

Pages: None

Templates: Character Tabs, Quote, Character Navigation, Gallery Navigation, Gameplay Navigation, Infobox Location, Audio

Categories: Terms and Setting

Planned:

• Character subpages
  • Biography
    • Move biographies to a subpage
    • Alternate timelines in tabbers (ie Tsubaki - main, CT1, TWoF)?
  • Quotes
    • "/Quotes" (top page) contains notable (story) quotes, in-character Blue Radio lines, and tabs to navigate its subpages?
    • Subpages for each game (ie "/Quotes/BBCF"): (A & B) battle lines, winquotes, unique encounters, system voice
  • Command Lists
    • Command Lists for each game (BBCT, BBCS, BBCP, BBCF, BBTAG)
    • Includes tutorials/how to play/playstyle descriptions
  • BBDW
    • for BBDW-specific things (in-game profile(s), alters, weird lore, timeline shenanigans, stats, skills, etc.)
    • General Structure: all information on BBDW/Units/Bullet with sections to be transcluded on Bullet/BBDW?
    • When more information comes out, create a BBDW infobox. Example skeleton: Unit info, stats, skills, strategy, other versions, references, navigation.
• Collaborations masterpage
• Locations/stages infobox

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Content

QC pages

Add 10th anniversary images (bday images)

Characters' challenge mode combos

Pages & Categories

Write pages for missing Locations, Stages, Media (ie BlazBlue Mobile)

Organization & Presentation

Offer BlazBlue-related themes/skins (dark version esp) -> Minerva Noire

How to make it easier to navigate BlazBlue wiki by redoing the main page?

Character Subpages

Command List subpage (includes "How to play/Tutorial")

Write a custom template for character subpage tabs.

Gallery - needs a rehaul for sprites and keeping story spoilers more hidden

BBDW (for in-game profile(s), alters, weird lore, alternate timeline shenanigans)

Collaborations Masterpage

(since one for each collab would be overkill, especially with ancient/dead/hard to datamine ones), refer to (Media from Collaborations?)

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Translations

Status: On Schedule

Pages: Blue Manga, BlazBlue Walker, backlogged birthday illustrations, concept art notes

Templates: Blue Manga Navigation, BlazBlue Walker Navigation

Categories: Blue Manga, BlazBlue Walker

Merchandise, Events

Status: In Backlog

Pages: Merchandise

Templates: Merchandise Tabs, Merchandise Navigation, Merchandise Item

Categories: Media of Merchandise, Media from Events

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News and Events

News updates/translations?

Events?

Merchandise

Move items from Merchandise masterpage to separate subpages

Write initial Tabs and Navigation templates for the collection of merchandise subpages.

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Master Page

(1)  mixed info: Events, Merchandise, Announcements, Tournaments (Comiket, Arc Revo, Blue Radio, new game announcements)

Merchandise

(1)  Music albums get their own page, since music is important to BlazBlue as a franchise.
(2)  DVDs e.g. for Blue Radio R/R2 and Music Concerts get their own page
(3)  Do other merchandise get individual pages? Or are they just lumped into a "merchandise" master page?
     * (ie) BlazBlue Sets @ Comiket, individual items @ broccoli online shop?
     * what about items sold in multiple places? (ie Es Works)
-> They get split by type (ref Category:Media of Merchandise)

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Blue Radio

Status: In Backlog

Pages: Blue Radio

Templates: Blue Radio Episode

Categories: Blue Radio

Coordinate watching Blue Radio.
Track:
(1) corners & descriptions, which corners appear in which episodes
(2) official cut-in art
(4) notes on: in-character skits, new product details, any development or production details, fun (BB-related) corners, or go by intuition.

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To Do

Description of each corner - track which corners show up in which episodes

Place the logo on the side?

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Master Gallery

Status: Stable

Pages: Gallery Pages

Templates: Master Gallery, Gallery Section

Categories: Media Categories

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2018
Jan 19	Add "Collaborations" section, move LOV Re:2, LOVIII, Mabinogi Duel, and Unlimited VS under "Collaborations."

2017
Dec 28	Add "Animations" subsections for each game (for openings, endings, and any other cinematic sequences)
Dec 15	Renamed "Special Artwork" to "Guest Artwork," and split its contents between itself and the new Staff Extras subsection/category. Also added an Icons subsection.
Dec 10	Added collaboration subsections (LOVIII, LOVRe:2, Mabinogi Duel)
Dec 02	Cleaned up animation section, added a separate VIDEOS section that can be manually added to with the video parameter.
Nov 27	Initial release

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Code

Change the Gallery Section template to sort Main Artwork by date. -> only mainline games (CT/CS/CP/CF/TAG) have Main Artwork, so this isn't a problem)

Add support for video embeds (add a Videos section and a video parameter)

Image tags

"Lobby Avatar" -> Category:Lobby Avatars

"Normal Pose" -> Category:Portraits

"Swimsuit Pose" -> Category:Portraits

"Young Pose" -> Category:Portraits

"Crest" -> Category:Crests

didn't know where to put Embryo so just left it tagged "Crests", no character tags

"Chibi" -> Category:Chibi

"Chibi.png" -> Category:Chibi

"Special" -> Category:Special Artwork

"Sprite Reference" -> Category:Palette References

Mai needs captions

"Avatar" -> Category:Portraits as necessary

"Sticker" -> Category:Stickers (XBlaze, BlazBlue Blue Radio, BlazBlue)

"Wallpaper" -> Category:Wallpapers

"Birthday" -> Category:Birthday Art

"Storyboard" -> Category:Storyboards

"Concept" -> Category:Early Designs

"Model Sheet" -> Category:Model Sheets

Category:Relius Clover -> go add Category:Ignis to the relevant ones.

Category:Rachel Alucard -> go add Category:Gii and Category:Nago to the relevant ones.

BlazBlue Central Fiction

BlazBlue Calamity Trigger

BlazBlue Chrono Phantasma

Clone Phantasma

XXX "Arcade" -> Category:Arcade Mode tag w/ characters & locations

XXX "Story" -> Category:Story tag w/ characters & locations

"BlazBlue Central Fiction Story Mode"

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Messing Around

Interviews

Example table of important information related to interviews that might help someone find what they're looking for (or aid them in browsing interviews).

Date	Title	Featured Staff
2017 12 31	AppBank 2017 Year-End Creator Survey Vol. 2	Toshimichi Mori, Masaomi Kikuchi
2018 02 12	ARC Live! EP2 - Q&A w/ Daisuke & Mori	Daisuke Ishiwatari, Toshimichi Mori
2018 03 14	ARC Live! EP6: Q&A w/ Arc System Works President, Minoru Kidooka!	Minoru Kidooka
2018 04 20	Blazblue: Central Fiction Official Setting Material Collection Producer Toshimichi Mori Special Interview	Toshimichi Mori
2018 06 06	Dengeki Online For BlazBlue's 10-year anniversary, Mori-P and Kana Ueda take a look back. New 'Dark War' info as well!?	Toshimichi Mori, Ueda Kana
2018 06 06

• PROPOSITION: Interviews be subpages of their source page i.e. Dengeki Online/Interview Name Here
  • PRO: You can immediately see what sources produced which interviews
  • PRO: Each source can have its own description page.
  • CON: Stubs for sources that only produce a few interviews or are largely irrelevant
  • CON: Page names won't be intuitive: "Dengeki Online Interviews" would be more accurate
  • Example navigation: Category:Interviews > Dengeki Online Interviews > scan table for date, staff member, title > hover link for page preview & description
    • Could be messy if searching across sources for an interview at a certain date (will need to open multiple pages - Weekly Famitsu, Famitsu.com, Dengeki Online, Dengeki PlayStation, Kotaku, Gematsu, etc)
  • ALTERNATIVE: not having interviews be subpages (add the title as the first word in the article name - AppBank 2017 Survey, Dengeki Online BB 10th Event)
    • PRO: Interviews will be automatically split by source via alphabetical sorting on category pages
    • CON: Alphabetical sorting might be undesirable sometimes (e.g. if you want to keep Weekly Famitsu and Famitsu.com articles grouped together). The alternative would be a less intuitive naming convention e.g. "Famitsu Weekly" and "Famitsu.com"
  • ALTERNATIVE: Adding source as a category and omitting it from the title
    • PRO: Categories can be used with more complex MediaWiki features (eg #ask parser function).
    • CON: leaves organization on the category page wanting. Forces one to browse by the relatively meaningless category of source
• PROPOSITION: Adding date (or year) in the title of the article
  • PRO: Interviews will be automatically sorted by year/date via alphabetical sorting on category pages
  • CON: can bloat the title with relatively meaningless information (aside from sorting it's not valuable information)
• PROPOSITION: Archive older articles in subcategories split by year (Category:Interviews > Category:2017 Interviews, with 2018 interviews under Category:Interviews until 2019 rolls over)
  • Example navigation: Category:Interviews > if looking for an older interview, go to the subcategory of interview by year (e.g. Category:2016 Interviews); else scan the list of interviews from the current year.

BBDW Information Organization

Potential proposal for the BBDW/Guides page to feature links to all relevant Dark War information in one compact location. Aim to consolidate information into concise masterpages whenever possible, and avoid nesting pages.

Everything is based on speculation due to the current lack of concrete information about BBDW (as of Jun 11, 2018).

Gameplay
System - HUD, controls, gameplay & translated in-game gameplay tutorials (combat, leveling, upgrading)
Modes? - description and guides to different modes of play (if there are multiple) e.g. (singleplayer) Story Mode (just leave a "Main article: BBDW/Guides/Story Mode" redirect here), PvP, Co-op, Infinite Dungeons, Boss Raids, etc.
Characters (Unit List) - compacted table for comparisons, clicking name links to character's BBDW subpage, one row per character for easy comparisons and scanning should be an overview of all Dark War characters (one character per row). Icon | Name | Type | other useful comparative information | etc Name links to the character's individual /BBDW page. Character BBDW subpages (e.g. Tsubaki Yayoi/BBDW) should have a way to neatly display information (via a template) about multiple units for the same character. If possible, vital information (name, rank, stats, skills, skill icons, skill descriptions, other useful information) should also be stored as Properties so that the BBDW/Characters page can be automatically updated. For each unit, information should include unit name, stats, skills, upgrade/leveling information, main image/sprites/videos, costumes, gallery, links to any unique short stories. (dialogue goes under <character>/Quotes)
Gacha - Introduce what a gacha is and how BBDW's gachas work briefly (as well as different types of gachas in BBDW, if any). Have a section on currencies (Crystallized Azure, Gacha Tickets) Have a section on rates Have a list of past banners with details on the rate-up or new units. Structure for compactly displaying information about each banner name Banner image duration Information - an optional section detailing special currencies or item bundles specific to the banner Details - Rate-Up/Limited Units/New Additions The gacha list could potentially get very long (too long) and make the page difficult to load. Possibly have the gacha list on a different page, and leave a redirect ("Main article: See List of BBDW Gacha Banners").
Story - A guide and masterpage for the gameplay required to clear missions/quests/nodes/main story If main stories and sidestories have dependencies, use a table or list to relate Main Story and Side Story sections. If they're specific to nodes on a (unique) map rather than to main story progression, list the Main Story nodes and Side Story nodes on the same page. Individual story pages should be for the whole chapter at once, or for as large a category as possible (e.g. "Character-Specific Short Stories" with sub-sections, instead of individual pages for each character) name, location, icon, list of mobs, drop items, clear reward, and a *link* to story translation (see Translations section below for details).
Events - a masterpage including information about time-limited events, that explains event types and has a list of past events. Individual Event Page Structure Event banner and images, event duration, and official event description Introduction - schedule, news, reruns, updates, changes, alternate versions Details - Guide to playing the event (event maps, event rewards, event bosses, etc.) Story - links to the page with the translation for the event's story
Items - a table or other organized list of items Link to other pages if further details need to be recorded (ie BlazBlue Alternative: Dark War/Guides/System#Leveling Units, Platinum dollars, or BlazBlue Alternative: Dark War/Guides/Gacha#Crystallized Azure, event pages, story mode guide)
Updates/Version changelog???? - A very brief overview of changes presented in major patches (ones presenting new chapters, gameplay modes, or other huge changes; not events, gacha, or maintenance notices). ref Patches (Mabinogi wiki)

Story
These feature unofficial translations of short stories published through BlazBlue Alternative: Dark War. Proposal: Name them by chapter name like the Alter Memory episode pages (to reduce nesting). Categorize them as "BlazBlue Alternative: Dark War Short Stories," nested under Short Stories? Add a Dark War spoiler tag above them Have a disambiguation that redirects users to the chapter's gameplay guide (e.g. "For help with completing the quest associated with this short story in BlazBlue Alternative: Dark War, see BlazBlue Alternative: Dark War/Guides/Story")
Prologue: one emerging possibility
Main Story Chapter 1: the outbreak of... Chapter 2 etc.
Side Stories
Event Stories Each event gets at most one page for translations, if any. Remakes and added sequences are added onto existing pages whenever possible.
Character Stories

Useful References

Pages

• Nox Nyctores
• 13th Hierarchical City of Kagutsuchi

Categories

• Media (types of BlazBlue media, i.e. anime and games)
• Gallery Pages
• Character Categories
• Media Categories (categories for images and other files)
  • by Character
  • by Location
  • Media from Collaborations
  • Media of Merchandise
  • -> Media from Events

External Links

• ASW news archive (12/2015 - now)
• ASW news archive (01/2008 - 11/2015)
• ASW blog archive (06/2010 - 09/2012)
• BB topics(2008 - now)