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Categories/templates in Animanga and Translation?
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Hi folks! I've been tackling one small boulder in the mountain of fansub information not yet on the wiki, and I have a few questions about categories and templates.
Per a discussion on the Anime talk page, I asked on the Anime & Manga Fandom talk page why there were several anime series listed as subcategories on that page but no subcategories for non-series pages. Sparc and I discussed, and I moved the fandoms over to the Anime and/or Manga categories (depending on canon). Only then did we see the note at the bottom of the Anime & Manga Fandom page about moving series subcats to there. No one else has commented to help us understand the situation, so Sparc suggested I bring it here. My concerns:
An unrelated question: I'm trying to make an internal link to /a/, in case anyone gets brave enough to tackle 4chan-related info. However, I can't get the wiki to show the //. Any wiki gurus out there know the trick?
Thanks, guys!
Hi folks! I've been tackling one small boulder in the mountain of fansub information not yet on the wiki, and I have a few questions about categories and templates.
- There is a template for fansubbers/scanlators, labelled WIP. It currently has no subcategory attached. Can we give it one? And if so, is there a neutral term we could use, like "Fan Translators"? That way, we won't need a new template every time a new medium/genre/source country/language is added to the wiki.
- Should Anime Club pages use the Fan Club Template? Does anyone see anything present in/missing from that template that would make it not work with those?
- It'd be great to have a category for all the scanlation/fansub-related material besides groups (process, history, websites, terms, fan-created technology, etc.). There are at least 14 pages that fit this criteria, with many more waiting to be created.
- It might make sense to have a top-level "Fan Translation" category under "Fan Activities" that could be medium-, language-, and community-neutral.
- A "Fan Translators" subcat could be put here.
- It might make sense to have a top-level "Fan Translation" category under "Fan Activities" that could be medium-, language-, and community-neutral.
- There are thousands of animanga fandoms. Currently, 97 anime have their own pages and 33 have subcats, while manga are at 86/28, with overlap. I predict that as AO3 becomes more popular with anime & manga fans moving from ffnet, more will discover Fanlore, and those numbers will shoot up.
- If we do want those fandom subcats on the Anime & Manga Fandom page, I suggest they be put in a subcategory of their own to keep them from burying the material that has no other animanga home, like websites, glossary terms, conventions, etc.
- The Anime & Manga Fandom page should probably include links to the categories Doujin Fandom, Anime Music Video Fandom, Anime, and Manga. They don't have to be subcats - links at the top would be fine, I think?
- There should probably be additional subcategories created. If anyone wants to come sift through the links and offer opinions, that'd be awesome.
An unrelated question: I'm trying to make an internal link to /a/, in case anyone gets brave enough to tackle 4chan-related info. However, I can't get the wiki to show the //. Any wiki gurus out there know the trick?
Thanks, guys!