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FORUM MOVE WHEN?
Well that meme is dead, but a new question has taken it's place now - "CRTs when?"
The answer is, yet again, "SOON" (I'm kidding).
To put it simply, we need to get 2 important sitewide revision projects out of the way in order for our staff members to be able to fully focus on the flood of upcoming CRTs. We are not allowing the CRTs in conjunction with these projects because it can easily turn chaotic and both the projects and CRTs will suffer as a result. It's much more efficient to focus on one important thing at a time. That way the CRTs can have undivided attention later and go much more quickly.
The 2 important sitewide revision projects are:
1. Updating the old vs thread links on profile pages so that they redirect to the new forum.
2. Replacing the links to illegal scanlation sites on profile pages.
For the second project, we had received a list of pages with illegal links from a SOAP member. And while the forum move was happening during the last few days, Abstractions already handled a considerable portion of that work and updated most of the pages with a little help from myself. However, the SOAP member might send a new list of more such pages in the near future, so we will handle this properly after we finish the first project.
For the first project, we need to convert the internal thread links (hosted on the wiki) to external links so that they redirect to the threads that are hosted on our new forum now. The main goal is to edit the links in such a way that they can be converted from [[Thread:3449493|Zero]] to [https://vsbattles.com/vsbattles/3449493 Zero].
a) I went through all the character pages with my bot and updated part of the links in the following manner (this is an intermediate edit):
vsbattles.fandom.com
As you can see, I replaced "[Thread:" with "https://vsbattles.com/vsbattles/"
b) The remaining part that needs to be done is to manually edit those links in the following manner (this is the completed edit):
vsbattles.fandom.com
As you can see, all that's left to do now is to replace a | with a <space> and remove an extra ].
c) Please keep in mind that the bot can sometimes miss some of the edits but such cases are very rare and they can easily be handled manually too. So you have to keep an eye out for them and convert the entire link:
vsbattles.fandom.com
d) There are total of around 2400 pages to go through and you can find the list of these pages in AKMdroid's contributions on October 2 here:
vsbattles.fandom.com
Abstractions has already volunteered to handle 500 pages (or more if need be) and has already started to work on the above contributions page. We need more volunteers for this project so that it can be over quickly and people can start making CRTs again. The more volunteers we get, lesser will be the workload on them, and we can finish this quickly. Once we get enough volunteers, I will divide the workload between them. They will be assigned a certain section from a certain page of contributions (the first and last profile on their list that they will need to edit will be mentioned). Help from Content Moderators and Administrators is much needed since a lot of these pages are probably locked, other users are obviously also allowed to volunteer.
Volunteers (can edit locked pages): Abstractions, Andytrenom, Ultima Reality, Starter Pack, Jvando, Skalt711, Shadowbokunohero, DontTalkDT, Amelia Lonelyheart, Dargoo Faust
Volunteers (cannot edit locked pages): Sir Ovens, Zaratthustra, Colonel Krukov, Ovy7, DarkGrath, Mariogoods, ThisThingIsReallyBroken, YuriAkuto, Duedate8898, Psychomaster35
People who have completed their quota of pages:
Abstractions, Colonel Krukov, Ovy7, Ultima Reality, Psychomaster35, Shadowbokunohero, Starter Pack, Duedate8898, Zaratthustra, ThisThigisReallyBroken, DarkGrath, Sir Ovens, Dargoo Faust, Mariogoods, YuriAkuto, DontTalkDT, Andytrenom,
Well that meme is dead, but a new question has taken it's place now - "CRTs when?"
The answer is, yet again, "SOON" (I'm kidding).
To put it simply, we need to get 2 important sitewide revision projects out of the way in order for our staff members to be able to fully focus on the flood of upcoming CRTs. We are not allowing the CRTs in conjunction with these projects because it can easily turn chaotic and both the projects and CRTs will suffer as a result. It's much more efficient to focus on one important thing at a time. That way the CRTs can have undivided attention later and go much more quickly.
The 2 important sitewide revision projects are:
1. Updating the old vs thread links on profile pages so that they redirect to the new forum.
2. Replacing the links to illegal scanlation sites on profile pages.
For the second project, we had received a list of pages with illegal links from a SOAP member. And while the forum move was happening during the last few days, Abstractions already handled a considerable portion of that work and updated most of the pages with a little help from myself. However, the SOAP member might send a new list of more such pages in the near future, so we will handle this properly after we finish the first project.
For the first project, we need to convert the internal thread links (hosted on the wiki) to external links so that they redirect to the threads that are hosted on our new forum now. The main goal is to edit the links in such a way that they can be converted from [[Thread:3449493|Zero]] to [https://vsbattles.com/vsbattles/3449493 Zero].
a) I went through all the character pages with my bot and updated part of the links in the following manner (this is an intermediate edit):
Error | VS Battles Wiki | Fandom
vsbattles.fandom.com
As you can see, I replaced "[Thread:" with "https://vsbattles.com/vsbattles/"
b) The remaining part that needs to be done is to manually edit those links in the following manner (this is the completed edit):
Error | VS Battles Wiki | Fandom
vsbattles.fandom.com
As you can see, all that's left to do now is to replace a | with a <space> and remove an extra ].
c) Please keep in mind that the bot can sometimes miss some of the edits but such cases are very rare and they can easily be handled manually too. So you have to keep an eye out for them and convert the entire link:
Xue Ying
Xue Ying is the protagonist of the Chinese Xuanhuan Novel Lord Xue Ying. He was once a young lord in Tranquil Sun Province, who was only 8 years old when his parents were taken from him and imprisoned by those in a higher power, thus marking him to want to become a Transcendent Knight to save...
vsbattles.fandom.com
d) There are total of around 2400 pages to go through and you can find the list of these pages in AKMdroid's contributions on October 2 here:
User contributions for AKMdroid | VS Battles Wiki | Fandom
vsbattles.fandom.com
Abstractions has already volunteered to handle 500 pages (or more if need be) and has already started to work on the above contributions page. We need more volunteers for this project so that it can be over quickly and people can start making CRTs again. The more volunteers we get, lesser will be the workload on them, and we can finish this quickly. Once we get enough volunteers, I will divide the workload between them. They will be assigned a certain section from a certain page of contributions (the first and last profile on their list that they will need to edit will be mentioned). Help from Content Moderators and Administrators is much needed since a lot of these pages are probably locked, other users are obviously also allowed to volunteer.
Volunteers (can edit locked pages): Abstractions, Andytrenom, Ultima Reality, Starter Pack, Jvando, Skalt711, Shadowbokunohero, DontTalkDT, Amelia Lonelyheart, Dargoo Faust
Volunteers (cannot edit locked pages): Sir Ovens, Zaratthustra, Colonel Krukov, Ovy7, DarkGrath, Mariogoods, ThisThingIsReallyBroken, YuriAkuto, Duedate8898, Psychomaster35
People who have completed their quota of pages:
Abstractions, Colonel Krukov, Ovy7, Ultima Reality, Psychomaster35, Shadowbokunohero, Starter Pack, Duedate8898, Zaratthustra, ThisThigisReallyBroken, DarkGrath, Sir Ovens, Dargoo Faust, Mariogoods, YuriAkuto, DontTalkDT, Andytrenom,
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