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Devil Doll
Posts: 656 Location: Germany |
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ANN uses small icons to flag the condition of an entry, such as and to indicate an error report resp. an endorsement.
I would like this particular icon to get a different color (purple/violet?) if this is an error that has been reported by the currently logged-in user themselves (for endorsements, darker green/olive?). This would allow a user to tell apart their own error flags from foreign ones without having to look up the creator of the flag. An alternative implementation would be to add the list of names of the error submitters to the tooltip text that currently reads "1 person reported an error with this" etc. This would require an additional mouse movement by the user but at least not sending an additional HTTP request to the server. |
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doc-watson42
Encyclopedia Editor
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I agree. I wold also like to be able to tell if the reported error is for a datum that the viewing user submitted themselves. |
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Devil Doll
Posts: 656 Location: Germany |
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I would prefer to find "your contributions that have been error-flagged by others" in my "all the contributions and error reports you made" report so that I don't have to scroll through dozens or even hundreds of anime to find them but could instead check regularly at one place whether there's something that I ought to deal with.
- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - On the page of a person at ANN their credits can (optionally) be displayed ordered by "the year" of the anime this credit refers to. Apparently the vintage year is what will be used for this sorting mechanism. In some situations this can give a very misleading impression. Example (from Chiemi HIRONAKA): Staff in: (1996) Case Closed (TV) : Animation Director , Key Animation (Studio Boomerang) (2001) Detective Conan: Conan vs Kid vs YAIBA (OAV) : In-Between Animation (2002) Detective Conan: 16 Suspects (OAV) : In-Between Animation (2006) D.Gray-man (TV) : Key Animation (2009) Before Green Gables (TV) : Key Animation (St. Boomerang; 6 episodes) At first sight this looks like she is more than one person - it would be strange for an Animation Director to drop down to the level of In-Between Animation five years later. The reason for this strange effect is that Case Closed TV is still ongoing in the year 2010 (after 14 years and 580 episodes known to ANN), so this is actually the most recent credit and not the earliest one. Had the first line begun with "(1996-2010+) Case Closed (TV)" (which could have been derived from the episode list that goes until July 2010 already, with the "+" indicating that this is an ongoing series) this effect would have been less confusing. This extended format should only be used when first and last year of the anime are different. The sorting order by the start year is fine - simply changing this to the year of the most recent release of the anime in question wouldn't improve anything (the "Case Closed" credit could have been an in-between activity from 1997, thus reversing the nature of the problem). - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - When contributing a company name from a kanji-only source the most frequent reason for not matching the kanji name already specified in the ANN company entry is that one of the two strings to be matched contains kanji separator characters ("ハル・フィルムメーカー") while the other string does not ("ハルフィルムメーカー"). It would be a significant improvement for the string matching logic to do two comparisons, one with the raw strings on both sides and the other with the strings stripped off their "・" characters. (I can imagine this to be difficult to implement if ANN does a simple SQL index access for this field - it might then require a separate static field for both variants - but as I don't know how the internal data structure actually works I thought it doesn't hurt to mention it at least.) The second most frequent reason for a company name not matching is both strings differing in the "studio" part ("St." vs. "スタジオ" vs. empty string) but this would probably be much more difficult to handle. One way of dealing with this effect would be to allow more than one kanji name for a company. (Wikipedia pages for animation companies often list a number of names under which a company is known but I can't remember having seen a company with more than five different notations of their name.) But this would probably mean a modification of the existing data structures and as such not be likely to happen real soon. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - One of the informations for the purpose of questioning the plausibility of a romanization of a kanji name (useful when dealing with split requests, duplicate persons etc.) might be the distribution of romanized names for a given kanji name in persons at ANN. Providing a specific tool for this would probably go too far; a more generally useful feature that could help in this field as well would be to enhance ANN's name search function to accept kanji names as input. For the time being I'm bypassing this by using ANN's Google search feature which covers more documents but provides less specific information (such as more than one hit for the same person or even suppressing some person pages as "similar" to others). |
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cranston
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Greetings,
First, let me apologise if I've stuck this topic in the wrong place. On topic: I wish to raise the possibility of including, as part of an anime description, a credit to the contributor who wrote the description. That is the say, at the end of a description, we include "written by xxx" or "translated by xxx" or something to that effect. This policy is currently in practice at other anime sites like ANfo and Adb. |
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P€|\||§_|\/|ast@
Posts: 3498 Location: IN your nightmares |
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A number of times I wished there was a way to get a voice sample for each seiyuu listed in the encyclopedia. Some cast website links provide sound clips but ones for older (activity, not agewise) VAs typically have nothing or return with 404 errors. I don't know of any central source that provides sound clips of VAs voices. How tough would this be to implement into ANNs encyclopedia? Users could simply add links, upload files and do QC to do the bulk of the work.
I wanted to hear sound clips of all the female seiyuu from Megazone 23 but linking on their websites and searching youtube for clips (other than songs) returned 0 results Basically I'm looking for a particular seiyuu. She's cast in both Megazone 23 and Vampire Princess Miyu (and I think City Hunter) and she sounds a little bit like Noriko Sakai (maybe). EDIT: found who I was looking for (Hiroko Kasahara), but this would've been much easier with a central sound clip source. |
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Trejon
Posts: 1 Location: Chile |
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hi there, the searching option for anime/mangas should allow you to exclude the want to "see/seen some/seen all/will not finish" anime/mangas that have been stored by the user alowing him to dont have the need to open an anime/manga while using the search option since while using it, dosnt show the small picture that shows if you have it in one of the 4 categories mentioned before, so the only way to dont lose time opening anime/mangas you have already seen its by having an extremely good memory
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Dessa
Posts: 4438 |
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I'm sure this has come up before, but what about entering certain video games as "not anime but related"? I'm thinking of two circumstances in which games would be allowed to be added:
1) There are multiple titles related to a series of games, but not directly related to each other. The HaruToki manga and anime titles are one example (discussed here), or the Rockman/Megaman franchise (a discussion on which came upon a forum search, sorry, don't have the link). This would be allowed when there are multiple titles that are adaptations of different games in a game series, where the titles cannot be linked to each other more than "related to", but the games are directly related. 2) The games are an integral part of the story. The only example I can think of here would be the .hack franchise, where the original games are a sequel of .hack//SIGN, .hack//LIMINALITY is a side-story to them, and .hack//UNISON is a sequel to both them and .hack//SIGN. And the .hack//GU games being side-story/sequel (yes, they're both) to .hack//ROOTS. And the upcoming new anime related to .hack//LINK. I'm not sure if this would make the Final Fantasy games eligible (as most of the encyclopedia titles are not related to each other, as well as all of the FF7 titles being integral to each other [ymmv]), but there would obviously have to be restrictions in place, so every game that has an anime adaptation (i.e. Xenosaga) or anime that's been adapted into a game (i.e. MKR, tons of others) doesn't get added. |
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malvarez1
Posts: 1628 |
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I second this. |
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Dessa
Posts: 4438 |
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Oh look... something involving trivia comes up, and Dessa's bringing up the disorganization of the trivia pages again (an editor never addressed my suggestion last time, but I'm trying to make it clearer).
To rehash my suggestion, instead of newly-submitted trivia simply being posted to the bottom, there should be a precision field (like when submitting staff roles), so that the trivia will be listed in episode order. This would do two things- 1) Reduce the number of duplicate trivia (especially in series with a long trivia page), because someone didn't see the previous-existing trivia. 2) Reduce the chances of someone who's only seen part of a series to be unintentionally spoiled when they want to make sure their trivia isn't already there. (Yes, this is more a personal preference thing, but you don't want contributors to be unhappy with the site, right?) To put examples from the above-linked title (the not-needing-fixed ones), a trivia page with precision could look something like this:
For things like the general series trivia at the top, the precision could be entered as *, the same as major anime roles, to be placed at the top. Then would come the episode trivia, and at the bottom would be trivia without any precision. The precision could either go before or after the trivia itself. Preferably, it would also be smaller font, to make it clear it's not part of the trivia itself. I believe users can add precision to entries that don't have any, so contributors could add in precision for trivia that doesn't currently have it, but newly added trivia could have the precision added when it's entered. |
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Errinundra
Moderator
Posts: 6516 Location: Melbourne, Oz |
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Could the series about Satoshi Kon this last week be linked to his entry in the Encyclopedia?
I just know I will want to look them up again some time in the future and it would be the logical way to find them. |
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Dan42
Chief Encyclopedist
Posts: 3780 Location: Montreal |
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I liked the suggestion the last time I read it, but it slipped my mind. This time I've tweaked the trivia list so that trivia are grouped by "in episode X". Updated the instructions as well. |
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Dessa
Posts: 4438 |
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Cool, thanks!
*goes to check out the tweaking* |
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Dessa
Posts: 4438 |
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Oh, that looks nice. In light of the new instructions, should we submit error reports for trivia that don't include the "episode #" format (for example "first episode," "episode five")? Also, does this work for chapters in manga?
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DerekTheRed
Posts: 3544 Location: ::Points to hand:: |
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Guess I have some trivia to edit.
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doc-watson42
Encyclopedia Editor
Posts: 1708 |
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I wish we cold edit our own submitted anime and manga—I keep finding new information or formating mistakes (mostly "AKA's") for those that I've entered, and it seems a little dishonest to endorse my own submissions.
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