Just a general reminder to everyone here to please follow the format of the wiki. This wiki does not follow the format of wikipedia and the format we use instead is based off of that of Generasia. If you do edit in Wikipedia formatting, it’s going to result in a lot more clean up and work for me and the other admins in the long run. At this point changing the format is of the wiki as a whole is not feasible due to the amount of pages here. Please let me know if you have any questions or clarifications needed.
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Not exactly, when creating a new page, it would bring the notice up in the top right hand corner of the editor and when you clicked one of the buttons, it would open a new tab containing the template selected but with the new page name. The 2010 source editor still has it built in although it's built above the editor.
@Spongebob456 The only thing that was used was the MediaWiki:Newarticletext page that D4rkWzd linked. It allowed it to appear as a notification in the editing tool bar that you could just click on one of the links of at that point. I don't have any screenshots of it though.
I use the 2017 source editor and the only real “issue” I have is that it’s no longer possible to use the pre made templates anymore for loading pages. In the older iteration of this editor, it appeared as a notification and I can’t find it any longer. It does still appear in the 2010 source mode editor but I’m not as big of fan of using that version.
Its definitely not end of the world as I can just copy and paste the template itself but it a lot less convenient.
I realized I didn’t put a closing date on this but since it’s been a week, this is now closed. The admin team will discuss the candidates and I will let you all know when we’ve come to a decision.
The amount of pages and edits per day has been rapidly increasing over the past few years. While that’s wonderful for increasing knowledge of Japan’s music, it has also meant that there’s a lot more going on here. Therefore we are currently searching for some additional admins to join our admin line-up.
Before I get into the details of that, I would first like to announce a promotion. Loa Maria has now been promoted to secondary Bureaucrat. She has contributed a lot here already and I am looking forward to working more closely with her on more back end projects.
Now onto the eligibility:
Minimum of 500 edits.
Started editing on or before January 1, 2023.
Has a good understanding of the editing format, categorization, and how to use templates.
No blocks or problematic behavior on record
Now for the application form:
User name/preferred nickname:
Do you understand the editing format we use here, including categories and templates (it’s okay if you don’t know everything, but please list what you are and aren’t comfortable with here)
Why do you want to be an admin?
Any special skills that you have that could be helpful with editing wikis?
Is there anything you want to change or improve on the wiki?(optional)
Hello everyone!
I meant to post this a lot sooner but got delayed due to personal issues on my end. Some of you may have already noticed this but there has been a few changes on the wiki.
For a while now, I've been focusing on creating a better set of rules for this wiki because the way they are right now was just spread out across too many different tabs. There was also no consistent layout guidelines other than to look at other pages.
For the most part things will not have changed, the admins have come to a decision about a few things that I will list here.
The main thing is that we wanted to change the Template:CD Infobox over to the name Release Infobox instead since it encompasses a lot more than just a CD nowadays.
The other thing is about page naming conventions. For a while now, it's pretty much just been whatever works but we want more consistency and also to make it easier for it to be clear what the page you're looking for:
If there is another page with the same title, you’ll want to add something to the name so that you can create a page.
For a person page, if they are part of a group you'll want to add the name and parenthesis after it specifying the group that they are in. (i.e. AYA (QUEENS)). This is so that it's easier to identify the page you are visiting without having to visit multiple pages. This does however mean that if someone changes groups or stage names that all categories associated with a person will also need to be renamed.
For release pages, add the name of the artist after the name in parenthesis. (i.e. Again (YUI)). For self-titled releases, add the type of release after the name in parenthesis. (i.e. ≠ME (Digital Single)). This can also be used for different releases with the same name by the same artist.
Another thing to note is that this page titling thing will take a long time to fully implement but we thought it would be clearer and more useful in the long run. For Release Infobox, you can use that right away as the bot has already gone through and fixed all of it.
You can read the new guidelines in full detail by following the links below:
If anyone has any additional questions about these rules or if something doesn't make the most sense, please let me know and I can try to explain better.
(Edited by administrators)
I don't really listen to much cutesy stuff nowadays so I probably won’t have the most up to date recommendations but I’d recommend checking out Country Girls and Tsubaki Factory they’re both Hello! Project groups. I don’t really listen to Arc Jewel groups but they all seem to have cutesy images from when I’ve edited their pages.
Meltia is another group you may like. they disbanded years ago and only had one release unfortunately.
Paradises (a sub group of GANG PARADE) will fit these requirements as well.
As for kawaii metal groups, I’d recommend DESURABBITS. They feel very similar to Babymetal in terms of sound and they have some good releases. They were active for a long time with the same lineup and improved a lot over the years. REIRIE is a new group made up of former ladybaby members, I’m not too sure what sound they’re doing though.
I’m not sure if you’d like necronomidol as they’re a metal group but a lot of fans of Babymetal and ladybaby like that group and they tour abroad a lot so it might be something worth looking into.
I’d also recommend checking out the Girl Groups category, idol groups, and orthodox idols because there are a lot of groups on here and groups I’ve encountered over the years and I don’t want to make this reply even longer.
https://jpop.fandom.com/wiki/Category:Girl_Groups?so=search
https://jpop.fandom.com/wiki/Category:Idol_Groups
https://jpop.fandom.com/wiki/Category:Orthodox_Idols?so=search
10 years ago today, I founded this wiki. Thanks to everyone for editing and contributing to this site over the years. It is thanks to this wiki that I've discovered some cool new artists and I hope its been the same way for other users. There are still many things I want to expand and improve on for this wiki such as adding more older artists and expanding the bands covered here.
Welcome to the Wiki! We'll be sure to reach out if we need anything.
Just to let you all know, following a discussion a few days ago, I've updated the Media section of the rules. Basically we will be requiring that all images uploaded have {{Fairuse}} be included in the image description when uploading (or manually added afterwards to the File: page). This is something to protect images from being taken down by copyright holders. It is something that could happen and we're lucky to have happen yet as fixing things would be even more work than is already going into this.
This is also something I should've been enforcing more over the years with everyone but for the most part I've been mostly slack on for a variety of reasons. That being said, this is something important to do and I will keep an eye on things to make sure that the {{Fairuse}} template is being added.
Past images don't need to be worried about as they're being updated accordingly with a bot. If anyone has any issues with how to do this, please let me know. I will also be adding images on how do this to the Media section tomorrow as well.
(Edited by ElpisGalaxy)
We don't take editing requests as users prefer to focus on editing artists they like or know of. You can either make the page yourself (and check out editing guidelines) or add it to the pages to Create list where it will eventually get added.
That is a good rule to have. The problem is, with the UCP update that license drop down window doesn’t exist anymore when you upload images from the article window itself. You can add it by typing the fairuse template in the description box but that’s not really too obvious unless you know how templates work and the fact that the template exists. I’m wondering if it’s possible to use a bot to add to all pages that start with the File: name space but I’m not too sure at the moment especially since videos also fall under that category as well.
I did not listen to them or follow them but after reading the article, I'm not surprised they're disbanding. I got their wiki page updated with the info though so thank you.
I updated some things for you. The Toshiki page looked pretty good I needed to change a few things but it's not a big deal as they're a lot easier to change with source editor than visual editor. I also updated the group's page as a whole and added new releases + images. I'll see if I get around to doing the other things but I don't want to make any guarantees.
As you can see on the screenshot, we don't cover actor groups as this wiki is focused on music. There is some Seiyuu related content on here but that's really only because they have involvement in music and the wiki focuses specifically on that. If NAKED BOYZ does have some musical involvement, than I can restore the page and the information can be added.
The admin team has been discussing whether or not we should start using the Embed Video feature to display videos on release pages. Ultimately we've decided not to go ahead with that for the time being. While it is easy to add a video that way, it doesn't always look the best depending on how its displayed on a page. Also there's just a lot of videos on this site and doing it this way wouldn't allow us to categorize them anymore and there would be thousands of pages to update with the new method.
Welcome and I hope you enjoy contributing to the wiki. I haven't heard of any of those groups either but there's a lot of groups out there.
I have too many favorites at this point. But I’ve pretty consistently listened to MIGMA SHELTER for the past 4 years and Kosaka Riyu for the past 12 years or so. Otherwise I’m pretty all over the map artist and genrewise.
I have been following the fandom desktop progress on the Community central wiki and I'm looking forward to seeing what happens. The changes look largely good. Having the fandom navigation bar being on the left side is going to take some getting used to, especially for the User Profile button.
I'm mainly concerned about bugs, when the wiki was moved over to UCP, there were a lot of bugs and new things to get used to with editing.
With FandomMobile, the main issue with that is that the Spotify Template we use to display audio on release pages no longer appears and I'm hoping a similar thing doesn't happen with fandom desktop.