User:Revriley

During this time, I am staying in a place that does not have Internet access. I will try to check in with this and other wikis I admin when I do have such access (like now, as I type this from a store's café); of course, I can work on wiki articles offline when I can, thanks to buying the e-books, but please understand that I will not be able to read or respond to messages when at 'home.
 * June 19–July 06, 2023 Availability

Oh, gosh! The advent of an anime for Dead Mount Death Play has caused such an upsurge in traffic for that wiki (which I founded, but know it isn't set in the Naritaverse) is upon us. I am going to be very busy with the DMDP Wiki going forward, since that has the airing anime and people are all agog and discovering it as such.
 * DMDP Distractibility

I'd really like to set up 2022 Baccano! Manga chapter articles. I've machine translated some of it on my own, but I definitely need second opinions. (What I really need, Yen Press, if you're listening, is someone who can translate it so I can give that someone money.)

In other words, please continue to contribute any way you can.


 * Wiki Sustainability

In order to ensure the Baccano! Wiki has a sustainable future, such that anyone could inherit the archives without difficulty and that the archive's materials are preserved, I must devise a digital strategy for its care. Tasks to whit:


 * Standards (Guidelines) of care: Write policy that standardizes references and files. File policy ought to favor file formats conducive to digital preservation, though FANDOM MediaWiki may limit what is possible. Digital-born images (e.g. images from official Twitter accounts or websites) should ideally contain links to source and archived equivalent in their summaries.
 * Projects: Sketch out project plan for having a majority of articles supported with citations by xyz time; sketch out project for updating existing filenames and rectifying resulting redirects.
 * Revise existing out-of-date Manual of Style.
 * Inventory: Concomitant with above, assess the condition and preservability of existing digital assets (images & other files) while locating 'orphans'.
 * Per categories below, consider a more robust system for denoting inadequate articles beyond the existing simplistic tickets.
 * Categorization and pseudo-metadata: Confirm that each category has a description; look into using categories as limited substitute metadata indexes (e.g. categories that index images featuring a specific character).
 * Documentation:' Flesh out documentation for CSS, JS, and Templates.
 * Web accessibility: Add alt-text (and file summaries) to images. Double-check acceptable color contrast levels between background and text colors.
 * Web design: Continue to transition wiki elements to Light & Dark Theme CSS schemes as necessary; codify 'signature' (recognizable) visual elements.
 * Side note: Bring back old "BACCANO!" Wordmark? Perhaps someday the wiki will have its own custom wordmark—or, 'logo', as the rebranded FANDOM likes to call it.
 * Navigation: Handcraft a local sitemap for user benefit.
 * Navigation: Handcraft a local sitemap for user benefit. Inform anonymous users of what FANDOM makes inaccessible to them sans accounts (File pages most conspicuously).
 * Wiki archiving / backups: Carry out recurring backups of the wiki database; strive to archive significant articles via Wayback Machine, Archive.is, etc.
 * Social Media: the Baccano! Wiki's socials (email account & Twitter account) must be easily passed to or shared between future administrators.

Note to self: The above list can be refined and 'formally shared' via a preliminary blog post (c.f. 'staff blog posts' at Community Central) in advance of project plan mock-ups / policy publishing / etc. Gauge user feedback and interest via transparency.


 * Old Introduction / Profile

Hi. For those of you who have noticed me around the wiki... Well, I'm a huge fan of Baccano!, obviously, and I talk about it on agallimaufryofoddments. A lot. Like most western fans, I was introduced to the series via the anime, but then I read the light novels (years before the YP license) and Baccano! and the Naritaverse have occupied my brain ever since. My Baccano! collection has grown ever since as well, for that matter.

As of January 10, 2016 I was elevated to admin/bureaucrat status by Farewellfire (Publicdomain). I appreciate the gesture and hope to continue contributing to this wiki with detailed and useful edits.

As of April 24, 2017 (give or take a day) I became a moderator of r/Baccano (Old Reddit link) over on Reddit.

My Fatal Flaw, Wiki-Wise: Too much detail! No admin or editor is perfect, and I have a bad habit of including minutiae and writing play-by-plays when adding content to articles. Chronology sections, I'm afraid, are my most common victims.

This habit was particularly severe back in my nascent editing days; when tackling article stubs with little information to speak of, I suspect I overcompensated by adding "all the information." So, if you encounter contributions of mine you believe are overlong and want to make more succinct—please, by all means do so. I assure you I will not take offense. All details in moderation, as they say.

Favorite Baccano! characters, you ask? I hate ranking favorites, but if you pressed me for a top three I might say Maiza, Elmer, and Keith. I want to emphasize that I love the entire cast, some others that I'm especially fond of include: Nile, Upham, Angelo, The Poet, Tick Jefferson, Begg, Esperanza C. Boroñal, Victor Talbot, Carla, Ronny Schiatto, Nick, Elean... No, I'm sorry, I'll end up listing them all at this rate.

Priority/To-do List
Edit: When I first started editing, one of my main priorities was to create missing articles that desperately needed to exist. It was necessary work, but it also came at the expense of the existing popular articles that were/are in dire need of rewrites and additional content. While I have naturally worked and will continue to work on 'upgrading' existing articles' quality, please understand that the work is slow-going and will continue to be slow without other editors who edit intensively.


 * To-do (to be revamped, maybe)


 * Revamp popular character pages (e.g. write chronologies, personalities, etc) URGENT
 * Create pages for characters/locations/organizations that don't have them MID-HIGH
 * So many light novel chapters still lack pages, and those that do more often than not don't have anything substantial in them MID-LOW
 * Rename articles to reflect official translations AS NEEDED
 * Add NavBox to chapters; get rid of all image files where F.T. text is visible
 * Upgrade stub articles to actual articles MID-HIGH


 * Fix typos/grammar/spelling/poor sentence structure & stiltedness of older character articles ALWAYS
 * Fix my own contributions wherein I went into entirely too much and often too minute detail. (And when I continue to do it...)


 * IMAGES: Properly categorize/index all images on the wiki - come up with naming standard? - replace low res with high res WISHFUL THINKING
 * Actually I went and categorized the existing 2015 manga images under "2015 Manga Images"
 * Also: eventually ensure that all light novel images are uploaded to wiki CONCURRENT W/LN CHAPTERS
 * Also: track down and deal with duplicate images
 * Continue adding quotes to the Random Quote Template NEAT BUT INFO TAKES PRIORITY
 * Continue adding alt. images to character infoboxes NEAT BUT INFO TAKES PRIORITY
 * Forum promotion TRICKY
 * Reference/Citation System SLOWLY BUT SURELY
 * Devise and implement wiki policies ...AT SOME POINT

Completed from Above

 * Create pages for remaining 2015 manga chapters that need them COMPLETE
 * Write summaries for remaining chapters COMPLETE
 * Add images for remaining chapters... Not actually complete, but not high priority
 * Rewrite summaries of the 2007 anime episodes COMPLETE
 * Have rewritten all 16 summaries, currently in middle of uploading screenshots, reorganizing diff sections, adding previews. DONE but still worth going back to revise/tweak pages
 * Related; need to do something about cast lists on Baccano! (2007 Anime) page.
 * Replace Light novel cover Images with high quality versions. COMPLETED EXISTING ONES
 * 2006 manga covers too. COMPLETED