Darkoneko has officially begun to process of restructuring categories.
The structure he has decided to use is something like:
- Root
- Light Novels
- Light Novels (English)
- Light Novels (Francis)
- Light Novels (etc)
- Visual Novels
- Original Light Novels
- Authors
- Etc.
- Light Novels
Original Post below:
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This seems unrelated, but I wanted to get permission to make a generic Japanese Light Novel Category, that will contain the English Main Project Pages for practically all projects. I'd also like to organize the subcategories (hosted/stalled/complete/full projects) under these.
This may sound dumb/redundant, but there's actually a lot of power than can be gained from this:
- Correct me if I'm wrong, but it could make the lives of programmers using API who need to get a full project list much easier(?)
- The category page can be doubled as the Full Project Listing Page, since text can be entered above all the category lists (which will be sorted and categorized automatically anyways)
- Cloud's Motive:
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{{PAGESINCATEGORY:categoryname|all}}
However, in order for this to work, all of Main Project Pages need to be in a single category. IDK why we haven't done this before. Maybe people thought it was redundant? The stalled projects category could easily be classified as a subcategory, and the Magic Word code would still work. I'd also be able to pretty pretty statistics that are all built into Baka-Tsuki. <3
On a second note, cautr suggested a while ago that the Categories somehow be split into languages. It's a hassle to go to the Teasers Category, but also need to sift through the languages you don't read. Is this anyway possible? I was thinking something like:
- English
- Japanese Light Novels (English) --> subcategory
- Full LN Projects (English) --> subcategory
- Complete LN Projects (English)--> subcategory
- Active LN Projects (English)--> subcategory
- Stalled LN Projects (English)--> subcategory
- Teaser LN Projects (English) --> subcategory
- Abandoned LN Projects (English)--> subcategory
- Full LN Projects (English) --> subcategory
- Japanese Visual Novels (English) --> subcategory
- Japanese Light Novels (English) --> subcategory
- Francais
- Light Novels Japonais (Francais) --> subcategory
- Espanol
- etc...
Also, I was curious. Does Baka-Tsuki allow non-Japanese light novels? I remember seeing a message Junny posted on TLG's User Page a while ago about hosting the Korean light novels he does. Is there anything against... Korean or Chinese light novels?