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Welcome to the Moegirlpedia discussion board!

You can speak freely!

But don't use it as an excuse to attack other people.

Others, like us, are not perfect.

Please respect other people's comments.

Thank you for your cooperation.

Note on potential site closure

As you guys might have heard, Chinese Moegirlpedia users are debating over a new Term of Use. As a part of the debate, this English Moegirlpedia (along with the Japanese site) may de closed and its data deleted.

To be fair, English Moegirlpedia might not be touched at all -- it has little influence, and the new Term of Use might not have such a big impact on it. The sad reality is, this site might be spared simply by being forgotten. But for those of us that cares deeply about our creations, this risk can be too great.

I recommend everyone to backup their contributions locally in preparation for the worst.

I will be pinging editors who made edits in the recent 90 days here: @Ktmsobs,Yumeto,Twilight200703,Pumpkin 233,HUELIJAH,全职法师骨灰级粉丝,Dahesor,Wujx3433,Ravenclaw OIer,Deldim,SeerElijah,C0perf1eld.

Hope to see you guys through this little storm!

Cheers and thoughts for EnMoe. --GYARI! GYARI! GYARI! ONE-SIX is no longer "公的驱逐舰"! Talk·Recent Edits 21:46, 21 December 2019 (CST)

Done--Ktmsobs (talk) 05:37, 8 January 2020 (CST)

English Moegirlpedia Backup Plan

Hello, fellow editors.

As we all know, the English version of moegirlpedia may face site closure.

As an attempt to preserve all articles on it, I have created a github repository: [1].

This repository will act as a backup for the English version, and if the site do close, we will have a chance to, say, build another one on another server, or simply use github as the main site.

I am pinging those enlisted in recent actions here: @Emuskbird, @Littlefatorange, @Solidgreen02, @Twilight200703, @Yumeto, @公的驱逐舰, @幸福宝贝, @胡祥又, @花生仔, @AnnAngela --蒟蒻 OIer Ravenclaw_OIer (talk) 21:10, 10 February 2020 (CST)

A Translating Group

I am pretty new to EnMGP, but I found that if we could form a translating QQ group, the items would be transated faster. --RedstoneDave 02:37, 15 February 2020 (CST)

@红石小蝈 There is indeed a semi-official QQ group. The Group ID is 650556408. -- Frank-san (Leave a message)02:22, 16 May 2020 (CDT)

About Template:NeedsTranslating and Template:Waiting for Translation

I think these two templates are very much duplicates in their function... Should we ditch the latter?--GYARI! GYARI! GYARI! ONE-SIX is no longer "公的驱逐舰"! Talk·Recent Edits 16:23, 16 February 2020 (CST)

How about redirecting Template:Waiting for Translation to Template:NeedsTranslating? KONNO Yumeto 21:55, 21 February 2020 (CST)

Kind of what I mean by ditching it. So yeah, (＋)Agree. --GYARI! GYARI! GYARI! ONE-SIX is no longer "公的驱逐舰"! Talk·Recent Edits 17:24, 22 February 2020 (CST)

(＋)Agree--RedstoneDave 23:17, 28 February 2020 (CST)

Petition for archiving threads

As they are too old to do any good, I petition for archiving all threads on this page that have no new messages after 1 January 2020; if this petition pass, this thread should be archived too.

As we have no clear policy on archiving nor active patrols or SysOps, I figure that an unanimous support from active editors can do the trick.

--GYARI! GYARI! GYARI! ONE-SIX is no longer "公的驱逐舰"! Talk·Recent Edits 17:30, 22 February 2020 (CST)

(＋)Agree -----CarryYe 插了句话（讨论） 19:06, 22 February 2020 (CST)

No one else objecting? --COVID be gone! One-Six A.K.A."公的驱逐舰" Talk·Recent Edits 22:22, 6 March 2020 (CST)

@红石小蝈 Please archive (cut-paste) all threads that have no responses later than 1 January 2020 to /Archive/Before_2020. We can probably start manually archiving every three months or six months from now on. --COVID be gone! One-Six A.K.A."公的驱逐舰" Talk·Recent Edits COVID be gone! One-Six A.K.A."公的驱逐舰" Talk·Recent Edits 17:19, 15 May 2020 (CDT)

(＋)Support Is anyone doing this? -- Frank-san (Leave a message) 07:35, 16 May 2020 (UTC)

Notice: About User Group in En/Ja MoegirlPedia

En/Ja MoegirlPedia has been maintaining the same user group in Zh MoegirlPedia temporarily,which means that you are seen as a partoller, sysop or bureaucrat in En/Ja if you are partoller, sysop or bureaucrat in Zh, and vice versa.

But we suggest you use the discussion board in En/Ja MGP to apply for your rights if you edit there more.--wikibridgegirl(☯heaven's gate) 12:58, 29 February 2020 (CST)

Let me rephrase this.

"English and Japanese Moegirlpedia will be maintaining the same user group status as Chinese Moegirlpedia for now.

"This means that if you are a patroller, sysop, or bureaucrat in EnMGP or JaMGP, you will also be a patroller, sysop, or bureaucrat (and thus maintain the same user group status and rights) in ZhMGP; and vice versa (ZhMGP patrollers are also EnMGP patrollers, etc.)

"But we suggest that you use your local discussion boards to apply for these user group rights if you edit more on these locals. (So, use this board to apply for, say, patroller if you edit mostly in EnMGP. )"

--金萌桥姬, ZhMGP Sysop

Also, the same sysop noted that this "auto user group link", one may call, may be broken later. --GYARI! GYARI! GYARI! ONE-SIX is no longer "公的驱逐舰"! Talk·Recent Edits 23:17, 28 February 2020 (CST)

OH NO, Dave already fixed it--GYARI! GYARI! GYARI! ONE-SIX is no longer "公的驱逐舰"! Talk·Recent Edits 23:17, 28 February 2020 (CST)

About zh:黑化

I was translating something when I met this word. I don't know how to translate it into English and I even don't know whether there's a corresponding expression in English or not. Could anyone help me? --RedstoneDave 19:58, 2 March 2020 (CST)

The only word came into my mind is "dark-sided". Probably we need to look up in the great dictionary (or to create a new cuter word).(--_△AKQ/Not an equilibrium（Talk） 08:11, 31 March 2020 (CDT)

Notice of change of account

Let it be known that on this fifth day of March, 2020, in order to make it easier for everyone here to type my name and to voluntarily separate EnMGP and ZhMGP activities and privileges, User:公的驱逐舰 hereby switches his primary account operated on English Moegirlpedia from the aforementioned to User:One-Six.

You can expect immediate cessation of activities on EnMGP from User:公的驱逐舰.

Because it is easier that way, User:One-Six will continue to edit subpages of User:公的驱逐舰.

--COVID be gone! One-six is technically "公的驱逐舰"... Talk·Recent Edits 13:58, 5 March 2020 (CST)

Can confirm.--COVID be gone! One-Six A.K.A."公的驱逐舰" Talk·Recent Edits 13:58, 5 March 2020 (CST)

Petition for enacting policy

I hereby petition for the enactment of User:公的驱逐舰/Provisional_Policy/User_group_policy. This is a translated and adapted excerpt from the original Chinese Moegirlpedia policy to be used to govern the actions, responsibilities, applications, and removals of authorities and Good Editor status in English Moegirlpedia, necessary at this time as the user group rights are still linked between ZhMGP and EnMGP. If adopted, this policy draft should be moved to Project:Provisional user group policy and protected.

I hope for unanimous consensus from the current community.

--COVID be gone! One-Six A.K.A."公的驱逐舰" Talk·Recent Edits 22:22, 6 March 2020 (CST)

(＋)Support,I looked the policy,and I belive that have a rule is necessary.---Carryye(Meeting) 23:13, 6 March 2020 (CST)

(＋)Support, but I do think "Aye" and "Nay" is kinda informal for a serious discussion situation tho… -- Frank-san (Leave a message) 07:33, 16 May 2020 (UTC)

Should we prevent non-confirmed users from adding any external links?

It appears that most spam accounts are one-time use accounts that add auto-generated "bio" and a link to whatever external site they are spamming about to their user page; occasionally they create new pages that is just word vomit and (again) link to external site.

Preventing non-confirmed users from adding any external links should curtail these spams.

中文
看起来，大部分spam账户都只用一次；它们只在自己的用户页张贴一段自动生成的“自我介绍”和一个spam链接。偶尔它们会创建新页面；内容通常是一堆无太多意义的字词和（同样地）外部链接。 阻止非确认用户添加任何外部链接应该可以减少这类spam账户的破坏。

CC: @金萌桥姬@Momo bly dblk --COVID be gone! One-Six A.K.A."公的驱逐舰" Talk·Recent Edits 01:31, 9 March 2020 (CDT)

Approved.--wikibridgegirl(☯Heaven's gate) 03:03, 9 March 2020 (CDT)

About "Surname-Given Name" or "Given Name-Surname"

As the title, Japanese characters like Misaka Mikoto are written as Mikoto Misaka in MGP, and that's a little wierd.

So shall we discuss about it?

Some possible ways (Using Hatsune Miku as example):

1. Hatsune Miku
2. Miku Hatsune
3. HATSUNE Miku
4. HATSUNE MIKU

--RedstoneDave 06:06, 18 March 2020 (CDT)

@红石小蝈 I personally Prefer "Familyname Givenname" for Japanese names (follow convention of the original language). Some Japanese characters use "Givenname Familyname" to follow English naming traditions; I think we can make them redirects, save for the rare circumstance that you have the equivalent of "White Steven" and "Steven White" both existing. I believe no one make name all caps unless they came all caps.

This is why we kinda need a Manual of Style, man. --COVID be gone! One-Six A.K.A."公的驱逐舰" Talk·Recent Edits 17:11, 15 May 2020 (CDT)

(＋)Agree I would prefer "Hatsune Miku" or "Luo Tianyi" and redirect the rest. I also support the idea of a manual; it's absolutely necessary when it comes to things like this. There are so many things lacking in EnMGP… -- Frank-san (Leave a message) 07:31, 16 May 2020 (UTC)

What's wrong with the Edit???

When I open the Edit, it shows me a wrong info:

Error loading data from server: apierror-visualeditor-docserver-http: HTTP 406. Would you like to retry?

What should I do???--悠远的苍穹 (Talk with me!) 04:11, 31 March 2020 (CDT)

Oh, use the "Edit source", the virtual edit is not avalible @850710247liu--From a patroller named RedstoneDave 06:38, 3 April 2020 (CDT)

Visual Editor appears to be fixed now. --COVID be gone! One-Six A.K.A."公的驱逐舰" Talk·Recent Edits 17:06, 15 May 2020 (CDT)

Is there something wrong?

@玄微子

Is there something wrong with Moegirlpedia?

I have not been able to access all the pages (including the Mainpage) of the Chinese encyclopedia since this morning.

At present, I can only open the Moegirlsaikou Foundation official website, English Moegirlpedia and Japanese Moegirlpedia.

I opened the review elements, the findings suggest that such a mistake "Mainpage: 1 Failed to load the resource: the server responded with a status of 503 ()". It looks like the server is overloaded .

I tried to restart my computer, but it didn't work to change my browser, so I'm here to ask for your help.

(my English is not very good, I used the machine translation on the Internet......)

I hope Moegirlpedia still in operation...

Some pictures

I did my best to submit this editor successfully.

In solitude, where we are least alone.----御坂如是说编辑于 20:13, 12 April 2020 (CDT)

In fact,it's worse now,I can not visit English Moegirlpedia and Japanese Moegirlpedia now.Now I try to use some unusual ways to submit it...

I also try to use WeChat Official Account,but no one resrespond.

Some pictures

In solitude, where we are least alone.----御坂如是说编辑于 20:20, 12 April 2020 (CDT)

@御坂如是说 errrrrrrrrrrrrrr, It is robot translated... Anyway, it was a bug, and the bug was fixed (You can join the official QQ group to ask for further information, or ask me since I'm more active here XD)--From a patroller named RedstoneDave 17:51, 13 April 2020 (CDT)

Request to Merge Template:Quoted from other wikis and Template:FromOther

I created Template:Quoted from other wikis yesterday, copying from the Chinese Moegirlpedia. However I have just found out about Template:FromOther today. Comparing the content of both templates I realised that there are some slight differences, not only in the wording but also in the content. I'm not sure which one to keep, so I'm posting here to see what everybody thinks about this.-- Frank-san (Leave a message) 08:19, 15 May 2020 (CDT)

@Leranjun Notice that we already had Template:From_other_wiki. I will recommend merging those two since their parameters are the same (you can even move the document page, like, right now: your doc is much better than the older one); but I will very much like to see migration to Template:FromOther eventually. There is still transclusion; can you fix those? --COVID be gone! One-Six A.K.A."公的驱逐舰" Talk·Recent Edits 17:05, 15 May 2020 (CDT)

@One-Six Thanks for the notice. I have already merged the Template:From other wiki and Template:Quoted from other wikis. However, I noticed that there are slight differences in terms of the usage of the templates, so I'd like to ask whether or not it is possible to see all pages that included the template and change them. Thanks again.-- Frank-san (Leave a message) 00:07, 16 May 2020 (CDT)

Request to Delete Template:Quoted from other wikis

As seen in the previous discussion, these two templates have been merged, so it's unnecessary to keep Template:Quoted from other wikis anymore. -- Frank-san (Leave a message) 07:24, 16 May 2020 (UTC)

Signature time zone was set to UTC now due to a bug.

Hi girls and guys,

we found a bug that preventing timezone settings in user Special:Preferences to take effect. Therefore all users' signature time become CDT as localtimezone were set to US central time before. We now change that settings to UTC0. We are not sure why user timezone settings were not taking effect, and trying to fix that.

ijou -- Baskice(talk) 07:32, 16 May 2020 (UTC)