Inside Comixpedia.org

It been a long time

2006-07-23T10:23:00.000-04:00

It been a long time since I lasted post.

We have some good news...

Comixpedia.org broke the 1,500 articles milestone some weeks ago and we are already on our way to 1,900 articles. So it may be a month or two until we hit 2,000 articles.

I still hope to reach 10,000 articles by the end of the year, but it look like I may not make it.

I Am Still Alive

2006-05-25T14:06:00.000-04:00

I am still alive and still editing comixpedia.org

For now, I am not as active as I used to be.

At least, I am still editing comixpedia.org

I still hope to have ten thousand entry for comixpedia.org.

Perhap we should try to reach 10,000 articles by the end of the year.

I am still alive and still editing comixpedia.org........

It that time again! Contribution crazy

2006-04-16T18:16:00.000-04:00

Well.....It been a long time since I contribute heavily.

I have my cycle of inactivity and activity.

This time, I am going to expand my effort to create new comixpedia.org article.

Except I can't contribute when both the wiki and the magazine is down. I may have to email Xerexes. He tend to be unreliable when it come to emails. But I guess I will have to sooner or later.

What been going on since my last post? Well...we are expanding at somewhat like 1-6 articles
per day and I am working on my software project called dynpet. My project's sourceforge.net page can be accessed at http://sourceforge.net/projects/dynpet

I havn't use their web hosting service yet. They may have some limitation like I can't host any ads. It not like I have to host their ads or my bandwith is limited. So it is a pretty good service for open source software project.

At the spur of the moment, I have an idea on creating bots and tools for comixpedia.org such as vandal fighters, bot who add tons of statistical information.

I am back!

2006-03-04T11:21:00.000-05:00

Well, time to end my wikibreak and contribute a hell lot more to comixpedia.org.

My goal is to break the 10,000 articles barrier!

Right now, we have 8719 articles to go through before we reach the 10,000 articles milestone.

Time to get cracking!

The goal is to expand contents of current articles and make new articles.

Discussion heating up

2006-02-06T20:34:00.000-05:00

There has been discussion about writing guideline and stuff. Visit the forum and search for Wikipedia Wikistyle, and discuss.

That is pretty much new.

Haru-Sari and Wikistatus report

2006-02-02T22:10:00.000-05:00

A comic got me hooked, seriously.

I like this and the exciting story it churning out. It ought to be good. Somehow I got the impression it is going to be a sad comic. That doesn't brother me, because I like sad story.

There are no comic that ever come close to making me cry is 9th Elsewhere...Man! I wish it update! IT WAS SO DAMN GOOD! Beside the point....

The comic Haru-Sari defintely got some wicked art. THAT PLUS PLUS!

BINGO BINGO!

I hit teh jackpot.

So here come the status report...

We now have 8751 articles left to go before we reach the ten thousand milestone. That is seven articles left when the last status report come out!

I hope to see some major editing in the near future.

Comixpedia.org and Webcomics What Sup

2006-01-30T22:42:00.000-05:00

Today is just another day in Comixpedia.org inactive period time. It usually followed after massive editing brawl which often adds up to 50-100 or even 200 edits in a day.

Of course, I remember days where we often reach almost to excatly 50 days for weeks on end. It when comixpedia.org is a much bigger prority. Right now, I must satisify my programming hobby.

The activity of blogging about comixpedia.org and the webcomic afd are long gone. It may spark up again however....when yet another famous webcomic was being deleted. The interest of comixpedia.org droped from talkative to mere silent support for the project.

Still, I hope to reach the ten thousand articles milestone by the end of the year and make it the year for the encyclopedia project.

Now...it time for webcomics!

Ah...a new killer comic with wicked art to check out. I certainly hope it hold and attract my interest when I read it. I don't know what it called but it is created by a guy with the nickname "Keiii".

I also catch up to my reading log which I neglect badly. As usual, the story progressing. Megatokyo however...have a new plot development. The comic still kept me guessing.

Wiki Status Report

2006-01-29T16:45:00.000-05:00

I havn't post in a while because of my bittorrent session which last the whole week.

However...there are interesting newbits in the community.

So here....

We now have 8758 articles to go before we reach the ten thousand milestone. That 26 articles less from the last time it was reported

Some massive edits including a creation of the image provisonal policy page has been done by nifboy. Meanwhile...the policy discussion for images has been stalled into a discussion messes of four thread long with me trying to get the image policy to the next step.

The Law of the Wiki Part 1

2006-01-21T23:26:00.000-05:00

A favorite observation of mine is is exhaustive information/writing quality exchange.

Basically if not unattended to......

The level of information contuine to increase but the writing quality suffered.

The more edits the better and worse one those two side.

For example, an article edited in a hundred time per hour today for just one time will be in worse writing quality but the information is exhaustive. Every damn details explained, it just lost in the terrible writing.

To intervene, people might have to rewrite the whole thing from stractch. Sometime...it just the other effect. Instead of getting better, they get much worse. Both the information quality and the writing quality just suffered hugely. This is because people are going around adding irrevelant facts like triva that do not fit anywhere but incoporated into the article in the wrong place.

That is the law of the wiki....Which can only be cleaned by doing a massive rewrite every once in a while.

Wikimport meant Clean up

2006-01-18T20:00:00.000-05:00

Well, I think it been two day ago since Nifboy done copying all the missing wikipedia comic over to comixpedia.org. About 80 of them I think, and serveral more updated with more infomation. So now we have to clean up the mess. Then we be back to regular if I got my lazy ass to do it over the weekend or someone take the job and do them before I get to it.

So we see growth spurt over two days ago. So we have 8784 left until we reach the ten thousand article milestone as of this writing. That mean 1216 articles.

We might not see another growth spurt on one of my weekend editing. Instead, I will be slaving away cleaning up Nifboy's wikimport articles.

At least comixpedia.org is still growing rapidly. Perhap it will grow to two thousand articles by the end of next month.

It is amazing to see how fast comixpedia.org grow in just a short time. We already have more than a thousand article in just five month. (That is September to January.)

Damned Sick

2006-01-15T22:19:00.000-05:00

Today is a bay day..

I feel damned sick and I havn't accomplish much in programming other than fixing some warning and errors. I must adimit that using the command line is a hell lot faster than using an IDE. The command line is not ancient tool. Although winblow's command prompt sucks ass.

In webcomics news, I managed to catch up on my reading. Today I was disappointed by filler cosplay on Sokora Refugees. However, I alway love the quanity and the quality that Inverloch able to crank out. I gottach get a new graphic novel to read. I perfer cyberpunk around here but there aren't much without super killer cyborb babes and misuse of the term "Hackers". Damn outlaws alway get the "Hackers" labled to them.

I am not really a big fan of gag a day comic either.

I perfer long story with cyborbs, computers, hackers and crackers, the internet, and some researches that go into the comics itself. Military fiction is a big plus for me anyway.

100 wikiedits again!

2006-01-14T18:38:00.000-05:00

Today, I just completed my goal of 100 edits. So far, we have 8859 articles to go to reach 10,000 articles milestone. I also deleted two page today. One is a page we don't need and the other is a copyright violation.

In other news, Xerexes is expermenting with images. So follow Xerexes' intruction on the main page and you be fine. However, it only allow authors to post image. So if you a fan, you're out of luck.

The discussion on images policy is still active. Again, we are still brainstorming on which idea is the best one. It spawn many ideas and variants.

The goal of 10,000 articles may seem too far fetch to some but for me, it can come true with all the hard work.

I am grateful for those who contribute to Comixpedia.org. Without them, comixpedia.org will be stragant and useless.

LET PARTY!

2006-01-11T23:24:00.000-05:00

The discussion on policy and other issue is moving again! YEAH!

In other news, software updates on comixpedia.org! YEAH!

LET SET THE COMIXPEDIA.ORG FORUM ON FIRE!

POST LIKE CRAZY!

Anyway, end of my super short pointless crazy rant.

100 edits yesterday

2006-01-09T21:33:00.000-05:00

Yesterday, I acheived a hundred edits. My effort add several new articles that desperately need expansion. 8874 more articles until we reach the 10,000 milestone. Depressing right now, but I am hoping for that one big bang that will make comixpedia.org explode in popluarity.

You Had Me And You Lost Me

2006-01-07T20:35:00.000-05:00

Red String.....is down for the count.

I begin to doubt if it good or not. Nor do I check it as often. I have gotten tired of the same damn "manga" styles. It is not as refreshing, orginal, or mindblowing story. It is basically happiness and teen agst.

My verdict: Red String is horrible and boring. It will go down as yet another pretty and uninteresting comic.

All the other comics I read have some little craziness in it. Red String on the hand is about your normal aveage girl with an aveage love life, romance angst, and boring plot that remsemble somewhat of an aveage boring romance manga. That how I sum it all up. Now, I didn't say I hate romance/relationship comics. I just want them to be different.

Here why the comics on my list get me.

Megatokyo absolutely pardoy anime, gamers, Japaneses, Americans sterotypes and have an entertaining cast to read about. Add to the bonus that they funny sometime. Their character is their strength.

Emerald Winter have a sad beginning and a little sad story with great art. I like sad story anyway.

Misfile, I will forgive them on their art. I may not think it funny, but it have one hell of a story.

Sokora Refugees may not woo me with their art or fanservices, but they do make it for with their craziness.

But Red String simply boring. Their only strong point is that they did their research. Sure, they look pretty, but I don't like their styles. They don't have common sense and at time, extremly predictable.

I say this again: this comic bored me to tear. Whatever the reason that I got attracted to the comic is lost to me. You may like it, but I just don't like it. Good bye.

Today is disapointing....

2006-01-04T20:31:00.000-05:00

Look like the encyclopedia project setted into stability. It a wikisad day for the project. This is not the only time the wiki edits are lowly.... In fact it been that way for a long time.

They will only get near to a hundred edits per day if they are edited by heavy-duty contributor like me......

I don't have a lot of time for the project. At least the encyclopedia project is somewhat cared for and maintained. The wiki is a like an sparwling organism that never die. They are healthly when it well maintained and their economy is thriving. When the economy suffered, the wiki goes into dispair and out of dates ness.

The status been here from day one and still is here today: It is healthy.

So it not that say of a day, but I want to see comixpedia.org grow and grow!

Wikiedit of the Day

2006-01-03T19:13:00.000-05:00

Today, Comixpedia.org see a little growth spurt in term of articles. As of this writing, we have 1090 articles in the encyclopedia. That mean we have 8910 thousands articles left to reach the ten thousands article milestone.

I probably creates at least ten percent of total articles but I don't know how many articles I really made. One thing I know...I made lot of articles.

The highlight edits of the day is Cascadia.

That one article I edit the most today. It not because I like it, but the wealth of information on it. When it started, it was just a tiny puny stubs among hundreds. Now it is bigger, but not enough to be a real article. I create the articles with obession of perfecting it picture perfect as complete as possible. The only problem is....I still need to read the comics to finish the entry. At least, it filled with basic triva like when it updates, how many comics are there, who behind this comic. Heck! It even got references. That a big rarity among comixpedia.org entry. The references make my entry invunerable to vandalism/non NPOV/vanity POV attempt attack until someone add information without a source. Still...the facts it have references make it more crediable than most entry. You can see the big changes here.

Now, I done a lot of work today, manage to edit more than 50 times. Still, it fell short of my 100 edits goal for the day. Comixpedia.org almost reach 100 edits today. The editing and researching was a lot of work. It was pain in the ass and mostly involve researches via google search engine and visiting the sites. More often than not, the site don't have much triva unless I read the entire comics. I add mostly comedy comics. My effort to add new articles did add load to a much bigger pain in the ass job. That is...puting entry name along with dates if applicable and their URL on the 26 List Of Webcomics.

Works on comixpedia.org is alway numberous and never ending. As soon someone add a new entry, it a hell lot of work making that article the best they can be. Making an article that match some of the best Wikipedia articles is time consuming work. It take weeks of research, writing, and feedback to do that. To make matter worses, if the articles is edited a lot for a long period...It might have lot of information but bad disorganized writing and that not the best article they can be. Just hope that some POV warrior and evil pain in the ass editors don't occupy your articles because they are one big PAIN to deal with. They have the energy of a 24 hours hardworking workaholic. If you manage to outlast these evil trolls, than kudos to you. You earned the respect of an adiminstrator. Of course, you might burnout for a while, but I take that as an exception.

It is a hell lot of work, but I think comixpedia.org is worth the effort in the long run.

Most Wanted....

2006-01-01T20:58:00.000-05:00

Most Wanted: Spammer bots back all dead

Reasons for elimination/capture/knowledge/etc: Spamming various comixpedia article with evil adversitement and scam

Rewards: Increase in your karma, reputation and respect.

Danger/Annoyance level: diffcult and annoying

Objective: Propose a brilliant solution that will cut down spam to 90% without destorying the protentical for new recruits and benefits in the process. 100% equal success and more karma, reputation, and respects.

Diffcultity guess: Next to impossible and truely impossible.

Failure: A never ending war to destroy the swarms spammer bots.. If you really screwed up big, your reputation, karma, and respect might go down or nothing happen.

The Trawl List

2005-12-31T18:05:00.000-05:00

Since this is a webcomic blog too. I felt it necessary to post what I am currently reading. I copied it from my user page and updated it.

So here the trawl list in no particular orders with a one line description with a external link and a comixpedia.org entry.

Misfile
This comic about is about two girls whose life screwed up by a "misfile" by a clumsy angel.
Site Link:
http://www.misfile.com
Comixpedia Entry:
http://www.comixpedia.org/index.php/Misfile

Inverloch
Inverloch follow the adventure of Archeron and his companions in their search for a missing elf.
Site Link:
http://www.seraph-inn.com
Comixpedia Entry:
http://www.comixpedia.org/index.php/Inverloch

Sokora Refugees
The manga follow the adventure of a unlikely hero along with her companions to save the elf world of Sokora.
Site Link:
http://www.sokora.com
Comixpedia Entry:
http://www.comixpedia.org/index.php/Sokora Refugees

Red String
A romance comic about Miharu, her crazy arranged marriage, finding out she love the guy she going to be married to.
Site Link:
http://redstring.strawberrycomics.com/
Comixpedia Entry:
http://www.comixpedia.org/index.php/Red String

Megatokyo
Your classic (in)famous okatu story about a crazy gamer, and your typical low confidence artist plus fanboy.
Site Link:
http://www.megatokyo.com
Comixpedia Entry:
http://www.comixpedia.org/index.php/Megatokyo

Comic that make me cry for updates:
This include comics that rarely updates, but when they do...They make me happy

Kanami
A sadistic story by the creator of the clone.army manga website.
Site Link:
http://www.manga.clone-army.org/kanami.php
Comixpedia Entry:
http://www.comixpedia.org/index.php/Kanami

Emerald Winter
Focused on a half-elf who going to save a princess from unwanted marriage (from the sound of it)
Site Link:
http://www.emeraldwinter.com
Comixpedia Entry:
http://www.comixpedia.org/index.php/Emerald Winter

Divine Fang
A boy cursed by the dragon's fang is Kiowa is a banished member of the Dragon Tribe searching for 15 items scattered across the land so he can return to his tribe. Along that, a outcast elf decided to join him because she was freed by Kiowa.
Site Link:
http://www.kuruta.net/manga/divinefang/
Comixpedia Entry:
There are none at the moment.

Completed Webcomics:
This include the list of completed webcomics I read.

Paper Eleven
Maya survives a train accident and than found herself in a mysterious world where everything is made of papers. It a mysterious comic hard to understand.
Site Link:
http://www.manga.clone-army.org/pxi.php
Comixpedia Link:
http://www.comixpedia.org/index.php/Paper Eleven

Webcomics I used to like:
This include a list of webcomics I used to like. It is mostly due to lost of interest and some other reasons I won't discuss.

Building 12
A webcomic about social outcast and weird characters living in building 12 dorm at a college.
Site Link:
http://www.building12.net/
Comixpedia Entry:
http://www.comixpedia.org/index.php/Building 12

Whogirl
Crazy comic about a guy and a crazy girl. It seem it a romance/action comic or something, but I don't know what the comic really about.
Site Link:
http://www.thewhogirl.com
Comixpedia Entry:
There are none at the moment.

Wow, that is like the longest post so far. This article take me forever to write. I just hope those external links aren't broken/wrong or something. Enjoy everyone!

I Dare Say...

2005-12-30T16:11:00.000-05:00

I really wanted for comixpedia.org to make a big splash next year. I really wanted the wiki to be so much bigger than this year. The project is improving in term of coverage and quality. Next year, I want the entire comixpedia.org community to be stronger and better than it ever was. So we can do amazing things, extradoinary things, and accomplish more than our wildest imagination.

The goals for the comixpedia.org community for next year is......

*Reach the 10,000 articles milestone

*Improve the quality of our work to the highest standard possible (Need to define what is the standard and stuff)

*Build a stronger, more active, and more numberous community.

*two hundred good edits per day

That the goal I outlined. It just need to become the community's goal.

Google Hunting for sites Mentioning Comixpedia.org

2005-12-28T18:16:00.000-05:00

There are no reliable way to guage awareness of any sites without some reliable traffic statistics. So I resort to Google, one of my favorite software company of all time. During my search, I found some pretty interesting comments.

*Scott McCloud comments on how Comixpedia lived up to their name. You can find his blog right here. You have to scroll down to 10/27 where he mentioned it at the end of the post.

*Another sites which belong to The Ryans webcomic collective seem obsessed with the name Ryans for reason I don't know. Apperantly, they used Comixpedia.org's search engine to find the name of cartoonists with the name of Ryan in it. Here the link to the site. You have to go all the way down to date December 3.

If I find any more interesting comments from the world of webcomics. I will be galdly reporting to you. Of course, there are lot of comments I havn't mentioned I found during my journey. I promise to tell you about it too, but it may never happen.

Statistics Crazy/Introduction

2005-12-27T17:06:00.000-05:00

First, we get to the boring introduction, than the goodies meanful contents!

This blog is intended to give you an inside view of Comixpedia.org, or whatever incorrect name you going to give this wiki. Official name of the wiki is actually Comixpedia but no one care....Also, one quickies...It also talk about webcomics.

Now...here come the goodies stuff!

Statistics...I like statistics and number, especially big, exponetional one. It may serve many useful purposes, but for me, it just interesting. I dug up some pretty interesting statistics around comixpedia.org.

Here one of them.
Now, I don't know how do we even get to more than 2,000 pages. 1,065 articles is really nice for such desperately unadversited site. But 347,010 page views? Holy cow.... Are we really that popular? 11,385 page edits was a pretty impressive number. It not surprising, considering we have a quite active community, but some 3000 edits goes to really active adiminstrators like Tedzees and me (Kiba). That a pretty impressive number if you asked me.

Our alexa.com ranking on the other hand, is terriabley depressing. That because we not that much popluar. Our rank is 123,875. There are two HUGE spikes in the ranking chart right here.
I think that was caused by one of our editor visiting the site a lot to cause this.