Books, games, cards and other merch on the Tenchi Wika

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    • August 12, 2015 at 5:17 PM
    Lain
    Participant
    Hi guys,

    Recently I’ve been looking for info on the Tenchi games and noticed outside the SuFami one, there’s not much info out there. Same for the books, the trading card game (and the collectable picture cards), as well as just general merch

    I would suggest a new wiki, but some people have been very hard at work over at wikia already:

    http://tenchi.wikia.com/wiki/Tenchi_Muyo_Wiki

    They’ve already added 316 articles. Some/a lot are stubs like this, and could use work:

    http://tenchi.wikia.com/wiki/Game_Master

    But I think the best place for us to collate this info would be the Wiki.

    What do you guys think? Would you be willing to help build a list of all the different types of merch, and even adding some descriptions and info where possible? I think we’d all benefit. :)

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      • August 12, 2015 at 5:39 PM
      mitsuki lover
      Member
      Sounds like a good idea.
      • August 12, 2015 at 5:51 PM
      Lain
      Participant
      So, maybe we should just start with straight forward lists? What do you think?

      We can flesh them out with a page for each item later, then.

      If anyone knows any good Japanese Tenchi resources for this kinda info btw, let me know please!! Maybe I can make some sense of it with a little thought and some google translate :P

      • August 12, 2015 at 5:56 PM
      ChaudSept
      Member
      When I first came here, the first thing someone told me when I brought up the wikia was “Watch out with the wikia y’know, it’s filled with other people’s opinions rather than fact”. It’s true that sometime there is a cruel lack of references.

      Btw, the same goes for the official wikipedia page (for the lack of reference).

      Lain wrote:

      I would suggest a new wiki

      I kinda agree, if we adjust the discussion to Evangelion, we have : EvaGeeks vs Evangelion.wikia.

      IMO, EvaGeeks is better, for lots of reason unfortunatly.

      But starting a full wiki page from scratch seems like a shit load of hardwork (Though I could get behind it). On the other hand, I’m also all in for improving the wikia.

      Lain wrote:

      What do you guys think? Would you be willing to help build a list of all the different types of merch, and even adding some descriptions and info where possible? I think we’d all benefit.

      I would. Give orda’.

      • August 12, 2015 at 6:19 PM
      Lain
      Participant
      Well, ok. We could review the guidelines of their wiki, and maybe work on having just factual information on the articles if they’re laissez-faire about theories on the main page, maybe we could work with them on it. You could have seperate pages for theorys, or on Wikis, you can have talk pages:

      Normal page: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tenchi_Muyo!_Ryo-Ohki

      Talk page: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Tenchi_Muyo!_Ryo-Ohki

      They may relegate theory to talk pages. Or even just have all the factual stuff at the top, then a theories section at the bottom. There would be a few ways round it if they’d work with us.

      I don’t know much about the Tenchi wiki though. For all I know it could already have similar guidelines and already have similar attitudes.

      There’s also nothing stopping us starting a TenchiMercandise.wikia.com and linking back to the other Tenchi wiki for information (and here for discussion).

      The admins could also add a wiki to this site. I would also be willing to help on the technical side on that route if we decided to do that. I am a webmaster, programmer, sysadmin and web designer so I could help out if the staff were having difficulties (I don’t know how technical you guys all are, sorry! It’s my first day here)

      • August 12, 2015 at 7:18 PM
      jgzinv
      Member
      At some point Dagon was starting a Wiki system here, for this purpose, don’t know what the status is /was on that.

      The tenchi wikia yes is plagued by people that prefer their own version of history as they see it rather than fact,

      as such in the past we’ve tried to edit it to bring it in line, just to have detailed articles wiped out.

      The older folks here and myself are probably the most equipped to be able to tell you whats in or about certain objects.

      The older generation fans here, I can probably speak for when I say we won’t work with or on something that’s open

      to being wiped out or changed by those that have trolled and caused havok previously. It needs to be public yes, but

      not open to everyone to edit.

      Since you’re into Gokuraku, Gokuraku 2 actually has a zelda esque game with it.

      • August 12, 2015 at 7:41 PM
      Lain
      Participant
      Gokuraku 2!! Yes, that’s it. I knew in the back of my mind there was at least one more I found out about ages ago. If you know of any more… ;)

      Well, I would be willing to help if needed.

      Or if the admins didn’t want to, we could do an offsite wiki with a loose affilation

      • August 12, 2015 at 7:54 PM
      ChaudSept
      Member

      Lain wrote:

      Well, I would be willing to help if needed.

      Oy! You start a proposal, don’t back off now rageblow1 .

      Seriously though,

      There a million project Tenchi related, I’m mainly interest in the translation side, but the wiki side interests me too.

      JGZinv wrote:

      At some point Dagon was starting a Wiki system here


      Was it loooong ago? I guess it was. Project drop or on hold?

      Also, I was kinda waiting for JG to bring up the “two sided” fandom we have here. And trust me you want the elder one with you when writing stuff, ’cause they know.

      Seriously, I could support you on a wiki from scratch. But where to do it, heh?

      But most important, Lain, do you want to write only about merch?

      I think the admin would, but we have to fight his busyness wth2

      • August 12, 2015 at 7:57 PM
      Lain
      Participant
      I am more interested in merch, but I would be willing to help operationally and to maybe start small articles or add to others on the series. But I am only just getting re-intersted it Tenchi even though I’ve rewatched a few of the series since I first saw them on Toonami over the years so my word wouldn’t exactly be gospel

      It could also help co-ordinate translation

      • August 12, 2015 at 7:57 PM
      jgzinv
      Member
      It’s hard to recall specifically when, it was part of a site update after we ended on this forum version/skin.

      Around the time Ai came out.

      I really don’t have a lot of info on that other than what we’d discussed. You’d have to kindly ask Dagon.

      Realistically if it could be done here, that would be better for traffic as it would help bring people to the board.

      • August 12, 2015 at 8:11 PM
      Lain
      Participant
      Well hopefully they see this thread!
      • August 12, 2015 at 8:13 PM
      ChaudSept
      Member
      I would be all-in for a “wiki.tenchiforum.com” huhu.

      So what you’re saying JG, is that it isn’t that old. Aside from that, I think we all agree the site needs / will have improvment (because of the read page and such). My guess : Everyone is freakin’ busy :).

      I also guess that html skills are require to edit the website?

      • August 12, 2015 at 8:17 PM
      Lain
      Participant
      No, something like BB Code used on the forums. For the back end stuff yeah, HTML knowledge for adding templates and stuff and programming knowledge for editing the backend. But for contributors, no, you wouldn’t need to know HTML.
      • August 12, 2015 at 9:00 PM
      Anonymous
      Guest
      There’s the old wiki I attempted to start, or starting a wiki through the /universe side of the site, the latter would be easier to do, but actual wiki software would be more comprehensive (hence why I started it in the first place), regardless, both would need contributors.

      I would be willing to help again, but I would need to see some real work coming from those wanting to contribute.

      • August 12, 2015 at 9:10 PM
      Lain
      Participant
      Well, there’s a SSO extension for MediaWiki to link phpBB3 to MediaWiki. I would contribute. Like I said, not so much character or episode info, but I would help where I could with those.

      If others were willing…

      • August 13, 2015 at 12:14 AM
      Yukinojo
      Participant
      none
      Just an idea of organizing

      Tenchi / Dual / Moldiver / El-Hazard / Pretty Sammy / Photon

      Subsections of Tenchi: OVA / Universe / Tokyo / Ai / GXP / Geminar

      I went with series in subsections because going by continuities or who was behind it: Negishi or Kajishima, gets confusing.

      The categories the merchandise can be ordered under what kind of material it is: doujins, manga, novels, games, etc.

      Then under what order it came out.

      Just trying to help give a start.

      • November 13, 2015 at 7:27 PM
      Yukinojo
      Participant
      none
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