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For the past few months, I've been putting together a web based tool to help us organize our Bleach work at Maximum7, It's gone through a couple iterations over the months and I'm finally satisfied with it.
My question is, would other groups be interested in using it for some of their projects? And if so, what sort of features and changes would benefit you the most?
I've toyed with the idea of packaging it and providing it to some other groups out there, and have developed it thus far with that in mind. However it isn't exactly in a perfect form I'd feel comfortable giving it to other groups yet, so before spending that time to package and give it to others, I wanted to get some feedback.
I've dubbed it Scanage; the words Edited Manga and Management combined, ya I know, not the most creative name. The basic idea is to take the managing aspects of the cleaning and translation process and streamline it.
Here's some working examples with pictures (hidden inside spoiler tags).
Raw upload:
Project Overview:
Chapter Overview :
Page Overview:
Translation:
The system is somewhat tailored to fit our needs at Maximum7 specifically at the moment, so feel free to let me know what is that would make it more usable by your specific group.
My question is, would other groups be interested in using it for some of their projects? And if so, what sort of features and changes would benefit you the most?
I've toyed with the idea of packaging it and providing it to some other groups out there, and have developed it thus far with that in mind. However it isn't exactly in a perfect form I'd feel comfortable giving it to other groups yet, so before spending that time to package and give it to others, I wanted to get some feedback.
I've dubbed it Scanage; the words Edited Manga and Management combined, ya I know, not the most creative name. The basic idea is to take the managing aspects of the cleaning and translation process and streamline it.
Here's some working examples with pictures (hidden inside spoiler tags).
Raw upload:
- The raw is first uploaded to the projects folder on the ftp, in this case, it was projects/Bleach/320
- After it's uploaded and pulled up to this screen, you put in all the information needed, including selecting your DP's (Double Pages), DP's will be treated as a single page, despite being two separate pages when in raw form.
- After it's submitted, all raw pages will be submitted and all information inserted into the database so your staff can now view it.
Project Overview:
- Here all staff can see what chapters are currently being managed by the system in any particular project, and access that chapter.
Chapter Overview :
- The chapter information, including notes, title, and more is only editable by admins or choice users.
- Current generated list of credits for the particular chapter.
- Filters allow you to select which pages are shown in the list below
- Each field show's a quick overview of the page
- View, will take you to a more full overview of the page.
- Claim, will mark the page as yours, letting you upload your cleaned version of the page, if the page is already yours, this will real unclaim instead and relinquish your ownership of the page.
- Approve, this is only visible to admins and choice staff, it finalizes the page as finished, and copies it over to a specific finals folder on the FTP under your groups proper file name structure for easy page collection.
- Force Unclaim, this is only visible to admins and choice staff, forces the current staff who owns the page to no longer own it, just in case they have disappeared without finishing their page and you need to free it up for other staff members to claim.
- Clicking View Translation at the top, or (View Full) underneath each page's quick translation view, will take you to a more readable page where you can see the translation in a form suitable to typeset off of. There is also a comments section on this page as well for staff to comment on the translation.
Page Overview:
- A larger version of the page
- Claim\Unclaim, Approve, and Force Unclaim functions just as in the full chapter overview
- A running list of links to each version there has been of the page, in case you need to compare early versions with the current version
- Draft upload is where the person who currently has the page claimed, may upload their cleans. It is only visible to the current page owner and admins.
- A fuller list of comments then is seen on the chapter overview, including a section that lets you know what particular version of the page they are talking about.
Translation:
- Large boxes for the translator to insert the translation
- Once translator clicks finalize this inserts his name as the translation credit, as well as enable the transnational checker or proofreader to go in and edit the script as necessary
- Anything placed in < > tags are not visible on the final translation and only seen by people editing the script.
- On full script page, you may compare the final translation with the translators original, so you may see what the tl checker or proofreader has changed.
The system is somewhat tailored to fit our needs at Maximum7 specifically at the moment, so feel free to let me know what is that would make it more usable by your specific group.
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I hope you've gotten somewhere with the tool since your post.
