Board Thread:Improvements and Issues/@comment-5398287-20200817010606

Hey all, hope you're doing well.

You may have heard by now, but the BURN THE WITCH serialization officially begins in the next issue of Jump, releasing a week from now, and will last for 4 chapters (likely 30-50 pages each), so in that time we will of course be updating the wiki as stuff comes out and I welcome you all to participate in that and in board threads/blog posts on the matter - I myself am very excited to get the first verifiable and unfiltered Kubo content in the last 2 years, even if it's a shorter run than I was expecting.

However, it has also been 2 years since we had chapter content to add to the wiki, and in that time some things have changed:
 * 1) Japan has begun cracking down on scanlation teams and manga pirating much harder - the biggest instance you may have seen of this was Mangastream going completely kaput and having their site taken down (good riddance, I say). This has also led some fan sites, like manga subreddits, to adopt a policy of only allowing discussion of new chapters on the day of each official release, aka Sunday.
 * 2) The official translations of manga have gotten better! A shocker, I know, and I understand if you're apprehensive to believe that (having read a lot of old Viz chapters, I completely get it), but this is no longer the late 2000s and early 2010s where Ju-Ni was active and functioned as the single most reliable translation team out there. The new scanlation teams do an okay job, from what I've seen, but Viz, for all their imperfections, have come a long way in quality and therefore function as the best source of info for the wiki, at least for new releases like this serialization.
 * 3) Not having to prepare/deal with weekly chapter releases and the torrent of activity that comes to the wiki with each one for 4 years (I'm not counting the BTW one-shot here, especially since the fan translation was delayed for no reason - thanks again, Mangastream) has given myself and the other mods/admins time to reflect on the methods we use to update the wiki and how they can be improved. Turns out, adding info and images essentially 2-3 times per chapter (first with a fan scanlation, possibly followed by a second scanlation with better accuracy/image quality, and finally with a raw/Viz version/cnet translation) is not optimal in the least, mainly because this leads to incorrect info potentially being overlooked and left on pages for months or years due to editors, myself included, not noticing that it's different in the best and last translation we use. Also, it's kind of a waste of time to have to rewrite/reupload things over and over just because marginally better versions keep coming out.

With all that in mind, it's been decided that for each chapter of this particular serialization, which may be the last we ever get...

No information or images are to be added to the wiki until the official release is published by Viz.

What precisely does that entail? Well, if we see people updating/creating any BTW pages on the wiki with information or uploading images from "unreleased" chapters, we're gonna revert/delete that content and warn the contributor: if it persists, we'll lock pages and hand out (temporary) bans. I realize that this isn't how we used to do things, but it seems the most appropriate course of action after everything I listed, especially the part about Japan cracking down on unofficial releases of manga; if I've learned anything from my decade on the internet, it's that copyright punishment sucks, and I'd prefer to avoid it being inflicted on the wiki if at all possible. To make sure that everyone sees this (so no one has the excuse of "well no one told me" if they break this rule), I'm gonna be pinning this as a wiki-wide message that should ping everyone who visits: furthermore, the Spoiler Policy has finally, finally been updated to reflect this and goes into a bit more detail.

Thanks for understanding and working with us, and I look forward to sharing the excitement of the serialization with you all. 