Forum:Volume a week club

The idea
As most of you are undoubtedly aware, the majority of the chapter summaries are missing. In fact, everything between volume 2 and volume 39 are missing chapter summaries. So this is what I propose. We form a volume a week club! Basically I am looking for eight other people to help me in the quest to make sure all volumes have completed chapter summaries. I mean, it's a daunting task if anyone tries to do it alone but if we do it as a group I am sure it'll be done in no time!

So here is the plan, since I completed volume 2, we'll start with volume 3. Below is a list of chapters. If you want to participate in this "club" just claim a chapter (like I have with chapter 25) and list the status as incomplete. When you have finished adding the summary for the chapter, just change the status to complete. Once all the chapters are done, we can move on to the next volume. The goal would be to get one volume done per week. But of course if it is done sooner then we'll move on to the next volume sooner. Of course, if you are done with your chapter and want to do another one (that hasn't been claimed yet) then you can do so. But remember! This is suppose to be fun and not stressful! So if you claim a chapter but find that the week has become busy, just unclaim it and don't worry about it.

So, what do you guys think? Anyone wants to join me in the Volume a week club? Feel free to tell me this is a terrible idea that will never work :D Tinni 03:32, October 25, 2009 (UTC)

Access to online Chapters
Mostly for the "anime only" fans who might want to help us out but not know where to read the chapters to summarise. Here are the links to places you can read Bleach online.


 * One Manga
 * Bleach Exile
 * Read Bleach

Current Volume of the Week
Volume 5: Rightarm of the Giant

035. Can You Be My Enemy? -- Twocents *incomplete*

036. 我ら、報復の為に死に至りて/They Died for Vengeance

037. Crossing The Rubicon

038. BENT

039. Rightarm of the Giant

040. Grow?

041. Princess & Dragon Tinni *complete*

042. Princess & Dragon PART.2"The Majestic" Tinni *complete*

043. Princess & Dragon PART.3"Six Flowers" - Tinni *incomplete*

Projected Finish Date: Nov. 10, 2009

Alternative volume of the week
This is to encourage other editors who might be more familiar with recent chapters to jump in and start writing summaries.

Volume 38: Fear for Fight

323. Gloomy, Ghastly and Full of Despair

324. The Reaper

325. Fear For Fight

326. Knockdown Monster

327. Knockdown Monsters

328. The Knuckle Debate

329. RAGING RAMPAGE

330. CROSSING SWORDS

331. Don't Believe The Hide

Projected Finish Date: Nov. 10, 2009

Finished Volumes

 * memories in the rain - completed by Tinni and Twocents


 * Quincy Archer Hates You - completed by Tinni, Yyp and Twocents

Completed Issues Summary

 * Volume Layout - all volume pages should now have the same layout
 * Bleach All Star consistency - the Bleach All Star's template was changed and should now be more consistent and hopefully not overlapping with the info box for the majority of browsers and users

Suggested Guidelines
These are some friendly suggestions to keep in mind when writing summaries and they are also things that might be helpful if you writing a chapter summary for the very first time. They are also designed to comply with wiki best practice.

This section is a work in progress. Please feel free to add your own suggestions, tips and tricks.

1. Please keep in mind that this is a wiki and so please do not speculate when writing the chapter summary. Just describe things as they unfold, and when in doubt, go for neutral tone and wording.

2. The chapter summary is not suppose to be a substitute for actually reading the chapter. As such, there is no need to give minute details of everything that's happening. Remember, it is a summary only.

3. Links - please consider providing one where you think that the reader of the summary might want more information on either a character or a term.

Discussion/Comments
Hi folks, just clearing out the discussion because it was getting too long and also summarising completed issues. I would like to thank both Twocents and Yyp for their contribution and once again I would strongly encourage other editors to join us. Come-on folks! Just grab a chapter and start summarising! Tinni 14:37, November 2, 2009 (UTC)

Thanks Yyp and especially Twocents, that's a lot of chapters you summarised in such a short time! I have put volume 5 as the next volume but we don't have to do them in order. We could try doing a more recent volume. Like volume 38. Believe it or not, even though it's a far more recent volume, it doesn't have single chapter summary and only one chapter with a cover. So we can do volume 5 of volume 38 as a way of encouraging other editors to join in who might be more familiar with the later manga chapters as oppose to the beginning manga chapters. Really I have no preference. I just want this volumes done! Tinni 04:06, November 3, 2009 (UTC)

I don't care either. It's actually a little fun for me; I didn't get into Bleach until the start of all the Arrancar stuff, so it's kind of fun to read these crazy old stories that I'm not as familiar with. Which is why I, like, couldn't stop taking over chapter summaries for the last volume. So whatever you want to do is fine with me. I'll probably slow down a bit in either case - I have like five papers I have to write this week. Twocents 04:10, November 3, 2009 (UTC)

Yeah I'll be slow this week too. So let's just do volume 5 as the main volume and we'll leave volume 38 up as an alternative for other's to take up. Thanks again and good luck with your papers! Tinni 04:15, November 3, 2009 (UTC)

Nah, thanks for the great idea of the club in the first place! I'm just glad to help out. I've always thought it was kind of embarrassing that we didn't have manga summaries, considering the wiki wouldn't exist without the manga. And thanks. ^_^ You wanna write them for me? Twocents 04:17, November 3, 2009 (UTC)


 * Only if you write my thesis chapters for me. :-) Tinni 04:19, November 3, 2009 (UTC)

I think if we both want to pass, we should probably write our own papers. :P

So, a new chapter is out 381. Words Just Don't Like You‎‎. I thought about writing a summary for it, but in my opinion, not a lot really went on in this chapter. It was mostly a really lengthy explanation from Unohana that said "Hey, Ichigo, you're the only one who can beat him," plus some bantering between Byakuya and Mayuri. If I wrote it, it'd be like a paragraph or two long, because I don't see the point in rambling on what they all said when someone can just read it. If you're fine with that, then I can write the summary, but if you think it requires a much lengthier summary, then someone else should probably write it. Twocents 19:14, November 5, 2009 (UTC)