Board Thread:Improvements and Issues/@comment-957629-20170706231333/@comment-1429792-20170707233657

I think it’s natural that people are looking for the new books & in time, the film as they are current, whereas the anime and manga are both done & naturally have declining interest as they are old news so to speak (albeit good news), whereas the story continues in some fashion in the books. I don’t know the answers to all of the challenges we may have, but there are some (small) concrete steps that can be taken.

One is finding the content on the wiki. I’ve added the film to the nav menu and bumped them up the order, as well as split the books into databook & novel sections which should make it easier to find. Another is I suggest we add the teaser trailer for the movie on the main page and whenever one appears, a proper trailer. Maybe in place of the latest chapter/episode boxes which are now obsolete.

Just as Bleach has grown over the years, I think the wiki should grow with it. The movie will introduce a lot of people to the series (and wiki) & a portion of them will move on to read the manga/watch the anime to find out what happens after wherever the movie leaves off. Hell, that should be an aim of this wiki going forward – get people coming here because of the movie to watch the anime and read the manga that we all love so much (and occasionally hate simultaneously!)

On the content inclusion issue, I have always been of the view that the Bleach wiki should cover all Bleach content, regardless of its origins, media type, who fully or partially wrote it. I personally don't care if they're labelled non-canon/apocryphal etc, so long as they are covered by the wiki. Including it doesn't lessen the manga or anime content. I think the Bleach Wiki should keep up with the current offerings in the series.

I understand if some people don’t have any enthusiasm for the film or books. Personally I have no interest in reading an unofficially translated summary of a book online – if I were to read it, which I would like to do (at least the newer ones) then I want to read an official translation that has the entire content & in paperback not staring at a computer screen which I do more than enough of as it is. For those reasons I have not read them & therefore am not in a position to add any content from them myself. Sad thing is I highly doubt they will be published in English, though if the movie is a success that might change, but the novels seem so far removed from the film I’m doubtful of that. So yeah, that’s why I tell people they can add it but I haven’t done anything on that front myself. But it warrants inclusion.

How it is all packaged/presented, I don't have the answer to that. This may be worrying about a problem that might never occur, but when I’ve more time I want to see how other wikis have handled this sort of thing with the film (specifically if there are considerable differences between what is there now & how events unfold in the film with plot, abilities etc). Off hand I can think of Star Wars as Sun mentioned, but also the new Star Trek films created an entire new timeline with very different version of events from Gene Rodenberry’s Star Trek, which the wikis had to handle, there are bound to be other wikis in that boat and I’ll take any suggestions of wikis to look at (and encourage others to look at them as well).

TL;DR cause that was way longer than I thought possible:

I think we should include the novels and films as fully as we can. And it should be a goal of this wiki going forward to get people coming here because of the movie to watch the anime and read the manga that we all love so much.