Log Purging

Summary:

Rewrite Team needs help!

Log Purging

Decibelles 04 Jul 2016 22:56

Currently, we purge collaborative logs of low-effort/low-quality entries, but there's a ton of them. I'm currently the one who does the most purging but it's beyond caught up to me. I've locked both the Log of Anomalous Items and Log of Extranormal Events while I go about figuring out which ones to cut. (The Log of Unexplained Locations is property of DreamwalkerFae who is still around, so I don't tread on their territory.)

I basically am here to ask for assistance in cleaning up these logs. Here are the logs with the most need in cleaning-up based on activity:

• Log of Anomalous Items - Decibelle
• Log of Extranormal Events - minmin
• Experiment Log 261 Ad De - WrongJohnSilver
• Experiment Log 914 - Dexanote
• SCP-978 Extended Test Logs - Voct
• SCP-1162 Extended Testing Log - MrWrong
• Experiment Log 423 A - Mann is ever vigilant and ever watchful.
• Experiment Log 447 A - Dexanote

The first four, I think, are the ones that'd give us the most work and difficulty and should have the most focus. 447 is Clef's, but with how busy he's been IRL, I don't know if leaving that to him would be good for him. 423 is Mann's, and if he does wanna do that for his that's okay. I only put those two here for posterity. Everything else I don't think is a worry due to little activity yet, although if anyone remembers something that should be here, feel free to let me know.¹

The main goal of this thread is to get some recruits who are willing to help out with these logs. Lemme know if you're willing and I can hit you up with some (fairly simple) details and instructions.

EDIT: For clarification, I'm asking here because it'd be nice to get help from people outside the rewrite team :)

Footnotes

1. SCP-1459 Extended Testing Log is edited frequently but that's Voct's territory.

Last edited on 10 Jul 2016 00:24 by Decibelles Show more

Re: Log Purging

Dexanote 04 Jul 2016 23:41

I would like to assist in the logs for 261, 447, 914, and 978. I'll take full responsibility for at least one of them, preferably 914 or 447, but I do know it's a hella big task.

Re: Log Purging

Decibelles 05 Jul 2016 19:52

I'll put you down for 914, and next time Clef comes around I'll ask him if it'll be alright for you to take on 447 :)

Re: Log Purging

LurkD 05 Jul 2016 13:56

Would it be preferable to archive rather than purge? Or are some of these entries pretty apparent that they should not be there? Also, it'd help to know where on the logs to start rather than going through the entire page itself.

Re: Log Purging

Dexanote 05 Jul 2016 14:31

For most of these logs the first chunk of the lists are pretty representative of what the logs should be. 914, for example, has a great set of basic 'put block of metal in, on very fine -> got literal adamantine' stuff as well as the "human corpse on very fine -> [redacted], 13 deaths' type 'baseline' stuff. The camera has some good oldschool logs as well like DrClef with the hooved woman, low key things.

About halfway through the logs it becomes very very apparent what can be cut. 914 and 682 have always has problems about this, and in the last couple years Extranormal Events has gotten pretty poor-idea-magnetty too. Archival is not really preferable to chopping blatantly bad and weighing redundant tests. The idea should not be "oh this is good execution", but instead "oh this is really creative and an original interpretation of the item's power".

so basically yeah some of the entries are pretty apparent in their 'should not be there'.

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Re: Log Purging

Zyn 05 Jul 2016 17:38

so basically yeah some of the entries are pretty apparent in their 'should not be there'.

Agreeing with this. Wasn't there one time on one of these logs a set of keycards that only opened doors to hotel rooms occupied by females younger than 18? We don't need that stuff kept anywhere on the mainsite.

Re: Log Purging

Decibelles 05 Jul 2016 19:51

Would it be preferable to archive rather than purge?

There's nowhere to really archive them sensibly. They'll be kept in the edit history if needed to be grabbed.

Also, it'd help to know where on the logs to start rather than going through the entire page itself.

That's true, as some of these pages haven't been touched by staff since they first went up. I'll be compiling a list soon.

Re: Log Purging

LurkD 05 Jul 2016 20:00

That's true, as some of these pages haven't been touched by staff since they first went up. I'll be compiling a list soon.

Thanks, hopefully that'll cut the workload substantially.

Re: Log Purging

Decibelles 05 Jul 2016 21:32

Note that all of these are suggestions for when to start pruning; if you see some stuff from beforehand that's pretty low-quality, go ahead.

• Log of Anomalous Items - Pruning will start at "A table with a circular area approximately 20 cm in diameter that remains at a constant 37°C, no matter the surrounding temperatures.". (I'm also going to contact Light about reorganization of the page, as requested by countless users.)
• Log of Extranormal Events - Pruning will start at "All 3██ attendees of Osceola, Tennessee's 3rd Annual Ribfest spontaneously and simultaneously lost consciousness for a period of forty-eight (48) seconds."
• Experiment Log 261 Ad De - Pruning will start at "Colonel Crone's Confession CandyTM Assorted Flavours".
• Experiment Log 914 - No idea where to start with pruning this, given its size and very limited staff intervention. The last time staff members stepped in to remove entries was back in 2013 when Clef removed stuff with the assistance of Roget and Echo. The final experiments on that were Dr. Disk's, so that might be a starting point. I think it'll be up to Dexanote on this one.
• SCP-978 Extended Test Logs - Cutoff entry here is also unclear, given how the page is organized. I'm gonna say Revision 181, with Crayne adding the "experiment" tag.
• SCP-1162 Extended Testing Log - Despite it being recently and frequently edited, there's actually not too many logs on here compared to the previous ones where I'd say it's fair game.
• Experiment Log 423 A - Mann is still around, but if the duty of pruning is given to anyone else, I'd say Revision 63 with Voct's touchup is where to start (with the last entry there being the "Secret of the Ninja" test).
• Experiment Log 447 A - If Clef is around and doesn't want to do it, Dexanote will do it. Same deal with 914 in that case, as I wouldn't really know where to begin.

Last edited on 05 Jul 2016 21:32 by Decibelles Show more

Re: Log Purging

WrongJohnSilver 05 Jul 2016 21:33

Just confirming I'll tackle 261.

Re: Log Purging

Zyn 05 Jul 2016 23:07

I think minmin offered to help as well?

Re: Log Purging

minmin 06 Jul 2016 22:45

I'm willing to help with 261 and 914 here and there, but as I'm not staff, I'm not sure if I can?

Re: Log Purging

MrWrong 07 Jul 2016 15:38

For the record, when I am back from Japan this Saturday, I am willing to assist.

Re: Log Purging

Decibelles 07 Jul 2016 17:16

Give me a log you'd like to work on.

Re: Log Purging

MrWrong 09 Jul 2016 14:11

I will take SCP-1162 logs then.

Re: Log Purging

Decibelles 07 Jul 2016 17:26

Figures that as I initiate this, people come out of the woodwork to start adding stuff…

So here's the plan. Either make a sandbox or use an existing one of yours for this, and note down which entries you'd change or which you'd delete and why. You can do this in whatever format you want; I prefer to copy/paste all entries from the source code that I wanna look over and use some formatting to note stuff down. When you're done, go ahead and PM me said sandbox so I can look it over and give the final okay. Then update the page with your changes and post in the discussion page stating what's been removed/changed and why.

MrWrong and lurkd still need to give me what they wanna do. Everyone else can get started!

Re: Log Purging

Decibelles 09 Jul 2016 22:28

MrWrong's name edited in OP, Voct edited in to help with 978. 423 is still up for grabs.

Re: Log Purging

DrEverettMann 10 Jul 2016 00:19

423's fine as is.