Talk:List of OS-tans

LIST OF OS-TANS DISCUSSION PANEL

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OS Girl Template

C-Chan: This looks great. ^__^ But just to let you know, we're thinking of keeping the Wiki discussion at the Project Wiki Thread for now. -v-

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--Name of the OS Girl--

[[Image:{{{image}}}|300px| ]]br --Image caption goes here, if any--
Original Creator:	Unknown, Toshiaki, Nijura, C-chan, whatever.
First appearance:	insert website/comic/whathaveyou
OS Personified:	OS
OS Devloper:	company. Or person....
First Released:	date
Latest Stable Release:	date
Footnotes go here. I took this template from Wikipedia. Requesting edits. Remove or add. Then discuss. Go go go. I believe this may help: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:Infobox

Like the footnote sez. SleepyD 00:08, 2 February 2007 (EST)

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Test Discussion

C-Chan: Is everyone here okay with this mini layout? ^__^

Tsubashi:Looks good to me! Great Job everyone!

C-Chan: Aweseome power. ^.^ Now then, a couple of things to consider about the stuff currently up...

• Should we separate the Windows NT article into a separate NT-tan and InuT (NT 4.0 Workstation -- different OS) section?

• Should we do the same for Hacchan and Secchan?

• And for that matter, Odyssey and Neptune? Reason why is because if anyone wants to contribute technical information about any of these OS-tans in the future, it'll be easier if they each have their own distinct article.

• Thanks for uploading my favorite Rozen Maiden Vistan. However, should we also upload the sailor fuku and ninja versions as well, since they somehow are now the most popular? ^^;

• I'd rather limit the list to just specific OS-tans, and keep Family articles as secondary links (similar to the See also XP Family blurb). In other words, we should do the same for the Macintosh Family.

• That said, and in addition to the STRONG likelihood that Generic Mac-tan represents OSX more than she does classic Mac, I say we convert the OSX-tan entry into an OSX Family article and turn it into a secondary link. In its place, I'll create 6 separate articles for the 6 separate Mac OSX releases (Cheetah, Puma, Jaguar, Panther, Tiger and Leopard).

• I still need to create an avatar of PC-DOS-tan. Lazy thing for me to do is simply crop the existing chibi pic, but I prefer to draw a quick one from scratch. ^___^

Tsubashi:I think it would be a good Idea if we split the articles, but only if we can provide a decent amount of information on each. I also have wanted to load Tech Specs on each of the pages, but wasn't quite sure if it was appropriate. I figured i should wait until the wiki stabilized before making such a suggestion! Oh, and as an afternote: What is the Standard Operating Protocol for this talk page?

• One more thing, is the wiki article still pending deletion? If not, we need to remove that note from the List of OS-tan's description

C-Chan: Agreed,... priority at the moment should definitely be given to posting all the OS-tan blurbs. -v- Once we have all of them ready, then we can focus on expanding their articles. Naturally,... anyone who wants to expand on their favorite character is free to do so,

Oh, and as an afternote: What is the Standard Operating Protocol for this talk page?

Use + button instead of Edit, put your signature on the subject, and write in the body text. That way, the format will closely mirror the forums. ^__^

One more thing, is the wiki article still pending deletion? 
If not, we need to remove that note from the List of OS-tan's description 

Probably must be removed since the Wikipedia List of OS-tans is long gone. Unless you count the Google cache, but otherwise.... yeah, it can be nixed. ^___^

Fedora-Tan: Doesn't look just good, looks great. I love the design, simple yet elegant. For the content itself, wouldn't it be easier to make a section for each question rather than a section for a user ? (i mean, rather than making c-chan and all you said below, like a forum, i think it could be more efficient and wiki related to make, for example, Splitting pages as section title and allow everybody to comment below for each problem. Just a guess...

C-Chan: I'm a bit worried that replying to each section might require a bit more technical skill and maneuvering. Not a problem for us now, but will be once the Wiki goes gold and the userbase mushrooms. ^^'

Still,... I guess we can also try this IRC-style and not break up the discussion into any sections. Naturally,... if anyone is willing to reply to a particular back post and knows how to do that, then by all means they should be free to do so (though they might have to indent the paragraph).

For the moment, then, disregard what I said before about adding the tildes to the subject line, as in fairness this might invite clutter later on..... ^^;

Tsubashi: Ah, that makes much mores sense! I was wondering what the plus was for (stupid me!) I didn't usually look at Talk of Discussion pages on the other Wiki's so I was a liitle confused. Oh! and does anyone have any good OS-kun images? I can't find many, but what I do find are all tiny!

C-Chan: Nope, 'fraid those avatars you got from the website I think you got them from are all the ones out there. But if you do want them replaced, however, don't worry.

Later today, I can pull up some good normal-sized images of the OS-kuns and collage some new ones. ^__^

Tsubashi: Arigato! That would be nice. I would have just cropped larger images (like I did for 2k-kun), but I can't find any T-T. Maybe I'm just not looking hard enough?

Fedora-Tan: Okeydok, it's fine for me anyway as long as you're ok with it. I'm quite skeptical about the discussions being better in a wiki than a forum to be honnest but ... why not ! The only problem for me is, i already have some other websites and forums to check, and doing like that makes this wiki as an extra thing to check regarding convos, but it may be ok since i use the email notification now. Anyway i'm by far not an expert in Tans so i'll just talk about technical matters... until i know better the topic ;)

C-Chan Fufufu,... that is one point I hadn't considered. ^__^' Any updates here are going to go relatively unnoticed, unless email notification is on. But if any user is like me and wants to minimize clutter in your inbox, this can be an issue. -v-'

Well, it's a beta test anyway,... ^^;

Worst comes to worst, we can try both and see which one catches on better. ^v^

On the forum, there are currently two OS-tan Wiki threads: Fedora-dono's and NewYinzer's old Project Wiki thread.

Fedora-dono's I might have issue with, since he might prefer to keep that as a technical thread only. So instead, if NewYinzer could rename his old thread and description, we can go ahead and start using that one. We're bound to have more users comments that way,... I'm not altogether convinced that everyone knows about this wiki. ^^;

In any case, I'll post on Project Wiki later once I get more feedback. In the meantime, here's some OS-kun avatars which you can upload if you like. ^__^

• http://www.verytragicalmirth.com/Icons/2K-kun.png

• http://www.verytragicalmirth.com/Icons/3.1-kun.png

• http://www.verytragicalmirth.com/Icons/95-kun.png

• http://www.verytragicalmirth.com/Icons/98-kun.png

• http://www.verytragicalmirth.com/Icons/98SE-kun.png

• http://www.verytragicalmirth.com/Icons/Homeo.png

• http://www.verytragicalmirth.com/Icons/ME-kun.png

• http://www.verytragicalmirth.com/Icons/XPPro-kun.png

I know several of these are up already (such as Homeo), but think of these as potential alternatives. Also, I didn't know the 98-kuns existed, so I can't confirm whether those designs are canon (they're mostly depicted as young men in mechs, though).

In addition, here's the old Firefox-tan avatar that appeared (and was removed) from Wiki:

• http://www.verytragicalmirth.com/Icons/Firefox-tan.png

And I made one for Seamonkey-tan in the same style:

• http://www.verytragicalmirth.com/Icons/SeaMonkey-tan.gif

Once I make Nvu-tan's avi, we'll be able to save the Moezilla characters as well before they TOO get deleted from Wikipedia. ^___^;

NewYinzer:Wow...it's been an exciting few weeks! I've been working like a Japanese beaver to get the mountains of work done I need to before the end of the term. With Science Olympiad, Quiz Bowl, and schoolwork bogging me down, I've barely had time to contribute around here. All delusions of grandeur aside, let's get down to business:

• I will change the Project Wiki thread to better reflect the needs of the forum.
• I will be unable to upload those files right now, as I am bogged down with work.
• As for the hyphens, I like them and I think we should keep them.
• Tsubashi, when did you show up? It's been about two weeks and you've been posting more than I did when I joined the forum!
• C-Chan, no fancy hearing cake for you until you fill me in on what has happened in the last few days!

C-Chan: Haha!! Just more beta-testing.... ^^' Can I get my Soramimi Cake-y now? ^.^

Nah just kidding. ^^ It's hard to sum up what's been going on, but I managed to import the old OS-tan listing category, and as you said, Tsubashi-san has been quite successful in adding more articles, including salvaging some Moezilla before that article gets deleted to. ^^;