Baka-Tsuki:New Project Startup Guidelines
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Please use caution. There many be inaccurate or incomplete material.
These Project Startup Guidelines apply to all new Baka-Tsuki projects, including alternative language projects and alternative media projects.
Valid Baka-Tsuki projects include light novels originally published in Japanese/Korean/Chinese, visual novels, and original novels of any language.
Reminder: Any new translation project must be UNLICENSED by publishers in the corresponding Baka-Tsuki language.
All Translation Projects
Step 1: Prepare Translations
- Before starting a new Baka-Tsuki project, you must translate an excerpt of a novel on your own time.
- Refer to the Future Project Suggestion Forum for ideas if you can't decide which light novel series to pick up.
Step 2: Creation of Project Overview Page
- Note: If you need help creating a Project Overview Page and the forum threads, feel free to ask for help or ask another to do it for you. Many of us are glad to assist.
- Once you have translations, create a new Project Overview Page as described in the guidelines: Project Overview Page Conventions
- Fill out all the required information related to the series.
- Create a Registration Page for the new project.
- IMPORTANT: Make sure you have tagged your Project Overview Page with template, {{Teaser|English}} (or the equivalent language).
- Upload the translation(s) you (or your friend) have completed.
- Note that if you are not submitting your own work, you must abide by the Submitting External Translations with Permission Guidelines.
- You must upload at least a portion of a chapter within one week. Failure to upload anything will result in Overview Page deletion by Wiki Supervisors.
- Provide a link to a corresponding Feedback Thread in the Forums:
- A). For English Projects:
- If a thread for your series exists in the Future Project Suggestion Forum, you should link that thread.
- Afterwards, ask Administration to re-categorize the Project Suggestion thread to the Teaser Board.
- If no thread exists on the forum yet, create a new thread here with your series as the title, and give the following poll options:
How do you find reading {YOUR LIGHT NOVEL SERIES}?
- "It was good, please do more!"
- "It was interesting."
- "Not as good as I thought."
- "Boring. Not touching it again."
- B). For Alternative Language Projects:
- Create a thread in the Alternative Language Forum with your series as the title and your language in parenthesis.
- A poll is not required for Alternative Language Projects.
- MANDATORY: Notify Baka-Tsuki Administration that you have begun translations for a new project on the Administration Contact Page. Write something like this:
I, {YOUR USERNAME}, have started a new project for {INSERT NOVEL SERIES} and uploaded some translations.
The link to the project overview page is here: {PLACE LINK}. --~~~~
- Note: If you need to ask Administration to move some forum threads, you should include the request in your post.
Step 3: Approval to Full Project
Requirements
- At least one volume of the series must be fully translated.
- The Project Overview Page must be complete and cannot lack any required components, including:
- Registration Page
- Staff Section
- Recent Updates Section (or Updates Page)
* In special circumstances, the requirements for Full Project Approval may be lower. Contact Administration for more details.
- MANDATORY: Add the category, [[Category:Pending Authorisation]] to the top of the Project Overview Page to signify that your project has fulfilled the minimum requirements and you are requesting approval to Full Project Status.
- (Recommended): This is a good stage to nominate a Project Manager. See the guidelines for nominating a Project Manager.
- (Recommended): If it seems like your request has not been noticed, you may post on the Administration Contact Page asking to get your project approved.
Original Light Novel Projects
Unfortunately, we cannot accept all submitted Original Light Novel (OLN) manuscripts submitted by contributors. Baka-Tsuki has a peer-review and editorial-review process for original light novel submissions.
Do not post your Original Light Novel on the Wiki until you receive explicit approval to do so from Onizuka-GTO, editor-in-chief. Unauthorized OLN's will be deleted from the Wiki.
Step 1: Peer Review
- Create an account on the forums.
- Post your Original Light Novel (OLN) in the Fan Fiction Projects Board.
- Attempt to build interest for your original light novel.
Step 2: Editorial Review
Tip: Only proceed to this step if your OLN was popular on the forums and generated a significant amount of community interest.
- If it failed to do so, your OLN will not pass Editorial Review.
- Contact Onizuka-GTO, and give him the link to your Original Light Novel. If your novel passes, he will authorize you to post it on the Wiki.
