Board Thread:News and Announcements/@comment-14908162-20200216124904

Hello everyone! There have been some changes made to the Song Article Guideline these past few months. Since some are pretty major this'll be a post summarizing most of them. I also have something to say about piapro studio, but that'll be explained later on.

Song Categories
Since all Vocaloid song categories have the save basic text, I've made a template for the VOCALOID song categories called VocCat. It's usage is fairly simple and is explained in depth here.

Other Voice Synthesizers
I've made a two templates for linking to other lyrics wikis or Vocaloid Database: More information on both of them can be found here.
 * OtherVoicebank, which can be used in case a VOCALOID has another voicebank outside of VOCALOID (e.g. IA's CeVIO voicebank). You just have to specify the software and a link to the corresponding Lyrics wiki or to Vocaloid Database.
 * ProdDiffSynth, which can be used in case a producer has used voice synths outside of VOCALOID. It works practically the same as OtherVoicebank.

New Guidelines Official Translations
Raichu and I had a discussion about how Official Translations should meet the same quality as normal translations, and I quite agree. We've decided to implement a few changes which can be summarized as follows: The changes can also be found here.
 * If the translation meets the minimal quality requirements it can be left alone.
 * If the translation does not meet the quality requirements but is not gibberisch, a note should be added that it does not meet our normal standards. Furthermore, the "Intervention Required" and "Pages in Need of English Translation" categories should also be added. However, the translation should remain on the page (even if an alternate translation has been found.
 * If you're not sure whether the translation meets the requirements, you can add the UnverifiedTranslation template.
 * If the official translation is effectively gibberish (e.g. it has been machine translated) it does not have to be added to the page.

VOCALOID Covers
Notable derivatives can now be added to pages using NotableCover. Notable cover itself is very similar to the song infobox all pages have. Its exact workings are explained here. The Notable derivatives section should only be added to the page if it meets one of the requirements mentioned in the referenced Song Article Guideline part. Here are some examples of its use:
 * Wozwald: multiple human covers with over 1,000,000 views. Since these covers all use the same PV no new image had to be uploaded.
 * Electric Angel: a VOCALOID cover/remix and a PV. Since both use different videos than the original an image representing them has been uploaded.
 * ggrks: a spin-off which has a page on this wiki.

Categories for other voice synthesizers
I've made categories for songs which feature voice synthesizers other than VOCALOID. Its usage is really simple: if the song features a different voice synthesizer you should add the category. I think I've added these categories to all pages where it's relevant but in case I've not feel free to leave me a message or add it yourself! I hope this category makes it easier to distinguish which pages feature IA English, for example. It might also be handy for when piapro studio releases.

Piapro Studio
Some of you might have already heard of Piapro Studio, the new voice synthesizer that Crypton is developing and to which Miku and co will move. This voice synthesizer does not fall under VOCALOID anymore, so it technically does not fit the scope of this wiki. I made Piapro Studio Lyrics wiki (in progress) to make importing pages that might be wrongly posted here easier. Adding pages to another wiki was also how we dealt with IA's CeVIO voicebank, so I thought that'd we the solution we were going for (not doing so would be inconsistent with what we've done up until now). However, Raichu brought up that it could be annoying for users. If they want to find a certain song featuring Miku, they may not be able to find it because it uses Piapro Studio. It might also be hard to differentiate between the VOCALOID version and Piapro Studio version. We've come up with two possible solutions (I think?): 1) Keep the pages on this wiki, but add them in a separate category for Piapro Studio songs (e.g. Songs featuring Piapro Studio Miku). 2) Move them to the new (unfinished) Piapro Studio Lyrics Wiki and make it as easy as possible to find it. Obviously we will not always be able to 100% say that a song features the VOCALOID version or the Piapro Studio version, but in those cases where it's clear cut we can move the pages. For those interested, here it the Piapro Studio demo. Lastly, all songs featuring Miku and co. that are currently on the wiki do not need to be moved, since they all use VOCALOID.

Which solution do you think is best? Make a separate category for Piapro Studio songs, but keep them on the wiki Move the songs to Piapro Studio lyrics wiki, and link to that as much as possible

I think that's all. If I forgot to mention something or you have any questions, please comment below! Thank you for reading this message. 