For the seasons I could live with both the season name or the season number; in any case it would be good to document their meanings both during the contribution dialog and on the display page (via a tooltip). the Contribution GUI should use a drop-down list with five entries (unspecified, winter, spring, summer, autumn) to make wrong input impossible... wait, what about series that are longer than 13 episodes? Use double-seasons ("winter+spring"), or a generic "multi-season" entry?Also, what about OVA series that don't follow television series? This is why I would favor season numbers. ]]>
Multiple release years could be implemented by providing a start year and an ending year, the latter being empty by default and only needing to be set if different from the start year. The display on the anime page would be e. g. "2003" if the ending year is empty and "2003-2004" if the ending year is set.In which case I'm not seeing a lot of value in doing that over what we have now. I could change the series view to display the release year(s) separately from categories, but otherwise keep things the same... would that achieve the same goals?
I think it would be a good idea if our standard format for a series page included, along with 'Title', 'Overall', 'Keywords", and 'Notables' a space for the number of episodes. It would also be nice if not just the year, but the season of the series could be posted in the standard format.
@Devil Doll in 5777 wrote: Both would require Rebecca to change the database format for an anime entry, and thus is unlikely to be implemented any time soon.
@Devil Doll in 5778 wrote: We would be able to create categories such as "2012 summer" but they would be assigned to the "Keywords" group, not the "Release year" group. I made a test case for Jinrui wa Suitai Shimashita to show you how this would look like.
@Rebecca in 5779 wrote: Those kinds of changes are pretty easy. If you want to write up a little proposal in the Todo section, I'll implement it.
@Devil Doll in 5780 wrote: That would include Stretch to decide whether he wants the release year to become a field as well, instead of a category as it is now (and allows to be part of the cascading category filter mechanism).