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Transcripts

Continuing from Puella Magi Wiki talk:Wiki Cleanup 2025/Article formatting#Transcripts

Since it's out of the article formatting scope, let's move the discussion here.

Apart from transcripts, few examples that I think may be problematic:

Scans (though a lot of these exist since 2011):

I think, in the longer term, it may make sense to transfer the wiki to someone else (or Miraheze?), but since that's a lengthy process. Until then, it's probably best if we could have some clear guidelines on what is considered acceptable use in the wiki.

-- 0x99 (talk) 04:32, 5 December 2025 (UTC)

Null Magical Girl articles are synopses, the actual novel is different. You can find an official free preview here to compare EPF (talk) 07:24, 5 December 2025 (UTC)
Oh thanks. I saw the link at the top and thought it was taken verbatim. Synopsis/summary is more than fine, I think. -- 0x99 (talk) 07:37, 5 December 2025 (UTC)
I can understand the confusion. Those aren't really a synopsis or summary – they're more like an abridgement. I'd say it should be reworked into more of a synopsis or summary. It's still not a direct translation of the entire work though. ~ Celtic Minstrel (talk) 18:52, 5 December 2025 (UTC)
I've deleted the Storyboards and Sketches page, as most of it is already being included from other pages, and it has never really been updated. For images of text interviews/articles, if there are no objections, I'll delete those in the next few days. I'll skip production material scans for now, as we need to discuss what is considered acceptable use (and in which context) and what is not. -- 0x99 (talk) 07:25, 7 December 2025 (UTC)
I've cleaned up most (all?) text-only scans from the list above. -- 0x99 (talk) 10:59, 11 December 2025 (UTC)
What about the practice of uploading entire pages of Magia Report and Ready Set Exedra? ~ Celtic Minstrel (talk) 14:43, 16 December 2025 (UTC)
Oh, I wonder whose last contributions made you question that... in the defense of those (and to not see what I just uploaded being deleted), both the original and the English translations are opened to the public in the website, no paying needing, and no gatekeeping of any kind. We are just reuploading what is publicly available here, and we are not saying anywhere that we are the creators, official distributors or that we have any relation with the original team whatsoever. And we are not earning money from them being posted either. We work as some kind of mirror in any case (we even have the original source in the summary of the files), so I don't think we are are going to have problems in the future. ImperviousCover (talk) 15:47, 16 December 2025 (UTC)
If we go by the strictest interpretation of the law, then it's probably safer to just link to the official website. But I really have no idea what to do in this case (and I guess for Magia Report, the official EN version is only up to chapter 52 or so, and only accessible via Twitter?) -- 0x99 (talk) 15:44, 16 December 2025 (UTC)
It looks like I was writing my previous comment while this one was published... I don't remember how it was with MagiRepo, but I think it's kinda the same? ImperviousCover (talk) 15:50, 16 December 2025 (UTC)
I looked this up, and official translation for EN on Twitter is only up until chapter 53 (and the website is no longer accessible), so I think the rest is may be a scanlation? Exedra does have an up-to-date official translation, though. -- 0x99 (talk) 16:02, 16 December 2025 (UTC)
Yeah, the available archives say the same. I don't know where the others came from. ImperviousCover (talk) 16:06, 16 December 2025 (UTC)
Wait, where are even the files? The Magia☆Report page only has the covers of the volumes and the links for the events inspired by it, but either I'm blind or they are not there. I indeed have scanlations with me that go beyond chapter 53, but I cannot double-check until I see the actual files uploaded here. ImperviousCover (talk) 16:13, 16 December 2025 (UTC)
There are some scanlations for event chapters:
But I can't find other pages for Magia Report either -- 0x99 (talk) 16:21, 16 December 2025 (UTC)
Those were the event I was mentioning... which I don't know what to say about, because those are technically not publicly available (yes, I know Magia Record was technically a free game, but they were not available in a web). In this case we are talking about scanlations, so I guess the problem would be for the actual translator..? This just brings us back to the beginning of the discussion in Puella Magi Wiki talk:Wiki Cleanup 2025/Article formatting#Transcripts. I'm not sure myself as I'm not a lawyer, if you wanted to be 100% lawful a lot of stuff in this wiki, from transcriptions to images would need to be purged, which of course would be a lot of "damage" and a lot of useful pages would either be deleted or become useless. I think if you are really concerned about being put in jail (as you said in the previous discussion) you would need an actual lawyer, but I fear they will tell you to purge "to be safe". I'm not anyone to say this, but I suspect that if you had legal problems you would receive a notice before being sued. It would be very silly to sue a wiki admin for putting images from a free game or from a free website in a wiki, but we live in a crazy world. ImperviousCover (talk) 16:37, 16 December 2025 (UTC)
Regarding Magia Report: I was probably thinking of those in-game "special comics", yes. I don't know if there are other pages uploaded here on the wiki. The comic is on MangaDex, for what it's worth. ~ Celtic Minstrel (talk) 18:26, 16 December 2025 (UTC)
I was checking Iroha's Gallery and realized a lot of the Magia Report pages were there at the bottom. I checked and it looks like all the original pages were uploaded (not too long ago, the 8th of November), but they were used only in the galleries of the characters that appear in them. Do I make a section with all of them in Magia☆Report? Do I do that and also upload the translations? If I do upload the translations, do I upload only the official translations (until 53) or also scanlations (from 54 onward)? Also, being in mangadex or not doesn't mean a thing. Or do we upload all the pages of Wraith Arc or The Different Story just because they are there? ImperviousCover (talk) 13:12, 20 December 2025 (UTC)
My view was that them being on MangaDex could be taken as a reason not to upload them, as they're already on MangaDex. But your mileage may vary, I suppose. There is also the counterargument that having them in more places reduces the chance of them suddenly getting lost. In any case, no, I wasn't suggesting uploading every single Madoka manga page found on MangaDex. ~ Celtic Minstrel (talk) 17:03, 21 December 2025 (UTC)
Sure, we could just replace the uploads with the mangadex link, but if your point was to not upload them, then the only things to consider are legal reasons (check my messages above) or storage reasons. And my question was not meant to be answered literally, but this doesn't matter because I thought you meant the other way around. ImperviousCover (talk) 11:59, 23 December 2025 (UTC)
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