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"The purpose of this wiki, Kat2Media, is to document all of fiction recorded in published media. This means ALL TV shows, books, mangas, comics, mascots, pseudopsychologies (religion, mythology, etc.), films, animes, that are fictional. Everything that is fictional and published in the media basically. Every character from such things will also be able to be looked up. This includes everything from Beyblade: Metal Fury, Tom Sawyer, Mona the Vampire, Clifford the Big Red Dog, Adventures in the Magic Kingdom, Super Mario Galaxy, Mario, Luigi, Darth Vader, Johannes (Beyblade), Mona Parker (Mona the Vampire), Tinky Winky (Teletubbies), Ronald McDonald, etc.

These will all have their articles in great detail and lots of pictures. These pictures will mostly be snapshots or pictures of the films, animes, mangas, books, comics, TV shows, etc.!

Now I have already created http://monathevampirewiki.org/, and have worked on it since July 2014 and ended the project around September 2014. However, that project was only meant to document all of the Mona the Vampire franchise, as a reform to the old http://monathevampire.wikia.com/, which has very little information at all on the subject. However, now that I come to think about it, these "wiki"s on subjects like this are not a problem for me. The only thing is that technically speaking, some of this "wiki for every topic" way of thinking can be sort of pointless sometimes. Since there is a book ''Don't Look At It! Don't Touch It!'', the topic consists only of 1 book and 4 characters. The book is also a very short children's picture book. However, it is fiction. It must be put in http://kat2media.org/wiki/Don't_Look_At_It!_Don't_Touch_It! , and related articles. However, making a ''Don't Look At It! Don't Touch It!'' Wiki would just be absolutely pointless, as, again, it would only have 5 articles. So, Kat2Media's purpose would be to document all of fiction put together.

This wiki also plans to have notable titles of objects or other things put into the articles as well. Such as types of Beyblades from the Beyblade: Metal Saga series. Like "Storm Pegasus", or something similar, should have its own article.

This wiki will also be multilingual, meaning that it will be written in various different languages, like Wikipedia or Wiktionary. Most articles should have at least 1 or 2 interwiki links, but I expect articles for most main characters or sidekick characters or films or TV series or something as big as that to have at least 10 interwiki links.

General
One of the goals of this large wiki is for its articles to have a great understanding of multiple dubbings of a TV series or film. Furthermore, most articles on the wiki in general will have a "Translations" section, that has a template that works very similar to English Wiktionary's trans-top and trans-bottom template, except on trans-top it will always have the name of the film, TV series, character, etc., on the back. Each translation will give both a literal translation from English to French (names do not apply, only actual words) and a translation according to the dubbing in that language (if there is a dubbing in that language). It will also include a literal translation of the translation according to that dubbing to English.

The wiki will usually also include a "Other dubbings" section that gives differences about the topic from the English (or whatever language wiki it is) to other dubbings.

The wiki will include a "See also" section, which also does include external links, and actually will mostly include such. It will give IMDB links, Wikipedia links to the subject of the article, Wikia links to the subject, or others. We also will include portal templates. These portal templates will be in the See also section, but will list articles for a certain episode, book, TV series, etc.! There may also be a portal below, depending on the series which the topic is from, that will give a general overview of the subject. These portals may be hidden or shown.

Characters
The articles for most characters will have a "Character overview" L2 section. There will be a brief and general description of the character in the L2, and then there will be a section, I think it's called an L3, you know, the one with 3 equal signs on each side. Yeah, so there will be some of those under the "Character overview" section that have personality, conflicts, background, and physical appearance information.

For all characters, there will also be voicing information, which has a template similar to Wiktionary's trans-top and trans-bottom templates, that will list voicing information for all dubbings of that character/those characters.

Articles will always be about one character, unless there are two characters that cannot be told apart from one another.

Articles will also be about characters that are only mentioned or that appear only in references.

Articles will only be about characters that have actual names. For instance, "Yuki's grandfather" would never be an article.

Technical features and preparations

 * There will be a lot of template creation involved. There needs to be a way that I can have lots of help in creating these complex templates.
 * I need a way to form italic titles for articles that need it.
 * For my former Mona the Vampire Wiki, there was a problem with page modification. When I created a new page on the wiki, if I went to an old page that had a red link, it would still show a red link until I pressed "Edit page". I need a way to fix this.
 * The site needs to pop up as one of the first results on Google if someone searches a character such as "Junkyard Joe" or a series like Beyblade: Metal Masters
 * The site needs a way to get the domain, preferably without using a site like GoDaddy (no sites at all, I don't want one website having my website in their own hands).
 * The site needs to be able to give "rollback rights" to people.
 * There is a notifications box on some WikiMedia wikis. Kat2Media should have this also.
 * I need to configure interwikis for other language wikis so that they show up on a sidebar that says "Other languages", just like how it is on Wiktionary.
 * I need to find out how to modify what sidebars say. For instance, how to make a link saying "Sandbox" or something like that.
 * I need to make a box on top that gives advice when someone creates a page.
 * I need a box for when someone is blocked that I can modify.
 * I need to know how to range block.
 * I DESPERATELY need for IP addresses to be able to edit, but if someone creates an account, there must be a CATCHPA on the Create account form. The CATCHPA must ONLY be on the Create account form.
 * Users must be able to thank other users for edits.
 * I need to be able to make as many namespaces as I want.
 * I need my wiki to have a Special characters menu in the editing form and an Advanced menu and stuff like that.
 * I need to find out how to do that "show" and "hide" thing on templates.
 * I need to make my own side logo be able to work.
 * I need there to be able to make donations to the site.
 * I need there to not be malware or viruses on the site. Block it all.
 * I need a way to get universal fans of lots of different topics to join the wiki and contribute.

My particular contributions to the project
My goal will be to improve all coverage on Mona the Vampire, Maniac Magee (both the book and the movie), some of Beyblade: Metal Saga, ''Don't Look At It! Don't Touch It!, The Spooky Book, The Ever After Bird, possibly Captain Flamingo, some Kirby: Right Back At Ya! stuff, maybe Teletubbies'', etc.! Depends on what I'm interested in doing at the time. Certainly will do a lot of individual children's picture books. There will be a massive amount of those to add. "

Also, this project will be put on air in at least a year, and I need some help, specifically with lots of the technical issues listed in "Technical features and preparations". Thanks.