Hello all.

First, I want to thank the folk that have been contributing. It is appreciated.

You may have noted that my uploads are becoming rather sporadic. A few months ago I changed jobs and do not have the copious amount of free time I've had when the site launched about a year and a half ago. Fortunately, it also means that I can continue running the site.

We have passed the 50 thousand post mark. Wow. Unfortunately, the backlog of images I have to add to the site continues to grow at an exponential rate. I have approximately 45-ish sets to upload/tag and that doesn't include the crap-load of sets I just haven't gotten around to downloading. There's a lot of gravure girls. Additionally, C74 means a cavalcade of new cosplay images. So the easiest solution I can see at this point is to post a few of my sources and hope folk can help out. I have mods (not that they have a lot to do, generally). What I can use help with is the uploading and tagging.

Let's start with the software:
jDanbooru - http://www.kawaiyume.org/articles/8/jdanbooru-v184
English support, more or less - http://danbooru.donmai.us/forum/show/5057

This is a java-based solution for uploading a folder at a time. It does not do Auto-complete. It works well enough and to me is the best way to do sets. I did not write it so can only provide limited support at best. I also use the Danbooruup Firefox extension for the web based uploads (i.e. cosplay from photoblogs).

Tagging conventions: We are similar to Danbooru in some respects, very different in others. I look at it in this way - quality over quantity. We shy away from over-tagging things like position, eye-color, how many girls are in the picture. We do tag as best we can things like model name, photo set name, character cosplayed and more important things like thighhighs and panties. Hair color if it is exotic or not natural to the asian woman (blonde, green, etc). The tagging conventions have been mainly up to me and so there are some inconsistencies that will probably need to be fixed at some point. (log does his best to keep me consistent~)

So tagging is a work in progress.

At any rate, there are a few sites that provide quite a bit of gravure material that hasn't been airbrushed to death by a scanning group after it was airbrushed by a magazine/website/etc:

http://jappydolls.net/
http://loveidol.890m.com/
http://idols.candyscan.net/

These are a good start. There are a few others but they involve a wee bit more effort than downloading a rar/zip and unzipping.

Don't get me wrong or anything, I'm not making a plea for help. This site will continue on because I enjoy cataloging and archiving images of asian women. I just want to offer those who might want to or already are contributing some better material/a little help.

A less proactive way to help is to go through the tagme_model tagme_character and tagme_series and replace with the proper tags (make a comment if you are not 1000% sure because I've reverted some horribly wrong ones before and I don't want to go through tag history every day to make sure.) This is not as helpful as what nil is talking about but it's a huge help nonetheless.

It isn't necromancy if all the threads are still on the first page :3

As of late we've had some help in the form of tag fixing and I want to thank those of you who take the time to help out.

If anyone feels like updating series/characters in the wiki have at it. Please follow the Danbooru conventions for writing entries. Avoid the model entries unless you follow Log's convention.

If you want to contribute large sets and use jDanbooru, hold off as it is kind of broked right now with the current trunk build of Danbooru. I've contacted the author to see if it can be fixed.

It should be noted that if you put spoilers in the wiki I will ban you outright with a 6 month expiration, this is the only warning you get.

Wiki fully updated and now searchable (lol old bugs.)

Not that anyone cares or will likely notice but if a new model clashes with an old model who has not posed in 9 months or longer I will be disambiguating the two with cure id by adding it as a qualifier if it is available. This is the most reasonable method I can think of and helps circumvent this dumb (xiii) system we had going. It's not ideal but any solution that depends on looking up the model in the wiki every time we post isn't any better.

meru_(97148) and meru are the first real example of this.

This will affect very few models, I can only think of maybe 5 off the top of my head, but this should help prevent "Where did x go" questions.

Girlz High pool was too big, converted to tag and pool was deleted. Probably should have done this a year ago.

Note to current and future pool owners: don't let your pool grow huge.

Updating to server 10.4 took a wild turn. It is fixed now but we're at 9.10. Once more unto the breach~

And we're done. Welcome to lucid lynx.

I think there are still some issues. post/index is still dead, but I can upload and see the comments index.

Works for me on several different browsers. Clear your cache?

Just wanted to say again, keep up the good work. I can't offer much help as I have 2 of my own websites to keep running but honestly , good work.