Thread:KalinaVita/@comment-4565782-20130102024332/@comment-4565782-20130103043447

Mangafox doesn't scan and translate the manga, all they do is take the scans that other groups themselves have edited and translated and upload that on the site.

I think I'll explain the process a bit to you since you seem a bit new to this concept.

Basically a group of people or maybe a single person decides that they want to share this wonderful manga with everyone so they/he/she decide to do "scanlation". A scanlation "is the scanning, translation and editing of comics from a foreign language into a different language" (Taken from Wikipedia). This requires someone to go buy the manga and scan the pages, edit scans so that they look okay, then put in text that someone has translated. This is a very lengthy process which requires a large amount commitment as the group or person gains absolutely nothing (but maybe more fans to the fandom) from this.

The group or person may then choose to upload the scanlation onto a manga reading site such as Mangafox. Mangafox itself provides nothing but a place to easily read the manga.

So if the wiki would like to use the scans, it would be best to ask permission from the group that does the scanlation so that they might not be possibly angered in the future. Scanlators can be especially touchy about it so it's best to contact them quickly o.o;;

The master post that Meta mentioned can be found here

You don't need to save the coding o.o Its fairly easy to rollback and rollback again if needed. That's also why the history exists, even if a page gets deleted the history will still exist. The re-adding and deleting can be inevitable sometimes but it's all part of the process as eventually people that are knowledgeable will come and weed out all the bad information. Personally I feel like it isn't rude to let people do big edits, especially if they're far more knowledgeable than me. They're spending time and effort into improving the content so I feel no harm in letting that happen. Of course I would proofread it to make sure there aren't any glaring errors but for things that may be questionable I just simply add a "". Of course everyone has their own views concerning that matter, I can respect that. But overall I feel if you limit too much, then no one will bother to help.

As for guidelines, as long as they are placed in a noticeable area and encouraged to be read them, then people will. Of course there will be a few stray people that won't read it but as long as guidelines exist, they can't say they can't go and read it now.