What it is?
Wish, enables users to set “wishes” on titles, similar to the way reflections are reflected on titles (basis + range). It is a user customizable update item within a title, but more specific than experiences. The closest similarity would be to AniDB or MAL’s episodic logging.
Rather than restrict users to editor-set segments, and to compensate for media which do not have episodes, users set their own intervals, as with reflections. While this may be slightly tasky to the user, serialization does allow mass-wishing.
Key attributes
There are basic options to setting a wish, or wishes: basis, range, note.
- basis
- This consists of an interval or section of the media; episode, chapter, volume, arc, segment, part, track, season, issue.
- range
- For series-type media (tv, anime, periodicals, etc), this is the “number.”
- note
- Any small description about the wish (max 128 characters).
Advanced options include: repeat, interval, index, moment.
- repeat
- a count of wishing intervals; allowed values vary based on interval, max 1 year spread.
- interval
- day(1), week(2), biweek(3), quadweek(4) are valid intervals.
- index
- this is for enumerating the range, and is a starting index for the first interval.
- moment
- datetime parsable by php’s strtotime() function. This is the moment where the wish, or first wish, will be active.
Example
basis: ‘episode’,
range: ”,
note: ‘bt’,
repeat: 26,
index: 1,
interval: 2,
moment: ‘2008-08-07 00:00:00′
The example would generate 26 wishes, on episodes 1-26, one each week, beginning 2008-08-07.
Wish States
Wishes have 3 states: embryo, live, dead. These states are time and user dependent. A living wish is active, waiting to be killed, or fullfilled. Wishes in embryo states are not active or able to be fullfilled, until their moment, in which they become active. Embryo will be born when their moment passes (checked hourly).
This is feature currently insert-function on the testbed (wishes can be made), and hopefully by the end of the week it will be usable on the domain.
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